I just recently ran a bash script that froze up my Linux mint machine, and I had no choice but to hold power key to perform a hard power off.
Now my machine will not boot.
I have no clue if the bash script did something, the hard reset did something, or it is just coincidence and my harddrive d...
I think that question potentially off topic as a problem that cannot be reproduced, however what if it were modified slightly to ask about the errors the user is seeing and what they mean? Could help someone else identify a hard drive failure in the future
@StephenKitt does iOS even qualify as a unix? it's even less unix-like than android and that barely qualifies because it includes most of the standard tools (or, at least toybox versions of them).
@derobert Wasn't mine :p One of my coworkers actually came up with it but I have been using it since. I like to add lines to break things up when I'm spitting large amounts of info at the terminal
And by came up with it I mean he found it somewhere online likely
I think he doesn't really have a choice in the matter. Whenever I think of how presidents are required to have secret service escorts for life I actually think of that as sort of a burden
Can't ever do something stupid without being seen and judged
Sure, but cold lunch is still annoying. And I guess I understand why they don't announce it in advance. Maybe he should just have his meetings at the White House instead :-/
I supposed. I would be way more upset about the traffic, but I am excruciatingly boring about my lunch. I am happy eating the same cold cut sandwich every day indefinitely
Only myself. I have no filter so I try to avoid interaction with people.
I also am not a fan of dining out. I enjoy the food but am not comfortable being waited on. I much prefer a buffet style diner but at the same time they are so unsanitary.
@derobert We don't need politicians to cause traffic in Denver. I have a theory that the massive influx of people from all over the nation has caused some sort of a traffic phenomenon due to all the different driving styles being thrown together.
But I am also from NJ so I am naturally over critical of the way people drive. The accelerator should be on the floor or you should be a passenger :-P
That's true and probably extends to way more than just driving. We are all overly critical of each other. I still think it's worse here though with no evidence to back it up :p. Maybe it's the mountains too. Most people here will ride their brakes the entire way down a steep hill which is the worst thing you could ever do and it forces the people behind them to also ride their brakes
so now you have a bunch of multiple ton steel missiles building momentum and heating up their brakes, if you actually had to stop at the bottom of the hill you wont be able to
@FaheemMitha Not as bad as I make it out to be for sure. There are just minor inefficiencies, like people braking downhill and especially people being extremely rude at any merge spot. People will speed up to not let you in almost every time.
@FaheemMitha Not really, rolling resistance is real. If you just let off the gas you are not going to continuously increase speed. Your car will reach a certain speed and level off, and so far in my experience it's rarely over the posted speed limit
I've luckily only overheated my brakes while offroading in the mountains. I was being a child and drifting around the curvy turns and what not, using my brakes often. When I got to the bottom of the mountain the pedal went all the way to the floor and had almost no affect on deceleration
Well it depends on the speed limit and how many gears you have I guess. My 4runner is a 4 speed automatic and the speed limits around here are normally 75MPH (120KPH). 2nd gear I can only go like 45MPH
I guess his must be fairly straight. The only ones I've seen around here (and not even that close) have switchbacks in them and in 3rd you'd fly off the road.
@derobert Yeah I will drop to 2nd on a back road or winding mountain pass, but I normally come to a complete stop and shift into 2nd first because I have heard from a few reliable sources that shifting an automatic does put additional strain (although marginal) on your transmission
Our chat room is called "Unix and Linux".
While this is all good, most (all?) of the other chat rooms in all
the other Stack Exchange sites have funnier, cooler names than
just their site names. Who are we to be behind?
So, in the spirit of the Holiday Season, I propose a competition
for a "bet...
Is Oracle Solaris officially declared UNIX?
I want to know all the official UNIX presently available in the market (whether free or paid).
Please correct me if I am wrong:
To the best of my knowledge, an operating system must satisfy all the terms and conditions as laid by the owners of "UNIX", ...
I'm trying to find a slide I saw in one of Bryan Cantrill's presentations that shows the complete origin of what SmartOS currently is, including SunOS and Solaris
@FaheemMitha I work with it. I don't write code or anything. I know bash :p. I did submit some changes to a shell script in one of our products for code review the other day but it will likely be denied
@FaheemMitha I'm still trying to find the flowchart. I know solaris/sunos is confusing because I think they forked off some system and then went back and started at an earlier point or something like that
I can make a hello world program in C but that is about it
I'm starting to understand a bit more of it though as I try to force myself into it so perhaps one day I can contribute something. I also don't mind my current position, it's fun and challenging.
@Jesse_b It's not that hard to learn C. Probably not that fun either, though.
I remember trying to learn C in 1997. It was excruciating. It was my first attempt at programming. Bad choice of language. And I picked a very busy semester to try to learn it too.
