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  1. Re:Linux distros on Wayland 1.7.0 Marks an Important Release · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, the opposite is happening. Lot's of BSD users are so annoyed by the anti-systemd trolls joining their community that their are now moving back to Linux.

  2. Re:Reboot for Systemd on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 1

    As the name indicates systemctl daemon-reexec is used to re-exec the daemon after an upgrade. No reboot needed.

  3. Re:goto fail on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    The same bug would have occured if goto had been replaced by a break, a return or a throw.
    The problem in that code was not the GOTO but the indentation.

  4. Re:Reboot for Systemd on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 1

    That's odd! I just upgraded systemd and no reboot was needed!

  5. Useful gain on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 2

    3, 33 or 333 millions. Would that make any difference? I don't think so.
    It you want to calculate the expected gain then you should only consider the useful gain.
    For me, 1 or 2 millions would be enough for the rest of my life so if I had to choose a lottery, I would pick one that maximize the probability to gain that amount. Any lottery with a smaller maximal gain (e.g. a few millions) but a higher probability is a better choice.

  6. Re:Just one step closer to becoming Windows on Is Modern Linux Becoming Too Complex? · · Score: 1

    No! that is an error code that indicates a bug in the decimal to hexadecimal conversion code.

  7. Re:Missing item on Neil Armstrong's Widow Discovers Moon Camera In Bag · · Score: 1

    My guess is something any man would take for a long trip: condoms

  8. Missing item on Neil Armstrong's Widow Discovers Moon Camera In Bag · · Score: 1

    A rumor says that there was not 18 but 19 items in the bag.
    Any idea what the missing item could be?

  9. Re:Attack vector Port is SSH (22), passwd guessing on New Multi-Purpose Backdoor Targets Linux Servers · · Score: 1

    So that is only an additional layer of security by obscurity. Still not convinced!

  10. Equation on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 5, Funny

    A few years ago, a colleague proposed the idea that North-European population are tall because of an adaptation to the colder climate.
    He could prove his theory but only for a perfectly spherical viking.

  11. Re:Attack vector Port is SSH (22), passwd guessing on New Multi-Purpose Backdoor Targets Linux Servers · · Score: 1

    The idea of using sudo instead of allowing ssh as root always sounded stupid to me.
    If an attacker gets access to your regular user account then it is game over the next time you try to sudo from there.

         

  12. Re:About time. on The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1, Troll

    I was told that a single unicorn horn can store up to 10 GWh

  13. Re:They should switch it to on Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 Will Be Rolling-Release · · Score: 1

    Semi-rolling? I used LMDE on one of my servers for a few months and packages updates were pretty much non-existent. Semi-frozen would be more accurate. I gave up on LMDE because of Shellshock that was left unpatched for several days.

         

  14. Re:Absolutely nobody ... on Ask Slashdot: With Whom Do You Entrust Your Long Term Data? · · Score: 1

    Implementing your own encryption is probably the worst idea ever.

  15. Re:No, he's not on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 1

    You are probably right.

  16. Re:No, he's not on GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 2

    I suspect that the first line is for the donations they were effectively received and the second shows all pledges.

  17. Re:Grammar on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Even the NASA does not agree with you "A solar system refers to a star and all the objects that travel in orbit around it. ..."
    https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/p...

    If one day humans reach other solar or if you prefer star systems, then they likely will keep using the terms solar and sun to refer to their local star. A solar panel will never be renamed to something like an Alpha Canis Minoris panel.

  18. Re:The strangest moon in the solar system is ours. on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 1

    The problem with those events with a small probability is that there are so many of them that a few will always occur. It's like saying that god is responsible for the lottery winner because the probability of each player is very low.

  19. Re:The strangest moon in the solar system is ours. on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 1

    You should only make jokes about episodes I, II and III.

  20. Re:rm on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok! But your object files were properly removed so the command was successful.

  21. Re:rm on Ask Slashdot: What Tools To Clean Up a Large C/C++ Project? · · Score: 0

    Pleae, stop bashing the frenchs.

  22. Re:How about 2.7 billion years old on Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' · · Score: 2

    Hummm... I think you mean 2800BC

  23. Re:This is cool but scary because of Great Filter. on Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' · · Score: 1

    Or civilizations become so afraid of the Great Filter that they decide to commit mass suicide.
     

  24. Re:Why not strncpy or strlcpy on Serious Network Function Vulnerability Found In Glibc · · Score: 1

    Actually, the most logical choice would have been to used mempcy because they already called strlen(name) earlier.
    Basically, they are doing the following:
      - compute the size required to store 2 pointers (THAT SHOULD BE 3) followed by strlen(name)+1 characters
      - check that the buffer is large enough and reallocate it if needed
      - store 3 pointers followed by name in the buffer.

    In that case, the obvious value for the additionnal size argument passed to memcpy, strlcpy or strncpy is strlen(name)+1 which would not prevent the overflow.

  25. Re:Open source code is open for everyone on Serious Network Function Vulnerability Found In Glibc · · Score: 1

    Yes! Probably like Java.