Posts by jake 26707 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
"It just irks me that so many less well educated/informed people are at risk of taking plausibility-optimised random noise as actual truth or fact.."
Humans seem to be pre-programmed to believe any random untruth, if it's said with any amount of sincerity. Especially if it's repeated ad nauseum by someone pretending to be an authority. See the religion of your choice. Even modern variations, like the MAGA cultists.
... if you have EMACS installed you could talk to The Doctor.
Simply fire up EMACS and type M-x doctor.
I think you'll find ELiZA is just as useful as this modern tat ... for reasons which should be obvious to the proverbial Thinking Man. If he still exists and hasn't become completely exterminated by Marketing, of course.
A lot of the code for Voyager was initially put together for the Viking program's CCS (Computer Command System) computer, which Voyager shared for cost reasons. The CCSs were hand-built by JPL.
The code for the CCS was initially developed in Fortran IV, then ported to Fortran 77. These days, they mostly use C.
Strangely enough, I have never seen the braying fanbois calling to port it all to Rust. I wonder why ...
"Maybe have a forum where only those who have contributed to Open Source projects can post comments?
That would get rid of a lot of this crap, don’t you think?"
a) You clearly don't understand the concept of open source.
b) Feel free to invent your new forum. Enjoy playing with yourself.
"Any evidence to back up such a dubious claim?"
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=576562#p576502
tl;dr: The "voters" did NOT want to adopt systemd from a technical point of view. It was pure politics that forced the switch, and it looks like the vote was rigged to intentionally do that very thing.
The BSD world is not adopting a systemd-lookalike.
One dude decided to try to port systemd to the BSD world about 4 years ago (and there is nothing wrong with that!). Virtually nobody jumped on his bandwagon. He himself has seemingly not worked on it for over 2 years, and that was cosmetic rearranging some of the source files. Prior to that, nobody had paid any attention to the project for over a year.
It is dead. Kaput. Deceased. Passed on. Ceased to be. Let the thing rest in piece, already.
"The problem is that Linux is NOT UNIX"
No, it is not. But it's a fair-to-middlin' facsimile. Even you and I have to admit that :-)
More to the point in this conversation, Linux is not systemd, nor does Linux need systemd, and in fact the powers that be in the Linux World have stated unequivocally that systemd will never be a requirement for a fully functional Linux kernel based system. Why some people seem to think that this is not true, AND that making systemd mandatory is a good idea is way beyond the realms of sanity and heading deep into cult/religion territory.
"Come up with something better, then."
I did that decades ago, when I helped out with BSD init. It has worked quite nicely for virtually everything I've needed it to work on ever since, with a couple of exceptions, all of which work nicely with the Slackware variation on the theme (and one place where I had to rewrite it, for a project split betwen Sandia, LLNL and SLAC.)
"Funny, though, that the BSDs are coming up with their own systemd-lookalike, isn’t it? It’s called “InitWare”.
"The BSDs", as a group, are doing nothing of the sort. It's essentially a one-man vanity project. Note that initware has also been ported to MacOS. Nobody uses it there, either.
"what IBM were up to that delayed the release of theirs for another 2 years?"
IBM and Apple were dating. Look up Taligent and Pink.
Also known as "Your Brain on Drugs" by those of us with fairly close ties to IBM ... Somewhere I still have the T-shirt with that on the back, and a normal blue IBM logo superimposed over a full-color Apple logo on the front. We were informed we'd be fired if we ever wore them to work again ... Fortunately it never went anywhere, but those of us in the trenches back then really wondered what TPTB were smoking ...
+10 if I could go there. Have a cold one instead.
You forgot 4.3BSD-Tahoe in 1988, which eventually led to Net/2 in mid 1991 and the late, lamented 386BSD a little later.
That, and you forgot to mention that so-called "MS Xenix" was just a rebadged, bog-stock, AT&T PDP11 UNIX Version 7. They didn't sell it to SCO, as they didn't own it ... all MS had was a license to sub-lease the source.
Ale is a type of beer. Beer is a fermented grain product. I could make a case for bread being a type of beer.
Ale is brewed warm. with a top fermenting yeast. It used to be bittered/preserved with a gruit (look it up if you care), but these days most ales make use of hops.
I've played around with ancient "gruit ale" recipes. I think I'll stick to hops.
