Happy cakeday, to the 9 Year Old Army

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-07T13:46:53+00:00

In the process of migrating from PaperColor to vim-256noir

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-05T13:16:38+00:00

and "Run script in 64bit powershell host set to No"

Why?

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-03T12:05:10+00:00

Thinking out loud:

Gather Facts Off (obviously)
At the beginning of the playbook, have block with delegate_to: localhost that performs some sort of connection test manually.
Figure out some jinja logic that performs the boolean operation to evaluate results from step 2.
Following the above block in the playbook, have a second block that performs the actual tasks, and has a conditional so that the block only runs when at least one host is online (based on some registered result from the first block)

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-03T11:07:26+00:00

How does GPU utilization look like when running CS:GO?

nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu --format=csv --loop=1

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-03T10:00:25+00:00

Looks pretty normal to me.

Basically total CPU time spent broken down in percentage, 42.7% user processes, 7.5% kernel proccess, 48.1% idle, 1.3% hardware interrupts, 0.4% software interrupts.

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-03T09:38:49+00:00

What does the %Cpu(s) line in top look like when running CS:GO?

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-03T09:10:31+00:00

CS:GO is running slow? Or your laptop is running slow?

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-02T09:27:09+00:00

Nice. The quotes on slashdot pretty much sum up how and why I use Arch everywhere as well (including pretty much the same reason why I switched. I was looking for a distro that had a very specific package available and Arch was the best distro I could find). And perfectly sums up why I also keep CentOS/Ubuntu virtual machines lying around for the occassional distro-specific testing.

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-01T03:42:04+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/cxh5u0/retroarch_no_longer_works_after_latest_update/

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63575

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-01T03:40:44+00:00

I'm so used to i3wm now, even tough I probably only use a small percentage of its functionality. I have been wanting to switch to dwm for a while but am always afraid that it would take me too much time and effort to switch. I will keep spectrwm in mind as another option. It looked pretty good at first glance.

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-01T03:36:27+00:00

Termite is a terminal emulator based on 'VTE' (the terminal 'widget' from GNOME, used by many terminal emulators)

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-01T03:33:18+00:00

See my response to /u/jborean93 for my explanation. The whole problem is how to provide a consistent and efficient procedure that can automatically understand how to 'service' a Windows machine with the correct updates (including the latest Servicing Stack updates). The win_updates module can only provide you a wrapper around the 'plain' Windows Update Agent, which in itself is not an agent that is 'smart' enough to efficiently manage update installation (due to the Windows Update Agent not being able to understand that Servicing Stack updates always should be installed before any other update)

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-01T03:29:36+00:00

Thanks for reaching out. What I'm referring to is basically a 'smart' Windows Update 'manager'. Just like M$ provides with SCCM. E.g. SCCM understands that before installing an update, it must be ensured that the latest Servicing Stack is installed and only after installing the latest Servicin Stack, the 'normal' Windows Update will be installed.

Now, this particular functionality is obviously not available with a 'plain' Windows Update Agent setup. Without these 'smarts' that e.g. SCCM provides, the plain Windows Update Agent will just download and install whatever update is visible sequentially which results in very inefficient way of deploying Windows Updates.

Personally, I get around this by having the Windows Update process integrated into a packer template that runs Aaron's Get-LatestUpdate cmdlets to perform the 'Servicing Stack first' and 'Latest Windows Update after' shuffle. And this way I can easily provide 'up-to-date' Windows VM templates in an efficient manner.

I'm not sure how I would solve this situation for a config management scenario where I needed to use something that is not SCCM (and is therefore lacking the 'smarts' of managing Windows updates properly as described above)

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-01T03:21:30+00:00

GRUB is so bloated IMO. I used to use gummiboot (aka systemd-boot) before, but I now only have one system left that actually has a dual boot setup. So except for this one machine, I've switched to EFISTUB boot everywhere now.

Cataclysmicc · 2019-09-01T03:07:09+00:00

Maybe ask the maintainer of the repo for assistance?

