+0outputs (0major+248minor)pagefaults 0swaps
1234944
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:35:49PM +0200, Maximilian Pichler wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> > On my Linux box:
>
> ?
>
> > cat HUGE | /usr/bin/time dd bs=1 count=1234944 | wc -c
>
> stdin might be something much faster tha
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:50:06PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
>
> Maybe suggest to the teacher that she sticks to numbers divisible by
> 512? That is what haxorz do.
But seriously: man sh.
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 08:20:16PM +0200, Maximilian Pichler wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> > But seriously: man sh.
>
> Are you saying there is a shell built-in that does this? If so, which one?
=> (591 13):cat nread
#!/bin/sh
# nrea
gdata
768maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+734minor)pagefaults 0swaps
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:44:14AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
> => (591 60): cat nread
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # nread n - read up to n bytes from stdio, put them on to stdout
>
> N=$1
>
> dd bs=512 count=$((N / 512)) iflag=fullblock 2>/dev/null
> dd bs=1 cou
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:53:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:56:04 +0200
> Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
[...]
> > Craps. I have consulted OpenBSD's manpage for dd and there is no
> > mention of iflag. So this will not work on OpenBSD. I will have
earn more about terminals...
FVWM makes great minimal environment, IMHO. If you need multitabbed
terminal, I have had (so far) good experience with roxterm, and I also
use uxterm a lot - it is a Unicode-enabling wrapper around xterm.
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, I sometimes compile from sources (not ports, just source*tgz from
the respective websites) and I usually find that config script
provided is ok, so I had to regenerate one such file maybe two years
ago (via autoconf).
HTH
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the scripts will be not only doing what they were doing
upto now, but also whatever additional code someone appended to them
5. ... something nasty
HTH
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uch detail until I played with elpa too much and had to manually
unkcuf it.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer&#
24.4 or later.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Indent-Convenience.html#index-Electric-Indent-mode
>
> Put (electric-indent-mode -1) somewhere in your Emacs configuration
> when using 24.4 or later.
Ah so this is the name. Thank you!
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cho "$(echo a b)"
> bash-4.4$ echo a b
Just in case it matters to anybody:
$ echo "$(echo a b)"
a b
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Looks like something changed in between?
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On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 10:13:16AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:48:52AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 12:03:31AM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 09:38:42PM +0200, John Ankarström wrote:
> &
On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 07:47:46PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> > Another trick may be executing the line with echo prepended - should
> > do all expansions and write what will be executed. I think it is not
> > g
On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 11:17:37PM +0200, John Ankarström wrote:
[...]
>
> To which message is this a response? It seems I haven't received
> it, but I'd like to read it. Tomasz?
I have sent you a message offlist, see if you have it.
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ould start with atop, it has a column for RDISK and WDISK.
If you cannot atop, there is about 78% chance that killing a browser
will solve the problem.
HTH
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for
work. And one for listing the music.
I will never propose this kind of solution to normal people. :-)
[...]
> --zeurkous.
>
> --
> Friggin' Machines!
Oh no, it is not the machines. It is their masters.
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tps://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/the-case-for-limiting-your-browser-extensions/
I guess extensions work even with js switched off...
Etc etc
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** As the answer, master did "rm -r
e how to look it up.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** di
ht, because monopolies always serve the public better!
>
> Rhetorically this answer sounds actually right...
But I suspect it is given with a really long tongue in a cheek. Or
maybe not?
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about this. So maybe the learning
experience will not be peachy rosy for you at first, but I would say
positives prevail over time.
HTH
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assume this may
make lifetime a bit longer and decided it is better to be on safe(r)
side.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And th
formation.
Ok, so not "everything", I only mount filesystems as noatime. :-)
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's h
acknowledged my pitiful failure (fortunately, only I remember it) and
reiteraited to the lair.
Any ideas? The host is going to be laptop with Mint Xfce (yes, I have
strong obsession against Unity), but I might move it to obsd one day
(thanks to chronic lack of time I myself still had not moved out of
L
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 04:18:00AM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
> As a side note, I sometimes get a bit obsessed upon seeing a program
> which "sits idle" but scratches my disk every n seconds (and/or loads
> my cpu with empty loops). A daemon can be hunted down and nailed. N
arrow, if
I recall - it was a bit of time since I did it last).
