Huge Music Addition

Well, I got the blog’s emailing notices fixed in time for the year-end music uploads.  (About 25GB)  As such, now the emails will be coming from tunezmeister, so you may have to add that to your address  book, if it’s picked up as spam.  So, Here it is, the music titles that I’ve added in this update.  As always, they will be in New for awhile.  This update includes the 2020 albums from Blue Öyster Cult , Wishbone Ash, and  ACDC!   I’ll list the bootlegs first…

Bootlegs:

Budgie – 1974-02-11 – Live at the Marquee, London, UK
Budgie – 1974-03-09 – Live at Global Village, London, UK
Budgie – 1974-03-23 – Let The Bird Out Of Its Cage! (Live Northampton, PA, USA)
Budgie – 1974-09-12 – Örebro Concert Hall, Örebro, Sweden
Budgie – 1976-12-04 – Live In Concert (St.Louis, USA)
Budgie – 1977-11-12 – Second Whisky, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Budgie – 1978-02-25 – Manchester Apollo, Manchester, UK
Budgie – 1978-04-22 – 3rd Night, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Budgie – 1978-04-22 – Dodge City (Live at Electric Ballroom and The Whiskey, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Budgie – 1978 – Budgie Live 78
Budgie – 1981-06-18 – The Marquee, London, UK
Budgie – 1981-12-13 – Nightflight In Guildford (Guildford, UK)
Budgie – 2005-10-20 – Little Puddles – Live @ Mr. Kyps
Budgie – 2009-04-24 – Olsztyn, Poland
Cactus – 1971.06.26 – Gilligan’s, Buffalo NY CD1
Cactus – 1971.06.26 – Gilligan’s, Buffalo NY CD2
Cactus – 1971.07.05 – Bronx Youth Center, Bronx NY
Cactus – 1971.10.18 – Auxiliary Studios, Rochester NY
Cactus – 1971 – Ultra Sonic Studios, WLIR FM Broadcast, Hempstead NY
Joe Satriani – 1987 – Surfing With The Alien
Van Halen – 1974.11.xx – Gazzari’s, Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA [SBD]
Van Halen – 1974 – 1976 Demo Daze
Van Halen – 1976.05.29 – Pasadena, CA
Van Halen – 1976.06.15 – Hilton, Pasadena, CA
Van Halen – 1977.10.15 – Pasadena On Fire
Van Halen – 1977.10.xx – Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, CA

And, the rest:

