Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

2024-10-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hello, Firefox (and thunderbird, as well) seems to be pausing all network activity when doing a vt-switch or user-switching or locking the screen. The effect of this is that ongoing downloads freeze and are resumed (sometimes fail) only after unlocking the screen. Chromium, on the other hand appe

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-01 Thread Default User
On Mon, 2024-09-30 at 21:55 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon Sep 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM BST, Default User wrote: > > So, is there a consensus on which would be better:  > > 1) continue to "mirror" drive A to drive B? > > or, > > 2) alternate backups daily between drives A and B? > > I'd go fo

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Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-10-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 01:53:26PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 14:08:19 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > >> Tim Woodall writes: > >> > >> > However on trying to debug something else, I wanted to run it like this: > >> > > >> > ./script |& tee log >

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-10-01 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 14:08:19 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Tim Woodall writes: >> >> > However on trying to debug something else, I wanted to run it like this: >> > >> > ./script |& tee log >> > >> > and now it doesn't clean up if I it. >> >> Just a point here about

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

2024-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Also why I would not want all backup-storage devices connected > simultaneously. All it takes is one piece of software going haywire > and you may have a situation where both the original and all backups > are corrupted simultaneously. You can minimize this risk by having them both connected sim