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allquixotic

00:35

sourceforge.net/blog/codeplex-shuts-down-sourceforge-is-here

(1) credit where credit is due: they seem to be genuinely interested in making SourceForge *not* a horrific site
(2) it's still SourceForge, and moving from Codeplex to SourceForge is completely nonsensical

BAYMAX

01:05

Hi all

Gypsy Spellweaver

@allquixotic I haven't use SourceForge as a project platform, in any way. I have, however, downloaded a lot of things from there. Sometime directly from their pages, and sometimes from links on other pages that used it as their repository. The one thing I've not liked is the deceptive ad "Download" button that they say they want to fix. Beside that, what are the "issues" with SourceForge that seem to generate so much negative hype?

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver they hijacked a few projects that moved out.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Yug!

Journeyman Geek

Also bundled adware in downloads

Robert

Test hello

Gypsy Spellweaver

01:18

@Robert olleh tseT

@JourneymanGeek Blog states they are killing the adware, think they will address/prevent the project hijacking too?

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver I hope so

Gypsy Spellweaver

I really can't say why, luck I guess, but I've not become a victim of adware, viruses, etc. in all my years at the keyboard. My step dau. had boatloads of it, and my current wife has triggered a few things on her iPad, but I've stayed clear somehow.

I'm against it, totally, but lack the emotional investment others have after being its victims.

Bob

@PowershellforLinux ?

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver it was a dumb business move. Annoyed the folks hosting projects with them, annoyed users, and I doubt it was worth the revenue

Gypsy Spellweaver

01:34

@JourneymanGeek Underhanded moves are usually bad for business, even when it is for your own good.

Powershell for Linux

@Bob You asked me a few days back about how to get to IMS settings and CSC changer right?

Bob

@PowershellforLinux think so?

Powershell for Linux

Why?

Bob

@PowershellforLinux VoLTE

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver it was shortsighted.

No open source developer wants adware bundled in

Gypsy Spellweaver

01:42

@JourneymanGeek I wouldn't think so. I know I wouldn't want anything bundled in my code/project, except what I put there. If someone wants to change it, fork it. ;)

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver "prevent" is a fun word when they were the ones doing it...

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Bob Does seem to be a bit of a self-serving statement. If, however, it was a bad decision of DICE, and the new owners are going to change course, then it could be good.

It's been 14 months since they switched. Has there been noticeable improvement?

allquixotic

@GypsySpellweaver for project maintainers, it's really an awful site; sure, the downloads are alright, but the actual functionality is antiquarian compared to GitHub or BitBucket

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver the instinctive "eww, sourceforge, better watch where I click" hasn't worn off yet

also, navigation is still shit

allquixotic

they said they have a "new UI" coming, but I'll believe it when I see it

Bob

01:47

@allquixotic the downloads are nearly impossible for a user to navigate

allquixotic

their "forums" are pathetic, their "bug tracking" is laughable, their VCS support is minimal

Bob

there's a prominant "latest" button that often gives you the wrong thing...

allquixotic

it's a site from the 90s or very early 2000s and it looks like it

looks like it hasn't been updated since 2001

Bob

that said, I don't want to see it die

if only because there's so many old projects on it

Gypsy Spellweaver

@allquixotic I haven't been updated either :/

allquixotic

01:49

@Bob a significant percentage of them being genuinely useful and not adware-ridden

there are some rather useful utilities on there last updated in like 2011 that are still occasionally useful

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Bob IF it died, suddenly, would the mirrors still hold the projects, or would they automatically be wiped on the next refresh.

allquixotic

@GypsySpellweaver depends on the mirrors' internal rules; if the master server went down, the mirrors wouldn't immediately wipe themselves, but how long they kept it up would be a question for each mirror

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver depends on the mirror in question, but they only host downloads... the code would still be lost, as would the rest of the project (description, issues)

and without the linking, the files themselves would be difficult to sort out

how would you know which file belongs where, does what?

allquixotic

god, it was so long ago but I think at some point SourceForge even hosted Eclipse O_O

maybe in the days of Eclipse Helios

or Galileo

Powershell for Linux

@Bob is it supposed to work?

