Bristol Digest, Vol 636, Issue 2

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: New system build (Alex Butcher)
2. Re: DNS oddities (MJ Ray)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 09:40:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alex Butcher <lug@assursys.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] New system build
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On Sun, 6 Mar 2016, Christopher Horler wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I priced up a new system on Amazon tonight: ?783.10 (incl. delivery)
>
> Case: Antec ISK 600
> PSU: Corsair CP-9020099-UK CX850M
> MB: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC
> CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3
> GPU: XFX Radeon R9 390
> MEM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3
> HD1: Samsung 2.5" 250GB 850 EVO SSD
>
> Does anyone spot any glaring hardware compatibility issues?

<https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc> is a pretty good place to get builds
checked and ask for recommendations for improvements. Just make sure to note
that it's for use as a Linux machine, otherwise most denizen will assume you
want a gaming rig!

Based on
<http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=427>,
I'd opt for a better PSU, and possibly upgrade the SSD to an 850 PRO, or
Intel's equivalent. My preference is for nVidia GPUs as their drivers tend
to be less problematic in my experience - especially with video playback -
but YMMV.

> Thanks, Chris

HTH,
Alex

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:43:44 +0000
From: MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] DNS oddities
Message-ID: <56DD6970.8040707@phonecoop.coop>
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Martin Moore wrote:
> Makes sense.
>
> How do I do that :)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix # at a guess, then change the answers.

Hope that helps,
--
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op
http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer.
In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/



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