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Watching coworkers run du -h / on mounts that range between hundreds of terabytes up to petabyte mounts. "You know the SANs run index reports right? It automatically provide the largest n files." "I'm just used to doing this"  I'm sure our storage engineers appreciate your enthusiasm for efficiency.
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RFC2324 posted:Yeah, if its a quick search that's all i really need. If i need more I'd rather have control of the resource intensive filesystem search. Different use cases, I guess -- usually if I'm searching for something it's not in $PATH, I'm looking for a document or a music file or a disc image or something rather than an executable program. And if something is in $PATH I usually don't need to care where. quote:Interestingly, I've noticed that find seems to save an index of searches it has done recently. Try doing a find on /, interrupt it, then run it again. It will kick out the results it had already found much more quickly. That's the block cache at work! When you read stuff from disk the OS caches the results in whatever memory is free -- this is the "cache" line in top or the orange bars in htop. If you ask for it again it gets served from memory rather than from disk and is thus much faster. find itself doesn't know or care about this, it's all handled by the kernel.
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Is it possible these days for flash to work decent on linux? The tv station here (abc.net.au) pretty much runs on flash for video and games and I'm not having any luck getting it working well on an old PC I'm building for my kid. I don't remember having this much problems when I chucked mint on my old dell vostro years ago besides installing google chrome to get that site working. I don't know if it's chrome/chromium loving it up with their changes or abc doing something though. But anyway, tried a few deb/ubuntu based distros and firefox works but image quailty is rubbish/can't get rid of borders on full screen mode but flash games work. Chrome and chromium don't have the border problem but image quality even worse and flash games don't work at all - they load but can;t click start. Do I have to buy a loving windows licence just for flash on one website? Or is there some work around? I've tried ubuntu 14 based systems all the way up to the latest mint 18.1 Is it a browser issue, GPU driver issue, flash issue or desktop variant type issue, does anyone know? Fo3 fucked around with this message at 07:48 on May 3, 2017 |
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That an (apparently major) TV station still uses Flash for video streaming is a disgrace. Flash is pretty much a security vulnerability at this point. What happens when you do try to read a Flash video? Do you have any error message or anything? More details would help troubleshooting.
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Flash videos load and run, just really poor quality. Flash games work in mozilla fine, they just don't start in chrome - ie they don't respond to mouse pointer clicks even when the pointer changes to a hand. I reinstalled chrome to see any improvement, and then extracted the tar from adobe's site into user/bin/flash. At this stage I'm wondering if it's hardware (old 4400+ cpu, 2gb ram, ATI x800 GPU) or drivers. There's no ATI drivers for mint 18.1, I killed the system trying to get some on there. But that doesn't explain why games don't respond to the mouse in chrome but it does in firefox. I just checked my old dell vostro with nvidia GPU and proper drivers and mint 17.1 and chrome browser. Same thing, flash games don't start. I never had a problem with video playback in that site before though using flash as far as video or even any other flash site. It just might be the website loving everything up. I knew it was a big pain years ago when everyone with linux was forced to use the google chrome browser to watch anything there. The tv company cares more about developing for ios and android these days and keeps loving around with flash for PCs. Anyone got flash and want to check the childrens videos and games there? Could be something not enabled on flash or browser for me because of the old cpu and gpu, or lack of any proper ati drivers. http://www.abc.net.au/abcforkids/ EE: It might be geolocked to australia like abc iview is. But come to mention that I never had a problem with flash on my old dell laptop running mint for anything and that's equally old hardware. It's just that kids sub-site Fo3 fucked around with this message at 09:00 on May 3, 2017 |
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Only issue I have had with Flash on Linux has been DRM related. The TV stations here in NZ use Flash for all of their online video stuff so I feel your pain. I think the DRM depends on an obsolete kernel component or similar.
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Weird thing is the PC also has winXP on it so for a laugh I got online with it and mozilla firefox 11 with obsolete or maybe even non existant flash. Wouldn't load any videos on the abc kids site (loaded the page even without any missing/or update flash messages where the video should play). But it could load the games and play them fine. Maybe the games on their site aren't flash even though all the videos are? If that's the case then there's another problem besides flash when using a debian/ubuntu/mint distro with this site as far as the games? Trying to work it out because my kids only 4 and this is the only site he uses/is allowed to use.
