You forgot those of us who have been around long enough to have survived major sea changes like os390 -> UNIX -> Solaris -> windows -> linux. Systemd saddens me because it makes servers act like workstations. And sadly, the distro maintainers made way too hard of a turn into systemd, forgoing 20 y/o standards. For example, on a CentOS minimal system, no ifconfig/netstat? Instantly breaks monitoring tools.
So if I need to retool my infrastructure, I am now looking at the options without a "linux first" mentality. This is the first step of slide into OS obscurity. I know RHEL/CentOS != linux, but they own the "enterprise" and have the mindshare of the check writers. So when things start randomly failing and require money to fix, there will be discussions around replacement and mitigation.
The only ingredient missing is a new upstart disrupting the OS land. It would have been awesome to see Oracle pour development into Solaris x86, because the vacuum is starting to form that they could have filled.
Or maybe, just maybe, RHEL et al pushed systemd out the door way to early, with absolutely no interim process and it would break relatively stable systems in new and difficult to determine methods.
I know that the conversion from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7 expanded any simple sysadmin task by at least 5 to 10 times longer. Part of this is a complete lack of training on my part, and part of it is a complete lack of understanding of *NIX by the developers. What they have created has merit, and maybe as a standalone / fork it would have worked. But the wholesale sea change in 7 basically made me seriously consider abandoning my "linux first" approach to projects. It sort of reminds me of the attempt of Solaris to implement SMF, and the utter #$%@fest that would cause. Over time it got better, but by then, I abandoned a "Solaris first" policy.
My biggest quibble with systemd/RHEL 7 - on a minimal install, it requires WPA-supplicant. On a server. WTF???
He did say something about this. It was taken as a personal attack, and now linus just doesn't care. I imagine that there is a lot of internal politics that we are not privy to. After being forced to use systemd with RHEL 7.0, it is obvious that systemd did not "win" on technical merits.
because we will be able to hear the dying screams of the colonists sooner with a moon base. With a mars base, no one cares because the time it would take to launch a rescue would be futile.
Ummm... sequestration did not work, and was not the massive deterrent that it was made out to be. Pure pork programs like the F-35 were completely untouched. The only consistent aspect of sequestration was that federal employees (common people, not the asshats in congress) took a 5-10% paycut.
She did nothing wrong, unless you mean violating public policy in a very obscure and debatable loophole fashion.. So yeah, technically they are the same issue, since no laws covered the private nixon recordings as well.
Sorry, but if any "normal" government employee pulled the same crap as Hillary, they would not be allowed to see daylight for years. Like or hate her, we should not reward her disregard for US law by making her the executor of those laws.
I run gentoo for my home server so that I don't have to worry about a major upgrade every few years. That "package churn" is what happens when you want the latest code running the latest fixes.
Yeah, some of the upgrades get dicey, but I laid out my current root filesystem in 2008, and haven't reinstalled anything since. Yes, every once in a while I need to spend a weekend fixing package collisions, but that is the ticket I paid for when I chose not to use a package based distro.
So in a nutshell, Gentoo will nickle and dime you to death to keep current, where RHEL/Ubuntu will combine all of that fun into a a few days every 2-3 years.
Not sure why you got modded down to 0, but the article definitely needs some fact checking. Especially the last line about ships using large FUSION reactors. Looks like an investment scam more than a breakthrough...
So what would call someone like me, who isn't a "hater", but is sorely frustrated that we are weeks from release and so far we have none of the features we were sold on.
You call out Hit Detection as a bug, but you missed some pretty significant bugs: 1 - Movement / stuck on terrain. Getting stuck on cigarette butts is getting old 2 - Heat. PGI has severely mismanaged the heat system due to a lack of understanding of the IP they bought. 3 - Built in Comms. 4 - Community anything. A lobby? anything? 5 - Jump Jets. No ability to add directional movement, just up/down and coasting if your moving before jump. Defeats the purpose of sitting behind a terrain feature, jetting up and over and raping your opponents back armor. 6 - NO REPAIR / REARM - this pretty much removed the ability to constrain resources. Want to reduce the prevelance of AC/40's, reduce AC/20 ammo stocks or jack the price up like the XL engines. 7 - HSR / hit detection. I play a spider, and I get tired of being hit by rounds that go wide away from but HSR decides that the shooter's screen is the authority.
(I play a spider because it is about the only mech that I can play a "phoenix hawk" type of role. The blackjack was a horrible implementation of that role) 8 - game modes. 9 - Terra Therma - the pinnacle of PGI demonstrating the complete lack of testing / program management.
Of course the biggest issue, PGI basically completely reversing decisions on things like 3PV. The outrage has been turned into "haters" on 3PV thanks to PGI spin. The reality is, this is the most measurable aspect of the community realizing that PGI is unable/incapable of delivering on the originally advertised game by "release in september."
