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SUDO :smile:
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well at least you can console yourself with the thought that Linux is far superior to Windows. 
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Well, I've updated Linux once (right after I installed it), but the Windows7/SP1 VM is currently installing its SEVENTH round of updates and has had to be rebooted five times. So yeah, so far it's superior.
I have one app-specific issue to resolve (VirtualBox) and one OS issue (selecting text with the numeric keypad). All in all, not bad.
Oh yeah - with Linux, I didn't have to pay someone for the privilege of having software issues, like I did with Windows.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: the Windows7/SP1 VM is currently installing its SEVENTH round of updates and has had to be rebooted five times.
I didn't bother doing the windows updates (turned off), your mileage may vary but my reasoning:
- used the most recent ISO I could find
- there's been no OS functional updates for win 7 in the last few years (i.e. nothing new)
- linux already mitigates most vectors via it's firewall (and it has the spectre ect already)
- * my private stuff (i.e. internet banking) done in the linux
OK, yes linux also has it's issues, but way less:
- * inherently more secure (mostly due to properly segregated kernel and userland)
- many times more hackers target windows, there's just way less people attacking it
- most windows attacks are vectored/delivered via applications, the * entries above mitigate that
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Well, I'm using Win7 so I can still write code for Windows, and I'm going to install VS2017 installed in the VM. This means I have to keep updates turned on (I set it to notify only).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah I know it's not Q&A, but...
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 5) I'm going to start trying to find a way to make Linux handle the numeric key pad the same way Windows does when trying to select text. The fact that it's different really bugs the hell outa me.
your friend will be xmodmap. check the man page on how to use in interactive (for testing) and when you've got the codes figured toss them in a .Xmodmap file and it'll be auto done on login.
to get you started here's my .Xmodmap
keycode 79 = KP_Home Home
keycode 80 = KP_Up Up
keycode 81 = KP_Prior Prior
keycode 83 = KP_Left Left
keycode 84 = KP_Begin Begin
keycode 85 = KP_Right Right
keycode 87 = KP_End End
keycode 88 = KP_Down Down
keycode 89 = KP_Next Next
keycode 90 = KP_Insert Insert
keycode 91 = Delete Delete
the way to find the keycodes is xev,
above first column is the key pessed without modifiers, 2nd column shifted (and there's more columns for ctrl &/| alt if needed.)
Basically I've made the shift-keypad entries the same as the Shift-non-keypad namesakes (except Delete which I've made always Delete)
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But Shirley at least 4,000 people have already made the changes that John requires. At least one of them must have made a script for it.
That's one of the things that's been good about windows, over the years; if someone thinks of a time-saver, he makes an app for it.
Unfortunately, MS itself only does that nowadays with time wasters.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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it is a script (or file of key translations that's automatically read at login), it's the way it's done by all of those 4000 people.
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Sure, but I'd prefer to have "Act like the Windows number pad" and "Don't" buttons.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 2) ... installed VirtualBox. Performance is much better, but I'm having other issues, namely the inability to mount the Guest Additions ISO ...
OK, stretching my memory back a few weeks but as I recal from the google results I got the solution was to install virtualbox from the oracle VM site download, dont use the apk/synaptic version
[this was at the time I was installing, may still be the issue]
apparently the synaptic VB version was .1 older than the latest whereas the guest additions that came with it were the very latest - meant they didn't play well together and gave odd results.
- also download from oracle will be both the latest version and properly matched to the GA
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Your posts have succeeded in making me even less interested in changing my OS. Reminds me of the pain from back when I helped administer a Solaris/Windows network. Doesn't seem like much has changed over the years.  How many hours has the endeavor sucked up? 
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Well, don't forget, I'm migrating 10 machines (three of the 13 are raspberry Pi's and started out as Linux boxes).
I expected a few issues. Linux is has a different way of looking at things (again, expected).
0) The Kodi problem appears to be a "kodi problem" which does not translate to a "linux problem". It might even be a file server problem (see next list item), since the server completely froze up (it's weird that it would do that, but the hardware is kind of old - it could be flaky RAM and/or CPU.
1) The most recent file server problem appears to be a hardware/firmware problem, as opposed to a Linux problem (I ordered a motherboard with eight sata ports to address most of that issue, and it also supports a nVME PCIe SSD for booting, so that will leave me with one free sata port after all of the drives are connected (I'll have a dvd-ROM, six data drives, and I'll move my boot partition to the nVME drive).
2) Hmmm, got an index out of range exception on this item, but as you can see below, that's not the case.
3) I think my Thunderbird issue was self-inflicted, but it's working now.
4) I'm having an issue with VirtualBox (a VirtualBox problem) in that I can't get the Win7 guest to see the max resolution for the monitor. Interestingly, I created a Lubuntu guest, and it seems to detect the max resolution just fine and with no mechanations on my part.
Honestly, you can't migrate to a new OS without expecting some tribulations. All you can really do is barge through te front door, armed to the teeth and guns blazing, and hope for the best. Word to the wise, I would toss a couple of flash-bangs through the window before breaching the house. A disoriented Linux is a more docile Linux.
BTW, it's okay to be a little afraid...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Well, don't forget, I'm migrating 10 machines
Spitballing numbers, 3 weekends at ~ 12 hrs/weekend, =~ 36 hours. 3.6 hours per machine seems like it should apply to the first machine maybe, not the rest of them. Spitballing more numbers, assuming the longest trek between an entertainment center and a centralized rack of DVD/Blue rays is a 3 minute round trip, it will take ~ 720 viewings to recoup this time. That doesn't include the time it took for the wiring, etc.
Better you than me. Have fun! 
(I'm not being (too) sarcastic - I've spent my fair share of time figuring out how to get something done, to the point of obsession, when it wasn't really necessary. And your work will be a cool technological achievement when it is done. I've just got other things to do than fiddle with all the arcanery you are highlighting.)
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What sounds like an unpleasant chore to you might sound like an interesting challenge to others. You can't criticize a hobby, especially when said hobby teaches you useful lessons.
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As I said, better him than me. As I also said in another of his linux threads, I agree it is an interesting intellectual exercise. As far as criticism, anyone is free to criticize anything, as your post exemplifies. Whether anyone learns from criticism is up to them.
Best wishes,
David
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Well that was thinly veiled. 
I meant to use "you" in a very broad sense in my original post. Not you specifically. No offense intended. 
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None taken!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Honestly, you can't migrate to a new OS without expecting some tribulations. All you can really do is barge through te front door, armed to the teeth and guns blazing, and hope for the best. Word to the wise, I would toss a couple of flash-bangs through the window before breaching the house. A disoriented Linux is a more docile Linux.
The visuals on this alone get my 5.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: 5) I'm going to start trying to find a way to make Linux handle the numeric key pad the same way Windows does when trying to select text. The fact that it's different really bugs the hell outa me.
Gnome tweak tool (probably need an apt-get). Typing tab. Miscellaneous compatibility options.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I don't recall that remapping the keyboard is part of Gnome-tweak.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Not the detailed xmodmap stuff that Lopatir was talking about, but the Typing tab has a bunch of "presets", things like turning the number pad upside down (phone/ATM style) and a whole bunch of legacy compatibility stuff. Check it out. Under the hood it probably uses the same mapping mechanism.
I came across it when I was looking for ways to enter âççéñtêd characters on an english language keyboard.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Huzzah! I've resolved the screen problems inside VirtualBox.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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