The Official Status Thread
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Oh, it also means that my several-gigabyte intermediate format needs to be fully written to disk before I can start parsing it.
There are any number of alternatives to that, none of which I am interested in enumerating.
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Well, in any case, you're using some kind of named or unnamed pipe. This is just the simplest way to create a subshell and pipe its output to an argument of a command.
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Well, in any case, you're using some kind of named or unnamed pipe. This is just the simplest way to create a subshell and pipe its output to an argument of a command.
Well, perhaps, but I was just answering your question about what you'd do if you couldn't use that mechanic.
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Status: Smoked mackerel, broccoli, rocket and couscous salad for dinner. Everything in one bowl!
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Status: I just saw an ad for Boeing as a pre-roll on YouTube. Boeing, I feel like you are pissing your money away with this marketing campaign. Almost zero people watching videos on YouTube are decision makers on which jumbo jet to purchase, because almost zero people in the world are the decision makers on which jumbo jet to purchase. Also, no one chooses an airline based upon which jet they will be flying on. Most people choose based on price...
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Deja vu.
i know i've read someone saying the same thing
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@FrostCat said:
I'm sure you could tell us how to write both versions in logjam.
I didn't say I wanted it either, just that I was sure he could do it. But now you've prevented a potential (if short lasting) nerd sniping.
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But then I'd need to use a name on the filesystem.
But you're doing that anyway. Try
echo <(ls)
. Orstat <(ls)
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But the name /dev/fd/* can be used by each process individually as it's not actually a file, it's just a reference to a file descriptor.
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Is that what it does now? I seem to recall it used named pipes in /tmp, but that was probably on RHEL5.
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Well, Ben, think about the subtle way the meaning changes if you say "eat your cake and have it too", and consider how much more sense that wording makes.
It is perfectly possible both to have your cake and eat it too, and to eat your cake and have it too, since the sentences as such do not strictly imply a temporal order, and both situations happening at some unspecified period on time are not only allowed, but generally speaking necessary (you can't eat your cake without having it previously for some period of time). Compare a sentence like "you can't buy bread and buy eggs too" - there's no requirement on the order of the actions, just that buying one article makes buying the other one impossible.
In fact, even if we were to imply one, it's ambiguous anyway - one interpretation is that you can't (have, eat) your cake and (have, eat) it too at the same time, which is incorrect both ways (the ownership doesn't cease until the object ceases to exist, which is after it's been eaten). Compare a sentence like "you can't own bread and own eggs too" - where two states can occur independently (and intermittently), but not at the same time.
It's only the other interpretation (you can't eat your cake, then have it too) when the order is a factor in parsing the sentence. But that's not the only parse, and not even the most obvious to me personally.
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Eat the cake. Then go get another one.
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It might be an ad to stir up opinions for something?
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http://www.geek.com/science/nasa-creates-hedgehog-robot-to-traverse-asteroids-1633424/
Url says it all, really. @raceprouk, what are you up to now?
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Status: My second box of fudge lasted several days. It was even better than the first one as it was plain cream and butter fudge.
I have another two containers. As long as I don't open them, they too will endure…
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Is there a Fox asteroid? If not, why would there be a hedgehog robot there?
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Url says it all, really. @raceprouk, what are you up to now?
Well I gotta say, of all the ragequits I've seen in my life that's the most epic one.
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That would be a headline: "Hedgehog robot spelunking on Fox!"
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That would be a headline: "Hedgehog robot spelunking on Fox!"
Ask @boomzilla if they did that story.
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It might be an ad to stir up opinions for something?
Maybe, but the divide between "Which airline is the cheapest? I don't care if it is a Cessna, as long as it is cheap" and "I would rather walk than fly on anything but Boeing" is a pretty large divide.
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It is perfectly possible both to have your cake and eat it too, and to eat your cake and have it too, since the sentences as such do not strictly imply a temporal order
Actually, in English, the aphorism does connote a temporal order, since you can have your cake and then eat it, but you cannot eat your cake and (still) have it.
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But both of these statements imply that you are going to fly. See how sneaky they are!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
That would be a headline: "Hedgehog robot spelunking on Fox!"
