Thankfully My Last Post

2014-05-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 12 May 2014 12:00:48 +0200 A debian dev wrote: Nobody cares. Please go away. You apparently don't care that an official debian document is making sweeping incorrect statements even though I have told you I have professional experience in this area and pointed debian to a buildroot

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: Yes. This has been the case for su in Debian since 1999, and to do otherwise would break a variety of configurations where session setup is required in order for, e.g., the su process to have access to the files of the target user. It

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Russ Allbery contributed: by the non-stop sniping (for *months* now) by people like Kevin Chadwick, Well I have only responded to incorrect statements and have tried to ignore any that are not from debian developers and may not affect the future of debian but you can't

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: I haven't yet seen a system where booting with init=/bin/bash works but booting systemd in emergency mode does not. Have you added me to a killfile? I mentioned such a bug as happened in Arch testing in this very thread or do you mean a

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD Unices? No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on BSDs), sudo) I can tell you

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: I also would not expect an end user to add su foo -c /do/whatever to /etc/rc.local. Your opinion may differ, that's OK. My opinion certainly does differ as I'm sure is already apparent ;-) especially that pid1 and single user should most

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: Using systemd breaks something that worked for probably a decade or longer before however long that su is in that init script. So on what account do you call calling su in an init script a bug? It may not be the most elegant solution

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Simon McVittie contributed: That would let cautious systemd users keep the sysvinit binaries around, and boot with init=/usr/lib/sysvinit/init if something went horribly wrong with systemd. Not that it would affect me but that would be wise, an upstream bug caused arch

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: Hi, Kevin Chadwick: * last but not least: if you do have a tangible reason for your post, i.e. one of your packages doesn't work with the way systemd is packaged, kindly tell us which package that is and what you're trying

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-06 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: Sorry, but I suspect the latter. Why did I expect any reasonable and balanced discussion! I suspect but haven't mentioned that I expect the reasons for bundling these components together to be on highly questionable grounds.

Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: standalone logind (Re: Bits from the systemd + GNOME sprint)

2014-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-02 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-02 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 02 May 2014 10:55:15 +0200 Aaron Zauner wrote: Bashing on Tor does not help here. The page suggests all devs use Tor to avoid being targetted. I am saying, does it accomplish that and is is best practice. Should they be hackable even if they are targetted or stumbled upon. I find that

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-02 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed: all sorts of stuff that would make any chroot in this way pointless. more powerful I expect means less secure in this usage. p.p.s. why implement yet more code and complexity into systemd for preventing device files when you can just use

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-05-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:33:56 +0200 Aaron Zauner wrote: It adds a lot of complexity for privacy benefit. Integrity is often muddled into security too. As far as I am concerned they can actually counter each other and are seperate entities. No they are not. Integrity should be part of

Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:20:05 + Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Tor provides privacy and more likely lowers security so which threat against contributors or contributor actions is the Tor policy aimed to protect? I'm confused, what? How does Tor lower security and at the same time, it

Re: Gcc and undefined behavior

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted

2014-04-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:55:36 +0200 Kurt Roeckx wrote: I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. But look at the example of the random number generator in my other e-mail. I've seen other cases were they do things like that. And I can perfectly understand why they do it, and then

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: Hardened OpenSSL fork

2014-04-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:57:41 +0200 Aaron Zauner wrote: Usually the Linux kernel itself provides more than enough entropy. This can (and probably should) be enhanced but should not be done in a specific distribution. I know there has been a little work on the kernel in this area, mainly

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: the importance of defaults (was: Debian default desktop environment)

2014-04-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Bas Wijnen contributed: On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:49:15PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I think at Debian we all agree that it would be a good thing if everything would be encrypted, so this is a very bad outcome. I beg to differ I'm afraid. SSL should be used

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* - and I can prove it

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* - and I can prove it

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-03-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
___ I have no idea why RTFM is used so aggressively on LINUX mailing lists because whilst 'apropos' is traditionally the most powerful command on Unix-like systems it's 'modern' replacement 'apropos' on Linux is a tool to help psychopaths learn to control their anger. (Kevin Chadwick

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* - and I can prove it

2014-03-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Brett Parker contributed: Maybe you should do some more investigation, get some better clue of what you're talking about, and come back with a better, more thought out, set of arguments that actually have merit. Right, by arguing on the basis of the definition of Linux

Re: Bits from the Security Team

2014-03-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: I did a „setcap cap_sys_ptrace+eip /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs”, but a normal user can’t still check for running programs of another user. What did I wrong? check_procs is a script, not a real executable. Since

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: Kevin, I don't think you understand the reasoning behind this. Again, the problem the init system has to solve here is being able to track a process with a 100% accuracy, so whatever automated mechanisms you have configured when

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:53:51 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Kevin, I don't think you understand the reasoning behind this. Again, the problem the init system has to solve here is being able to track a process with a 100% accuracy, so whatever automated mechanisms you have configured

