The other day I put a 250GB SSD in the current desktop unit and made it the primary. I wiped the (now) secondary 1TB hard drive and left it be until I had time to mess with it. Yesterday I finally finished the much needed update of The Minimum You Need to Know Web site so I played with getting the second drive to auto mount just a bit. In theory we shouldn’t need to … Mounting a Second Internal Drive in LinuxRead more
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GitLab Bites the Big One!
Let this be a cautionary tale for anyone who things wanna-be operating systems on wanna-be computers using software written under a fraudulent methodology named Agile is fit to run a business on. GitLab.com Melts Down There is a reason real computers with real operating systems have a /VERIFY clause on their BACKUP command. There is a reason their backups take longer, because quality matters. On a real operating system using a real database you cannot … GitLab Bites the Big One!Read more
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How to Command Line Format a Thumb Drive on Linux
Every now and then you find yourself on a distro where the GUI tools to format a thumb drive simply aren’t there or aren’t the ones you know about so you don’t find them. As always, the terminal is your friend. Simply plug in your thumb drive and wait for your machine to auto-mount it. Then open a terminal. sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdc: 14.9 GiB, 16026435584 bytes, 31301632 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * … How to Command Line Format a Thumb Drive on LinuxRead more
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Linux Fatal Design Flaw
Okay, there are many fatal design flaws, such as the inability to actually cluster like OpenVMS has been able to do since the early 1980s, but one is going to bring it to a screeching halt industry wide. What is that? Requiring a video driver be compiled into/with the kernel. I haven’t looked at the code, nor do I want to. If it is like most Linux/OpenSource code I get to look at it will … Linux Fatal Design FlawRead more
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Ubuntu/Linux List All Exit Status Codes
I see this questions about this posted a lot. I also see numerous responses telling people to read through C header files. While you certainly cannot identify application level exit codes without valid documentation for the package, you can get the Ubuntu/Linux exit codes with one easy command. kill -l