This isn't 'good news', its more of a 'look you stupid BSD is Dying morons, once again you dont' fucking get it' as to refute the last retarded article claiming that BSD had fallen utterly short of its goal.
This is more of a finger to Linux fanboys on slashdot than anything else.
This guy gets a nice paycheck from Redhat for the work he does on the Linux kernel, and this guy (nor any of the other 8k people you want to include) have either started the project or managed it for 20 years. Some have been around a while, but this guy certainly isn't the one holding it together.
The hundreds of thousands of people involved in all the various parts of your house, or car, or computer don't get some fantastic amount of money for doing 'their job' either.
You get special treatment when you make sacrifices or do something other wise special to deserve it. Doing your job isn't something special, he's getting compensated what he agreed to for what he has agreed to do.
Its trivial to keep backwards compat and move forward.
You simply don't change existing APIs in a undocumented way. Old code should not ever behave differently.
That doesn't mean you can't extend the API, that doesn't mean you can't write a new API that works differently. It just means that once you publish an API it ALWAYS WORKS THE SAME.
Mauro (the guy Linus got pissed at) is a kernel commit reviewer for the subsection the patch is related to (Video4Linux). He (Mauro) is trusted to do the review of the code and not let this shit happen. Linus no longer reviews every single change himself.
And what would the pilot have done if the mechanic said something like 'well, sounds like thats a bug in your engine' in response to the fact that he had jet fuel instead of gasoline?
Which is essentially what Mauro did and why Linus exploded on him.
Returning 'file not found' on an already open file is in no way acceptable. Ever.
Then blaming it on the software for not dealing with an error code it should never get is unacceptable.
Blaming the software for breaking when the kernel change caused the failure and the policy of the Linux project is that any kernel change that breaks userland code is a kernel bug is unacceptable.
Making a change from ANY API, kernel or otherwise that changes error codes for a response with ZERO documentation is ENTIRELY unacceptable.
Congratulations, you utterly fail to understand how to write interfaces (code or otherwise) in multiple ways and fail to understand how to comprehend the problem as well.
Hanging the guy from the bridge would have been letting him go and then posting all over the Internet about how the guy was canned for being a moron and that he'll fire every other person that.
This guy got a smack in the back of the head for being a douche and trying to blame his fuck up on someone else. He didn't didn't get 'killed' so he can not be 'hanging from the bridge'
Jesus christ when did people become such pussies that telling them to shut the fuck up is comparable to public execution?
This guy (Mauro) is trusted to make commits to the kernel without direct hard core review by Linus. If I make a code change to V4L and it gets accepted to the kernel, it goes through Mauro, not Linus.
Theres a big difference between me committing code and me being a reviewer who is trusted to know what I'm doing rather than just some code monkey that someone else checks out first.
Yea, pastie white guy is an ethnic minority... seriously, in the words of Linus SHUT THE FUCK UP. Stop trying to make it out like he really is 'treated differently'.
Swedes and Fins treat him about as different as an evil canadian.
Did you read the thread? I don't think you did. He started off by telling the person reporting the bug that it was a user space app problem (pulse audio).
This is wrong for several reasons.
First and foremost, it is the unholiest of unholy to make a kernel change to an API that results in userland apps breaking.
Second, Linus's policy is that of the above, never is a kernel change allowed to break a userland app.
Third, the way he changed the code was in no way what so ever acceptable. He change the error code for an ioctl to NOENT, i.e. file not found... ioctl's work on open files, its not possible to have a file not found, you're already past the point where you would get that response as you've already opened the file.
It was a shitty patch AND the patcher blamed someone else AGAINST POLICY for his own stupid mistake. THAT is why Linus tore him a new one.
He didn't get reemed for just fucking up, he got reemed for fucking up in multiple ways and blaming it on someone else, then when that was pointed out, he tried to respond with 'well other people do it' as if that is an acceptable response as well.
Perhaps you should see what you need for your laptop. I've not had a power issues in a couple of years thanks to having the right adapter.
Expecting to plug in to AC is rather retarded on an aircraft as it would require large inverters to power a full aircraft, and then all the inverters are going to do is power your converter thats going to bounce it back down to essentially the same voltage as it started out as.
AC power is only good for long range transmission and large motors, beyond that, DC is what you want and you don't want to go bouncing around between the two any more than you have to.
