NSFW Vigil

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it is my duty to look after these forums until other nerd posters wake up and resume posting here

[siburke939]

oh hi

[boobz]

[blumpkin blownuts]

I've probably been through worse.

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I picture Bob Hughes in my head as Captain Howdy from Strangeland
ever seen it? it'd be up your alley

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ffs

[rubycalaber]

kids these days will text during anything, even getting a pipe shoved through their face

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NSFW Vigil reporting in

[maks]

So the purpose of a long term support release is that it continues getting updates until (at very least) the next LTS release comes out. As such, you do not incrementally upgrade it to the normal releases. SO WHY THE FUCK IS MY UBUNTU 10.04 LTS VM MAKING ME UPGRADE TO 10.10, 11.04, AND 11.10 JUST SO I CAN UPGRADE TO 12.04 LTS FUCK YOU CANONICAL FUCK YOU IN YOUR STUPID ASSES

[maks]

do you want to keep your current smb.conf or replace it with the package manager version? i want to fucking keep it this is the third time i told you that but it won't be the last

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This one is entitled "Fuck Them Up Their Stupid Asses"

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[maks]

Kevin Smith owns.

also It is generally recommended that users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS wait until the first point release, due in July, before upgrading but fuck that I WANT THE NEW VERSION OF DELUGE NOW I HAVE WAITED LONG ENOUGH

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freeware dude, they update it when they feel like it

[maks]

not this one, they update on a regular cycle. new release every 6 months, new LTS comes out every second april, point releases (10.04.1, 10.04.2 etc) come out once every 2 months I think

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maybe the 800k contracts were too juicy for them to resist so they signed with investors and now the investors are making them play it their way, and fucking shit up in the process
Seems to be the lifecycle of every freeware that's ever become popular.
Runescape, Minecraft, Ad-Aware, AVG.... it all went right down the shitter

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i tried installing ad-aware once 6-7 years ago on my friend's mom's computer and she came home and flipped a tit.
"My boyfriend told me Adware is bad!!!"
No point in trying to explain to her that ad-aware is a program that removes adware
Ad-Aware also found 350 malicious files that were gotten rid of so if her computer suddenly sped up she can thank me in the afterlife

[maks]

I don't have a problem with their release cycle, my problem is that it won't let me upgrade directly from 10.04 to 12.04 without walking through every release in between. last time I upgraded it was easy, just changed 'oneric' or whatever to 'lucid' in the sources.list and ran apt-get dist-upgrade and I was fucking done

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that sounds like plain laziness on their part to me

[maks]

sounds like a bug in the update script, and it's ANNOYING

seriously guys 12.04 came out of beta earlier today IT SHOULD BE PERFECT AND I WILL SETTLE FOR NOTHING LESS THAN PERFECTION

actually I ran out of space for all the upgrades and re-imaged the machine back to where it was before I started fucking with it. I'll probably wait for the point release, as much as I'd like a version of deluge that supports magnet links

[maks]

I should google more

"Upgrades between LTS releases are not enabled by default until the first point release, 12.04.1, scheduled for July. It is recommended that most LTS users wait until then before upgrading to 12.04.

If you choose to upgrade before then, you can pass the -d option to the upgrade tool, running do-release-upgrade -d or update-manager -d, to upgrade from vanilla 10.04 to 12.04."

[maks]

Son of a bitch


Not enough free disk space

The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 262 M free
space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 10.4 M of disk
space on '/'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of
former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.

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are you using a 20 gig ssd or something

[maks]

It's a single purpose VM 'appliance' that does nothing but download torrents and act as a file server (the files are on a different drive) so the system drive is only 900MB, I keep them small so it's easy to make backup images or migrate them to different hardware. the OS itself only takes about 400-600, I must have installed some extra crap in there.

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pictures of marks's apartment:

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[maks]

That's not too far off, I don't have any rack servers (yet) just a pair of desktops I use for hosting my VMs, a gaming desktop, a mac mini set top box, and 4 laptops.

[maks]

as far as network equipment I have 3 routers and a switch, no big whoop

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back when i used to host lan parties, and there wasn't enough room in the upstairs of my house and cords simply weren't long enough, it looked like there were trip-wires everywhere and getting downstairs to go to the bathroom was an impossible gymnastics feat