Bob

01:53

@PowershellforLinux not sure... Vodafone supports it, but I'm on TPG (Vodafone network, not technically Vodafone...)

@allquixotic SourceForge used to be the F/OSS site. Then GitHub came in, SF saw it was losing users, and decided it would be better to go out with a malware-laden bang rather than try to compete or die slowly.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob tbh I would be unsurprised if someone honestly thought it was a good idea

Rahul2001

@allquixotic Hey! That's a when I was created too!

Recent updates to me include: 2 inches of height, weird facial hair, braces.

Journeyman Geek

02:13

@Rahul2001 ahh puberty.

Or werewolfism.

allquixotic

02:28

@Rahul2001 I'm old; I was a teenager when it was created

Gypsy Spellweaver

02:43

@allquixotic @Rahul2001 I'm ancient, I was divorced when it was created.

For around a decade already, by then.

allquixotic

@GypsySpellweaver you win (unless DavidPostill is older) :P

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill

Gypsy Spellweaver

@allquixotic Some of his experience comments makes me think he might be. He's mentioned working with some things that I've used as well, but I had early access compared to most, so my middle-school years may equate to his early career years.

allquixotic

02:59

@Bob games in a bit?

Bob

03:21

@allquixotic sorry, not this week :(

@allquixotic unless you can your morning (in about 11 hours)

wait no. 9 hours

Gypsy Spellweaver

03:34

@Bob Check this answer. Poster only has one post, ever, and it looks suspiciously like a person posted the answer just to get a link to a paid product. I'm fixing it, in case it's not spam, but also flagging it cause it feels like spam.

8

A: How do I view my clipboard history on OS X?

I've tried them all and the best experience and best ongoing support has been from LaunchBar. Best feature: 40-item clipboard history. It makes writing code so much easier.

Opinion?

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver ow, that's one of the more iffy parts of software-rec answers. I don't think it passes the "how do I recommend software" test (meta.superuser.com/questions/5329/…) but it's also old enough that leaving it might be acceptable at this point

Gypsy Spellweaver

The company does still have that product. Didn't look at price though.

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver 'link to a paid product' in and of itself isn't spam, btw. it can be a poor answer for other reasons, but as long as it's a relevant answer it doesn't fit the spam flag reason

of course, affiliation without disclosure is the other part of spam, but it's ahrd to prove affiliation - especially when they don't have several answers of the sort

but yea @JourneymanGeek would give a more definitive answer

Gypsy Spellweaver

I wasn't sure. Just "felt" fishy.

Bob

yea, flagging it is a reasonable response

jsut be glady ou aren't a mod so you don't have to deal with it :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

03:39

@Bob Passing the buck is always nice :)

Not my job ;P

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver does not ring any of the usual alarm bells.

Looks legit, and he seems to have no affiliation with the product

Gypsy Spellweaver

cool. Strange that fella showed up, made one answer, then disappeared.

@JourneymanGeek You're the resident expert on spam. Gotta go with your opinion :)

Journeyman Geek

Annoyingly the mod queue is full so I can't find it on my phone

Gypsy Spellweaver

lol

Journeyman Geek

There sorted

Rahul2001

05:45

Beep Beep I'm a Sheep (feat. TomSka & BlackGryph0n) | asdfmovie10 song | LilDeuceDeuce

►

allquixotic

06:39

@Bob nvm on gaming in a couple hours - gonna probably be too tired from working on Joomla all night

Rahul2001

06:59

I just downloaded all the classic Tom and Jerry episodes :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

@jokerdino Thanks for the help on the image fixing.

jokerdino

What?

I didn't do anything.

Gypsy Spellweaver

You did one for sure, it got there to fix it and you'd just edited it a few minutes before.

49

A: How do I securely store and manage 180 passwords?

I have used Lastpass for a while now and recommend it highly. It has some wonderful browser plugins and a bunch of features that make it easier to have more secure passwords. The browser plugin will automatically fill-in login information (when logged into the plugin). It also has an export fun...

jokerdino

ah, I randomly ran into it the other day.

