| Caelum | should I put debian on my nuclear submarine? |
| simonrvn | Caelum: depends, is the sub big enough? |
| Caelum | heh |
| ma3x | wols, does it sometimes happen to you? |
| wols | ma3x: deleting important stuff? of course |
| ma3x | wols, what do you do then? |
| wols | the answer to that is: if it wasn't backed up on tape or wherever, it couldn't have been important |
| simonrvn | restore from backups, or shrug and say "oh well" |
| wols | i curse swear, and flame someone on #debian :P |
| sTb | some make error on proftpd http://rafb.net/p/MDbV0016.html |
| ma3x | haha wols, good! just make sure it's not simonrvn you flame |
| simonrvn | i curse and swear at wols for cursing and swearing at someone on #debian :P hehehe |
| EmleyMoor | I just had my laptop replaced with an identical (*) one, with my hard disk moved over. Since then, I have been unable to use the network interfaces (wired or wireless) - do I need to check anything general before coming here about the specifics |
| Caelum | speaking of backups, anyone have suggestions for backing up to a company windows share? |
| EmleyMoor | (*) - it's the self-same model and everything |
| wols | EmleyMoor: nope. if it's really identical it will work |
| simonrvn | Caelum: tarball it first |
| EmleyMoor | They work in Windows, but not in Linux at all |
| Caelum | simonrvn: I was hoping to have an incremental image thingy |
| wols | EmleyMoor: which means something has changed. e.g. the MAC is certainly not the same between those two notebooks |
| Caelum | EmleyMoor: does ifconfig show them? |
| wols | EmleyMoor: does ifconfig -a show the interfaces |
| EmleyMoor | The MACs have indeed changed but surely Linux itself is not MAC locked? No, it does not |
| simonrvn | Caelum: i highly doubt ntfs or whatever is going to support unix perms and such. i wouldn't trust it |
| wols | not of course it isn't simonrvn: it's not. it has something better :P |
| Caelum | simonrvn: maybe there's a backup utility that supports image files and can do incremental backups onto them? |
| DavidProck1981 | wols: DavidProck1981: with your scheme you need a cache _and_ a ramdisk. doubling the cache ram requirement and starving out the slightly less used files than your chosen list |
| EmleyMoor | I will bring the machine through in a bit and try to work out what's going on |
| simonrvn | Caelum: not in the scope of this channel ;) |
| DavidProck1981 | what do you mean by the "starving out" part |
| simonrvn | EmleyMoor: no, it isn't MAC locked |
| wols | DavidProck1981: all free RAM is used for disk cache. in since a sizable chunk of your RAM is now a ramdisk you can't use it for cache. which means you have a msaller cache that will fit less files DavidProck1981: since the most used files always are in the cache, the slightly less used one fall out due to not enough cache RAM |
| EmleyMoor | OK - well, I'll be back in an hour or less and then perhaps someone can guide me as to where the network interfaces went |