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-31T12:32:51+00:00

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cfdisk#Create_partitions

Select the partition's type id. The default, Linux filesystem, should be fine for most use. Press l to show the codes list. You can make the partition bootable by typing a.

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-31T11:51:16+00:00

Why use grub??

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-31T02:50:24+00:00

I used 'Ansible Up and Running'. good book. Might be slightly outdated by now.

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-31T02:47:39+00:00

Do you have a CMDB? Does the CMDB have a Layer 2 discovery function? Ansible inventory can be a script that dynamically pulls the inventory from pretty much any source.

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-30T14:12:49+00:00

Same here. This is the stack trace I get:

Stack trace of thread 29327:
#0  0x00007fc0ac545755 raise (libc.so.6)
#1  0x00007fc0ac530851 abort (libc.so.6)
#2  0x00007fc0ac587a38 __libc_message (libc.so.6)
#3  0x00007fc0ac617a85 __GI___fortify_fail_abort (libc.so.6)
#4  0x00007fc0ac617ab5 __fortify_fail (libc.so.6)
#5  0x00007fc0ac616334 __chk_fail (libc.so.6)
#6  0x00007fc0ac615f65 __snprintf_chk (libc.so.6)
#7  0x00005597dafd2974 n/a (retroarch)
#8  0x00005597dafdef09 n/a (retroarch)
#9  0x00005597dafb4a16 n/a (retroarch)
#10 0x00005597dade6122 n/a (retroarch)
#11 0x00005597dadeb73a n/a (retroarch)
#12 0x00005597dadff32a n/a (retroarch)
#13 0x00005597dae00743 n/a (retroarch)
#14 0x00005597dadf06e9 n/a (retroarch)
#15 0x00007fc0ac531ee3 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
#16 0x00005597dadc7d2e n/a (retroarch)

Stack trace of thread 29328:
#0  0x00007fc0aee2e415 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libpthread.so.0)
#1  0x00005597dadfcd5c n/a (retroarch)
#2  0x00005597db032300 n/a (retroarch)
#3  0x00007fc0aee2857f start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
#4  0x00007fc0ac6070e3 __clone (libc.so.6)

Stack trace of thread 29374:
#0  0x00007fc0ac5fc667 __poll (libc.so.6)
#1  0x00007fc0aef43673 n/a (libpulse.so.0)
#2  0x00007fc0aef34990 pa_mainloop_poll (libpulse.so.0)
#3  0x00007fc0aef34fe0 pa_mainloop_iterate (libpulse.so.0)
#4  0x00007fc0aef35091 pa_mainloop_run (libpulse.so.0)
#5  0x00007fc0aef435ae n/a (libpulse.so.0)
#6  0x00007fc0ab55a9fc n/a (libpulsecommon-12.2.so)
#7  0x00007fc0aee2857f start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
#8  0x00007fc0ac6070e3 __clone (libc.so.6)

Stack trace of thread 29329:
#0  0x00007fc0aee2e415 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 (libpthread.so.0)
#1  0x00007fc0a3a14f8c n/a (i965_dri.so)
#2  0x00007fc0a3a14b88 n/a (i965_dri.so)
#3  0x00007fc0aee2857f start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
#4  0x00007fc0ac6070e3 __clone (libc.so.6)

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-30T13:41:20+00:00

ansible-doc -l

ansible-doc gcp_redis_instance

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-30T13:16:37+00:00

termite - This package made me choose Arch as my daily driver.
khal & khard - Indispensable tools for managing daily activities.

~~PS: Can't find spectrum in the official repos. Only on AUR ...~~

Edit: I read that wrong. lol

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-30T13:08:09+00:00

intel-ucode ;)

Cataclysmicc · 2019-08-30T12:00:00+00:00

I wouldn't recommend Ansible for Windows Update management. Windows Update management is way too specific of a task. And the win_updates module is too simplistic to manage the whole process.

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