Gypsy Spellweaver

I've been very random in my viewing lately. :) Entertaining and enlightening.

Rahul2001

07:21

1

Q: How do get many results automatically from this page?

http://results.sofworld.org/results I was hoping if I could get all possible results of say type: 16th NCO Roll no: DL0071-**-*-*** The first two ** represent a number from 1-12, the next * is a letter A-Z, the last three digits *** are 000-999 My roll number is DL0071-11-B-005 I was sug...

Uh, looks like it's a teacher/student trying to get the results of all his/her classmates/students

NCO is conducted in all schools here in India

Gypsy Spellweaver

Last I knew one of the others was started on that and then quit because of PII issues. I know I pulled out real quick. It started in chat and went to a question later.

It was either JourneymanGeek of FleetCommand iirc

Rahul2001

07:35

T&J is 77 years old

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver yup. dude asked it here.

Gypsy Spellweaver

08:03

@JourneymanGeek Thought it was you, but not 100% sure. Looks like others are still trying to solve it.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

But I typically tell people to ask questions on the main site ;p

Gypsy Spellweaver

That's understood. I just don't know why he's still trying to get it done. Or, why there's so much hassle doing it. As soon as I realized the PII involved I quit. But it's simple enough to do, and it'd be done by now if I'd stayed on it. The PII issue makes it not worth the bounty to me.

Journeyman Geek

I'm pretty sure he threw the bounty on cause of the closevotes, but whateves.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Does a bounty prevent closing a question, or just discourage people from VTC?

Journeyman Geek

You can't close a bountied question

Gypsy Spellweaver

08:10

Smart way to game the system.

Journeyman Geek

08:32

At the dog wash ;p

Gypsy Spellweaver

Cute

user226528

09:05

Oh, yes, I am in the right room. Every time I log in, there is a picture of either a dog or a cat.

Gypsy Spellweaver

At least it's not a picture of both ;)

user226528

What's wrong with both?

Gypsy Spellweaver

Could end up with the fur flying.

DavidPostill

Gypsy Spellweaver

Show off ;P

DavidPostill

09:08

Gypsy Spellweaver

Dr. Dolittle. Push-you-pull-me.

DavidPostill

Gypsy Spellweaver

The end of Utopia

user226528

There was a TV show called catdog, right?

Gypsy Spellweaver

<-- clueless

user226528

09:12

CatDog

CatDog is an American animated television series created by Peter Hannan for Nickelodeon. The series depicts the life of conjoined brothers, with one half being a cat and the other a dog. Nickelodeon produced the series from Burbank, California. The first episode aired on April 4, 1998 (following the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards), before the show officially premiered in October that year. The Season 2 episode "Fetch" was also shown in theaters with The Rugrats Movie before airing on TV. The series aired on Nickelodeon from October 5, 1998 to June 15, 2005 for four seasons and 68 episodes. Reruns...

user226528

09:52

The accepted answer for this question is wrong: superuser.com/questions/1194625/…

DavidPostill

@FleetCommand It does have a source (see my comment above) — DavidPostill ♦ 21 secs ago

"I believe this is done bypassing the file system". Correct. From Windows Internals, C14 "Crashdmp.sys, with support from the disk miniport driver and any required filter drivers, writes the dump information directly to the sectors on disk occupied by the paging file, bypassing the file system driver and storage driver stack (which might be corrupted or even have caused the crash)." — DavidPostill ♦ 14 hours ago

Bob

@allquixotic ...oh.

user226528

@DavidPostill Have you even heard of "synthesis of published sources to advance a position not supported by either of them"?

user226528

@DavidPostill Here, see this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SYNTH

Gypsy Spellweaver

Ok slow down @FleetCommand and @DavidPostill

both right!

The source for internals explains why the swap file is needed for the error to be recoded, and how it's done.

DavidPostill

10:00

@GypsySpellweaver Exactly.

user226528

@GypsySpellweaver And that's not the question or the problem of the OP.