California is the largest alfalfa producing state in the US. We grow in excess of half a million acres of the stuff. The saudis are only responsible for 14,000 acres, or about 2.8% of that. That is far less than a drop in the bucket when compared to California's total use of agricultural water. "Sorting that out" wont affect drinking water supplies at all. And during the meanwhile, the idiot saudis spend way over market rates on tools and supplies here, to say nothing of providing a paycheck to a lot of people in an otherwise depressed area of the state, thus bringing lots of lovely dollars back into the US.
Yes, the almond crop uses boatloads of water that could be better spent elsewhere. To say nothing of cotton and rice.
It's all a fine balancing act between water and interstate/international commerce.
I doubt it. Those dumbasses are apparently too stupid to realize that the smoke is a waste of fuel, and visible proof that the owner doesn't have a clue about how to tune a diesel engine to make power. In other words, smoke belching street trucks are all (that's ALL) 'orribly underpowered because their owners WANT them to be low on power.
Please feel free to join me in pointing out the cretins and laughing at them.
All joking aside, a German-style lager (such as Budweiser) is quite difficult to brew. Not a lot of room to hide off flavo(u)rs such as fusels, esters, aldehydes, tannins & other bits & pieces of the chemical soup that makes up typical fermented beverages.
"The Internet was not commercialized then, so the idea of using this script to be a spammer/scammer never occurred to me or anyone else."
Spam email started (in my life, anyway) when a student at Stanford sent every email account on campus a "wanna buy my bike?" email back when I was stanford!sail!vax!jake (name changed to protect the guilty; I'm archived at DejaGoo under the real name (if the alphagoo kids haven't irresponsibly destroyed that irreplaceable archive entirely)) ... Probably 1982 or thereabouts. He got yelled at, loudly, and had computer privileges revoked for the rest of the year. I'd have hung him by the thumbs in the quad if I had my druthers.
Footnote to history ... According to some sources (and repeated in this very august publication some years ago), HMQE2 personally sent an email addressed to "everybody on the ARPANET" on March 26, 1976. If true, this unsolicited mass emailing touting the Coral 66 compiler would be the first example of spam that we can place a name, face, product and date on. However, I doubt it's true for a number of reasons. First of all, there was no mechanism to "email all" on the ARPANET back then. Still isn't. Thankfully. Second of all, I have searched my archives, and despite having many emails from around and on that date (including roll accounts at around a dozen hosts), I see none that would correspond to the mythical "HME2" email. Gut feeling is that it was merely sent to the list of accounts on that particular machine.
So I'm happy to report that HMtheQ (RIP) was probably not an unwitting international spammer.
"Is it the whole git archive having 10^7 objects, or are those the actual objects for the single version kernel? The article headline seems to indicate the latter, Linus' quote states the former."
From TFA "6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects"
Linus: "This is the last mainline kernel to have less than ten million git objects" (speaking of 6.8).
IOW, single version kernel.
So one program has had some bugs in its 41 years of existence, some of which have been mentioned by the CVE system in its mere 24 years of existence, and therefore an entire class of control options for all software everywhere are shit?
(Last time I checked, Sendmail's CVEs were not caused by its configuration language. Yes, they could sometimes be exploited using that language, but the language itself was not at fault.)
As I said, "it's about half the voltage". 110V is "about half" of 220-240V ... almost all household main breaker panels here in the US are 240V, not 110.
It's not just common for households to have 240V at the panel, it's considered extremely odd if it's not available. And this has been true since the 1950s or thereabouts ... Ovens, ranges, water heaters, clothes dryers, HVAC needs, well pumps and the like all run on 240V. Some folks have 240V toasters, kettles, microwave ovens, and other high wattage things like that in the kitchen. Likewise shop tools are often 240V. It's only low-power needs like coffee pots, lighting, clocks, clothes washers, radios, computers, TVs, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, and that kinda thing that uses the cheaper wiring and breakers of 110V.
Some folks also have 3-phase available at home, in varying voltages and configurations according to their needs. This is mostly for machine tools, water delivery and the like.
"And 110v. What's that about."
That's about half the voltage coming into the the vast majority of household breaker panels here in North America. It's also plenty for household lighting and other low power applications.
Shirley you're not daft enough to think that one size fits all electricity needs?
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