Loci is a rsync based easy backup program. I send my backups to a directory on a local file server. Loci is written in Python for ease of modification.

I have not done one yet - but I have had the camera less than 3 months.

Canon R50 Unexplained viewfinder icon Upper right hand corner
Sorry for the wall of text...
I carefully paged through my manual, and did several searches for things like "thermometer" - what I saw earlier today was a thermometer and a set of bars with the first one lit. All indications were that my camera was overheating?
I was shooting from our car today - a photo drive, as we have done before. The car was cool, but not so cold as to need extra clothing, and not hot. The camera spent time both in sun and shade. It never showed the 2nd bar. I was shooting still pictures, not movies (as the web article suggested). At one point I pulled the battery out and it was slightly warm, but not hot. The indicator would remain for a while, then might go away - only to return when taking a few more pictures.
Blowing the AC in the car on the camera did not make the icon go away.
I am not to sure what is going on. After returning home, I swapped out the battery for my other one and was not able to re-create the issue (even taking rapid pictures), I

Debian/KDE because I like the way I can customize (1 panel on the left with everything) No features removed just as one gets used to them. (looking at you gnome) No breaking changes to the desktop gadget api every update (you gnome again) Nice big repo.

Sorry my drawing did not come out well.

Drawing it up.. : ^) Sorry, I am not a very good artist and it's hard getting AI to give you exactly what you want when you want something exact.

t+ and T- to upstream neighbor (2) + a single wire from upstream to tell you to send (3), R+ and R- (5) to down stream neighbor + a single wire to let downstream know when you can receive from them.(6) And a pair to control a relay in what would be like a token ring MAU. Token ring is also a logical ring and a physical star: All the physical cables come to a central hub (physical star) but the machines are connected
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Logical Ring Physical Star +-->[ r t ]--> [r t] -->[ r t ]--> [r t] --> [ r t]--+ [ machine1 ] ===== cat 6 ==== | mau |=====cat6== [ machine 3 ] | | [ machine2 ]====== cat 6 ====| |====cat 6 == [ machine 4 ] +-----------------------------------------------------+
until the last machine loops around to connect to the first.
Is it anything like token ring? No, The difference is no token to lose, No ring master or deputy ring master to lead things- everyone just plays along according to basic rules. Any machine can move data to it's upstream neigbor at any time that neighbor is ready to take it, no one machine at a time getting to talk. So it's not like token ring. Also unlike Ethernet, you can connect any number of machines in a ring: 5 for a small office, 20 for a department of a large firm, 200 for every employee of a firm, 2000 for all the offices of a company or a part of a neighborhood. Since machines are not contending for bandwidth there is no collision, no backdown and resend.
Rings of machines are connected to bigger rings via gateways - which also have their own way of assigning addresses to each of their ports.

- enough network wide addresses for anyone
- addresses not controlled by any agency, but each machine gets a "computed" address by virtue of it's own port address+the port on the gateway it is talking to.

Orbula: A Collision-Free, Self-Organizing Ring-Based Network Architecture
What if we could reinvent networking from the ground up—no collisions, no IPv4 exhaustion, no centralized configuration—just a clean, scalable, self-managing system? Introducing Orbula: a fresh protocol built on logical-ring/physical-star topology using standard CAT6 cabling.
Each host connects through a relay-style device that seamlessly links it into a ring when powered and ready. Nodes communicate using simple but powerful hardware signals: "Clear to Send" and "Packet Ready" lines coordinate direct neighbor-to-neighbor transmission, eliminating contention and packet collision entirely. No CSMA. No waiting for a token. Just smooth, orderly flow.
Addresses are built from a pair—your MAC and your gateway’s MAC—making each node’s identity globally unique and routing-friendly. Gateways stitch rings into higher-level rings, forming a natural hierarchy (Department → Company → City → Region → Global), avoiding routing loops and allowing fast, fixed-size packet forwarding (e.g., 1MB fixed-
What are your opinions on this?

