Comment Re:Who installs perl again? (Score 1) 180
Uh. more or less everybody?
(Everybody running a Debian based distro anyway, I don't know if RedHat has perl as a required package).
Uh. more or less everybody?
(Everybody running a Debian based distro anyway, I don't know if RedHat has perl as a required package).
Yes, you're right, anti-systemd people are not all insane, but some of the most vocal of them are.
(And it's not just good old "I want to marry 12 year old girls" MikeeUSA, there are also the "systemd will eat your ouput" loons, the "systemd is an NSA plot" obsessives, the "systemd is an end run around the GPL" tin-foil hatters...)
Since when was Russell Coker an official spokesman for Debian?
I would suspect that some of the OS's that are used in embedded devices (If you really want to call something running an OS embedded.) have been pretty safe.
Would you?
https://threatpost.com/lizard-squads-ddos-for-hire-service-built-on-hacked-home-routers/110341
Isn't amazing how dumb slashdot has got these days -- I make a joke about lazy evaluation (ok, maybe not a funny joke, but a joke none the less), and some moron mods it "offtopic".
Offtopic? Don't they even have a clue about what Haskell is?
Overrated I could understand, troll or flamebait if you think I'm dissing Hudak, but offtopic?
The English word for eulogy is eulogy.
You have a nice word? English will rip it out of your hands.
But I can't be arsed to write any more
It's horribly inefficient energy-wise and makes no sense to do unless you're stuck in a very particular predicament: You're surrounded by seawater and on really bad terms with all the local jet fuel suppliers, but you happen to have a nuclear reactor handy.
Or, you've installed massive overcapacity of wind and solar and you don't know what to do with your massive overproduction of electricity on bright windy days.
The Poe effect strikes again.
Sorry? What remaining 0.29GW? You mean coal?
At this moment we have:
Nuclear +43.85GW
Hydro +6.59GW
Wind +3.57GW
Germany +2.46GW
Solar +1.54GW
Gas +0.88GW
Biomass +0.57GW
Coal +0.29GW
Oil +0.24GW
Switzerland -0.05GW
Spain -1.04GW
Pumped storage -1.16GW
Belgium -1.80GW
UK -2.07GW
Italy -3.19GW
Demand -50.42GW
(That all adds up to 0.26, so there is a bug somewhere in the numbers).
Well, no.
If your neighbour starts selling you electricity for nothing it makes your own plant less profitable, but you have to keep your own plant around because your neighbour is not a reliable resource.
For example Germany is exporting 2.46GW to France at the moment, but between midnight and 4am it was importing about 2GW of French nuclear because there wasn't much wind.
Luckily Italy, Belgium and the UK have all made such a balls up of their energy infrastructure we can export to them.
It's interesting. France seems to have been given the job of keeping everyone on an even keel. Good thing the idiot greens aren't in government.
systemd has dozens of zero day remote root exploits
Name one, boring troll.
I think the systemd-opponents are deeply split about this; the BSD-Linux users want OpenRC because that is close to BSD and hates systemd because it means work for BSD, the traditionalists want SysVinit forever "because it isn't broken and systemd doesn't provide new features...". Nobody wants Upstart.
That wasn't exactly what happened in the Devian CTTE vote though, was it? 4 people wanted systemd, or upstart or even openrc rather than sysvinit. 3 people wanted upstart, or systemd, or openrc rather than sysvinit and one person wanted sysvinit, or anything but systemd.
Oddly the only person who wanted sysvinit was Ian, who up till then everyone had seen as a pro-upstart Canonical mole.
Of course the big question is how efficient is the process? Is it more efficient than just using the electricity to charge up batteries in an electric car for example?
It doesn't necessarily have to be more efficient than charging batteries -- big tanks to hold fuel are a lot cheaper than batteries.
Up till now Germany has been selling it to (among others) France, for almost nothing.
For example they're currently exporting about 2.5GW to France.
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