Gypsy Spellweaver

AND it isn't going to matter where the file is, as long as it exists somewhere

user226528

@GypsySpellweaver Exactly. And that's what David and OP are getting wrong.

Gypsy Spellweaver

The OP was wrong. David was only explaining the message - literally, rather than the actual question.

user226528

@GypsySpellweaver You are right. Although, I wonder if he should have done that.

Rahul2001

10:02

Math Professor Fixes Projector Screen (April Fools Prank)

►

OH MY GOD

Gypsy Spellweaver

The answer is still wrong. And Davids comment begins by quoting the part of the answer he's addressing "bypassing the file system"

And that's why it has to be 800MB or more, to hold the crash file. Size of memory means nothing in that context, even though the OP mentioned that it was 3.5x memory.

Bob

@FleetCommand Hm. Now I'm confused. Are you (and @GypsySpellweaver) saying minidumps will still be recorded as long as a page file exists, even if on a non-system drive?

Gypsy Spellweaver

ABSOLUTELY

user226528

@Bob Yes. It happens on my PC.

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver It's a minidump. Not a full memory dump. iirc.

@FleetCommand Well, there's a bunch of answers (on SU, SF, and other forums) you might wanna fix :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

10:08

The BSOD only needs the file to exist and have been registered. I've done it that way just short of forever. Usually the final partition, on a secondary drive if possible. In the IDE age also on the secondary controller.

And with the torture I give my boxes, BSOD was a daily event. Pre *nix anyway. :)

user226528

@Bob This is nothing new. I've seen a thread in which people were scaring off an OP who had a question about one his devices. They convinced him that it was Intel Management Engine (IME) and that it was a liability that exposed his computer to remote malicious control. In reality, the device was Intel Management Engine Interface (IMEI) which only enabled some advanced CPU features.

Bob

@FleetCommand Oh, I've challenged cargo cult beliefs often enough. It happens.

Not everyone can test every little thing themselves :P

Speaking of which. "disable the page file" is one of those... there's very very few circumstances where doing so is a good idea

Usually comes from people thinking "oh I have enough RAM anyway" with no knowledge of how Windows handles overcommit

Gypsy Spellweaver

Thomas Jefferson, writing to a nephew, Peter Carr, who was entering The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, Jefferson's alma mater:

Bob

(i.e. it doesn't allow overcommit the way Linux does, and will simply lock away a chunk of your physical RAM if you don't have a page file and a program commits-but-never-accesses the memory... fairly common)

Gypsy Spellweaver

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Powershell for Linux

10:13

!!caat

Gypsy Spellweaver

BTW: how do you get the quote-type thing in here, where the line is indented and has the vertical dots on it?

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver >

Powershell for Linux

> quote

Bob

that's a greater-than followed by a space

must be in the first two characters of the message, and will always quote the entire message (even multiline)

... and @PowershellforLinux has just said the whole thing much more succinctly :P

Powershell for Linux

Huh wow

I thought < was greater than

Man no wonder I failed at maths at school... twice

P.S. @Bob, if you ever have issues with your phone back being too slippery... electrical tape

Bob

10:15

@PowershellforLinux LOL

actually not a bad idea... maybe in a nicer-looking shape though :P

Powershell for Linux

@Bob It#

It's magical

DavidPostill

@GypsySpellweaver @FleetCommand The Windows Internals book has a complete exaplanation of exactly how and where the dump files are written. Unfortunately it is 8 pages and too long for an answer - which is why I didn't write one :)

Powershell for Linux

Like, not just for fingers. But it stops the phone slipping off my laptop palm rest, I can safely leave it on polished surfaces, it'll even stay on an armrest on a bus/train/plane

Everywhere I go there's now 3x as many surfaces I can put my phone safely, it'll stay put even at like 15 degrees incline on the window sill on a train

Normal people would probably just use a silicone case/cover but y'know I'm weird like that

Also my mobile provider definitely hates me. Bypassed their metered tethering cap and have been completely maxing the network capacity in the city centre right across peak hours for 2 days

Rahul2001

If you think your microwave spying on you is bad... Your vacuum cleaner has been gathering dirt on you for years.

