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- Subject: [Discuss] Audacity
- From: genuineaudio at gmail.com (Stuart Conner)
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:23:30 -0500
- In-reply-to: <mailman.3.1543942803.9274.discuss@blu.org>
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Sounds like you need to look at your audio handler settings/ mixer such as jack or pulseaudio or other. I don?t know what your system uses. Also check audacity settings for input and level. Sent from my phone > On Dec 4, 2018, at 12:00 PM, discuss-request at blu.org wrote: > > Send Discuss mailing list submissions to > discuss at blu.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > discuss-request at blu.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > discuss-owner at blu.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Backup Postfix/Dovecot E-mail Server? (Kent Borg) > 2. Re: Backup Postfix/Dovecot E-mail Server? (Dan Ritter) > 3. Re: Backup Postfix/Dovecot E-mail Server? (Kent Borg) > 4. Audacity has gone nuts (Nancy Allison) > 5. Re: Audacity has gone nuts (Bill Ricker) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 14:01:51 -0500 > From: Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> > To: "discuss at blu.org" <discuss at blu.org> > Subject: [Discuss] Backup Postfix/Dovecot E-mail Server? > Message-ID: <1268268f-0c83-5190-6015-39aeec8c4a4f at borg.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Question about setting up Postfix/Dovecot machine as a backup e-mail server. > > I run my own e-mail at home over a DSL connection over Verizon copper, > which is crappy service. I currently have no dial tone, though plucky > DSL is still working well enough for e-mail to get through. I have a > service call into Verizon (for Saturday--they don't exactly hop into > action, do they?), and I am worried they will break what DSL I have (it > isn't Verizon's). They have broken my DSL in the past when I called > about no dialtone. (This happens regularly.) > > I should set up an e-mail backup. I have another static Linux machine I > could use, that has a static IP address, but the question is how to > configure it. Once upon a time I had a machine set up as a backup, but > it only queued up messages until the primary machine came back on line. > But sending machines do a decent job of queuing messages anyway, so that > doesn't buy much, so I turned it off. > > I see three possibilities: > > * Set up a backup that just queues messages. > > ?I don't really see the point. > > * Set up a second server that acts like the first. > > ?I worry when I might do a cutover the IMAP server will confuse the > client. The client won't see old messages that were on the primary > server and so deletes its local copies. > > * Set up something more clever that keeps the primary and backup in sync > so both IMAP servers hold the same messages. > > Man, that starts to get complicated, tricky to get right, hard to > test on a live system. (I have a backup domain name I could test on, > but that doesn't make it easy.) > > Suggestions? Is there a standard solution I could use that is easy and > already debugged? > > Thanks, > > -kb > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:57:39 -0500 > From: Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> > To: Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> > Cc: "discuss at blu.org" <discuss at blu.org> > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Backup Postfix/Dovecot E-mail Server? > Message-ID: <20181203225739.beatgxiplvzlt2kd at randomstring.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Kent Borg wrote: >> Question about setting up Postfix/Dovecot machine as a backup e-mail server. >> >> I should set up an e-mail backup. I have another static Linux machine I >> could use, that has a static IP address, but the question is how to >> configure it. Once upon a time I had a machine set up as a backup, but it >> only queued up messages until the primary machine came back on line. But >> sending machines do a decent job of queuing messages anyway, so that doesn't >> buy much, so I turned it off. > > This is called a Secondary MX, although you can have any number > of them. > >> I see three possibilities: >> >> * Set up a backup that just queues messages. >> >> ?I don't really see the point. > > It provides the illusion of high uptime, which might be > important for you. In any case, it's a set of suspenders to > go with your belt. > >> * Set up a second server that acts like the first. >> >> ?I worry when I might do a cutover the IMAP server will confuse the >> client. The client won't see old messages that were on the primary >> server and so deletes its local copies. > > Yeah, that would be bad. > >> * Set up something more clever that keeps the primary and backup in sync so >> both IMAP servers hold the same messages. > > High-availability is hard, although this is the easiest case: > you list both machines in your MX records, and have your MTA > deliver to a shared filesystem. DRBD is the usual choice. > > Then your IMAP service has to deal with all your mail in the > shared filesystem. > > > -dsr- > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 18:23:56 -0500 > From: Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> > To: "discuss at blu.org" <discuss at blu.org> > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Backup Postfix/Dovecot E-mail Server? > Message-ID: <e51f9085-98bc-922f-b5ff-9b3107adb735 at borg.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > >> On 12/3/18 5:57 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> This is called a Secondary MX, although you can have any number of them. > > Yes, I've done that before. But then what? > >>> * Set up something more clever that keeps the primary and backup in sync so >>> both IMAP servers hold the same messages. >> High-availability is hard, although this is the easiest case: >> you list both machines in your MX records, and have your MTA >> deliver to a shared filesystem. DRBD is the usual choice. > > Dovecot has a replication feature I might play with. > > First, I need at least a cold-spare: a complete Postfix and Dovecot > server that I can point my DNS records to. And my clients (only my wife > and I) can point our clients at it as a completely e-mail server. I > think that's the first step. > > Maybe I go to secondary MX and Dovecot replication after that, donno yet. > > -kb > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 19:37:45 -0500 > From: Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> > To: Boston Linux and Unix <discuss at blu.org> > Subject: [Discuss] Audacity has gone nuts > Message-ID: > <CAPnB49E6U3ij3-+oqnuOA0DWO6Vhq8wekA1kAe0ZZWEEOb-hqg at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi, all. > > By any chance, does anyone on this list use Audacity? I used it to record > streaming content with no problem until it suddenly went nuts and provided > hugely distorted sound files, as if the volume had been turned up to 10. I > looked through the settings and even removed it and reinstalled it and > still got the same result. > > I've looked in Audacity lists and found one question that was similar, but > I can't follow the discussion technically. I'm not that technical. Has > anyone on this list had a similar experience with Audacity? If so, how did > you solve the problem? Thanks. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 19:54:32 -0500 > From: Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> > To: Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> > Cc: Boston Linux and Unix <discuss at blu.org> > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Audacity has gone nuts > Message-ID: > <CAAbKA3XoLx1BHA-q26oyMEFSBSb+54-ifNF-ipkZmhkRq=LgGA at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 7:38 PM Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, all. >> >> By any chance, does anyone on this list use Audacity? I used it to record >> streaming content with no problem until it suddenly went nuts and provided >> hugely distorted sound files, as if the volume had been turned up to 10. I >> looked through the settings and even removed it and reinstalled it and >> still got the same result. >> > > I have used Audacity but only to edit content recorded elsewhere. > > My limited understanding is that Audacity record controls, the streaming > app's volume/level controls, and system master volume controls may all > interact so you get to track down all the knobs to see which one is the > problem? > > > -- > Bill Ricker > bill.n1vux at gmail.com > https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Discuss Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1 > **************************************
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