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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
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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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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
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@geraldew @RTP @linux @torvalds @landley
The whole #GPL & #GPLv2 issue for example makes it basically illegal to build a #Linux kernel that can boot straight from #ZFS because #OpenZFS's code inherited from #OpenSolaris (now #illumos) is under #CDDL and thus when you install zfs-#dkms it gives you a big warning saying 'this is basically illegal so we've to make it a loadable module instead'...
And that's just out of the top of my head...
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@geraldew @RTP @linux @torvalds
Being a "universal donor license" would be a reason.
But don't take my word for it, ask @landley on why he left #BusyBox and started #toybox under #0BSD.
TLDW: #Copyleft backfired and made BusyBox notoriously hostile to vendors as well as kinda hurt everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3g&t=25m27sThe reason why no "applianced" Console runs #Linux is the #GPL, because #PlayStation since the #PS2 and #Nintendo since the #WiiU run #FreeBSD as #Copyleft would be incompatible with their #DRM and subsequent #NDA's as well as contractual secrecy per their vendors & subcontractors...
#Valve and the #SteamDeck aren't compareable to i.e. the #NintendoSwitch because they see it as a tool to increase revenue per #Steam User, not as a means to increase their market share from de-facto to de-jure #monopoly whilst facing stiff competition like #XboxGamePass on the #PC and #Chromebooks as well as #ChromeOS flex running #Android #Games!
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@geraldew @RTP I think #Linux being #GPLv2 is good.
Would a lot of people prefer it to be #BSD?
Yes, myself included.Are some neckbeards angry it's #GPLv2only and not #GPLv3 or #AGPLv3?
Yes, but I don't think they matter beyond needing to quarantine them for their toxicity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SKenHRhMgFact is: @linux is a good project and solid product as well, and @torvalds managed to get both businesses and individuals behind it, resulting in a very versatile common denominator of kernel.
That's why I chose if for #OS1337...
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And, there were other Australian manufacturers doing unique things in the 1980s. After my Microbee days I had some dealings with Time Office Computers who had a Z80-based computer running CP/M or their own networked Unix-like system. They later bought Dulmont Magnum (and their Kookaburra laptop).
As for the Microbee Gamma, the story I heard (i.e. internally) was that the hardware design was done but it had been assumed that creating an operating system for it would be easier by comparison.
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But as some quick observations:
- we had mixed success with education departments around Australia - e.g. we had the primary schools in NSW but in WA we sold to high schools (the primary schools there going for the BBC Micro).
- quite a lot of the footage in the video shows usage of the cheaper (roundish) screen, which could not do 80x24 text mode for CP/M
- the hard drive model had no other change than having an extra 10M drive, so it wasn't really "more powerful". -
So I see someone has put up a new video about Microbee on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idt-g_UQbqw
As an ex-staffer at Microbee (1983-85) I can endorse that it's generally correct. I might re-watch it and make some notes on some minor quibbles.
In recent years when I look back I'm generally amazed that we sold them as much as we did, considering that the IBM PC was launched in 1981. So still selling only 8-bit computers in 1985 was pushing their luck.
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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 -
A quick Mastodon usage tip.
If you're scrolling along and see a post that - for any reason whatever - you suspect you might want to find again, bookmark it right then.
It's taken me ages to realise this is the best thing to do, even if you never come back to it.
This is because Mastodon - via web or an app - is quite poor at letting you later search your own feed for "that thing I saw".
But it will be in your bookmark list - at least long enough - most of the time.
#Mastodon #mastotip -
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.
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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/
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Geradewegs durch die Wand ging es bei einer Übung für #THW-Kräfte aus Hannover/Langenhagen. In einem Abrisshaus in #Mellendorf machte zunächst die Fachgruppe Ortung eine fiktive verletzte Person ausfindig. Anschließend durchbrachen die Helferinnen und Helfer der Bergungsgruppe eine trennende Wand und retteten die Person.
Während die Fachgruppe Notversorgung und Notinstandsetzung die Einsatzstellen ausleuchtete, organisierte der Zugtrupp die Arbeiten der Fachgruppen und führte eine Lagekarte. 💪 -
Geradewegs aus meiner Schreibtischschublade nach Mastodon: Zeichenschablone für Flussdiagramme von Control Data. Dem benutzten Font nach würde ich vermuten irgendwann aus 1960-1980. #controldata #vintagecomputing
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Gerard Way and The Interrupters launch The Mock-Ups: hear 'I Wanna Know Your Name'
#music #PunkRock #MyChemicalRomance #GeraldWay #TheInterrupters
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"I'm Like a Bird" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter #NellyFurtado. It was written by Furtado and produced by #GeraldEaton and #BrianWest for her debut studio album, #WhoaNelly (2000). Released as the album's first #single on September 25, 2000, it became a worldwide hit the following year, peaking at number one in Portugal, number two in Australia and New Zealand, number five in the United Kingdom, and number nine in the United States.
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"I'm Like a Bird" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter #NellyFurtado. It was written by Furtado and produced by #GeraldEaton and #BrianWest for her debut studio album, #WhoaNelly (2000). Released as the album's first #single on September 25, 2000, it became a worldwide hit the following year, peaking at number one in Portugal, number two in Australia and New Zealand, number five in the United Kingdom, and number nine in the United States.
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DANG—look at this band. It’s Gerald Wilson’s orchestra in 2011 for his album “Legacy.” No telling what it would cost to get that same band together in 2024. Talk about eye for developing talent!
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Die Musik klingt, als käme sie geradewegs aus einer 80er-Jahre Soap.
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Die Musik klingt, als käme sie geradewegs aus einer 80er-Jahre Soap.
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Die Musik klingt, als käme sie geradewegs aus einer 80er-Jahre Soap.
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Bei Mastodon.social läuft der Traffic über den amerikanischen Cloudanbieter Akamai und damit geradewegs in die USA! Der CloudAct lächelt hier alle deutschen User an, die dachten sie machen #UnPlugBigTech und ihre Daten seien in Europa. #Diday #DUTgemacht #Didit #UnPlugTrump #Mastodumm #Datenschutz
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#WhiskersWednesday #fostercats #qualititycats #CatsOfMastodon #katzen Otto Schieli und sein Kumpel sind ausgezogen, geradewegs in ein Paradies für Katzen zu sehr guten cat people und dann gab es auch eine überraschende Wiedervereinigung mit dem alten Freund. Nun kann das Highlife beginnen.
Crosseyed-Otto and his pal moved to a wonderful cat paradise which they will be sharing with true cat people. Also, they are reunited with the third brother. Let the good times roll!
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🥳 Dank sei dem monatlichen #JahrhundertHochwasser!
So hat es #Nürnberg doch einmal geradewegs in die #HeuteShow geschafft, und damit der S-Bahn-Unterführung in #Gleißhammer zu bundesweiter Beachtung verholfen.Da läuft auch deshalb so viel Wasser hinein, weil dort neben der Hauptstraße noch ne Nebenstraße gebaut wurde. Nürnberger Trend ist halt die Zweit-Fahrbahn ...
✊ Wir kämpfen gegen solche übermäßige Versiegelung und fordern seit Jahren: #ReißtDieSteineRaus!
Platz für Menschen & Grün! 🌳 1/ -
Zu Besuch in der deutschen Provinz. #Vorgarten
‚Ein Mann, eine Frau und ihr Kind, zu grauen Lava- Statuen erstarrt, irren ziellos duch eine Hölle aus Schiefersteinen, geradewegs in ihr Verderben‘
