In addition to the above, the X Windowing Server was also not designed to be used like Ubuntu uses it. Like the name implies, it is mostly developed for server use, like remote desktop use or to link several thin clients to a single operating system.
Essentially, Wayland will drop the server sup...
@strugee It's good at what it does. Maybe your requirements are different and you should consider a distro that is optimized for something closer to your expectations.
I have a windows vm with 60 GB disk running on VMWare Workstation. I see the total size of the folder containing is close to 115 GB. I had some 7 snapshots and though snapshots are the reason. Delete few of them, performed defrag and compact but no use. The enter folder size is still same.
Linux you kill me sometimes. Why can I drag open URL's to new tabs both directions between Firefox and Chromium and I can't drag a tab from one Chromium window to another?
@slm No it's just broken, and it's been widely known to be broken for some time. But the bug only shows up with some multi-monitor + tiling window manager setups.
@Caleb I'll try it when I get to the office where I have 2 monitors. But I'm using chrome not chromium, and I'm pretty sure I've dragged b/w 2 windows across monitors, so it must be a very specific bug to a WM + chromium
@slm I'm using AwesomeWM but at one point I checked at it was broken in Gnome 3 too while at the same time I found something else where it worked so it is WM related but it's not a fluke.
Looks like we need a new bug report though, they don't seem to be taking that one seriously.
@slm I'm on Arch today but it is not distro specific. I've confirmed the same behavior on several others (note this has been out there for a couple years!)
Looking through the issue reports there are hundreds of tab dragging related issues, many of them with lots of sightings and no resolution. All a little different though.
I am running etckeeper on two different machines, boxA and boxB. The OS, etckeeper repository and all, on boxB was copied from boxA back in January. In order to apply some setup changes made on boxA to boxB, I added the repository on boxA as a remote repository on boxB with the intention of doing...
I'm very much not a unix expert. Can someone please look over this answer of mine that I just made substantial edits to and make sure I didn't accidentally tell people to do something very bad?
@Graeme You might have better luck with #git on freenode for example. I use etckeeper but not git.
So, don't have anything useful to say. I do find #mercurial on freenode quite helpful, though there often not a lot of people paying attention. otoh, git has a larger user (and presumably dev) community.
@terdon Normally I'd agree with you, except that my whole experience with Linux before Arch was a couple weeks of Ubuntu. I realized that if I was going to just use it like Windows (the way I was) there was no point, so I decided to jump into Arch. I'm not using expert tools because I'm an expert, I'm using them because it helps me learn. :P
Also I'm using a tiling WM exclusively because I like this gif i.imgur.com/pQT0l.jpg
@FaheemMitha The "hacking"characters do in movies. Anyone who knows things about computers can see that it's nonsense, but it's visually impressive to everyone else.
Example: Every sci-fi movie except Tron: Legacy. That was actually fairly realistic in its hacking scene.
I'd appreciate some guidance on how to award my bounty here. Could somebody who understands memory management better than I do give an upvote to one of the answers?
First of all, yes, I have read LinuxAteMyRAM, which doesn't explain my situation.
# free -tm
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 48149 43948 4200 0 4 75
-/+ buffers/cache: 43868 4280
Swap: 38287...
That's fine, whenever and if you get the chance. It's just that the bounty will be auto awarded in 24 hours and I can't really judge whether this answer is actually relevant.
@FaheemMitha I wouldn't count it as one. It provides hardly any isolation, and further isn't actually a virtual machine. E.g., you can't boot Windows on it.
... or even a different Linux kernel version. It's maybe a very, very poorly isolated container.
@FaheemMitha Well, you can run some different distros in one (as long as its udev is compatible with your kernel, etc.). And only sort of. You still get, for example, one port 80 to listen on.
@FaheemMitha Yes. I'd just use a chroot for that. Even better, pbuilder/cowbuilder (which, AFAIK, use chroots)
@FaheemMitha Its been a while. Last time, I just used pbuilder.
Note that if you additionally need to test your package (no idea if you're just setting up a build host or not), you'll probably want a full VM (KVM, etc.) to actually boot up testing.
My X server crashed for no reason. A bit worrying. Why would this happen? Maybe my graphics card is dying? It is quite old. The logs just said server terminated unexpectedly.
@FaheemMitha It is indeed a long time, but the libraries & X aren't reloaded when they're running, so updates don't take effect. /var/log/apt, /var/log/aptitude, and /var/log/dpkg may help
@FaheemMitha pretty safe. It isn't exactly a conversion, but rather activating some extra features. Though it does require a run of fsck if you enable the uninit_bg option (I have no idea whether it is beneficial in practice)
@FaheemMitha So someone did touch the hardware. You could try a memtest, but I'd first check to make sure you didn't just suffer an nvidia upgrade, or similar
@derobert mine will run that long if I don't load it up :) These are just cheapo residential units to mostly massage the incoming power before it gets to my PSU and keep hard power downs from occurring every time the wind blows and knocks a tree down. (3-4 times a year, sadly)
@FaheemMitha right now the USP says I'm pulling 240 W. I'm not really doing much (0.3 load avg) but I do run 6 spinning disks and a GPU driving 3 displays.
@derobert they are worth it. I'd have gone bigger if it made sense. Here if the power goes out its either back up in a minute, or down for 12 hours or longer. No real middle ground.
