@slm - give me an upvote? My last few answers haven't been very good - except the one from last night - that was good - but you pushed me past 2k and 3k, so... do it for 4k too, yeah?
@Braiam - If anyone starts crying, I'm outta here. I can't handle crying - I'll be back later.
Sigh. I am trying to make Dropbox not run on startup but failing so far. Fedora here. "dropbox autostart n" seems to not do the trick. Do you think this is worth a question on the site?
@mikeserv Oh, there's a gnome startup. Yes, I'm that new :P. Anyway, I posted the question already so if it's that simple, you can answer or I'll self answer
@mikeserv The word “BIOS” has two meanings. It always designates the last manufacturer-provided bootloading stage of a PC's main CPU, the one that interacts with the first bootloading stage of the operating system, hereafter called PCLMPBS. There are two kinds of PCLMPBS out there: IBM-compatible, and UEFI.
The word “BIOS” can mean either an IBM-compatible PCLMPBS, or any PCLMPBS.
The term “UEFI BIOS” is used by people who write that software. It's used by people who write UEFI specifications.
Whether you want it or not.
You don't get to impose your language choices on other people, especially when those people are professionals and you aren't.
UEFI is a community effort by many companies in the personal-computer industry to modernize the booting process. UEFI capable systems are already shipping, and many more are in preparation. During the transition to UEFI, most platform firmware will continue to support legacy (BIOS) booting as well, to accommodate legacy-only operating systems.
That is from the professionals' own site - the people that design what you call UEFI BIOS.
This isn't the first time that you nitpick about completely unimportant details, where the guy at the other end isn't wrong, just not presenting information in a way you'd like. I'm tired of dealing with this.
That's kind of annoying. If I'm corrected I can sometimes put my back up a little at first - it's a pride thing, which I understand - but as a rule I try to understand where it's coming from.
If the correction is correct, and if I'm not too prideful to miss that, then the answer I've written also gets corrected and winds up better in the long run for the correction. Everyone benefits.
Well, people don't understand what the firmware on their computer does.
Also, UEFI is not coreboot - but neither is coreboot BIOS.
These are all different.
The intel link he posted is pretty old.
firmware is the general term. BIOS is a type of firmware.
But I was reasonable: my comment - modern pc BIOS is not UEFI - modern pc UEFI is UEFI. I downvoted this because that is a misleading answer to n already too seldom understood question. If you can fix it, I'll reverse it.
There are more things to know about then I can fit in my brain, so I generally categorize things into broad areas and will research it if I ever need to actually know about it in a concrete way. I've written my own OS and boot loader in college and so am painfully aware of BIOS etc. But that was 20 yrs ago and I haven't done it since, so no need to know it now.
All of the other cats in the neighborhood are huge - fat, mutant cats.
I'm unimpressed with the whole idea - as I see it, the firmware should be the linux kernel.
But I'm willing to bet you've seen more than a few.
Pretty much every pc sold for the past few years has been UEFI.
If you can boot a GPT formatted disk it's UEFI.
BIOS requires mbr - UEFI uses the EFI system partition.
That hails back to the 16 vs 64-bit architecture thing - BIOS uses the int[18?] hook to initialize a disk - UEFI can read a FAT formatted partition by spec - and you can write drivers for any other kind of filesystem as well.
This is the best source I know of for knowledge on the subject: rodsbooks.com
Rod Smith has some SU answers too.
Dude is good - he wrote and maintains both gdisk and rEFInd.
@slm the UI is mostly orthogonal with the API. It typically changes because the switch to UEFI has required largely rewriting BIOSes, but some BIOS manufacturers have reused their existing UI components
@Braiam good question, but I think a general "what is load" question might be better. The answer there doesn't really explain it, just says it's the size of the run queue. While technically true, that doesn't mean much to the common user.
@AvinashRaj - when @terdon comes round ask him - he's pretty good with awk. Maybe @slm can too - I've seen him use awk before, but not to the extent I've seen terdon use it.
I've already told you how completely useless I am with it, but my first suggestion would be to use / not \/.
Let's suppose I need to create a named-pipe in linux, but I need that pipe to have attributes such as a file size when I stat it... is that even possible?
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...
@strugee I wish, the floppy that we used to write our OS to stopped working and I tried and tried and couldn't get my coding projects off of it. I was so bummed about b/c I spend soooo much time writing it in MASM/TASM. It was cool. The OS would boot the system and it had several functions that we had to implement. It could send files b/w 2 computers over the serial port + an array of other things.
@slm Well, it is conventional jargon, but always struck me as odd. In English the verb run is used in lots of contexts where there is no running involved. But then natural languages are strange beasts.
Then again, so are computer languages, especially if they are called PHP.
It is somewhat akin to the verb "sleep" being used to mean "sex". As least in the transitive case it is completely overtaken conventional usage. "sleep with" practically never means actually sleeping any more.
@derobert Yes, it is one of those popular terms. And internationally too. English speaking Indians use it a lot too.
@derobert how are you doing? I went ahead and bought the brother printer, though you have probably now forgotten about it.
@derobert well, not necessarily. unless i hapeen to run into problems. A multi-function laser printer isn't interesting, at least any more. Maybe 30 years ago it would have been.
@Braiam wow, 36 answers. Thanks for the link.