I don't bend my values for entertainment. I pick my OS for privacy and freedom first. If a game won't run on it, that game doesn't run in my life.

Model 100 floppy disk on a NEC PC-8300?
Since they are both Kyocera machines, would the Model 100's floppy drive work on the NEC machine? Did it have a floppy of it's own?

I used chatGPT to work up a backup program that tracked rsync backups as I wanted and could report which backups needed to be run and which ones should be started fresh because too many rsync runs from my home dir to the target dir. It's call Loci, and it's on codeberg.

I think I read this is how HP supplies their "no OS" machines - a very thin Linux with a VM running the FreeDOS fullscreen.

"UEFI does have a legacy compatibility layer" And this is how one may have a "system firmware" that allows both. Could DOS be made UEFI compatible maybe by loading a .sys driver or maybe by replacing io.sys with one that made use of UEFI?

My system came with Python3 installed. Debian 12.

Ah, Improvements!

Looks like a line by line translation from the python. Will you use it to backup your home directory?

Actually, I do have a quite usable FreeDOS running in DOSBox on my Linux machine, but it's not quite the same as running DOS / FreeDOS on the metal. Getting floppies to work as seamlessly as they do on a machine meant for DOS for example.

Linux for example will boot easily under both UEFI and BIOS - but I suppose that is because Linux does not ask anything of either once it is running.

@[email protected] I see what you're asking. You’re wondering if, instead of storing a duplicate file when another backup set already contains it, I could use a hardlink to point to the file already stored in that other set?
I have a system where I create a backup set for each day of the week. When I do a backup for that day, I update the set, or if it’s out of date, I replace it entirely with a fresh backup image (After 7 backups to that set). But if the backup sets became inter-dependent, removing or updating one set could lead to problems with others that rely on files in the first set.
Does that make sense? I am asking because I am not familiar with the utilities you mentioned and may be taking your post wrong.

Especially one that lets you know how long it's been since you took time to run a backup, keeps track of which set of backups could be updated, and which should be refreshed, and keeps a log file up to date and in .csv format so you can mess with it in a spreadsheet?

Of BIOS and UEFI: A shim??
I have a laptop that will not allow anything but UEFI and I must run FreeDOS.. (or one of many other OSes that wont boot via UEFI)
Is there a UEFI Bios shim? UEFI thinks it is an OS, but It loads the BIOS boot block and runs it?
Is that even possible?

That's ok Like any landing you can walk away from. Any code that runs to spec is good, much could be better.

Yeah, no problem... I started out with just bare rsync - but I did the backup infrequently and needed my notes to know the command. Then I wrote a simple shell script to run the rsync for me. Then I decided I needed more than one backup, redundancy is good. Then I wanted to keep track of the backups so I had it write to .backuplog then that file started getting dated (every time I run a "sun" backup the record of the previous one is useless) so Finally TaDa! loci is born.

It's also to help me learn python. And it works for me. : ^ )

I wrote a python script to backup my home directory
Loci is a python script that can backup a directory to a server using rsync - It keeps track of the backups that have been done. Multiple backups may be kept. Rsync is used to handle the backups so only the needfull is copied and single files can be recovered from the backup if needed. loci -b tag : Backup under the tag given (I used days of the week)
loci -l : List backups showing those tags unused, backups that are needed, and backups that been run more than 5 times. I refresh these.
loci -r tag : Refresh a tag's backup - delete the files under that tag and backuplog entries to prepare for a fresh backup using loci -b
~/.backuplog a file in .csv format that keeps track of backups done.
~/.config/loci/settings Settings file. Fully commented.

