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  1. Re:Wow... on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except there is plenty coming out of the RHEL customer base - we're being told to shut up. Also notice how many RHEL shops are not moving to RHEL 7 (us among them).

  2. Re:So the only people that are hurt on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 2

    I think you've got bigger issues....Very few things still support Mac OS. I don't think Firefox or Chrome ever ran on even on OS 9.

  3. So the only people that are hurt on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 1

    Are the people running unsupported versions of OS X. I guess it's back to firefox on my MBP 1,1 (running OS X 10.6).

  4. Re:Go XP! on Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Patch For Windows · · Score: 1

    You must like setting the system time every time it boots.

    How did you manage to post to Slashdot on your 8088 anyway (hope you have the full 640K RAM!)?

  5. Re:PDF? PDF??? on Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases First Issue CC-BY-SA · · Score: 2

    Also, I was under the impression that PDF was an open format, just Adobe's reader is closed. PDF will make most people happy.

    I'm surprised nobody sad TeX should have been used....

  6. Re:The food pyramid screws you up and then... on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    I am extremely aware of the post-transplant requirements and complications, as my father was post-transplant (kidney and pancreas) and towards the end of his life I was one of his main caregivers.

  7. Re:The food pyramid screws you up and then... on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Clearly you don't understand how the disorder works.

    You can't 'cure' type I diabetes. Pancreatic transplants are the closest thing we currently have, and they are subject to the same trouble that the native pancreas suffers - destruction of the beta islet cells due to an autoimmune response.

  8. Re:What's the name of the drug? on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you're a type 1, continued eating without insulin will cause massive weight loss. Diabetic Ketoacidosis sucks.

  9. Re:I can say something nice on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean we won't see vocal before people before then? Plenty of us are screaming now, because we will matter even less later. You know, because cross platform compatibility was never for any sort of unix based project....(systemd might work fine on Linux, but it doesn't work on anything else. And some software (GNOME) is becoming dependent on it. Not like GNOME has ever been used on other unix operating systems or anything....).

  10. Re:Oh good on Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda · · Score: 1

    That might be the greatest thing I will read today.

    Also, AC's proposal would likely solve any ratings issues that they might have....

  11. Re:We already had this? on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    Think of it this way - your command is using "rpm -hiv /path/to/package.rpm"

    Microsoft is adding "yum install package" to the options list.

  12. Re:Respect on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    I would imagine build on it.

  13. Re: How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    Except, I don't know, SMF actually works? And doesn't have any false appearances about what it does, or what the developers intentions are?

  14. Re:Hard to find on 2600 Profiled: "A Print Magazine For Hackers" · · Score: 1

    Very possible.

  15. Re: How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 1

    Considering that we have plenty of choices other then Linux (and a few years to decide), I fail to see the problem. The staff has an inclination towards FreeBSD (because the guys above me love it). UNIX isn't out of the question, AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX could fit the bill just as well.

  16. Re: How about we hackers? on Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or we have learned that you can't argue with Red Hat. As a company we have decided against upgrading to RHEL 7 because of systemd, and likely will be migrating to FreeBSD when it is no longer supported.

    I'm waiting for our research team to get bored and start finding holes in systemd

  17. Re:Hard to find on 2600 Profiled: "A Print Magazine For Hackers" · · Score: 1

    I think Microcenter may have stopped carrying it as well. I didn't see it the last couple times I was in there.

  18. Re:Lol... on How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor · · Score: 1

    On the flip side, I've loved every Mac that I've owned. I had a PPC 603 for a while (running OS 8.6), a G3 Powerbook (Clamshell), then a G4 (running 10.1 and later 10.4), which would later be replaced by a 2006 MBP (that I bought at a Hamfest in 2011 for $200, not bad). They did most of what I wanted them to do, and I usually had a Windows desktop that the gaming took place on (with the exception of the 603 that was my only computer at that time....oh the hours of Starcraft, Diablo II, and MechWarrior....), and a Windows/Linux laptop that was my *normal* system (I usually by a Windows laptop on a 4-5 year cycle).

    Where was I? Oh yes, I loved all of the Macs. They had the stability that I wish Windows had, and the polish I wish Linux had. Plus commercial software support - outside of gaming (which is certainly changing) I never had an issue with the software I needed not being availible for Mac OS or OS X.

    Sadly, I'm hearing that the hardware reliability has died with the newer laptop lineup. My 2006 MBP and 2007 MB are still kicking, but are showing their age at this point with more recent software (Firefox....Flash...)

  19. Re:Being different was a boat anchor. on How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't expect the Acer to last two years....

    Also, I've never seen an entry level laptop with an SSD....the MBA is comparable to an Ultrabook (which cost just as much last time I checked) and the MBP is competitive in price to the Dell Precision line.

  20. Re:The bigger the lie on Ubuntu 14.10 Released With Ambitious Name, But Small Changes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pulseaudio bugs should be reported to a certain Lennart Poettering (you may have heard about him before) and became standard thanks to Red Hat. ALSA was fine, and OSS wasn't bad either (it was the licensing they didn't like IIRC).

  21. Re:Very flattering... on Microsoft Introduces Build Cadence Selection With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    It's very much in the users hands. Generally, a release (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL) sticks to the version for the OS. In Ubuntu and Debian, if you have backports enabled, it will grab newer versions of the software if it has been vetted stable by the OS team. Or you can add a developer PPA and grab the newest releases as they come. In Fedora you have the option to either add a seperate repo to yum (I've got a couple of repos on Fedora to get upstream stable rather then just the OS version) OR you can allow rawhide for certain packages/groups if you want to stay bleeding edge

  22. Re:UNIX Philosophy on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 5, Informative

    We've tried having standards in Linux before, and they were utterly ignored (Linux Standard Base). Basically, there is no reason for certain groups or developers (Red Hat (and to a lesser extent, Canonical) and developer-who-shall-not-be-named) to listen to everyone when they can do whatever they want and everyone else has to deal with it.

  23. Re:Finally ... on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    I'm not concerned over 2GB of space unless I'm running an embedded system, in which case I'm probably not installing X or XFCE. (I'd bet XFCE is where your space is being gobbled up).

  24. Re:Finally ... on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am entertaining FreeBSD and Slackware as viable options. The only thing in Slackware's favor is the games I play will run on it vs FreeBSD.

  25. Re:Unity is rubbish. Systemd is rubbish on Ubuntu Turns 10 · · Score: 2

    In which case I'd have to point to Chromebooks and Android devices.

    I'd like to make a nice long rant next against GNOME and Red Hat, but to keep it short GNOME shot everyone in the foot with GNOME 3.