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This is a bit off-topic but as a young dad myself (son is almost 3), my plan was to get him a Raspberry around ~4 with some emulator on it and just watch him humiliate me at Super Mario Bros. I reckon it's actually safer (and also easier to make it work) than opening the world wide web. Just a thought!
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Flash exists on Linux, adobe actually backtracked on killing it and recently put out a shiny new up to date version iirc.
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feedmegin posted:Flash exists on Linux, adobe actually backtracked on killing it and recently put out a shiny new up to date version iirc. Should be fine for games, just don't expect, say, Nick Jr. video content to load. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 21:30 on May 3, 2017 |
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Furism posted:This is a bit off-topic but as a young dad myself (son is almost 3), my plan was to get him a Raspberry around ~4 with some emulator on it and just watch him humiliate me at Super Mario Bros. I reckon it's actually safer (and also easier to make it work) than opening the world wide web. Just a thought! Similar here, putting together a Pi with retropie installed for some fun gaming for cheap/easy with my young ones (4 and 2). Just having some issues with the Bluetooth controller I acquired suddenly not being detected. I suspect it is because it is a cheapie off AliExpress.
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Varkk posted:Similar here, putting together a Pi with retropie installed for some fun gaming for cheap/easy with my young ones (4 and 2). Just having some issues with the Bluetooth controller I acquired suddenly not being detected. I suspect it is because it is a cheapie off AliExpress. I got the 8bitdo SNES controller, the quality is outstanding. Haven't had any issues with it, and it feels just like a real SNES controller.
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Furism posted:This is a bit off-topic but as a young dad myself (son is almost 3), my plan was to get him a Raspberry around ~4 with some emulator on it and just watch him humiliate me at Super Mario Bros. I reckon it's actually safer (and also easier to make it work) than opening the world wide web. Just a thought! For my 3yo we're just putting together a desktop out of spare parts. Dosbox, BIT.TRIP RUNNER and Crypt of the Necrodancer will keep him occupied for hours.
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feedmegin posted:Flash exists on Linux, adobe actually backtracked on killing it and recently put out a shiny new up to date version iirc. Apparently there's two versions though, ppapi and npapi IIRC. npapi is the basic old flash and security updates only. ppapi is the full featured one that only comes with google chrome and still seems to suck arse in linux and is probably the one the abckids website requires, but still doesn't work well on kids games site, while old flash/firefox npapi does work in games but not their video very well Overall just looks like bad implemention on this site mainly, not linux/flash itself. But that means if I want to use that site, I need windaz Fo3 fucked around with this message at 19:19 on May 4, 2017 |
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What's the best way to give someone access to a server if we're not authing against a centralized LDAP/AD instance? I can create a user account and fill out their authorized_keys file, but if they need to have a password, like for sudo, is there something I can use? Do I just give them a random password?
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Ok, I need help I was trying to upgrade MySQL on my linux Mint 17.3 (with KDE) from 5.5 to 5.7. Following the guides at mysql, I first upgraded it to 5.6, which worked without problems. Then I downloaded mysql-apt-config_0.8.5-1_all.deb and run it, choose "ubuntu trusty" (because there is no Mint on the list), ran apt-get update and then apt-get install mysq-server, like instructed. But I got this error: code:If I try aptitude install mysql-server (like I saw recommend elsewhere), it gives me this scary possible solution: The following actions will resolve these dependencies: code:Worst yet, I cant even install mysql 5.5 back. Purging mysql-apt-config and trying apt-get mysql-server again gives me this awesome error: code:
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Maybe try mariadb since it's basically the same and also better supported post-fork?
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anthonypants posted:What's the best way to give someone access to a server if we're not authing against a centralized LDAP/AD instance? I can create a user account and fill out their authorized_keys file, but if they need to have a password, like for sudo, is there something I can use? Do I just give them a random password? Can't you just let them run passwd?
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An Enormous Boner posted:Can't you just let them run passwd?
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Sheeeeeit edit: wait, no it won't. adduser, enter blank password repeatedly. passwd -d username User runs passwd. First prompt is "new password:"
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Paul MaudDib posted:Maybe try mariadb since it's basically the same and also better supported post-fork? Does it support the new JSON data type?
