What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What if I just learned Python? From what I have read it's used heavily.
What if you learned Python instead of the system shell? How do you intend to use it. Using a Python REPL for system tasks would be right on the verge of impossible.
I mean to script/collect arguments/chain/run etc
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What if I just learned Python? From what I have read it's used heavily.
What if you learned Python instead of the system shell? How do you intend to use it. Using a Python REPL for system tasks would be right on the verge of impossible.
I mean to script/collect arguments/chain/run etc
You don't learn Python INSTEAD of BASH, you learn it in ADDITION to BASH. You use BASH every moment of every day when working on Linux. You don't want to run every one liner in one language that is always there then jump to another language that is rarely there for every other task. Python is a good language and used a lot in administration but it's not a tool that you will usually have at your disposal (most of my boxes don't even have it) and it is a lot of work to leap to a different language for every little task. Scripting your command interface is something you might do every ten lines or so. Going into Python to do that would be very fatiguing and inefficient.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What if I just learned Python? From what I have read it's used heavily.
What if you learned Python instead of the system shell? How do you intend to use it. Using a Python REPL for system tasks would be right on the verge of impossible.
I mean to script/collect arguments/chain/run etc
BASH is so easy to script though. I've dabbled in Perl a bit for scripting admin tasks but for the most part it's just easier to do in BASH.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What if I just learned Python? From what I have read it's used heavily.
What if you learned Python instead of the system shell? How do you intend to use it. Using a Python REPL for system tasks would be right on the verge of impossible.
I mean to script/collect arguments/chain/run etc
BASH is so easy to script though. I've dabbled in Perl a bit for scripting admin tasks but for the most part it's just easier to do in BASH.
Alright. Bash it is then. Thanks guys.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What if I just learned Python? From what I have read it's used heavily.
What if you learned Python instead of the system shell? How do you intend to use it. Using a Python REPL for system tasks would be right on the verge of impossible.
I mean to script/collect arguments/chain/run etc
BASH is so easy to script though. I've dabbled in Perl a bit for scripting admin tasks but for the most part it's just easier to do in BASH.
Alright. Bash it is then. Thanks guys.
Once you learn Bash, you'll also learn to appreciate it's offspring like zsh. I recently installed zsh on the little Raspberry Pi project, which I may have finished today, along with everything else.
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Running massive Linux Mint updates on a Jump Server / Terminal Server right now.
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One hour ago we broke our all time, one hour traffic record. This hour, we just broke it again! Traffic is going absolutely bananas.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One hour ago we broke our all time, one hour traffic record. This hour, we just broke it again! Traffic is going absolutely bananas.
Apparently we all needed coffee and lunch today.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One hour ago we broke our all time, one hour traffic record. This hour, we just broke it again! Traffic is going absolutely bananas.
Apparently we all needed coffee and lunch today.
That must be it. I've not actually had any coffee yet!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One hour ago we broke our all time, one hour traffic record. This hour, we just broke it again! Traffic is going absolutely bananas.
But with not a lot of posts? What does that mean, exactly?
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One hour ago we broke our all time, one hour traffic record. This hour, we just broke it again! Traffic is going absolutely bananas.
But with not a lot of posts? What does that mean, exactly?
That more people are reading that writing.
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Someone is on a nectro reposting kick today.
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@scottalanmiller Did you just spam your own forums with your own articles? How dare you
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Did you just spam your own forums with your own articles? How dare you
Trying hard to get them all moved over so that any historical info is here and not just on the WayBack Machine. Two Linux articles left to go from there.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Did you just spam your own forums with your own articles? How dare you
Trying hard to get them all moved over so that any historical info is here and not just on the WayBack Machine. Two Linux articles left to go from there.
Makes sense
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You know, it might feel like a slow day but looking at the numbers, posts are solid (not high, but good) and the activity level is crazy and looking at some other sites, they are way down today. So I think that it is a generally slow day for posting. I think we are doing at least double the posting of our most comparable site.
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@scottalanmiller How are you pulling numbers for those other sites? Just curious.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller How are you pulling numbers for those other sites? Just curious.
I'm subscribed to every technical post made there and see the email traffic. And it is very slow today. Slow enough that I am totally keeping up with it only casually checking in from time to time.
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(FINALLY) cloning my XS boot USB stick using the writeup from @DustinB3403
Hoping and praying, but that's just me. Stupid computers.
