Root Access

bertieb

12:04 AM

Probably looking at a cell tower, high as heck, covered in lube

Godspeed TOWMN o7

Journeyman Geek

12:27 AM

Sounds about right

rahuldottech

1:30 AM

amazon.in/Adapter-Board-Card-RAID-Convert/dp/B07PKFBYT5/…

lmao @jou

I think Linus did a video on this a year ago or so

Michael Frank

1:50 AM

Wooo just hit 7000 reputation

bwDraco

So... posted a review of the Surface Go 8/128 on Best Buy a few days ago: bestbuy.com/site/reviews/-/… (you know my username).

So that the review doesn't disappear behind newer ones (since they don't have permalinks)...

> I got this tablet because I wanted something light, compact, and simple for catching up on the news or watching videos while I'm commuting or traveling. It can be tricky to pull out even a lightweight 13" laptop in a crowded subway car, yet I needed a full Windows desktop so my phone just wouldn't cut it. The Surface Go is the answer.

The 10" screen is just the right size for everyday reading, content consumption, and light productivity work, and it's small and light enough to carry and pull out easily in the field. The touchscreen is very responsive and has an 1800x1200 resolution for a…

Bob

I nominate RTNETLINK answers: File exists as the most useless error message ever.

Michael Frank

The x failed successfully

bwDraco

> The operation completed successfully.

Bob

Hey at least those tell you it succeeded!

Michael Frank

2:03 AM

@bwDraco so this is something you could out on your blog!

@Bob did you not ask RTNETLINK if the file existed?

Bob

@MichaelFrank I tried :(

# sendmail RTNETLINK
bash: sendmail: command not found

rahuldottech

5:41 AM

@MichaelFrank congrats

bertieb

6:46 AM

Morning

cpx

Morning.

Journeyman Geek

afternoooooooooon

bertieb

Off to graduate

wearing full kilt ensemble

Ah crap the bus

o/

djsmiley2k

7:43 AM

enjoy @bertieb :)

djsmiley2k

8:23 AM

oooooo after 22days that £7.00 will automatically go through

bertieb

8:55 AM

@djsmiley2k thanks!

Journeyman Geek

Hm.

djsmiley2k

9:21 AM

hmmmm

I can't remmeber if I've got access to add these AP's to the radius server, or do I need sysadmin to do it

rahuldottech

@bertieb zongrats

rahuldottech

10:07 AM

i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

Journeyman Geek

10:28 AM

@rahuldottech there's literally nothing in the last decade (and half?) that's i386

everything is at least 64 bit

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek lol no

I've used at least two dozen PCs in the past couple years that are i386

Journeyman Geek

Unless you mean those cruddy tablets.

rahuldottech

Granted, this is India that we're talking about

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech oh, they could run 32 bit, sure

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek I'm talking about the cheap towers that schools and stuff built for their labs

Journeyman Geek

10:30 AM

but anything c2d or better is 64 bit as I recall

rahuldottech

what''s c2d?

Journeyman Geek

core 2 duo

rahuldottech

ah

@JourneymanGeek huh, to me (i368 == 32-bit)

That's what my understanding has always been

But I guess I was wrong

Journeyman Geek

Nope

Technically modern 32 bit is i586

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech i386 is an instruction set

it's old. old old old

like.... 1990's old.

Journeyman Geek

10:38 AM

Older than you. No joke

djsmiley2k

i686 is what most modern computers are (other than some weird stuff like Itaniums etc)

Journeyman Geek

There's one company that makes em still

djsmiley2k

my router is a i586, but due to some bugs in micro code, it's easier to run i486 complied binaries.

So litterally nothing is i386

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k o0

What router?

djsmiley2k

i386 support in linux kernel was turned 'off' like.... 5 years ago?

@JourneymanGeek errr amd geode something

my custom built one.

Don't use it anymore, but it worked.

Journeyman Geek

10:40 AM

Oh

djsmiley2k

So now, they're just gonna stop building it, at all.

Journeyman Geek

I can relate

And geodes were odd

djsmiley2k

which is like, meh ok, fine.

Journeyman Geek

And actually not designed by AMD

djsmiley2k

Those people who really need that i386 support will stay on some old kernel, but their systems are so ancient they shouldn't be accessible anyway.

lol yah

Journeyman Geek

10:42 AM

Tbh. You shouldn't even be running stuff without 64 bit support in 2019 IMO

djsmiley2k

/me looks at 1970's nuclear reactors and nods.

My point is this is literally going to effect no one.

Journeyman Geek

I'd trust those more

You could fix those with a soldering iron

northerner

A website isn't working properly for me. I tried on multiple browsers (with no add ons) and none worked. I tried on a VM on the same computer and the browser in the guest worked. What could this mean? I only have Windows Security on host and tried disabling it.

Burgi

11:12 AM

what do you mean not working?

have you got anything crazy going on in your hosts file? any local DNS tweaks?

northerner

@Burgi I click on a button and the next page won't load. I'm not sure - but wouldn't the VM be affected by those same things?

Burgi

what errors are appearing in the developer console when you click the button?

northerner

stand by

@Burgi I was mistaking. It only doesn't work in Firefox. Just tested in Opera and Edge and it's now working.

Even with all add ons disabled in Firefox won't load the next page. I guess it's a setting that was changed.

Journeyman Geek

11:42 AM

dosen't firefox do that DNS over SSL thing?

djsmiley2k

@JourneymanGeek if it was a DNS issue, the button should still work.... unless it can't resolve the address for the javascript that makes the buttons?

what's the website @northerner - can you share?

