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dandy7213-Jul-22 10:24

13-Jul-22 10:24

I typically don't spend all that much time with them individually - install them from newly-downloaded ISOs, make sure they can access the internet, download the latest updates, then leave them alone. If there's some distro I then decide I want to further tinker with, it's there and ready to go.

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Paul Sanders (the other one)13-Jul-22 7:36

13-Jul-22 7:36

fgs1963 wrote:
Humour me

No, you had it right first time Smile | :)

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englebart13-Jul-22 15:58

englebart

13-Jul-22 15:58

This is a good example where you should post this as a question in a forum and then provide your answer.

Google will help you find it later.

dandy7214-Jul-22 5:18

14-Jul-22 5:18

Well, I have my script now, and it's in a location where I won't have to search for long to find it.

I considered posting it as a tip, but ultimately there's more code in the script trying to decide what folder name to use to name the VM (~40 lines) than actually creating it (one line)

Peter Adam13-Jul-22 10:35

Peter Adam

13-Jul-22 10:35

Desired State Configuration may help

dandy7214-Jul-22 5:22

14-Jul-22 5:22

I'm somewhat familiar with DSC. All I was trying to do here is "enumerate all existing VHD files, create a bog-standard VM mapping to each one of them". As I understand it, DSC serves a different purpose (defining templates, creating resources configured as dictated by said templates).

Peter Adam14-Jul-22 21:10

Peter Adam

14-Jul-22 21:10

DSC does not take a photo of the current setup and builds it again on the target system?

dandy7215-Jul-22 4:09

15-Jul-22 4:09

Well, nothing really needs to be "rebuilt" in this case. I just have a bunch of fully functional VMs sitting on a disk. Their config files aren't that important; what matters is their disks (VHD files). It's really not all that different than taking an existing hard drive and putting it into another machine so it can boot from it.

What I needed to do in my case is create new VMs, but at the step where you can either create a new VHD or use an existing file - point it to an existing file on disk. I really don't think DSC could have contributed much here. I could very well be wrong, but that's not my understanding of what DSC tries to do.

Wordle strangeness

pkfox12-Jul-22 2:34

pkfox

12-Jul-22 2:34

Hi all, having solved todays puzzle on my tablet I though I'd show SWMBO the game on my main computer , I started with the same starter word but got a different result than before, to cut a long story short is was a different answer than earlier.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

den2k8812-Jul-22 3:22

den2k88

12-Jul-22 3:22

Very strange, I did it now from a different browser and the answer is the same.
EDIT: also from my phone, which has its oww IP from the mobile provider.

GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

Greg Utas12-Jul-22 3:41

Greg Utas

12-Jul-22 3:41

Have you tried to
- clear the browser's cache?
- clear the browser's cookies?
- reinstall the browser?
- reinstall the operating system?
- replace the motherboard?

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Member 1065208312-Jul-22 21:11

Member 10652083

12-Jul-22 21:11

Check the time in your computers. Wordle changes at midnight.

pkfox12-Jul-22 22:13

pkfox

12-Jul-22 22:13

First thing I did - both the same

First Image from Webb

Amarnath S12-Jul-22 1:12

12-Jul-22 1:12

http://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages[^]

From several billion light years.

Question: Will they now need to change the date of the Big Bang?

Peter_in_278012-Jul-22 1:21

Peter_in_2780

12-Jul-22 1:21

They'll have to wind it back 12 1/2 hours, at least!
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Amarnath S12-Jul-22 1:23

12-Jul-22 1:23

Sorry for the Leslie. Somehow, for me, the Insider Page did not load.

TNCaver12-Jul-22 3:20

TNCaver

12-Jul-22 3:20

IIRC the current estimate is 14.5 billion years ago. If the galaxies shown are only from "several billion light years away" then I see no reason to adjust the estimate.

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

Amarnath S12-Jul-22 5:26

12-Jul-22 5:26

That's indeed my question. What if the Webb Telescope finds something beyond 14.5 billion light years?

When Hubble photographed the Ultra Deep Field sometime in 2003/2004, I believe it was 13.9 billion. Now, 14.5 billion. Next, what? Will our current theories of Physics need to get changed? Don't know.

TNCaver12-Jul-22 6:27

TNCaver

12-Jul-22 6:27

My fault, it is still estimated to be between 13.5 and 13.9 billion years old. I must have been mixing it with the age of the earth (4.5 billion). D'Oh! | :doh:

But yeah, if Webb shows galaxies further than 13.n billion light years then the age will have to be revised.

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

matblue2513-Jul-22 7:27

matblue25

13-Jul-22 7:27

Ah - but they won't - unless someone else comes up with a different age of the universe. Distance to objects is determined by redshift. The higher the value, the further away. But it's not linear. A redshift of infinity is, by definition, at a distance in light years of the age of the universe, whatever that current value might be accepted as.

Mike Hankey12-Jul-22 4:13

Mike Hankey

12-Jul-22 4:13

Wow, awesome pic.

Makes you really think; what a infinitesimal little orb we live on and if there ain't no other life out there it would be a miracle.

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Amarnath S12-Jul-22 5:27

12-Jul-22 5:27

Someone had told that we are a speck on a speck on a speck on a speck on a speck ...

This indeed proves that.

Maximilien12-Jul-22 6:22

Maximilien

12-Jul-22 6:22

The numbers are just mind boggling.

The Milky way has around 100–400 billion stars.

In that single image, there are hundreds of galaxies each with probably the same numbers of stars.

And the size of the image is the width of a grain of rice at arm length distance.

CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair

jeron112-Jul-22 7:18

jeron1

12-Jul-22 7:18

Quote:
And the size of the image is the width of a grain of ~~rice~~ sand at arm length distance.

Even better. Smile | :)

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