Why F9 after any edits? LibreCalc 7.3.4.2 vs 7.4.7,2
Solved by u/[email protected] Thanks! A setting: Choose Data - Calculate - AutoCalculate.
Hi all,
I’m experiencing an issue in LibreOffice Calc where I have several columns that check a single column for any value (i.e., not blank) before showing their own values. Whenever I make changes, I need to press F9 to correctly update and show the edited values.
For example, I’m using the following formula: =IF(s1+"","",IF(n1>5,"big","little"))
Instead of showing "big" or "little," it shows "0" until I press F9. After pressing F9, it updates to "big" or "little" based on the condition for s1.
Some context:
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My setup: LibreOffice Calc 7.4.7.2, running on Linux Debian My wife's setup: LibreOffice Calc 7.3.4.2, running on Windows, and her spreadsheet works as expected without needing to press F9. This issue started about 11 days ago, and it used to work correctly before.
Has anyone experienced a similar issue or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly

A batch file for FreeDOS to ease tty font selection
Here is a batch file that will let you audition the different console fonts provided with FreeDOS. Mine is named TRY.BAT. At the end of mine I also run a program called cookie that gives a fortune cookie from a file, the reason I run that is cookie uses the line drawing characters to create a box around the fortune.
You can run TRY.BAT without any parameter to just see the list of fonts provided, then TRY NAME.FNT to see what that font looks like. gnuchcp -r will reset you back to the factory font if you want.
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@ ECHO OFF CLS ECHO. ECHO. DIR /ON /B /W C:\UTIL\GNUFONTS\*.FNT GNUCHCP C:\UTIL\GNUFONTS\%1 ECHO WHY NOT? 0 O, 5 S, 1 l

Call for opinion: Your choice of Shotwell / DigiKam / Darktable
Of course Darktable is not only a photo sorter, but also does a lot of photo touch up 'darkroom' work. Debian system with KDE desktop. i5 with some bargain basement NVIDIA gpu (No, really it does not even have it's own fan).
Which of the 3 do y'all like the best?
Edit - Update - More details:
I am dedicating a laptop to be my "portable darkroom"- My desktop machine is only an i5, this laptop is a nice Asus Vivobook with an i7 in it. I do have Rapid Photo Down Loader (which works well with my camera connected via USB C) Each photo drive or session goes in to a folder named by date 20250309 for today for example. These go inside a year folder. Inside the day folder I put the DCIM folder from the camera. I sort and grade on the computer. I have now tried Darkroom, and it seems to just pile every picture I have into one continuous unsorted stream of pictured with no grouping. I hope the other two do better in that regard.

Linux file server as a tailscale router node?
Would it be unwise to make my file server (SSH only) machine (also runs a Minecraft server, And From time to time runs RSTS/E under simh) a tailscale router node to allow my traveling notebood access to the network when I am away?

Which Way to face camera in camera case
Ok, this may seem a silly question, and I suppose it is a matter of choice. I can put my camera in the case I bought for it with the lens facing down, out (to the right so the lens is against the outside wall of the case, in (to the left toward the other case compartment that holds a lens) or up toward the opening. What is safest? (detail if you need it this is a Canon EOS R50 in a Lowepro "Nova" case)
Another question - When I am to store my camera for a while should I remove the lens and afix covers to the body and the lens or may I just leave it on? Probably 2 weeks to a month between normal uses.

How Can I... Regain lost resolution
Some of the photos I take, to get the subject large enough in the frame I have to use electronic zoom. I don't have money for a nice zoom lens. I tried using an adapter for one of Dad's zoom lenses but it sometimes gives me issues. So I use a 4x zoom - which basically cuts off 3/4 of my sensor then expands the picture to full size (I guess by some sort of averaging math to create the discarded pixels)
Is there anything I can do in post to get some of that resolution back - even if it made up. I am a Linux user, so a workflow in GIMP would be great, or any other Free/Libre software you might suggest?

(Solved) An inexpensive 10" laptop to run Linux.
(Solved) This will be used in CLI mode to do some tiny programming and text file note-taking. Having WiFi would be nice. The price has got to be CHEAP. ARM is ok.
OP decided to kill windows on the Timberborn machine and go with Debian.

Disk space - Is it time to clean up yet? - Reccomendations
root@cube:~# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 116G 41G 70G 37% /
Is it time to clean up?

