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I really thought this thread would be about this. I recently tracked down a copy of the CD, specifically to see if I could export these pre-gap tracks. (No luck so far, but I've only tried modern stuff; I probably need to look for a more retro drive and ripping software.)


https://github.com/thomas-mc-work/most-possible-unattended-r...

Step 1: find the best cd drive, set offset Step 2: rip drives, uses musicbrainz to find metadata Step 3: it checks the hash it's ripped with AccurateCD

You can alter the script to not abort on unreadable tracks if you wish


There were lists of drives which can extract HTOA (on Hydrogenaudio or dBpoweramp forums), but I couldn't find one now. I have a vague memory that Lite-On had quite a few capable models.

UPD Here's a list: https://www.daefeatures.co.uk/search?htoa=Yes


Volume. 1GB of data per day is rounding error. If you have tens of thousands of servers, each generating hundreds of gigabytes of data per day, tail -f and grep don't scale especially well.


And I bet a hang glider can't fly from New York to Paris, either! The nerve!

Recall that the poster said this was for a small startup. If you're Google, by all means, use Google logging tools. If you aren't, then solve the problem you have, not the problem your résumé needs.


The guy asked

> Twenty years later, I still can't fathom why we're spending so much money on Splunk, DataDog a the like.

And the poster above answered that question


They scale perfectly fine, as long as you filter locally before aggregating. Lo and behold:

  mkdir -p /tmp/ssh_output
  while read ssh_host; do
      ssh "$ssh_host" grep 'keyword' /var/my/app.log > "/tmp/ssh_output/${ssh_host}.log" &
  done < ssh_hosts.txt
  wait
  cat /tmp/ssh_output/*.log
  rm -rf /tmp/ssh_output
Tweak as needed. Truncation of results and real-time tailing are left as an exercise to the reader.


100GB of logs per day? what kind of applications are that chatty?


Yeah, the solution here is to get rid of 98% of the logging.


Probably Java/JVM... Never seen something where all kinds of libraries log more.


Log level configuration is a cheap solution in this case.


If you carefully review the other volumes, you'll find a series of clues that, when combined, yield a map that leads you to the lost volume 5. It just says "told you cartography was awesome" over and over for 400 pages.


In 1995 or so, I wanted to play with something not-Windows, but wasn't yet advanced enough in my degree to have access to my school's AIX setup. Bought a Slackware disk set, and a BSD (probably FreeBSD, honestly don't remember), took them both home. Slackware had drivers for my weird non-IDE CD-ROM drive, the other one didn't, and it's been nothing but fun since then.

Without Slackware, I would not have learned how to build a web server, wouldn't have learned about UUCP (which thankfully I haven't needed to use in about 20 years)... basically the entire course of my life would have changed.

(Entirely random aside: I returned the opened BSD disks for a full refund. Remember when you could do that without them assuming you copied the disks?)


Thanks for sharing! And glad to hear you are still using Slackware! (which still seems to have drivers for just about everything!) If you recall, where did you purchase your Slackware and BSD disk sets? I recall Micro Center and Fry's Electronics both sold some Linux and BSD distributions on DVDs but I never saw too many folks buying them (then again, this was circa 2010). And that's a great comment about the return policy! I'm curious when the law was changed (unless it was a per-state thing, assuming you are from/in the US).

Also with regards to UUCP, it appears there are some modern uses for it [0]. I have no perspective with regards to UUCP but from someone who used it (if it doesn't bring back painful memories), do you recall what you used it for or what using it was like? Essentially email + USENET newsgroups + FTP wrapped into one protocol?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Current_uses_and_legacy


On my case, we did have access to DG/UX on the student lab, and had Windows NT offered proper POSIX support, I might never have bothered with Linux at home.

It only took about 30 years for Microsoft to accept POSIX matters, regardless of its caveats.

Naturally there were a couple of factors that led to that change of mind.

Back on the subject, I have spent endless hours going through the packages on Slackware, specially GCC, given my interest into compilers.


"we need to talk about parallel universes" always gets me


TJ "henry" yoshi


I presume your company is using Cisco Umbrella DNS? (It's blocked for me too, and that's why. Umbrella has a "feature" that automatically blocks any newly-seen domains for the first few hours of their lifetime. Presumably they do some extra scanning of said sites, and assuming they're safe unblock them after a few hours.)


It's always DNS.


This is a dirty lie.

Sometimes it's BGP.


And sometimes (as in the Facebook outage), it's both!


In that case, it was AWS.


Sorry, soon as I saw the line that disables the startup chime I knew everything here was wrong.


It doesn’t get any better when a few lines further down he disables the LaunchServices quarantine and frames it as eliminating a dialogue box instead of as eliminating a major mitigation to browser vulnerabilities.

(a fun game whenever these silly scripts get posted is to count how many different security measures they silently disable with little to no warning to the naive)


THIS. Holy crap this. Running this script will disable major security features on macOS intended to prevent phishing and remote execution.


Can you elaborate? I despise the startup chime and disable it on all of my Macs. Why should they announce a startup when none of my other devices do? Why would I want to wake a sleeping baby or annoy other library patrons? This is one of the most obnoxious decisions Apple ever forced on its users (and, yes, I was happy when the illuminated logo on the laptop lid was finally put to rest).


Because if you ever run into a problem where your computer doesn't turn on, the startup sound is your first indicator of whether the screen is faulty, or the board is faulty.


It's a Mac. "whether the screen is faulty, or the board is faulty" have the same fix.


Among the many differences, if the screen is faulty, one can plug in an external monitor, and: get files off, perform a backup, use the computer, and so on and so forth.


>if the screen is faulty, one can plug in an external monitor

You don't need a chime in order to try that.


Its useful to know if it'll work before digging into the box o' cables for usb-c to display port


The convenience of that rare scenario is outweighed by the annoyance of hearing the chime thousands of times, imho.


Not if you know how to take apart computers.


and own a blowdryer.


It’s intended originally to confirm boot, a real issue to solve back in the day. Some people get a warm nostalgia from it now. Not all choices need to be logical to improve a product for some.


I have plenty of devices that announce startup, I can think of at least one in every room of the house. Everything from my pfSense box to my washing machine.


Yes! The startup sound is part of the long history of the Mac. It’s entirely nostalgic for me and always reminds me of the sense of wonder I felt when I first used a 128K Mac.


Just the other day my mind was blown when I learned that the startup chord was inspired by the chord at the end of A Day In The Life from Sgt. Pepper's. Source? The guy who created it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5838mfezO8M

A Day In The Life (time link to a few seconds before it hits at 4:21): https://youtu.be/usNsCeOV4GM?t=249


Turning startup sounds off is definitely the sensible default for laptops.


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