Posts by Donkey Molestor X

Re: Huh?

> There's no language, methodology, tool or analyser that can stop code having bugs.

You are suffering from a basic confusion. You believe that just because you have never and will never take a systematic approach to software safety that that somehow implies that anybody else taking a systematic approach to software safety is doomed to failure. Either that or you're peddling the old dodge that a methodology or technology that only solves SOME of the problems instead of literally ALL the problems ever is absolutely worthless.

"Bugs happen!", you say, while chuckling, and then you, and everybody else who thinks like you, gleefully inflict them on others.

It's like finding a car dealer who only sells Ford Pintos and then, when a steady stream of maimed and burnt customers shamble back in says "Ford Pintos are perfectly safe! All you have to do is never let anybody crash into your car from behind! Man, I'm sure exhausted from solving all the problems!"

Re: Can't disagree..

> Otherwise, frankly, the Linux community will start experiencing the joys that Windows customers have lived with for years, basically the user and business community being their beta testers and the "out the door now, we'll fix it later" mentality.

Hahahaha! You think Linux users aren't already involuntarily deputized testers? Try installing a new kernel update the day it comes out on a (hopefully not production) server. Watch all kinds of shit that you never thought could break suddenly break.

Screaming swears at your scurrying minions like Linus is NOT a software development lifecycle.

Re: Libre Office formatting vs MS Office

> The Numpties that run our IT dept have put a rule in place that stops me disabling OneDrive. When I'm travelling, I'd have to connect to the internet, fire up the corporate VPN, login and then connect to OneDrive just to refresh the list of recent documents.

There's one piece of information that you could tell us that would determine whether this is a good idea or a bad idea. Does your work laptop support AND have full drive encryption? If you're not using full drive encryption and you forget your laptop in an airport bathroom or it "disappears" from your luggage then locally stored work documents become a HUGE problem for your employer compared to your personal annoyance of learning OneDrive.

Re: Wasn't that the primadonna maintainer project

> Hmm... Wasn't that the primadonna maintainer which could not stand Linus blowouts? That figures.

Given Linus's track record, the maintainer was probably punished for pointing out and trying to fix security holes. Linus is famous for his disrespect of security researchers, considering them no better than "masturbating monkeys" - his words not mine.

He also thinks that people who displease him should have the brake lines on their cars cut. He's pretty sick like that.

Linus's apathetic attitude to security concerns is a tax that every computer user gets to pay - every time another Linux-enabled piece of IoT crapware DDoSes the 'net to oblivion.

Re: That clip about them furreners stealing jobs..

> It's funny, but I noticed that people who talk that way seem never that inclined to actually accept the job of the person they accuse of stealing it. Weird.

Hey, you don't know my life! I was totally going to accept that job of picking strawberries for pennies a day until someone stole it from me!

Re: FFS

FFS

Let Lord_Beavis die. At least you can play free, fun games with Flash. The only fun, free games I can play with Lord_Beavis are games with his stinking, rotten corpse.

Re: AWS

> Seriously, what the fuck is any of this stuff.

I wouldn't brag too much about not knowing AWS products or not knowing about new technologies in general. If you don't keep up with the times you could get left behind. Then you'll be another sad sack in the comments, complaining that they "took your job" and gave it to somebody in Hyderabad.

(I always thought that people should "do" their jobs, not "have" their jobs but whatever.)

Re: Where are they?

> There seems to be a distinct lack of posts from angry systemd defenders in this thread. I wonder why.

We're waiting for one of you drooling systemd haters to hold Linus's spaghetti code to the same standards. I think we'll be waiting a long time.

https://www.forbes.com/2005/06/16/linux-bsd-unix-cz_dl_0616theo.html

Lok Technologies , a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of networking gear, started out using Linux in its equipment but switched to OpenBSD four years ago after company founder Simon Lok, who holds a doctorate in computer science, took a close look at the Linux source code.

“You know what I found? Right in the kernel, in the heart of the operating system, I found a developer’s comment that said, ‘Does this belong here?’ “Lok says. “What kind of confidence does that inspire? Right then I knew it was time to switch.”

> To me the big question is why the content of the database was ever on Github. Structure, sure, I get that. But the records inside?

I'm guessing that the dev got complacent and started treating a remote repo like a personal disk volume.

> I wish its creator have never been born, though - or at least gets to one of the more unpleasant corners of hell once he is no longer with us.

Linus, is that you?

> Unfortunately, it is by now impossible to avoid this abomination if you have to stick with a major distribution.

Write up a costs/benefits analysis for your employer. If you can prove that the business is losing money in sysadmin labour-hours dealing with systemd then maybe you can switch.

> Sigh... I wish we had a Linus here at work. Someone willing to call a spade a spade and weed out the stupid crap.

We actually do, but he's a Snr. VP and by the time things get to him, they're already too deeply screwed.

See the cute thing about this sentiment is that you think your crap isn't the stupid crap that will get weeded out. I'll bet if Linus was actually at your workplace, he'd run a goddamned train on you, and you would go crying to HR to make the bad man go away before you piss your trousers in dismay.

Re: But I thought Linux was the height of security

> *laughs*

> Yeah, clearly.

