> which is fucking amazing, like a standardized cargo container on a boat from Hanoi to Wyoming.
Which is the dumbest fucking analogy I have heard in a long time. Shipping containers come in a standard width and size, with standard size doors, standardised locks, and standardised locations for documents, cranes to attach to etc. It was revolutionary.
A docker container, or any kind of similar thing, is no such thing, and is not comparable in any way, other than saying "you can execute whatever frankensteinian monster you have built with this semi standardised command" - a shipping container will interact with the wider world through its designated door, which always works the same way. A docker container will interact with the wider world in the ways the application would interact if it wasn't wrapped up in a container - file system, named pipes, sockets, ip's/ports and so forth. It has neither the same impact on "revolutionising" IT that shipping containers had on the freight business, nor is it any kind of standardised.
Docker is interesting, and has a few interesting use cases, and solves a few interesting problems. It is not "fucking amazing" and it is not "changing the world the way shipping containers did". That is juvenile bullshit.
I am pretty sure it won't take long before "Fact the web unanimously agrees on" becomes "Facts Google prefers" or even "Facts the US Government tells Google to ignore/promote"
We work extensively with Freelancers. As long as they are based in the USA, EU, Eastern Europe or Russia. Fees are higher, yes. But so is the quality of work, and the quality of the freelancer overall. We pay from $20 up to $65 per hour, depending on length of contract, experience and type of work. Working with Freelancers is hard, and very risky. Currently our aim is to hire more in house, something we can afford now, but hiring perm staff is _also_ very hard - a very limited talent pool, extremely unrealistic salary expectations from prospective staff and all the usual risks of hiring permanent staff make it a very difficult process.
A full on, in your face uprising by the masses. A revolution. But the masses have McDonalds', TV, and Buzzfeed, so they are unlikely to bother. Which is pretty much how it was designed...
The thing that is stopping me right now from my server fleet wholesale to a BSD is the lack of good choices when it comes to clustered filesystems, like OCFS2. I know there is GlusterFS, which is not the right solution for me and HAMMER / HAMMER2 which don't have the maturity and feature set we need yet. A shared drive, with a simple and fast DLM. Maybe I have overlooked something, but that is what is lacking right now in File Systems for BSD...
I, like a lot of others, pay for my servers by the hour. So being able to spin up and shut down large numbers of virtual servers in under a second to deal with periods of high demand is something that interests me greatly, because it could save me a shitload of cash.
As you pay per hour, not per second, how does saving a few seconds save you a shitload of cash?
As an IT person, results are important. What does systemd provide that previous mechanisms didn't. Parallel startup? I don't boot servers that often where asynchronous startup of processes is a big issue. Resource limits? Doable with the shell script that gets plopped into/etc/rc.d. I'm just not seeing the benefit, but what I am seeing is a gigantic amount of code which touches the entire system, giving me concerns about security and stability, and there have been a number of articles on/. about systemd, to the point where people are even forking distros just so they don't have to deal with it.
Thank you, these are pretty much exactly my thoughts as well. I am very happy that all the systemd people have found a project to be productive in, and I appreciate some of the things they are trying to do. However, I run a large server farm, I don't need any containers, I don't need parallel boot, and so far, I have seen that they are highly adept at politicking their way into acceptance by various mainstream distro's as a default, and sometimes only init system.
I recently had to recompile Nginx on Ubunty Trusty in order to add some module, and this broke due to an unsatisfied systemd library dependency. Wait, what? Nginx now magically needs to be linked to systemd to compile? The madness is complete in my eyes.
I have since started playing around with Alpine Linux, which is a breath of fresh air in many ways, and barring any unforeseen issues, we will probably slowly migrate our fleet to Alpine. I resent the fact that I am forced to divert time, effort, and resources away from our jobs to deal with this shit. Part of my motivation in using Linux extensively is freedom of choice. The choice to go and roll my own distro isn't the kind of choice I signed up for though. Ubuntu was mostly nice, mostly functional, mostly stable and has mostly up to date packages for everything I need. With Debian, and so Ubuntu, chosing SystemD as a default, and especially looking at all the acrimony surrounding the issue in Debian, I am very fucking worried about where Linux is going to go in the next few years.
and chip-and-PIN is intended to reduce credit card fraud, not make me to eat any loss if my account is compromised.
