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every time i install a linux, there are mundane tasks associated with getting poo poo setup. is there a way to record those mundane things and play them back automatically for when i set up a linux the next time? time between linux janitorings is a year or two. as i type this out i realize that maybe "shell scripts" is the answer.
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pram posted:a desktop linux user. apting this. nanoing that. how did i have gnome set up last time? why wont my video card work? .. a modern day sisyphus except sisyphus forgets the terrible time he had after the boulder rolls back down, right?
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Aug 13, 2015 03:38
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b0red posted:it's official guys. you really aren't running linux if you don't have an animes background. IRIX ships with cat-girl anime backgrounds, or at least thats what you'd think based on the community. nice people -- someone from nekochan once gave me an Octane with a full IRIX cd set and MIPS pro compiler. he could have sold the CDs on eBay for ~$100 probably. after playing with it for a few weeks I tossed it tho because being in possession of some internet weirdo's hard drives seemed like a bad idea.
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Aug 13, 2015 15:41
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the real answer is puppet or chef cool thanks. these are a bit too much for me, but its still interesting to learn about. i didn't know that this kind of stuff was a thing!
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Aug 13, 2015 15:45
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i think bsd's answer was a good linux answer to a linux question in that it was technically correct but ultimately not helpful b/c the asker is a dumbshit who wants Good Thing, but doesn't have a clear idea of what Good Thing is. I guess what i really want is to not have to janitor my own linux. or get good enough at linux that i don't occasionally irrevocably break something that necessitates a clean install. like i spent about a few hours learning how to setup an email server. a few weeks have passed and not only have i forgotten what the email server is called, i've forgotten what files i've modified to make it work. if i want to move to a new vm instance or something i'll have to redo all that stuff :/
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Aug 14, 2015 15:36
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pros of running a mailserver on a $10/m linode instance: cheap, it works for now and when it breaks: no more email. win win win
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Aug 14, 2015 16:55
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you put the worst desktop non-unix on something that was running the best desktop unix. you made a terrible mistake.
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Aug 18, 2015 01:50
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carry on then posted:harvard architecture forever 2015 year of LISP on the microcontroller
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Sep 27, 2015 17:25
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Ha ha, crazy kevin is so wacky, he always likes to cut up at the 9PM blue-ball agile huddle
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Oct 2, 2015 02:38
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working with rude or otherwise unpleasant people is bearable only because you get paid to do it. what kind of person would do it for free. hm.
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Oct 6, 2015 00:52
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it is a $10 vps and bsd's answer was good, the only problem was that learning how to use chef/puppet/ansible or whatever is orders of magnitude more complicated than the configuration i did in the first place. next time i'll probably just run `script what-i-did-to-setup-server.txt` and edit all files using ed or create a git repo in the root and commit files before/after i edit them.
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Oct 17, 2015 16:17
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i wasn't suggesting creating a bash script, but rather using the command 'script' to log cli stuff as i'm setting up whatever. you know, just to serve as a reference for later if/when i want to set up another vm. seems like it would be needs suiting. whenever i do setup another vm, it might not be on the same os version, or maybe it will be a different os entirely.
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Oct 17, 2015 18:40
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expect is a great tool, this article is very interesting and worth a read http://expect.sourceforge.net/doc/seven-years.html
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Oct 17, 2015 19:02
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pram posted:barnyard there is nothing complicated about ansible. you pretty much only need two files on your local system. the host inventory and your playbook i'll have to give it another look the next time i have to setup a linux. i guess its like learning maven, where at first it was confusing as gently caress but its easy and great now that i know the problem its trying to solve.
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Oct 17, 2015 19:17
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eschaton posted:I wonder why things like the Intel Edison board don't come with this kind of set-up, given the main idea is to have many of them the cross-domain knowledge isn't there. that is the case in my work experience, at least.
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Oct 18, 2015 01:36
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i installed linux on a desktop. the fonts were all hosed up. maybe next year
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Nov 6, 2015 20:39
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:it's the upstream, yean huh i always thought it was the other way around, because i don't know jack poo poo about the differences between linuxes except for the logos. i decided to educate myself and found this lol quote:July 4, 29; August 19 2002 lmbo what were the circumstances, i don't get it. did they name it something unsavory?
