What Are You Doing Right Now
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And another micro SD card (in a RPi3) is going the way of all mortal beings... :cross:
Began with some cryptic error from dpkg which turned out to be a filesystem warning (structure needs cleaning), did an fsck and now the card is dead. Still booting up to some point until it starts to complain about bad ELF headers
SD cards for operating systems are such a bad idea... I'm thinking about just using cheap SD cards in the future which will hold /boot, everything else will be on a USB thumb drive. Or I will use another platform in the future, Banana Pi for example is a far superior platform overall: SATA, NIC not attached via USB 2, WiFi onboard...
SD cards are generally fine or even great of OSes. But you can't be writing to them, especially for logging. If you make sure that you are using an OS designed for this kind of use (a Live one) or you modify one for this use, they are very reliable.
Sure, they are fine for readonly access. I think I will build something myself, unionfs based maybe (or some successor).
Yup, which is how things being installed to them should be. Same as running off of a LiveCD or LiveDVD which are not even writeable.
But he was trying to install XenServer... Isn't that one of the Hypervisors that everybody has been telling us should be run from an SD card? ... I wonder if it could be an issue with XS7?
Yes BUT requires that you modify it so as not to write locally. You can't skip that part.
I was under the impression that XS takes that into account when installing to SD, etc.
Nope
So the question is @scottalanmiller when are we going to see a guide on how to easily redirect all logging to a remote location?
Isn't Xen running on top of some Linux kernel? Something like rsyslog should do the job just fine in this case.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And another micro SD card (in a RPi3) is going the way of all mortal beings... :cross:
Began with some cryptic error from dpkg which turned out to be a filesystem warning (structure needs cleaning), did an fsck and now the card is dead. Still booting up to some point until it starts to complain about bad ELF headers
SD cards for operating systems are such a bad idea... I'm thinking about just using cheap SD cards in the future which will hold /boot, everything else will be on a USB thumb drive. Or I will use another platform in the future, Banana Pi for example is a far superior platform overall: SATA, NIC not attached via USB 2, WiFi onboard...
SD cards are generally fine or even great of OSes. But you can't be writing to them, especially for logging. If you make sure that you are using an OS designed for this kind of use (a Live one) or you modify one for this use, they are very reliable.
Sure, they are fine for readonly access. I think I will build something myself, unionfs based maybe (or some successor).
Yup, which is how things being installed to them should be. Same as running off of a LiveCD or LiveDVD which are not even writeable.
But he was trying to install XenServer... Isn't that one of the Hypervisors that everybody has been telling us should be run from an SD card? ... I wonder if it could be an issue with XS7?
Yes BUT requires that you modify it so as not to write locally. You can't skip that part.
I was under the impression that XS takes that into account when installing to SD, etc.
Nope
So the question is @scottalanmiller when are we going to see a guide on how to easily redirect all logging to a remote location?
Isn't Xen running on top of some Linux kernel? Something like rsyslog should do the job just fine in this case.
The LOGGING of XenServer is running on CentOS, Xen itself runs right on the bare metal.
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In theory someone tried the syslog redirection and it failed.
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@scottalanmiller said
In theory someone tried the syslog redirection and it failed.
Someone, someone.
I'd love to get some more info on this. It's been bugging me for some time now.
Can we start a thread for it?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And another micro SD card (in a RPi3) is going the way of all mortal beings... :cross:
Began with some cryptic error from dpkg which turned out to be a filesystem warning (structure needs cleaning), did an fsck and now the card is dead. Still booting up to some point until it starts to complain about bad ELF headers
SD cards for operating systems are such a bad idea... I'm thinking about just using cheap SD cards in the future which will hold /boot, everything else will be on a USB thumb drive. Or I will use another platform in the future, Banana Pi for example is a far superior platform overall: SATA, NIC not attached via USB 2, WiFi onboard...
SD cards are generally fine or even great of OSes. But you can't be writing to them, especially for logging. If you make sure that you are using an OS designed for this kind of use (a Live one) or you modify one for this use, they are very reliable.
Sure, they are fine for readonly access. I think I will build something myself, unionfs based maybe (or some successor).
Yup, which is how things being installed to them should be. Same as running off of a LiveCD or LiveDVD which are not even writeable.
But he was trying to install XenServer... Isn't that one of the Hypervisors that everybody has been telling us should be run from an SD card? ... I wonder if it could be an issue with XS7?
Yes BUT requires that you modify it so as not to write locally. You can't skip that part.
I was under the impression that XS takes that into account when installing to SD, etc.
Nope
So the question is @scottalanmiller when are we going to see a guide on how to easily redirect all logging to a remote location?
Isn't Xen running on top of some Linux kernel? Something like rsyslog should do the job just fine in this case.
The LOGGING of XenServer is running on CentOS, Xen itself runs right on the bare metal.
Ah sure, Xen is a Type 1 hypervisor... stupid me
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Just hit random on my MP3 folder.....listen to some tunes before home time (in 10mins)
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I'm wondering if this is true...
http://fossbytes.com/rip-debian-linux-founder-ian-murdock-dies-probable-suicide-twitter/
Has anybody else heard about this?
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just hit random on my MP3 folder.....listen to some tunes before home time (in 10mins)
Harrrr... You are on GMT, right? I'm already at home. Sad thing is, I'll be at work on Monday one hour before you
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering if this is true...
http://fossbytes.com/rip-debian-linux-founder-ian-murdock-dies-probable-suicide-twitter/
Has anybody else heard about this?
Yes, it was a scary story. If I remember correctly including some police officers harassing him or something like that.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Harrrr... You are on GMT, right? I'm already at home. Sad thing is, I'll be at work on Monday one hour before you
Yeah in Wales UK
have seen a few posts when you mentioned the time lol we're on Summer time at the mo -
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Harrrr... You are on GMT, right? I'm already at home. Sad thing is, I'll be at work on Monday one hour before you
Yeah in Wales UK
have seen a few posts when you mentioned the time lol we're on Summer time at the moThat isn't too far away, maybe we'll have a drink one day
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Harrrr... You are on GMT, right? I'm already at home. Sad thing is, I'll be at work on Monday one hour before you
Yeah in Wales UK
have seen a few posts when you mentioned the time lol we're on Summer time at the moThat isn't too far away, maybe we'll have a drink one day
On the other hand... Do I need a visa for the UK now?
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Scrolling through my games and some online stores like Steam and GOG and don't know what to play.
Maybe C&C Generals Zero Hour once again?
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Story of my gaming life... scrolling through games not knowing what to play.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Story of my gaming life... scrolling through games not knowing what to play.
yepp...
Or maybe something like Wing Commander Privateer or Freelancer. Both are great games. Is there something comparable?
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Some days I leave ML feeling like I contributed and learned.
Today is not one of those days!
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Some days I leave ML feeling like I contributed and learned.
Today is not one of those days!
Why not? You learned something about Linux and its flavors today.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Story of my gaming life... scrolling through games not knowing what to play.
yepp...
Or maybe something like Wing Commander Privateer or Freelancer. Both are great games. Is there something comparable?
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Oh how much I love the Origin client... "Download queued", "Update queued"... and stuck.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Story of my gaming life... scrolling through games not knowing what to play.
yepp...
Or maybe something like Wing Commander Privateer or Freelancer. Both are great games. Is there something comparable?
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Oh how much I love the Origin client... "Download queued", "Update queued"... and stuck.
But I really love SysInternals tools: Origins download cache was pointing to an external USB harddrive that wasn't attached to my PC. Couldn't change the cache location in the client because it tried to delete files in the old cache before moving to the new location. Poor application design.
