Comment Re:The NSA has done several things to help securit (Score 1) 105
dpkg -l '*selinux*"
(Or whatever the equivalent is for your distro).
Shows anything?
dpkg -l '*selinux*"
(Or whatever the equivalent is for your distro).
Shows anything?
Yes, as I said, PCSO's are a bunch of jerks, as are self obsesed iphone users who can't read notices that say "don't use this socket".
Of course, when the police swear and shout, it's fine
Actually, no, it isn't. If the police swear at you it's a disciplinable offence. Take their number and report them.
Well, no. It was a PCSO, a part-time cop's helper, who made all the fuss, not the train company.
The real cops decided not to arrest the guy because they realized it wasn't worth it, but he was then such an irritating piece of shit that they re-arrested him for being a dick in a public place.
Both the fake cop and the "I need to charge my iPhone, waaa" baby are clearly morons.
On this actual subject, this is 100% LOL worthy and really did have me snigger because I'm thinking "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK ELECTRICAL SOCKETS ARE FOR YOU DUMBASS!!!".
They're for the cleaning staff to plug their vacuum cleaners in. They are clearly labelled "not for use by the public".
But NASA don't currently have a warhead.
If you'll go to the trouble of checking, you'll find that the Russians are currently at two failures in 120-low launches, as compared to two failures in 135 launches for Shuttle.
So, go to NASA and ask for a quote on a shuttle launch.
Yes, NASA have a better record than Roscosmos. But, since they don't actually have a man rated launch system at the moment, the point is moot.
Yay! Slashdot moron mods strike again!
Someone makes a perfectly insightful and informative comment and gets modded troll.
There are only two agencies that can launch you into space (on a tested vehicle) today -- Roscosmos (RKA) and the CNSA. Every one saying "ESA", "NASA", "Space-X" or whatever is saying they don't want to go into space today.
So serious Linux users are facing a small number of choices:
1. To continue to use older, pre-systemd Linux distros for as long as is practically possible.
2. To use Linux Mint, which for the time being is the only major and usable modern Linux distro that isn't forcing systemd on its users.
3. Move to some other operating system, typically one of the BSDs, or even Windows.
Collectively, modern Linux distros are quickly becoming a systemd monoculture, and experience has shown us that monocultures are dangerous, especially in the context of software.
In what way is Debian Jessie not a "major and usable modern Linux distro"?
systemd is one of the init systems available for Jessie If you want to use sysvinit, uupstart or openrc feel free.
There is no such thing as hate speech. Doesn't exist. Not a legal concept in the United States.
And everybody knows that lawyers get to define reality.
If you go to the store and purchase something, logically that is your property.
What planet are you living on?
In what way is syslogd not "fine for most people's needs"?
Shit, read a comment 300 times before posting and still make a stupid mistake.
I of course meant to write:
In what way is [systemd] not "fine for most people's needs"?
Seems like nobody wants to make phones any more.
--#1, systemd takes away choice. Binary logging by default is incredibly bad, and I don't want to have to change it manually every time I do an install.
The defaut for Debian Jessie is to install rsyslogd. If you want some other syslog then just apt-get install it. I can't see what choice it's taking away.
I think way too many distros are changing over to systemd when it's not really what a lot of people want or need. SysV was OK, Upstart was fine for most people's needs.
In what way is syslogd not "fine for most people's needs"?
Give me a sane
On Debian Jessie rc.local is run on boot.
$ systemctl status rc.local
* rc-local.service -/etc/rc.local Compatibility
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; static)
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2015-07-07 17:10:26 CEST; 17h ago
Process: 616 ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
--Systemd resembles the MCP from TRON too much for my taste,
No, it doesn't. There are no glowing neon effects
it's taking over too many functions and subsystems.
Like? And no, don't cite dhcpclient, or ntpd, I'm running systemd based systems with stock dhcpclient and ntp.
I've also seen reports of systems being unable to boot that are running systemd when they were working fine before they were upgraded.
I've seen reports of systems that were working fine before upgrades of almost all software you could choose to name. The question is whether those bugs were fixed.
--#2, Linux Mint Debian edition is pretty reputable, I wouldn't exactly call it niche.
Well, I consider it niche, but then again I consider Ubuntu niche
Devuan admittedly needs to do a general ISO release to make sure it gets better exposure and testing (update - I just checked their page and it looks like they have made progress in the last couple of months, so I plan to test Devuan $soon.)
I still don't know what Devuan is for -- it's a version of Jessie that doesn't have systemd, but systemd is an optional feature of Jessie.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
