On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 2018-04-08 04:21 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > and there's this near the top:
> >
> > KUBERNETES_RELEASE_URL="${KUBERNETES_RELEASE_URL:-https://dl.k8s.io}";
> >
> > ok, that will admitt
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 2018-04-08 04:21 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > not sure if i'm reading a shell script properly ... here's a script
> > for downloading and installing kubernetes:
> >
> > https://get.kubernetes.io/
>
not sure if i'm reading a shell script properly ... here's a script
for downloading and installing kubernetes:
https://get.kubernetes.io/
but it seems to be doing strange (messy) things with parameter
substitution.
first, there's this bit of weirdness partway through the script:
if [[
digging through the build system for the hyperledger fabric
distributed ledger technology, and noticed something in the Makefile
i'd never seen before that took me a couple seconds to recognize:
.PHONY: clean
clean: docker-clean unit-test-clean release-clean
-@rm -rf build ||:
.P
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 16/03/18 Robert P. J. Day said:
>
> > again, as i mentioned, i do understand the value of xargs
> > because of the plethora of useful "tricks" like the above, but
> > those features aside, the basic question i
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, James wrote:
> It is necessary for running a command on all files matching a
> pattern.
i'm pretty sure that's not true.
> Wildcarding substitutes the full file names of each matching result
> of the wildcard on the command line. Thousands of matching
> names/paths can eas
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:59:53 -0400
> "Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
>
> > On 16/03/18 Robert P. J. Day said:
> >
> > > course i taught recently had a section on "xargs", emphasizing
> > > its
course i taught recently had a section on "xargs", emphasizing its
value(?) in being able to run a command in bite-size pieces but, these
days, is that really that much of an issue?
IIRC (and i might not), the historical limiting factor for command
line length was the limit of an internal buf
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Rick Leir wrote:
> Robert
> I am not close to my console, so this is a guess..
> What is in your
> /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf file?
i have no such file.
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 07:03:55 -0400 (EDT)
> "Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> >
> > > On 2018-03-14 05:22 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > >
> > >
just noticed something odd ... on my fedora 27 system, the man page
for sysctl reads under PARAMETERS:
variable=value
To set a key, use the form variable=value where variable is the key
and value is the value to set it to. If the value contains quotes or
characters whi
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 2018-03-14 05:22 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > obviously, it's not a big deal since both /usr/bin and /usr/sbin are
> > part of the normal search path for even regular users,
>
> Only on an improperly configu
more nitpicky pedantry, but i was summarizing some handy system H/W
utilities and noticed that, while lsusb and lspci philosophically do
the same thing (that is, display system info), on my fedora system,
they are installed differently:
$ type lsusb
lsusb is /usr/bin/lsusb
$ type lspci
was recently asked if i could teach a course to prepare some folks
to write the RHCSA (red hat certified sys admin) exam, so i was
reviewing the official list of what they would need to know here:
https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/ex200-red-hat-certified-system-administrator-rhcsa-exa
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2018-03-06 05:35, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > course i taught last week provided courseware that distinguished
> > between grep's basic RE support and "extended" RE support, which
> > surprised m
course i taught last week provided courseware that distinguished
between grep's basic RE support and "extended" RE support, which
surprised me as, on my fedora 27 system, the man page for grep has the
following snippets:
"In addition, the variant programs egrep and fgrep are the same as
grep -E
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 2018-02-23 02:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i can't believe i've never noticed the 'X' (upper case) permission
> > setting for the chmod command, explained thusly in the man page:
> >
> &
i'm just a bit puzzled.
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
>
> > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days?
> > tar? rsync? amanda?
>
> I use rsync.
i'll keep track of the r
iscourage people from using it.
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after dragging in three boxes of stuff last night to OCLUG meeting,
i was left with just a couple dev kits and a couple books. i still
have a fair bit more i'm pawing through, i may have another pile of
stuff to give away at the next meeting as well.
