Re: Next openSUSE

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:09:25 +0200, houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Happy Oyster wrote:
I copy the whole data contents of a HDD to a larger HDD, say from 160 GigaByte
to 1 TeraByte.

And how often do you do that?

Every now and then.


Also I would not copy. I would use `dd`.

That will not do because I add the new stuff on the backup drive.


Try copying /proc is a pain and /dev/null contains so much garbage that
it take too long.
So how often? If once, use sudo, if often, edit /etc/sudoers

What backup program did you use?

No special program. Just an ordinary copy of whole directory trees with
contents.

So you did not take a backup but a copy and now you complain that the
backup is corrupt? I used a hammer to clean my windows and now I can
complain that the window is broken? Use the right tool for the right
job. If you do not know how to do that, don't do the job.

The situation is very simple: take portions or all of a small HDD and copy it to
a big one. All the files later have to be accessible with normal programs.


You say it! ;O) He was told to ask me before trying it.

He was informed wrongly. If somebody asks me something about Windows,
because I am a geek and know about computers, I do not advice them,
except for the fact to go look for help. (Both for the problem and
mental)

Well, we'll see what he does... It is his texts, which are gone...



The main problem is that people WOULD learn IF they were told how the real thing
is.

No, people won't, unless they have an interest in it.

If people to not see, because they are not SHOWN, they have no idea what EDP is
like and does. Also, a good teacher attracts their interest by showing them
thing in an interesting way.


When I taught EDP, I had no problems teaching ordinary housewives to read
hex. It is only a matter of HOW one explains things.

No, the first step is interest invested in the person. Everybody can be
taught to be an automechanic, just not everybody has the interest in
doing it.

Except for some very few exceptions I think that all of them have no fear to
vivisect a PC. Many problems with ourdinary users are caused by fear to touch
the computer ... "something might go wrong". Some persons even get hysterical
about it.

Yes and that is a GOOD thing. That is also the dfifference between being
a user and a sysadmin. With sysadmin comes responsabilty that many
people try to avoid by saying that they are not a sysadmin.

You never tried to teach EDP?


Installing an OS and maintaining it is NOT something for the standard
user. I do not maintain my car. The only things I do myself is wash it,
put gasoline in it, water for the windows and air for the tires. For all
the rest (including changing and adding oil) I go to somebody who knows
what he is doing.

You say it. Tell someone you know how to install a problem. He looks at you if
you are an idiot.

I do not say how to install anything. Either they ask me on how to do it
or I do it myself. I go with the "Buy pre-installed" idea.

Sorry, made a typo. Should be:

You say it. Tell someone you know how to install, is a problem. He looks at you
if you are an idiot.

People think that installing is child's play.


Why would I then expect that everybody should be able to administer its
computer. They can't.

Well, this is what help-desks ar for... ;O)

No, they are there because the law requires them. At least where I live.

Strange area...



I use the computer as a tool. For that I must install, maintain and repair
hardware and software. This includes handling all those bugs of hardware, of
installers, of programs, of whatever. If all things would go smoothly, I would
be VERY happy. But they don't...

So you ARE a sysadmin. Why not going to the help-desk for those things
as that is what you believe they are for.


You still do not get it. A help-desk is an office in an organization, which all
day long helps users to get their computers to work, which does
trouble-shooting, and which finds solutions for the bugs etc of the application
programs. And, often, teaches use of the application programs.


If I remember correctly, it was ext3. There had been a Linux on it and the very
same was to be installed. The only thing I wanted to to was to get the partition
table and the fstab to be corrected. Nothing outstanding, just a very simple
task.

I still have never heard of that, not have ever seen that. The only
conclusion I can think of now is a hardware issue.

When it happens the next time, I will try to make screen shots.


Ah, no... ;O) I did not take screen shots. Perhaps the next time. The problem is
to determine what state the installer is in. Would be helpfull if such could be
made.

And why not make them then?

For who? There was no one I could ask. I tried. In vain...


With openSUSE it is possible. PrintScreen
and then save them on a partition that won't be overwritten and you
mount, e.g. a floppy, an external drive, any partition, ...

Thanks.


I and some others are under heavy fire by lots of people who do not like us.
<snip>

No idea what that was all about.



Well, Host-Europe was a good provider. It is a pity they gave up internet access
providing.

If they block port 119 to the ouside world, they are not a good
provider.

They did not block the port. THey have no news-service. So I could not post via
their servers. I would have had to use free servers of pay for, say giganet.


If you store 100,000 files a day, Beagle is too much a burden when it scratches
over the HDD.