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Nov 10, 2015 01:49
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is "centos fonts hosed" a good enough reason to re-install linux, but this time a fedora? my idiot opinion is 'yes', and away i go
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Nov 10, 2015 01:56
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calm down its a laptop
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Nov 10, 2015 02:02
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hells yeah. unlike centos, fedora correctly detected the windows 7 partition and configured grub right and didn't repeatedly and ironically crash on the "kdump" config screen. and these fonds, well these fonts are Nice.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:14
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it was probably 16 years ago that i installed my first linux. it took the better part of the weekend just to do the install, i had to figure out stuff like partition the drive by sectors. and then recompile the kernel to get the soundblaster to work. and then re-install linux again to fix the fuckup from doing a bad job compiling the kernel. then waiting a week to find a us robotics serial modem because nobody had written a drive for my win modem. and now here i am 16 years later, installed a linux real quick, and everything works. and the fonts look nice. lads, i think linux is ready for the laptop.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:23
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so far the only way fedora is worse for working on this dumb poo poo i'm working on is that i can't figure out how to export my cisco vpn ssl cert in a way that openconnect can read. otherwise, boy oh boy is it needs suiting. wtf is up with `yum` being deprecated? i thought it was the thing people liked.
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Nov 10, 2015 17:29
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i thought the freebsd ports system was good. where you just have a huge hierarchy of make files and say "oh look another one of those games where you push around blocks to the right place, nice,. make && make install"
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Nov 10, 2015 17:35
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is there just a single book that i can read that will tell me everything i need to know about the best linux? also what is the best linux. seems like its fedora for the desktop and rhel for the non-desktop.
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Nov 11, 2015 18:25
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i got the RHCSA & RHCE RHEL 7 book with the best rating on amazon. ofc i can get anything done with linux by googlin it, i've been doing that for a dozen years. but i've got huge gaps in my knowledge to the point that i don't know what i don't know. so far i think it was a good $22 spent.
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Nov 12, 2015 15:23
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why yes yes it is
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Nov 12, 2015 15:47
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annapacketstormaya posted:the design and implementation of the freebsd operating system i have this book on my shelf right now, i will read it "some day"
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Nov 12, 2015 19:54
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what if that extra 16 seconds it took to compile was because it was optimizing ncurses to run 16 seconds faster? makes u think
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Nov 13, 2015 02:28
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Nov 13, 2015 02:36
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im trying to remember the last time i had to compile source code and i think it was in 2001 to get mozilla to run on solaris 8 x86
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Nov 13, 2015 02:39
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spergin is great. srsly though i think that kind of time delta could be expected to be seen on the same system doing multiple back-to-back compiles. it'll change depending on the load of the system and the phase of the moon and stuff. i get paid earth dollars to write software, so i'm hitting the compile button all day long. my current project builds 30s+/-5s.
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Nov 13, 2015 02:47
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Nov 13, 2015 02:56
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i guess you could say i have a "nerd wife". i had the redhat site up last night on my laptop computer and she saw it and said "oh red hat i have heard of that" 
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Nov 13, 2015 04:02
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gnome3 is good. it would be great if i could figure out how to make folders in the applications view thing.
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Nov 14, 2015 03:38
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why isn't the little weird footprint logo everywhere though, like in the olde days? i miss that weird little foot print thing.
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Nov 14, 2015 03:39
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stallman only cares about a foot if there is some toe jam to pick out of it
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Nov 14, 2015 05:58
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:why does the foot only have four toes? it's gimp'ed
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Nov 14, 2015 16:35
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i have been using fedora on my t450s for java development for the past few days and it is extremely needs suiting. "it just works". the audio works, the minidisplay-port works, the dock ports work. i had to update the wifi firmware for stability issues, but that was pretty simple. it even came pre-installed with `openconnect` so that i can vpn into work's git server / jira / confluence. the only real linux knowledge i've needed so far is basic shell stuff, and `dnf install <whatever>`. pretty nice.
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Nov 16, 2015 02:45
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nosl posted:videogames are bad. i forget this every once in a while and end up playing a video game. i like the ones where you just press a button on a box and then the video game pops up.
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Nov 19, 2015 19:47
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lol
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