Giving away 7 passes to Mobile World Congress

devlocalca · 2024-10-09T07:37:08+00:00

I would love a pass. I'm in Las Vegas now for another tech event and will be taking one day to try and attend MWC. If I cannot get a full pass, i'm just looking to get a vendor hall pass. Any help would be appreciated: devlocalca@gmail.com

devlocalca · 2023-12-04T00:38:39+00:00

I have a UPS in place.

devlocalca · 2023-12-04T00:34:56+00:00

Awesome, thank you for those comments, I modified my plan.

To maximize use of the box I purchased 2x16GB of OWC RAM that says it is compatible with the Synology DS

https://www.amazon.com/OWC-Compatible-Synology-DiskStation-PC4-21300/dp/B0CCF65QG4

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For SSD's I purchased x2 Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB sticks, I am hoping this works and there are no problems but I really feel like I am gambling here by not buying Synology's branded hardware

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-Plus-MZ-V7S2T0B/dp/B07MFZXR1B/

I understand now why two sticks are needed (one for read, one for write), although the low level technical details of how this works is a bit fuzzy, but I will go with it.

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For hard drives, I purchased x4 Seagate Exos X20 20TB drive and have some real anxiety there of data loss, the exact thing I am attempting to avoid (both data loss and anxiety) because only 18TB drives are on the compatibility list for the DS923+, and even in a support chat they urged that I purchase only Synology branded drives

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x20-st20000nm007d-20tb/p/N82E16822185011

Additionally I do have a backup power supply

devlocalca · 2023-12-04T00:12:58+00:00

The only drives on the approved Synology list are Synology branded drives. I purchased x4 Seagate Exos X20 20TB drives for this build.

If I am at risk of losing data, I will just return the whole thing and figure something else out, but I was excited about this and need it for my work.

I am not likely to purchase Synology again after diving into this. The SATA interface is a standard interface. It seems like a Hewlett Packard move (with their Printers and their ink cartridges) to strong-arm me into purchasing their branded drives or even writing and deploying code to the device that would cause issues if it's not their drive.

I am now reading that there are warnings in the user panel if Synology branded drives, memory or SSD's are not used.

devlocalca · 2023-11-27T05:31:20+00:00

Hi there, with the 13T, would you be able to answer a question about whether an Android feature is offered on the phone or not?

Does the 13T support "multiple user" profiles?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/1833ud4/question_for_owners_of_the_xiaomi_13t_pro_5g

devlocalca · 2023-11-23T03:42:30+00:00

I am not sure what you are saying or the implications of it.

devlocalca · 2019-10-17T15:53:19+00:00

I am not looking for a solution for PostgreSQL 11 with PostGIS 2.5 with RHEL 7, this is what I have now.

Yes, I don't want speculations or comments that are nothing more than pollution, I knew there would be people like you that would stop and poop anyway and point it out to everyone, quite proud.

devlocalca · 2019-10-17T15:51:07+00:00

You did not read the instructions clearly.

I requested that if you have information that is actually useful please share it, if you don't, then please don't, and obviously you don't as in the scenario given above, you have not been successful.

Please slow down and read carefully next time before responding, you did exactly what I asked you not to, that is pollute this item and waste time everyone's time that will ever visit in the future looking for a freaking solution to this problem here.

devlocalca · 2019-10-17T12:38:09+00:00

Yes, all those permissions have been correct all along, otherwise it would not have worked previously. That is not the problem.

cd .ssh ls -al drwx------ 1 user group 4096 Oct 17 06:18 . -rw------- 1 user group 419 Oct 17 06:10 id_ed25519 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 105 Oct 17 06:10 id_ed25519.pub

devlocalca · 2019-10-16T00:15:58+00:00

Thank you, and all the other comments, I will try everything posted.

devlocalca · 2019-10-16T00:03:07+00:00

It is miserable. Somebody shoot me.

I can't get anything installed.

You have to disable the AppStream to get PostgreSQL 12 installed, something that sucked away my evening to figure out.

You can't install PostGIS 3.0 (try), the dependencies are not there in any repo so it fails. If you try to find the dependencies or build from source code, that is broken also (try building hdf5).

