What Are You Doing Right Now

scottalanmiller

Good morning Mangoes.

dafyre

@johnhooks said:

Here we go again

http://lifehacker.com/you-can-break-into-a-linux-system-by-pressing-backspace-1748370796

I'm sure most people would use the grub rescue shell and not stick a USB live image in or just take the hard drive.

I mean you can even change the root password on a Red Hat system if you have physical access, and it's built in as a function...

I tried this on my Linux Mint 17.2 (desktop) and no dice). Guess I'll try it on a server edition and see what happens.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said:

Good morning Mangoes.

G'morning!

Minion Queen

@dafyre said:

@coliver said:

Seeing Star Wars tonight. I'll post a spoilerific review on here afterward

If you do, @Minion-Queen will tell your kids that Santy Clause doesn't exist.

Yeah he is 18 he has never believed in Santa Clause. Though he did think Buzzo was Santa Clause when he was really little. http://buzzomusic.com/index.html

hobbit666

about 90000000000 jobs at once, well at least it feels like (actual 3 or 4)

stacksofplates

@dafyre said:

@johnhooks said:

Here we go again

http://lifehacker.com/you-can-break-into-a-linux-system-by-pressing-backspace-1748370796

I'm sure most people would use the grub rescue shell and not stick a USB live image in or just take the hard drive.

I mean you can even change the root password on a Red Hat system if you have physical access, and it's built in as a function...

I tried this on my Linux Mint 17.2 (desktop) and no dice). Guess I'll try it on a server edition and see what happens.

It's been patched by the main distros already. These articles just annoy me haha.

brianlittlejohn

About to install Linux Mint as my primary OS on company laptop!

brianlittlejohn

Well, I was going to install Mint... left my laptop at home today. Oh well, I'll do it tonight.

anthonyh

Playing with an SQL query to see how efficient I can make it. The query right now is taking 5-6 minutes to run and I'm hoping to tighten that up a bit. I'm not sure I can though since part of the query is doing a like search on a field that contains free-form text. Yet another puzzle for the day.

scottalanmiller

Morning meeting with @Minion-Queen and @art_of_shred

anthonyh

@brianlittlejohn I've been running Mint at work on my primary desktop and laptop for about a year now. I'm also running it on my desktop at home (not sure how long). I haven't looked back since!

dafyre

@anthonyh said:

@brianlittlejohn I've been running Mint at work on my primary desktop and laptop for about a year now. I'm also running it on my desktop at home (not sure how long). I haven't looked back since!

I find I have to keep switching back to windows... . Stupid Games, lol.

coliver

@dafyre said:

@anthonyh said:

@brianlittlejohn I've been running Mint at work on my primary desktop and laptop for about a year now. I'm also running it on my desktop at home (not sure how long). I haven't looked back since!

I find I have to keep switching back to windows... . Stupid Games, lol.

Same... I'm hoping SteamOS will start forcing developers to Linux in the future but not holding my breath right now.

brianlittlejohn

@anthonyh I would switch my Desktop at work, but I need the RSAT tools on it to manage my windows servers.

dafyre

@brianlittlejohn said:

@anthonyh I would switch my Desktop at work, but I need the RSAT tools on it to manage my windows servers.

Enable remote desktop on one of your servers... and then install it there.

anthonyh

@dafyre said:

@anthonyh said:

@brianlittlejohn I've been running Mint at work on my primary desktop and laptop for about a year now. I'm also running it on my desktop at home (not sure how long). I haven't looked back since!

I find I have to keep switching back to windows... . Stupid Games, lol.

That's what dual-booting is for!

Fortunately (or unfortunately depending how you look at it) I'm not a big gamer, so I have no need for Windows at home. My wife's computer is running Win7 though (I've tried to convince her to give Mint a try, but she just won't budge!) so if I really needed it for something it's there. I also have a MacBook Pro running OS X as well. At work I do have a Windows box for those Windows only things (like XenCenter) too. I've considered just running a VM on my Mint box, but I do like that I can bounce between the two if I'm doing OS updates or whatnot.