On the first launch of the Ariane 5 rocket, it used parts of the control software of the Ariane 4, a very reliable rocket with a success rate of more than 97%. The launch ended with the destruction of the rocket 37 seconds into the flight due to an arithmetic overflow. It had not been taken into account that the bigger rocket would cause bigger values in the control software.
It was great, they used software coded in ADA that detected the overflow and raised an exception, disabling the faulty part, the work was then taken over by the backup system which, being identical, did exactly the same thing. Whoops.
What chacter set is your "text" file in? ascii, iso-xxxx, utf-8? ucs-16? EBCDIC? sixbit? (and which sixbit) 5 bit telex code? Does it include shift characters?
Does it have lines? Pages? Chapters? Fixed length or variable length?
How are those lines, pages, chapters delimited? Length prefixes? EOL/EOP/EOC markers? Are the EOx single byte or multiple byte? What does a bare LF, or a bare CR mean on a DOS/Windows system?
Are your text files RLE compressed? 1D or 2D compressed?
Do they have embedded line numbers? Are those line numbers integer or fixed point?
People who only know Unix know very little about the possible fun you can have with "text" files.
It's not perfect, but judging by the fact its opponents insist on using "faults" that are misleading, minor, or irrelevant
This, a thousand times this. I gave up worrying about systemd when I noticed that most of the anti-systemd campaigners spanned the spectrum from exageration, via lying, to insanity.
You can guess it's about the US because as people point out endlessly "slashdot is an American site", or because the US has a "department of Labor" (but maybe some other country does too?) or because the monetary amounts are in dollars (but other countries have a currency called the dollar) or because Gawker and the Wall Street Journal are referenced (but I guess at least the WSJ does some foreign news stories).
There is nothing in this story that says it's about the US.
You can guess it's about the US because as people point out endlessly "slashdot is an American site", or because the US has a "department of Labor" (but maybe some other country does too?) or because the monetary amounts are in dollars (but other countries have a currency called the dollar) or because Gawker and the Wall Street Journal are referenced (but I guess at least the WSJ does some foreign news stories).
climate is quite damn important to life. If you don't believe it, try living in a climate like the Antarctic centre, or the middle of the Sahel.
While there is no way to live in the "Antarctic centre" without pretty high levels of life support technology their are many millions of people who live in the Sahel. Maybe you meant to write "Sahara"?
My linux machines boot from raid. They use systemd (Debian). The only time I have trouble with one of them was ages ago when I had a sheevaplug that ran Ubuntu (with upstart) -- that thing was fucking up the raid like 1 time out of two.
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On the first launch of the Ariane 5 rocket, it used parts of the control software of the Ariane 4, a very reliable rocket with a success rate of more than 97%. The launch ended with the destruction of the rocket 37 seconds into the flight due to an arithmetic overflow. It had not been taken into account that the bigger rocket would cause bigger values in the control software.
It was great, they used software coded in ADA that detected the overflow and raised an exception, disabling the faulty part, the work was then taken over by the backup system which, being identical, did exactly the same thing. Whoops.
You don't know much about junkies if you think they want anyone to suck their dicks. They're not into getting high with natural brain chemistry.
Junkies suck dicks, nobody sucks junkie dicks.
If anybody actualy cared about this it would be less than one days programming work to make a version of journald that wrote to a text file.
Since nobody has I think nobody actualy does care, it's just a subject for endless whining.
What chacter set is your "text" file in? ascii, iso-xxxx, utf-8? ucs-16? EBCDIC? sixbit? (and which sixbit) 5 bit telex code? Does it include shift characters?
Does it have lines? Pages? Chapters? Fixed length or variable length?
How are those lines, pages, chapters delimited? Length prefixes? EOL/EOP/EOC markers? Are the EOx single byte or multiple byte? What does a bare LF, or a bare CR mean on a DOS/Windows system?
Are your text files RLE compressed? 1D or 2D compressed?
Do they have embedded line numbers? Are those line numbers integer or fixed point?
People who only know Unix know very little about the possible fun you can have with "text" files.
Sorry? You can run Debian without systemd.
Just try running Devuan with it.
So much for "init system freedom".
Bug report?
It's not perfect, but judging by the fact its opponents insist on using "faults" that are misleading, minor, or irrelevant
This, a thousand times this. I gave up worrying about systemd when I noticed that most of the anti-systemd campaigners spanned the spectrum from exageration, via lying, to insanity.
First they came for the paedophiles, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a paedophile.
Nah, crappiest use of slippery slope argument ever.
Yes, it's called Soylent News.
We're just going to see hundreds of posts like:
U+xxxx U+xxxx U+xxxx
Did you read my post?
You can guess it's about the US because as people point out endlessly "slashdot is an American site", or because the US has a "department of Labor" (but maybe some other country does too?) or because the monetary amounts are in dollars (but other countries have a currency called the dollar) or because Gawker and the Wall Street Journal are referenced (but I guess at least the WSJ does some foreign news stories).
You expect us to read the fucking article? Am I on Slashdot or what?
There is nothing in this story that says it's about the US.
You can guess it's about the US because as people point out endlessly "slashdot is an American site", or because the US has a "department of Labor" (but maybe some other country does too?) or because the monetary amounts are in dollars (but other countries have a currency called the dollar) or because Gawker and the Wall Street Journal are referenced (but I guess at least the WSJ does some foreign news stories).
climate is quite damn important to life. If you don't believe it, try living in a climate like the Antarctic centre, or the middle of the Sahel.
While there is no way to live in the "Antarctic centre" without pretty high levels of life support technology their are many millions of people who live in the Sahel. Maybe you meant to write "Sahara"?
Well, now it's running Debian (with systemd) I have no problems.
(Of course I also replaced the crappy power supply).
(The kernel & initrd are on the built in Flash, the OS is on a mdadm RAID1).
My linux machines boot from raid. They use systemd (Debian). The only time I have trouble with one of them was ages ago when I had a sheevaplug that ran Ubuntu (with upstart) -- that thing was fucking up the raid like 1 time out of two.
One of the first countries to roll out EMV was the UK,
Well, for values of "first" that include "ten years after France".
Permutation City, Greg Egan.
Mmm. Slippery. Sounds good to me.
I guess it means that Apple will soon be launching a Facebook killer and Fry is getting ready to shill that.
Twenty. No thirty. Read the book, forget the film.
("Make Room, Make Room" is a hell of a lot better than "Soylent Green", too).
Yes, you voted to thank Putin for killing 283 people, 193 of them Dutch.
Well done.
No it isn't. Holland has extremely low renewable energy production.
You are an ill-informed fucking moron.
Holland generates the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels -- nuclear is only 3.5% and the renewables target is only 14%.
Your "argument" us stupid, lazy and fact free.
Splendid derailing.
Meanwhile, in Holland...