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Thank you! Finally someone actually outlines specific issues instead of just complaining.

Well most of the issues he complained about weren't actually related to Systemd.

But I have to say, I'm using Jessie and I have not experienced any of the problems you have cited... When I kill a process, it gets killed. When I reboot or shutdown, it reboots or shuts down. When I mount/unmount something, it gets mounted/unmounted. The other stuff I can't speak to.

Usually no, but it happens

Can I ask, why don't you and other admins/devs like you start to contribute to systemd? Obviously there are huge philosophical differences between the systemd devs and parts of the Linux community, but if people like you never get involved in systemd development because of those issues, can you really expect them to change?

For one thing contributing to a project like that is a massive commitment, but more to the point the poster is fundamentally opposed to the underlying philosophy of Systemd. They can get what they want by simply using init.

I didn't even know systemd existed until I updated from Squeeze to Jessie and found that "service apache2 restart" didn't work. Once I got around the growing pains of learning a few new commands, that was it. It's not like I was like "ZOMG gotta get me some systemd!"

I'm not having any problems with systemd, so why would I switch to a smaller, less supported distro to avoid it? That just opens me up to a huge swath of potential issues that I don't even want to think about. And what's the reason, because people on forums are complaining? Because binary log files break the UNIX philosophy? I don't think you should be that surprised when I say that I really don't care.

For the average user, or person running their own server, it doesn't really change anything. The people affected by Systemd are the hardcore sysadmins running huge networks or mission critical servers.

If you're to believe the people running the major distros the hardcore sysadmins love Systemd since it's given them a bunch of new capabilities and fixed a lot of issues. But there's a lot of people, at least on message boards, who are extremely skeptical of the change.

Here's a guide on how to purge Win10 from a disk.

If you're going to clean a drive, use the correct *nix tool.
dd, otherwise known as The Destroyer of Disks.
Bonus - it can target specific files and overwrite over 1GB/minute.

A great use for this is sanitizing disks so good drives don't have to be recycled.

check here for a more verbose description of the above suggestion

This looks kind of cool and cheap: http://www.noah.org/science/x-ray/detector/

Behold, The Warper...This once secret recipe for home projectors is now your for free and made possible with only a frensel lens, cardboard box and some duck tape. Warning - I made one years ago in my dorm room. You could only make out shapes but it did the create cool colors on the wall.

http://www.noah.org/acidwarp/

Fun indeed, sure does bring back some old memories...

I remember building something similar on instructions off of the old Acidwarp eye candy. Maybe common stuff now but made for a great party prop at the time.

http://www.noah.org/acidwarp/warper.html
A frenzel lense + acidwarp = good times in a college dorm room. A 10 foot wide light show on your wall is pretty cool. People seemed to like it but covering your computer with a lense and a cardboard box was a little nerdy.

Or...you cal sell these on eBay!
175" DIRECT BIGSCREEN BIG SCREEN HOME THEATER TV KIT
Sell kits to create 175" large TVs on eBay! The 175" 6.5x Lens Home Theater Kit is amazing! Simply put, it is a Projection unit that when attached to your ordinary TV will project the image up to sizes of 175".
/sarcasm

TREPAN TEH EAR7H!!!!!1!

Here is some rope, enough to hang yourself with :)

AcidWarp and The Warper

I am not really sure if this is the earliest incarnation - somehow, I doubt it. But it has to be an early one (1992)...

AcidWarp and The Warper

I am not really sure if this is the earliest incarnation - somehow, I doubt it. But it has to be an early one (1992)...

Then by all mean, please do not build an x-ray machine. I certainly wasn't advocating that people go out and build one for party tricks. What most people do not realize is that it's not a trivial project. The x-ray machine described in this article is a "cold cathode" machine. It generates weak, soft x-rays. It's hardly very useful for weapons or "candid" photos (exposure times are very long).

I've done a lot of research into this. I talked with two x-ray technicians and had a good, long conversation with a old x-ray repairman. The old x-ray guy finally convinced me that I would not be satisfied with a home-made model. It would create unimpressive radiographs and would require a lot of work.

Modern x-ray machines use a "hot cathode" x-ray tube. They generate more penetrating, "hard" x-rays. They are also very bulky, 200 pound devices that require a lot of power. But if you want "real" radiographs with nice contrast and good depth then these are the way to go. I eventually bought two x-ray machines from eBay (Yay!) that I use for my own Polaroid radiographs. I won't go into the precautions I take (usually) while operating these machines. That is a left as an exercise for the reader.

I haven't given up on building my own machine, but that's more for the challenge of building a really nice, small, High Voltage DC power supply. Maybe I will learn glass blowing and try to make my own hot cathode tubes.

And, yes, I fully expect that my toys will take off about 10 years of my life. Such is the price of obsession. Now if you will excuse me, I must go apply some ointment to these oozing sores that I have mysteriously appeared on my face, neck, and arms.

Yours, Noah

P.S. The original article failed to note that I have my own Polaroid x-ray samples online. I am posting an update to the x-ray page to make these easier to find.
http://www.noah.org/science/x-ray/index.html

http://www.noah.org/acidwarp. just wanted to post this if anyone wanted that trip down memory lane.