Systemd might be coming to Ubuntu

masta · 2012-05-22T22:18:34.492668+00:00

That is interesting to me, because an APT or whatever package system Debian uses would need to support multiple init systems. I'd hate to see any linux distro support multiple init rc scripts or whatever (units in systemd speak). Nobody wants the already over worked packaging teams to have to implement two parallel startup files. That is a perverse thought from a logistical standpoint, but kinda nice from a pragmatic view.

masta · 2012-05-22T16:26:37.455709+00:00

oh wow, I had no idea.

[not a ubuntu user]

After reading your post I found this:

https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/X3fUhyJREKq

YGOnewguy · 1 day

The whole point of an HDD was the load times are faster than optical media..... I'd say not worry about it.

blacpete · 2 days

I won't ever forget ( I think) the 1999/2000 line-up....

Lots and lots a StarTrek reruns, The old Outer Limits & the newer Outer Limits. Lexx, farscape, Stargate SG1.

TheGotDamnBatman · 3 days

Be careful when you unscrew the existing factory hdd from it's mounting bracket. There was a known problem where the factory over tightened those, too much torque. They tend to strip, and there are many forum posts online (check Google) about how to address the issue.

Unfortunately I found out the hard way.

masta · 4 days

I am thinking of other ways to addres this.

One of them was to send a note to the admins, which has gone unanswered.

Another is to add a big obnoxious note to the top of the sub-reddit (next to where the sponsored link would appear) suggesting the community send the admins a note.

I do not understand why this is happening, I mean... I get the revenue stream stuff, but it's like a bacon company buying a sponsored link in a vegan sub-reddit. It's just wrong.

masta · 4 days

That gives you chills, that!?

lol - and here I thought you were invulnerable to chills from perverse thoughts.

masta · 4 days

css.

masta · 4 days

My opinion does mean something, as I created the sub-Reddit, and the specific rule (no politics).... that is my trump card. Also, based on previous experience the community there does agree based on the number of up/down votes received in a post about this very subject.

In in both respects you are wrong: my opinion means something, and evidence has shown the community does not want politics.

Curating the content is reasonable, that is the whole point of the moderation team, and I feel this include the sponsored links.

masta · 4 days

They will be wasting their money when the sponsored links goes away.

BHSPitMonkey · 4 days

Ok that is true, and in my defense the ARMv5 remark was more to do with how the OS is compiled for ARMv5. Maybe somebody will do the needful to get the thumb instructions compiled into their Linux rootfs, but more likely that won't happen. Ubuntu has moved on to hard-float only, ARMv7 and beyond. This is a move to simplify the building of packages. In Debian I believe they still only support ARMv5 or ARMv7, just like Fedora. I cannot think of anybody (important) that is building bits specifically for v6 thumb/2. Although that would be great actually as there is a vacuum to be filled.

trouphaz · 4 days

I like to forego the technical part because honestly quizzing a person on the technical is the easy part. Before I gloss over the technical I would like to say that you should make a list of general things a person should be able to do, then from those bullets determine what it is that a person of the caliber you seek should know by heart. For example, anybody that claims to know Solaris should be able to tell me exactly how to (re)configure the network interface for HME0. Same goes for Linux, The basic idea is that setting or changing the IP is basic stuff. You have no idea how many so-called experts I have talked to blank-out or don't know that. Generally the same type of questions applies to other things, depending on the role of person you hire. A web developer might want to ask Apache questions, mysql DBAs might need to know how to performance tune the server, junk like that.

Ok, so from my experience it's critical to get a feeling of a candidates mentality. Can they deal with stress, do they lie (to themselves, or to me), how is their ego (ego-centric and confident, or self-doubting & not confident).

So for example,

I have the assumption that people make mistakes, and learn from their own mistakes. I'd like to know what is the biggest mistake you've ever made in your IT career, and who you have since improved since them? What wisdom would you like to share about your experience?

Some candidates tell me they have never made any mistake, I do not believe. Some say they cannot think of any mistakes right at that moment, but surely there have been... but nothing major. The questions is designed to make the person uncomfortable depending on their mentality. Some people are fully capable of admitting their mistakes in an intellectually-honest way without being (feeling of) self-deprecating. Those are outlying, so mostly you want to see if the person blanks out, or lies. Weed those ones out right away if you get a bad feeling.

Another great question is simply asking:

why you feel that you would be a great candidate for this position?

This gets them talking. Depending on if the questions is asked before the technical or after might skew the results.

People tend to have cognitive bias , and resonate with other similar folks. Watch out, this could be a great idea if you have to work with these people daily, or it might not be.... You have to be in-tune with yourself first.

