Somebody being the prior maintainers who purposely marked the project as depreciated. Apearently there is a fork called ConsoleKit2, but I'm not confident in it's long-term longevity.

Systemd via journald can actually capture more log info than systemV init, and can gaurantee the authenticity of certain parts of the data, and can pass it to a traditional loggin deamon if you need it to. Systemd is made from modular components, only a small number are required. All systemd configuration files are plain text and configuration is declarative in style (getting rid of a lot of the complexity in prodecural systemV scripts). So far you actually haven't listed a requirement where systemd fails or can pass with trivial modification to the system.

Systemd actually brings back a old favorite feature of Unix. multiseat computing, you can have a single high-end computer drive 2-4 seats instead of a low-end driving a single seat, saving money and reducing wastes at the intitutional level.

How is a different init script for every distribution simple? Some of the archtectual ideas in systemd are quite simple. For example to make the most out of parralelism they just start everything at once and let each deamon wait/poll/notify for thier dependencies to be ready enough before proceeding. This is a lot simpler to configure that explicitly schedualling okay start thses three deamons A,B, and C. Lauch D,E,F, and G when A is finished, and H and I when B is finished, then after C, E,F, and I are done it's safe to launch L, and after L you can launch X ---- YUCK!.

Not going to help the really determined. Dig allows you to pull DNS records from arbitrary servers with the @ option. You can add a plugin to a portable browswer with a change hosts plugin so you only have to look it up once. It may protect against a lot of casual or inadvertant exposure, but the old 100% is looking over the shoulder method

The one that is old enough to drive is old enough to get a job and pay for thier own phone.

OMG! ALL TEH LANDLINES HAVE DISSAPEARED. And all the passerby's are total douches that won'e let someone borrow thier phone for one minute.

Um no, The fraudulent charge was refused/waived by the credit card company, leaving the lady with no injury to claim. Secondly no evidence was entered to prove the data was from that particular breach.

sounds like tail call elimination to me.

Exercise 1.19 asks us to complete a procedure for computing Fibonacci numbers in a logarithmic number of steps. The following code is given:
http://www.billthelizard.com/2...

And there's a reason we don't code in assembly any more. Abstracting away irrelavent details lets you focus more on the things that matter.

Yep the unoptimized version is O(Fib(n)) in time and space (yes it's really that bad). Recursive data structures cry out for recursive algorightms. And in general its better suited to functional programing as you arne't really concerned with state.

Yes seperating the approval and research process from the manufacturing process would to a great deal to decrease medical costs, but could have a negative impact on research if it wasn't done carefully.

powertop gives you some pretty good hints.

They won't get anywhere with the cpu or chipset, but they might on the network controllers