@Jesse_b I have a feeling it's deliberately difficult to find that out. Your vote should ideally not depend who else voted. I'm actually a bit surprised that one can see how many has voted what on questions (or answers).
@Kusalananda You can see that. If you click on close it will show a number next to each reason for the amount voted.
If you vote to close you can hit the back button and see exactly who has voted close or leave open though, I wonder if that is a bug :p
oh duh shame on my response, I read your response wrong lol
first thing in the morning here >.>
I guess it would be abused though (the ability to see who has voted what), but I think it could also be very helpful. There are some questions I am on the fence about and seeing how someone else who's opinion I trust (Like you) voted would sway me one way or another. Without that I end up skipping some.
and he used a quote so it would be so hard to edit into a codeblock. At that point though I feel it completely defeats the purpose of regex. Just matching 2000 words literally
Putty also is terrible at line feed(probably not the right term) speeds. If you try to paste too much text at once it will often skip characters or whole lines and garble what you are trying to paste
Ah, I didn't even consider that. I'll give the Linux environment on Windows 10 a go (only as a terminal to my OpenBSD system though, it's weird running Unix stuff on Windows)
@Kusalananda Yea windows in general is weird :p I only keep it around for gaming now. I don't know what I'm going to do when they drop support for windows 7 and I have to use windows 10 though :(
Some of the people at work refuse to use the tools I make and it is super frustrating :-(
They also seem very resistant to the idea of me giving a class "death by powerpoint" yet many of them don't even know what a variable is and work in a unix only environment
@derobert True and I'm sure I'm not great but they haven't given the opportunity to prove one way or another ;-). Also I just want them to know some basic damn things so they stop screwing things up
@Jesse_b ... and most people (at least older ones) only has interest in learning things relevant to what they need to be doing. The task as a teacher then becomes to make it relevant.
@Kusalananda I have been trying. I made a toolkit that automates a bunch of stuff we do on a daily basis and only a few people are using it (All of which tell me how much it helps them) but the others haven't even tried using it
We have some SOPs that contain code snippets with variables in them and they specifically instruct you to change the variable and then run the code. I have watched some of these people just copy and paste the code snippet without changing variables so many times
To me that is just a dangerous person that needs some level of instruction before being given root access :-/
I have tried to make my scripts as dummy proof as possible but I know that is just from my perspective and I believe the writers perspective is almost always different from the user's experience :p
Yea but I see a lot of things done in hardcore mode. I know a lot of people, that I would consider to be very talented engineers, that basically only use rm -rf. No matter what they are deleting...
@Jesse_b Depending on the script, I'd be less worried about it there... e.g., each time you type it, there is a chance of a typo. But a script doesn't get retyped, so no new typos.
I keep a dir at ~/tmp for testing various text processing things, or various other things. I never put anything important in there that isn't simply a copy
The -r is weird for a file. For a tempdir (e.g., mktemp -d) that gets a lot of files, though, it can be much easier than tracking and rm'ing each one, then rmdir.
@derobert Yea that is why it's troublesome to me too. It's just become habit for some people to use -r but I think it should only be used when you know it needs to be used
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/426734/… ← possibly someone who uses -Rf without even knowing it... (though the relocation error sounds like something else entirely happened)
Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
I almost got my wife using it. Her desktop CPU fried and I set her up with a centos machine I had with KDE desktop and she said she really liked it but I got her a new CPU and she's using windows again
@SaclyrBarlonium If the command to start idle is idle, you could set up an alias for starting it in the shell, like alias idle='cd my_directory && command idle' (command is a built-in command that ensures that you won't call an alias or function from within the alias).
@SaclyrBarlonium Ah. I was suggesting setting up an alias for idle in the shell. That would only work for starting idle from within the shell. It will not work as a desktop shortcut.
since I got my Floppy Drive to be found by the system, I trouble with mounting it!
Some specs:
Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS,
EIDE-Connected FDD,
installed packages for this subject: udisk2and fdutils
I also got the assumed entries in fstab 80-udisks2.rules , the floppy module is loaded and I...
I further isolated my main problem with working Windows-Ubuntu. I don't publish a question here as it's off-scope, but now some people might be able to help better:
I use Windows 10 and SSHing into a remote Ubuntu 16.04 machine with Putty.
I copy pasted the following code from my personal GitHub account into the Putty session:
cat <<-EOF >> "$HOME"/.bashrc
export s_a="/etc/nginx/sites-available"
export s_e="/etc/nginx/sites-enabled"
export drt=...
It's not a problem with the server itself so it's not the server's fault, but it's closer in context than stackoverflow. Superuser seems to me too general.
I usually wouldn't decide for others what's "professional" in their mind.
@derobert It hasn't. If you are not administering a professional system, you shouldn't ask on Server Fault. The right place for that question is Super User.
@derobert Ah, I thought that would be the issue. Cool.
I know I am jinxing myself and it is likely a certainty that it will eventually happen to me but I still have not gotten comfortable with any command that deletes things. With find I would run the command without delete twice and validate the files I'm deleting manually. Then I would type out the command, get up and walk away for a minute, come back and double check the command. That sort of stuff still makes me nervous lol
@derobert I typed ~ and Return in the wrong order when typing rm *~ to clean up my big third-year project at university, since then I’ve kept meticulous backups (with regular restore checks)
since I got my Floppy Drive to be found by the system, I trouble with mounting it!
Some specs:
Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS,
EIDE-Connected FDD,
installed packages for this subject: udisk2and fdutils
I also got the assumed entries in fstab 80-udisks2.rules , the floppy module is loaded and I...
I use Windows 10 and SSHing into a remote Ubuntu 16.04 machine with Putty.
I copy pasted the following code from my personal GitHub account into the Putty session:
cat <<-EOF >> "$HOME"/.bashrc
export s_a="/etc/nginx/sites-available"
export s_e="/etc/nginx/sites-enabled"
export drt=...