BS. It hasn't been 'expensive' for a few years. See my previous post. Its no more expensive to do it on an airplane than it is to do it on a cell phone. In fact, ITS EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
Analog cell phones worked just fine on aircraft. Digital doesn't have the power to do it at 35k feet, of course, you also have a battery that'll last a couple days instead of just one with digital but thats another argument and that problem can be addresses as well.
So basically most of the fucking country. Ironically, you'd starve to death without those places where cows out number people, you're just too ignorant to realize it.
God I hate attitudes of morons like you.
Also, 20mbps, not even a little impressive, neither was 1mbps in 2009. Pull your new yorker head out of your ass and get a clue.
You don't have to be anonymous to also not be so stupid as to give away all of your personal info. It is entirely possible to not broadcast everything to the world.
If you don't have the balls to say something with your name attached to it then don't say it.
Very few people actually have anything to fear other than making it obvious to others that they are morons with a retarded opinion.
One in a billion people have something to actually fear about what they say getting them killed or otherwise harm, the rest just use is as a pathetic excuse to talk out their ass with no repercussions at all.
No intelligent person with half a clue takes anonymous posts seriously even when they have merit.
Reprogramming the car to read the chip takes all of about 30 minutes, most of it waiting with the key just sitting in the ignition.
The 'chip' is a resistor in most cases, the car just has to learn its value and that its acceptable, there is a simple key turning sequence to get it to do so but its designed to take time rather than be instant, hence the 30 minute wait. You aren't jamming it unless you're talking about a keyless ignition, in which case, you're stupid for buying the car with keyless ignition.
Actually, in 1996 you would have gotten good results for this question from Google. Sure it was an infant, but guess who used it and what they ran it on? Linux was there too.
The only contrast is that one is ultra left and the other is ultra right, other than that they are no different. Ultra-anything is ignorant and detrimental to the country.
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This isn't 'good news', its more of a 'look you stupid BSD is Dying morons, once again you dont' fucking get it' as to refute the last retarded article claiming that BSD had fallen utterly short of its goal.
This is more of a finger to Linux fanboys on slashdot than anything else.
Fuck you.
I only say that because you're right ... as I sit here on friday night doing just that (well, okay saturday morning, but I started on friday night!)
I say fuck you because I hate when people I right about pointing out my being a loser :/
This guy gets a nice paycheck from Redhat for the work he does on the Linux kernel, and this guy (nor any of the other 8k people you want to include) have either started the project or managed it for 20 years. Some have been around a while, but this guy certainly isn't the one holding it together.
The hundreds of thousands of people involved in all the various parts of your house, or car, or computer don't get some fantastic amount of money for doing 'their job' either.
You get special treatment when you make sacrifices or do something other wise special to deserve it. Doing your job isn't something special, he's getting compensated what he agreed to for what he has agreed to do.
Its trivial to keep backwards compat and move forward.
You simply don't change existing APIs in a undocumented way. Old code should not ever behave differently.
That doesn't mean you can't extend the API, that doesn't mean you can't write a new API that works differently. It just means that once you publish an API it ALWAYS WORKS THE SAME.
Mauro (the guy Linus got pissed at) is a kernel commit reviewer for the subsection the patch is related to (Video4Linux). He (Mauro) is trusted to do the review of the code and not let this shit happen. Linus no longer reviews every single change himself.
Yes, make them more uniform by using error codes that are expressly prohibited by the documented API. Try again.
And what would the pilot have done if the mechanic said something like 'well, sounds like thats a bug in your engine' in response to the fact that he had jet fuel instead of gasoline?
Which is essentially what Mauro did and why Linus exploded on him.
You're wrong, and Linus already explained why.
Returning 'file not found' on an already open file is in no way acceptable. Ever.
Then blaming it on the software for not dealing with an error code it should never get is unacceptable.
Blaming the software for breaking when the kernel change caused the failure and the policy of the Linux project is that any kernel change that breaks userland code is a kernel bug is unacceptable.
Making a change from ANY API, kernel or otherwise that changes error codes for a response with ZERO documentation is ENTIRELY unacceptable.
Congratulations, you utterly fail to understand how to write interfaces (code or otherwise) in multiple ways and fail to understand how to comprehend the problem as well.
Good news, you never will. Not something you'll need to worry about.
You'll likely never do so because you don't even understand why he was yelled at, you don't even get the severity of what he did.
Well, technically it is true on both accounts.
Hanging the guy from the bridge would have been letting him go and then posting all over the Internet about how the guy was canned for being a moron and that he'll fire every other person that.
