Community Coffee Break

bp9
- Is trying out a new setup with a laptop now, instead of the phone.
- It looks like audio and video is much better now -- super wide screen!
- next week bp9 will try the bird at the beach background :-)
- Tried transplanting a known good SATA SSD into the new laptop but BIOS does not recognize it.
- Gives Solbu a hard time about Win10 :-)
- bp9 doesn't usually like Windows but if that's the only OS that will run software that he needs to run, then not much choice.
- Shows off his various old crusty tapes and 3.5in floppy disks.
- bp9 still has the media but probably no more drives to read them with!
- Discusses mail servers with Solbu. There is a lot to it - expect to spend about a year to understand how it works.

Solbu
- Does the BIOS disable any secondary drive?
- Had a similar BIOS not recognizing drive 15 years ago... not sure if that applies today :-)
- Can bp9 boot from a live CD? Maybe via USB?
- Has bp9 disabled Secure Boot?
- Relates the story of Stallmans opinion on Secure Boot. He would only like to use it to prevent Windows from booting :-)
- Even an SD card will appear with linux command 'lsblk'
- We discuss formatted capacity of drives vs. stated capacity.
- Helping his friend upgrade his NexCloud instance on a virtual server in a data center.
- The virtual server is running on their own hardware, installed in a data center.
- They had lots of IP addresses and hostnames that were English and Norwegian curse words LOL
- Uses postfix for exchanging mail with other mail servers.
- Uses DoveCot for POP3 mailbox to retieve mail.
- You must have a valid, public certificate for it to work; he uses Let's Encrypt.

Doug
- Is BIOS on new machine updated?
- The saga of his RasPi continues... he thinks his SD card is toast now.
- He threw the card away before using fdisk or any utility to verify the size or condition of the card.
- Fake SD cards from amazon or ebay are bad for only being a fraction of the stated size. There's a utility for testing the SD-card.
- Now he's waiting for a new SD card.
- Reminisces about old-time cassette tapes that he used for his Atari computer.
- Alexa jumps in to help him out again, and Doug has to issue some stern words to put her back in line. :-)