I hate doing svn update. I cross my fingers and say "please don't conflict... please don't conflict... please don't conflict...". Nothing like relief to see a bunch of green "merged" entries
I read git manual, FAQ, Git - SVN crash course, etc. and they all explain this and that, but nowhere can you find a simple instruction like:
SVN repository in: svn://myserver/path/to/svn/repos
Git repository in: git://myserver/path/to/git/repos
git-do-the-magic-svn-import-with-history svn://my...
@MichaelHampton Can you convince git to do "git commit" and "git push" all at once all the time, so that the "primary" repo (that actually gets backed up) always has everything? because requiring developers/users to run two things where they can barely be convinced to do one now is a disaster waiting to happen...
@MichaelHampton I've never used either with more than 3 users (and only 3 months worth back in 2005 was more than 1 user). So the vast majority of advantages are lost on me. Still much nicer.
Is Chef, Puppet, etc able to be pointed at an existing Linux server and suck down 100% of the 'stuff' that would be required to build the server OS/package-versions/custom-files/etc including the build order?
(Guessing not, but believe I was lead to believe this from a talk I heard last year.)
> "What is it about Gentoo that people value in a Web server? It may seem crude to ask that question, because by itself Gentoo Linux is one of the most advanced GNU/Linux distributions available."
> "Gentoo does help stop programmers from being lazy, so they write completely airtight code. That can only be a good thing, whichever way you look at it."
ding-dong Express train to Hell - this train is going express, this train will not stop at limbo or purgatory. Once again, this is the express train to Hell. Next stop, Hell.
@ScottPack Yup. Surprisingly, of all the distros in the CheapBytes Mega Linux pack (or whatever it was called) I bought lo' those many years ago, Slack was the first I was able to cobble into a "usable" X state.
@ChrisS I have to be honest, I don't remember. I just remember the pain of getting to somewhere deep in the stack and then being asked to re-insert disk 2.
@jscott That slide was examples of magnetic media, so it also had a hard drive, reel-to-reel, zip, etc. After about a minute a couple of people chuckled.
@ChrisS Because RHEL only includes what RHEL builds, and CentOS mimics. It's fairly common to be setting up some software and run into a dependency that needs to be installed from EPEL.
Ok... So these are the red-headed stepchildren who don't get to eat in the fancy dining room... But why?
So, RedHat knows about these packages... Lists them in some sort of DB branded as EPEL.. But doesn't build the software, and doesn't distribute it?? Or something like that??
And this software is commonly required for various tasks/other software?
@ChrisS EPEL is a separate entity, community supported (but still a part of the Fedora project). You can get your package added to EPEL if it's stable and popular. You cannot get it added to the RHEL repos, they only include what they include.
Need mercurial instead of git? Off to EPEL for you! Need some php library that was included in RHEL5 but not in RHEL6 anymore? Off to EPEL with you!
@ChrisS There's all kinds of repos you need, not just EPEL. We maintain our own internal repo, and we use Puppet Labs' puppet repo, IUS has newer LAMP packages, and so forth
Generally fedora releases fast and furious. At some point, RHEL freezes a fedora branch and forks it to make it the next RHEL. Fedora keeps ticking during this time
So fedora packages are usually much newer than RHEL because of the testing/packaging/etc that RHEL does
Took me about an hour, but eventually I found the fucker hiding and I crushed him with my foot. I must not have stomped hard enough because he spent 5 minutes going "Eeeeep! Eeeep! Eeeep! Eeeep!" and now my wife is scarred by the sound of the mouse suffocating on its own blood
Good news if I ever need to lay a guilt trip on her I just make that noise and she throws something at me, which means I win
I don't think I'm country enough to crush something with my foot. But I took the cup out to the train station and put him in the garbage there- he'll freeze, hopefully that's more humane.
@Basil I once slept through our newborn crying bloody murder about 50cm away from my head - my wife shook me awake and goes "Its your turn this time!". Me thinking she was overreacting goes "Shit, he's only just started, let him go for a few minutes at least" "HE HAS BEEN CRYING AND SCREAMING FOR 30 MINUTES YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD"
@Basil I was wearing shoes, but my father in law goes after them bare foot
@MarkHenderson I went fishing once and had trouble killing a fish. I decided to try and man up and went hunting with a friend of mine- of course, the first thing I shoot I manage to badly injure but not kill, so I ended up frantically searching reeds by a river for it to put it out of its misery
In the end, my much more experienced friend found it first and wrung its neck for me
We live in a strange time and place- we're apex predators who aren't used to killing things to be eaten
I once dazzled a family of kittens in the middle of the road at 3am with my high beams and squished the entire family. That's about the most murderous thing I've ever done
Why is it OK for me to buy a steak when the animal it is made from was essentially tortured to death? I figured that hunting would give me an internal moral high ground
And it wasn't on purpose, but I wasn't going to slam on the breaks on a dirt country road at almost 100kph jsut to save a kitten. Probably would have ended up in a ditch
@Basil Possibly. My niece went to the family farm my uncle runs, and then that night refused to eat lamb once she found out what lambs really are. Then my sister said "Well, that means that that lamb died for nothing then" and guilted her into eating it anwyay
Also, in case anyone didn't know, chickens don't need a head. Their bodies have enough reflexes that they can walk around headless. It's very common for them to do so after a farmer has chopped off the head. Usually they bleed to death quickly enough... but not always.
I know intellectually that it's truly dead and this is just some weird neural circuitry probably evolved into birds to alert the neighbours when there's something killing them in their sleep, but it sure looks like it's in pain
Anyway, I decided that bird hunting isn't for me. I'll probably go deer or moose hunting next time, but that's a whole other set of issues. You don't have to do as many things that make city folk squeamish, but the one or two you do do per season are really big jobs
Funny thing about game hunting in my part of Canada- you can start the season earlier if you use a bow instead of a rifle. A bow or... a blunderbuss. That's right, a muzzle loaded blunderbuss. Weird fucking rules.
These animals are only "dumb" in the sense that we've selectively bred them to be docile and rely on people to survive as part of their domestication. Wild fowl and wild sheep aren't anywhere near as dumb
I don't think sheep the way they exist now ever existed in the wild- just like before cultivation, corn was only baby corn, I'll bet sheep were totally different before domestication.
I finally got around to parsing my postfix logs to see what spam got blocked for what reason. And, just as I suspected, that guy was smoking something...
Your own spam statistics are also your own. Here, the check for the lack of a PTR record blocks fully 99.1% of incoming spam (and that's after filtering out duplicates). So it varies widely... — Michael Hampton4 mins ago
Hire a system administrator to run a mail server for you, or subscribe to a third party email service. Those are some options. — Michael Hampton25 secs ago
Why did this question get bumped? there's no edit or community acitvity on any of the answers and it's got an accepted answer...serverfault.com/questions/8633/…
OK, here's the mail server stats with successful deliveries. This is ~ 18,000 unique messages (was 31,000 before filtering out duplicate delivery attempts).
@ewwhite And that's why I reject when there's no reverse DNS.
@MichaelHampton I'll be fair, Google Apps is doing a great job of keeping spam away. And, to be honest, I rarely use e-mail for person to person communication so I'm normally looking out for something (Invoice, order notification etc)
Is Chef, Puppet, etc able to be pointed at an existing Linux server and suck down 100% of the 'stuff' that would be required to build the server OS/package-versions/custom-files/etc including the build order?
(Guessing not, but believe I was lead to believe this from a talk I heard last year.)
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