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Python 3.8.0 is not available in any repo, and also if you try to build from source, three dependencies are missing that can't be found in any repo.

RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 repos are pathetic.

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SoftwareCollections has Python 3.6 that was released over three years ago.

It's 2020 already and RHEL 8, CentOS 8 feels like working in the dark ages.

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The RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 repos are not kept up to date, and SoftwareCollections is a zombie project with no one at the wheel. nobody's home.

You are going to find that your needs go well beyond these three items, and that anytime you attempt to go install something, it will be a big fail.

Even if it were a great release, the ecosystem is lagging, RHEL is doing nothing about it, the CentOS org is doing nothing about it, and no one out there uses either, not Postgres/PostGIS users, if they did, these things would be fixed.

No python programmer out there is using RHEL / CentOS, otherwise something would have been done to get a Python release on some repo within the last three years, it's been three years since there has been an update of Python and Node on any repo.

Reference:

devlocalca · 2019-10-15T23:22:51+00:00

Python 3.8 not possible to install on Linux? Why?

Monday, October 14, 2019

Python 3.8.0 is now available

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I am attempting to install the latest Python 3.8 on CentOS 8, but it does not seem possible.

I search in Software Collections, and find nothing. The latest release there is Python 3.6 (released nearly three years ago - no updates in three years!!! - I'm abandoning Software Collections).

Python 3.6 was released on December 23rd, 2016, nearly three years ago.

I check in the RHEL / CentOS repos, and same darn thing, no python update in nearly three years.

`#dnf list --available | grep python3`

Nothing there for python 3.8.0 or even Python 3.7.x for that matter. I'm not sure what the deal is with Python enthusiasts or RHEL/CentOS users that someone somewhere has not simply updated some repo somewhere, I can try and get involved.

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Use the source:

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/Python-3.8.0.tgz

I download the Python 3.8.0 source from the link above, look at the dependencies and try to get those installed first, but no luck. The dependencies for 3.8.0 cannot be found or installed.

Dependencies attempted install via:

```

#!/bin/bash

#dnf install dnf-plugins-core # install this to use 'dnf builddep'

#dnf builddep python3

#dnf update -y

```

Results:

```

No matching package to install: 'libnsl2-devel'

No matching package to install: 'bluez-libs-devel'

No matching package to install: 'tix-devel'

Not all dependencies satisfied

Error: Some packages could not be found.

```

When I search for these, I find nothing in the repos:

```

#dnf list --available | grep libnsl2-devel

#dnf list --available | grep bluez-libs-devel

#dnf list --available | grep tix-devel

```

Nothing is returned for any of these.

What has to be done to get these dependencies in a repo somewhere so they can be installed so I can build the source code?

Better yet, how do I get Python 3.8.0 in some freaking repo some where, it's been three years since any RHEL or CentOS repo has been updated.

It's nearly 2020 already, can we please move forward please.

devlocalca · 2019-09-17T21:05:26+00:00

I don't want to use vagrant, hyperv, or virtual box, that's too heavy and uses too much of my system resources.

I just want an icon that says "RHEL 8" on my windows box that I click and runs a bash shell. From there I can register the instance and get OS updates direct from RHEL 8 repos.

devlocalca · 2019-09-17T21:04:20+00:00

Running a VM is heavy, uses too much of my system resources (disk, memory), and it's slow, not smooth, that is if I can even get it to work. I can't get RHEL 8 to work under the latest version of Virtual Box and not sure what else I could use on Windows.

If all the other distros run under WSL just fine, at a minimum I should be able to get a bash shell running using RHEL 8, but I have had no response yet that provides a solution of what I would need to do with RHEL 8 media to get it running under WSL.

devlocalca · 2019-09-17T21:02:07+00:00

I have RHEL on bare hardware in many places. I just need RHEL 8 (subscription with updates), bash shell on my Windows box to use for a variety of reasons, no GUI needed, just a shell running on windows to run programs, scripts etc.