This guy got a smack in the back of the head for being a douche and trying to blame his fuck up on someone else. He didn't didn't get 'killed' so he can not be 'hanging from the bridge'
Jesus christ when did people become such pussies that telling them to shut the fuck up is comparable to public execution?
And getting code accepted != kernel maintainer.
This guy (Mauro) is trusted to make commits to the kernel without direct hard core review by Linus. If I make a code change to V4L and it gets accepted to the kernel, it goes through Mauro, not Linus.
Theres a big difference between me committing code and me being a reviewer who is trusted to know what I'm doing rather than just some code monkey that someone else checks out first.
Yea, pastie white guy is an ethnic minority ... seriously, in the words of Linus SHUT THE FUCK UP. Stop trying to make it out like he really is 'treated differently'.
Swedes and Fins treat him about as different as an evil canadian.
So basically what you said is you suck at managing and in fact have someone else do it for you in the form of HR.
You make the same threats statements, you just try to sugar coat them.
You just don't have the courage to say what you mean.
Did you read the thread? I don't think you did. He started off by telling the person reporting the bug that it was a user space app problem (pulse audio).
This is wrong for several reasons.
First and foremost, it is the unholiest of unholy to make a kernel change to an API that results in userland apps breaking.
Second, Linus's policy is that of the above, never is a kernel change allowed to break a userland app.
Third, the way he changed the code was in no way what so ever acceptable. He change the error code for an ioctl to NOENT, i.e. file not found ... ioctl's work on open files, its not possible to have a file not found, you're already past the point where you would get that response as you've already opened the file.
It was a shitty patch AND the patcher blamed someone else AGAINST POLICY for his own stupid mistake. THAT is why Linus tore him a new one.
He didn't get reemed for just fucking up, he got reemed for fucking up in multiple ways and blaming it on someone else, then when that was pointed out, he tried to respond with 'well other people do it' as if that is an acceptable response as well.
I'm mac, and I use this: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB441Z/A/apple-magsafe-airline-adapter
Perhaps you should see what you need for your laptop. I've not had a power issues in a couple of years thanks to having the right adapter.
Expecting to plug in to AC is rather retarded on an aircraft as it would require large inverters to power a full aircraft, and then all the inverters are going to do is power your converter thats going to bounce it back down to essentially the same voltage as it started out as.
AC power is only good for long range transmission and large motors, beyond that, DC is what you want and you don't want to go bouncing around between the two any more than you have to.
BS. It hasn't been 'expensive' for a few years. See my previous post. Its no more expensive to do it on an airplane than it is to do it on a cell phone. In fact, ITS EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
GoGo uses cellular service, not sat links. The whole thing about using your cell phone on an aircraft is utter bullshit and has been since day one.
Heres an map old map of some of their towers.
http://www.gadling.com/2009/12/07/aircell-headquarters-chicago-internet/
Analog cell phones worked just fine on aircraft. Digital doesn't have the power to do it at 35k feet, of course, you also have a battery that'll last a couple days instead of just one with digital but thats another argument and that problem can be addresses as well.
So basically most of the fucking country. Ironically, you'd starve to death without those places where cows out number people, you're just too ignorant to realize it.
God I hate attitudes of morons like you.
Also, 20mbps, not even a little impressive, neither was 1mbps in 2009. Pull your new yorker head out of your ass and get a clue.
You don't have to be anonymous to also not be so stupid as to give away all of your personal info. It is entirely possible to not broadcast everything to the world.
No, that just makes you a pussy.
If you don't have the balls to say something with your name attached to it then don't say it.
Very few people actually have anything to fear other than making it obvious to others that they are morons with a retarded opinion.
One in a billion people have something to actually fear about what they say getting them killed or otherwise harm, the rest just use is as a pathetic excuse to talk out their ass with no repercussions at all.
No intelligent person with half a clue takes anonymous posts seriously even when they have merit.
Reprogramming the car to read the chip takes all of about 30 minutes, most of it waiting with the key just sitting in the ignition.
The 'chip' is a resistor in most cases, the car just has to learn its value and that its acceptable, there is a simple key turning sequence to get it to do so but its designed to take time rather than be instant, hence the 30 minute wait. You aren't jamming it unless you're talking about a keyless ignition, in which case, you're stupid for buying the car with keyless ignition.
And putting said key in the ignition will turn it off.
Actually, in 1996 you would have gotten good results for this question from Google. Sure it was an infant, but guess who used it and what they ran it on? Linux was there too.
The only contrast is that one is ultra left and the other is ultra right, other than that they are no different. Ultra-anything is ignorant and detrimental to the country.