ACDC – 2020 – Power Up
Ace Frehley – 1987 – Frehley’s Comet
Ace Frehley – 1988 – Frehley’s Comet, Second Sight
Ace Frehley – 1988 – Live + 1
Ace Frehley – 1989 – Trouble Walkin’
Ace Frehley – 2006 – Greatest Hits Live
Ace Frehley – 2009 – Anomal
Ace Frehley – 2014 – Space Invader
Ace Frehley – 2016 – Origins Vol. 1
Ace Frehley – 2018 – Spaceman
Ace Frehley – Kiss – 1978 – Ace Frehley
Badlands – 1989 – Badlands
Badlands – 1990 – Live In Boston
Badlands – 1991 – Voodoo Highway
Badlands – 1998 – Dusk
Blackjack – 1979 – Blackjack
Blackjack – 1980 – Worlds Apart
Blue Öyster Cult – 2020 – The Symbol Remains
Brownsville Station – 1970 – No BS
Brownsville Station – 1973 – Yeah!
Brownsville Station – 1974 – School Punks
Brownsville Station – 1975 – A Night On The Town
Brownsville Station – 1975 – Motor City Connection
Brownsville Station – 1977 – Brownsville Station
Brownsville Station – 1978 – Air Special
Budgie – 1971 – Budgie
Budgie – 1972 – Squawk
Budgie – 1973 – Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
Budgie – 1974 – In For The Kill!
Budgie – 1975 – Bandolier
Budgie – 1976 – If I Were Brittania I’d Waive The Rules
Budgie – 1978 – Impeckable
Budgie – 1980 – If Swallowed, Do Not Induce Vomiting
Budgie – 1980 – Power Supply
Budgie – 1981 – Nightflight
Budgie – 1982 – Deliver Us From Evil
Budgie – 1997 – The Best Of
Budgie – 1998 – Heavier Than Air, Rarest Eggs
Budgie – 1998 – We Came, We Saw
Budgie – 2002 – Life In San Antonio
Budgie – 2004 – The Last Stage
Budgie – 2005 – Radio Sessions 1974 & 1978
Budgie – 2006 – The BBC Recordings
Budgie – 2006 – You’re All Living In Cuckooland
Cactus – 1970 – Cactus
Cactus – 1971 – One Way…Or Another
Cactus – 1971 – Restrictions
Cactus – 1972 – ‘Ot ‘N’ Sweaty
Cactus – 1996 – Cactology, The Cactus Collection
Cactus – 2004 – Barely Contained, The Studio Sessions 1972
Cactus – 2004 – Fully Unleashed, The Live Gigs 1972
Cactus – 2006 – V
Cactus – 2007 – Fully Unleashed, The Live Gigs Vol. II, 1971
Cactus – 2010 – Ultra Sonic Boogie, Live 1971
Cactus – 2016 – Black Dawn
Camel – 1969 – Underage
David Byron – 1975 – Take No Prisoners
David Byron – 1978 – Baby Faced Killer
David Byron – 1995 – Man Of Yesterday, The Anthology CD 1
David Byron – 1995 – Man Of Yesterday, The Anthology CD 2
David Byron – 2006 – The Lost Songs Vol. I
David Byron – 2006 – The Lost Songs Vol. II
David Byron – 2008 – That Was Only Yesterday, The Last EP 1984
David Byron Band – 1981 – On The Rocks
David Byron Band – 2003 – Lost And Found, 1980-1982
David Byron – Rough Diamond – 1977 – Rough Diamond
David Byron & The Byron Band – 2008 – One Minute More
Fuzzy Duck – 1971 – Fuzzy Duck
John Lennon – 1969 – The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto
John Lennon – 1970 – Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon – 1971 – Imagine
John Lennon – 1972 (1986) – Live In New York City, 1972
John Lennon – 1973 – Mind Games
John Lennon – 1974 – Elton John & John Lennon – Live At Madison Square Garden
John Lennon – 1974 – Walls And Bridges
John Lennon – 1975 – Rock ‘n’ Roll
John Lennon – 1996 – The Complete Lost Lennon Tapes Vol 1-22
John Lennon – 1998 – Wonsaponatime, Selections From Lennon Anthology
John Lennon – 2004 – Acoustic
John Lennon – 2006 – The U.S. vs John Lennon
John Lennon – 2010 – Power To The People, The Hits
John Lennon – 2020 – Gimme Some Truth
John Lennon with Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band – 1972 – Sometime in New York City
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – 1968 – Unfinished Music No. 1 Two Virgins
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – 1969 – Unfinished Music No.2, Life With The Lions
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – 1969 – Wedding Album
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – 1980 (1984) – Milk And Honey (1984)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – 1980 – Double Fantasy
Midnight Oil – 1978 – Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil – 1979 – Head Injuries
Midnight Oil – 1980 – Bird Noises
Midnight Oil – 1981 – Place Without A Postcard
Midnight Oil – 1982 – 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Midnight Oil – 1984 – Red Sails In The Sunset
Midnight Oil – 1985 – Species Deceases EP
Midnight Oil – 1987 – Diesel And Dust
Midnight Oil – 1990 – Blue Sky Mining
Midnight Oil – 1992 – Scream In Blue, Live
Midnight Oil -1993 – Earth And Sun And Moon
Midnight Oil -1996 – Breathe
Midnight Oil – 1997 – 20,000 Watt R.S.L
Midnight Oil – 1998 – Redneck Wonderland
Midnight Oil – 2000 – The Real Thing
Midnight Oil – 2002 – Capricornia
Midnight Oil – 2006 – Flat Chat
Pat Benatar – 1979 – In the Heat of the Night
Pat Benatar – 1980 – Crimes of Passion
Pat Benatar – 1981 – Precious Time
Pat Benatar – 1982 – Get Nervous
Pat Benatar – 1983 – Live From Earth
Pat Benatar – 1984 – Tropico
Pat Benatar – 1985 – Seven The Hard Way
Pat Benatar – 1988 – Wide Awake In Dreamland
Pat Benatar – 1989 – Best Shot
Pat Benatar – 1991 – True Love
Pat Benatar – 1993 – Gravity’s Rainbow
Pat Benatar – 1997 – Innamorata
Pat Benatar – 2003 – Go
Pat Benatar – 2005 – Greatest Hits
Poison – 1986 – Look What The Cat Dragged In
Poison – 1988 – Open Up And Say… Ahh!
Poison – 1990 – Flesh & Blood
Poison – 1991 – Swallow This Live
Poison – 1993 – Native Tongue
Poison – 2000 – Crack A Smile… And More!
Poison – 2000 – Power To The People
Poison – 2002 – Hollyweird
Poison – 2006 – Seven Days Live, 1993
Poison – 2006 – The Best Of Poison, 20 Years Of Rock
Poison – 2007 – Poison’d!
Poison – 2008 – Live, Raw & Uncut
Poison – 2009 – Collector’s Edition
Poison – 2010 – Nothin’ But A Good Time, The Poison Collection
The Marcus King Band – 2014 – Soul Insight
Widespread Panic – 1988 – Space Wrangler
Widespread Panic – 1991 – Widespread Panic
Widespread Panic – 1993 – Everyday
Widespread Panic – 1994 – Ain’t Life Grand
Widespread Panic – 1997 – Bombs & Butterflies
Widespread Panic – 1998 – Light Fuse, Get Away CD 1
Widespread Panic – 1998 – Light Fuse, Get Away CD 2
Widespread Panic – 1999 – Til The Medicine Takes
Widespread Panic – 2000 – Another Joyous Occasion
Widespread Panic – 2001 – Don’t Tell The Band CD 1
Widespread Panic – 2001 – Don’t Tell The Band CD 2
Widespread Panic – 2002 – Live In The Classic City CD 1
Widespread Panic – 2002 – Live In The Classic City CD 2
Widespread Panic – 2002 – Live In The Classic City CD 3
Widespread Panic – 2003 – Ball
Widespread Panic – 2004 – Jackassolantern
Widespread Panic – 2004 – Night Of Joy
Widespread Panic – 2004 – Uber Cobra
Widespread Panic – 2005 – Live At Myrtle Beach CD 1
Widespread Panic – 2005 – Live At Myrtle Beach CD 2
Widespread Panic – 2006 – Earth To America
Widespread Panic – 2008 – Free Somehow
Widespread Panic – 2010 – Dirty Side Down
Widespread Panic – 2010 – Live In The Classic City II CD 1
Widespread Panic – 2010 – Live In The Classic City II CD 2
Widespread Panic – 2012 – Wood CD 1
Widespread Panic – 2012 – Wood CD 2
Widespread Panic – 2015 – Street Dogs
Widespread Panic – 2016 – 2016 Halloween Compilation
Widespread Panic – 2016 – 2016 New Years Compilation
Widespread Panic – 2016 – Arkansas Music Pavilion
Widespread Panic – 2016 – Civic Theatre
Widespread Panic – 2016 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Widespread Panic – 2016 – The Joint At Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Widespread Panic – 2016 – The Wiltern
Widespread Panic – Panic In The Streets CD 1
Widespread Panic – Panic In The Streets CD 2 – Live From The Georgia Theatre
Wishbone Ash – 2020 – Coat Of Arms

