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  1. Re: turnkey linux on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Web Development Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    Yes there is www.turnkeylinux.com.

    Install it and an app in cli appears. Apache, mysql, phpmyadmin, I net settings, everything.

    I am a huge fan! They have about a dozen other appliances and it pulls from the Debian wheeze distribution

  2. Re:It's so not fair on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 1

    Republicans want a hearing to censure Obama for undo [sic] influence on creating Title II and doing this job as the president.

    The FCC is supposed to be an independent executive branch agency. In theory, it doesn't exist to do the President's bidding. (When a Republican is in office, the press calls this an indicator of "The Imperial Presidency.") But when an "independent agency" comes up with rules that the President asks for in the press that help his cronies, the other party will raise this concern. This happens all the time.

    Is not the president the chief executive of the executive branch of government? In essence he reports to Obama

  3. Re:It's so not fair on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 1

    My point was to draw satire of those brainwashed by lobbyists and those who listen to people like Rush Limbaugh.

    Since the poor evil government decided on this it is therefore socialism and an attack on freedom!

    It is not logical or thought. Just government = bad. Do nothing = good. Socialism = government so therefore bad.

    Which is why Republicans want a hearing to censure Obama for undo influence on creating Title II and doing this job as the president. It was him implementing evil communism according the Verizon, Comcast, and others and an ignorant base who believe whatever they say.

  4. Re: They should switch it to "devuan" on Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Will Be Rolling-Release · · Score: 1

    You are more than welcome to use systemd if you so choose. Don't expect everyone else to like it and use it just because you happen to.One of the biggest objections to systemd is that it's not just an init system. It's reached almost 300 thousand lines of code. That should give anyone pause for thought who considers it a replacement for init.

    300k? That's it. Seriously.

    While 200 lines for an init script is certainly possible that's not necessary. For example postgresql has a 58 line init script of which 14 lines are comments and 8 are white space. It also has almost 10 lines that contain one word. It's really pretty simple. If you can't understand it then you're probably not in position to be changing it even if you wanted to.

    That is a lot of code for simplicistic arguments based on events in comparison. What happens if the database is compromised? What if an integrity issue pops up? With an event driven daemon you can put those cases in. You need whole programs in init to monitor and do all sorts of other hacks for equivalent functionality.

    Ubuntu is being forced to adopt systemd in future versions because debian has done so.

    No they are doing so as the market is favoring SystemD. Note I speak as a Solaris administrator who has actually used SMF. It has it perks but it's not all roses.

    No it is more work but if you ask any web administrator who has worked with Apache and older versions of IIS then switched to nginx will tell you the pain in learning sucked temporarily but was worth it for speed, security, and now simplicity with an event driven framework.

    What is Apple using for init that makes the Macbook Pro's at work boot so slow (off SSD) when compared to the Dell Lattitudes runing (non-systemd) Linux? Both types of machine have Core i5 CPUs and 8GB RAM...

    heh captcha - "screwed"

    No Apple switched because of scenarios like lets say your MacBook pro fell asleep at work and woke up in a hotel on a different network. Now what?? In the Linux world there are ugly bloated hacks like Network manager for such scenarios but lets say you want to customize this?

    LaunchD is event driven like SystemD. You prre-program conditions and what to do. Much simplier. Yes it is faster too.

    Remember in 1985 when init was finalized in SYS V a typically unix workstation had maybe 35 programs at the most and were simple things like Vi, awk, cat, etc. Init was simple to start it and run 1 service with no dependencies. That was what it was designed for. Not modern distros with +4000 apps, daemons, interdependence galore, and conditions that change.

    It is 2015 and its time to get with the times. You are free to live in the past too if you like. But I am sick and tired of seeing all this fear of change and foaming at the mouth from people who made opinions based on trolls.

  5. Re: They should switch it to "devuan" on Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Will Be Rolling-Release · · Score: 1

    You mean you have to make a choice between a cell phone interface or an outdated half decade old no longer updated OS in the windows world? Or go mac and experience the dull, flat, and buggy Yosemite, broken Lion releases, or go back to the good old 2009 days of snow leopard?
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    Change for the sake of change iskilling the desktop. 2009 was when software was good for non linux. Some would argue 2003 and still use XP 64 bit and Office 2003 because it's menu driven

  6. It's so not fair on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why can't they have legal monopolies and abuse their position to compete with Netflix via throttling and charge $100 for a 2 Meg pipe and still be a broadband provider which means no taxes. Wahaha EVIL socialist bastards.

  7. Re: They should switch it to "devuan" on Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Will Be Rolling-Release · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah like using 200 line minI programs with logic and data mixed in your init scripts when a few in SystemD can be done because it is event based all because it's hip to hate started by those who fear change.

    Their is a reason Ubuntu, Sun, and Apple left init behind years ago.

  8. Re:so? on Major Record Labels Keep 73% of Spotify Payouts · · Score: 1

    With no market with just a few players there doesn't have to be collusion.

    The supplier makes up the price, demand, and quantity. You have no say in it. This is why during the Great Recession a few years ago you saw software engineers happily taking $40,000 a year. With so many out of work software engineers and a wife ready to leave, repo men in the driveway waiting for you to leave, and the bank threatening to take your home you will do ANYTHING and work at ANY price.

    Likewise in 1999 you commonly saw software developers making $120,000 a year as companies couldn't get anything done and were WILLING to pay ANYTHING to bring someone on board. No collusion again.

    Just supply and demand. The record labels are faltering temporarily by not having Sam Goodies anymore selling cds. But they now own the radio stations through ClearChannel which means the same crappy 7 songs all day long. To be part of the 7 crappy duo you need to sign an abusive contract.

