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Just a little bit…
Because Linux’s move command is actually copy-then-delete if it’s not within one partition, I have to do this file shuffling in multiple chunks. Which means selecting a group of files, saying “move them”, waiting an hour while it does that, then selecting more files and doing it again. It seems to be working, so far, and I’ve done a teeeensy bit of tidying of the files on the way past (I really need to either sit down and suck-up tidying up this server, or obtain a minion to do it for me. Given the latter’s beyond unlikely, I think the former will have to occur at some point).
What I really need to do is borrow a few 4Tb drives, shuffle everything onto there, then set up a nice raid array, and shuffle it all back. It’s 11Tb worth of data (well, about 10Tb plus a 1Tb install disk, which is, yes, a ridiculous install disk, but it was a data disk until it got ‘too small to be useful’). But I don’t really have the cash to throw at a new multidisk array. Not if I want to get an EV to relieve my poor Minor of it’s 60 mile commute each work day. I don’t mind taking her some of the time, but I don’t really want to destroy her. So I think, for the time being, we’ll just have to put up with things being the way they are. Mind you, at least they’re now in a case where the disks are all in proper bays. That’s quite exciting. And I can take disks out without disassembling the entire PC.
Still as I watch file 481 of 1,702 move from one directory to another at a whopping 52Mb/sec (the other board was faster, when it worked, it used to hit about 80Mb/sec – then die), I can’t help but think of the fantastic musical treat that popped into my head as I considered that I had to move the files just a bit at a time.
Sorry.
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please read the text message I just woke up to
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OKAY BUT GUYS I DON’T THINK YOU REALISE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT THIS MAN IS WEARING
That guy in the Rogue One trailer, with the white Imperial uniform? There’s only ever been one rank in the entire Imperial Navy which wears a white uniform: Grand Fucking Admiral.
For those unfamiliar with the old EU, in the entirety of the Galactic Empire, which at its peak ruled over literally trillions of sentients, there were never more than twelve Grand Admirals at any given time. These guys outranked Grand Moff Tarkin, the old dude who kept Vader in check in Episode IV. There were only like four people in the galaxy more powerful than them, and one of those was the Emperor.
But what made these guys so important wasn’t just their rank. It was that they were all hand-picked by Palpatine for their sheer genius. Their tactical brilliance was literally the stuff of legends. Five years after the second Death Star was destroyed, just the rumour that a Grand Admiral might have survived the fall of the Empire was enough to cause all sorts of strife in the New Republic.
When that rumour turned out to be true, Grand Admiral Thrawn single-handedly brought the New Republic government to its knees, holding the entire planet of Coruscant hostage to terror for months with a brilliant tactical ploy.
Like. If this film does this character anywhere near the justice the Grand Admiral rank deserves, he is going to be one hell of a fucking villain.
THANK YOU!
I’m such a slut for Grand Admirals, you’ve no idea. I loved the Thrawn trilogy, I love the Empire. Please make this guy worthy of the uniform he’s wearing.I’m sorry all I can see is Thrawn going NO CAPES ^_^
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A major day in science history. Learn more about the polio vaccine at the CDC.
if you don’t know how big a deal this was, learn about it, omg
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Considering he was written to represent Jewish values, he should probably be Middle Eastern.
I’m so here for black Jewish Superman
YES (ps I read is Superman Jewish fyi he is)
Black Jewish Superman? Then we know who needs to play him.
Clark Kent:
And then he changes…
…into Superman.
it got better
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dXINDJBSUONSWH FJBDH XGJNXMLY B
*choked sob* please
yo turns out wE HAD A SECRET WEAPON
AN IMMIGRANT WE KNOW AND LOVE, WHO’S UNAFRAID TO STEP IN.
IT GOT BETTER.
listen I am RIGHT THE FUCK HERE for a black Jewish superman
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Yuri Gagarin with his Matra Bonnet Djet VS coupe
Via Flickr:
During his 1965 tour to France, Yuri Gagarin was presented with a Matra Bonnet Djet V S coupé by the French government, the car was later photographed wearing Soviet license plates.This colouring is product of russian-american cooperation: we did it it together, Patty Allison and me.
Here the site of Patty:
imbuedwithhues.wordpress.com/author/imbuedwithhues/
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Even before the show aired on Sunday night, Melissa McCarthy knew that she’d be making history at the MTV Movie Awards. For the first time ever, a woman would be winning MTV’s Comedic Genius Award, and it was McCarthy who’d be receiving the honor.
Fittingly, in ways both spoken and unspoken, McCarthy used the occasion to prove how much of a trailblazer she really is — when it comes to comedy, but also to red carpet fashion.
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I’ll never, never understand why people think it’s their business to comment on other people’s bodies. I go to a spa in LA sometimes, a Korean day spa, and all the women there are nude. And I’ve never felt so in love with the human form as when I’m walking around and seeing all those bodies, thinking, Oh my god, we’re all just built so differently. And every single body is beautiful. I will never understand that shame, and the reinforcement of that shame. It’s crazy. (x)