However, to get maximum benefit from ext4, you need to recreate the fs from scratch. Ext3 conversion won't convert your existing directories to btrees, for instance.
@derobert checked apt logs. nothing noteworthy, except chromium seems to have had quite a lot of upgrades recently. considering this is supposed to be debian stable. i'd rather they just left it alone, but i guess these are security bugs.
@derobert my favorite "UPS" was the one in the calling center my dad worked in in the 90's. Almost 50 12V lead-acid car batteries hooked up to a controller of some kind powering a Nortel Meridian 1 switch and a few racks worth of autodialers.
didn't last long either, just long enough to go from mains to generator power
Did it always do this? I remember researching this back when I was planning to convert my home machine to ext4, and concluding that I'd have to rewrite (so rewrite I did)
@derobert I once helped a friend move a server from an apartment to a house he'd just bought. He didn't want to shut it down, so it was a very delicate move with 3 of us each carrying the computer, the UPS and the large heavy batter that was rewired in place of the normal UPS battery. I was impressed the disks survived the drive...
that friend was a bit crazy though. First thing he did to that house was have the electric company run another line (200A iirc) that just ran to two of his rooms and then had 4-socket electrical plugs installed every 16" or so along the walls of those rooms.
A bit overkill, but I think there was ~50 computers in there at its peak
So, would people care to estimate the probabilty that Flash running on putlocker is crashing X? I'm in the middle of watching the Hobbit, and would like to continue, but not if it crashes X. Thorin and Co. have just reached Rivendell. I must say, they've taken a ton of liberties, most of them not improvements.
@FaheemMitha not too bad. He had the power properly installed and had an additional AC unit put in just for those rooms. I'd say expensive more than risky :)
For the record, I'm trying to get out of any further interaction with him. He's made me more frustrated with U&L than anyone else had ever come close to.
@mikeserv I am now asking you to stop commenting on my posts. Let us live separately. Downvote my posts if you don't like them; I'd prefer not to (unless they are actually incorrect of course), but if playing silly buggers with the serial downvoting detector makes you happy, enjoy. As for plagiarism being “common practice”, I'll ask you not to slander me. This is, hopefully, my last interaction with you. Take any further concern to the moderators. — Gilles2 mins ago
@casey not understanding stuff and being stubborn (while pretending he's trying to learn) is normal for him. But it's gotten to stalking levels lately, plus the accusations of plagiarism
@FaheemMitha The 1st Hobbit movie was pretty bad. 2nd one is better. Of course, what someone needs to do is (once all hundred or so are out) cut together the scenes that Jackson didn't just pull out of his rear and then you'd have a good 2-3h version of the Hobbit!
@FaheemMitha managed to work out what was wrong by myself in the end. Git is confusing when things don't work! Good way to learn though. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
So the problem here turned out to be that there was a detached head in the repository on boxA after an incomplete fix of a botched rebase. When this happens the output of git branch is as follows:
# git branch
* (no branch)
master
The fix was simply to create a branch on boxA and then merge ...
I remember the mines of moria scene being pretty good, but it has been a while since I watched it. I don't think Jackson really gets Tolkien otherwise, though.
@derobert I'm not really a Tolkien expert or even a fan, but I do think people's work deserves to be treated with respect. Something Hollywood never understands.
@Lucio If a program makes a syscall, then the processor must stop executing user (unprivileged) code, and instead start executing kernel (very privileged) code. That's a context switch
but as an OS professional, when I hear “context switch”, I immediately think “switch between tasks with their own virtual memory space”. Users and terminals don't enter into it.
@derobert not just kernel/user but also any task switch can be called a context switch (even if a user/user context switch involves a sequence of two context switches, user/kernel and kernel/user)
@Lucio a processor can only do one thing at a time. To multi-task it just switches what it is doing many times per second. Each of these switches is a context switch.
also, when you're typing ls, many processes are involved: the X server for input and again later to display the characters, the terminal emulator (again both in and out), the shell
Well, depending on n, yes, it could be a big queue. But its much more efficient to process a few packets at once than one at a time. It does of course increase latency, which is why its only used when the packet rate gets high.
I think you're looking for apt-offline.
On your Linux machine with no Internet connection, let's say you want to install emacs. You'd do:
# apt-offline set --install-packages=emacs /media/usbstick/offline.sig
Then, on your Windows machine with an Internet connection, you'd do:
E:\> apt-offli...
Burning debs to CD in windows to transfer to a Debian machine?
@casey In the summer of 1998 I remember wandering Chapel Hill trying to find a CD burner to use. I and a friend were trying to burn Debian to CDs. We failed.
Apparently burners were a rare commodity once upon a time.
At one point had a network inside my parents house, with a dialup modem on a Linux server. It was set to auto-dial on Internet traffic... So much nicer once we switched to cable.
First of all, yes, I have read LinuxAteMyRAM, which doesn't explain my situation.
# free -tm
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 48149 43948 4200 0 4 75
-/+ buffers/cache: 43868 4280
Swap: 38287...
I think you're looking for apt-offline.
On your Linux machine with no Internet connection, let's say you want to install emacs. You'd do:
# apt-offline set --install-packages=emacs /media/usbstick/offline.sig
Then, on your Windows machine with an Internet connection, you'd do:
E:\> apt-offli...
