I apologize for the unanticipated Debian reboot today.  I am trying to fix some software issues and when installing software the install got stuck during a systemd, the bane of Linux, services restart and there is no way to recover except to reboot.

     I’m looking to build a new machine, primary function will be a faster more robust web server.  Because Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, and now even SwissCows has gotten heavily into censoring information about adverse vax events, certain political issues, etc, I want to put a yacy search engine back up, but when I had one before it really loaded the server too heavily, in particular it’s memory requirements were excessive.

     So I’m looking at building a machine based around an i9-10940x, the reason for this particular CPU is that it is an Intel core CPU which can address 256 GB of RAM, has 14 cores, 28 threads, and can be overclocked to 5Ghz.  But overclocking it at that speed can make it dissipate more than 400 watts, so I need a very robust cooler.  The coolers I’ve been using, EVO-212A max out at around 240 watts.  I don’t like the Xeon CPUs because first they are excessively expensive, and second have slow memory controllers.  I’ve had bad luck with reliability with AMD in the past so I stay clear of that.  No offense to anyone who is an AMD or Xeon fan, just stating my reasons for going with this particular CPU.

     The challenge, when I’ve looked for coolers in the past, sites used to have TDP ratings, these seem to be mostly absent from Noctua, CoolerMaster, and other brand sites now so I don’t know how to identify a suitable cooler.  Any help with this would be appreciated.

     Another thing I am looking for is an alternative to opendmarc.  It seems to fail sometimes when the From: line is extremely long, but I’m not having any success finding an alternative.  If anyone knows of something that will work under Linux please let me know.

     If you’re running the short term release of Ubuntu, 21.04, considering upgrading to 21.10, you may want to hold off a bit.

    I upgraded my workstation the day 21.10 was released.  To day, installing normal system upgrades rendered my system unusable and unrecoverable except to recover from backups.  So in my humble opinion, 21.10 is not yet ready for prime time.

If you get mail like this DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK.  It is a linode.com phishing scam and will attempt to obtain your login credentials under the false guise of increasing your mail storage and in the process probably infect your computer with a virus.

     Since upgrading debian to bullet, X-fowarding does not work.  One thing that changed in Bullet was a switch from Xorg being the default to Xwayland.  However, the Bullet faq claims x-forwarding still works but that hasn’t been my experience.  I have X-11 Forwarding enabled in sshd_config and I have xauth installed, but still no good.

     I have searched for solutions but so far nothing has worked.  If anyone knows the solution but please me know.  E-mail support@eskimo.com.  Thank you.

     A “Phishing Scam” is a scam designed to get your credentials for things like access to your mail here, or your bank account information, or your Amazon account, etc.  Here is an example:

 —–

ID:nanook@eskimo.com Your  nanook@eskimo.com  Password expired today at 9/29/2021 11:25:07 a.m.

Use this button to continue with the same password as before.

 —–

     If you receive something like this bounce or forward it to spamtrap@eskimo.com.  Do NOT click on any link provided in the e-mail.  It most likely will just ask for your authentication info here which would give a hacker access to your account and might also infect your computer with Malware, particularly if you are using Windows.

     We do not use password aging or expiration here.  My belief is that it only encourages the choice of bad passwords so that they can be easily remembered and guessed.  So you will NEVER get a legitimate message like this from us.

     My apologies to those who called and tried to let me know about the web outage.  My Comcast telephone service was apparently also out because I was home and in the office at the time and the phone did not ring.  I did not get notifications of your recorded messages until today.  I’ve tested the phones today, they are working again.  When it rains…

     Sorry for the downtime in web service today.  It appears suexec which is used to set the web server permissions for a given users files lost it’s setuid attribute yesterday.  Not sure how but the update time on the file coincided with when I did system updates and the Apache Makefile for 2.4.49 now installs it without this necessary bit set so I suspect it relates to an update and a rebuild that was necessary to accommodate library changes.  At any rate, I rebuilt it just to be sure someone hadn’t modified it hoping I would then set the bit again and I set the immutable bit which should prevent Ubuntu’s package manage from messing with it again.

     Just a few hours later they came out with an update to ypbind and yp-tools that made them compatible with the newer libraries so Manjaro is again available.

     The morons at Manjaro have broken ypbind by making it and the libraries it depends upon incompatible versions.  I thought perhaps something just went wrong with updates so I restored from an old backup and then updated again and it brought it right back to an unusable state.

     So until the folks at Manjaro fix their repository to have a compatible version of ypbind and the libraries it depends upon, Manjaro will be unavailable.