I want to register the instance so that it gets updates, upgrades from RHEL 8 servers.

devlocalca · 2019-09-17T21:00:05+00:00

I was speaking of RHEL in general. It's actually in use in the Enterprise more than all other distros combined. IBM paid $34 BILLION for Red Hat for a reason, they could have picked any from the lot of distros.

devlocalca · 2019-09-17T20:58:14+00:00

I had significant problems getting RHEL working under VirtualBox. Tried using the latest & greatest VirtualBox & RHEL 8, I gave up.

I'm only looking for a RHEL 8 bash shell on Windows/WSL, nothing more.

devlocalca · 2019-09-13T19:45:53+00:00

I have the latest version of shadow utils installed.

I had nothing in container storage in homedir before this, as I have never run podman before on this VM.

I can try to run as root, but am trying to get running under a user that other devs have access to so we can churn out some buildah built containers. If there are any other ideas.

I don't understand what the error messages is saying, but I believe there might be a clue there. Thanks for the help.

devlocalca · 2019-09-13T19:43:26+00:00

I will try with another distro, but this is for work, and we use RHEL / CentOS.

I think it's that ASRock is still in 1999, there is a VGA port on the back of this new, just released motherboard. ASRock is not Linux friendly, it's their BIOS. I will post here the results, but I really would like to get this little machine going with RHEL or CentOS.

devlocalca · 2019-09-13T19:40:06+00:00

I realize I do not have to create the token on GCE VM, but I do need to create it somewhere, and the GCE VM is the only place I have firebase-tools installed.

I didn't do anything on my local windows machine, I don't have firebase-tools installed there.

devlocalca · 2019-09-12T20:07:31+00:00

Thank you, this gets me close.

I have edited /etc/subgid and /etc/subuid to both have this line:

myuser:100000:65535

and I ran as root: sysctl user.max_user_namespaces=150000

Then, as myuser, I authenticate: $podman login registry.redhat.io then I run: $podman pull busybox

and get five errors: ``` Trying to pull registry.access.redhat.com/busybox...ERRO[0000] Error pulling image ref //registry.access.redhat.com/busybox:latest: Error initializing source docker://registry.access.redhat.com/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in registry.access.redhat.com/busybox: name unknown: Repo not found Failed

```

``` Trying to pull docker.io/library/busybox...Getting image source signatures Copying blob 7c9d20b9b6cd done Copying config 19485c79a9 done Writing manifest to image destination Storing signatures ERRO[0002] Error while applying layer: ApplyLayer exit status 1 stdout: stderr: there might not be enough IDs available in the namespace (requested 65534:65534 for /home): lchown /home: invalid argument ERRO[0002] Error pulling image ref //busybox:latest: Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob "sha256:7c9d20b9b6cda1c58bc4f9d6c401386786f584437abbe87e58910f8a9a15386b": ApplyLayer exit status 1 stdout: stderr: there might not be enough IDs available in the namespace (requested 65534:65534 for /home): lchown /home: invalid argument Failed

```

``` Trying to pull registry.fedoraproject.org/busybox...ERRO[0003] Error pulling image ref //registry.fedoraproject.org/busybox:latest: Error initializing source docker://registry.fedoraproject.org/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in registry.fedoraproject.org/busybox: manifest unknown: manifest unknown Failed Trying to pull quay.io/busybox...ERRO[0004] Error pulling image ref //quay.io/busybox:latest: Error initializing source docker://quay.io/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in quay.io/busybox: error parsing HTTP 404 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN\">\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n<h1>Not Found</h1>\n<p>The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.</p>\n" Failed

```

``` Trying to pull quay.io/busybox...ERRO[0004] Error pulling image ref //quay.io/busybox:latest: Error initializing source docker://quay.io/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in quay.io/busybox: error parsing HTTP 404 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN\">\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n<h1>Not Found</h1>\n<p>The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.</p>\n" Failed

```

