What Are You Doing Right Now
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Some days I leave ML feeling like I contributed and learned.
Today is not one of those days!
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Some days I leave ML feeling like I contributed and learned.
Today is not one of those days!
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Story of my gaming life... scrolling through games not knowing what to play.
yepp...
Or maybe something like Wing Commander Privateer or Freelancer. Both are great games. Is there something comparable?
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Oh how much I love the Origin client... "Download queued", "Update queued"... and stuck.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Story of my gaming life... scrolling through games not knowing what to play.
yepp...
Or maybe something like Wing Commander Privateer or Freelancer. Both are great games. Is there something comparable?
EDIT:
Oh how much I love the Origin client... "Download queued", "Update queued"... and stuck.
But I really love SysInternals tools: Origins download cache was pointing to an external USB harddrive that wasn't attached to my PC. Couldn't change the cache location in the client because it tried to delete files in the old cache before moving to the new location. Poor application design.
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@thwr said
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
Yeah but I am also getting my ass kicked on Linux filesystems, haha.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
Yeah but I am also getting my ass kicked on Linux filesystems, haha.
Easy, I guess you didn't learn everything about Windows filesystems during a single day. In Linux, it's all about making a choice. There are plenty of filesystems like ext2..4, btrfs, zfs, xfs but also other things like gluster or even some very special things like unionfs (mentioned that just today here at ML) for example. Same for your text editor: Like vim? nano? emacs? What boot system do you like? Are you more the upstart guy? Or systemd? Bootloader: LILO or grub/grub2?
Linux (or the world of the "userland") isn't something you will master in a week or so. It takes years. Just try to understand the concepts.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
Yeah but I am also getting my ass kicked on Linux filesystems, haha.
We haven't actually gotten to the filesystem yet
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
Yeah but I am also getting my ass kicked on Linux filesystems, haha.
Easy, I guess you didn't learn everything about Windows filesystems during a single day. In Linux, it's all about making a choice. There are plenty of filesystems like ext2..4, btrfs, zfs, xfs but also other things like gluster or even some very special things like unionfs (mentioned that just today here at ML) for example. Same for your text editor: Like vim? nano? emacs? What boot system do you like? Are you more the upstart guy? Or systemd? Bootloader: LILO or grub/grub2?
For example, Windows has FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ReFS, ISO9660 and more that you need to know. Plus they have Basic (Partitioned) and Dynamic (LVM) disks. They have symlinks and hardlinks. They have mount points. Plus they have that pesky lettering system that is totally unique and extra compared to any major OS. There is Windows Software RAID and SoFS now, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
Yeah but I am also getting my ass kicked on Linux filesystems, haha.
Easy, I guess you didn't learn everything about Windows filesystems during a single day. In Linux, it's all about making a choice. There are plenty of filesystems like ext2..4, btrfs, zfs, xfs but also other things like gluster or even some very special things like unionfs (mentioned that just today here at ML) for example. Same for your text editor: Like vim? nano? emacs? What boot system do you like? Are you more the upstart guy? Or systemd? Bootloader: LILO or grub/grub2?
For example, Windows has FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ReFS, ISO9660 and more that you need to know. Plus they have Basic (Partitioned) and Dynamic (LVM) disks. They have symlinks and hardlinks. They have mount points. Plus they have that pesky lettering system that is totally unique and extra compared to any major OS. There is Windows Software RAID and SoFS now, too.
To add a few: EXFAT, UFS and various other optical media related filesystems
Most people I've met never heard about hardlinks in Windows
Keep in mind, Symlinks do not work exactly like symlinks in POSIX filesystems. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006(v=vs.85).aspx -
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
Yeah but I am also getting my ass kicked on Linux filesystems, haha.
Easy, I guess you didn't learn everything about Windows filesystems during a single day. In Linux, it's all about making a choice. There are plenty of filesystems like ext2..4, btrfs, zfs, xfs but also other things like gluster or even some very special things like unionfs (mentioned that just today here at ML) for example. Same for your text editor: Like vim? nano? emacs? What boot system do you like? Are you more the upstart guy? Or systemd? Bootloader: LILO or grub/grub2?
For example, Windows has FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ReFS, ISO9660 and more that you need to know. Plus they have Basic (Partitioned) and Dynamic (LVM) disks. They have symlinks and hardlinks. They have mount points. Plus they have that pesky lettering system that is totally unique and extra compared to any major OS. There is Windows Software RAID and SoFS now, too.
To add a few: EXFAT, UFS and various other optical media related filesystems
Most people I've met never heard about hardlinks in Windows
Keep in mind, Symlinks do not work exactly like symlinks in POSIX filesystems. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006(v=vs.85).aspxThat is often the problem with coming from a Windows background. It isn't that Windows is easier, it is that the expectations of what work people will do is often so much lower. Most of the time the issue is that we want to do so much more on Linux than we normally want to do on Windows. That is what makes it feel harder.
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Well. it's 23:49 here (11:49pm for those of you who can only count up to twelve ;))
Good night ML.
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Late breakfast with my wife
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Good Morning ML
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I think that this is a good discussion on MSP approval processes: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1706416-approval-process
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ML is awesome, period. I've asked a very special (and kind of weird) question about an SAS tape library emulator for Windows and got an answer within an hour on a Saturday.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
ML is awesome, period. I've asked a very special (and kind of weird) question about an SAS tape library emulator for Windows and got an answer within an hour on a Saturday.
AND the vendor jumped in too with special licensing offerings too!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
ML is awesome, period. I've asked a very special (and kind of weird) question about an SAS tape library emulator for Windows and got an answer within an hour on a Saturday.
AND the vendor jumped in too with special licensing offerings too!
Aye, and (probably NDA) SDK etc. Awesome offer.
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Helps that he's the investor of most of that stuff, too
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Helps that he's the investor of most of that stuff, too
And a very kind person, for sure