I think Beagle is a burden even if you store 1 file per day.

;O)


I do not know what is best for a large number of files. I have to take what I
can handle easily at least cost.

Fast, Good and Cheap, and told to pick any two.


I was told that Linux would be excellent - so I tried it. The first
disappointment was to see that it handles less files in a directory than DOS.

The fact that you tried it is good. The fact that you keep on using it,
even if it does not do what you do is YOUR fault, not the fault of
Linux. Keep using DOS.

DOS has a lot of limits. So I have to take something more capable.


No, I meant personal talks, like by phone, etc.

How many people would comment that their system is running OK? I talk to
several IT people and non has ever said that to me. he same with non-IT
people. Nobody ever told me their system was running OK, unless I
specificaly ask for it.

Where do you live? ;O)


Like downloading 10 million files in a row. Like having 100,000 file sin a
directory. Like having an archive of (zipped) 200 MegaBytes concerning a certain
MLM-scheme.

Like working on text files with 15,000 lines.

I see no problems in any of them. downloading 10 million files is not an
issue. Many files in a directory? Don't use EXT3. 200MB zipped files?
Never had an issue with that.
And 15.000 lines in a textfile? vim does not care how large the file is.

I used kwrite for it. Works.

What I meant: no one else I know handles such large things. Most of the guys
write letters of some few pages. Some write books, but only very few. And THEY
are pure users.


The problem is not with me, but mostly with people who receive links by email,
etc. Some folks we investigate are extremely sharp in looking at their server
reference log... The cookie is not important. important is the domain name.

And the problem with that is? If it is THEIR problem, who cares? If they
don't want you to get some information or even access to their servers,
that is THEIR server and THEY say who gets on it. Just do not go there.

You don't know journalism? We HAVE to go there.


How large is the monitor? On a 17" CRT (which means 16" real) 1280x1024
is indeed too small for many. On a 26" LCD it isn't. Also the distance
is an issue. I can see everything perfectly. People who stand behind me
are unable to read what I am typing now.

The large TFT screens actually blow up. When I used the 22" tube monitor, things
were smal in sice. The older TFTs also have small pixels.

Change your font and/or icons. There are tiny and maxi fonts for that.

The fonts of course I changed. But the problem is not so much the fonts, but the
pictures. THOSE you can't change.


And yes, it is in 90% due to the eyesight of the user that a certain
resolution is selected.

... and some strange things, like the font on the screen suddenly changes. I do
not know how this is done, but the browsers have some weird parameters... The
change does not affect one web-site, but all. So I have to zoom up or down.

I have never ever seen this behaviour, except when I was scrolling and
pressing a mousebutton at the same time.

I do not mean that WITHIN a web-page the change does occur. It occurs when
loading new pages. My guess is that CSS or whatever is causing this bug.


No. ;O) Some weird web-sites have videos, which are nearly impossible to
download.

So? They are intended not to be downloaded, but seen on the site.

But we have to archive them as piece of proof.


But as Opera stores them in the cache, I simply have to look for the
last entries of "type unknown", and copy and rename them. In case of .flv that
works.

With Firefox that is impossible.

No, it is not. You just do not know how to do it.

Why should I enter a database file and saw out some strange video, of which I do
not know the start, the end, if it is there in pieces, etc? There is no use in
it.



My method also has the advantage of being the fastest one possible. I do not
even have to tell the machine to store the stuff, it does so automatically. I
only have to harvest.

Well, you download millions of files, you have problems with servers who
do not want to have you on their site (probably because they do not like
leaching) and you are involved in MLM. Mmm.

There you see 2 examples:

http://www.ariplex.com/ama/ama_gmt1.htm

http://www.ariplex.com/ama/ama_nu21.htm


The MLM-systems do not like us because we crack their scams. The upper file is
about a system which caused a damage of about 150 million US-Dollars.

The second file is about the fastest-growing scam I ever saw. Our web-page gives
the small work ants in the system a key to look into their system. Such a scam
only works if the work ants are kept in the dark and cannot get an overview. Our
page took the whole thing apart. The "ant lists" (called after the little ant
who is the key person in the first list I made) had a bomb effect on the whole
MLM-scene in Germany/Europe: The systems worked like hell to anonymize their
"partners", i.e. they did exactly what we accused them of: to abuse people as
work ants, and then throw them away.

The second file, by the way, is about the largest HTML-page I made. About 4
MegaBytes..., caused a lot of traffic... ;O)

--
Brettl, die eine Welt bedeuten

http://www.ariplex.com/ama/ama_ml39.htm
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