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How do I loop an array in shell

o.O

There's this array=($(ls -d */))

mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

Will globs work in busybox ???

@HackToHell Do you have ftpd?

Nope, just ftpput

@ncdownpat Life saver

made a script now pulling data

@HackToHell You do realise you probably have tar?

tar czf blah.tar.gz ~/ would give you a nicely compressed single file (don't forget to exclude the tar file itself...)

and with that said, I'm off to sleep

ahhhh right

something like -exclude blah.tar.gz

then you can ftp that single file

@Bob huh... Cavil's PhantomJS is up, but he isn't in here. >_<

wonder if SE broke something

oh well

has anyone else been seeing an uptick in questions that are off-topic here but could be migrated to SF? just curious

Not really. Almost any Server Fault -ish questions I found here would be closed pretty quickly there.

Re server recovery: Do you have DRAC/IlO ?

If you do and uncrypted (e.g. normal, no LUKs or similar) partitions, then just use DRAC and a liveCD iso image. Then use that to make fresh backups.

@Boris_yo digimark embeds a code into the pixels of the pic themselves and there is a minor tiny visable difference to the pic after. little bits of grain. i have only heard it is pretty much defeated when the resolution of the pic is destroyed, very low-res from the original. The really protective "stock" photo places (as you see) will insted splash huge watermark embeds that make the picture practically useless to anyone without buying an unmarked one.

Not quite sf in my oppinion. On SF I would comment a 'what did you already try' 'did you even look things up' and 'Here, let me google that for you'.

In the news reuters.com/article/2015/07/27/… "Chinese factory that produced 41,000 counterfeit iPhones shut down after some made it to the U.S."

I dont care if they make clones by the millions, as long as they dont identify them as the real thing and pass them off as the real thing. Nothing is more frustrating than having something fail miserably or not work like it is supposed to , because you got a crappy knock-off, fully cloned down to the manuels and packaging, and being sold as if it is the one you think your buying. And for almost the same price.

@Psycogeek But then where would Apple buy their iPhones from? :-P

They could pull off that dream they had of making products in the states , if only a dream :-) As much of the states have (sort of) lost the ability to do anything for themselves anymore.

They are saying that the majority of the iphone clone items are using android operating system. would that take more than 2 minutes to discover :-)

South Korea one-ups china bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-10-22/… (older news) and will clone your dead dog .

@Psycogeek Guess who just bought a 32 GB Kingstoh micro-SD last friday?

You ?

Not saying it's me, but it's a RA user who lives in Brazil :P

In my defense, I was really in a hurry and the packaging was 99.9% like the real one

I only realized it was counterfeit because of a spelling error in a tinnnnny URL on the back of the package. That, and the staggering amount of I/O errors.

@ThatBrazilianGuy "Kingstoh"?

@ThatBrazilianGuy Staggering? as in 100%?

did you manage to get $ back?

@allquixotic as in... I don't recal the amount now and I'm too lazy to turn on my file server just to retrieve the log, but I ran badblocks on it and IIRC, anything after 10GB was borked.

I spend like an extra hour trying to clarify if i can trust who i am buying from, and Still test them end-2-end and a quick speed test before applying a Flash memory in something. That has to the The Worst. to hit the end of the actual space and have the whole thing collapse into a ball of goo.

@allquixotic I got the $35 back so fast I can only infer it's either (1) lots and lots of previous complains, or (2) the guy was aware it was counterfeit and only a handful of people are tech savvy enough to notice, he justs gives back the money to those

@ThatBrazilianGuy well, at least they didn't sell you a piece of plastic that looked like a microSD card

probably both (1) and (2)

Oh yea we be writing all this data no problem. . . to Nowhere Phhhht.

@allquixotic It looked really, reeeeally like an original one. I just noticed it because I tried to record more than 1 hour of video on it and lost all the data :/

@ThatBrazilianGuy :(

i wonder if it would actually work semi-well for a whole year as a microSD card in a phone with very light usage (a couple MB per month)

Like selling a car with no engine at the top of the hill, everything goes along fine till you hit the end of the actual nand on it.

Yeah. Been trying to record a monthly series of WordPress meetups. The previous 2 I recorded using analog tapes (miniDV), but capturing it requires a realtime 1:1 ratio, a camera and a PC with a firewire port, I have neither and the logistics are quite unfavorable.

So I just thought... What if I had some device that could record direct to digital 720p format OH WAIT

lol. your phone

But my MotoG has only 8GB of internal storage, mostly full. So I bought a 32 GB card in a hurry a few hours before the talks, set it up in a photography tripod, plugged the charger and let it recording.

Every 10 min I'd check it and, apart from a little hot, it would look like it was recording everything.

So after the 40min mark I stopped checking,

It then ended and there was a couple of huge unreadable files on the card =/

@ThatBrazilianGuy Sounds like raffling off a dead horse.

