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  1. Re:Systemd on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    Look at the specifications for modern POSIX compliance and then ask that again.

    So you don't know whether it breaks POSIX compliance, you just assume it does.

  2. Re:Complain to choosers, not creators on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    you want your Linux box to "just work". And no, NetworkManager doesn't

    Which is relevant to a discussion about Lennart Poettering's view of the "open source community" how?

  3. Re:Get a clue... on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    Also, online I hear a lot of people complaining about systemd and calling for boycott, but I see very few actual useful work

    Don't forget upstart, which was so fantastic even it's authors abandoned it for systemd when systemd became available.

  4. Re:Systemd on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    I've also had shitty problems with the sound on Linux before, which I _think_ might be attributable to pulseaudio.

    I've had shitty problems with the sound on Linux long before pulseaudio was invented.

    Sound on Linux has historically been shit. Since pulseaudio has come along it's got somewhat better.
     

  5. Re:Systemd AND PULSE AUDIO on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 5, Funny

    This!

    Or my favorite version:

    If you meet an a**hole in the morning. You met an a**hole.
    If you meet a**holes all day, you're the a**hole.

    I don't get it. Sometimes your "s" key works, sometimes it produces a "*". Maybe you'd better get your keyboard fixed.

  6. An anonymous coward writes on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 1

    He says in part: "I don't usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of a#@&oles, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets.

    No he didn't you cowardly twit, he wrote:

    I don't usually talk about this too much, and hence I figure that people are really not aware of this, but yes, the Open Source community is full of assholes, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets.

  7. Re:gtfo on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials · · Score: 1

    most of the controversy is the nature of how feminists inserted themselves into gaming "journalism".

    Funny, I thought the initial complaints were about how some gaming journalists were inserting themselves into some feminists.

  8. Re:gtfo on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials · · Score: 1

    Many of the people being blasted as misogynists are just gamers who made the mistake of expecting gaming journalism to follow some sort of professional journalism ethics.

    You must be fucking joking.

    "Gaming journalism" is corrupt and has always been corrupt, but it's not corrupted by the chance of sex with indy game designers, it's corrupted by huge wads of wonga from EA games. (entre autres).

  9. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    105 by 68 metres (115 yd × 74 yd)

    Who came up with these numbers? Ew. They don't work out nicely in either scale.

    I don't know where you got those numbers, but they're wrong.

    The real answer is: (From The Laws of The Game - Law 1 - the field of play)

    Dimensions

    The length of the touch line must be greater than the length of the goal line.

    Length (touch line):
    * minimum 90 m (100 yds)
    * maximum 120 m (130 yds)

    Width (goal line):
    * minimum 45 m (50 yds)
    * maximum 90 m (100 yds)

    Or, for international matches:

    Length:
    minimum 100 m (110 yds)
    maximum 110 m (120 yds)

    Width:
    minimum 64 m (70 yds)
    maximum 75 m (80 yds)

    Weird enough for you?

  10. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    At small scales like that, obviously 10 is faster than 10,000.

    But Ireland is a country of 6.3 million, not 300,000 people.

  11. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Ok, we'll just leave your bizarre suggestion that countries are like boats unexamined.

  12. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    But it's silly to boast about the size of your country when it's the 4th largest in the world.

    I mean - "yee haa, wer'e not even getting the bronze medal!" - what kind of boast is that?

  13. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Theyre also a really small country.

    Now that is weird.

    What does the size of the country have to do with it?

  14. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    An American football field will always be 100 yards.

    Who cares. How long is a soccer pitch?

  15. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 3, Funny

    Math is Hard.....

    Yup, David Cameron is Barbie.

  16. Re:Way to compare apples to light bulbs on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 1

    But I agree with the rest. It was one hell of an accomplishment for India. Or any other country to get to Mars on the first attempt.

    Go ESA!

    (Budget 150 million EUR, a bit more expensive than MOM).

  17. Re:Way to compare apples to light bulbs on Why India's Mars Probe Was So Cheap · · Score: 1

    Uh, $83 million 1964 dollars is $636 million 2014 dollars.

    MOM is way cheaper than Mariner 4.

    As one would expect. (Wanna buy a computer in 1964?)

  18. Re:Why do they need a reboot? on Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen · · Score: 1

    Oh:

    Given that what’s underlying EC2 are ordinary physical servers running virtualization without a live migration technology in use,

    EC2 doesn't do migration.

    Low-life.

  19. Why do they need a reboot? on Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen · · Score: 1

    Just migrate the instance to a host running the fixed version of Xen, reboot the host with the broken version when it's empty.

  20. Re:Use the bug to patch the bug on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    Debian's bash version is so ancient it probably doesn't even support environment variables yet....

    There's something after 4.3?

  21. Re:Amazing... on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    That's because Windows users don't tend to get Linux foisted upon them or have some device or another they want say "sorry, Linux only".

    Mine do.

    Bwahahaha!

  22. Re:Only the beginning on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    shellshock-scan started hitting me yesterday:


    209.126.230.72 - - [25/Sep/2014:00:06:09 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 677 "() { :; }; ping -c 11 216.75.60.74" "shellshock-scan (http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/09/bash-shellshock-scan-of-internet.html)"

    Then real bad guys


    89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:07:50:56 +0200] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 512 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138"

    Hello Rackspace!

  23. Re:Suspicious screenshot on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't I just say that? You'd have to explicitly invoke #!/bin/bash. I know of very few scripts that do that; most use #!/bin/sh.

    Well, on my Debian unstable machine:


    # find / -mount -type f | while read x ; do if [ "`head -1 $x | grep '^#\!/bin/bash'`" ]; then echo $x; fi; done 2>/dev/null
    /bin/zdiff
    /bin/fgrep
    /bin/zgrep
    /bin/zless
    /bin/zfgrep
    /bin/uncompress
    /bin/zcmp
    /bin/gzexe
    /bin/gunzip
    /bin/zegrep
    /bin/zforce
    /bin/zmore
    /bin/zcat
    /bin/egrep
    /bin/znew
    /etc/bash_completion.d/pulseaudio-bash-completion.sh
    /etc/auto.net
    /etc/auto.smb
    /etc/init.d/minissdpd
    /etc/init.d/nfs-common
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash-completion.postinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.preinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postrm
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/ca-certificates-java.postinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/gdm3.prerm
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/desktop-base.postinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash-completion.postrm
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.prerm
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.preinst

    Ugly.

  24. Re:Question about how this works on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 0

    but if you want other examples of exploiting this bug you can do it via malicious DHCP responses processed by dhcpclient or by env. variables passed when loging in via SSH.

    Wow, an exploit that lets someone logging in with SSH run shell commands. Scary.

  25. Re:What a goddamn disaster. on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    It does not automatically mean that, but money can buy you some nice quality assurance and code auditing.

    Can it? Could you point out an example of that?

    (Outside, possibly, the Space Shuttle landing software).