Still crazy after all these years

[Terence]

My son gave me a Raspberry Pi two Christmasses ago- it's an amazing amount
of fun (and time consumer) and I have the new version on order!

Toys for boys- so what? And I have never learned to play bridge...

Terence

On 16 February 2015 at 18:11, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> lol, I have been doing that very thing ;)
>
> Actually, I've been using it for vulnerability research on embedded
> platforms.  Very handy little suckers.
>
> On Monday, February 16, 2015 09:53:22 Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > Trying to figure out what all of the commotion is over raspberrypi;
> they
> > runs an abbreviated form of Debian (among other abbreviated linux).
> > I'll tell you, if you want a job, pick one of these things up, play
> > around with it, and then farm yourself out as an expert.
> >
> > Tony Alfrey
> >
> > Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > Retired I am.
> > >
> > > Ken Moffat.
> > >
> > > On Feb 16, 2015 9:35 AM, "Bill Campbell" <linux-sxs at celestial.com>
> wrote:
> > >> I'm still hanging in there although I would like to figure out
> > >> how to pass off my Linux clients to somebody so I can retire.
> > >> Most are running on CentOS 5 with a few ancient SuSE Enterprise
> > >> Linux boxes still going (and a couple of SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a).
> > >>
> > >> Work is a four letter word that gets in the way of playing bridge.
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > >>> Ironically, this email chain hits just as my main lappie goes toes-
> up
> > >>> (on
> > >>> my work's mbp atm).  Came out of slumber and froze.  On hard
> rebooting,
> > >>> I
> > >>> see it trying to mount the root filesystem, but all I repeatedly
> get was
> > >>> some messages about Incrementally Starting RAID devices, and
> complaining
> > >>> about no group "root" or "disk".  Never to recover.
> > >>> After playing around a bit, and fearing that my SSD was in the
> process
> > >>> of
> > >>> failing (but it booted grub without problem), I booted from a usb
> stick
> > >>
> > >> and
> > >>
> > >>> discovered that my LVM root partition seemed fine.  However, the
> UUID on
> > >>> the partition is not what is in grub!
> > >>
> > >> I really like specifying root=LABEL=xxx to using UUIDs for this.
> > >>
> > >> ...
> > >> Bill
> > >> --
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> > >>
> > >> Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.
> > >> Nothing
> > >> is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.
> > >>
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