No, they just count each x.y as a major release, which is not unreasonable since there is quite a lot of new features going in to each of them. They started out at 3.3 since that's where they forked from OpenOffice; so there have been 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0. That gives 5.0 as the tenth major release.
Well, most of the times when you see those headlines it's because Joe Shmoe actually did what it said. It's not very common to be falsely accused and arrested for such things. It happens from time to time though and when it does I actually see those headlines too. And anyone doing even a half-serious background check will not stop there.
So what? You WERE accused of rape. That's not going away, it's part of history. Any sensible person and most insensible people know the difference between being accused of something and actually being convicted for it. And if you actually were convicted for it, then deal with it.
Just realized I was a few digits off, saw that you said 0.5 PB. Somehow got it to 500 PB. Not that dCache isn't going to handle it, it will. But for as little data as just 0.5 PB a couple of disk arrays connected to a single server will usually be fine. Tape is still good for backup though.
The research projects I've seen using that amount of storage has usually used a tape solution with dCache in front of it. You use a number of tape robots filled with tape, put them in different locations and have them back up everything between them.
I wish Linus Torvalds had stood-up to Lennart Poettering and made it abundantly clear GNU/Linux and specifically the Linux kernel will never support systemd and other garbage.
It's actually been the other way around. The Linux kernel has implemented lots of features for a long time which almost no one used, it wasn't until systemd when that stuff actually started to get used.
It is getting to the point where Apple Mac OS X despite its limitations and crippled nature are beginning to look like a better option. Even the Google Chromebook looks better at times. As a long-time GNU/Linux user since 1992 the current direction of GNU/Linux saddens me.
If you want a traditional UNIX system then the last thing you should look at is probably OS X. If that's what you want then OpenBSD or FreeBSD is probably a better alternative for you, or even one of the OpenSolaris descendents.
Of course you can, but it's not convenient. There are almost as many ways to format log entries as there are programs that write them; doing a one-off script that parses a particular log file format is not that hard, making it work well with every log file is. When people say "binary logs" they should be aware of that we're not talking about a full SQL style database here. It's pretty much a text file with a couple of standardized fields so that journald can index it properly and so that we don't have to care about date formats (which can be different under different locales), with or without time zone etc.
All non-trivial software packages have bugs. There's nothing unusual about that and that's why we should used it, to find bugs and problems so that we can fix them. Most people will agree that systemd adds a number of important features to GNU/Linux that the old alternatives didn't offer. Adopting systemd will over time lead to a better system. Will there be bumps on the ride? Sure! Four years ago Fedora started out, took a lot of heat for it. Over time more and more distributions have switched to it, exposing it to more users with different use cases. The systemd that we have today is in many ways not the same systemd that you got back then.
Gedit is not a massive application. It's not a massive undertaking to relearn where things are.
If vim changed all its keybindings, now that would be something. Going to a menu conveniently located in the window header bar is not unreasonably hard to do.
What gnome does right: GNOME 2
What gnome does wrong: GNOME 3
Frankly, I found GNOME 2 to be pretty awful too, due to the GNOME HIG ("No" comes before "Yes" on a dialog box? Seriously?). I don't think GNOME has gotten anything right since GNOME 1.
It's the same on Mac. Windows does it the opposite way. The idea is that the default "good" choice should always be in a easy to find position, and the lower right corner is much easier to find than the first from the left of a set of widgets.
What they did to gedit is really a disaster. One day I needed to launch some simple GTK+ app to check something I changed in configuration, so just typed "gedit" into console, saw a window and thought that client side decorations has broke. It took me a while to notice that what I saw was actually intended. UX of this app is now awful, and it's a massive downgrade, as it used to be just fine.
Why is it a downgrade? That it changed doesn't make it a downgrade by itself. You can still do the same things that you could before. Just because the menu bar and the tool bar isn't there anymore doesn't mean that the features are gone, they are still there and you may have to do some relearning. You learn a tool once, and use it many times. It's of course unfortunate that the old design wasn't perfect; maybe the new one isn't either, but the idea is that in the long run it will be and at some point you just have to change what is there even though what you had technically wasn't broken.
Don't conflate the GNOME and GNOME-derived desktop environments with Linux in general. A great deal of Linux users think that GNOME and GNOME-derived desktop environments are utter shit. They consider the GTK+ toolkit, GNOME, and the related software to be fucking disasters. No KDE developer or user would consider a text editor with a monstrosity of a UI like gedit's to be acceptable, for example.