Enjoy!

Installing MATE

The following is courtesy of:  Sylvia Sanchez:

Like KDE, MATE has its own spin.  But if you want to install it along your current desktop, you can do it following these instructions.

First, update your system using your graphical tool, or use this command:

sudo dnf update

To install everything needed, use this command:

sudo dnf groupinstall mate-desktop

You may want to install Mate related tools as well. You can do that with this command: (recommended)

sudo groupinstall mate-applications

The system will show you the amount to download and the final size once installed.  If you’re okay, type y (or the equivalent for “yes” in your language).  The installation itself is automatic, so you can do other things while packages install if it takes a while. If you use Terminal in a standard Fedora Workstation install, a notification sounds once the command is done.  If you’re using Konsole or other tool, you may want to keep an eye on the process to know when it’s finished.

After installing your new desktop, of course you’ll want to try it. For best results, shut down your system and turn it on again. At the login screen, once you select or provide your user name, the password screen appears. There is a small gear icon which shows you options for desktop environments. Select MATE and then provide your password as usual.

Once you log in, you will find something like this:

Bare Mate Desktop

You can play with the settings to change the appearance as you want.  Anything you want to change is under the System menu which contains three separate items: Preferences, Administration, and Control Center.  If you find this familiar, it isn’t a coincidence. MATE looks exactly the same as Gnome 2, from it was originally forked, and it resembles the Apple OS X style.