Powershell for Linux

Pulled like 300GB in 2 days, with 100% 24/7 network load...

@Rahul2001 facepalm

user226528

10:20

@DavidPostill I already have Windows Internals. You can just give me an edition name and page number. But I don't think it is relevant anyway. That's my original objection.

DavidPostill

@FleetCommand Edition 6, Part 2, p 553

Bob

huh, I just realised I completely forgot to set up my page files after the reinstall

whoops

Powershell for Linux

Set up my page files?

Sounds like an oxymoron

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7666295

So as it turns out Android implemented a secret, hidden, tethering APN like IOS a few versions back

On Samsung phones you have to have root to override it, on Sony phones you don't

@Bob Found it!

ifixit.com/Guide/Sony+Xperia+Phone+-+Service+-+Test+Menu/24223

It's shit and useless though

Bob

10:40

@PowershellforLinux -_-

@PowershellforLinux does it actually let you do anything? lol

sounds useful though

Powershell for Linux

@Bob Shrug

Not really.

It doesn't even have signal readouts

Unfortunately every other post I've found on codes for the Xperia are retards regurgitating the same misinformation that confuses "Samsung" with "Android"

Gypsy Spellweaver

Anyone know a reliable way to get BSOD in Win 98SE

Powershell for Linux

@GypsySpellweaver Unplug the hard drive

user226528

@DavidPostill Alright. I read it. Your quotation is actually on page 559.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@PowershellforLinux Which one?

How about w/o popping the hood?

DavidPostill

10:48

@FleetCommand And in any case the dump file location is independent of any page file settings. I'm writing an answer.

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver O0

Why?

Gypsy Spellweaver

To see what it does with the errors. Ain't had a BSOD in a while - Ain't "used" Windows in a while.

Journeyman Geek

ah

I wonder if the old reghack works

Gypsy Spellweaver

If it's old enough, it should. Win 98 is old.

user226528

O.o I just received word that Trump has banned using laptops on planes! o.O

Gypsy Spellweaver

10:52

Ever since the TSA came online I HATE to fly. Avoid it at any and all costs!

user226528

Well, you Americans have voted to a really funny president. I wonder why.

Journeyman Geek

I'm not sure its old enough

Gypsy Spellweaver

Politicians can do business as usual, time to see if a businessman can do politics as usual. :D

user226528

A sentence worthy of Revenge of the Sith.

Gypsy Spellweaver

After all, aren't we supposed to be the Great Experiment?

user226528

10:55

Not me.

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver if you tilt your head just right and blink

Journeyman Geek

m

gm

Gypsy Spellweaver

@FleetCommand That was a Star Wars movie, correct?

Powershell for Linux

@GypsySpellweaver Block all the vents

Journeyman Geek

win2k and better

Bob

10:56

wait, no, that was how you get WinME to bsod

user226528

@GypsySpellweaver Yes.

Powershell for Linux

@FleetCommand Err no, and old news

Bob

tilting and winking are optional

Powershell for Linux

@FleetCommand they didn't vote for him, the system did

Bob

I can't feel my left leg

Journeyman Geek

10:57

0_0

user226528

@PowershellforLinux You mean what I have heard is a lie?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob Duuuude. Go see a vet

Powershell for Linux

@Bob Which one?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...that seems like an overreaction

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver what.thedailywtf.com/topic/377/… might get you started

@Bob actually, we probably should start with "is your leg in a snare?"

Bob

10:59

@JourneymanGeek depends on your definition of snare, I guess

Journeyman Geek

@Bob often a piece of wire...

Powershell for Linux

@Bob I can test the primary vs. secondary antenna so I can whine at my insurance company that they botched the repair and one of them aint working

Journeyman Geek

in a loop

terrible things.

Powershell for Linux

Maybe use a practical reverse definition of a snare?

Can you still move it?

Bob

@PowershellforLinux huh. That's actually useful.

Powershell for Linux

11:00

If so, not in a snare.

Bob

@PowershellforLinux kinda hard to move something you can't feel

Powershell for Linux

@Bob Not for me

Journeyman Geek

Do you hear the baying of hounds?

