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  1. Re: Unix tool philosopy == Good Thing on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    it fits the description of "unstable" fine. maybe its down to the debian configuration of systemd because my opensuse system worked fine.

  2. Re:Wow... on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    you can config the systemd to always produce text logs to rsyslog. - you get the binary ones as well because it logs long before its possible to log via syslog and after syslog stops logging during close down - you can then export the binary ones to text as well if you want - best of both worlds.

    as usual people don't read up about systems before they complain about them

  3. Re:Okay, this is a great idea on Debian Forked Over Systemd · · Score: 1

    not after looking at that personal blog with someones personal view. seems like every single binary that is dependent on a lib is a monolith according to him - i give reading when i see that bogus definition "monolith"

  4. Re:Mass produce! on Jackie Chan Discs Help Boost Solar Panel Efficiency · · Score: 1

    a) true but more practical than now if it can be covered in enough solar to add charge to its batteries during it being driven

    b) yes, but a practical nucleur car, i doubt it - the military would be all over it if it could be done practically.

    c) sci-fi solution at the moment, by the time its possible all cars will probably be autonomous

    Solar is definitely more practical than nucleur at the moment.

  5. Have a look at getting your own power source on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 2

    You could take care of some of the daytime failures with solar (and evening if you get some batteries).

  6. Re:FTA on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    there's over 600 commandments in the bible so he's heading in the right direction

  7. Re:Will it ever be the year of Linux on the Deskto on A Brilliant Mind: SUSE's Kernel Guru Speaks · · Score: 1

    Yawn...

  8. Re:Hail resistant? on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    good grief, thats daft

  9. Re:Who pays for the infrastructure costs? on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    well, any sensible person would still be connected to the grid for those areas where sunlight is minimal. Get out of the mindset that when people propose solar or something else, its not at the exclusion of anything else i.e its not a one stop solution.

  10. Re:Who pays for the infrastructure costs? on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    a couple of simplistic suggestions that would need development,

    "Every single building and rooftop, is not suitable for mounting solar panels." okay,as your attitude to possible solutions is "all or nothing" "as many as is possible" and guess what, they don't have to be on the roof

    "And telling someone they have to go up onto their roof and shovel off their panels in the dead of winter?:" - do what cars do now to keep water of the windscreen - stick a wiper on the panels, here is one solution http://www.solarpowerworldonli...

    "Nor is every climate suitable for implementation of solar panels." - use nucleur in those parts of the planet denied sunlight in the winter and use storage in the buildings (or at the old style power generating plants) for evening use. Stop thinking using solar would be the only solution.

    "And that's assuming some mythical panel setup that magically produces more power than the building requires." - that happens now as a matter of course if you put more panels on the roof (or elsewhere) than needed hence the ability to send power back to the grid.

  11. Re:cost/price per kW hour comparison is nonsense on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    start a company with your mates that also want solar, do the installations on all your houses, fold the company?

  12. Re:Who pays for the infrastructure costs? on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    If every single building/rooftop had solar panels that produced a percentage more power than the building requires, you probably won't need huge solar/wind farms especially if they had solar thermal on the roofs to heat their water.

  13. Re: Hail resistant? on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    if its an "act of god" - sue the church...

  14. Re:Hail resistant? on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    they've not seen much rainfall either, sounds like its time all houses in california need to capture all rainfall from their roofs.

  15. Re:They WILL FIght Back on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Solar thermal is good for the rooftop for hot water in the house and a heater for your pool (if you like to heat your pool)

  16. Re:"eye sore" on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Why not put solar panels on every turbine ?

  17. Re:They WILL FIght Back on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Those turbines look like an interesting design

  18. Re:This study is... on Electric Shock Study Suggests We'd Rather Hurt Ourselves Than Others · · Score: 2

    if its a troll at the other end of the wire, i'd do it for free

  19. Re:No means no. on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    if they don;t like it, fine, use something else. Can you back up your claim of "LARGEST security risk" and identify and detail all the security risks presently in systemd (we'll need specifics to confirm them)

  20. Re:Systemd is killing the Debian project. on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 2

    read the dictionary definition, not the deliberate misinterpretation used as an attack on systemd (or any other systems trolls don't like). If you can take bits out of it or add to it via configuration at run time, its modular.

    Do you class every binary as monolithic because by your definition virtually every binary is if it has a dependency i.e. a library, and modular should not exist in any way in computing.

    The only way a binary can be truly monolithic is not to have any dependencies outside its own binary.

    here's a dictionary definition http://dictionary.reference.co...

  21. Re:Systemd is killing the Debian project. on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1
  22. Re:No means no. on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 0

    just configure systemd to spit out text logs to syslog as well then. here is an example https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordp.... have you never used google for searching for answers?

  23. Re:why can we trust systemd? on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    look up the meaning of monolithic, mis-use of it doesn't make your points have any validity.
    can you list the components that have no alternatives, i'd be interested in knowing them? e.g. opensuse 13.1 uses the standard ntpd and dhcpd rather than the systemd versions - its configurable
    It can be configured to spit out text logs to syslog as per normal and you can read them as per usual.

    you need to investigate systemd a bit more rather than propagating misinformation

  24. Re:Opposition is from a small elite on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    "No, reliable boot is very important," - yes, so is speed if you have a branch office full of customers in a queue waiting to be served. 15-20 minute boot time is painful

  25. Re:Don't like Systemd... fork it. on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    So have a go at Gnome 3 developers and get them to produce a system thats not dependent on systemd.