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  1. Re:Please Debian on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 2

    And what really gets me is, if systemd was just an init system, fine. But at the rate they are going there is going to be a systemd everything.

    I hope you're not using Emacs ;)

  2. Re:Hope! on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 0

    bcat /var/log/blablabla_log.bin | less
    bcat /var/log/blablabla_log.bin | vim -
    bcat /var/log/blablabla_log.bin | grep pattern
    where bcat is an alias to whatever command you need to open systemd binary logs.
    and with the appropriate plugin :
    vim /var/log/blablabla_log.bin
    just like you can do
    vim /var/log/auth.log.2.gz

    What's not *nix about it?

  3. Re:Article ignores variability on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    Mostly because they have so many coal power plants.
    It's easy to integrate wind power when you have so many conventional thermal power plants.

  4. What a surprise on Book Review: Scaling Apache Solr · · Score: 1

    What a surprise! A Slashdot Book Review with 9/10 rating.
    https://www.google.com/?q=site...'
    You might want to normalize the ratings in your book reviews.

  5. Re:Debian on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to start a flamewar, just asking a genuine question:
    What are the main differences between Debian, Mint & Ubuntu now?
    I took some time last month to install and test OpenBSD, Alpine Linux, Mint, Mint LMDE, Ubuntu & Debian.
    I just wanted a basic graphical interface + terminal + tabs + vim + zsh + ssh
    I was suprised to see that Debian wasn't that much smaller or faster than other Debian based distros.
    Ubuntu UI sucked, but I really liked the speed and small footprint of Alpine Linux.

  6. Re:Or we learn from others mistakes on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That.
    I cringe everytime I see "é" "ö" or "á" in folder/file names.
    Even if you can, you probably shouldn't, just because it'll break at least one or two programs.

  7. Re:Only very best survive, and they like it that w on Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science · · Score: 1

    And considering that getting a PhD in science is no trivial matter in the first place, this is really the cream of the cream of the crop

    I'm an engineer and I work with a lot of people holding PhDs, as well as "normal" people.
    I couldn't find *any* correlation between "holding a PhD" and "being smart", "being creative", or "being efficient".
    Holding a PhD basically just tells me that they sat down on some problem for a long time, and wrote hundred pages that only 1 or 2 people read.
    Holding a PhD might correlate to "being resilient" or "don't mind doing boring repetitive stuff", but it surely doesn't mean you're the "cream of the cream of the crop", especially when "the cream of the crop" already has big social deficiencies.

  8. Thank you on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    Thank you. One of the best articles on /. in a long time.
    Haters gonna hate, but we'll come back to this article in a few years and say :
    "We told you so".

  9. Re:Headline and summary completely wrong on Utilities Should Worry; Rooftop Solar Could Soon Cut Their Profit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guys, bring the pitchforks : someone RTFA!

  10. Re:/usr/bin/quisuis-je on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    It's been corrected since, but yes, it would have worked.

  11. Re:Only CGI scripts affected? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine wrote a small web application for french conjugation, with verbiste (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/verbiste).
    You type a verb, and it gives you a table like this one :
    http://french.about.com/od/ver...

    My verb was "avoir && whoami", and its conjugation was "root" :D

  12. Re:Funny on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Where did you get those values?
    According to this table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita)
    It's 9.6kW for the USA and 2.4kW for China.

    I suppose you only took electric consumption into account (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC), but if you talk about climate change and global environmental impact, you've got to take everything (food, transport, heating & cooling, ...) into account. The ratios might be approximately the same, but electricity only accounts for 20% of our energy consumption.

  13. Re:There are numerous other obvious flaws on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    If you want to help fight the conspirationists, it would help if you could stop using bullshit arguments.
    http://curious.astro.cornell.e...
    You'd need a 25m telescope to see the lander base being represented by 1 pixel.

  14. Re:A few hundred extrasolar planets on Astrophysicists Identify the Habitable Regions of the Entire Universe · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I take those studies with a huge grain of salt.
    Not too long ago, there was a scientific consensus on conditions required for life. Deep seas (e.g. hydrothermal vents) were far far away from the accepted habitable regions on earth.

  15. Re:List of Banks on Tinba Trojan Targets Major US Banks · · Score: 1

    The question is, why on earth do any computer with sensitive information there uses Flash or Silverlight?

  16. Re:Wait until global warming really kicks in on Solar Powered Technology Enhances Oil Recovery · · Score: 1

    You're jesting, but I'd say that this process (like most, if not all, thermodynamical processes) works because of high temperature *difference*, not just high temperatures.

  17. Cool project on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    On the one hand, it sounds like a cool project.
    On the other hand, if they don't port it, they'll get the benefit of having neither Gnome 3 nor Systemd on BSD.

  18. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 2, Informative
  19. Re:It's all a matter of energy on Underground Experiment Confirms Fusion Powers the Sun · · Score: 1

    satisfyingly complete in our observations of the Sun.

    Yeah right.
    Could you please explain why the corona's temperature is higher than a million Kelvin, then?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  20. Only one sixth of an inch? on Western US Drought Has Made Earth's Crust Rise · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only one sixth of an inch? Are you sure?
    My Galileo positioning system tells me that the earth's crust rose by more than 113km.

  21. Re:Too bad this didn't happen in 50 years on Comet To Make Close Call With Mars · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, we have no clue how our society could survive without oil.
    We have more pressing matters than slamming comets into Mars.

  22. Re:Not about jealousy, but ... on Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting To Happen · · Score: 1

    This is an ecological win

    I'm not sure it means what you think it means.
    The real "ecological win" would be to acknowledge that Dubai is in a friggin desert, and shouldn't be used as home for more than a few thousand people.

  23. Re:the length of a 10-passenger limousine on Ancient Bird With Largest Wingspan Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    I agree it's a weird unit, but it kinda makes sense nonetheless :
    It's the depth of the water layer that you get when you empty the content of 50 swimming pools on a surface as big as one millionth of Wales.

  24. Re:the length of a 10-passenger limousine on Ancient Bird With Largest Wingspan Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    No, I really meant swimming pools (volume) per micro-Wales (area).

  25. Re:You don't know the Linux desktop market. on KDE Releases Frameworks 5 · · Score: 1

    83% of your post is bullshit.
    17% is whitespace.

    Citations
    [1] My ass