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  1. Re: Piss off systemd on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    And once things stop working, the choice pretty much goes away.

    You wanted a choice, you got it.

    It's not systemd's problem if other init systems can't do everything systemd can do.

    You still haven't demonstrated that "the choice goes away".

  2. Re: Piss off systemd on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    Ah, just FUD spreading as usual.

  3. Re:Cue Admiral Ackbar! on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    So, you're wishing for Stormtroopers to descend on a systemd conference.

    That's being held in Berlin.

    Maybe time to brush up on your history and stop watching so much Star Wars.

  4. Re:Free speech zone on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    just wanted to run a service
    i wrote with the ulimit for the number of available files set to be a larger than
    default value?

    you know it took me a fucking day to figure out how, and it still required a reboot
    after install?

    You need to upgrade your goole-fu, or just "man systemd.exec".

    LimitCPU=, LimitFSIZE=, LimitDATA=, LimitSTACK=, LimitCORE=, LimitRSS=,
                  LimitNOFILE=, LimitAS=, LimitNPROC=, LimitMEMLOCK=, LimitLOCKS=,
                  LimitSIGPENDING=, LimitMSGQUEUE=, LimitNICE=, LimitRTPRIO=,
                  LimitRTTIME=
                          These settings control various resource limits for executed
                          processes. See setrlimit(2) for details. Use the string infinity to
                          configure no limit on a specific resource.

    i gave up on trying to enable coredumps

    How hard did you try? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Core_dump

    systemd's default behavior is to generate core dumps for all processes in /var/lib/systemd/coredump. This behavior can be overridden by creating a configuration snippet in the /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d/ directory with the following content[1][2]: /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d/custom.conf

    [Coredump]
    Storage=none

  5. Re:systemd is the best init system for FreeBSD. on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 2

    The problem is many people WANT A FUCKING CHOICE OF WHAT INIT SYSTEM TO PUT ON THEIR COMPUTER TOO.

    Hey, buddy, I have news for you, with Debian Jessie: YOU HAVE A FUCKING CHOICE OF WHAT INIT SYSTEM YOU PUT ON YOUR COMPUTER.

    You DIDN'T USED TO, sysvinit was essential. Now you have a choice, install sysvinit, upstart, systemd or OpenRC as you wish.

  6. Re:Interesting on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    If I want to set up a Debian 8 system, giving it a reasonable amount of effort and within a reasonable period of time, then I'm forced into using systemd.

    Sure, in theory I could potentially waste a whole lot of my time and expend a whole lot of energy trying to use Debian 8 with some other init system.

    Because it takes days to type

    # apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils
    # apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd

  7. Re: Piss off systemd on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    The problem is that on my current main distro (Debian) it looks like that choice will be going away.

    It does? How? Where?

  8. Re:Nice. on Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh really? I guess things like 9/11 were a conspiracy?

    ISIS didn't exist in 2001 you idiot. ISIS only exists because the US overthrew Sadam, leading to the remains of the Iraqi Ba'ath party to pretend it was the new caliphate.

  9. Re:Closed Ecosystem on Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones · · Score: 1

    Ok, sorry, your answer was not clear to me. I thought you were saying the way to replace one package was to replace the whole rom, you meant to say that after replacing the whole rom you could do updates that just replace one package.

  10. Re:So you made this giant database of sensitive in on What Federal Employees Really Need To Worry About After the Chinese Hack · · Score: 1

    In my corporate experience, data warehouse and big data projects happen when an executive gets annoyed with the slow progress of IT and basically dumps out the contents of a few databases into an almost-impossible-to-secure bowl of soup.

    Exactly how the whole Chelsea Manning/Wikileaks thing happened.

    Before 9/11 info was comparmentalised and need to know, after it was "gotta let every low level person have access to everything so we don't slip up again". Whoops.

  11. Re:The future of private and open tech? on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 1

    So there is no social life with those people without facebook.

    You see? Win/Win.

  12. Re:Get a Neo900 on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    What matters more to you? Money or control?

    Either is a valid answer, but don't complain that you weren't given the choice.

  13. Re: On the matter of smartphones on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 1

    So use a phone that doesn't run iOS, Android or Windows.

    What's your problem?

  14. Re: On the matter of smartphones on Interviews: Ask Richard Stallman a Question · · Score: 1

    The Dunning Kruger is strong in this one.

  15. Re:Caps Lock used to power a huge lever. on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    I wish it still behaved as shift-lock: affecting all characters, not just letters. When I use caps lock, it's almost always because I'm typing an environment variable or #defined constant. And that means I'm going to be typing lots of _ characters. If caps lock behaved like shift lock, I wouldn't have to press shift for every one of them.

    Get a French AZERTY keyboard.

    (Except that you use shift-lock to get numbers, by default unshifted is symbols).

  16. Re:Closed Ecosystem on Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones · · Score: 1

    But none of these recent problems need a kernel upgrade -- the userland/kernel interface is stable, there is nothing stopping Google & pals from just releasing a package with the new .so file.

    Except that their package management is primitive to nonexistent.

  17. Re:Closed Ecosystem on Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones · · Score: 1

    "Install a rom"?

    I used to do shit like that on 8 bit microcontrollers. If it's just one .so to change why the hell can't I just do, as the GP said, "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade"?

    Works on my N900, worked on my N9, works on my Jolla.

    Android is primitive.

  18. Thanks for linking that -- great demo.

  19. Re:Blimey on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    How is this any better than an ion thruster?

    What part of "without using reaction mass" did you miss?

  20. Re:A Shame on Debian Drops SPARC Platform Support · · Score: 1

    It sounds hilarious. A machine designed to prevent people writing assembly code, designed by someone who worked on Algol68 and Ada.

  21. Re:How soon until x86 is dropped? on Debian Drops SPARC Platform Support · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a missed opportunity for open-source

    If you remember the manufacturers of the most widely available machine with Cell kicked open source in the teeth. When Sony stopped the PS3 running Linux where was the incentive to develop open source software for the Cell?

  22. Re: Not downsizing nuclear on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    That is since 2012, it changed slightly.

    No, it's since 2011.

    I wonder what changed.

    Getting rid of their nukes maybe?

    It's amazing how you are unable to make a single posting without an important error, but you never admit to it.

  23. Re: Not downsizing nuclear on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Citation needed -- that's not what the figures at https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm say.

  24. Re: Not downsizing nuclear on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Germany needs overcapacity because wind and solar have pretty crappy capacity factors.

    Year on year Germany exports to Danemark, Luxembourg, Holland, Poland, Austria and Switzerland, and imports from France, the Czech republic and Sweden. (Yes, Germany does export more than it imports).

    In 2014 Germany exported 77.1 TWh, for which it earned 4591 million dollars.
    France exported 37 TWh, for which it earned 3234 million dollars.

    France is getting paid 46% more per Watt because it's selling when people need it's electricity, not when it's forced to because it has overproduction.

    (Sources: http://www.worldstopexports.com/electricity-exports-country/3315 and
    https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm)

  25. Re: Documentary "Pandora's Promise" Highlighted Fr on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    You have that completely backwards.

    It's Germany that went all "atomkraft - nien danke" and ended up burning tons of filthy brown coal, not France.

    France is just pandering to more German over-emotional hysteria.