Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Aug 29 2019 19:32:00 Hi Nancy! NB>>>> Probably... :) I'm currently on the last packet I brought with NB>>>> me, downloaded the night before I left to come up here... :) BM>>> Here comes the flood of replies! NB>>> Yup... and then the predicted drought and then again flood.... and NB>>> now I'll be off again for almost a week, again at the Pond... I'll NB>>> just keep plodding away at messages and try to not be too far NB>>> behind... ;) BM>> And I'll be in your shoes shortly -- stretching them out, I'm sure BM>> (sorry! ) as off to New Hampshire and then Vienna for a month BM>> total. NB>> And now soon to return, to find your deluge to answer.... ;) BM> The good news is I did break up the replies into smaller BM> chunks, mainly to not potentially overload my side, but also good BM> stopping points. NB> When I got back, I did tailor my packets a little... I was able NB> to put the echoes from Tiny's that I would have messages in to NB> reply to into one packet, and all the rest into another one... NB> made the one to answer a little more wieldy than it would have NB> been otherwise... :) Of course, I wasn't gone for a month.... :) No, just a fraction of a month. :) It was easier for me to download all and work on it a little at a time. Pretty sure I have a maximum packet size set somewhere -- has been a while since fiddled with those settings. NB>> It's been bad enough for me that I was away for about 3 weeks out NB>> of 5 (from June 14 to July 20)... close to being caught up now, NB>> admittedly I've not rushed on these replies to you... but pretty NB>> current otherwise at the moment... and then a couple weeks still NB>> before I'm off again... BM> As I said sometime before, the REPs should be a pleasurable option, BM> not a dutiful requirement. NB> Oh, they are... and that's also why I don't get myself stressed NB> out when it takes a while to plod thru them all... ;) If I get NB> the last 6 to you from this packet answered tonight, I'll be able NB> to tuck this packet away... and continue on to the ones that are NB> more recent... :) Yup: seemed a little funny to read of 4th of July in the earlier message with Labor Day coming up in a few days. NB>>> Works out as a good thing for both of you.... :) BM>> Yes, that's what I figure. In one way I get the better of the deal BM>> because he's customizing the instructions for what I have here. And BM>> he gets to test his utility on a live and 'raw' system and make BM>> corrections/comments. LIS, I've needed to install a few utility BM>> files. he's needed to make permissions/file ownership alterations. NB>> He'll have a more robust piece of software, you'll have a nice NB>> working utility.... :) BM> True, though on my end the utility is a one-function one: the source BM> and destination, file locations, etc., are hard-coded into the BM> software, though I think written in Python so would just need to use a BM> text editor to update. I only vaguely understand so at this point BM> easier to leave all corrections up to him -- plus if I make a change BM> isn't in the 'master' for eventual distribution. NB> One-function utilities aren't all that bad a thing... as long as NB> they perform a function that you need to have done.... :) Yes, though for this utility it would seem to make more sense to have a configuration while the user would edit instead of editing the actual programme file. Essentially the same as the configuration file modifies the programme file, just I prefer not fiddling with the master. BM>> The good news is I think we're about ready to do the full transfer of BM>> TV show files from the old system to the new. (Yea!!) Waiting for BM>> the system to be available currently (the export/import process will BM>> pause itself when a show is being recorded so as to not 'overflow' the BM>> read/write channels and cause corruption). NB>> Sounds promising... :) BM> I'll admit to being amazed at the details, forethought, etc. Possibly BM> due to 'oh poop!' events that happened years ago when he first started BM> creating this set of utilities , but still. NB> Good that he is able to figure it all out... :) LIS I think he's one of the developers though never stated anywhere and didn't make any difference - he knew the stuff was what mattered. BTW, the transferred files (from old system to new) work fine. The old Backend has been powered off for some time -- maybe only a week but seems longer! Still have to move the hardware around -- the new Backend is still on the floor and needs to be moved to the cabinet, but first need to make room on/in the cabinet.... BM> And it does work: just before I left I done some testing with larger BM> chunks: move over all shows from Channel 8_3, for instance. (The file BM> names have the channel included.) Couple of 'specific channel' tests, BM> passed. Got 'brave' and tried copying over the remainder: only real BM> difference was instead of a batch of maybe twenty or thirty files was BM> over a hundred files. Passed. :) NB> Hurrah for that! And no doubt a major relief when it did pass... NB> ;) Yes. There's always the "it works on x-system but will it work on y-system?". He has (IIRC) 12 TB of storage, I 'only' 4 TB. And both of those numbers are 'wrong' as we really need to be looking at free space. For a short while I was using about half, so 2 TB. And the way the transfer utility worked is it only bit off small chunks: a single TV programme at a time, so usually no more than 2 GB; select, process, move over; select, process, move over.... BM> I didn't have time to update the hardware: update the Frontends BM> (viewing computers) to the current Ubuntu (18.04.3) and the MythTV BM> utility so left alone. Good news for our testing is Backend 2 (the BM> old/original computer doing the recording and storage) is still BM> recording shows and so can be used for our final testing. NB> Very useful... :) So, have you done that final testing yet, and NB> updated the hardware...? Yup! :) One had to have semi-major surgery: knew the power supply needed replacing as the fan froze some time back -- held off replacing as 'inconvenient' plus the major system change. Did put in the new PSU, checked, swapped the HDD for SSD (hard drive for a solid state one) -- now boots in around thirty seconds. That one is in the Ironing Room in the basement. Will see about replacing the fan in the old PSU instead of buying a whole new PSU. BM>> Yup: sometimes just can't do anything. In our separate instances had BM>> to drive through the puddle else cause an accident. In my case grasp BM>> the steering wheel firmly as know there's going to be a sudden and BM>> sharp pull. Pay attention to the road plus look for an escape -- in my BM>> case there was a street a little beyond I could turn on to but that's a BM>> sharp right and if the engine dies I don't have power steering, BM>> brakes, etc. A little further was a gas station -- could at least do a BM>> 45ø turn and have a little longer distance to stop. Ended up not BM>> needing either: chugged (literally!) on to my dr's appointment. NB>> Things all worked out nicely after all... :) BM> Yes, though I'd bet that doctor's appointment would have been a bad BM> time to have done a blood pressure check!! (Wasn't done/necessary.) NB> Possibly... unless by the time you got into the office, you were NB> so relieved to have made it safely that your whole body NB> relaxed.... ;) That's a possibility too! BM> And I was surprised when the car started right up after my appointment. BM> Was either still raining or had just stopped, forgot. Probably the BM> heat of the engine and gravity pulling the splashed water down cleaned BM> the wires and removed the short. And did have the car checked and the BM> spark plug harness needed replacing: cracked insulation. NB> Which probably had been there before your forced puddle-drive... NB> ;) Just as well to find it sooner than later, when it might have NB> given you more grief... :) Right. I recall I left things for a while. Had a foggy period and the car didn't like that because of the moisture getting in to the cracks so that's when had the wiring harness replaced. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... 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