What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
Although on Windows it still isn't clear... but pretends to be. Windows has all the complication of you needing to know everything going on under the hood with all the danger of convoluting it.
Sure, you can mount other drives under a different one, but that's pretty uncommon. Where else have you see it be confusing as to what drive you are on?
I need to qualify something here - when I'm talking about drives in these previous two posts, I'm actually talking about partitions mounted as drive letters in Windows, not actual physical drives.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want. -
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Three different windows, two registry hacks, and a reboot, just in case.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Yeah - I completely agree! I really don't understand why the registry is supposed to be better than old text based config files. Assuming permissions are set correctly you can still easily keep people from messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
There has to be a reason they decided to go that way in Windows 95, but I don't know it.
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Or even quicker
sed -e '/#PermitRootLogin/s/no/yes/g' -e 's/#PermitRootLogin/PermitRootLogin/' -
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Yeah - I completely agree! I really don't understand why the registry is supposed to be better than old text based config files. Assuming permissions are set correctly you can still easily keep people from messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
There has to be a reason they decided to go that way in Windows 95, but I don't know it.
Is it possible to do any kind of version control with Windows? I mean at a basic level you could use git with the /etc/ folder in Linux. How do you track changes in Windows?
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@mlnews said:
I've had a busy morning now that I discovered topic thumbnails!
I set one of those on one of the how to's i wrote. useful
On a side note, I set a header image on my profile. Are those being stored locally?
I know you were wanting to not host things on ML like that.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Yeah - I completely agree! I really don't understand why the registry is supposed to be better than old text based config files. Assuming permissions are set correctly you can still easily keep people from messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
There has to be a reason they decided to go that way in Windows 95, but I don't know it.
Is it possible to do any kind of version control with Windows? I mean at a basic level you could use git with the /etc/ folder in Linux. How do you track changes in Windows?
Version control to what end?
Updating software on Windows is a huge pain in the ass.
There are things like Chocolatey where you can get packages to install a lot of the freeware/shareware applications out there.
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@Dashrender I think he's talking about Git functionality. There are third party applications that you can use for Git functionality in Windows (Tortoise Git, as well as the windows Git binaries), but that is not as useful as it could be since the majority of apps are now storing configuration files off in the registry. Git also does not want to work with the User's Documents folder on Windows (it didn't when I tried it!).
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Yeah - I completely agree! I really don't understand why the registry is supposed to be better than old text based config files. Assuming permissions are set correctly you can still easily keep people from messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
There has to be a reason they decided to go that way in Windows 95, but I don't know it.
Is it possible to do any kind of version control with Windows? I mean at a basic level you could use git with the /etc/ folder in Linux. How do you track changes in Windows?
Version control to what end?
Updating software on Windows is a huge pain in the ass.
There are things like Chocolatey where you can get packages to install a lot of the freeware/shareware applications out there.
What @dafyre said. Like, one admin changes a config file and everything breaks. So we can revert the changes made.
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@JaredBusch said:
@mlnews said:
I've had a busy morning now that I discovered topic thumbnails!
I set one of those on one of the how to's i wrote. useful
On a side note, I set a header image on my profile. Are those being stored locally?
I know you were wanting to not host things on ML like that.
I can't figure out how to make them non-local, but have not really put effort into it. Have you found how to get them to Imgur? Someone said that you could but I was unable to see where.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
@mlnews said:
I've had a busy morning now that I discovered topic thumbnails!
I set one of those on one of the how to's i wrote. useful
On a side note, I set a header image on my profile. Are those being stored locally?
I know you were wanting to not host things on ML like that.
I can't figure out how to make them non-local, but have not really put effort into it. Have you found how to get them to Imgur? Someone said that you could but I was unable to see where.
never tried. just wondering..
Related: I need a higher res image of our company logo..
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Yeah - I completely agree! I really don't understand why the registry is supposed to be better than old text based config files. Assuming permissions are set correctly you can still easily keep people from messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
There has to be a reason they decided to go that way in Windows 95, but I don't know it.
Is it possible to do any kind of version control with Windows? I mean at a basic level you could use git with the /etc/ folder in Linux. How do you track changes in Windows?
Not realistically, no. You "can" using things like snapshots but it is extremely bulky and kludgy and almost certainly impacts more than you would want.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Yeah - I completely agree! I really don't understand why the registry is supposed to be better than old text based config files. Assuming permissions are set correctly you can still easily keep people from messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
There has to be a reason they decided to go that way in Windows 95, but I don't know it.
Is it possible to do any kind of version control with Windows? I mean at a basic level you could use git with the /etc/ folder in Linux. How do you track changes in Windows?
Version control to what end?
Updating software on Windows is a huge pain in the ass.
There are things like Chocolatey where you can get packages to install a lot of the freeware/shareware applications out there.
In Linux, all standard configs (and definitely all system ones) are text files under a single directory. If you want to back up all configuration you just do...
tar -czf /tmp/mybackup.tgz /etc
That's it, done. Everything in one zipped file. Super simple. Put those files into Subversion, GIT, Mercurial or even a wiki and you can track every change no matter how big or small. How do you do that on Windows?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
Last I used was 2003. It's probably because I haven't used it, but I can't imagine managing more than 3 of these.
That's why they are common with small shops - you need lots of people for very little work and it creates busy work so that the department isn't idle. Once you get to any size, the human overhead costs is enormous.
Maybe it's just me, but file based systems make so much more sense in my mind, I kind of just click with them. I think I've built a whole VDI container in less time than it's taking me to create a share and use folder redirection.
You don't have the whole idea of drive letters in Linux either. I can see the appeal in that, though It took me a while to wrap my head around everything just being some folder mounted under /
it's also not in your face that you are working on a different drive - which is both good and bad.
That plus configs are in files. That makes much more sense to me. Like if I want to stop root login via ssh it's
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configthen/PermitRootthen edit that line, then:wq. Takes maybe 10 seconds. I don't have to fumble through different windows to get what I want.Yeah - I completely agree! I really don't understand why the registry is supposed to be better than old text based config files. Assuming permissions are set correctly you can still easily keep people from messing with things they shouldn't mess with.
There has to be a reason they decided to go that way in Windows 95, but I don't know it.
Is it possible to do any kind of version control with Windows? I mean at a basic level you could use git with the /etc/ folder in Linux. How do you track changes in Windows?
Version control to what end?
Updating software on Windows is a huge pain in the ass.
There are things like Chocolatey where you can get packages to install a lot of the freeware/shareware applications out there.
In Linux, all standard configs (and definitely all system ones) are text files under a single directory. If you want to back up all configuration you just do...
tar -czf /tmp/mybackup.tgz /etc
That's it, done. Everything in one zipped file. Super simple. Put those files into Subversion, GIT, Mercurial or even a wiki and you can track every change no matter how big or small. How do you do that on Windows?
Wail and Gnash teeth, or enable file versioning / shadow copies... Or both.
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Next door neighbour just stopped by to drop off fresh sheep milk!
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@JaredBusch said:
@mlnews said:
I've had a busy morning now that I discovered topic thumbnails!
I set one of those on one of the how to's i wrote. useful
You are having way too much fun editing every damn topic thumbnail this morning.
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Getting my fireplace and heater(s) fixed before the big snowstorm.
Oh and getting a snowblower tire rebeaded hopefully.
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I just got passed in post count by @mlnews lol
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