Under Preferences you can change GTK colors, styles, desktop themes, and icons.  If you choose Control Center, you’ll launch the main program to tweak MATE. From here you can change everything about its look and feel, but you can also perform administrative tasks like configuring hardware or setting passwords.

Settings Menu and Folders

You can find more info about MATE here at their official website. You can also visit the official Fedora MATE spin website to get an installable MATE image put together by MATE fans and contributors in Fedora.

System Information

A lot has happened since the end of the year, so let me try to catch everybody up to date….

Around Nov 2019, the Fedora Linux server sustained a system hard drive crash.  No big deal, right?  This is why I have spare hardware and backup sets and drive images.  To prevent, or minimalize the loss of data.  So, I couldn’t find any spare 250GB drives, so, I installed a 320GB drive as the boot device and restored the image.  The current Fedora OS at the time was F31, so, I figured that I would upgrade the server to current while I was at it.  The upgrade from F28 to F30 went fine, but that’s as far as it would go.  Awhile back, Fedora stopped supplying live 32 bit images, but would upgrade an existing 32 bit image.  That ended with F31.  The server was a HP D530 @2.8GHz, with 4GB of ram, and was 32 bit only, so I ordered a couple new servers.  I’m not really upset over that, as the existing D530 has been running 24/7 since September 2010.  Not a bad run for a server: 9 years.

I picked up a pair of HP Elite 8300 Convertible Mini Tower computers at a great price, both came with 8GB Ram (Expandable to 32GB).  The CPU is a quad core i5-3470 running at 3.2GHz (32/64 bit).  It has been running since Jan 2020 and rarely runs at less than 98.5% idle, with a load usually of 0.1. The four cores of the CPU usually hang out at about 80 degress Fahrenheit, and trying to push the CPU doesn’t get the temperature to move at all… The server usually never even touches the swap, instead staying within the 8GB of memory, so putting another 8GB into it isn’t really a priority.  I performed a fresh F31 install, and restored the KRAB server, and many more items.  I also had suspended auto backups for a few months, but the auto backup rotation is now up and running and the full backups run much faster now that the system is 64 bit with more memory.

On a side note, my friend, Duck Landes and I worked on, and got set up a KRAB radio relay.  He also expanded his existing four channels and added a couple more besides the relay.  The URL for the server is: quackhouseradio.net.  There, you will find the following channels:

QH1: Bootleg Rock and Blues, Duck’s Live Broadcasts
QH2: Bootleg Blues and Old Time Radio
QH3: History
QH4: Bootleg Concerts and KRAB Live Broadcasts
QH5: Horror
QH6: Old Time Radio
KRAB: KRAB Radio Relay

The streams are as easy as going to the correct channel, and just clicking on the winamp or media player icons.  (In the case of KRAB, you can either do that, or click one of the two listen buttons in KRAB’s left frame.) If you chose that method, it should ‘fall back’ to KRAB server, if  QHR server becomes unavailable.  The KRAB server URL is krabradio.net, fyi.

So, this all has kept me fairly busy since the coronavirus pandemic started, but keep your eyes open for an upcoming 10GB music upload that I am working on….

Comodo Antivirus for Linux Issue (and fix)

In my last post, I talked about a bitcoin miner and Comodo Antivirus.  Well, you may not realize this, but Comodo AV is available for most of the main Linux distributions, in their native packages.  You just have to select your distribution and whether it’s 32 or 64 bit, and download it…. You will see from the image at the right, that it bears a striking resemblance to its windows cousin.  In my case, since I use Fedora, I received an .rpm file (stands for redhat package management).  Installation was a snap using the terminal shell, and after a reboot, it showed up in the menu of my Mate desktop manager. 😉  However, there was a fly in the ointment.  After the RPM installed successfully, I was told to run /opt/COMODO/post_setup.sh as root (or sudo).  However, it failed building the filesystem filter driver, as seen on the left.  Without that, there will be no ‘real time’ virus protection, which kind of is the whole reason for running an antivirus package in the first place, doesn’t it?  Well, I have the solution for y’all right here.  All you need to do is to download this replacement file:   cav_kernel4.1_driver  and replace the defective driver.tar file in /opt/COMODO/ (or where ever your distribution puts the main directory).  This replacement is for kernel 4.1 or less…. Then, you can rerun the post_setup.sh and it should build the filesystem filter driver properly.  😉

Hope that I managed to help anybody that’s having issues with CAVL.

Tech, music, and general ramblings…..