Show me a restaurant that serves food straight out of the oven and into your mouth... Well prepared food is allowed to "rest", where as mc-d's serving temp was 180.
Too bad the constitution does not apply for military members. Since he volunteered, he is now beholden to the UCMJ, which is much more restrictive than federal law. Imagine a world where having an affair is a federal offense...
And I'm sure you have well documented and certified research to back up your statements... Especially the nutrition ratio magically is increased in organic farming. I think that has been debunked about a billion times, including the documented research from Penn and Teller.
Organic food is a luxury, and will kill millions of people if it is mandated worldwide.
Seriously? Is a well designed file system error handling routine worth 2x - 5x premium you pay to use sparc? considering you could create redundant hosts and multipath solutions with the savings.
If you RTFA, you would have determined that the flight control system is not infected, and the the systems that are in question are ancillary information systems. Think of a monitor with google maps...
The reason they use removable HDD's is probably so they can model the necessary mission data offsite, and then "replay" it at mission time.
Did you / have you brought any legal actions for the breach of rights committed in the pursuit and eventual arrest of you? Do you feel the violations were similar to ones now being taken against "terrorists"?
IBM was a Services and Software company with a personal PC division that was only known for one thing (thinkpads). They had to sell of the thinkpad name to sweeten the turd that was IBM's desktop line.
HP is not in the same position. HP is known as a consumer electronics company, and is trying to enter the software / services business.
Seems like an odd blogpost, bordering on a paid advertisement. I owned a Pre for 2 years, and never saw squat from bloggers on it. Now the new touchpad is out someone decides to write a review of a 1.5 y/o device???? Meh.
What is it with these great projects having a midlife crisis? Amarok did the same kind of thing by completely dumping the codebase in the name of "new" and basically forced the userbase to find a new project. Now Mozilla has basically said that they don't want to pay any attention to the people who have MONEY to pay for the things they are developing. Seems like a really short sighted, arrogant approach. I predict in 2 years time Firefox will have bleed all of their users to chrome / IE and will no longer be receiving corporate donations.
I guess if your going for an emotional response, go big.
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You forgot those of us who have been around long enough to have survived major sea changes like os390 -> UNIX -> Solaris -> windows -> linux. Systemd saddens me because it makes servers act like workstations. And sadly, the distro maintainers made way too hard of a turn into systemd, forgoing 20 y/o standards. For example, on a CentOS minimal system, no ifconfig/netstat? Instantly breaks monitoring tools.
So if I need to retool my infrastructure, I am now looking at the options without a "linux first" mentality. This is the first step of slide into OS obscurity. I know RHEL/CentOS != linux, but they own the "enterprise" and have the mindshare of the check writers. So when things start randomly failing and require money to fix, there will be discussions around replacement and mitigation.
The only ingredient missing is a new upstart disrupting the OS land. It would have been awesome to see Oracle pour development into Solaris x86, because the vacuum is starting to form that they could have filled.
Or maybe, just maybe, RHEL et al pushed systemd out the door way to early, with absolutely no interim process and it would break relatively stable systems in new and difficult to determine methods.
I know that the conversion from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7 expanded any simple sysadmin task by at least 5 to 10 times longer. Part of this is a complete lack of training on my part, and part of it is a complete lack of understanding of *NIX by the developers. What they have created has merit, and maybe as a standalone / fork it would have worked. But the wholesale sea change in 7 basically made me seriously consider abandoning my "linux first" approach to projects. It sort of reminds me of the attempt of Solaris to implement SMF, and the utter #$%@fest that would cause. Over time it got better, but by then, I abandoned a "Solaris first" policy.
My biggest quibble with systemd/RHEL 7 - on a minimal install, it requires WPA-supplicant. On a server. WTF???
I thought ads were supposed to be clearly marked?
He did say something about this. It was taken as a personal attack, and now linus just doesn't care. I imagine that there is a lot of internal politics that we are not privy to. After being forced to use systemd with RHEL 7.0, it is obvious that systemd did not "win" on technical merits.
because we will be able to hear the dying screams of the colonists sooner with a moon base. With a mars base, no one cares because the time it would take to launch a rescue would be futile.
Ummm... sequestration did not work, and was not the massive deterrent that it was made out to be. Pure pork programs like the F-35 were completely untouched. The only consistent aspect of sequestration was that federal employees (common people, not the asshats in congress) took a 5-10% paycut.
(On old Olympus' towering top a Finn and German view a hop)
Cranial Nerves? Never saw that one before... The one I used was a lot less PC...
She did nothing wrong, unless you mean violating public policy in a very obscure and debatable loophole fashion.. So yeah, technically they are the same issue, since no laws covered the private nixon recordings as well.
Sorry, but if any "normal" government employee pulled the same crap as Hillary, they would not be allowed to see daylight for years. Like or hate her, we should not reward her disregard for US law by making her the executor of those laws.