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Marco d'Itri contributed: But you aren't planning on running openrc at all, are you? Who is? Seriously, would you mind stepping forward? If it was available I would use it but wouldn't be switching cgroups on or would be switching them off even if I hadn't bothered

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Perhaps before this thread spirals out of control I should re-iterate that what I said was cgroups doesn't pass the worth-it barrier for me and not that they have NO value. I also mentioned pgroups for those that do want this functionality but also want portability and not bugs in daemons on one

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Kevin Chadwick contributed: Perhaps before this thread spirals out of control I should should also mention this has been discussed on this very list already, though before I was enrolled and the following response went unreplied to. On the other hand and I doubt

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: One sample usecase where they dont't: the system is wedged / overcommitted and I need to terminate some services; guess I'll start another ten processes to do that. Yeah, right. I'll be nice to everybody else here and not enumerate any

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list hero...@gentoo.org contributed: And grepping through the output of ps or similar is not what I would consider reliable and robust either. Nod. grepping `ps` is what we should avoid at all cost. All cost? While I like OpenRC and thanks to Gentoo for it and like

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Thomas Goirand contributed: So, systemd is still using /etc/rc?.d. Could you tell exactly what it uses out of /etc/rc?.d, and what for? Does it only needs to see them as S??script-name in runlevel 2 or 4 (or whatever it uses...)? If systemd needs links in /etc/rcX.d,

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Helmut Grohne contributed: It's just occurred to me that the binary format may not work with append only logging? That's true for the journal. When the journal opens its binary log, it flags the file as being opened, but what is the issue with not being append

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: All software has bugs. The difference is in how you handle them. And how many!!! AND how many per 1000 lines AND how many run with priviledges. -- ___ 'Write programs

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: discussion. No, we should not depend on it for Debian; but we should provide the interface for system administrators who wish to use it, because it is not Debian's place to tell them that they cannot use that interface. It's not

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list John Paul Adrian Glaubitz contributed: The problem is that many people who complain about PulseAudio issues are often prejudiced about it in the first place such that they aren't actually interested in having the problem fixed but rather just want to get rid of it and

Re: systemd's journal

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Helmut Grohne contributed: So for the time being (i.e. until all of my systems and recovery systems are converted to systemd), I do see a slight[2] disadvantage It may take even longer until all initramfs will use systemd (and I do want to read logs from the initramfs

Re: Honestly, fork systemd

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Svante Signell contributed: To answer the original poster's own question, what can he do? He can stop writing these emails and start writing code (a fork of systemd supporting kFreeBSD, to be specific) I don't think forking systemd is a good choice, that

Re: Honestly, f__k systemd and f__k lennart, and f__k the fans of them. Where's linus in all of this?

2014-02-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Gunnar Wolf contributed: Everyone knows that the systemd crap is armtwisting and trys to pull everyone and everything along with it. Please provide some numbers on this statement of fact. I believe (and will continue to believe) that the strong supporters of

Re: when will we finally throw away binary uploads (Re: Please upgrade your build environment when you are affected by transition

2014-02-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Brian May contributed: After the damage is done, probably easier to find the malware that did it Assuming the damage is visible? All rants aside, I believe there's a fairly wide agreement that we should throw away binaries from builds. I'd encourage something

Re: Tired of my fellow SysV supporters

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Russ Allbery contributed: One person in particular is currently creating new throwaway accounts at various free email providers to post violent threats and invective-filled rants to various project mailing lists. Maybe it's Lennart and he's hired a psychologist ;-)

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list John Paul Adrian Glaubitz contributed: You know that you did this before and you apologized to me in private. If you like, I can post this mail to the public list. You said the exact same things before and I have heard other Debian Developers who think the same way

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:25:14 -0500 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: If they have decided on systemd as default [...] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg5.html Can we please end this thread? Sure but perhaps you could save me the trouble to say if there is a general

Re: Call to fork

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: For instance, a daemon which fails to start under sysvinit will not even prevent the services which depend on it from starting up. How terminally stupid is that? Perhaps you should rethink that whilst considering the

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Svante Signell contributed: What I don't get is why are those people trying to push Debian's decision when they are primarily using a different platform. But I guess it's pure politics and trying to push their own projects. I'm pretty sure there are _many_

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list John Paul Adrian Glaubitz contributed: On 02/11/2014 05:20 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: It's like being able to customize internal parts of your cars engine when ordering one from your dealer. Customers don't care who the manufacturer of your ignition system is as long

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list John Paul Adrian Glaubitz contributed: systemd is used as the default init system in: - Fedora - Arch Linux - Mageia - openSUSE - SLES (upcoming) - RHEL7 - Frugalware - (see Wikipedia) Plus companies like Intel and BMW are using it in their embedded

Re: [Bulk] Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:39:10 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: While they loose the warranty which is my main point. Who needs a warranty when it's so straight forward. These days you have an engine with a management system which you have to fix or convince the mechanic that the

Re: [Bulk] Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:37:59 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Arch, openSUSE and Fedora are among the most popular and widely used Linux distributions where most of the upstream development happens. Show me the numbers, I completely disagree and developers from those ditributions such