Is this Firefox's fix to people not updating after yesterdays alert? 'Just break their internets, then they'll update damnit!'

Journeyman Geek

@djsmiley2k unless the button relies on an external resource, which....

Burgi

is firefox dumping errors into the dev console?

have you got content blocking turned on?

@djsmiley2k must be pr0n

djsmiley2k

12:00 PM

0

Q: How to remove rainbow (pride) icon from sourcetree app?

I have a problem with Sourcetree App for Mac. I do not like the new icon, I prefer the standard one. How to restore it?

sourcetree

oooooooo controversal.

Burgi

but apple has always had a pride rainbow...

rahuldottech

lol yeah

Burgi

DavidPostill

I don't like the google icon

How do I remove it?

😇

allquixotic

12:36 PM

Apple is best pple.

djsmiley2k

12:54 PM

DavidPostill

djsmiley2k

1:13 PM

heh wow

I mean, it's not much for a company to do it, but the uptake is good to see.

Now, it's at -4, if I 'save' it by modifying it to be about changing the icon full stop, rather than about Pride.... I CAN HAZ BADGE? :D

shame there's already agood answer :(

rahuldottech

2:09 PM

Argh I don't feel well

djsmiley2k

:<

Moar booze

bertieb

yesterday, by rahuldottech

hm. pizza cheese it is

Related?

XKCD

Ironically, I've been having these same arguments for at least a decade now. I thought we would have moved on by now, but somehow the snide complaints about millennials continue.

tereško

the amount of virtue signaling by soulless corporations is somewhat annoying

Journeyman Geek

@tereško Language!

djsmiley2k

2:28 PM

@tereško I only see it as virtue signaling if they go outta their way to draw attention to it.

tereško

Lewis Black - There's Nothing Wrong With Swearing

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@djsmiley2k it's not for the lack of trying on their part :D

it's just that the "market" is somewhat saturated

Journeyman Geek

@tereško actually, Dems the rules. Also random people flagging stuff like that.

Autocucumber fail

tereško

well, I actually try to swear as little as possible

not because I am trying to be polite, but to preserve the impact

Journeyman Geek

Oh personally if it matters it should be more than changing your logo a few days a year

tereško

^ hence why I am saying that it is just virtue signaling

Journeyman Geek

2:34 PM

Yup

tereško

for some reason I got reminded of this comic-strip:

djsmiley2k

2:58 PM

meh

if it makes people think, even for a moment

bwDraco

> Serious camera error

> Failed to take picture

Burgi

@XKCD usually by other millennials

rahuldottech

3:42 PM

English guy takes English citizenship test

►

I'd never pass that test

Even if I studied for it. That's the kind of info that I'd just... Never remember. Because it's all so irrelevant

So it turns out I'm not a millennial, I'm GenZ

> Researchers and popular media typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years.

Huh, I was born in 2001. So I get I can call myself either

> Most of Generation Z have used the Internet since a young age and are comfortable with technology and social media.

Hm. More of GenZ?

Burgi

@rahuldottech how did he not know that was scotland's flag?

Burgi

3:59 PM

@rahuldottech sigh

this guy is an idiot

djsmiley2k

7:47 PM

2.6M subs, 525,711 views

I think he's a genius.

bwDraco

9:55 PM

blog.linode.com/2019/06/19/introducing-linode-gpu-instances

> Linode GPU instances are built on NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU cards. This is the first time these cards are being offered by a cloud provider, and includes all three major types of processing cores (CUDA, Tensor, and Ray Tracing). It’s the next step in cloud computing for Linode, and advances our mission of making cloud computing simple and accessible to everyone.

Starts at $1,000/month ($1.50 per hour), which is not unexpected given the hardware involved...

But this shows that Linode is getting serious about becoming a major player in the cloud computing space.

blog.linode.com/2019/06/19/…

Considering this is a pilot, chances are good they'll launch instances with lesser GPUs in the future...

Quadro RTX 4000, anyone?

(that card costs 1/4 of that of the Quadro RTX 6000)

allquixotic

10:51 PM

Too rich for my taste. But I need RAM and cores more than a GPU so

bwDraco

Try the Dedicated CPU instances, which have hardware threads set aside for exclusive use by each instance.

allquixotic

er

I already have an OVH box :P

Linode is ridiculously, disgustingly overpriced

bwDraco

11:12 PM

IMO, you're paying for the ability to rapidly deploy and resize in a matter of minutes. The same goes for the likes of AWS and Azure.

And my needs are presently very, very limited so I've never had a good reason to get a dedicated server.

Journeyman Geek

Tbh for that kinda money you probably could just buy equivalent hardware

bwDraco

Serious business applications will often some form of multicloud setup, spanning both dedicated and virtual servers, in-house and third-party, in an effort to get the best mix of performance, scalability, resilience, and value.

Journeyman Geek

That literally sounds like marketing bs

Canadian Luke

Not BS when it works :P

Journeyman Geek

11:29 PM

@CanadianLuke eh. I'm not a big believer in cloud first or only. And at some point knowing the underlying system is helpful. And that's literally regurgitation of how non it folks see it

Canadian Luke

I know :P

Only cause, you know, I rely on cloud

bwDraco

For us enthusiasts, we simply choose the cheapest solution that meets our needs.

Canadian Luke

.... VMs on an ancient laptop, port forwarded through our Open-WRT router on a home-based connection

Journeyman Geek

I mean, there's advantages to running stuff on other folks servers...

@CanadianLuke rofl

@CanadianLuke nucs work ok

Canadian Luke