Comment Re:Man I hates these guys (Score 1) 533
Why don't youget a gun?
Comment Re:systemd is for desktops? (Score 1) 282
Exactly. It makes no sense. The author of the article states the idea came from his article on systemd. Eh? I'm not sure he is saying that systemd is for desktops or servers. He never says if systemd is useful at all. Things like geard (RedHat/OpenShift) and fleetd (CoreOS) specifically use systemd to orchestrate container deployments. Cool stuff.
Comment systemd is for desktops? (Score 4, Insightful) 282
RedHat 7 ships with systemd. But, but, but, we all know that RedHat totally and completely abandoned the desktop years ago.
So we have two options. Either systemd is not just for desktops or RedHat never completely abandoned the desktop. Either way, there is no need to split distros. RedHat does provide a nice tool called 'tuned' that helps tweak kernel and system parms for desired load.
GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model 185
cold fjord notes that drivers will be able to switch a new Cadillac model to partial auto-pilot. General Motors Co. (GM), the largest U.S. automaker, will introduce a Cadillac model in two years that can travel on the highway without the driver holding the steering wheel or putting a foot on a pedal. The 2017 Cadillac model will feature "Super Cruise" technology that takes control of steering, acceleration and braking at highway speeds of 70 miles per hour or in stop-and-go congested traffic, Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra said yesterday in a speech at the Intelligent Transport System World Congress in Detroit. GM declined to release the name of the model that will carry the feature. Barra also said GM in two years will become the first automaker to equip a model with so-called vehicle-to-vehicle technology that enables the car to communicate with other autos with similar abilities to warn of traffic hazards and improve road safety. GM will make the V2V feature standard on its 2017 Cadillac CTS sedan, debuting in the second half of 2016, she said. The Super Cruise feature will be on a different Cadillac model and goes beyond similar technology available on some Mercedes-Benz models that operates only at low speeds.
Comment Re:How would we know? (Score 1) 819
There are plenty of airlines in general with a mid-range option. For example British Airways has "World Traveller Plus" on its transatlantic routes. Basically, it's an economy seat with A LOT more legroom, plus a plug in for your laptop, plus things like real metal cutlery instead of plastic. The price varies but last time I flew it was about 25% more expensive than plain economy.
Comment Re:Anthropometrics (Score 1) 819
I used to use a small laptop with a 12 inch screen. On a transatlantic flight the teenage girl in the seat in front reclined the seat so violently it was pure luck the screen didn't get trapped and broken. The recline mechanism really needs a damper in it to limit the speed at which it can recline (and on transatlantic flights, reclining is pretty necessary).
For domestic flights, easyJet has the best idea - their seats don't recline at all.
Comment Re:Do you Slashdoters really use Fedora? (Score 1) 170
Then I guess I'm not in my right mind.
I like Fedora a lot. I like the desktop environment (Gnome3 has really grown on me). Fedora moves at a decent clip to track with the latest and greatest without a lot of hassle. I have always liked RedHat/Fedora's PXE/kickstart installer. I like the big projects RedHat/Fedora is working on like FreeIPA, OpenStack packaging, GFS2, KVM, OpenLMI, CloudForms, and oVirt. RedHat has spent a lot of money buying some of the companies that created some of that software and the turn around and open source all of it. FreeIPA is a big one. A seriously great project that took old code from Sun/Netscape and made it usable.
I know the big gripe is systemd, but so far I like it. It makes writing start/stop/status configuration easy and reliable.
Comment Re:The local paper had this tidbit (Score 1) 819
I heard this on a local Los Angeles talk radio a couple weeks ago. The lawyer inventor was debating with the talk radio guys. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal... has the article and video about it. I couldn't find the audio recording (don't think they have any?) except http://www.kfiam640.com/onair/...
Comment Re:Want more IT jobs? (Score 1) 250
To me, things are still buggy and easily broken.
Comment Re:At home too (Score 1) 185
"Get off my lawn!"
Comment Use Deslide! (Score 1) 729
http://deslide.clusterfake.net... d.com/slideshow/163234/head-scratchers-10-confounding-programming-language-features-434442 OR http://desli.de/11J3
Comment Visions of the Past ... (Score 1) 246
... How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?
Boing Boing shared The Daily Grail's article, with a few photo(graph)s, showing "Visions of the Past - How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?"
Comment Re:Excellent opportunity... (Score 1) 246
Bender, is that you?
Comment Re:Switching is too hard? (Score 1) 145
I moved, and same problem. Argh. There used to be DSL service here, but it is no longer offered. WTF?
Comment Re:Troll much? (Score 1) 613
Did you know that systemd will run standard sysV scripts? You could have done that. If you were making your own script. I don't know why you would want to make your own script since the package includes one.
Did you notice the line above ExecStart? EnvironmentFile= points to a possible place that IRQBALANCE_ARGS is located. This is a normal place for things like that in a RedHat/CentOS/Fedora system. Nothing new here.
Since you wanted apache to start up at boot, did you try '/sbin/chkconfig httpd on'? This is the normal RHEL/Fedora way. It will *tell* you the systemd way when you run it on a systemd system (Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable httpd.service'.)
Maybe you aren't familiar with the RHEL tools and filesystem layout?