Chipandpin is designed to protect *the bank* from fraud, and make you eat any and all losses in any kind of account compromise. If you sign a piece of paper to confirm your transaction, you can easily prove it wasn't you that signed for some transaction. On the other hand, in countries where Chip and Pin has been around for a long time, card fraud is rampant, leaves victims destitute and without recourse, and mostly un-, or under reported.
Say that to the Cypriots. Many people don't know that at one point, everybody stood to lose *all* their money. Regular people as well as businesses. The deposit guarantee scheme was shown to be useless vapor. Bitcoin might be a poor store for value, but right now I am seeing that banks and their related financial instruments such as insurances and pensions are just as bad.
You shouldn't start with a product and try to find a place for it in your life, you should start with a problem and if a tech solves it great.
The Op specifically stated he had an issue to resolve - he works in a cleanroom and doesn't want to go out everytime he needs to use an app on his phone.
Do you understand how Enterprise Sales works? Neither the people buying or selling understand anything about systemsd, and to them it is simply a bunch of sysadmin nerd whinging about something or other inconsequential.
Sysadmins, in the meantime, do what they always did, and install a few machines with the OS they have been told to use, and do the real work on whatever they think is best.
> I'm curious, how it is that given your hypersensitivity towards the US government and its actions that Russia doesn't merely get a pass from you, but you've been an apologist for its actions in Crimea? And Ukraine?
Maybe because not everything is black and white? Maybe because asking intelligent, objective questions doesn't mean you are an "apologist"? Maybe because intelligent people usually know when they are being bullshitted, and when a conversation goes like "Well, that is an interesting perspective, but what about...APOLOGIST!! WHY DO YOU QUESTION THAT WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY RIGHT!!" this just serves to ring more alarm bells?
I cannot speak for the guy you are insidiously claiming is on "the wrong side of the debate" but that is how your comments come across to me.
I stopped reading he list of "benefits" when I got to binary logging. Looking at the list of major server distro's it looks like all of them are going to be adopting, or already have adopted, this monstrosity. what are viable alternatives? currently using Ubuntu, because, you know, it's Debian, but up to date.
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> which is fucking amazing, like a standardized cargo container on a boat from Hanoi to Wyoming.
Which is the dumbest fucking analogy I have heard in a long time. Shipping containers come in a standard width and size, with standard size doors, standardised locks, and standardised locations for documents, cranes to attach to etc. It was revolutionary.
A docker container, or any kind of similar thing, is no such thing, and is not comparable in any way, other than saying "you can execute whatever frankensteinian monster you have built with this semi standardised command" - a shipping container will interact with the wider world through its designated door, which always works the same way. A docker container will interact with the wider world in the ways the application would interact if it wasn't wrapped up in a container - file system, named pipes, sockets, ip's/ports and so forth. It has neither the same impact on "revolutionising" IT that shipping containers had on the freight business, nor is it any kind of standardised.
Docker is interesting, and has a few interesting use cases, and solves a few interesting problems. It is not "fucking amazing" and it is not "changing the world the way shipping containers did". That is juvenile bullshit.
Rich people will live even longer
What a lot of bullshit spin: "only a slight majority said it would be a net positive." In other words, most experts think it will be great.
In real terms, the response rates are that 69% think it will be awesome, good, or or neutral on the subject.
This article tries very hard to make it seem like the experts think we are doomed. In reality, the experts think it will be just fine.
What she means to say, and what is probably what she is driving at, is: "We should be free to arrest and incarcerate you for reading this material"
I initially thought this was about the Google workforce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am pretty sure it won't take long before "Fact the web unanimously agrees on" becomes "Facts Google prefers" or even "Facts the US Government tells Google to ignore/promote"
A republican managed to throw a snowball during his speech, so obviously global warming can be ruled out!
What was the movie?
We work extensively with Freelancers. As long as they are based in the USA, EU, Eastern Europe or Russia. Fees are higher, yes. But so is the quality of work, and the quality of the freelancer overall. We pay from $20 up to $65 per hour, depending on length of contract, experience and type of work. Working with Freelancers is hard, and very risky. Currently our aim is to hire more in house, something we can afford now, but hiring perm staff is _also_ very hard - a very limited talent pool, extremely unrealistic salary expectations from prospective staff and all the usual risks of hiring permanent staff make it a very difficult process.
