Yeah, I use it for configuring my Debian installs.
I don't use it much these days, but it is in my gitlab repo.
I appreciate the method of learning it, as that is what I did, but what were
you wondering about it?
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> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:53:18 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Steven -
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> Subject: Minor monitor gripe(rant)
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> Back when I was in high school in the late 80s/early 90s we had a few
> computers with a grey-scale monitor that could be rotated between landscape
> and portrait orientation. Do you know what happened when we'd do that? You'd
> hear the clack of a mechanical orientation sensor, the screen would
> momentarily blank, and then the orientation of the display would
> automatically update. Which isn't a shock to anyone who has used late model
> PDAs and just about every tablet and smart phone. How is it that today, when
> all but the cheapest desktop monitor stands allow you to rotate the monitor,
> we have to manually tell the computer we've rotated the monitor?
>
> Okay, yes, this is because back then that was a premium and pricey monitor
> which is why only the vo-tech computer class had even two of them in the
> entire school (we also had an analog camera that recorded to disk, not a
> Kodak disc film camera but an SLR camera which used a camcorder sensor and
> recorded single frames of analog NTSC to magnetic 2 or maybe they were 2.5
> inch disks. The drive for these disks was as large as the Mac it was plugged
> into). So throwing a sensor onto the monitor wasn't that expensive when we
> were already getting charged a premium for it. But would it kill them to
> include it on the less than bargain basement monitors today? Although now I'm
> wondering if DisplayPort/DVI/etc even have a way in their standards to pass
> along orientation information or if you'd need a separate connection, a quick
> googling isn't finding anything promising about that.
>
> Anyway, just a quick rant to get that out. I do in fact feel better having
> done so.
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> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:18:38 -0700 (MST)
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> Subject: Ansible laptop management
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> Anyone here using some form of configuration management (Ansible, Chef,
> Saltstack, etc) for their personal computers? I recently did a clean OS
> install on my carry-around laptop and I decided to use that as an excuse to
> start using ansible (so far only to tell apt to install vim and tmux if they
> aren't already installed). While the playbooks are currently very bare bones
> I'm planning to build on them as time goes by using this as a way to build up
> actual working knowledge and not just rea