Same for keyboards.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the
ping). I have it plugged into usb hub
with micro on-off switches for individual devices, so when I get
annoyed, I "hard reset" the keyboard and after that it somehow comes
back to the order. There is nothing on minus side yet. I expected it
would not be perfect for this price but i
12 university-of-alberta-sms.10gigabitethernet2-2.core1.yeg1.he.net
(184.105.18.50) 156.854 ms 157.227 ms 160.990 ms
13 cabcore-esqgw.corenet.ualberta.ca (129.128.255.35) 158.464 ms 163.029 ms
katzcore-esqgw.corenet.ualberta.ca (129.128.255.41) 157.714 ms
14 * * *
15 gateway-5.ucs.ualberta.ca (129.1
ication for sata says one thing, but it says
theoretical upper speed, if I am correct. So you want to know about
real speed limit of _this_ device.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif"
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 07:06:04PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
> > Ok. But what is a theoretic speed limit for this device?
> >
[...]
>
> Bravo, you tested the speed at 1024 bytes of data per system call.
The OP complained his dump was slow. I
one of text browsers I use nowadays (links/elinks, lynx
&& emacs-w3m) will work on every website (some are polite enough to
tell me I need to turn js on). There is good chance with pages written
for programmers, however.
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;t that great.
I am writing this from ParrotOS (Debian derivative) and since I am
avid user of bash, I can do "man bash-builtins" and it prints me a
very nice looking summary. Bash package version is 5.1-2+deb11u1,
which probably means 5.1 with some Debian-specific addons.
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 08:45:01PM +, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 08:09:13PM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
> > I am writing this from ParrotOS (Debian derivative) and since I am
> > avid user of bash, I can do "man bash-builtins" and it prints m
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 01:38:41AM +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
> I guess it would not be very hard to just add few more *roff hacks
> similar to one above. Or maybe a command (shell script) to retrieve
> relevant subsection from manpage and print just this one. And maybe
> also l
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 08:51:36AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Nov 21 01:38:41, rto...@ceti.pl wrote:
> > I guess it would not be very hard to just add few more *roff hacks
>
> Stop right here.
My horses froze hanging in the air... :-)
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bag over the box should go ok, but you
need to test it very carefully, monitoring temps all the time - all
temps.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer&#x
ill like a charm,
always like a charm (if you ask me - a real gem of a software).
I also like dired-mode in Emacs, but for this to work, one has to like
Emacs. Actually, one has to love Emacs. "Like" is not enough in this
case.
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 06:09:55AM +0100, Daniele B. wrote:
> Feb 19, 2023 03:49:45 Tomasz Rola :
>
[...]
>
> I ended up uninstalling it however thanks for this command too, interesting.
Yep. I admit I am unceremonial when dealing with my own systems. And I
am not sure if I would f
This happened in my mailbox today. FD means "full disclosure" and is
publicly available mailing list.
I repost onto misc because if this is a real cat, seems it is out of
the bag already. Other than being subscribed to FD, I have no
connection.
- Forwarded message from "Schech, C. W. (\"Conno
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 05:34:12PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> That writeup is bullshit.
Ok, I see.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
ay. At least to me.
HTH
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
**
o 12v batts (I
think) and I would rather not want to lift any of them other than on
full arm. The first second-hand will probably be inspected and turned
into spare unit, because the current one will finish itself too, one
day. But the batts can be replaced in both models.
HTH
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Sorry for being so much offtopic. On the other hand, we are living in
a future, so maybe this is more on topic than one would expect. People
here are involved in creating significant portion of our lifes. Not
that I see any way to make use of it, I am too apathetic for this.
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 07:56:10PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
> machine, two of which killed more than six hundred people, before
> someone turned the switch. As for now, there was a way to stop it.
I have rechecked and the number of fatalities was 189 and 157,
totaling 346 people.
juggling the mess around.
As long as I can keep doing this, I will be happy (I guess). Thank you.
Oh, and BTW I am huge fan of starting in text mode, so I turn off
graphical logins whenever I can.
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sking for
> trouble like the 2012-2015 systemd wars that plagued Linux and which
> OpenBSD avoided.
This new daemon was exactly the reason I subscribed to this list (and
few others, to sniff on alternatives), even though various events kept me
from installing OBSD (or anything else) so far.
-
e? Just
curious.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
**
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 12:09:20AM -0600, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 06:03:05AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 08:06:07AM +0200, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> > > Hi Folks: I need some recommendations on what brand of printers will
>
in +- 5% of what
they should be. Yours look bad, because ~30% too big.
Bear in mind, I am not electrical engineer. If you do not own
voltmeter, this probably means you should ask for help of someone who
does.
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ps debuggers
improved, I have no idea.
So, I suggest that you do: man tee
and after that: ./yourcode 2>&1 | tee log.txt
and: less log.txt
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif"
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:19:43AM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 10:26:55PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> > I am sure gdb has some merits but for whatever C programs I wrote so
> > far, a much more useful debugging technique was putting printf in
> > rig
e. So I end up converting each problematic epub
into fb2 format, because this gives me the least problems.
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worth replying a year later, you will get that too,
eventually. Please, be an optimist, will you.
HTH
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