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Very helpful command it was for those, whose modem had to be rebooted daily back in the day: Have a cron-job open the tray, which in turn was placed strategically so that it would hit the reset button of the modem, then close the tray. And voilà; automatic reboot of the modem. Robotics at its finest!
That is fantastic.
In the early 2000s, only my rich friends had cell phones. My roommate and I both had accounts on each other's machines so we could telnet into them on the same local network.
We used to do this all the time to each other. It was funny to us 25 years ago. It's still funny now.
This command was very useful for quickly finding a server in a row of hundreds of identical servers. No need to read the labels or look up which rack it's in. Just log in remotely, just use 'eject', and then walk down the row to the server that has its tray out.
I was wondering why they still sold servers with disk drives
For deploying your sick playlist to production, obviously!
No not mine, thermal performance always goes haywire 😔
I haven't worked in a data center in years, so I don't know the current norm for server hardware.
VPS providers hate this one trick
Ah, the good old days of sshing into a family member's computer and trolling them by constantly opening and closing the drive.
i envy you. lol
It it to wait 30 mins then do it every 10, and pop it in startup, those were the days.
The other was Free_Cupholder.EXE. I miss disk drives for this reason more than for actual use.
You mean the cup holder?
The finger guillotine.
Bologna storage.
You can configure sudo, used to elevate the privileges of a command, to insult users when they type in an incorrect password.
To do so, edit the sudoers file with a tool called visudo, which edits and validates modifications to the sudo configuration file.
sudo visudo
Near the top, add a line that reads:
Defaults insults
Save and close the file.
I found out about this recently and I love it. I don't know why I like to be insulted, it makes me laugh.
I'm sure you do, you little scum! /s
Don't ever match wits with a rutabaga
Back in networking classes we used to have entire rooms of replicated machines, all with contiguous addresses and same logins. We wrote a script to ssh into every computer of the room and eject and retract all the disk drives at the same time, it was wonderful ✨
You could've made music out of ejecting/retracting those all at different times!
Would've actually been fantastic distributed systems practice, synchronizing all of those to tight tolerances of music across a network connection...
Disk... drive?
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The year to backup (rip) your DVDs.
I long ago moved to a pair of 4TB hdds and recently upgraded to a pair of 16TBs
tilts head
plugs in USB optical drive
eject
pop
hehe
push tray back in
eject
pop
hehehe
Almost 20 years ago I convinced my high school library to let me install Debian on one of the computer groups. I found the "eject" command, and wrote a script that just invoked it with an argument to close the tray. I named that script "inject". Being high schoolers, my friends and I made scripts to "eject" and "inject", along with various beeps, and named the scripts suggestive and tawdry things. We all had a good giggle setting the systems off on their little routines and walking away.
If you have a LS-120, it will eject the floppy disc like you were on dome fancy-pants Macintosh!
I've never encountered another LS-120 user before. When it came out I assumed it would be the future, because 120 megabyte freaking laser assisted floppy, am I right? Turns out I was very much mistaken, and CD-R took over.
I also made the same mistake regarding CF vs SD cards.
For the next storage revolution go with the opposite of your prediction maybe
120 MB? That’s more than a ZipDisk!
I knew I attended a well-funded modern college because all the computers had been upgraded with ZipDrives.
Yep, Zip drives only had 100MB, the disks were clunky and were prone to get the Click of Death (not that LS-120 disks were any better in that sense, of course).
CF, or their follow-up CFast, are still in industrial PCs - at least in the Beckhoff IPCs my (ok, more like "my customers") Automat is sporting
Used as system storage and easy to swap for the customer in regards of backups, if something breaks
They should make a usb-port with a spring in it which can be released with eject. Until then I have to be content with just making sound effects when I run eject on other devices.
Those are discs not disks kiddo
I was wondering about OP's soft-eject floppy drive. Seems quite retrofuturistic.
There is a whole world of obsolete stuff nobody will ever do with a linux system anymore. Terminal servers with lots of serial terminals or modems for a BBS. Making a fax server, IVR, digital answering machine for analog land lines. Using removable optical or magnetic media. Recording broadcast tv. SCSI, Firewire. It is interesting to imagine what from today will be obsolete in a few years.
Magnetic media is still king of price to capacity (Hard drives) and I literally do still record broadcast television on one of my linux boxes
I need to go put my DVD drive back in my tower to try this!
I used to play with Linux at college back in 2002 and install the distros on the front of magazines. Eject opens the cd drive but did you know it hangs unless you umount the mount point first? Back in those days everything had to be painfully mounted and unmounted.
If you use arch (btw) it still does
Man, this takes me back, I had totally forgotten!
woa what the frick!! that actually scared me it's like 2001 space odyssey type of stuff
I still have a disk drive but eject doesn't seem to affect it since for some reason I don't have a /dev/cdrom. I just checked with the physical eject button on the drive and it is at least still physically working—the tray ejects! I don't have any optical media to test if the drive still works to read CDs though
Try eject /dev/sr0, that should be your disk drive if it is attached via SATA or USB. /dev/cdrom is usually just a symlink.
lemme guess.. and inject would close it again?
eject -t
There's also eject -T which is a toggle.
Sorry, my what ? Are you talking about relics of the past ? ;D
don't use it if you're flying a plane, though!
