Yes, thank god for archaic formats that are not indexed and have no support for structured logging, has no support for validating logs are consistent and has no way to seal logs when passing to a remote server.

And I mean, it's not like it's possible to store arbitrary content that can be used for nefarious purposes in text-based log formats. Storing text in a text file? Hah! Surely that's impossible.

And apparently you can't read, because the reason for not editing the file is right there at the top:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub

Upgraded 3 systems so far, no issues at all.

Thanks, that was a nice story!

Thank you for that article, very interesting.

Without fail, every time I read one of your posts I think to myself, "what a wonderful and though-out post displaying an impressive amount of knowledge". At that point I know who wrote it and only look to the author line to verify that it's you. Thanks for posting!

While it might not be the case in the UK (re the other replies), it's the case in Denmark. Buying a TV makes you elligeble for paying the license. Having a TV, even without antenna cable doesn't change anything; you still have to pay.
It also holds for internet connections above a certain speed (I think it's > 128/128 Kbit/s), even if it's on your cellphone.

Funnily, the Danish Broadcast Corporation doesn't have any way of checking if you are required to pay the license as they aren't allowed to look up any information on you except your postal address.

I'm not a native English speaker either, but it's past tense, so I believe it should be "dug". English is weird (but not any weirder than German with their unrecognizable genders or Danish with en/et)...

Now that you're here...

I tried it on this hunk of JavaScript: http://pastebin.com/miGDVkdf , but all I got was a parse error:

"// Error contacting the server...
parsererror
SyntaxError: Unexpected token :"

I experimented a bit with btrfs some months ago as part of my parttime job at my university. The departments file server had disk failures after a power glitch, so I decided to rebuild it and add in a UPS. I'm running Debian jessie on the system, which is just a small 2U SuperMicro rack case with 12 3 TB SATA drives and 16 GB ECC RAM. ZFSonLinux needs a fairly recent kernel, otherwise I'd probably have gone with stable.

I was initially pretty impressed with btrfs, but before the UPS arrived there was another power glitch (which is fairly unusual in these parts of the world; northern Europe) and it completely trashed btrfs. I was unable to mount, scrub or do anything productive to the FS. Absolutely no luck doing anything.

After that I've switched to ZFS. I'm really happy with ZFS, even though ZFS on Linux still has some bugs. For some reason zfs threads sometimes crash when doing zfs send | zfs receive, something I've noticed a few times. Performance is pretty good. For reference I'm using raidz3. My offline, off-site backup is done on a clone of the server (OS only) and uses zfs send and receive to transfer the ZFS snapshots which are done nightly.

What the parent said.

Besides that, do weekly scrubs (to catch hardware errors and ensure consistency) and nightly snapshots (to foil any accidental deletion, CryptoLocker etc.), depending on how IO the file system sees. I also regularly do a `zfs send | ssh server2 sudo zfs receive` to do an offsite backup.

If you liked that, you'll like to know that you can remove the ei.cfg file from the iso to convert it into a universal iso. There are multiple tools for it, but I've just used rm in the past (granted, the media I used was a USB stick). Here's one such tool: http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutils/

Note that your license still has to match the type you select during installation. I have no idea why Microsoft insists on having so many different isos when they could just have one universal iso...

Yeah, good luck trying to guess the sequence number needed to establish a TCP connection. This hasn't been an issue since, I don't know, the 90s?

lkcl has already been talking about the possibility of teaming with Bunnie on the arm-netbook mailing list.