Re: Next openSUSE

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:21 +0200, houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Happy Oyster wrote:
Also I would not copy. I would use `dd`.

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

Then use a real backup program.

No. I take pieces (directory trees) and copy them manually.


That said, you are NOT tmaking a good
backup. Look at programs that are able to to incremental backups.
A LOT faster if you take something I use. Use google to find out what
that is if you are interested.

An incremental backup I MUST NOT MAKE. One of the important parameters is dates.
The directory trees contain time data.


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.

So? There are better ways to do it.

Not for my tasks.


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.

It isn't and should not be done by anybody who is not willing to admit
he is a system administrator.

Well, those ordinary folks, who put in a DVD, click on "install" (or the system
starts automatically after insertion), think that they can handle all and that
installation is soooooo very simple.


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

Strange area...

First time I heard of Europe being an area.

Now, which country by law requires help desks?


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,

Yes they are (obviously we are talking about people who help with
computer related issues)

which does
trouble-shooting,

Trouble shooting to help the customer or collegue to get its PC working.
If you call the helpdesk of your provider, they will help you to get
online and send an email. Or if you call the helpdesk from Dell, they
will help you to re-install your system (and perhaps loosing all the
data you did not back up)

and which finds solutions for the bugs etc of the application
programs.

No, that is the development department.

Well, that also was our job.


And, often, teaches use of the application programs.

No, that is the training department.

We also did that.


And seprately there are the sysadmins.

Us.


I have worked in various companies, many of them extremely close to the
IT industry and depending of the size, you would have helpdesk,
development department, training department, systems department.

Sometimes they overlap, sometimes it was the same 3 guys doing
everything. And sometimes there were even more sub-departments involved.

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

Darn, there was no Intertubes?

Did not help...


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.

Well, you said that you had no Usenet, so I asumed they closed port 119,
because there are free servers available. It looks as if the complaint
about not having Usenet is actualy you not willing to use it.
Do not blame things on ithers if you are the ource of why things do not
work.

You do not get it: They do not offer usenet access via servers of their own.


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)

Google for that information.

?


Like working on text files with 15,000 lines.
<snip>
And 15.000 lines in a textfile? vim does not care how large the file is.


vi and the like I do not like.


I used kwrite for it. Works.

So why give it as an example of things that do not work well?

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.

I know of plenty of people who wor with even larger amout of files and
data. So? You know different people then I do (I also know people who do
not even own a computer)

Very funny.


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.

You mean as a profession? I could not care less if it is a terroris
group, the governement or my little sister. It is THEIR server and if
they do not want me there that is THEIR choice.

You do not get it: We write about these guys.


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

If you talk about pictures on a website, then you realy need glasses.

A picture contains details or text, which in too small enlargement are no
decipherable. It is as easy as that.


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.

Then you either edited the standard CSS or are doing something wrong pr
go to sites that have bad CSS.

No. Perhaps the CSS changed something, and this stayed. I did not do anything.


But we have to archive them as piece of proof.

The way it looks how you handle it, I would not call it 'proof'.

You have no clues...


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.

As I said, you do not know how to do it. hat makes the rest of the
'proof' even less usable. Incompetence is what I would call it.

You do not get it. I use Opera, and that way it works.


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.

OK, my bad, I thought you were doing the MLM.

No. Without boasting I can say that we have the number 1 web-sites concerning
MLM in German speaking countries. Our pages are a must to read for the MLM-ers.


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

If that is the time of files you want and need to put into one
directory, then you are doing it wrong.

Time? You mean "type"? The raw data was harvested by the "army of the ants" and
deposited in subdirectories. Up to 100,000 files per subdirectory are possible.
To have more is hell.

After harvesting the files were ploughed through with some very primitive Perl
scripts to search for the key items we need to compile the lists.


Data like that should be put in a database. Most likely that goes the
same for all the thousands of files you are talking about as well.

No. It is essential to keep the originals. They are stored on HDDs and in many
cases directory-trees are zipped to save space and to avoid overcrowding with
files.


Learn MySQL (and PHP) and you will make it yourself much easier. The
right tool for the right job.

No, this is s must NOT to do. After harvesting and compiling the lists the
originals are stored. That is all.

Then there is the description (article) about the matter and putting together
the web page.

--
Brettl, die eine Welt bedeuten

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