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[Loru]

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Forwarding this to my friend in the army (ex-cavalry officer), courtesy of this ex-USAF snark. :thumbup:

 

[mojoey]

 

[Loru]

Titanic 2016

 

[Artlav]

Titanic 2016

No way. The only honestly waterproof cellphone i know of was made for the Russian army at my first job's place, and it didn't have a camera.

 

[jedidia]

The only honestly waterproof cellphone i know of was made for the Russian army at my first job's place, and it didn't have a camera.

There was a Nokia that was pretty good, but I don't think it had a camera either.

 

[Andy44]

Titanic 2016

So there won't be any question about how the sinking happened, and thanks to GPS we won't have to wait 70 years to find the wreck.

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Anyone else having trouble viewing embedded youtube vids on OF lately?

 

[Linguofreak]

I've just had my second HDD failure since I bought this machine (or maybe shortly before, I forget). Fortunately both failed drives were external backup drives and not /home or /, but I'm rather annoyed.

More worrying is that my machine seems to have hung completely due to the drive failure (a backup was being performed when the drive failed). The last system log entries were drive failure notifications during the backup (shortly after I left for work), and I found the machine unresponsive to both keyboard/mouse input and ssh when I got home tonight. It booted without issue when power cycled. Given that the system does not depend on any files on that drive and it is, so to speak, "write only" in normal operation, there's really no reason the drive failure should have caused a kernel hang, which makes me suspect a kernel bug.

 

[Urwumpe]

So there won't be any question about how the sinking happened, and thanks to GPS we won't have to wait 70 years to find the wreck.

Yeah, but when power of the ship fails, all livestreams will suddenly die, because the WiFi hotspot failed.

 

[Artlav]

I've just had my second HDD failure since I bought this machine (or maybe shortly before, I forget). Fortunately both failed drives were external backup drives and not /home or /, but I'm rather annoyed.

How big and regular are the backups?
If they aren't too big and too often, why not use Dropbox or similar (+GPG)?

 

[C3PO]

Titanic 2016

That's just too unrealistic. I can't spot anyone taking a selfie.

 

[Urwumpe]

The doctor for Buzz Aldrin is David Bowie. But its way less scary than it sounds.

[ame="https://twitter.com/Buzzs_xtina/status/805733612368736257"]Christina Korp on Twitter: "Thank heaven @TheRealBuzz's doctor is David Bowie. You can't make this stuff up. https://t.co/jbqqZeWgx9"[/ame]

 

[Notebook]

He probably got the job because he knows if there is life on Mars.

N.

 

[Linguofreak]

How big and regular are the backups?
If they aren't too big and too often, why not use Dropbox or similar (+GPG)?

Daily, incremental, full system backups. I don't use cloud solutions because I don't trust the cloud, though I hadn't considered GPG. Even if I were using an off site solution, I'd probably prefer to have something on site to guarantee availability.

 

[jedidia]

I want to go back in time and make the creator of emacs eat a keyboard, then hit him around the head with a mouse :beathead:

 

[n122vu]

 

[Urwumpe]

I want to go back in time and make the creator of emacs eat a keyboard, then hit him around the head with a mouse :beathead:

Oh, vi ? :lol:

 

[jedidia]

vi has got nothing on emacs when it comes to ridiculously convoluted key commands...

I very much hope that dwarf fortress is written using an emacs editor. Anything else would just be bad style! :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

vi has got nothing on emacs when it comes to ridiculously convoluted key commands...

Oh come on, give vi a try to prove you wrong. :lol:

You maybe need to press less keys at once, but you can spend a lot of time telling vi what you are up to.

 

[jedidia]

Oh come on, give vi a try to prove you wrong.

I was relatively fluent at vi for a while when I had to use it, actually. "Relative" as in I could edit text without swearing, but I couldn't do magic.