Re: conflict between system user and normal user

2014-02-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Peter Palfrader contributed: I would really like to standardize on some prefix. I like _ as a prefix because adduser doesn't allow the local sysadmin to create accounts with that prefix without special flags, which I think makes it a more useful reserved

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Sergey B Kirpichev contributed: Doesn't matter) rc.local shouldn't be used by local admin to start services from. Why not use usual init-script? I wouldn't be surprised if rc.local has been around longer than Debian and is meant to run at the end. Particularly for a

Re: conflict between system user and normal user

2014-02-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Simon McVittie contributed: So I'd agree with the underscore but see the not allowing the local sysadmin to create accounts easily with it as a bad thing as they could perfectly well want to avoid collisions with packages as much as a debian dev. A concrete

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Russ Allbery contributed: Just want to mention, I'd really appreciate it if jockey and so polkit could become an optional dependency of the steam launcher (Ubuntu) and so I guess steam OS as the Nvidia functionality is not used or needed when I use steam. Despite Nvidia

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Roger Leigh contributed: With an SSD, you really don't want /tmp or swap on it; Why?, due to limited write cycles? As long as it is a modern SSD (years) or one of the old ones one with a sandforce controller (OpenBSD dev let me know about that) then it has a good 20%

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when ram is full

2014-01-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:30:24 + Roger Leigh wrote: This is a system with 8 cores @4GHz, 16GiB RAM, over 16GiB swap, so should be pretty performant, yet /tmp on an SSD made it crawl and freeze continually. Interesting, have a look if it states the write access time spec in the datasheet (if

Re: Bug#735927: general: X *always* crashes when 5 youtube video opened

2014-01-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Andrew Shadura contributed: Apparently, you haven't got free disk space left. That's sort of expected that when there's no free disk space programs start crashing randomly. Shouldn't happen if you partition your disks and even then only carelessly written programs like

Do you use OpenSSH

2014-01-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
It certainly wouldn't be as secure or successful and may not even exist without OpenBSD. OpenBSD currently has a shortfall for it's electricity costs and so any donation's would be much appreciated by the project. Sorry if you see this as spam it won't happen again.

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Svante Signell contributed: Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. I like it too but it's save dialog is pretty terrible. Have you checked out mupdf. No save but similar otherwise. p.s. qpdfview is shaping up and remembers tabs too.

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-11-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Ben Hutchings contributed: In other words, Canonical gets the right to take a free software contribution and make it proprietary. The contributors gets to own the software, and can continue releasing it as free software, but can't prevent Canonical from making

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Theodore Ts'o contributed: So hopefully that is something the technical committee will take into account --- how well things are documented, both in terms of a comprehensive reference manual, and a tutorial that helps people with common things that system

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Wouter Verhelst contributed: By absense of documentation, are you referring to the almost 10% of the source base that are comments or the 15% that is DocBook XML based documentation? (Almost 14kLOC and almost 36kLOX, respectively.) That particular comment was

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek contributed: Hi Helmut, exec vs. ExecStart= and export vs. Environment= is easy. Anyone can whip up a sed script to convert between those. The question is how to deal with more advanced options. Let's say that I have a systemd unit with

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Helmut Grohne contributed: Most participants in this thread appear to agree that the sysvinit *interface* for services (shell scripts) is suboptimal. Not so sure, I have various thoughts on this and even the reasons that it is considered sub optimal but think some like

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Jonathan Dowland contributed: Couldn't they just be ignored not to mention already having existing or far more functional and robust *options* that work with any init system. A cursory glance at the example above… PrivateTmp=yes

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Russ Allbery contributed: Well I meant that they would be used by systemd and ignored likely noisily by default by others. However this really should be the job of the service in any case as depending on a third party service for security that isn't extra such as

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Philipp Kern contributed: I'm not sure why our enterprise users don't count as users as well. Of course they do even if the couple of people possibly concerned with it that I know use.. is it Citrix? I was merely pointing out that it is an extremely small minority of

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Olav Vitters contributed: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:37:35PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Of course they do even if the couple of people possibly concerned with it that I know use.. is it Citrix? I was merely pointing out that it is an extremely small minority

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
you need something with big buttons that is finger-friendly, I'm surprised how much accuracy a capacitive multitouch mobile has when in touchscreen terms it is actually extremely poor (3-4mm) exacerbated by them not responding to nails (conductive), a trade-off for size and multitouch. Many

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
OK. I suggest that we *try* that for now. If we try, what will be the criteria for assessing whether the experiment has been successful (and hence worth keeping for Jessie) or a failure (and hence reverting it)? I think it should be considered that there has been much improvement upto

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
E.g. XFCE either wants ConsoleKit, or logind. If you look at ConsoleKit, you'll notice it is NOT maintained. XFCE *needs* neither and in fact the vast vast majority of users do not either. I check the spec files for Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE. They all seem to require logind.

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