You my friend have never worked in government...
I run gentoo for my home server so that I don't have to worry about a major upgrade every few years. That "package churn" is what happens when you want the latest code running the latest fixes.
Yeah, some of the upgrades get dicey, but I laid out my current root filesystem in 2008, and haven't reinstalled anything since. Yes, every once in a while I need to spend a weekend fixing package collisions, but that is the ticket I paid for when I chose not to use a package based distro.
So in a nutshell, Gentoo will nickle and dime you to death to keep current, where RHEL/Ubuntu will combine all of that fun into a a few days every 2-3 years.
Not sure why you got modded down to 0, but the article definitely needs some fact checking. Especially the last line about ships using large FUSION reactors. Looks like an investment scam more than a breakthrough...
Your memory of AD and my memory are completely off. The first release of AD was horrible when compared with NDS.
So what would call someone like me, who isn't a "hater", but is sorely frustrated that we are weeks from release and so far we have none of the features we were sold on.
You call out Hit Detection as a bug, but you missed some pretty significant bugs: /20 ammo stocks or jack the price up like the XL engines.
1 - Movement / stuck on terrain. Getting stuck on cigarette butts is getting old
2 - Heat. PGI has severely mismanaged the heat system due to a lack of understanding of the IP they bought.
3 - Built in Comms.
4 - Community anything. A lobby? anything?
5 - Jump Jets. No ability to add directional movement, just up/down and coasting if your moving before jump. Defeats the purpose of sitting behind a terrain feature, jetting up and over and raping your opponents back armor.
6 - NO REPAIR / REARM - this pretty much removed the ability to constrain resources. Want to reduce the prevelance of AC/40's, reduce AC
7 - HSR / hit detection. I play a spider, and I get tired of being hit by rounds that go wide away from but HSR decides that the shooter's screen is the authority.
(I play a spider because it is about the only mech that I can play a "phoenix hawk" type of role. The blackjack was a horrible implementation of that role)
8 - game modes.
9 - Terra Therma - the pinnacle of PGI demonstrating the complete lack of testing / program management.
Of course the biggest issue, PGI basically completely reversing decisions on things like 3PV. The outrage has been turned into "haters" on 3PV thanks to PGI spin. The reality is, this is the most measurable aspect of the community realizing that PGI is unable/incapable of delivering on the originally advertised game by "release in september."
Show me a restaurant that serves food straight out of the oven and into your mouth... Well prepared food is allowed to "rest", where as mc-d's serving temp was 180.
Too bad the constitution does not apply for military members. Since he volunteered, he is now beholden to the UCMJ, which is much more restrictive than federal law. Imagine a world where having an affair is a federal offense...
And I'm sure you have well documented and certified research to back up your statements... Especially the nutrition ratio magically is increased in organic farming. I think that has been debunked about a billion times, including the documented research from Penn and Teller.
Organic food is a luxury, and will kill millions of people if it is mandated worldwide.
Different view of the landing - shaky cam, and bad audio to boot : http://youtu.be/p3Xyj-KIuUg
More like a merge of the Palm WebOS UI with Chrome. If it is the same, It's actually pretty cool and not just pretentious BS advertising.
Seriously? Is a well designed file system error handling routine worth 2x - 5x premium you pay to use sparc? considering you could create redundant hosts and multipath solutions with the savings.
Everyone thought I was insane when I said that the HP laptop keyboard was made by chinese torture masters.
If you RTFA, you would have determined that the flight control system is not infected, and the the systems that are in question are ancillary information systems. Think of a monitor with google maps...
The reason they use removable HDD's is probably so they can model the necessary mission data offsite, and then "replay" it at mission time.
Did you / have you brought any legal actions for the breach of rights committed in the pursuit and eventual arrest of you? Do you feel the violations were similar to ones now being taken against "terrorists"?
IBM was a Services and Software company with a personal PC division that was only known for one thing (thinkpads). They had to sell of the thinkpad name to sweeten the turd that was IBM's desktop line.
HP is not in the same position. HP is known as a consumer electronics company, and is trying to enter the software / services business.
Seems like an odd blogpost, bordering on a paid advertisement. I owned a Pre for 2 years, and never saw squat from bloggers on it. Now the new touchpad is out someone decides to write a review of a 1.5 y/o device???? Meh.
What is it with these great projects having a midlife crisis? Amarok did the same kind of thing by completely dumping the codebase in the name of "new" and basically forced the userbase to find a new project. Now Mozilla has basically said that they don't want to pay any attention to the people who have MONEY to pay for the things they are developing. Seems like a really short sighted, arrogant approach. I predict in 2 years time Firefox will have bleed all of their users to chrome / IE and will no longer be receiving corporate donations.
I guess if your going for an emotional response, go big.