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the appropriate door to pull up to briefly this evening where i can
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currently ripping my girifriend's entire CD collection to FLAC
format and, naturally, she wants to be able to take some significant
subset of that with her on her travels. i'm ripping to FLAC as i want
to, at some point, set up an in-home (linux-based) music server and,
from FLAC, i can always d
On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 2018-02-03 04:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > currently rewriting my C++ courses from some time back, and wanted
> > to demonstrate a simply narrowing error; to wit:
> >
> > int
> > main()
> > {
...
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currently rewriting my C++ courses from some time back, and wanted
to demonstrate a simply narrowing error; to wit:
int
main()
{
bool b1 {true};
bool b2 {false};
bool b3 {7};// narrowing error?
int i {42};
int j {42.1}; // narrowing error?
}
odd
a couple friends who are business-savvy but not tech-savvy have
asked me to explain blockchains to them, and i'm embarrassed to admit
i haven't dug into that deeply, so i figured i might as well figure it
out ... i've found a number of what look like passable online
tutorials, wondering if anyon
t see an attachment.
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imited by
the throughput of the USB port and i'm currently doing it the slowest
way possible.
thoughts?
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clearly didn't work with a major linux distro.
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reminder that this friday is free pizza lunch at
http://www.thecodefactory.ca/ downtown, where i will regale one and
all with a 1-hour tutorial on git, so if you have friends or
colleagues who work downtown who would be interested, let them know
and somehow keep me in the loop so we know how muc
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 2017-11-22 06:14 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i'm teaching 5 days worth of C++11 in january, already been handed
> > the courseware, and i'd like to put together a page of quality links
> > to C++11/
, but if people have some recommendations, that would be just
ducky. thank you kindly.
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we have enough pizza and drinks
to go around.
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2017-09-20 07:17, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > On 2017-09-20 04:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > &
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>
> > On 2017-09-20 04:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > > in short, at least for this camera, i absolutely require an
> > > android or iphone with the d-link app fo
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2017-09-20 04:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > in short, at least for this camera, i absolutely require an
> > android or iphone with the d-link app for the initial
> > configuration, which is kind of a pain, unless i hav
for this camera, i absolutely require an android
or iphone with the d-link app for the initial configuration, which is
kind of a pain, unless i have this completely wrong.
am i at least understanding all this correctly?
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.gitignore files once that build is done and display the .gitignore
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ion of /subdir was added by that single
commit, would this do what it appears to do? or am i making this too
difficult?
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will now continue poring over the docs, and if anyone wants to
provide a link to a really good tutorial on git filter-branch apart
from the standard docs, feel free.
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can anyone point to an example
in the kernel code that is that specific?
in any event, i'm fairly convinced that that is a really bad idea,
but just wondering if it's possible.
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ontent of the omap2420-n800.dts file.
would it make any sense to not have at least that content in a .dts
file?
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, boundary
devices, renesas, qualcomm ... quite the collective of people
co-operating to make this happen.
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ftware is
based on openembedded/yocto project, the downloadable S/W is here:
https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/source-code#download_master_branch
so anyone can peruse, download and build the code themselves.
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but surely there's a simpler way, no?
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g just the current pages.
i suspect i haven't specified all the info necessary to get a
meaningful answer to this, so any guidance would be appreciated. where
should i start?
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remembered passwords? just curious.
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uages are we talking about here?
c? c++? perl? python? java? you'll need to provide more info.
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cleaning out the place, and have, literally, bags of net and USB
cables and other stuff. is there a geek-oriented charity i can dump
this with that could make use of it?
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that does this.
thoughts?
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that might not be true if i add several remotes.)
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hes from the remote. so why is it referred to as a
"dry run" when stuff is actually being fetched? that seems just a tad
misleading.
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i mean, other than actual submodules, if one wants to lock a number
of git repos together with versioning, are submodules generally
considered adequate? i've heard a lot of dissatisfaction with
submodules, and a few people have recommended moving up to using
"repo" to accomplish the same thing.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:52:59AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision
> > symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that
> > me
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?"
> > now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract
> >
embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision
symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that
mentioned anywhere.