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Elias_Maluco posted:Does it support the new JSON data type? PostgreSQL does 
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An Enormous Boner posted:Sheeeeeit
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What is the Linux equivalent of Windows domains? I mean, a system of using the same centrally-managed user accounts across hundreds/thousands of servers. CentOS/Ubuntu in scope. Can Linux machines be just joined to a Windows domain and the same accounts shared directly?
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Elias_Maluco posted:Does it support the new JSON data type? This?
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EssOEss posted:What is the Linux equivalent of Windows domains? I mean, a system of using the same centrally-managed user accounts across hundreds/thousands of servers. CentOS/Ubuntu in scope. Can Linux machines be just joined to a Windows domain and the same accounts shared directly? You can use Samba for authentication against a Windows domain. The general name for the protocol is Kerberos. Start looking at that and what the options are.
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Nope, this https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json.html
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Varkk posted:You can use Samba for authentication against a Windows domain. The general name for the protocol is Kerberos. Start looking at that and what the options are. You can also run OpenLDAP for a solution that doesn't require a Windows domain at all.
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I have been a Linux user on-and-off for 15 years or so, but haven't really used it much on a laptop for at least 5 years or something. I've realized that I don't really play much games on laptop any more, so thought I'd just go full Linux on my new one (Dell XPS 13). What distros should I be considering? Usage will mainly be dev-related things, and various normal desktop things like surfing the web and whatnot. Have typically been using Ubuntu for my last few installs, but I have played around with Debian, Slackware and at some point Gentoo and some other ones a long while ago. Should I just be safe and boring and go with Ubuntu, or is there some new cool trendy distro that all the cool devs are using?
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EssOEss posted:What is the Linux equivalent of Windows domains? I mean, a system of using the same centrally-managed user accounts across hundreds/thousands of servers. CentOS/Ubuntu in scope. Can Linux machines be just joined to a Windows domain and the same accounts shared directly? Active Directory is not magic. It's Kerberos+ldap+DNS+DHCP. Kerberos provides single sign on LDAP holds GPOs, OUs (which are not Microsoft specific), and details about your user (email address, name, cubicle, etc) DNS and DHCP are basically there because Kerberos needs DNS resolution, and they tied in ddns. You can disable this part of AD, though. You can roll your own solution on Linux, use IPA, auth to AD with winbind, or use AD as kerberos+ldap by itself. AD usually requires anonymous LDAP binds to be enabled for this, but Microsoft provides LDIFs for unix-likes (to add appropriate LDAP objects). What's really missing are GPOs, which don't work on non-Windows clients authenticating to AD, but config management systems generally handle that aspect
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Buffis posted:I have been a Linux user on-and-off for 15 years or so, but haven't really used it much on a laptop for at least 5 years or something. Stick with Fedora or Ubuntu. They both work really well out of the box and require minimal fussing around. I use Fedora 25 on an XPS 13 HiDPI and it works pretty flawlessly. HiDPI support still isn't 100% on Linux, so beware of odd scaling issues if you're looking at that version.
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Buffis posted:I have been a Linux user on-and-off for 15 years or so, but haven't really used it much on a laptop for at least 5 years or something. I have Ubuntu on my XPS13 and it works flawlessly. All of the keyboard buttons, suspend on close, wifi, battery life, etc.
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Buffis posted:Should I just be safe and boring and go with Ubuntu, or is there some new cool trendy distro that all the cool devs are using? Always use Ubuntu, everything else is just a trendy way to have a bad time. Linux is already bad enough, etc.
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Its finally happening. Full MP3 support coming soon to Fedora https://fedoramagazine.org/full-mp3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/
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waffle iron posted:Its finally happening. lol, this world is crazy.
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drat! I just finished converting all of my mp3s to ogg-vorbis. Guess I'll just convert back now.
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Buffis posted:I have been a Linux user on-and-off for 15 years or so, but haven't really used it much on a laptop for at least 5 years or something. You're probably going to want at least kernel 4.11 (rc 2) as that adds some NVMe specific patches that reduces power consumption by a bit. With my 9360, powertop was indicating a discharge rate of 15W on 4.10.x but with linux-mainline (>4.11 rc 2), it's at around 9W.
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Anyone know how to disable the trackpad while typing in Ubuntu? Specifically 17.04 on a T450S. Googled a few things but they just turn the drat thing off.
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Tigren posted:drat! I just finished converting all of my mp3s to ogg-vorbis. Guess I'll just convert back now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzhxP-pdos
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