Recent content by Gödel

OK, I deleted those ufw rules, and I'll check into how to make them specific to my little network.

Upon further review, I figured out that my other PCs connected quickly because they weren't running firewalls. I don't know why; all 3 are running regular Ubuntu installs to which I didn't do anything UFW related. I googled a bit, and I found to open ports 1900 and 5000, and then VLC would see...

Confession: I'm using Rhythmbox instead of VLC, because in my search for the nasty problem that VLC skips the first 2 seconds of every song, I haven't found a solution. So for now, I'm just leaving Rhythmbox up. I'll check into turning off the firewall sometime. I'm a sporadic multimediot...

It's running Ubuntu Linux, and the music is hosted on Windows.

Pardon my ignorance again, but I'm having a vexing issue on my main PC, a relatively fast (for me) Ryzen 3700x with a decent M.2 SSD on a gbps ether-network. When I open VLC to try to play music from my UPNP record collection, it takes quite a while to find it. I just checked again, and it...

Yes, looks like Arthur is heading straight NE on the Texas Gulf Coast, then right through Louisiana and into Mississippi: Lord help those poor people. We've had major weather disasters in significant areas of the country; perhaps El Niño will cut back on the Eastern U. S. hurricane season...

Sub-Subject: Trump's Birthday White House Fight-Club (Self-)Celebration This just reminded me of the ancient Roman Emperors' vicious gladiator "games". Caveat Emperor. Hilarious commentary from some Late Night hosts: jimmy-kimmel-jon-stewart-roast-trumps-ufc-white-house-event Luckily...

RIP, Sonny Rollins. . . . . . . . . . 🎶 Blue 7 from

Maybe tariffs / protectionism are playing a role? Keep out / price out foreign RAM/SSDs, as if that will magically create American manufacturing capability.

A week later, it's still running OK. It even survived a Patch-Tuesday "quality update" and forced reboot. It's been running World Community Grid cancer research tasks 24×7×4 cores×100%, as usual. Those tasks take about 1½ hours each, so there have been hundreds of work-unit downloads and...

Thanks very much, Merc and Sed, for your responses. I'm writing this on that WinPC, still going strong (?) after another half-day. And the Magician and CrystalDiskInfo both say the disk is OK. (I did a full scan with Magician.) Because I don't really use it much, I think I'll just let it...

Yo, I'm donimating:

So Saturday, about 11 months later, I woke up to find that PC had locked up. I tried a few restarts, and it would boot and run OK for a few minutes, then freeze up again. I pulled off the cover to see if it was something obvious, like the CPU cooler fan not running, but I found nothing...

More pickin' (and bowin' and slidin') (and fun): [1947 - seminal to rock & roll]

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