Thankfully the loud commenters at HN and/. are not representative of GNU/Linux users. It's of course unfortunate that some users don't agree with the recent improvements in the GNOME user experience, but that's often unavoidable when you're making larger changes.
Actually, both Linux 3.13 and 3.16 are supported on Ubuntu 14.04 (14.04.2). Linux 3.13 will be supported for the full support lifetime while 3.16 will only be supported for a limited time, eventually wit will be replaced by the kernel from 16.04 which will be supported until the end of the support cycle.
So i understand from this that o don't need to rush & patch my web servers who all have Trusted certs.
Right ?
You may want to rush if your web server validates client certificates? That is, does any of your users have to present a certificate to the web server instead of just the opposite way around?
Given the awfully broad "rape" law in Sweden, I don't mind.
The bizarre thing is that without the ongoing investigation it would probably be easier for Assange to get asylum in Sweden. Sweden expressly forbids ministers of government from having any direct involvement over administrative authorities. If he applied his case would in theory be handled under the exact same process as everyone else regardless the political situation. The Swedish prime minister would not be able to accept or reject anything, it would only be up to the responsible administrative authority to decide based only on current legislation.
And how many of them publish academic papers in theoretical computing science journals? I never said that being a lousy programmer means you're bright. What I said was that if you look at the people that do the really advanced theoretical computing science you will find that most of them are not the typical programmer type.
By calling it Computer Science we tend to think that it's all about programming the computer while it's actually not. Programming is of course part of it but it certainly isn't what it's all about. I'm a big fan of the alternative names like Computing Science or Datalogy. You should visit an automata conference and ask the people there if they consider themselves programmers. Sure some of them will but you'll soon realize that the brightest people in CS are not necessarily into the computer part of it, and hardly ever programs at all.
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Yep My Thinkpad X250 has this and there is a bios update to fix it.
Which update are we talking about? The README for the latest BIOS update for the X250 (July 7) does not mention anything like this as far I can see.
They used to run Linux but I heard everyone switched their 10 000 server infrastructure to OpenBSD because of systemd.
No, they just count each x.y as a major release, which is not unreasonable since there is quite a lot of new features going in to each of them. They started out at 3.3 since that's where they forked from OpenOffice; so there have been 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0. That gives 5.0 as the tenth major release.
Well, most of the times when you see those headlines it's because Joe Shmoe actually did what it said. It's not very common to be falsely accused and arrested for such things. It happens from time to time though and when it does I actually see those headlines too. And anyone doing even a half-serious background check will not stop there.
never be falsely be accused of rape.
So what? You WERE accused of rape. That's not going away, it's part of history. Any sensible person and most insensible people know the difference between being accused of something and actually being convicted for it. And if you actually were convicted for it, then deal with it.
Yep. It's not that much. We just installed a new storage system for fast temporary data, not long term storage. 1 PB. It easily fits in a single rack.
Just realized I was a few digits off, saw that you said 0.5 PB. Somehow got it to 500 PB. Not that dCache isn't going to handle it, it will. But for as little data as just 0.5 PB a couple of disk arrays connected to a single server will usually be fine. Tape is still good for backup though.
The research projects I've seen using that amount of storage has usually used a tape solution with dCache in front of it. You use a number of tape robots filled with tape, put them in different locations and have them back up everything between them.
I wish Linus Torvalds had stood-up to Lennart Poettering and made it abundantly clear GNU/Linux and specifically the Linux kernel will never support systemd and other garbage.
It's actually been the other way around. The Linux kernel has implemented lots of features for a long time which almost no one used, it wasn't until systemd when that stuff actually started to get used.
It is getting to the point where Apple Mac OS X despite its limitations and crippled nature are beginning to look like a better option. Even the Google Chromebook looks better at times. As a long-time GNU/Linux user since 1992 the current direction of GNU/Linux saddens me.
If you want a traditional UNIX system then the last thing you should look at is probably OS X. If that's what you want then OpenBSD or FreeBSD is probably a better alternative for you, or even one of the OpenSolaris descendents.
Actually, Fedora 22 (current stable release) already runs the gdm login screen under Wayland.
Of course you can, but it's not convenient. There are almost as many ways to format log entries as there are programs that write them; doing a one-off script that parses a particular log file format is not that hard, making it work well with every log file is. When people say "binary logs" they should be aware of that we're not talking about a full SQL style database here. It's pretty much a text file with a couple of standardized fields so that journald can index it properly and so that we don't have to care about date formats (which can be different under different locales), with or without time zone etc.