I wonder how they produced cards that deficient

maybe they dove in the dumpster in the back of the Kingston factory in China and found thousands of microSD cards that got chucked because they were too deficient to sell

@MichaelFrank Pretty much. Selling tech stuff that almost works in small stands in a discount tech mall. Most people won't know any better, a small fraction will notice, a fraction of those might not even bother to reclaim the not-so-huge money, and maybe no one would ever complain to the authorities

@allquixotic Maybe, but then they had all the trouble to print and manufacture almost-identical packagings?

> discount tech mall

we really don't have those here -- we have malls, but the stuff they sell is almost always overpriced, and whatever it is better work or irate American customers will come marching back to get their $18.50

@allquixotic I remember going to one of the outlet malls in Vegas. All that stuff was pretty cheap. Had a bunch of tech stores there as well.

@allquixotic I don't have many options where to buy tech stuff. It's small stores that basically import stuff (well, propably they exclusively import stuff, because no hardware is built here AFAIK), and sell those in bulk. That, or fancier stores in proper malls that buy those in bulk from the aforementioned stores.

Or department stores that buy laptops from brands like Dell or local brands that just put their stamps on top of obscure chinese brands (but offer proper warranty) for things like desktops, tablets and laptops

in the US you're more likely to get screwed by buying online, since often a brick and mortar store with physical premises can get shut down very quickly by credit card chargebacks that occur if they refuse to give the customer a proper working product

Stuff like mobos, RAM sticks and enthusiast stuff, I've bought all my life in this very mall. There's really small stores that are just stands, and there's much bigger stores. It's the first time I recall buying a counterfeit item =/

but online there are umpteen ways to give away your money to bad businessmen with no recourse to get it back

I only had bad experience online buying from Deal Extreme (DX), it takes aaaaaaaages to arrive (6 months once), and two orders had defective items.

counterfeiters that have physical premises on our soil will pretty quickly get shut down if they are anywhere within reputable society - now granted if they are selling out of a house or an abandoned garage, that's one thing, but if they're in an actual storefront, licensed etc, it's going to have some kind of a warranty, some kind of a recourse, and not be counterfeit

I contacted paypal and they issued me a refund, DX would'nt.

heh

in the US we go to a mall if we need something that works, now, and are willing to pay a 200% markup, for an item that's not especially high-end, but suits the purpose

if we want a good deal, or the latest high-end specs, we order online from a reputable dealer, like "Shipped and sold by amazon.com"

I could trust newegg to do everything except Package it for shipping :-) then they dropped in a "marketplace" me thinks that is bad business idea.

Sony online store: MDR-ZX330BT/B costs $99.99. Amazon: $95.99. Best Buy: $99.99 (online), $109.99 (in store). Any store at a mall: $199.99.

I don't want to think too much about harwdware prices. Last week I managed to kick both an 3TB HDD drive and a 500GB laptop drive... While connected via USB and performing a backup... On the only copy of my wife's personal files.

Nearly a month's value of minimum wage in lost hardware.

The laptop HDD, thank $randomness, was still readable except for an .iso file of a distro I had placed in a folder.

So I had to buy a new HDD for her laptop. Yet my ban account was already zeroed. And this week was our anniversary and she had been talking for ages about this fancy sushi restaurant... My wallet bleeded a little when I saw the bill.

@PatoSáinz Hey man, haven't seen you in a long time

(well, I've been away for a some weeks as well)

I'm here mostly when either at work or when HV'ing :P

I'm not practicing much of the former, that caused most of the latter :P :P

Minor presence? As in "you don't come here often so we've decided to ban you"?

@PatoSáinz How old are you?

Wait, you're 12? BRB calling an adult CM. (no, not really)

> even though it wasn't a problem in SE

Dude, you're talking about a community that's got dinos and dogs as mods.

Heh.. the Exchange server just imploded.

@PatoSáinz Dunno, but email is down for many many users right now.

Also, the sucessor to the comms room is a wee bit odd

(and well, unlike SE is a private chatroom, with no real rules, so... meh)

slack has people talking ;p

I was referring to it more as a closed chatroom with no other community behind it ;p

@PatoSáinz Turns out someone sent a meeting request to the entire company.

@Bob for some odd reason, my wireless keyboard won't work with virt manager if I'm connected to a remote server

Hmm... looks like it's all coming back up now.

@MichaelFrank And that's enough to bring down a server?

@ThatBrazilianGuy Yea... There's about 48000 users across AUS and NZ alone.

I don't know much about server management, but wouldn't the logical result og trying to send a message to 48k users would result in just creating a really, really long queue?

Neither do I. There's situations where I work where there's even longer queues, but I don't manage the email servers and don't know how they handle it.

!!noidea

@ThatBrazilianGuy Not really sure. That's the leading theory of the crash at this moment. Everything is back up and running at this stage though.

OH NO! THEY KILLED CAVIL! YOU B#$@#%!

@ThatBrazilianGuy To be fair, Cavil was fairly bastardy to begin with :P

@allquixotic, the chatbot has been offline for a long time. Is there some technical issue that you can't resolve?

chat.stackexchange.com/users/87560/chatbot-john-cavil