Re: [Hampshire] Hampshire Digest, Vol 103, Issue 11

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>   1. OpenTech 2015 - Saturday 13th June 2015, London (fwd)
>      (Andy Random)
>   2. Re: Dead server (Leo)

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> Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:35:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Andy Random <andy.random@???>
> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@???>
> Subject: [Hampshire] OpenTech 2015 - Saturday 13th June 2015, London
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> Sounds like this should be an interesting event.
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> I'm hoping to be there.
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> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 22:16:47 +0100
> From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@???>
> Subject: [lugmaster] OpenTech 2015 - Saturday 13th June 2015, London
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> With less than a month until OpenTech 2015, we're really excited by this
> year's schedule. As you'll see it's a fantastic, diverse line up of
> talks by a whole range of people working on issues and projects that
> really matter. Go take a look at: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/schedule
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> Highlights include:
>    - Privacy: RIPA2 and Snowdenia
>    - Being female on the Internet
>    - Selling ideas
>    - The Open Rights Group at 10 years old
>    - Open Health Care
>    - Privacy: health
>    - 3 Digital Services
>    - Data and policy
>    - The election: what happened?
>    - The election: what's next?

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> All this and much, much more.
>
> Tickets are GBP 5 on the door, but to make sure you get in on the day,
> you can pre-register here: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/
>
> We're already about half booked and tickets are selling fast, so don't
> miss out. And don't forget to remind your friends - OpenTech is as much
> about the people attending, as the speakers.
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> For those who've not been before... OpenTech is an informal, low cost
> (thanks Open Data Institute for sponsoring us again!), one-day
> conference on slightly different approaches to technology, problems and
> democracy. You are guaranteed a day of thoughtful, thought-provoking
> talks leading to lively conversations with friends. Besides the
> sessions, there'll be plenty of time to talk in the bar which will be
> open until 10pm.
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>
> _Switch off, sit back and enjoy the show_
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> As ever, while there is technically some wifi in the building, as soon
> as we all show up, there will no longer be any working wifi in the
> building. So listen to the speakers (or your mates in the bar) rather
> than compulsively refreshing twitter errors, wondering if you should
> have gone to a different session based on the tweets sent over 3G.
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> __Wish you'd offered a talk?___
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> As always, we have kept a couple of talk slots in reserve, so if there
> are any hot new or breaking issues you'd like to offer, that you
> wouldn't have offered last month, email opentech@??? and we
> can chat.
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> If you would like to help make the day as successful as previous
> OpenTechs, we're also looking for a few more volunteers to help out,
> email opentech@???.
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> Oh, and did we mention? You can pre-register your tickets here:
> http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/registration
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> More soon,
> Your friendly opentech organisers
> http://www.opentech.org.uk/2015/
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 21:18:11 +0100
> From: Leo <linux@???>
> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@???>
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Dead server
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> So with the memory mapping on, the torture test didn't hit any errors.
> So I'm tempted to use this as a short-term solution, and then at the
> weekend I'll looking at swapping the sticks around.
>
> For anyone that's interested: you can do this (on debian) by editing
> /etc/default/grub and to the line that begins:
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
> add something like:
> memmap=100M\\\$800M
> which will tell the kernel not to use the 100MB of memory starting at 800MB.
>
> Leo
>
>> On 17/05/15 12:13, Neil Stone wrote:
>> Before you do... swap them 1 for 1... you can possibly identify which
>> stick is faulty...
>>
>> On 17 May 2015 12:09, "Leo" <linux@???
>> <mailto:linux@fractal.me.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hmmm, hadn't thought of that either. There's four slots and two
>>    sticks. So I could move the two sticks to the free slots. I'm
>>    running another mprime test at the mo, so I'll give that a go later.

>>
>>    Thanks,
>>    Leo

>>
>>    On 17/05/15 12:06, Neil Stone wrote:

>>
>>        What happens if you swap the ram slots (assume you have more
>>        than one
>>        ram stick) ?

>>
>>        On 17 May 2015 12:02, "Leo" <linux@???
>>        <mailto:linux@fractal.me.uk>
>>        <mailto:linux@fractal.me.uk <mailto:linux@fractal.me.uk>>> wrote:

>>
>>             Unfortunately none of my computers share the same RAM type
>>        so I'd
>>             have to purchase some more for that. So I thought I'd give this
>>             memory mapping a go first.

>>
>>             Leo

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