Powershell for Linux

Can't feel my laptop, can still move it. Can also move my leg quite easily using both leg itself and my arms even if it's numb

Journeyman Geek

Have you tried chewing on your leg in preperation for chewing it off to escape?

Bob

11:01

'course, now it's not numb anymore. pins and needles aren't nice either :(

@JourneymanGeek can I count the baby crying next door?

Powershell for Linux

Yup. Not in a snare. He's fine.

Journeyman Geek

hm.

Bob

funnily enough I could've answered yes this afternoon

Journeyman Geek

Do you see men and women in red coats?

with guns?

Powershell for Linux

Oh shit

Fox hunters

Bob

11:03

every weekend what sounds like a dozen dogs start howling (?) a couple streets over

Powershell for Linux

> Your package has been posted through your letterbox.

Uhhh in a public office block?

Lazy bastards

Could they not have waited to deliver it on a day it was open?

It's a business address ffs.

DavidPostill

@FleetCommand @GypsySpellweaver superuser.com/a/1194749/337631

user226528

Showoff..

DavidPostill

@GypsySpellweaver How to Force a Blue Screen in Windows

Gypsy Spellweaver

@JourneymanGeek Even though it said not 98SE the img src=C:\con\con worked :D

DavidPostill

11:07

@FleetCommand I just wanted to write a correct answer :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

Powershell for Linux

facepalm

Clearly should have used Firefox

user226528

Burgi isn't here. Too bad.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Now, when I restart, where's the crash file supposed to be?

DavidPostill

@GypsySpellweaver Read my answer :) %SystemRoot%\MEMORY.DMP

Powershell for Linux

11:14

What crash file? You don't get a crash file when you restart.

Journeyman Geek

@GypsySpellweaver yay

Powershell for Linux

@JourneymanGeek Meh, he basically crashed internet exploder.

It's not even a real BSOD

There's no D.

Journeyman Geek

@PowershellforLinux actually, he crashed the file system driver IIPC

And he wanted a crash. It crashed.

hm

DavidPostill

11:33

Yay. HNA :)

Journeyman Geek

I'm back to the annoying problem of there being no good way to backup a running linux server

DavidPostill

2

A: Best way to backup a running linux server

Mondo seems to do exactly what i want - fairly simple, bootable bare metal backups. I'm completely fine with periodically doing a full system backup, since its not a very heavily used system, and i got a 1 tb box elsewhere... so... i guess that takes my vote.

:)

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill mondo dosen't quite work most of the time since ._.

Powershell for Linux

@JourneymanGeek :-o

Opening an image on a web page crashes the filesystem? :-O

@JourneymanGeek dd?

DavidPostill

2

Q: How to backup a running system?

I have a running Linux system, and I'd like to have a full backup of it using dd, which, in my limited knowledge is the only tool every system has. The distro doesn't matter mainly because I should apply this approach to several different servers with different flavours installed, and I cannot ...

linux backup dd

Journeyman Geek

11:37

@PowershellforLinux pretty terrible

Rahul2001

thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/…

Powershell for Linux

Rsync? Bash? Veeam?

dd works fine for disaster recovery

Journeyman Geek

@PowershellforLinux hm. I wonder if veeam would backup locally

I can ship the backups periodically

DavidPostill

fsarchiver.org/live-backup

> FSArchiver can be used to backup linux operating systems when they are running. In other words, if you have linux installed on your hard disk, and it’s currently running, you can make a backup of that disk using fsarchiver. It’s called a live backup or hot backup. All you need is an fsarchiver binary, an another filesystem where to save the archive. It can be on another partition on the hard-disk, or a network file-system such as Samba of NFS.

Powershell for Linux

Journeyman Geek

11:40

@DavidPostill I use veeam on my home stuff so...