  9. Re:so? on Major Record Labels Keep 73% of Spotify Payouts · · Score: 1

    Imagine now there are only 3 major employers in your country (hypothetical situation here).

    You have your skills. They all say you can't get paid or work for them unless you sign a contract. The contract stipulates $10/hr for your skilled labor, but performance may get you up to $30k a year.

    You have a family to feed so you accept the meager salary as both other employers charge the same through agreements to keep the price low so the CEO and shareholders take your profits.

    Now they say whoops that doesn't count. You see performance bonuses were based only on customer X. This was Y. Take your $10/hr slaveboy YOU AGREED TO THIS IN YOUR CONTRACT!

    If you support capitalism you know this is why monopolies are bad. The free market purest for some think this is above situation is good but a free market is what we have today. Pay me $65k a year for my services or someone else will etc? You can't say that when there are only 3 or 4 players in the market.

  10. Lower NM size than desktop CPUs on ARM's Cortex-A72 and Mali-T880 GPU Announced For 2016 Flagship Smartphones · · Score: 2

    AMD is stuck still at 28 nm while these are 14. Wow.

    Even the latest intel ones are all 22 nm

  11. Re: My FreeBSD Report: Four Months In on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    You mean like Sun and Apple also giving up on init?

  12. Recession coming?? on Study Predicts 9% Drop In Salaries of New CS Grads This Year · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The last 2 times this happened were the 1980s and early 2000s.

    Businesses always cut IT first as their is no perceived value and is easily outsourced whenever a recession starts

  13. Re: Ask yourselves these questions... apk on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1

    Yeah but is Malware bytes WEBSCALE??

  14. Re: My FreeBSD Report: Four Months In on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    Good to know the freebsd project too is looking to replace init too. Google Hubbard looking at a init replacement. Perhaps SystemD?

    I can't wait to see the looks on haters faces who switched hearing this.

  15. Re: tl;dr on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    How dare they offer support for booting from EFI.

    Freebsd offers this too so you better choose a different OS. Jeez people

  16. Re:Should be 64-bit on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    Right because the demand for more than 4 gigs of ram and tons of virtual address support for those Oracle databases these suckers are going to be processing.

  17. Power usage? on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quad cores are mighty hungry and I doubt it will come with those fancy lithium ION expensive batteries on our smart phones.

    This is important as these are for embedded devices

  18. Re:Then buy a used PC on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    This is for embedded controllers and hobbyists. Think Lego Mindstorm projects?

      FYI I ran FreeBSD/slackware on Pentium IIs 266 MHz single core just fine back in the day. This is fine for netbsd to run little databases, home media sharing, robots, and just about anything.

    Not to run Chrome with +30 tabs, compile gnome, or run SystemD on. Get a real PC for that. For $35 you can make a fun tiny rack, stick them in a truck for a home made cd player, or gosh probably a million different things.

     

  19. Re:except the investors, who paid everybody up fro on The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly · · Score: 1

    Never have had any sympathy for investors making less money, never will have any sympathy.

    Funny I thought you might of had a 401k, savings, and some investments not? What about your mother if she is still around?

    Never have sympathy for yourself and your mother. They are the shareholders. Not some smartass prick driving a Bently on Wall Street but us.

  20. Re:over a decade of hard work at getting it right on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Unless Larry took features away my guess is he added more identifiers, data types, and other things as that is what he does. I could be mistaken.

    If there are now 1,000 statistical combinations to add/substract and print out 2 sets of numbers I think I would not count that as a success.

  21. Re: Perl is more expressive on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    std::sort(lines.begin(), lines.end(), [](auto &l, auto &l2) { return l1.name l2.name; });

    Pretty simple in c++14 as well

    Mod parent up.

    It is funny as I have not coded in either language in over 10 years but this C++ version is very readable compared to the perl version. Also mentioning STD in C++ can be a little nasty and difficult to read yet I understood this much easier.

  22. Re:Betteridge on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Perl 6 .. from what I read a decade ago ... has 100 different data types? It is a monster which should be avoided for any project where people have to read this stuff. Larry Wall is a linguist turned programmer where Perl is based on expressiveness.

    I have not seen Perl used at work for many years besides some dependency for some Linux distro app.

    In other words it is the SystemD of programming languages compared to Perl 5.

  23. Wahoo I can open my 2003 Christmas presents on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    I thought it was done over a decade ago but was so different due to strange stuff like 100 different identifiers that no one used it?

  24. Re:AMD is coming out with the 390 on GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I had the opposite. Nvidia would go black with no BSOD. ATI fixed that.

    But ATI did bsod depending on driver on my AMD phenom II which I would assume would be more well tested?? I went back with NVidia and it is solid.

  25. Re:And the game continues on The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly · · Score: 1

    ??
    Wow just wow.

    I will remember not to pay you and see how you like it and make up some rationalization you already got paid. Who needs your 401k you already got paid greedy socialist etc.

    Sorry that is stealing and no if the contract was they get paid for the life of the product you can't not have it unless you pay too. You are a thief plain and simple and I know I sound assholish and a troll here on Slashdot but we work in software and expect to keep getting paid for our work. You can not expect to start a company make a software product and then I use it for free saying you already got paid and make up an excuse you charged too much.

    How would you feel? You would want to sue me and mess me up if I did that and provided financial harm right? How is this any different? It is licensed and not sold. As long as people are willing to pay I see nothing wrong as this is capitalism 101.

    And how does piracy help Hollywood? Since you refuse to pay them anyway you will never go see a band in concert or got to a movie anyway.