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Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


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You want to make a protocol handler for hxxp (copy it from https) in the registry and point it at a script that modifies the url and launches the browser.

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Perplx
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peepsalot posted:

OK, sounds good.

Totally unrelated question, and I know its absurd but anyone know of a decent GUI based text editor(i.e. don't want vim/emacs) that can gracefully handle absolutely massive text files?
Like... tens of gigabytes, and/or larger than all the RAM on my machine?

I used UltraEdit back in the day for this, there is probably something free now with disk mode.

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namlosh posted:

What would people recommend for the base host o/s for a machine I’m going to want to run a bunch of virtual machines and docker containers on at home.

It would be an old laptop with a lot of ram connected via Ethernet and I’m assuming kvm/qemu would be a good virtual machine runtime/micro-kernel no matter what the o/s is?

I want to bridge all of the machines as if they were on the LAN. Even the docker containers will be using macvlan.

Does it matter much? Or should I just throw Ubuntu server LTS on it and call it a day?

It shouldn't matter much, I'm using fedora for that because my work is redhat shop, just depends if you like debian/ubuntu or redhat/centos/fedora. Also redhat has their own docker drop in replacement podman.

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Well I have some centos 6 servers that I need to upgrade, I was going to go straight to 8 for the 10 years support but now I don’t know. We are a red hat shop usually but maybe not anymore.

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RHEL is still open source shouldn’t it take like a month for someone to make a new free RHEL clone.

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I had windows in my grub list on fedora but I preferred to switch using efibootmgr since I was doing multiboot with multiple videocards and a kvm monitor and I had to race to switch inputs.

I had it setup to boot linux by default, when I wanted to boot windows I ran this shell script:

code:
efibootmgr -n 1
reboot
Then on windows if i wanted to go back to linux I just rebooted, if I wanted to reboot to windows I ran this powershell script:

code:
bcdedit /set "{fwbootmgr}" bootsequence "{bootmgr}"
Restart-Computer

Perplx
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Thats just the next boot, making it permanent is possible too.

Perplx
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My commonly typed passwords use only the left half of they keyboard and I only use shift for the first or last letter.

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Computer viking posted:

Yeah, that's what I concluded as well - the furthest I got was a weird almost-land where the OpenCL miner happily detected the card and started, but never managed to actually do any work. Getting graphical output was similarly almost-but-not-quite - I got the EFI framebuffer to work, but it died when the proper driver took over. At a guess there was some memory range that wasn't properly forwarded?

Oh well, that's why it's just running Ubuntu directly now, and why I'm planning to try setting up a FreeBSD VM that just needs a few drives forwarded. Maybe a network card if I feel fancy.

I have gpu passthrough working and it was annoying on fedora because my motherboard needed the acs patch and at the time not every setting was exposed in the virt-manager so you had to edit the xml by hand.

Then I got it setup on proxmox which was a breeze because its basically designed to do pass though and did almost everything thought the gui. I only had to add "intel_iommu=on kvm-intel.nested=1 pcie_acs_override=downstream" to my grub line and had gpu passthough working, also updated to kernel 5.11 since I found the default 5.4 very buggy.

I passthrough my baremetal nvme windows install and switch between virtualized and bare metal easily.

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Perplx
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The only good reason to make something complex in bash is if you need compatibility with every *nix made in the last 30 years.

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