badgersandjam

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by badgersandjam 12y ago
The two are related. People are shipping production operating systems with systemd that is chock full of bugs. An all consuming tentacle monster like systemd is fine if you want to dogfood it but to throw at paying customers and/or sup
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
The hardware is known good on CentOS 6.5. In fact it was high end HP kit that we pulled out of production. Yes there were other mentions of it with notes to it being fixed in a later systemd drop, which we can't deploy because RH/
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
That's really not a terrible idea actually. I switch back and forth a lot between the Windows and the Unixy ecosystems and by far the best end user experience, tailored[1] developer experience and (I'm going to get slated for this
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
10 years in EE (embedded systems, defense industry), then 15 in what we now call devops/architecture. Experience is fine. I have no problems being arrogant about that. I've fallen down a lot more holes than a lot of people and kno
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I had no problems the second time as well. Unfortunately when the first and second time differ even though identical (recorded) steps were performed, one has to ask the question: why and can I trust it?
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
That sounds like an excuse which I don't accept. I have a formal engineering background and whilst you're fundamentally right, engineering is based upon cumulative experience gained. We have a hell of a lot of experience as a so
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
This bugzilla query against RHEL 7.0 systemd says otherwise: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_s... A lot of the bug descriptions are quite scarily bad when you consider them in context such as
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Actually the answer is to be slightly more conservative with the approach. No one has to pick up systemd now for example. Leave it a year and see where it is. The technical merits will be obvious and the technical problems will also be. Mov
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
They are individually I agree, but as a group of people it's not such a good story. It's quite dysfunctional from what I've seen.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I disagree. There are very few heterogenic systems in the enterprise. That is an objective, but the main thing is that we deliver what we're paid to deliver by choosing an appropriate platform. We have Solaris, zSeries, Linux and Windo
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
No it's not just one data point. This is the final straw to use the old phrase. After a few years of serious problems, our most recent being CIFS VFS problems causing panics and mounts locking up on CentOS 6.5, hard locks on RH certi
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Many large decisions have been made by idiots, badly. Blindly accepting consensus as a rational choice without a counterpoint had caused many years of suffering for the human race from wars to bad science to bad medicine. Whilst I agree tha
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Absolutely no idea. It just went away spontaneously which is even more worrying as that suggests the system is non-deterministic. I don't have the error on my phone which I'm on at the moment but it threw a dbus error with no debu
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I had no opinion on systemd until yesterday. In fact I had a glace or two at the code and it's pretty clean and I liked the rough objectives laid out. I installed CentOS 7 on a machine last night that we're replacing CentOS 6 on a
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I get junk mail for Mr qweqwe asdasd a lot as confirmation of your point :)
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
It pays the bills because it solves problems. I run windows on a 4 year old thinkpad. It's 8.1 on an i5. It goes like lightning and the battery lasts twice as long as Ubuntu does on the same kit even after powertop has been frigged wit
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Yeah I know. The A0 with windows server is painful. If I got an A1 for £30 I'd break even on renting a dedicated box. That's the big pain.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I get bugger all Azure credits with Pro. £35 a month which isn't enough to spin up one VM with 1.75Gb of RAM for a month... If I grab MAPS sub and VS community I'm well up on cash.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Ah c'mon at least try a bit harder. '''password''' is defined as: char password[LINE_MAX]; So that's preventing a buffer overflow and is perfectly fine. LINE_MAX is a POSIX thing: http:/
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
To be honest I didn't time it and it wasn't thread safe and I don't have the source any more so I can't answer that. It doesn't do a lot so I imagine it would be relatively cheap. The function it performed to rebuil
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
This. I wrote something that did this a few years ago. It took n patterns (not regex, simpler) and turned them into one DFA state table with a function ptr stored for each final state. Then it had a tiny runtime. Never thought of using it f
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Only because some caching DNS resolvers are broken and keep the referral cached for the TTL of the CNAME record.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Also as I found out, set the TTL on your CNAME very low. Also this is a PITA if you use the @ entry in your DNS.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
This is a confidence builder for migrating my two servers to FreeBSD from Debian. I don't have a problem with systemd from a technical perspective but I do have a big problem with politics getting in the way of progress or forcing ha
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I suspected as much. It doesn't sound like "value for money" which is my concern. There are better scientific objectives than shooting for the moon cold-war style to raise awareness and interest in it. Look how much attention
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Considering the absolutely pointless HS2 rail project in the UK is set to cost $27 billion, $780 million is pretty cheap :)
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I signed up purely to upvote this :) On a more serious note, there appears to be zero scientific motivation to do this. It just appears to be a self-set challenge. Am I wrong?