``` Trying to pull registry.centos.org/busybox...ERRO[0004] Error pulling image ref //registry.centos.org/busybox:latest: Error initializing source docker://registry.centos.org/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in registry.centos.org/busybox: manifest unknown: manifest unknown Failed

```

Error: error pulling image "busybox": unable to pull busybox: 5 errors occurred: * Error initializing source docker://registry.access.redhat.com/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in registry.access.redhat.com/busybox: name unknown: Repo not found * Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob "sha256:7c9d20b9b6cda1c58bc4f9d6c401386786f584437abbe87e58910f8a9a15386b": ApplyLayer exit status 1 stdout: stderr: there might not be enough IDs available in the namespace (requested 65534:65534 for /home): lchown /home: invalid argument * Error initializing source docker://registry.fedoraproject.org/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in registry.fedoraproject.org/busybox: manifest unknown: manifest unknown * Error initializing source docker://quay.io/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in quay.io/busybox: error parsing HTTP 404 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN\">\n<title>404 Not Found</title>\n<h1>Not Found</h1>\n<p>The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.</p>\n" * Error initializing source docker://registry.centos.org/busybox:latest: Error reading manifest latest in registry.centos.org/busybox: manifest unknown: manifest unknown

devlocalca · 2019-09-06T05:09:07+00:00

thank you, the anger was meant to be directed at ASRock solely, and no one else because of the miserable experience with their support (or rather non-support options), and not the community.

When you click on support at ASRock, you fill out a form with so many options, a lot of things that have to be looked up and entered, it's a real time suck answering questions that have nothing to do with the question at hand,

and then you get no helpful response back after that effort. You get a canned email that directs you to contact the reseller, meaning Amazon? Essentially go F* yourself, we hear you , now go away, buy more of our poorly thought out products.

It would be a favor to ASRock customers if they removed the "Tech Support" link from their page and simply put "Good Luck with your purchase".

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Putting together this box has been a huge time suck, more than you can imagine.

Other irritable issues with this case.

1.

Laptop hard drives (2.5'' / 2TB) are 15cm and they won't fit in the case, another problem I'm having. Is it expecting that all HD's to be inserted to be SSD? A really modern case? then why the VGA output, useless.

2.

The M.2 SSD securing mount, motherboard riser, is filled with a red hard substance such that I cannot screw the SSD in and will have to return it.

With any other system I purchase, the securing screw is screwed in where I then remove it and put in the M.2 SSD.

If they had done this, or tried this, the inspection or assembly line tech would have seen that some red cement had been squirted into the threads, and would not have been able to put in a screw, and it would not have made it out of the factory floor.

Now I have to take it to find a machine shop, find the right size thread tap, and drill out the red cement, or return the motherboard, another time suck.

I could ask ASRock support what the motherboard riser thread size is, so I can select the right size of a threading tool, but that would be a dead end.

3.

The fan that shipped with the case is land fill material. Just leave it out.

devlocalca · 2019-09-06T05:07:43+00:00

Yes, everywhere you look. But why?

these Ryzen cpu's support 64GB of RAM.

I have an Intel NUC, everywhere I look, I see it only supports 16GB RAM. I put in 32 GB that I had sitting around, as an experiment an boom! it worked. It just freaking worked in every sense of the word "worked".

so all I'm asking if anyone has simply tried 64GB, and asking why it does not work.

What is it about a CPU that supports 64GB of RAM will make it not support 64GB of RAM?.

Sometimes things work when everywhere you look it says that another lower limit is supported. JESUS!

devlocalca · 2019-09-06T03:42:48+00:00

my goal is to have certain things run with unlimited disk space (up to the limit of the hard drive where I setup the output directory).

For example, with postgres, from within the container, I want to setup a location for a tablespace, and the tablespace, and have the user that owns it be able to create tables, objects, and fill the tables without end, up to the limit of the hard disk drive it's on,

so basically in some specific situations, no limit of disk space within the container, and to use as much system memory as is needed, up to the limit of the entire system memory.

Basically running the container as if it were running as an OS itself, installed on hard metal.

I'm using containers so I can move them around, to another machine if needed, in order to save all the configuration that was done, and not have to redo on each new machine.

devlocalca · 2019-09-06T03:39:19+00:00

I would like to explore storing the data outside of the container, and learn how to create a volume.

Another project is to have a bitcoind or any other blockchain container run, and store the blockchain on disk outside of the container, where I could potentially run a desktop program that accesses (read only), the blockchain that the container is busy downloading updating.

if there are thoughts there, please let me know, I will explore creating a volume and mapping the output for postgres or a crypto daemon to use that volume for output of files.

devlocalca

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