As “three dead trolls in a baggie” famously sung… “Every OS Sucks”.

As true today as when it was first penned.

No worries… It’s a pretty obscure math joke anyway :⁠-⁠P

Maths - sin, tan and cos are all factors of the rotation of a circle, hence pi being on there. I’m not a mathematician, I just watch standup maths and can recommend his book, “love triangle” to explain this sort of stuff.

ROCK AND STONE, BROTHER!

The ICO in the UK is pretty good… I used to work on their CRM system and it was an eye opener how little, and also how big the things they investigated were.

I’m in the UK. I’ll never brag about our train system, not after Twatcher privatised them, and further back the horrific Beeching cuts.

The rest - yeah, worth it.

This is illegal in UK and Europe…

Getting 1 star on GitHub

And… Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, too.

That’s a bit stretched…

According to the man(8) page, it will avoid touching any blocks that have the chattr -f flag set, which is XSR_XFLAGS_NODEFRAG… So I think if the docs are still accurate to the code, yes.

A lot of ifs in that assumption.

I understood that XFS automatically mounted SSD’s with XFS_XFLAG_NODEFRAG set? Is this not the case?

That’s because the drive was written to its limits; the defrag runs a TRIM command that safely releases and resets empty sectors. Random reads and sequential reads /on clean drives that are regularly TRIMmed/ are within random variance of each other.

Source: ran large scale data collection for a data centre when SSDs were relatively new to the company so focused a lot on it, plus lots of data from various sectors since.

Oh fuck yes. I remember reading about this year’s ago, glad to see it’s still going ahead.

Time to catch up on the lore. And by that I mean watch some kick ass videos again.

– edit –

https://youtu.be/87KtMnmZWzQ?si=TmqF3Br1F8yGhPA3

Point, well made.

Curse you autocorrect!

So that’s a no, because you didn’t overanalyze you’re response to that question, leading to me having to do it for you and therefore failing your implied social contract.

Max and cheese has two ingredients. Good, quality cheese melted into fresh macaroni.

I challenge anyone to dislike that, with a good fresh salad (I like a chopped salad with a drizzle of oil and balsamic with a sprinkle of salt). The great thing is - there’s a cheese for everyone (except lactose intolerant, and what a shame for them) so this works on so many levels.

Yep, took a couple of days with a hex editor, but was a good learning experience

The old Chernobyl virus did this. I caught it. Had to restore the MPT of a FAT32 drive - fortunately, the MPT and first FAT fell outside the boundary of the destruction, so I was able to use the 2nd FAT to restore the files and get pretty much everything back. Was stressful - lots of running to the second computer to get details of how the hex structure of the MPT was built and recreate it because using a tool would have formatted/erased what was there (This was early 00’s, off an old magazine cover floppy disk). Fun times, and not something you want to do with a business machine or with critical software (Though, why haven’t you got it backed up in an air-gapped way if it’s that critical?)

Mathacre was right there… right there. Ah well.