@FaheemMitha I think node.js (javascript) will be a good next step for me. It's certainly much more powerful than bash and seems pretty widely used today
@FaheemMitha Yea Python is definitely high on my list. I already kind of understand most python scripts I've seen and I've heard it's very similar to powershell which I used to be good at.
Of the above list, the only ones I'm actually at all familiar with is Python and Common Lisp. And the only one I've used for real work is Python. I first started learning Python around 2003 or so.
@Jesse_b That's a very substantative criticism. :-)
Of course, not everyone has the time to do experiments, but if you do have the time, and are interested in this sort of thing, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
I have used a tool for working with Jira that is written in ruby
but I think I am going to make my own tool in bash because this one outputs everything in colors and the creator has not acknowledged by request to remove the colors
@terdon I'm not a C fan either. But they write operating systems in it. And of course what you are doing matters as least as much as what language you are doing in it.
My assignment is:
Take two command line parameters, the first of which is the name of a directory, and the second is a file size in bytes.
Call your shell script listfiles.
The call from the shell prompt should look like $ listfiles /tmp 50
Your shell script should check that only two par...
@Kusalananda Yes I felt that way too so I figured I should ask here. If I had the option to put my edits up for a vote I would have done so with that one
I would like to know if it's actually a good cause though, or if someone is at the top raking in tons of money at the expense of the people on the bottom
I honestly wonder if it's the student's fault or the teacher though. Is he just being given an assignment and told to do it or has he received any instruction at all?
And what sort of resources does he have available to him if he couldn't come up with even a single line of code before he gave up and posted here
I might be weird, but I think one should be able to ask about homework assignments an U&L, if it clearly marked as such. Answers should be able to explain the pros and cons of any particular approach without actually handing them a written script.
Welcome to SEUL. Homework questions are pretty lame. If you have specific questions or need help getting over a hump, let us know what you have tried and ask a better question. — datUser42 mins ago
@FaheemMitha I did for a year, some time ago, but can't really keep up the practice by myself here. It would be good for me. I'm like a block of wood at the moment.
There was a Swedish newspaper that used to have a column once a week with a question and answer from 5 random people on the street. One week the question was something like "What do you think about child labour?" and someone answered "I think it's really bad! Children have no sense of quality!"
@Kusalananda I just got some Swedish guests via Wimdu, by the way. They weren't very nice. And left me a rather nasty review. I made them a point of telling them how impressed I was by their country, particularly their roads. They probably thought I was weird.
Actually, the review was quite strange. They said that I didn't seem very interested in them!!! That's a first.
Q1: "Do you care about whether the products are made by children?" Q2: "Are doing anything to check this?" A1: "Yes, children have no sense for quality, you can tell that from the product." A2: "No." https://www.sporthoj.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=215087&d=1195646817
@Jesse_b Shrug. That's what I wondered. And ironically, I'm usually more interestedin my guests than they are in me. And am usually happy to chat. Even when I'm feeling stressed out.
But these people didn't seem very friendly. They were two older female travellers. And I I'm conditioned to give women a bit of distance, for fear they may complain of harassment.
@Kusalananda Yes, on second thoughts, sorry for dumping that random load of crap on you.
@MichaelHomer Not garbage, Mr. British Gentleman. What I'm saying is 100% truth, or, at least, 100% truth for me. Everything was lived just as told, I swear it on my honor, and even though the alcohol may make it look like this is a joke or a lie, I SWEAR IT'S NOT. My desperation to know what's going on is huge. I wouldn't have started drinking if it weren't because of these bizarre events. I can't talk about it to my friends nor family, they don't understand anything outside Windows. So please forgive I vented out. I NEEDED to vent out. — bundenJan 26 at 6:35
There has been questions here that have made me want to ask people to seek help from a psychiatrist. I've seen one or two about computers "spying on me" etc.
TL;DR
zsh chooses a decimal representation for the double binary numbers that it uses for evaluating floating point arithmetics that preserves their information fully, that is safe for reinput into its arithmetic expressions. And that is done at the expense of cosmetic. For that, it needs 17 s...
I just recently ran a bash script that froze up my Linux mint machine, and I had no choice but to hold power key to perform a hard power off.
Now my machine will not boot.
I have no clue if the bash script did something, the hard reset did something, or it is just coincidence and my harddrive d...
My assignment is:
Take two command line parameters, the first of which is the name of a directory, and the second is a file size in bytes.
Call your shell script listfiles.
The call from the shell prompt should look like $ listfiles /tmp 50
Your shell script should check that only two par...
TL;DR
zsh chooses a decimal representation for the double binary numbers that it uses for evaluating floating point arithmetics that preserves their information fully, that is safe for reinput into its arithmetic expressions. And that is done at the expense of cosmetic. For that, it needs 17 s...