BHSPitMonkey · 4 days

I used to build all my packages on a DroboFS which is powered by a Marvel kirkwood processor, ARMv5tel. Of course I store all the baby videos of my first child on it. One day I made a mistake and leveled the whole thing. Ever since then my wife only lets me hack on something separate. :()

The Trimslice is everybody's favorite ARM board right now, it looks like and acts like a real computer. Some people have it working with dual-head displays, but mainly it has the SATA 2.5 inch (laptop) bay, and I put in a 90GB ssd. I cannot stress enough how disapointing the IO is when dealing with SD-cards. If you look at it that way, it's a cheap desktop replacement, or for you a hobby project... that network tap you were talking about. I run all my git repos, puppet, NIS/LDAP, and general shell access.

BHSPitMonkey · 4 days

WE like to use the trimslice to build packages, we call them the "heavy builders" because they have a real sata drive. Otherwise we use a build farm of plug computers, the predecessor to the usb-stick computers. They were wall-warts the size of an ac/dc transformer. Lookup the shiva-plug or guru-plug. Those were the hot items in previous years. Anyhow, those plug computers, and likely the usb-stick computers are great, but they can be slow for compiling packages.

IF you have any kind of ARM device, I welcome you to try fedora-arm on your device. IF you are a developer or somebody interested in helping out with testing, we could use the help. Just head on over to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM

BHSPitMonkey · 4 days

I think the cheapest one I can find is in my parts cage. Aka the closet in my wife's home office. Already have one ;-)

BHSPitMonkey · 4 days

That said, I just ordered mine... [fingers crossed]

BHSPitMonkey · 4 days

I had absolutely no idea this happened!!

Not that I was paying any attention, and this coming from a member of the fedora-arm development community. I thought I'd at least have seen something about that on IRC.... oh well <shrug>

To be honest not to many ARM developers I know are impressed with the rasPI. It's a weak board, uses previous generation ARMv5 which does not even have a hardware float-point unit, very little memory, and the video requires a binary blob. All that said, We in fedora are happy to support the hardware unofficially in the form of a "fedora spin".

All the Fedora guys are using the Trimslice.com.

BHSPitMonkey · 5 days

Considering the backlog of rPI orders and the realty that with shipping and handling the device is no where near the $25/$35 price point.

This thing beats the rPI in just about all aspects, except ethernet port.

rbmichael · 5 days

My Oracle DBAs do this to install oracle database.

I think it's retarded to do that, and if somebody must do that please do oneself the favor of using blowfish instead of AES for the block cipher. Will greatly improve the graphics performance.

The_Mza · 6 days

yea.... a beer sounds good.... This week is good for me... since I'm not on-call this week. I'm generally available in the evening starting around 8pm.

The_Mza · 6 days

I like pictures myself.

The_Mza · 6 days

it is also worth noting that a suppressor is not a mute button for the rifle, especially higher power hunting rifles. They are not like in the movies. The only suppressor that has the movie like padded sound is maybe a .22. A hunting rifle discharges a loud thunder of a sound, so a suppressor is desirable.

I would hate to see these used in a crime, and if one ever is used in a crime... I'd like there to be extreme punishment, possible reevaluation of this whole idea.

r_schestowitz · 6 days

"Packages may only build with an alternative compiler to gcc if upstream does not support gcc."

That is rather arbitrary I think. We are starting to get some interest in building packages with LLVM, and especially in the secondary architectures. It's not like the automated builders are going to switch to LLVM any time soon.

There are some valid reasons to use LLVM, especially as a sanity check for GCC, and standards. For example, Ulrich Drepper's use of illegal __variables in glibc are caught by LLVM (source). Because LLVM uses an intermediary bytecode developers can better integrate tools into and out of LLVM which would be useful to Fedora project. With GCC at best a tool can simply invoke gcc, that's about it.

mepper · 6 days

One of these is not like the others, can you guess which one?

...

It's Carl Sagan, he is not considered a genius. All the others are confirmed Geniuses, but I'd concede that Sagan and Tyson have done much for science by popularizing the subject. These two are very smart, but the difference is Tyson is a genius. Perhaps I'm wrong, if somebody could find some credible IQ score for Sagan, I'd love to be proven wrong. ;-)

r_schestowitz · 6 days

the smart maximize this is easily discoverable... I didn't know about it until I was attempting to drag a app window to another desktop, and gnome3 offered to maximize it to half my screen like windows7 does. The part about the alt key though, well that is something that could be documented better.

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