Floating Point Tiny
I have developed an 'esoteric' programming language - Floating Point Tiny !
You may have seen "Tiny" in Haiku Depot. Floating Point Tiny is a big brother to Tiny - replacing integer line numbers with double sized floating point line numbers, and doing math and comparisons in a double width floating point stack.
Floating Point Tiny is an RPN based language. You can find the C source and the manual at:
https://github.com/pentalive/FPTiny
To the kind person who put Tiny in the Depot for me - do you want to do it again?

Floating Point Tiny - an RPN based language for writing programs in - pentalive/FPTiny
Floating Point Tiny is an RPN based esoteric language and is the big brother to Tiny (an integer version.) The source and documentation are available at https://github.com/pentalive/FPTiny
"Floating Point Tiny" does not quite roll off the tongue as well I would like. A better name would be appreciated.

I am hunting all around - I want to change a color but I need to know the "face" that needs changing
Updates - Formatting, one more small information.
I have been hunting documentation and trying things in my .emacs file for 2 days now..
The type of message that appears at the bottom of the screen, one example is "Save the file
<filespec>
? (y,n,! ...." On my system it is dark blue on black. Also "Modified buffers exist..." dark blue on black - hard to read. What face is that?Here is what I have tried so far:
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(custom-set-faces '(mode-line ((t (:foreground "white" :background "blue" :weight bold)))) '(warning ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold)))) '(error ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold)))) '(success ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold)))) '(default ((t (:foreground "white" :background "black")))) '(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold)))) '(shadow ((t (:foreground "yellow")))) '(completions-common-part ((t (:foreground "yellow")))) '(completions-first-difference ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold)))) '(default ((t (

Seeking Opinion - Best TUI/CLI distro for Dual Booting with FreeDOS.
I have a machine who's mission is to run FreeDOS. It will do this most of the time, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to get it connected to a modern network to transfer DOS files out to my 'production machine' If DOS is like Windows the system clock ticks local time, but usually Linux likes UTC time - so this may be an issue that needs resolving too.
UPDATE - For now I have Debian in multi-user mode. I have set Grub to remember what I chose last so reboots from FreeDOS are hands free after ctrl-alt-del (Just like if FreeDOS were the only OS here) I have set the clock in Debian to run on the local timezone too, Thanks over_clox. Please continue to recommend your favorite distro.

USB connected floppy ignores disk swap? MSDOS 6.22
[Solved] Put in the first disk, do a DIR and see what is there. Remove it and put in a second disk and do a DIR and see the same contents. Reboot, and see different contents for the same 2nd diskette. USB floppy 3.5" 1.44, Connected directly to a USB port on the computer. Running MSDOS 6.22.
Solved by switching to FreeDOS. Be aware of the minor issue with FreeDOS format.exe = the /u flag is causing errors in the FD13 version. But one can do without it.

Canon EOS R50 is unexpectedly zooming back out Can anyone tell me why?
I was attempting to capture the full moon tonight using my Canon EOS R50 mounted on a tripod. I had a telephoto lens attached to the camera via a Canon adapter, as this lens was originally designed for my father's Canon Digital Rebel and had an incompatible mount for the R50.
While zoomed in on the moon to fill the frame, I observed an unexpected behavior: the camera appeared to automatically zoom the image back out. I was under the impression that the camera itself lacked the capability to adjust the zoom setting, but the viewfinder clearly indicated a change in magnification
Update: In case it is important, the lens has image stabilization built in, but I have it turned off as it lets me set focus and recompose better.

Is this of any Interest ? - An interpreter/simulator
I am thinking of starting a project and I am looking to see if there is any interest. This will be an interpreted language that is very much like the language used in the HP41C, except you get labels to jump to (to avoid needing to renumber as one does in BASIC) and named variables instead of registers. The interpreter would interpret text source code directly, and would be capable of producing textual and numeric output
It will be a pretty big undertaking and I would rather only do it if there was a 'market' for it. The program will be distributed under an open source license.
Anyone?