Powershell for Linux

Totally unplanned coincidence but there's a motorcycle shop and a 4G transmitter right next to the hostel I booked

Rahul2001

@Bob lol

DavidPostill

@PowershellforLinux Now the 4LAs know where to aim tonight :)

Journeyman Geek

hm. I need a different device to back it up to for veeam

blah

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek ^^^ "It can be on another partition on the hard-disk" :)

Journeyman Geek

11:46

@DavidPostill which I don't have

and Its a bit more work than I currently have the energy for

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek "you can use the official fsarchiver package that comes with your Linux distribution"

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill to add another partition, I'd need to fix up the KVM client on my linux box ;p

If I did that, I could shut down the VM, and back up the whole image...

... Oh

Yeah, I think I'll have that as a project for the week

djsmiley2k

@PowershellforLinux incidently the google car went past us at the round about coming home

DavidPostill

(shrug) all these ~~people~~ dogs wanting instant ~~gratification~~ solutions :)

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill naw, actually, this would work

I just need to leave for a complete waste of my time in 2 minutes

DavidPostill

11:52

@JourneymanGeek See ya later

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Journeyman Geek

apparently not

yay

Powershell for Linux

@djsmiley2k :-o

Did it take your photo?

@JourneymanGeek \\localhost?

djsmiley2k

i guess so

Journeyman Geek

@PowershellforLinux or shutdown the guest, and grab it over SFTP

Server might be down a while but shrug

...

unless

Powershell for Linux

12:09

God dammit this constant brain electrocution sensation is getting really bad

I suspect driving while being electrocuted in the head might be a bad idea

2

Journeyman Geek

I could just zip it in place first

Powershell for Linux

Then again that glaswegian that kept passing out while driving busses and trucks and then went and ran over and killed 5 people didn't go to jail, so maybe they just don't care where I'm going anyway

Journeyman Geek

0_0

MWAHAHAHAHA

djsmiley2k

12:30

all the cores¬!

Journeyman Geek

Its a 8 core avaton

its still going to take a while but at least it makes the rest of the process less painful

Mokubai

@PowershellforLinux Mayhaps the advice of a medical professional could be of use?

Bob

Sep 22 '14 at 11:13, by Bob

:D

Journeyman Geek

12:54

Right, backups done

now I just need to gank the backups and do a risky release update over ssh

and damn, I'm rusty

and I don't remember how I set up networking on the host, which is going to be "fun" when I get around to updating it

ah right. Fedora stores it in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ._.

Journeyman Geek

13:20

right, now do-release update is stuffing up

Oh joy

Journeyman Geek

13:40

right. bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager-core/+bug/…

Joao Torres

How you guys doing? First time in here

Journeyman Geek

Hi. I'm complaining loudly about something I will shortly feel stupid about ;)

But at least I backed up

Joao Torres

I was wondering if anyone could land me a hand with a problem that doesn't need a new question in ubuntustack

Journeyman Geek

lol

We typically tell people, we talk about stuff tather than use it for live support. So if you need talking through it, maybe

but at some point we may go "hey, this is really a better question for AU or SU"

if you're cool with that, carry on

Joao Torres

Oh

The problem with asking on AU or SU is that you cant get too deep into it

I'm guessing here you can go a little deeper than the original question

Journeyman Geek

13:51

lol. Or you have no idea what you're doing and need inspiriration

or at least a rubber duck

Joao Torres

What?

A rubber duck works for sys admins?

I thought it only worked for programmers ahahah

Journeyman Geek

The theory is the same

you talk about a problem to something

I learnt about the duck from a sysadmin

Joao Torres

What if you are new to the subject and doesnt have much knowledge about it?

Journeyman Geek

Blah

Joao Torres

I used the duck for my classes in C and Java :D

Journeyman Geek

13:53

we're meta metaing. What do you want to ask about? ;p

I'm ~~cursing at~~ babying a grumpy linux VM so... I haz time.

Joao Torres

hahahaha

So...

I have the prolem happening here... It sasy that the /dev/mapper/vg01--vg-root is full but I'm pretty sure it isnt

I only have a VPN and two scripts running on this machine

I read about checking "dead files" with "lsof +L01" and it doesn't show any output

Journeyman Geek

hmm

what sort of volume group is that?

LVM?

Joao Torres

yep

Journeyman Geek

what does pvdisplay say?

Joao Torres

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