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ure
why people *need* that sort of info.
in any event, any thoughts on the sorts of things people do with
other VCSes for which there is no immediate git counterpart, but for
which there is no comprehensible need to do that in the first place?
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:43:34AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > (side note: currently updating all my git wiki pages and tutorials,
> > so i'll be asking a number of questions about git, including
> > apparently trivial
ork but, theoretically, it
might be possible to still have some sort of distributed operation
where you don't have the entire repo history on your local machine.
thoughts?
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don't know if that's entirely current, so what is the current
best practices for getting git on mac and windows from people actually
using it on those platforms? thanks muchly.
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to securely download those images (if, in fact,
they even *need* security). i'm still pondering the possibilities.
more in a bit.
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> roland
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
>
> (if there is an obvious solution to this, then i&#x
oading the base linux distro doesn't
need to be that secure as it's just linux, but once that remote
install comes up for the first time, it can (somehow securely)
download the proprietary app.
am i overthinking this? is there a simply solution i'm
t order that
SM951, and i'll sell this one for $300, which is a pretty decent
discount over the current $459 amazon.ca price.
let me know if you're interested.
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ies the same thing?
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just ducky. depending on the work
involved, there might be some consulting work here, but i can't make
that kind of promise.
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once upon a time, some poor sod submitted a patch to add keyword
expansion to git ... unsurprisingly, it did not end well.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44750/focus=44762
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be a better question would be, if you're a
linux developer that's worked on various linux projects (particularly
kernel or embedded based), what things would you have changed at your
various contracts in order to be more productive?
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l header files, which
strikes me as kind of a chaotic situation.
perhaps there's a build environment design for which that makes
sense, but it strikes me as completely unpredictable if others are
allowed to make changes to header file override directories that will
affect *your* build.
thoughts?
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to inherit/extend existing strings, wouldn't you
think? or maybe not if you wanted to include a .dtsi file and
explicitly *break* some compatibility.
so i'm assuming there's nothing magic about the "compatible" node in
that it doesn't automat
one git repo's "dependence" on another?
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belonged elsewhere.
is it just me, or do other people think this is a useful operation?
and is there an even simpler way to do it?
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On Tue, 10 May 2016, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 16/05/10, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > SCENARIO: most recent 5 commits on a clean, linear history branch:
> >
> > ... X <--- A <--- B <--- C <--- D <--- E (HEAD)
> >
> > suddenly, i
if it originated at X; isn't that
just a regular rebase? thoughts?
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've needed that particular bit of magic.
likely more questions coming shortly ...
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ople never bothered to test it because they still
> like supporting insane things like NFS 3.
i recall asking very much this question way back in 2013:
http://marc.info/?t=13875500889&r=1&w=2
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that will be searched first before returning to the current directory.
thoughts? i can see the options "-isystem" and "-isysroot", so i'm
wondering if that's the solution. if there is another solution, feel
free to let me know.
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a minor curiosity about labels in DTS files ... as an example, let's pick
on some powerpc 8544-related files under arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl, and show
some snippets:
mpc8544ds.dts:
=
/include/ "mpc8544si-pre.dtsi"< irrelevant
/ {
model = "MPC8544DS";
co
has anyone local set up a relatively full-featured development environment
using products from atlassian? https://www.atlassian.com/
they have a ton of products but, from my perspective, i'm interested in
anyone who's set up, minimally, bitbucket for version control, and jira
for issue tracki
Quoting Spencer Cheng :
On Jan 30, 2016, at 9:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(frighteningly, my new laptop has two slots ... oh, the temptation)
It’s only money, right? :-)
anyway, are there other sources i should be checking out? is that
a reasonable price for that drive? and so on and
now that i resolved the issue i was having with the M.2 SSD drive i
bought for my new laptop (had SATA interface, laptop takes PCIe), any
recommendations on such things, either locally or online?
i know they're not going to be cheap -- PCIe interface seems to run
about double the price of equ
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arrrggghhh ... never mind, spencer cheng asked the right question, as in
what interface it uses. the laptop has PCIe slots, but the SSD uses a
SATA III interface. can't believe i didn't notice that, bu
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