> And with Linus swearing about people writing crappy code, then this happens... Oh the irony.

didn't you get the memo from The Register Linus Fellation Brigade? you should NEVER develop systematically and you should NEVER automate regression testing. you never blame the defective system or defective processes. just blame whatever developer fights back the least from your bullying.

all you need is to get yourself a project manager who is a foul-mouthed Finnish butter-troll to swear incoherently at your developers whenever the heinous spaghetti code fails!

just do the opposite of everything discussed in this article (https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff?show_rev_content) and then throw your shitty OS over the fence to cause trillions of dollars of damage in the real world.

it's the Linus way!

> The immigration problem from the sub-continent is not skilled IT people from Bangalore and Hyderabad, but unskilled from Mirpur near Kashmiri India. Many sadly marry 1st cousins and most end up driving taxis

ToddR, if you think a British taxi driver is in danger of losing their job to somebody from Mirpur whose parents were 1st cousins and gave his scrambled chromosomes - then maybe that British taxi driver isn't a very good taxi driver, hmm?

Re: El Reg sat down with....? Wow!

whoever from MS sat down with somebody from El Reg probably knows that most people who threaten to "leave Macro$$$uck 4evar" are just the loud minority and that they aren't worth the attention.

i'm practically a philanthro-fucking-pist for endeavouring to do so, right now:

easily 99% of you who say that Windows 10 is the last straw said that about Vista and said that about Windows 95. then you moved to Linux and then tried to listen to an mp3 or print a file or read a Word document or, I don't know, LOCK YOUR SCREEN, and it fucked up in some incredibly esoteric or stupid way.

you think i'm going to show my fucking parents the difference between Xfce or GNOME or KDE and play "find the start bar" for them or "what fucking workspace am I in now?" you think I'm going to explain the difference between an rpm, tgz, or deb? if you hate microsoft so much, YOU fucking do all that shit for me, for free. your payment will be the ineffable, warm-and-fuzzy joy you get knowing that you're "really sticking it to" a multimillion dollar company by sacrificing hours a week playing BOFH: The Home Game.

Dumb fucks.

Re: Flight Proven

...enough hot air in that phraseology that they can use it for a RCS thruster?

...enough waffle in that phraseology that they can use it for a grid fin?

wakka wakka

Re: So?

counterpoint: ken and dmr built Unix, the very system he has made a mere clone of, and they managed to build it without being assholes.

counterpoint the 2nd: Eldon Hall, Margaret Hamilton, et al. working on the AGC weren't fucking assholes and nevertheless the Apollo missions were wildly successful.

assholery is neither a necessary, nor sufficient condition for genius. Linus will be bypassed when more people see through the bullshit and understand that Linux succeeds despite him and not because of him.

Oh... mention to him how he wouldn't have anything around the kernel without the FSF and watch him blow steam out of his ears. That can be fun.

Re: I'll bet...

aww the poor Lintard babies had to downvote your post. a little bit too much reality for them. when the revolution comes you little Lintards will be the first against the wall. actually, a firing squad is too good for you. we'll just stick you in an elevator whose microcontroller has had its software written to exacting GLoonix Open Sores standards. (i.e.: code written by twisted sycophantic knob-polishers running around like headless chickens avoiding the retarded vituperation of that quadruple chinned Finnish bloatwagon named Loonis)

Re: This lube&fukkery promotion can't die soon enough

you told him dawg?

Is that you, Hella Jeff?

HTTP2SP1RC3? Sounds like you've sprinkled CRISPR/Cas9 on your HTTP RFCs. Are you trying to genesplice an abomination?

Re: Important RFCs by women ?

if software is a meritocracy then the metric for measuring merit is:

How many new Javascript frameworks can be excreted into github per week.

it's cynics like you that make me happy you're working on some CRUD app and not designing a bridge or a ignition shaft detente. the term "software engineer" can't die soon enough for me.

Re: Its the wrong way to get off this planet

i would hope that someday some eccentric rich person puts a Gauss-gun type mass driver up the side of a mountain near the equator and pointing east. that could give a payload a substantial boost, maybe even allow a rocket to reach orbit with one less stage.

Re: Are you guys for real?

> If you still need someone to spell it out for you, ask your daughter, wife or sister.

To ask their daughter, wife, or sister, the vast majority of men who comment on this site would have to first CARE about their daughter, wife, or sister. /g/, /pol/, and /r9k/ are leaking and the quality of the Reg forums are poorer for it. redpilled, former "nice guys" as far as the eye can see.

they hate feminists and wish they would "lighten up" but as soon as they see a picture of a woman drinking from a cup labelled "Male Tears" they start crying to doxx her and going "dat means jizz buhuhuhuh"

guys, let me break it down for you. you didn't get the date because you were "too nice". you didn't get the date because you were too ugly. try to be less repulsive to the opposite sex. she doesn't want to know about your Figma collection. do a fucking sit-up, maybe a fucking push-up. the girl you had a crush on was beautiful, not ugly, right? so, if you want to be desired it would probably be a good idea to be handsome, not ugly.

Wait ... is the waiter a man or a woman?

That depends. Are you anonymous or are you a coward?