Instead of downloading a 107MB driver package (WTF, it's just touchpad drivers!), I managed to find an old extracted installer HP was kind enough to leave lying around :P
@Bob not entirely unprecedented, though I'd lean towards a host graphics driver bug, since on my Radeon HD7970 I get random artifacts (though uncommon, not constantly) in games
I have a very large folder of 120,000+ files. and I need to move them to another location on my same machine (same partition).
I'd like to use the tar command to group them up as a single unit and then mv them to the end location.
What command do I need to run to tar them all together and not c...
@Bob Well, for some reason it decided to uninstall everything that is Citrix, and then proceeded to bork the graphics drivers to the point where it's barely usable remotely. I gave up and told them to take it back.
Mostly because I'm not even supposed to support that machine.
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Well, clean bloatware and format it the same way as all office computers, using the exact same default setup. Which is the only sensible thing if the organisation is large enough (and possibly a waste if it only has two computers - not sure where the cutt-off point it precisely)
@Hennes I do when I have control. Unfortunately this particular location is essentially a customer of ours. They bring their own device, office setup, etc, we provide admin services along with our Citrix environment.
SE has to invest so many resources into being efficient at the cost of features because it runs on Windows =D If it ran on Linux or even UNIX, it could give us all the features we want (including HTTPS everywhere) without sacrificing speed /troll
Sorry, no chat hats, too slow :P Sorry, no HTTPS except for login, too slow :P Sorry, no full markdown in chat or comments, too slow :P Sorry, no reliable uptime, we don't use a real operating system :P
that's actually a really, really, really good edit
@OliverSalzburg I definitely don't blame them for having a strong focus on delightful performance site-wide and being able to maintain scalability and stuff, but if you just compare something like Team Foundation Server to git, you'll immediately recognize just how slow Microsoft products are, so by basing your product on them, you're already extremely limited in what you can do
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frankly I am VERY satisfied with the performance of SE as-is, and also amazed that it works as well as it does on top of a Microsoft platform. but it's also constrained by the stack it runs on.
yeah -- it's definitely fast as-is -- but they shoot down so many great ideas because of performance, and unless there's some kind of non-polynomial problem buried within each of those ideas, you really should be able to do it performantly
Maybe it would just take a month to refactor the codebase so that no performance penalty would be involved. But that would cost a lot of money for some feature. So you rather tell the user "It's a performance issue" instead of "We don't want to spend the money on your feature request"
wouldn't it be funny if you got "Aw, snap" when trying to view the help
@hanleyhansen have them create a keypair, give you the public key, put it in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, then edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and (at your option) disable password authentication if you don't want to allow password-based auth
@hanleyhansen yes, but since it's in the user's home directory and ~/.ssh has to have permissions 700 and the files within have to have permissions 700 or 400, the user will essentially be able to modify the public key to allow any public key they want to authenticate, not only the one you grant
also this type of thing is exceedingly common; google "ssh public key authentication" and you'll get 1000+ articles that say it better than I do
In all seriousness though. I think YouTube content is copied to global CDN nodes on a per-need basis. If a video isn't viewed at all in Europe, it won't be available there and has to be streamed from a node in the US
I frequently observe very different performance patterns based on if I watch a YouTube channel located in the US or in Germany.
Germany videos always load fast and run fine. US channels, not so much
That coupled with the non-existent caching behavior of the YouTube Flash player in Chrome makes for the perfectly horrible viewing experience.
@Boris_yo I don't actually believe there's a CDN node next to my house. That was an exaggeration to illustrate that performance is particularly poor under certain conditions.
However, I'm sure the content I'm viewing is provided through a CDN. And CDNs really only make sense when you take geographical distribution into account.
Thus, it is very likely that a CDN node exists in Germany. Also, it makes sense to only keep popular content concentrated in a certain geographical area.
@Bob the ~/.ssh directory has to be executable; I guess 5 would work... the files within the directory only have to be readable... but even if you give the dir 500, the user can chmod back to 700, get in there, write a file (or chmod 600 authorized_keys) and modify it
@OliverSalzburg I would agree. Sometimes I get a youtube video that just baaaaaarely keeps up with the rate of playback (sometimes not even that fast) and refreshing the page fixes it :P
@allquixotic For me, it's usually getting frustrated and trying a different browser. Where it suddenly loads fine. Then I go back to Chrome to double-check this mind-baffling occurence... then it plays fine in Chrome as well!
I just led a user through the steps described on the forum. Read down and you'll see his "Oops! Wrong button!" post. :P Had to do the same thing to my user.
@r.tanner.f You're welcome. But seriously, 2005 called and wants its hardware back. I used to have the very last PPC Mac ever announced and replaced it in 2008. It wasn't that much fun anymore even back then...
I have a very large folder of 120,000+ files. and I need to move them to another location on my same machine (same partition).
I'd like to use the tar command to group them up as a single unit and then mv them to the end location.
What command do I need to run to tar them all together and not c...
