What Are You Doing Right Now
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So used to Windows using / for switches on the command line.
The moronic decisions of Gary Kildall and everyone else that decided to copy the command syntax of OpenVMS and RDOS rather than something a bit more logical like Unix. Not to mention busted ass syntax made worse even today with PowerShell... great, commands with hyphens, that's not irritating at all. Maybe let's copy bash or something, oh no let's instead really mess things up even more and invent something worse.
Also with classic DOS, you want to run it in the background? Can't use &, instead && is used as a command separator. Essentially the bad syntax choices made early on made it to where every additional change was equally terrible or made even worse.
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@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So used to Windows using / for switches on the command line.
The moronic decisions of Gary Kildall and everyone else that decided to copy the command syntax of OpenVMS and RDOS rather than something a bit more logical like Unix. Not to mention busted ass syntax made worse even today with PowerShell... great, commands with hyphens, that's not irritating at all. Maybe let's copy bash or something, oh no let's instead really mess things up even more and invent something worse.
Also with classic DOS, you want to run it in the background? Can't use &, instead && is used as a command separator. Essentially the bad syntax choices made early on made it to where every additional change was equally terrible or made even worse.
I think VMS copied Kildall. C/PM was 1974, VMS was 1977.
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@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think VMS copied Kildall. C/PM was 1974, VMS was 1977.
Yes, you are correct. In either case, he still at least copied RDOS. What's astonishing to me about the whole thing is we know that people were aware of Unix and its well thought out approach to CLI, or even Multics, et al. I imagine though OpenVMS probably copied RDOS.
I recall reading something many years ago where Bill Gates mentioned the superior command syntax of Unix (after all Microsoft had their own version of Unix, Xenix) but they had to remain mostly-compatible with CP/M for competitive reasons.
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Hanging put with the kiddo.
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Learning something new with lxc.
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/forward-port-80-and-443-from-wan-to-container/2042/2 -
Dealing with a Zimbra outage.
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Making some coffee.
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Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.
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Finally drinking my coffee.
Kids are just waking up now, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.
Services?
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@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.
Services?
Several services were not running, that is correct.
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@Dominica just made chocolate chip cookies.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to figure out how to install MeshAgent without logging into user machines.
PDQ deploy?
Like GPO, I have that in one place, but not all.
The only thing I have every place is ScreenConnect.
I can download the Agent easily.
I can execute it, and a MeshAgent.exe process shows up.
But nothing hits the console.
The ScreenConnect session is not a full environment. I do a lot with it, but never tried this before.
Are there commandline options that allow it to install silently? If it's not hiting your console, I'm assuming is requiring user interaction on the desktop by the default installer?
That was it.. Command line for windows was a
-installand not a/installand I needed to use-fullinstallto make it work.Winner Winner Chicken dinner
So used to Windows using
/for switches on the command line.Which is hilarious, I remember you berating me for this very thing in the past.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.
Services?
Several services were not running, that is correct.
Did it just restart the services by a scritp?
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.
Services?
Several services were not running, that is correct.
Did it just restart the services by a scritp?
No. It couldn't come back up on its own.
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Dominica just broke one of our classic Ithaca Brewery glasses that we've had since ~2001.
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Dominica is making homemade ice cream now.
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Midwest Meetup (multiple SpiceCorp meetup)
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Listening to the Dell rep
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