A full on, in your face uprising by the masses. A revolution. But the masses have McDonalds', TV, and Buzzfeed, so they are unlikely to bother. Which is pretty much how it was designed...
Perceived anonymous Internet access
The thing that is stopping me right now from my server fleet wholesale to a BSD is the lack of good choices when it comes to clustered filesystems, like OCFS2. I know there is GlusterFS, which is not the right solution for me and HAMMER / HAMMER2 which don't have the maturity and feature set we need yet. A shared drive, with a simple and fast DLM. Maybe I have overlooked something, but that is what is lacking right now in File Systems for BSD...
As you pay per hour, not per second, how does saving a few seconds save you a shitload of cash?
Thank you, these are pretty much exactly my thoughts as well. I am very happy that all the systemd people have found a project to be productive in, and I appreciate some of the things they are trying to do. However, I run a large server farm, I don't need any containers, I don't need parallel boot, and so far, I have seen that they are highly adept at politicking their way into acceptance by various mainstream distro's as a default, and sometimes only init system.
I recently had to recompile Nginx on Ubunty Trusty in order to add some module, and this broke due to an unsatisfied systemd library dependency. Wait, what? Nginx now magically needs to be linked to systemd to compile? The madness is complete in my eyes.
I have since started playing around with Alpine Linux, which is a breath of fresh air in many ways, and barring any unforeseen issues, we will probably slowly migrate our fleet to Alpine. I resent the fact that I am forced to divert time, effort, and resources away from our jobs to deal with this shit. Part of my motivation in using Linux extensively is freedom of choice. The choice to go and roll my own distro isn't the kind of choice I signed up for though. Ubuntu was mostly nice, mostly functional, mostly stable and has mostly up to date packages for everything I need. With Debian, and so Ubuntu, chosing SystemD as a default, and especially looking at all the acrimony surrounding the issue in Debian, I am very fucking worried about where Linux is going to go in the next few years.
I wish I had more time to get into BSD....
Chipandpin is designed to protect *the bank* from fraud, and make you eat any and all losses in any kind of account compromise. If you sign a piece of paper to confirm your transaction, you can easily prove it wasn't you that signed for some transaction. On the other hand, in countries where Chip and Pin has been around for a long time, card fraud is rampant, leaves victims destitute and without recourse, and mostly un-, or under reported.
Say that to the Cypriots. Many people don't know that at one point, everybody stood to lose *all* their money. Regular people as well as businesses. The deposit guarantee scheme was shown to be useless vapor. Bitcoin might be a poor store for value, but right now I am seeing that banks and their related financial instruments such as insurances and pensions are just as bad.
The Op specifically stated he had an issue to resolve - he works in a cleanroom and doesn't want to go out everytime he needs to use an app on his phone.
systemd
Do you understand how Enterprise Sales works? Neither the people buying or selling understand anything about systemsd, and to them it is simply a bunch of sysadmin nerd whinging about something or other inconsequential. Sysadmins, in the meantime, do what they always did, and install a few machines with the OS they have been told to use, and do the real work on whatever they think is best.
> I'm curious, how it is that given your hypersensitivity towards the US government and its actions that Russia doesn't merely get a pass from you, but you've been an apologist for its actions in Crimea? And Ukraine?
Maybe because not everything is black and white? Maybe because asking intelligent, objective questions doesn't mean you are an "apologist"? Maybe because intelligent people usually know when they are being bullshitted, and when a conversation goes like "Well, that is an interesting perspective, but what about...APOLOGIST!! WHY DO YOU QUESTION THAT WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY RIGHT!!" this just serves to ring more alarm bells?
I cannot speak for the guy you are insidiously claiming is on "the wrong side of the debate" but that is how your comments come across to me.
> Notice: If you post anonymously do not expect a reply. STOP SPREADNG LIES! YOU DO REPLY TO THE AC!
> No it doesn't. The booster is very smoky but the upper stage is pretty clean firing. Here's what a missile actually looks like: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/... The SA-2 isn't a BUK
I stopped reading he list of "benefits" when I got to binary logging. Looking at the list of major server distro's it looks like all of them are going to be adopting, or already have adopted, this monstrosity. what are viable alternatives? currently using Ubuntu, because, you know, it's Debian, but up to date.