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Originally posted by BR14 View Post
A Chef cookbook is a library of functions (written in Ruby) that configure a server. So, for example, when working on the forum fixes, I wrote a Chef cookbook that set up a server running the same version of Linux as the site runs on, installed the same versions of MySQL and PHP, installed the forum software, set up the Apache web server, all that kind of thing. Then I could execute the cookbook to create a virtual machine running on my Mac, and have an equivalent of the live forum to work on without any chance of breaking anything. I could throw that VM away, then start another one up, and it would be guaranteed to be configured exactly the same.
Then when admin and I were dealing with the database character encoding shenanigans, I was able to run the same cookbook on AWS to create a server there, meaning admin could log into it at the same time as me so we could work together. And both he and I could check it all out and make sure everything was all right, because it's just another website that only we know the IP address of.
If something had messed up, I could have just trashed that server and started another which would be created in a pristine state so we could have another go. (In fact, I started and trashed about six or seven CUK servers on Saturday, just to make sure everything was ready and to try some experiments.)
And as such cookbooks are just code, they can be kept in a version control system such as Git. This means that, for example, one could add new functionality to a working app server and, if it broke everything, just roll back to the previous version of the cookbook and have everything up and running again exactly as it was before while you worked out what had gone wrong.
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostI'll take your word for it
I'm just a lowly Z/systems engineer, honestComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostComment
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By emptying various hidden caches and removing stuff like virtual machines I don't need, I've reclaimed a further 130GB or so of space on my MacBook Air
Some of the vagrant-berkshelf caches apparently dated back to 2014
So not only were they definitely no longer of any use, they didn't even contain any code that had ever been executed on this machine - they'd come along for the ride when I imported my stuff from the previous MBAComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostBy emptying various hidden caches and removing stuff like virtual machines I don't need, I've reclaimed a further 130GB or so of space on my MacBook Air
Some of the vagrant-berkshelf caches apparently dated back to 2014
So not only were they definitely no longer of any use, they didn't even contain any code that had ever been executed on this machine - they'd come along for the ride when I imported my stuff from the previous MBAOriginally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyI can't see any way to do it can you please advise?
I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.Comment
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X7 home.
It was full
I had to sit at the back over the engine.
And nearly brained myself because of the low ceiling height.
Tea/dinner was M&S battered haddock, an unexpectedly generous piece which might explain the less than generous other pieces.
It was very nice.
Uncertain as to what this evening's epic is to be after the imminent shower.
I shall update following the <intersticely paused hiatus>
Half pissed now on port. <hic>
In other news, one of my mates is being made redundant (compulsory).
And he's at least 10 years younger than me.
It may be significant that he doesn't sprechen zie Cymraeg unlike those who aren't in the firing line.
This last is, of course, purely a coincidence.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 19 March 2019, 19:16.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostThe joys of time machines, I’ve found some really random hidden stuff on my new MacBook Pro from laptops gone byWhen the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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