What makes you think that systemd is just about booting the system?
All non-trivial software packages have bugs. There's nothing unusual about that and that's why we should used it, to find bugs and problems so that we can fix them. Most people will agree that systemd adds a number of important features to GNU/Linux that the old alternatives didn't offer. Adopting systemd will over time lead to a better system. Will there be bumps on the ride? Sure! Four years ago Fedora started out, took a lot of heat for it. Over time more and more distributions have switched to it, exposing it to more users with different use cases. The systemd that we have today is in many ways not the same systemd that you got back then.
Gedit is not a massive application. It's not a massive undertaking to relearn where things are.
If vim changed all its keybindings, now that would be something. Going to a menu conveniently located in the window header bar is not unreasonably hard to do.
What gnome does right: GNOME 2 What gnome does wrong: GNOME 3
Frankly, I found GNOME 2 to be pretty awful too, due to the GNOME HIG ("No" comes before "Yes" on a dialog box? Seriously?). I don't think GNOME has gotten anything right since GNOME 1.
It's the same on Mac. Windows does it the opposite way. The idea is that the default "good" choice should always be in a easy to find position, and the lower right corner is much easier to find than the first from the left of a set of widgets.
Not sure what you're trying to say. Lennart is not involved in NetworkManager.
What they did to gedit is really a disaster. One day I needed to launch some simple GTK+ app to check something I changed in configuration, so just typed "gedit" into console, saw a window and thought that client side decorations has broke. It took me a while to notice that what I saw was actually intended. UX of this app is now awful, and it's a massive downgrade, as it used to be just fine.
Why is it a downgrade? That it changed doesn't make it a downgrade by itself. You can still do the same things that you could before. Just because the menu bar and the tool bar isn't there anymore doesn't mean that the features are gone, they are still there and you may have to do some relearning. You learn a tool once, and use it many times. It's of course unfortunate that the old design wasn't perfect; maybe the new one isn't either, but the idea is that in the long run it will be and at some point you just have to change what is there even though what you had technically wasn't broken.
Don't conflate the GNOME and GNOME-derived desktop environments with Linux in general. A great deal of Linux users think that GNOME and GNOME-derived desktop environments are utter shit. They consider the GTK+ toolkit, GNOME, and the related software to be fucking disasters. No KDE developer or user would consider a text editor with a monstrosity of a UI like gedit's to be acceptable, for example.
Thankfully the loud commenters at HN and /. are not representative of GNU/Linux users. It's of course unfortunate that some users don't agree with the recent improvements in the GNOME user experience, but that's often unavoidable when you're making larger changes.
Actually, both Linux 3.13 and 3.16 are supported on Ubuntu 14.04 (14.04.2). Linux 3.13 will be supported for the full support lifetime while 3.16 will only be supported for a limited time, eventually wit will be replaced by the kernel from 16.04 which will be supported until the end of the support cycle.
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People are overpaid everywhere. A lot of people are not, including most Americans.
Unless you're running on sid you're fine: https://security-tracker.debia...
According to that page testing (stretch) is also vulnerable, and a few people might actually use that.
So i understand from this that o don't need to rush & patch my web servers who all have Trusted certs. Right ?
You may want to rush if your web server validates client certificates? That is, does any of your users have to present a certificate to the web server instead of just the opposite way around?
Given the awfully broad "rape" law in Sweden, I don't mind.
The bizarre thing is that without the ongoing investigation it would probably be easier for Assange to get asylum in Sweden. Sweden expressly forbids ministers of government from having any direct involvement over administrative authorities. If he applied his case would in theory be handled under the exact same process as everyone else regardless the political situation. The Swedish prime minister would not be able to accept or reject anything, it would only be up to the responsible administrative authority to decide based only on current legislation.
And how many of them publish academic papers in theoretical computing science journals? I never said that being a lousy programmer means you're bright. What I said was that if you look at the people that do the really advanced theoretical computing science you will find that most of them are not the typical programmer type.
By calling it Computer Science we tend to think that it's all about programming the computer while it's actually not. Programming is of course part of it but it certainly isn't what it's all about. I'm a big fan of the alternative names like Computing Science or Datalogy. You should visit an automata conference and ask the people there if they consider themselves programmers. Sure some of them will but you'll soon realize that the brightest people in CS are not necessarily into the computer part of it, and hardly ever programs at all.