President Joe once had a dream The world held his hand, gave their pledge So he told them his scheme For a Saviour Machine
They called it the Prayer, its answer was law Its logic stopped war, gave them food How they adored Till it cried in its boredom
'Please don't believe in me, Please disagree with me Life is too easy, A plague seems quite feasible now Or maybe a war, or I may kill you all
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives On a Saviour Machine
I need you flying, and I'll show that dying Is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time I perceive every sign, I can steal every mind
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives On a Saviour Machine
"Not in the slightest bit. I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with Dr Poole and Dr Bowman. My mission responsibilities range over the entire operation of the ship, so I am constantly occupied."
"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
The united snakes is a fascist corporatocracy with excellent brand reputation and management. It's customers believe it the best of possible worlds - despit all evidence to the contrary.
sweeten is a socialist with a small-s minor property. Dispensing small entitlements of relatively low impact to the social order makes their own captives feel that they are the principal benefactors of the state monopoly on the fruits of labor.
I'd like specifics, next time. Not impressions about "smart phones" and watches - which nearly ALL embed an open kernel and rely on open/free toolchains.
Linux, BSD and Mach are in every Samsung and or Apple product with a CPU.
Controlling for anomaly means controlling for possibility. Huxley's story is a parable of a society with no horizons. It was a criticism of the "utopia" he witnessed as the objective of his contemporaries.
I know what Captain Kirk would have done, if he beamed down there... Damn the Prime Directive!
Linux isn't tied to systemd, and you don't even know how to spell systemd (hint: it's not SystemD). Still, you're modded up by the muppets who know less.
Now, before you become a pedant, you must learn to polish your shoes and knot a tie.
Linux is not tied to the init. Correct. Read that as "Linux Distributions".
The "SystemD" is erroneous capitalization - not spelling error. It is deliberate, for editorial satire.
"Muppets" are amusing and bring joy to millions. Try watching some of these "muppets", then come back here and contribute a post with actual content, erroneous or otherwise.
"Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands.
[...]
"The lower the caste," said Mr. Foster, "the shorter the oxygen." The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters. (1.70-4)
Mr. Foster's calculating enthusiasm (rubbing his hands in excitement) is concentrated here with the horror of the caste system - horrible not only for its restrictive, predetermining qualities, but also for the destructive, malevolent, harmful way in which its ends are achieved.
I don't mean to pick on these few, but they're indicative of a larger trend toward users who appear to believe that reading manuals and learning OS internals is bad, and we should plaster over all of that mumbo-jumbo with a nice, sleek -- and completely opaque -- management layer. For example: systemd.
I believe this thinking is pretty much in line with Microsoft's train of thought back in the early 1990s. This is an end-user mindset -- this has nothing to do with servers, and certainly not enterprise-level servers. This "learning is hard" mentality is very damaging for Linux as a service platform.
Go ahead, kids, spackle over all of that unsightly runlevel stuff. Paint over init and cron, pam and login. Put all of that into PID1 along with dbus. Make it all pretty and whisper sweet nothings about how it's all taken care of and you won't have to read a manual or learn any silly command-line stuff. Tune your distribution for desktop workloads. Go reinvent Windows.
He's no Copernicus, blazing a new vision previously un-charted and thus incomprehensible to his peers.
LP is just pivoting to the kind of architectural model for platform software and device/process communication that defined VMS and IBMs SNA. That way? Ah. DLL hell....
I happen to know a bit - if not a fair amount - about the advantages and drawbacks of plain-text vs binary formats for I/O, and the brittleness of dependencies that are expressed through binary formats vs. parsing text.
The beauty and glory and travesty that are *NIX are living testimony to this. The trail of RSTS/E, MVS, VMS, DOS, MacOS, Windows.last and Android.next all demonstrate why POSIX-style systems, built on the "do one thing well" philosophy, with mostly human-readable text-based IO have longevity and are the leveragable core technology under most, more transient, graphical user shells.
SystemD is an abortion. It appeals to RedHat - who stacked the deck and manipulated the governing process to have it adopted by Debian. If they want an OS built like that? They can license the VMS sources and make their OWN copy of NT.
Hooks that fuckup a system, tying init to specific libraries and specific builds of individual device initialization and volume mapping schemes are a step back into darkness - and a cult of experts with necessary commercial funding. This is the breakdown of Open Source vs Free Software from a movement/philosophical POV.
The result of a Linux kernel tied to SystemD and PulseAudio approaches is similar to that of Android - where meaningful work is done by arcane parts of a system that relegates kernel function to the most undifferentiated commodity tasks, and source availability is almost irrelevant - because changes and fixes occur through closed processes, against a code base that is inaccessibly dense and full of binary dependency.
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President Joe once had a dream
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme
For a Saviour Machine
They called it the Prayer, its answer was law
Its logic stopped war, gave them food
How they adored
Till it cried in its boredom
'Please don't believe in me,
Please disagree with me
Life is too easy,
A plague seems quite feasible now
Or maybe a war, or
I may kill you all
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay
My logic says burn so send me away
Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen
You can't stake your lives
On a Saviour Machine
I need you flying, and I'll show that dying
Is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time
I perceive every sign,
I can steal every mind
Don't let me stay, don't let me stay
My logic says burn so send me away
Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen
You can't stake your lives
On a Saviour Machine
"Not in the slightest bit. I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with Dr Poole and Dr Bowman. My mission responsibilities range over the entire operation of the ship, so I am constantly occupied."
