Comment Re:Buy a Galileo Scope (Score 3, Insightful) 52
Yeah, but it's probably about the same quality as what Galileo had, which might be kinda the point...
Yeah, but it's probably about the same quality as what Galileo had, which might be kinda the point...
Fuck yeah. If I make major software changes on a server, I damn well want to reboot it and make sure it can bootstrap from scratch.
Actually, unless it was a really minor fix, I'd probably want to reinstall it from scratch. That takes ~10 minutes (bit longer these days because hardware takes so bloody long to init).
That way I know I haven't built a multi-tentacled monster of a system with cross dependencies which will never start ever again. You already need a failover plan for when (not if) you have a hardware failure, so you may as well be testing it frequently by going through said steps - and a significant upgrade is a good time to do it.
This idea of upgrading everything in random order and restarting just the affected services doesn't scale. Reinstalls all the way, baby.
"The issue with systemd: it reeks of a solution looking for a problem."
I dunno - I've rolled a bunch of stuff using daemontools, a bunch of stuff using other daemonisation techniques and a nasty complicated dependency tracking system on top of that - it's complex, but it works.
If there's a standard tool doing a significant part of that heavy lifting across all the linuxes, that's a big win in my book. I buy some of the "it's too complex" argument, but not enough to overthrow the benefits of being a standard part of my installs.
Which leaves security exposure, and that's an interesting question... but assuming it's not really awful, its ubiquity should get more eyes and more fixes than running something rare.
Erm, preview drongo:
#include things_which_are_crap_like_beta.h
Tell me the last time you heard a cash story that wasn't about money laundering or counterfeit cash.
Person pays person for product and/or service, everybody happy with transaction - not news.
Basically, news stories are an indication of shit that sells news - and unsurpisingly, money laundering is one of those things. So news stories are biased. You mostly hear about the things which are crap, because they're "newsworthy".
#include
I would say "sunk cost falacy" is a more accurate description. They've invested a lot in it, and to hear that it's not actually what the audience AHEM content creators want is not a message that can get through. Too much invested in the shiny and the "but it's not PRETTY or ELEGANT", OMG how can anyone love something so ugly.
I come to
/. for the comments, but with the new Beta, I can't even see anything! It just says: ''Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments. Try again... na-nu, na-nu!
It seems like the "developers" need to take some advice from people who actually know what they are doing. I'm happy to help explain what graceful degradation means if they like...
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.