legooolas

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by legooolas 10mo ago
I've not found this at all -- PXE "just works" on legacy boot or UEFI for me. I've used it for years to install hosts via Foreman ( https://theforeman.org/ ), as well as for personal stuff on my home netw
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by legooolas 10mo ago
You can also do things like boot with PXE (Legacy or UEFI PXE boot) to get a small image like iPXE, and then have iPXE do the http boot part. This means that you have an extra shim but you can pull larger images than TFTP is any good for.
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by legooolas 5y ago
I've had the same experience of looking up and finding an old answer from someone I knew, but one that I made _myself_ for the exact same problem I've just hit again years later... :D
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by legooolas 6y ago
Oracle Linux already builds from RHEL sources, so that could be an option. Edit: There's also Rocky Linux already : https://news.itsfoss.com/rocky-linux-announcement/
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by legooolas 6y ago
Isn't that the point of such fixes? (And also why a lot of people thought that the Y2k but was over-hyped, when there was a lot of background work which fixed the problems so few people noticed when it did come to roll-over time)
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by legooolas 6y ago
"Better than Lotus Notes" is not a high bar.
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by legooolas 7y ago
> I personally hate working from home, and will only do it if there are reasons I can't work somewhere else, such as needing to be home for a plumber or being sick. Why are you working if you're sick?
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by legooolas 7y ago
> ...like an android phone. You might get OS updates or not but mostly whatever OS version it starts with will stay on it for life. Not all Android phones are like that -- what are you buying which doesn't get any OS updates?
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by legooolas 7y ago
Be extremely careful if soldering Lithium-Ion batteries together, as getting them too hot (which isn't very hot compared to soldering!) can easily cause them to burst into flames or explode...
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by legooolas 7y ago
> It's sad if different trusts have such varied support. Different trusts in the NHS have wildly differing support, policies, physio, mobile apps, leaflets and documentation, etc etc. It makes the "N" in NHS a bit odd, an
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by legooolas 7y ago
Or turn it off at the socket so it's not even on standby, using (a small amount of) power all the time?
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by legooolas 7y ago
> Every new parent seems to report that they basically don't sleep for a year or two I'm a new parent, and I'm pleased to say that our 5-week-old is sleeping really, really well. I was not expecting this after all the ho
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by legooolas 7y ago
But burning a lot of natural gas instead. Still fossil fuel! Current national grid status meters/graphs: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ CCGT == "Combined cycle gas turbine"
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by legooolas 7y ago
> I wish they had an option to show open tabs list in a docked on the side. Vertical tabs extensions exist on Firefox, and are one of the major reasons I have stuck with Firefox for a long while. edit -- I use this one : https:/&#x
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by legooolas 7y ago
> e.g. Labor party imposing a death tax. This was advertised on Australian radio before the elections by other parties too, so it's not exclusive to Facebook. (Source : Started listening to Gold 104.3 FM streamed because Christian O
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by legooolas 7y ago
I do something similar (ripping to FLAC, putting on a tiny fileserver, except mine is an Antec ISK-300 with a single 6TB disk and external backups), and then use Logitech Media Server to serve it out to other machines. "Squeezer"
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by legooolas 7y ago
Most places (especially where they have enough money to be buying Cisco Nexus 9k kit) will want some sort of change management, not the vendor to be making arbitrary changes to their critical infrastructure. Also, given the number and sever
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by legooolas 7y ago
On Android recently I've been more tempted to just use "termux" and to run emacs and org-mode locally, using git to sync files back-and-forth. The main pain there is going to be the key combos required, which aren't exac
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by legooolas 7y ago
If it's those sort of numbers then that would be fine - in everything I've read about this (which isn't a great deal) it's been very unclear as to how often such pulling back of power would be used. :)
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by legooolas 7y ago
Would be interesting to know if those tapes have Teletext info which can also be recovered, as well as the news video: https://github.com/ali1234/vhs-teletext/ (Not sure whether this works in the US, as I&#x2
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by legooolas 7y ago
Goodreads requires all books/shelves are publically-visible, which you may not want.
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by legooolas 7y ago
Disadvantage to the end user of the car: Cycling the batteries more to do this will shorten their useful life.
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by legooolas 7y ago
Just grabbing it to elsewhere and searching there would be trivial, so I'd expect not.
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by legooolas 8y ago
I use something similar but offlineimap/notmuch/emacs, and it's the happiest I've been with email too. I previously used elm, mutt, sup, and probably a few other clients, but none of them felt as configurable and complet
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by legooolas 8y ago
The libraries you use with SBCL are likely to be source rather than binary, unless you mean via FFI to (likely) C libraries. Quicklisp[1] has made a massive difference to how easy it is to download and manage sets of dependencies in a Lis
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by legooolas 8y ago
Has anyone tried org-sync[1] and could comment on how well this works, and whether there are more backends hidden away elsewhere (e.g. for gitlab?) (Although if I'd replied with this at the time rather than accidentally having the tab
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by legooolas 8y ago
RIP bitlbee-discord :(
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by legooolas 10y ago
df shows both used and available space on a whole disk/device. du is for space used by particular files/directories.
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by legooolas 10y ago
> With code, less is more, less code to do the same means easier to read, easier to maintain, less bugs. Whilst this can be true, it's not always the case. Squashing code down to fewer lines can also mean doing something in a way th
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by legooolas 10y ago
Yet you can take those on a plane but not a >100ml bottle of water.

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