"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
And yet you guys worship everything his best buddy Musk does or says...
Well, that's understandable at least. I mean, have you ever smelled Musk?
Back to the Minneapolis Airport Men's Room With You, Mr. "Wide Stance".
This society is SO hostile to TECHNOLOGY, that it has rendered VISIONARIES like Thiel ALMOST PENNILESS!!!!
Won't someone save our precious, sensitive TECH BILLIONAIRES from the humiliation of our hostile, callous society?
Maybe he can take comfort by joining Scientology?
It's not Metro.
It's SVCHOST.EXE
But that's a little too arcane, for people who neither debug their own system, or who are not security specialists of one stripe or another.
How about "systemd is a BSOD" :-)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bZId5j2jREQ/U-vlysklvCI/AAAAAAAACrA/B4JggkVJi38/w426-h284/bd0fb252416206158627fb0b1bff9b4779dca13f.gif
One Texan down... How many to go?
Take THAT, Aaron Burr! :-)
The united snakes is a fascist corporatocracy with excellent brand reputation and management. It's customers believe it the best of possible worlds - despit all evidence to the contrary.
sweeten is a socialist with a small-s minor property. Dispensing small entitlements of relatively low impact to the social order makes their own captives feel that they are the principal benefactors of the state monopoly on the fruits of labor.
systemd just became WindowsPE.
This is a solution needed, only when you have become so mind-bogglingly complex, and binary-oriented like Windows.
Booting into runlevel S is so... practical.
At least we're getting back to the main topic - the FOSS community is full of assholes.
This was a comment on the basic design flaw of sytemd. I couldn't pass on the joke. Relax a little.
I'm sorry if it seemed personal.
Cheers.
You have a terrible misread on the situation.
I'd like specifics, next time. Not impressions about "smart phones" and watches - which nearly ALL embed an open kernel and rely on open/free toolchains.
Linux, BSD and Mach are in every Samsung and or Apple product with a CPU.
According to Jaye P. Morgan and Harry Morgan, and Jamie Farr.
Controlling for anomaly means controlling for possibility. Huxley's story is a parable of a society with no horizons. It was a criticism of the "utopia" he witnessed as the objective of his contemporaries.
I know what Captain Kirk would have done, if he beamed down there... Damn the Prime Directive!
Penetration? It's spelled "Y-O-_-M-O-M-M-A".
Linux isn't tied to systemd, and you don't even know how to spell systemd (hint: it's not SystemD). Still, you're modded up by the muppets who know less.
Now, before you become a pedant, you must learn to polish your shoes and knot a tie.
Linux is not tied to the init. Correct. Read that as "Linux Distributions".
The "SystemD" is erroneous capitalization - not spelling error. It is deliberate, for editorial satire.
"Muppets" are amusing and bring joy to millions. Try watching some of these "muppets", then come back here and contribute a post with actual content, erroneous or otherwise.
You do not acknowledge the abuse of the Debian Community process? Or the fact that Debian is Upstream of 5 or 7 principal distros?
Why not stuff yourself into PID 1 and execute yourself?
walk into Mordor.
"Gene" isn't even a character from LoTR. He was on the Gong Show.
"Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands.
[...]
"The lower the caste," said Mr. Foster, "the shorter the oxygen." The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters. (1.70-4)
Mr. Foster's calculating enthusiasm (rubbing his hands in excitement) is concentrated here with the horror of the caste system - horrible not only for its restrictive, predetermining qualities, but also for the destructive, malevolent, harmful way in which its ends are achieved.
"You Have Your Windows in My Linux"
That was a personal matter.
He's no Copernicus, blazing a new vision previously un-charted and thus incomprehensible to his peers.
LP is just pivoting to the kind of architectural model for platform software and device/process communication that defined VMS and IBMs SNA. That way? Ah. DLL hell....
Your satire-parser needs adjustment.
How has "open source" stagnated? What are your criteria for being dynamic and viable?
Explain in 25 words.
I happen to know a bit - if not a fair amount - about the advantages and drawbacks of plain-text vs binary formats for I/O, and the brittleness of dependencies that are expressed through binary formats vs. parsing text.
The beauty and glory and travesty that are *NIX are living testimony to this. The trail of RSTS/E, MVS, VMS, DOS, MacOS, Windows.last and Android.next all demonstrate why POSIX-style systems, built on the "do one thing well" philosophy, with mostly human-readable text-based IO have longevity and are the leveragable core technology under most, more transient, graphical user shells.
SystemD is an abortion. It appeals to RedHat - who stacked the deck and manipulated the governing process to have it adopted by Debian. If they want an OS built like that? They can license the VMS sources and make their OWN copy of NT.
Hooks that fuckup a system, tying init to specific libraries and specific builds of individual device initialization and volume mapping schemes are a step back into darkness - and a cult of experts with necessary commercial funding. This is the breakdown of Open Source vs Free Software from a movement/philosophical POV.
The result of a Linux kernel tied to SystemD and PulseAudio approaches is similar to that of Android - where meaningful work is done by arcane parts of a system that relegates kernel function to the most undifferentiated commodity tasks, and source availability is almost irrelevant - because changes and fixes occur through closed processes, against a code base that is inaccessibly dense and full of binary dependency.
"Lennart, I knew Hans Reiser. Hans Reiser was a friend of mine. Lennart Poettering, you're no Hans Reiser."