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Comment Re:FreeBSD (Score 1) 755

Good. Can I replace any one of these so binaries, so I can get rid of a nasty security flaw?

Sure, why not? You will obviously have to make sure the service is restarted, but that is no different than with any other system.

WITHOUT RECOMPILING THE WORLD? =P

When I have a tool set of standalone applications, each one consuming the production of the other, it's easy to replace a single component (or recompiling a single component) without having to re-homologate everything.

But this is a Quality Team problem, and we are all developers, right? Fsck the Quality, right?

Allow me to rephrase my question to something less abstract: I want to get rid of DBUS. Can I do it?

This is about code, not people. At least it should be. You are the one that is opposed to the politics, yet you do not want to limit the discussion to the technical merits and want to instead focus on people?

If these people are writing the code, HELL YES!

So we should all not use politics, except if they fit into your agenda?

If by politics you mean "being or not cavalier about solving problems", HELL YES.

I don't care about who you vote. I don't care about what you believe.

I care about HOW YOU BEHAVE when you face a problem you created yourself (or are responsible for).

Being cavalier about your responsibilities is a important fact for me if I need to use your code.

I don't care if you call it politics or not.

Comment Re:FreeBSD (Score 1) 755

Good. Can I replace any one of these so binaries, so I can get rid of a nasty security flaw?

Sure, why not? You will obviously have to make sure the service is restarted, but that is no different than with any other system.

WITHOUT RECOMPILING THE WORLD? =P

When I have a tool set of standalone applications, each one consuming the production of the other, it's easy to replace a single component (or recompiling a single component) without having to re-homologate everything.

But this is a Quality Team problem, and we are all developers, right? Fsck the Quality, right?

Allow me to rephrase my question to something less abstract: I want to get rid of DBUS. Can I do it?

This is about code, not people. At least it should be. You are the one that is opposed to the politics, yet you do not want to limit the discussion to the technical merits and want to instead focus on people?

If these people are writing the code, HELL YES!

So we should all not use politics, except if they fit into your agenda?

If by politics you mean "being or not cavalier about solving problems", HELL YES.

I don't care about who you vote. I don't care about what you believes.

I care about HOW YOU BEHAVE when you face a problem you created yourself (or are responsible for).

Being cavalier about your responsibilities is a important fact for me if I need to use your code.

I don't care if you call it politics or not.

Comment Re:FreeBSD (Score 1) 755

monolithic design

Actually it is about 60 or so binaries, each doing some small and easy to grasp task.

Good. Can I replace any one of these so binaries, so I can get rid of a nasty security flaw?

I'm opposed to the cavalier attitudes of their lead developers.

This is about code, not people. At least it should be. You are the one that is opposed to the politics, yet you do not want to limit the discussion to the technical merits and want to instead focus on people?

If these people are writing the code, HELL YES!

Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 755

Ever realised that it might actually be desired?

Yes. For 15 minutes, until I googled for articles explaining why systemd was a good idea, and had a hard time finding a convincing one.

Seriously, if you want to know if a new EFI system will be better to your pimped new car, you should ask people that earns their money by using it (racers), not car sellers or street users.

Comment Re:Swatting is much more serious than a "prank" (Score 1) 327

So the SWAT teams are to be treated as paid hit men now? Are they being dispatched to resolve a problem, or just to kill people? Cause if it's just to kill people, wouldn't it be easier for the to just light the place on fire and train their weapons on the exit points?

The SWAT teams *are* paid hitmen : they hit bad guys and get paid for it. :-)

Comment It's the economy, stupid! (Score 1) 628

Once all (or most all) the work is being made by robots, who will receive salaries, that then will be spent on the goodies the robots are producing?

You see, you need CONSUMERS to earn money from them. And the government, TAXPAYERS - by the way.

Or they plan to "fix" this little problem by paying salaries to robots, giving them vacations, etc? =P

Comment Re:Are you sure? (Score 1) 863

so configure journald to simultaneously spit out text log files to syslog/rsyslog or you can export them to text files when you need them. its not hard.

Doubling the computing power needed to do something that I already had?

Increasing the risk of failure without adding nothing of value?

And yet, you got +1 Insightful points?

Comment Re:Options... (Score 1) 155

The problem is in finding developers to support the project in the first place...which includes companies being willing to let some of their employees do some of it on company time. The website is NOT the big roadblock here, by a long shot. So forking it accomplishes absolutely nothing, and moving the repository to SourceForge, while not a terrible solution to the "no more website" issue, really doesn't address the true problem.

I understood that the problem is the company not willing to do support anymore - ergo, they're not expending any resources on gathering developers to help. You see, you need expend employee's time in order to look for help out there: you can not find what you don't look for.

And, if you don't know, Source Force is not a web site hosting service. It's a full blown software development infrastructure. Code repository, communication, releasing, bug tracking, support.

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