geraldew
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First trial install of Xubuntu 26.04 successfully done.
There was no need to change my standard method, so it remains as described in my articles - see https://dev.to/geraldew/running-linux-purely-on-a-usb-drive-3mfg
The steps were:
- Download ISO and make thumb drive
- Go to spare laptop and remove hard drive
- Boot thumb drive
- Plug in target USB SSD drive
- Run installer
- Shutdown remove thumb drive
- Boot on SSD
- Re-install GRUB as removable
- Reboot
- Install rEFInd -
Here are links to the two articles I've written about this.
- https://dev.to/geraldew/running-linux-purely-on-a-usb-drive-3mfg
- https://dev.to/geraldew/ubuntu-linux-installation-to-a-usb-external-drive-with-efi-boot-46pjThey are aimed at the "tech capable friend" rather than directly to the end-user. Ideally I'd like some popular YouTube video makers to cover this method.
In a fantasy where I've won Lotto, I'd set up a service of providing these to people - ideally as a place people could drop-by with their laptop and watch one be made for them, and be shown how to boot on it.
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A note that if you want to help people move to using Linux, one *option* is to build them an independently running USB SSD.
I've documented a good method for doing this, which has two distinctions:
- it allows them to not modify their existing computer at all;
- it will be their *long term* portable Linux, that can be used with (most) other computers.The one big caveat:
- for each run-time host computer, they will need to find out how to have it boot from USB. -
Tech life is rarely dull. Partly because so many "great advice" articles I see don't accord with my experiences.
For example, in one of my feeds is a piece: "SQL Query Optimization for Data Engineers" of which half the things in it would be bad advice in my work.
Data engines and query optimisers vary so much that many "expert" assumptions prove false on them.
There's really no substitute for:
- understanding how your platform really works;
- trying out multiple ways.
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Argh, went out to see a water & light display on the Yarra River and got #whammed
Was only a 30 second extract and probably a cover not the original but I guess that counts.
#Whammageddon #Whamageddon2024 -
This seems a subtle case of asking myself: "why did I do that?"
I guess now that after I added threading, so that the GUI would not just lock up while a process was run, I wanted to protect my user (myself) from confusion about what was running.But perhaps I had some deeper more important reason?
Sometimes programming is a matter of blundering along, and just relying on being able to rewrite things (again) if I've headed down a wrong path - about what the program is and does.
#Progamming -
@ericholscher some days I feel that there should be a good history piece on their history and variations of concept, labeling and implementation.
Although having said that I guess I haven't looked for one for quite a while.
My awareness began with "crosstab" queries in the first version of Access. Then later with Cognos cubes (a la Transformer & PowerPlay).
As I didn't use Excel much I didn't know of its pivot support until it had been there quite a while.
#DataWork -
It's been a while since I've put an article on the DEV web site, but today I had an itch to scratch.
From mid-afternoon I wrote enough SQL to make a simple "extreme date" collector for the Teradata that I work on.
It seemed a neat enough bunch of code that I felt like anonymising and annotating it, so now you can see it at:
- Using SQL to discover problem dates in your data
- https://dev.to/geraldew/using-sql-to-discover-problem-dates-in-your-data-4l8d
#DataWork #SQL #Database #Teradata -
Saw an excellent documentary film at the Deckchair cinema in Darwin - Flyways - which covers three sets of migratory birds. Can highly recommend!
It felt like an extra bonus to have read Harry Saddler's superb book about the Eastern Curlew as that was one of the birds followed.
https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/the-eastern-curlew/
#Flyways #EasternCurlew #Conservation