The twoside option is not about placing text in a multicolumn fashion. While oneside is typical for articles and reports, the twoside option is loaded when you want to have a double-sided document, allowing you to set the margins, asymmetrically, in order to bind the document as a book.
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@FaheemMitha Probably time for one, but unfortunately I'm really busy now. Moving a bunch of stuff we have at work to the cloud, since our colo gave us, err, maybe two months notice that "GUESS WHAT, WE'RE CLOSING THIS COLO!"
Wasn't any different before. The colo was owned by (through several layers), I'd have to look it up to be sure, Dell. The hardware was made by Supermicro and Intel...
@Fabby Normally that'd work, but in this case I'm actually switching sources.list files by putting -oDir::Etc::SourceList= on the apt-get command line ...
Indeed. I'm trying to use a different mirror when building images at the office vs. when building them on GCE, because getting the right apt setup makes builds much faster.
I was just about to put a flag file in /run, but I see docker does not mount a tmpfs there. WTF.
You're much smarter than me, so I'm just a post you can bounce ideas of, but how about creating an alias for apt that checks if you're passing that parameter and then update?
well, the one with the parameter only ever gets called from a single shell script. It used to check for /var/lib/apt/lists/lock which worked, until someone calls apt-get update outside that script, which uses the other sources.list.
Docker does give me a tmpfs on /dev/shm ... so I think I'll abuse that for my flag file. Should work well enough.
Yeah. But when you can easily create a fresh, brand-new VM to run a build on, then destroy it afterwards... it's OK. To do a build on. Despite the fact that far too many docker builds (read: almost all) run as root.
@Jesse_b My granny used to tell me: "If you stop learning something new every day, you're ready to die..."
Back in the 90s I once tried explaining my then 80-YO granny what my job was (I was a programmer at the time) so I brought a Thinkpad to her and showed her the application I was developing and she didn't get it.
So I showed her Word and her reaction was So you're a secretary?
So I showed her Excel and she went So you're an accountant?
So I showed her Microsoft Media Player playing some video clip and she went So you work for TV!! Which channel?
Me: It's a channel on the Internet, which doesn't play on TVs, just on computers...
She's seen much more change in her life then we'll ever see in ours unless someone builds that transporter that's been around on paper since the 1960s!!!!
Or just even a PlanetGate!
Doesn't even have to be a Stargate! A PlanetGate will do!!!
The amount of change from, say, the late 1800s to the late 1900s is amazing. Impossible to imagine what the world would be like if we repeated the same amount of change over the next 100 years.
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This is a test
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@JeffSchaller This is what I was familiar with until 1989, when I switched to MS-DOS.