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General Chat / Re: Long Time.... No See

« on: May 15, 2013, 08:46:04 PM »

Hey there... welcome back! Yep, it was cnet

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General Chat / Re: PortableApps/Lubuntu persistent live USB

« on: May 10, 2013, 04:19:35 PM »

I did not have a swap partition/file because my USB stick is slow and that'd just drag performance down the drain; I had ample RAM so that wasn't a concern, and could create a swap file on-the-fly as needed.

I went half-and-half with my 8 GB USB stick, which ended up being 3.7 GB for NTFS and 3.7 GB for Btrfs (it doesn't quite add up, but whatever). On Btrfs, I have 2 GB of OS-related stuff and 2.1 GB free (by magic of compression, 2 GB of OS fits in 1.6 GB of storage... not bad). Even if you didn't care about compression and preferred a more mature/reliable filesystem such as Ext4fs, there'd be some 1.7 GB of space left for applications.

However, small-block read/write performance is important for both Lubuntu and PortableApps; see this thread for some relevant discussion about MicroSD performance. It could very well make or break the experience for you; but give it a try and see how it works.

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General Chat / Re: PortableApps/Lubuntu persistent live USB

« on: May 08, 2013, 08:43:32 PM »

Excellent question. By "working," do you mean one that is capable of doing repairs? It's been around for almost 15 months in the btrfs-progs git repo; just check out the dangerdonteveruse branch. The name probably doesn't inspire much confidence, and it shouldn't

protips:

backup!
use across multiple disks/partitions could complicate recovery
don't use the root subvolume directly; create a new subvolume for easier subvolume/snapshot management

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General Chat / Re: Is there a usb/cd utility for booting multiple ISO?

« on: May 08, 2013, 05:08:09 PM »

I'm sure you could. GRUB does what you want for your original question, with some configuration. SYSLINUX might work, too. With USB storage, I like to partition the disk and write/dd the image directly to one of the partitions; this tends to be speedier and more robust because it cuts out one layer of filesystem indirection (do you understand how?). For a persistent installation that I could tolerate longer boot times with, I like to formally install to the partition.

Give it a try; get your hands dirty a little

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General Chat / Re: Sorry I havn't been around a lot of late

« on: May 08, 2013, 04:53:13 PM »

Welcome back, sir; I'm glad to see that you're feeling up to doing some forum-posting again, and hope that you could find solidarity among your friends here.

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General Chat / Re: Is there a usb/cd utility for booting multiple ISO?

« on: May 07, 2013, 03:17:20 PM »

If you're thinking Windows, I know that BartPE (and other derivatives of the Windows installer) are capable of booting from image; there are some pretty neat BartPE distros out there, mostly for recovery work. Of course, the other obvious way is to run a virtual machine, but I'm not sure if you'd be prepared to go that far

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General Chat / Re: Is there a usb/cd utility for booting multiple ISO?

« on: May 06, 2013, 06:23:43 PM »

Well... yes, but the boot process doesn't quite work the way you might think. GRUB2 understands ISO9660 and could boot a kernel+ramdisk off such an image; after that, you'd need the kernel+ramdisk to mount the image and load the rest of the system. It does not magically fool the system into believing that it were booting from a physical device (and it could not, unless the system depended on BIOS interrupt services to read the disk à la DOS, in which case it could possibly override the BIOS routines with its own). I believe many modern systems such as Ubuntu do support booting from disc image (with various kernel parameters), but you'd have to Google for the specifics.

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Technical Help & Server Administration / Re: looking to register a domain that is EXPIRED - PENDING DELETE

« on: April 05, 2013, 05:16:08 PM »

Yup; squatted. You could probably guess what it is; but feel free to ping me on IRC if you're curious

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Technical Help & Server Administration / Re: looking to register a domain that is EXPIRED - PENDING DELETE

« on: March 31, 2013, 11:34:11 AM »

I'd like to figure out what's going on with it first. If it's been squatted, then I definitely wouldn't want to send them any traffic... if you know what I mean. If somebody's just tasting, then I might just check again in a few days.

Looks like it's been updated yet again --

Registrant: Andrew Reberry andrew_reberry@hotmail.com 1422 Delgany Street Suite 400 Denver, CO 80202 US +1.303.893.0552 Nameservers: ns1.namebrightdns.com ns2.namebrightdns.com -- and the guy has a history xD

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Technical Help & Server Administration / Re: looking to register a domain that is EXPIRED - PENDING DELETE

« on: March 30, 2013, 02:20:41 PM »

2/14:
Okay so... quick update: no bid today; no sale o.0
Moniker now returns No Match and SnapNames wants $999. Of course, Verisign still shows the same information and the domain is not available. Bummer~

2/24:
Alright, it seems that the domain has been in redemptionPeriod status since 2/21. This is fun!

3/25:
Status: pendingDelete Updated Date: 24-mar-2013
Does this mean that I must snipe this domain on 3/29 sometime around 11am~2pm PDT?

3/30:
... and somebody else got to it first. There're no DNS servers yet and the contact information is private. Oh, well

it's been fun. TIL pendingDelete lasts 6 days.
Registrar: NAMETURN LLC Whois Server: whois.nameturn.com Referral URL: http://www.nameturn.com Name Server: No nameserver Status: ok Updated Date: 30-mar-2013 Creation Date: 30-mar-2013 Expiration Date: 30-mar-2014

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General Chat / Re: Looking for recommendations of microsd cards?

« on: March 20, 2013, 12:24:31 AM »

You speak of counterfeits and other shenanigans. Flash storage also performs differently under different conditions, and there is no standard measurement for the class rating; so... ymmv. If I were recording video and wanted to dump a stream of data to Flash as quickly as I could, I'd go for a class 10; if I'd an OS installed on one and cared about boot/runtime performance, I'd go for a class 4 SanDisk; there's no single best recommendation~

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