@travisdh1 said in Grub Entries cleanup and maintenance:

@DustinB3403 You never touch grub yourself. You let the system take care of it for you when it adds or removes kernels.

As to removing old kernels, it depends on the distribution you use. A good distro just takes care of this for you. The annoying ones make you do it manually.

RedHat/CentOS/Fedora = automatically cleans up older kernels. You don't do anything and it will keep a sane number by default. I think it's 4 and a recovery option.

Debian/Ubuntu = keeps all kernels till you manually remove them. I forget offhand what the command is besides it's an option for apt.

This is one reason I'm happily moving things from the old rental box to my new server for my home lab. The old rental box has Ubuntu with a tiny little 256MB /boot partition. It can keep ~3 kernels, and that's it, ugh!

You can install without /boot. IIRC there is a other config change with unattended-upgrades to auto remove kernels.

@Romo said in Something not said enough;:

@gjacobse said in Something not said enough;:

Thank you - I feel that I have continued to learn from input from a number of people...

@scottalanmiller
@JaredBusch
@travisdh1
@DustinB3403

and a number of other people...

So - I express my thanks.

I would like to jump on the thank you train and extend my gratitude for those four as well and would like to include @stacksofplates. You're posts are super helpful and insightful =). Thank you, everybody, for all the knowledge and contributions!!

Of course I would also like to thank you @gjacobse for all the help you have provided with all NTG related things as well

Aw shucks.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I had that car. Ball joint broke and that exact thing happened to me.

I wrote a utility in Go to get unique strings like the uniq utility. The plus side to mine is you don't need to sort the input, it's faster, and cross platform. You can run over stdin or a file.

https://gitlab.com/hooksie1/goniq

Here's a timed run with 2,799,264 words. It's a list of 466,544 words repeated 6 times.

time sort allwords.txt | uniq
sort allwords.txt  6.58s user 0.21s system 127% cpu 5.348 total
uniq  2.88s user 0.79s system 68% cpu 5.347 total

time goniq allwords.txt
goniq allwords.txt  1.96s user 0.81s system 114% cpu 2.428 total

But even with a sorted list it's still faster:

uniq allwordssorted.txt  2.90s user 0.73s system 99% cpu 3.651 total

goniq allwordssorted.txt  1.66s user 0.74s system 120% cpu 1.986 total

@scottalanmiller said in vTigerCRM Installation - Troubleshooting:

vTiger seemed like a decently dead CRM tool many years ago. It is not very actively maintained, from what I know. It's part of the SugarCRM fork family, all of which have essentially died. None of which were every all that good.

Yeah I thought SuiteCRM was the replacement for Sugar.

@scottalanmiller said in Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead:

@pmoncho said in Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead:

@scottalanmiller said in Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead:

@pmoncho said in Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead:

@mlnews said in Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead:

Comcast offered to wire up Charlemont, Mass. for $462,000—town said, "no."

A small Massachusetts town has rejected an offer from Comcast and instead plans to build a municipal fiber broadband network.

Comcast offered to bring cable Internet to up to 96 percent of households in Charlemont in exchange for the town paying $462,123 plus interest toward infrastructure costs over 15 years. But Charlemont residents rejected the Comcast offer in a vote at a special town meeting Thursday.

"The Comcast proposal would have saved the town about $1 million, but it would not be a town-owned broadband network," the Greenfield Recorder reported Friday. "The defeated measure means that Charlemont will likely go forward with a $1.4 million municipal town network, as was approved by annual town meeting voters in 2015."

About 160 residents voted, with 56 percent rejecting the Comcast offer, according to news reports.

Using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemont,_Massachusetts

With so few homes, the % needed to keep costs down may be hard to reach with a median income of $50K per household and 10% of the population around the poverty line.

I sure hope it works out for them though.

Only $833 / person in one time construction costs. Assume that's $3300 / household to cover.

Comcast would likely be something like $90/mo and this will likely cost more like $10/mo (in taxes, direct fees, whatever.) That would suggest that it would pay for itself in four years, and be a massive cost savings for the poor after that.

And that's assuming no businesses or grants involved in the process, which might lighten the load considerably. Or if there is cash in the village coffers, then they could avoid interest and it would be closer to three years to pay off.

I unless I misunderstood, the town will still charge $79 a month and $99 if only 40% adoption.

$79 for Gigabit, not $200 for 100Mb/s or whatever with caps that Comcast does. My family in Houston pays hundreds and gets flaky service and can't even download Steam games at Christmas without paying penalty fees.

They might offer way cheaper for people not wanting Gigabit speeds. It's still a massive gap over Comcast. And if they got the penetration, they were paying for the construction entirely from the subscriber fees.

I don't like Comcast but we never have issues like that. Ours is $85 a month for 200 down. It's been very very reliable.

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

@stacksofplates said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

@dyasny said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

Glad to see you stopped being such a die hard Xen fan I remember you fighting tooth and nail against KVM on spice forums.

Not so much a fan, as choosing the best products at the best time. Xen was superior for a long time. KVM had a lot of deficiencies. KVM has pulled ahead in a lot of ways. I don't choose or promote products because I like them, I do so because I believe that they are fitting the specific need best.

That means, that naturally, as the products change over time their place in the universe changes. And nothing is for everyone. Xen still remains a viable player, KVM just makes sense for more shops, more of the time.

KVM has been the same since ~2013 she I started with it. The only difference is Cockpit. All the other tools have existed for quite some time.

Under the hood to some degree, but tooling and market support have changed a lot. KVM was doing okay, but wasn't the big leader in 2013 like it is now. It's place in the market is important, too.

What tooling? Libguestfs, virsh, and Virt-Manager have been around forever.

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

@dyasny said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

Glad to see you stopped being such a die hard Xen fan I remember you fighting tooth and nail against KVM on spice forums.

Not so much a fan, as choosing the best products at the best time. Xen was superior for a long time. KVM had a lot of deficiencies. KVM has pulled ahead in a lot of ways. I don't choose or promote products because I like them, I do so because I believe that they are fitting the specific need best.

That means, that naturally, as the products change over time their place in the universe changes. And nothing is for everyone. Xen still remains a viable player, KVM just makes sense for more shops, more of the time.

KVM has been the same since ~2013 she I started with it. The only difference is Cockpit. All the other tools have existed for quite some time.

@scottalanmiller said in Safe to have a 48TB Windows volume?:

NTFS has improved a lot over the years. This is definitely a big volume for NTFS to handle. ZFS is better designed for volumes of this size.

You are correct, with your triple mirrored (and hot spare!) setup, it's your filesystem, not your array, that you have to worry about. You have definitely managed to shift the risk from the RAID to the FS.

This isn't insanely big, but certainly having Windows managing storage always gives me a little moment of pause. Storage is not their strong suit and has weakened, rather than improving, in recent years. ReFS has had issues, the recent releases have had their own issues even with NTFS, and their software RAID has had big time issues (you aren't using that here, so not applicable either.) But this is just generally an area that Microsoft struggles with and doesn't tend to see as critical so seems to mostly poo-poo reliability concerns to focus on other areas.

If I was doing storage this large, I would almost certainly be using XFS on hardware RAID based on your setup. XFS is faster than NTFS, and pretty much bullet proof.

I agree. Last place I worked we did 96TB arrays on RAID 10 with XFS.

@JaredBusch said in Bi-Directional GIT:

@scottalanmiller said in Bi-Directional GIT:

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I think the "proper" way is sub modules or something like that. I looked into this once a while ago when designing a git structure for one of our web service projects.

Depends what you want. If you just want the remote repo then use a subtree. If you want a specific commit from another repo then use a submodule.