@Bob That's a new word for me. At first I thought it was cutting off one's member, now I know the actual meaning thanks to google define.
@Bob I spend a decent amount of time thinking about init systems. I've never actually thought about systemd services though. Initscripts are for pros like you, not n00bs like me. What do you have to tell me about systemd? why is it useful for you?
@JourneymanGeek Ah, the 90s. I'm so glad, being born in '97 still made me a 90s kid. I can still claim to have enjoyed all the good stuff. But not Babylon 5. That and Firefly are shows I've heard people talk a lot about but never actually remembered to check out. I will now, thanks.
So, I need to run /var/www/lupinenet/ttrss/update_daemon2.php - after networking starts (since rss feeds are pointless without networking) and after my postgres server does..
so essentially you can create a series of rules to start things in order
@Bob On Windows, you have some easy GUI-based thing called StartUp Manager and Task Scheduler which can be used to run processes whenever you want. For example, a shell script that checks for and downloads the latest xkcd comic every morning.
However, I hear Ubuntu 17.04 beta can be customised to look a bit like Windows. So, I'm waiting for the beta to be canon. or whatever you call the official LTS release.
@JourneymanGeek Never knew OS's booted off floppies till now. Boy, am I young.
@DavidPostill Back then, my mom would have been the same age my brother is today. My brother is half my age on my next birthday. Solve for the ages of my brother, mother and me.
I really enjoy the discussions in this room. Even though I don't use superuser.com at all, this room is one corner of the internet that I particularly enjoy visiting.
@JourneymanGeek what is this? You ask for a good job, I offer you a job and you say you don't want it? Why do you disrespect me so, on the eve of my daughter's marriage?
Hmm. So you guys all have seen Zootopia, but none of you have played StarCraft II, in which Tychus Findlay says "I swear I've seen this in a movie once".
@Burgi There's actually a subtly difference. It's centre of the circle, and city center. A place you go to is a center. Food center, hair center, ice-cream center, et cetera.
Originally, everyone spelled it centre, but because of Noah Webster's spelling reforms, people in the US started spelling it center, particularly in the last century. Although the revised spelling center has been adopted internationally to varying extents, centre is still more popular in most re...
I'm Australian, so the following refers to British/Australian/New Zealand spelling and also for most Commonwealth (ex-British Empire) countries too. The spelling of these two words is different depending on it's meaning. If it is referring to the middle of something, such as the middle of a circl...
haha, I'm sure they won't. they prolly caught on that I'm just joking. If they haven't I'm probably going to wake up one day in a government-funded torture chamber.
@FleetCommand Please let it be a little kitty cat.
@JourneymanGeek Ah, I lived in the middle east for my whole childhood. Yet, I could never pick up much Arabic. Indian-immigrants were everywhere. I know Arabic numbers and few phrases thanks to the currency notes and coins but besides greetings and goodbyes, I don't know Arabic.
@jokerdino I mean, if a video stream were going from my system, wouldn't I know about it?
@JourneymanGeek Ha, idiots. My microwave is connected to my TV set (it acts a lifter) and my PhoneWave app (a messenger which lets me send text messages to the past thereby causing a distortion in reality with unintended butterfly effect based consequences)
@JourneymanGeek When I was a kid, I travelled from Cochin back to Muscat all alone. Because I was alone, Oman Air gave me a free upgrade to Business class. So many goodies. Food, DVD player, personal attention, personal radio where the RJ talked to me when I called. that was my first time flying first class. I was like 8-9, maybe.
I got offered an upgrade flying from Bali to the UK by the check in agent (Malaysian Airlines). It involved paying some cash - UKP 20 IIRC -- to another airline employee in the cafe outside the terminal. I enjoyed business class :)
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, for those sites that accept it. Other sites have such complicated rules with symbols and alphanumerics and sequences and using common words.
Speaking of passwords, scientists have proven passphrases are more secure and memorable. "mybilboisbiggerthanyourbilbo" is the safest password I've ever used.
@DavidPostill I would like to fly business more often. My tuition teacher flew first class on a flight where I flew economy. Funny thing is she must have used the money I gave her for her classes. Funnier thing is I flunked the subjects she taught me :D
Hey, I've tweeted that too. Guy's can I ask a favor, something only a late teen would ever ask you...
A flash from the past. "QuikMenu III" is an icon-based graphical menu and desktop application for DOS. Check it out:
https://classicreload.com/neosoft-quikmenu-iii.html
(I assume they're fine with it, considering they've said booting straight from disk is planned, and considering they've allowed other users to post forum guides on bypassing the iPXE process... the only difference is mine is automated)
Which mostly involved shouting at nvidia for correctly detecting the cards, correctly detecting the attached displays, and yet still displaying nothing
I hope everyone else's weekends were as fun and productive :P