I've got to wonder why sex.sx didn't take off. I've never seen a SE topic that seemed more obviously destined for success.
Proposed Q&A site for consenting adults who engage, or want to, in intimate and/or sexual activity.
Currently in definition.
It actually seems to be getting reasonable traction. I wonder if it will make it to Beta.
If memory serves there was at least one previous incarnation of this proposal.
@derobert i considered the Epson line, where the scanner feature seems a little better, more featureful, but the only printers i could find were inkjets, and I'm not fond of inkjets. I guess I could have tried to use it just as a scanner, but finally decided not to.
I've apparently gone through 700 mL of ink on my HP, for 18150 pages. Most of that a while ago. Got a Nexus 10, then there wasn't much reason to print out huge documents....
Thoughts on this question: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134493/i-want-to-be-root-on-a-remote-server-until-i-am-disconnected-from-the-remote-ser I kinda want to say it's another duplicate of http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134333/can-you-only-input-the-password-once-and-then-execute-the-su-command-without-ent since it's a specific solution to the question, but I'm unsure.
@Braiam Yes, but you need to make the reply make sense, but only after chasing down the historical message chain. @terdon seems to be a master of that.
@derobert I just see the messages when I wake up or whatever and answer. No tricks involved. Well, none apart from the cool extension that lets me choose which one I'm answering with the up arrow.
Our paper was due submission for second revision at a BMC journal. The communicating author, as I understand is responsible for handling all the communications between all authors and the journal, while also making suitable arrangement to cover any open access charges.
However, the communicatin...
@FaheemMitha, after reinstallation of RHEL 6, I copied the httpd configuration file from rhel5 to rhel6. However, rhel6 reports me saying mod_file_cache.so is not available. So, investigating that now :)
I have an old laptop. The newer kernels that ships with the latest versions of the most popular distributions crashes from time to time. I want to use a new Linux distribution to get the latest packages and therefore I think that I need an old kernel. (correct me if there is some other solution p...
@terdon having looked at the BA reviews, they seem a bit fussy/demanding. I wonder if Bioinformatics will be less fussy. Would you be willing to take a look at the reviews and tell me what you think?
@terdon Yeah, I'm just thinking the level of fussiness is beyond what a bioinformatics paper would ask for. For example, of of the reviewers recommend I do additional simulation studies. I really don't want to do additional freaking simulation studies.
So, I'm just asking for a judgement call about the flavor of the reviews. The question at this point is whether to resubmit to BA or resubmit to Bioinformatics. The good news is that BA seems quite fast to respond (unless I just got lucky). Anyway, I'll send you the reviews.
@terdon Maybe to some extent. But I suspect a statistics paper would be a bit more theory oriented.
@terdon the reviewers seem to be making some fairly elementary errors of misunderstandings. i wonder if that is possible. i guess i need to look at these carefully.
During my PhD thesis I had one of my committee members tell me something that sounded like nonsense. It turned out to be true and was the basis of a later paper. So, one should be careful.
@slm I haven't, but then I'm not really terribly observant. I have noticed you answer lots of questions, though, but that is kind of hard to miss, even for me.
If all of @slm @terdon and @derobert apply to be moderators, that could get interesting.
UPSey daisy; so we had a little ... incident ...
Pretty sure that has power.
We're past that now, and things are returning to normal. It's only appropriate that we take a moment to think about the folks that got pulled out of bed and worked their knuckles to the bone to get things back up and...
As Nick tweeted: (NSFW language warning)
Turns out our "independent" power feeds which we built full redundancy behind all went to the same (now failing) UPS. One. Fucking. Job.
So as far as I can tell, it was due to connecting all feeds to a single UPS which failed, then when the power we...
@slm I'm not sure where they're moving to, was trying to find out. I'd guess another data center in or around NYC, since its nice to be near your servers.
And its not like there aren't a lot of DC's in NY.
Today’s the day, Stack Exchange’s NYC data center is going offline for the move to Jersey, stay tuned for pics as it happens #stackDCmove
I have a bash shell script in which I would like to pause execution until the user presses a key. In DOS, this is easily accomplished with the "pause" command. Is there a linux equivalent I can use in my script?
The code my friend sends me is:
echo '1+1='.(1+1==2?2:1+2==2?3:2);
I can't understand why it is 3, can someone explain me this?
Just that, when I run
ifconfig -a
I only get lo and enp0s10 interfaces, not the classical eth0
What does enp0s10 means? Why is there no eth0?
Our paper was due submission for second revision at a BMC journal. The communicating author, as I understand is responsible for handling all the communications between all authors and the journal, while also making suitable arrangement to cover any open access charges.
However, the communicatin...
UPSey daisy; so we had a little ... incident ...
Pretty sure that has power.
We're past that now, and things are returning to normal. It's only appropriate that we take a moment to think about the folks that got pulled out of bed and worked their knuckles to the bone to get things back up and...
As Nick tweeted: (NSFW language warning)
Turns out our "independent" power feeds which we built full redundancy behind all went to the same (now failing) UPS. One. Fucking. Job.
So as far as I can tell, it was due to connecting all feeds to a single UPS which failed, then when the power we...
I have a bash shell script in which I would like to pause execution until the user presses a key. In DOS, this is easily accomplished with the "pause" command. Is there a linux equivalent I can use in my script?
