Still crazy after all these years

[Tony Alfrey]

That is really weird; the /kid/ gives the /old man/ the pi.  These 
things are (partly) advertised as DIY gadgets that are supposed to be 
used to teach kids how to program and build embedded controllers for 
what-have-you.  Clearly the kid knows what the old man likes.  Yes, it 
is a time suck.

Terence wrote:
> 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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>>>>> Nothing
>>>>> is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.
>>>>>
>>>>>   -- Lord Acton
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