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  1. Re:Quality problems not specific to a single distr on Linux Mint Hack Is an Indicator of a Larger Problem (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Many modern desktops require 3D.

  2. You have never worked with raw (lossless) video have you?

  3. Re:pol views on H1Bs on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, whatever Carly believed while at HP is irrelevant. She used a *legal* tool to do her job as CEO in the best interest of the company. Even if she disagreed with H1B on a philosophical basis, she would be grossly negligent if she did not consider the use of H1Bs as CEO of a publicly traded company.

    Re: The Don, H1B is *not* immigration; your comments in that regard almost read like a straw man. I don't think most people are opposed to *legal* immigration but that has nothing to do with H1Bs.

  4. Re:Road access on No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not an accurate comparison; your analogy fails. No one is saying if the network is congested that your access will not be slowed down. What they are saying is there should be no artificial limitations to the usage of the unlimited resource.

    Now if the city of LA only allowed you 100 miles of road usage per month without being charged more, that would be a closer comparison.

  5. Re:23% of the company on Volkswagen Could Face $18 Billion Fine Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 1

    In Massachusetts your annual inspection includes an emissions test.

  6. Re: Well now Patrick will have to make a change on LILO Bootloader Development To End · · Score: 1

    While you definitely deserve your Funny mods, I have issues with grub2.

    One of the big advantages of grub1 over lilo was that you didn't have to run anything when you made a change in the config. You could also *easily* edit the config at boot time if needs be (typos etc...). The option to edit at boot time still exists in grub2 but that horrific, bloated configuration file is almost meaningless to anyone who is not a grub developer; not to mention having to run grub-install to affect changes.

    grub2 seems like a step back to lilo without the simplicity of lilo.

    lilo was my introduction to boot loaders and I learned a lot with it. Grub1 (legacy) was a definite improvement over lilo. Grub2 feels like some convoluted step backwards.

  7. Re:Not always a good thing. on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 1

    anybody remember intel gma 500? i'm not stepping in that sh*t again.

    My sister gave me a Dell Mini 10 netbook a couple months ago. I was very excited thinking this would be a great little beater web device that I could leave in the truck or use out in the yard or whatever and if it got destroyed, I am not really out anything. *But* it has Intel GMA 500 ( Poulsbo ). I can't put any newer distributions on it because the kernel modules that exist are stuck with ancient versions of everything. And before someone mentions Intel open-sourcing drivers that is not the case for this POS because they licensed it from some 3rd party.

    So my options are either use Windows XP (that came preinstalled) or use it in crippled mode in Linux. Fuck you very much Intel.

  8. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Also, like most MS "warranties" of this nature, you are only entitled to a refund of the original purchase price. Which is nothing.

  9. Re:Ugh. on Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5 · · Score: 1



    Thanks AC!

  10. Re:Reliable servers don't just crash on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    In high-load servers logging can be quite disk intensive. Effectively doubling that I/O can be extremely detrimental to the performance of the machine.

  11. Re:Reliable servers don't just crash on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Just how useful these features are depends on the user. The usefulness of these features does not outweigh the fact that *I DON'T WANT BINARY LOGS*.

    I wish you pro-systemd people would please quit telling me what I do and do not want. Systemd offers me almost no benefit but does disrupt many aspects of my systems *FOR NO BENEFIT TO ME*.

    If this is good for you, please, by all means, use systemd. But leave me the option to not use it. You do not know what is best for me and I didn't ask for your opinion. I especially did not request that my options be limited by a group that is as controversial as the systemd folks.

  12. Re:Reliable servers don't just crash on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    And your solution 1). offers absolutely no benefit to me 2). does not exist yet

    There are hundreds or thousands of tools in the UNIX userland that have been written to interact with text files. Why re-invent the wheel?

    I do not want binary logging and with systemd I have no option. I have many other issues with systemd. I, like many many other people, do not want systemd.

  13. Re:Reliable servers don't just crash on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    It's not like the journal format is some state secret. It's documented and there are already several journal parsers to choose from.

    Which does absolutely nothing to remedy the issues I have with systemd logging. But thanks for playing.

  14. Re:Reliable servers don't just crash on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    At least with journald you can have logging done just binary, just text or both types simultaneousl

    False. You cannot log only to text with systemd. And who wants twice the I/O (binary and text) to appease the systemd folks when text logs have been not only the defacto standard, but a rudimentary part of the UNIX philosophy. There are several other reasons I don't like systemd ( try to chroot to a broken system and tell me how much fun that is if the system is a systemd system ) but binary logging with no text only option is arrogant and a show stopper for me as well.

  15. Re:Please change the name! on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    I like VSSL -- very secure socket layer :P
    It could even be written/pronounced VeSSeL. Loose definitions of vessel could even be applied to the functionality of SSL.

  16. Re:u wot m8 on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    Normally the fix is:

    rpm --rebuilddb
    yum clean metadata

    Was there more involved for your fix?

  17. Re:Bullet, meet foot on Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support · · Score: 1

    I believe I am dumber as a result of watching that video. That has to be one of the funniest, most out of touch things I have seen in a long time.

  18. Re:i pledge to you... on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    Awesome!! So if the ACA is such a fucking success where is the $2500/year I am supposed to be saving vs. the actual observed increase of ~$2000/yr I see now?

    Oh wait.. I must be a republicrat for even mentioning that and thus not worthy of a response.....

  19. Re:It's a start on Windows 8.1 Update Released, With Improvements For Non-Touch Hardware · · Score: 1

    Did you, you know, configure the location for those? I have used several KDE weather plasmoids and they all worked well.. once I configured the location. I am pretty sure that you would need to do the same with MS widgets. Just sayin.

  20. Re:This is more than a little bit naive. on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    Equally long we already could have switched to a full wind and solar powered world.

    citation please.

  21. Re:lol Bush.Lincoln, Roosevelt. Obama unilaterally on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Comparing the number of EOs to arrive at any sort of conclusion is much like measuring productivity by lines of code written/comitted. The raw numbers tell very little.

  22. Re:Costly discovery? on US Supreme Court: Patent Holders Must Prove Infringment · · Score: 3, Informative

    This reminds me of the SCO lawsuit, where the most they ever found was, what, 7 lines of infringing code which SCO themselves had nicked from AT&T UNIX?

    A little off-topic I know, but IBM was never found to have infringed on any code from SCO. SCO tried to *claim* some code that was already licensed under a FLOSS license was the same as their code and thus infringed on their IP. They made a big deal of this to the press forcing them to sign NDA's & "showing them the code".

  23. Re:Offline side-by-side Python on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    3) Yeah, we can send you a patch for that and you can compile the kernel SRPM, or

    RH does not support custom compiled kernels. Basically, if you compile your own kernel there is no reason to use RH because you have just "voided your warranty" and the whole system is considered suspect.

  24. Re:When upgrades break code on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    This problem is endemic in open source unfortunately, and not just for developers - constant UI change, application deprecation/replacement, etc.

    Which is why most projects will put older versions into a maintenance mode doing security/bug fixes but no new features *before* arbitrarily EOL'ing that version and dropping support.

  25. Re:OS versions on Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? · · Score: 1

    They mention having EOL'd 2.6 last October.. yet 2.6 is the system Python on RHEL/CentOS/Scientific 6 systems. I am not going to hose my system for the sake of what a Python dev wants.