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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Just imagine this but it is full of floppies

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Silicon Underground (Dave F)

Darl McBride was the most hated man in tech thanks to his plan to sue Linux users to generate revenue. 15 years ago today, his company, SCO, fired him. And a little over a month ago, he died in relative obscurity at age 64. dfarq.homeip.net/when-sco-fire

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* Searches "Seagate ST1000DM003 MTBF"

* Every seagate dotcom datasheet says or implies don't use it more than 2,400 hours per year. That's 6 hours/day, or 8-9/day if you skip weekends.

Yeah, this drive came free with cereal^W this PC, & I should've replaced it with a WD as soon as I got it. Oops.

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Please make backup copies of your PC, folks, if you aren't already. Don't forget to test your backups. Don't forget to write down your PC recovery & backup restoring procedure. And don't forget to save that procedure somewhere you can get to if all your data gets wiped out.

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/XmagVj
Credit: skybo_x

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Losses:
* An HDD apparently failing at 0.5 MTBF.
* This weekend.
* All data between final backup & failure: more or less 2 hours, the most consequential of which was mail.

Gains:
* Bigger HDD.
* XP in installing anything in FreeBSD's USB images.
* XP in restoring ZFS snapshots.
* Learning my backup procedure needs slight tweaking, but fundamentally everything was right.

Net:

I have now experienced ZFS disaster preparation, disaster, & disaster recovery!

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mavica ebooks

font-size: 0 !important;

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Nova Storm

I got another toy picture of Nova, meant to be in sort of a princessy pose. As always I love how this artist draws really shiny and reflective textures.

Art by funnyhat12.carrd.co/

#pooltoy #furryart

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I lost my home PC's ZFS pool to a kernel panic-inducing bit of corruption. The lone disk in the pool has spent nearly 21,000 hours (2.4 years) of its 3-year life spinning rust, & SMART tests passed.

The kernel panic on `zpool import` means I basically lost everything on the disk.

But my USB backup disk is fine (I tested) & current enough. I should be able to install a new disk, install FreeBSD on it, & zfs send/recv my snapshots, I think.

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GIFS GALORE

CARTOON/FOUL.GIF

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Current status: The half of "backup and restore" nobody likes to think about.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

can anyone tell me what i can use that's the size of a GoPro and can live stream to OBS or similarly work as a wireless webcam and costs less than a hundred pounds or doesn't need a monthly subscription to do so :boost_ok:​

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@mavica_again that's
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good to know. :/

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@lion Thanks.

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Uptime is good for Linux, but it turns out uptime isn't so good for Ruby on Rails.

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@Foxhack @lion Something was indeed up. I think images will start working again in a bit.

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@nixCraft Great! In addition to inventing yet another layer of complexity that makes websites inaccessible to a large number of Web users, they invented a tool that helps mail spammers get past anti-spam tools better than current page-to-image spam generator tools as a nice bonus! Good job, techbros!

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

rip wordpress long live grav and classicpress
getgrav.org
classicpress.net

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Greg Bell

@mcc I thought this was going to end as a joke for how we, like crabs, evolve to use shells

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mcc

There's a kind of command line carcinization where computer people especially Linux people gradually gravitate to command line workflows because especially on Linux there's just too many times you open the GUI tool, get halfway through the task, and then realize the GUI tool can't actually do what you need and you need to start over with the command line version. When this happens enough times you just go to the command line first rather than potentially waste your time

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