Ask @boomzilla if they did that story.
I don't watch Fox. I just shill for them.
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But both of these statements imply that you are going to fly. See how sneaky they are!
http://www.imcharmingyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/3upisu.jpg
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
It might be an ad to stir up opinions for something?
Maybe, but the divide between "Which airline is the cheapest? I don't care if it is a Cessna, as long as it is cheap" and "I would rather walk than fly on anything but Boeing" is a pretty large divide.
This could also be part of their bigger strategy to keep the boondoggle that is the Ex-Im Bank alive.
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"Hedgehog robot spelunking
ona Fox!"I read that in a much dirtier way at first.
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http://www.geek.com/science/nasa-creates-hedgehog-robot-to-traverse-asteroids-1633424/
So their propulsion method is to spin a flywheel and then jam on the brake? NASA developed a propulsion system that is the equivalent of a handbrake turn.
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Status: I hate backups.
Just had a near heart-attack when a critical production system went down (file systems went readonly and then unreadable on reboot after a iscsi mishap). It uses two virtual servers, a web server and a mysql server running Centos 7. They are XXXXSQLSRV01 and XXXXWEBSRV02 in a dedicated cluster of 4 VMs for this system. The other 2 VMs are unused because of overspecification by the developer.
The backups are automated and self-test so I wasn't worried until I saw that the SQL backup being rsync'ed to our backup system was for XXXXSQLSRV02 which is an unused SQL VM.
Thankfully it was mis-named and was actually the correct backup for XXXSQLSRV01 like it was supposed to be. The original filesystem also turned out to be recoverable so I guess this is the cue for me to perform a comprehensive audit on all our backups...as soon as as my heart starts again.
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I guess this is the cue for me to perform a comprehensive audit on all our backups
An untested backup is not a backup at all. Test and verify. Always.
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Status: Just discovered I have five (5) wisdom teeth, and they need to be removed yesterday. This will not be a fun week.
At least my 5-day weekend is getting extended to 9 days.
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An untested backup is not a backup at all. Test and verify. Always.
The backups are automated and self-test
But he had a robot testing it! YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST THE ROBOT!
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Status: only one episode of The Starlost left.
Then I think I'll move on to UFO, which promises to be not-shit.
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Stephen Colbert asked Jeb Bush how his political philosophy differed from his brother's.
Jeb's response: "I'm younger and more attractive."
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Status: I just realized why Red Hat named their Linux distribution "Fedora".
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Good, you have a Coke.
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Those are cool.
I want one. (And paint a pink heart on it).
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Status: Writing papers and software.
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Lucky you.
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An untested backup is not a backup at all. Test and verify. Always.
@blakeyrat said:But he had a robot testing it! YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST THE ROBOT!
Yes, and yes. Too clever for my own good, I thought I'd make a lovely solution that even test mounted and checked the db with reporting on how the whole process was getting on so it wouldn't need hand-holding.
I realised yesterday there was a flaw in my cunning planI don't have any details for, or access to, this application (done by another business unit who didn't fancy sharing) so I'm not sure what the db should look like. It should definitely have some data in it though, so a total row count would be helpful to report on the backups, maybe some history check so if it varies more than a certain % between diffs would be good. I'll also change my script so it uses $hostname for naming the backups and not a hard-coded string...
I'll work on trying to get access to the application so I can check complete restores on a couple of spare VMs every month.
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Lucky you.
Well yes, but I've had to put up with nearly 8 months of BS to get to this point so I'm not exactly “lucky”. Catching up with reality is perhaps closer…
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Still, lucky you. I'm hiding behind my pile of BS so that I may do some research.
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Was talking to a project manager here last week whose project had lost weeks of work because a test server went bang.
There were regular backups of this box but it turned out the box was being backed up to itself
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Was talking to a project manager here last week whose project had lost weeks of work because a test server went bang.
Wipe test installations regularly. It's the only way to make sure idiots don't rely on them.
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That could not look LESS like a t-rex punching a triceratops. And this is coming from a guy who thinks this: looks like the K-9 robot from Doctor Who.