Playing various Sonic games on Roblox with the kiddo, lol.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@jmoore said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Can confirm that all these are real.

You poor soul. I thought that was an ancient lettering system until I scrolled down.

Atlanta cuneiform!

So you can use that to translate the ancient text, and the city of Atlantis will reappear?

Translations vary between summoning Atlantis from her watery grave or Calling Cthulu from the underworld... I'm leaning towards summoning a traffic jam at Spaghetti Junction... Oh wait... that happens every day.

@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Can confirm that all these are real.

I was about to ask if all of those were in Atlanta, then I saw the bottom of the pic.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Will have to do some reading to see what's changed in last few years. I admit I have not kept up with it.

BtrFS has been the "future" filesystem for Linux for years. But it's not been far enough along for most places to put into production yet. It's just getting to that point, now. That's why it is going to desktops, but not servers, at this point. This is the stage prior to it starting to replace XFS and EXT4 in production servers.

We had it in production here on several systems. We suffered no end of FS corruption, and snapshots that won't delete for various reasons...systems randomly hanging and going down... We've upgraded all of the systems to newer OSes and use EXT4.

Why EXT4 and not XFS? XFS is the mature, stable, fast one.

Why were you using BtrFS in production? It's not considered ready even now, let alone anytime in the past. It's hoped to be classified as production in 1-2 years.

For the same reason that Fedora is trying to push it now... The vendor (SuSE, for us) thought it was a good idea to push as a sensible default at the time.

Fedora isn't pushing now, that's for desktops. Where those things don't really matter. And BtrFS has been pretty stable for a while now. No idea what Suse was up to, but blindly taking defaults is never a good idea. That's how people got RAID 5 from Dell for years. Another example of a commonly bad default... EXT4. In that case, it's stable, it's just not as stable or as fast.

Hmm... I'd like to think that things on desktops do matter, lol. Kinda hard to use Linux to watch videos or play games if my FS is corrupted and not working.

I do hope it is stable for those who do use it, at least.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Will have to do some reading to see what's changed in last few years. I admit I have not kept up with it.

BtrFS has been the "future" filesystem for Linux for years. But it's not been far enough along for most places to put into production yet. It's just getting to that point, now. That's why it is going to desktops, but not servers, at this point. This is the stage prior to it starting to replace XFS and EXT4 in production servers.

We had it in production here on several systems. We suffered no end of FS corruption, and snapshots that won't delete for various reasons...systems randomly hanging and going down... We've upgraded all of the systems to newer OSes and use EXT4.

Why EXT4 and not XFS? XFS is the mature, stable, fast one.

Why were you using BtrFS in production? It's not considered ready even now, let alone anytime in the past. It's hoped to be classified as production in 1-2 years.

For the same reason that Fedora is trying to push it now... The vendor (SuSE, for us) thought it was a good idea to push as a sensible default at the time.

Just to tinker with the WSL on my Windows laptop, I installed WSL2 with Ubuntu 20. I already have an X-Server since I use MobaXterm.

I installed Virt-Manager and was able to run it without any problem.

Edit: It would appear that I don't even need the X-Server from MobaXterm for things to work!

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Will have to do some reading to see what's changed in last few years. I admit I have not kept up with it.

BtrFS has been the "future" filesystem for Linux for years. But it's not been far enough along for most places to put into production yet. It's just getting to that point, now. That's why it is going to desktops, but not servers, at this point. This is the stage prior to it starting to replace XFS and EXT4 in production servers.

We had it in production here on several systems. We suffered no end of FS corruption, and snapshots that won't delete for various reasons...systems randomly hanging and going down... We've upgraded all of the systems to newer OSes and use EXT4.

@Obsolesce said in Searching for text in file:

@dafyre said in Searching for text in file:

@Pete-S said in Searching for text in file:

If you have a text file that looks like this:

start_folder='/folder1/abc.txt'
iterations='123'
passphrase='xyz'
last_command='invoke'
return_value='0'

How can you pick out just xyz when looking for "passphrase"?

I know grep will get me the line but what should I use if I want just a part of the line?
Can it be done in one command or do I have to pipe several together?

If you the text has a character that would be a good delimiter, you can pipe grep to cut... ie:

cat myfile.txt|grep "iterations"|cut -d '=' -f 2
Output:
'123'

the -f # is which column you want.

There may be other ways to do it, but that's the first way I can think of.

You can specify a file with grep, no need to pipe in from cat.

This is true! I always seem to get it backwards when I do that, so i just cat $thefile | grep | blah ... Cuts down on frustration, ha ha.

@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Fedora 33 & BTRFS default

Desktop only at this stage(?)

I haven't used BTRFS in a long time... My advise is run... as far and as fast as you can, lol.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

with the whole "Mask Debate" going on, you'd think this is all people would need to start wearing a mask..

https://i.imgur.com/TmhKrkp.png !

Or the government to suddenly declare that the kung flu has mysteriously disappeared.

I'd laugh if that was the case. hah

Me too. Although, I would take my tin foil hat off long enough to put a good hazmat suit on.

But ONLY long enough to put on a good Hazmat suit. Then It goes right back on.

Exactly.