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How you get this that fast?
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I searched also in CP to be more or less sure not to re post. But my search abilities on CP seems to be weak 
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Don't blame yourself for the weird search system here. It is difficult to use.
Tips from my experiences over the years:
Use QUOTEs around multiple words, e.g. "my search abilities".
Use capitals for AND, e.g. "my search abilities" AND "seems to be weak".
When searching for a joke, there can be variants in the lead-up, but the punchline is usually the same, so search for the punchline. Try not to include names (of people and places), as they vary more widely.
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Thanks 
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Perhaps this should become a pinned message, or, posted somewhere prominently on this site. Because there are many of us who are illiterate about searching on CP.
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You could post a tip, not an article...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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If you initiate a search on CodeProject it will take you to a search page like: Search[^]. If you then hover over the long search box at the top it shows the options.
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Thanks a lot. Was wondering how to search for my own earlier messages, and could not go to all my messages. Now, with your search string, can see all of them. Thanks once again.
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You're welcome. Like most things in life, the only way to find the answer is to try it.
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At a party, when someone tells a great joke and everybody but one person laughs out loud, but the last person grunts "I've heard that joke before!", he probably thinks that his grunting will make others think "Wow! That must be some smart fellow! He has heard the joke before!"
That is not what is the true reaction is, not even from those among the others who have also heard the joke before, yet they laugh. It is more like "Why was that grumpy old killjoy invited to the party?" Especially when this grumpy old killjoy makes his greatest efforts to kill every joke that is told at every party. It rather makes people want to ask "Won't you please shut up?!?
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(a) Playing golf for eternity is my idea of hell, not heaven
(b) Isn't Arizona a terrible place for a golf course?
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dandy72 wrote: Arizona a terrible place for a golf course?
Yes, pretty much, but there is no good place for a golf course. Except maybe hell.
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I thought I'd finally have a reason to have a machine running some version of Linux on bare metal, and not in a VM. But nope, still found some show-stopper that sent me right back to Windows.
I bought a 5-bay USB-C hard drive enclosure. I thought I'd dedicate a machine to run TrueNAS, and put some of my smaller(-ish)/retired drives to use again in a software RAID configuration.
Apparently I had silly expectations. Software RAID over a USB connection is "just not reliable enough", so TrueNAS doesn't support it. Only one of the drives is showing up in the web-based admin UI. Supposedly you can drop to a command prompt and build the drive pool from there, but (a) they strongly recommend against it and (b) if you subsequently keep using the admin UI to manage it, you risk breaking things. And "breaking things", when it comes to a RAID configuration, usually means very, very bad things. So that's a non-starter for me.
I thought I had done my homework; people rave about TrueNAS; it's described as professional-grade, yet user-friendly and (bonus) open-source. I had come to the understanding you could throw just about anything at it, and it'll work. But reality is, 10 minutes after a fresh install, this is where I found myself.
Yet puny, crappy Windows sees all drives, and its decades old Disk Manager will dutifully create a software RAID out of them without a complaint, or warning.
I want to like Linux. I really do. I want to run it on a system and have it be useful. I've installed dozens of distributions on VMs, but still haven't found enough of a use for any of them to have an actual physical machine committed to running it natively. I thought this would be my way in. But no, it knows better than me and won't let me do it. I thought that was Apple's thing.
[/rant]
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A few years ago, I was trying to get Linux running on bare iron. Now my development and sysadmin days go well back into the 80s where I developed on and configured multiple Unix types, so I know a bit about it. Fast forward, and I managed to get the distribution running, but I had a display problem. Default resolution was 800x600, but I needed native - 1920x1080. After googling and reading a bit, I came across the most god-awful command to fix the problem.
And that was the end of my Linux days. Might get into some embedded linux development next year, so I might be back, but the sheer disorganization puts me off.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Way back when I did things like Kernel driver development and real-time stuff, I worked on a space related project where our servers were acting as a hub to communicate with satellite interfaces. It ran on a linux kernel with real-time extensions and after 2 days of frustrating double booting umpteen times per day, I learned to use VIM on the command line to code.
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I've found that when Linux works well, and it detects everything on its own on the first attempt, it's great.
It's when these things fail and you have to fix them yourself that Linux still to this day completely falls apart. Sysadmins will roll their eyes at this, but that's just it, they're sysadmins, they spent the time already to figure these things out. What's the average guy to do?
If someone still insists on having that Year of Linux, it still has a long way to go to be consumer-friendly.
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And I've had the exact opposite experience. A year or so ago I got all new equipment, MoBo, GPU, Ram, NVME, etc. When I tried to install windows 10 (new DVD download) on that system I got a very helpful popup something like "Driver not found, insert Disc". No mention of WHAT driver was needed, nor any Help/Info button, just OK or Cancel. Fedora, on the other hand installed with no issues, found everything on the system, and has been rock solid ever since. I do have a windows VM I boot occasionally, but other than that I never touch it.
But then, I've been running Linux as my desktop, at work and at home, for at least 20 years.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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It was the pre-boot disk driver.
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Of course this sort of thing happens, I wouldn't pretend otherwise.
When some of fundamental things don't work as they should, there's only so many versions of Windows out there; you're likely to find someone who's gone through this already and work out a solution.
The sheer number of Linux distributions makes it downright impossible to find someone who's got the same problem, with the same hardware, and happens to be using the same OS version so his solution is also applicable in your case.
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I'm working on Fedora for a decade and had a lot of problems (just today I solved an certificate issue), but hardware problems are very rare in my experience...
In my cases if Fedora couldn't handle the hardware, than Window could not either...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Well, different distro, Linux Mint. Linux allows you to use old hardware current Windows not capable of running on, they said. Well, after replacing a Windows 10 bookkeeper's machine I have tried to make an email only machine for some pensioner friends of mom.
The then current Mint distro froze on the integrated nVidia with the new Open Source driver in the distro after about ten minutes of uptime. The nVidia driver for the chip required some kernel extensions, going down on the install just this package and compile a kernel rabbit's hole, welcome to the endless cycle.
So I have went back to the five generation older Mint distro, and it mostly worked. After a restart, always worked. So they can use it to this day, 130 km away, no other problems. Security updates out of question, so nothing breaks the machine - till TLS4 or something like that.
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Completely opposite situation here.
I’ve used Windows exclusively at work for the last 25 years. It’s OK but has given me plenty of silly issues over the years. I used Windows at home as well until about 12 years ago when a few of the “silly” issues became too much. I switched to a combination of Apple and Linux and have never looked back. I even added ChromeOS into the mix 5-6 years ago. IMHO all 3 OSes are more reliable then Windows.
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I tried TrueNAS (or rather FreeNAS as it was called) some years ago, but decided the Admin UI just got in the way.
I've been running Debian with ZFS and Samba for about 10 years on an HP MicroServer (model N54L) with no problems. I just completed a replacement of all the Seagate drives with ones which OriginalGriff pointed me to in a post a few months back. The old drives all had over 33,000 power on hours and one was starting to get significant revectoring.
I also have a couple of 3D printers controlled by Raspberry Pis which also run a Debian variant.
P.S.: I think I bought the last of those drives. They were down to 1 or 2 in stock.
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Quote: Apparently I had silly expectations. Software RAID over a USB connection is "just not reliable enough", so TrueNAS doesn't support it.
Yeah, it's much better to simply switch to Windows and use the unreliable mechanism ... for your important data /s.
In *my* experience, I appreciate software that warns me about using a mechanism that will lose my data.
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