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Comment Re: Everyone hates Ruby (Score 1) 291

Redmine is a nice Ruby app when you get it installed. But upgrading can be a pain when you are not a Ruby adept, and it requires the latest Ruby gems for its dependencies, which are not in your distro's main repositories.. It turned into dependency-hell.

Comment Re:Boot/init is a critical stage (Score 1) 555

The only change I'd make is to make systemd use syslogd like everything else, so log files end up in the expected place and are plain text so basic tools like more and tail and grep work on them as-is. Binary logfiles offer no great advantage over plaintext, and going through syslogd means not depending on two sets of tools and having to manage two configurations to get logging directed where it needs to go.

This.

I have nothing against binary log files per sé, but they should not be the primary and only option. Instead of hanging rsyslog after journald, I'd rather see it reversed, first plain-text logging to syslog and eventually piped to binary logging afterwards (or parallel to both, whatever). That way, all the info is still available in case the binary log files get corrupted for one reason or another, and people still have their easily searchable binary logfiles.
Also it'd make it easier for other remote-logging tools to hook in with the already existing syslog infrastructure than hook on to journald.

A good thing is that a wishlist item has already been opened for logstash, so they're working around this issue already.

Comment I don't see what the fuss is about. (Score 2, Informative) 482

This functionality has been both in Chrome and Firefox for years now, so I don't see why people make a fuss about it only now..

Either you don't give other people access to your user account, or you use a 3rd party password-protected keystore like Keepass, Lastpass, 1Password, with a separate (or even 2-factor) authentication.

Comment Re:Socialist agenda on full display tonite (Score 1) 529

same way England did: civil war.

You don't think that the USA Army would remain in foreign countries very long, once civil war breaks out. It is very wel equipped against its own population. Even if your Amendments spell "Carry your own guns", you will be trampled upon. Just watch the Occupy movement vs the Police. Then bring in the army as well.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 5, Informative) 140

He's the judge that really adroitly handled the Microsoft antitrust trial, then flubbed it by speaking to the press about the trial before it was over. That gave Microsoft the grounds for an appeal (and subsequent 'slap on the wrist' punishment) based on him 'not being impartial'. Which was bunk, but his mistake gave the appearance, and that was enough.

That judge was Thomas Penfield Jackson.

Comment Re:Apple knows Samsung is better... (Score 1) 213

It's not as if HTML5 is only present on iOS. Android does both. I thought that Freedom of Choice was an ongoing general idea here at /.
While I welcome the death of Flash, and better to have this yesterday than tomorrow, I surely don't mind to have at least the option to continue to view the sites during the transition period.

Note: it IS possible to type on a touchscreen. At least, the few lines above were..

Comment Re:As a US Citizen, (Score 1) 477

They don't read those. Nobody in the senate actually reads their email. Go out and vote for third party candidates. They pay attention to polls.

That's a thing I don't understand.. Always a lot of complaints about the Democrats and the Republicans, yet they still keep switching between only these two parties. If there was a sudden 15-20% rise in 3rd parties, or at minimum one state going 3rd party.. it would send a small, but maybe significant wave..

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