[DNG] resolved

2016-06-06 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
All programmers please read this, and treat it as a list of things not to do. https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-June/014964.html Systemd manages to shoot itself in the foot, and in the elbow, and trigger a timebomb, all with one single bullet. ___

Re: [DNG] Microsoft upgrades Windows 7 to 10 without permission

2016-03-20 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
On 16.03.2016 at 17:27 David Harrison wrote: On 16/03/2016 10:49, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: I Dropped back to 7, created a .exe that simply returns to OS, and then replaced c:\Windows\system32\GWX\GWX.exe and c\Windows\SysWOW64\GWX\GWX.exe with my NOP code. Would it be possible to shar

Re: [DNG] what is sssd?

2016-01-22 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 22.01.2016 um 16:07 schrieb Rowland Penny: On 22/01/16 14:29, Klaus Hartnegg wrote: Am 22.01.2016 um 14:23 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Does anybody know what sssd is good for? This is often used together with Samba to make userids of pure Active Directory users known to the Linux of the

Re: [DNG] what is sssd?

2016-01-22 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 22.01.2016 um 14:23 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Does anybody know what sssd is good for? This is often used together with Samba to make userids of pure Active Directory users known to the Linux of the domain controller. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Sssd The samba developers recommend

Re: [DNG] pressed root pw

2015-10-22 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 20.10.2015 um 23:58 schrieb aitor_czr: $ echo "XX" | md5sum 52f400d860b7431525a4c5367684de17 - Maybe you need instead this echo -n "XX" | md5sum c0a7ae7d513f4beb2bc203d6f339f1b5 - ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailingl

Re: [DNG] [Dng] printing (was Re: Readiness notification)

2015-06-16 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 15.06.2015 um 16:35 schrieb Steve Litt: I know that every service has a "provides", that basically gives the service a uniformly agreed upon name. And it has zero to many "requires", which I believe means that the current service (call it A), requires another service (call it B), so it won't s

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-15 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 14.06.2015 um 23:17 schrieb Isaac Dunham: Quite honestly, it really *does* matter to me that I can boot Alpine Linux on my netbook in ~5 seconds rather than the ~10 seconds Just a single issue caused by the complexity by systemd wastes more time than all saved boot seconds can ever sum up t

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-13 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 13.06.2015 um 13:33 schrieb Laurent Bercot: 30 seconds is a lot. What if you could get your desktop ready in 5 seconds or less ? This would mean less than what most people think. Because everything longer than half a second is perceived as being forced to wait. As long as an improvement st

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-13 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 13.06.2015 um 08:40 schrieb Didier Kryn: Yes, daemon writers are good-willing developpers; they want their software to serve as many users as possible; and users install distros. This gives power to the distros. But if someone provides them with a KISS readyness-signaling method, along wi

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-07 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 07.03.2015 um 19:31 schrieb hellekin: On 03/07/15 14:21, william moss wrote: Cool yes, but useful? Numbers have the huge advantage that everybody knows their order, which is quite important when referring to versions. *** Release *NAMES* never replaced version numbers. Hence Debian 8 "J

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-07 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 04.03.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Robert Storey : > Just want to say that I really like this idea of naming releases after minor > planets, such as Ceres. It's a way cool idea. Cool yes, but useful? Numbers have the huge advantage that everybody knows their order, which is quite important when ref

Re: [Dng] What's new in Systemd

2015-02-07 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 12:31:54 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > I'm not a Star Trek guy. What is the exact meaning of the two > "Resistance is Futile" slides? What point is the presentation trying > to get across? Whoever put this presentation together couldn't have used a worse analogy, because it induce

Re: [Dng] vdev update and design document

2015-01-05 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 05.01.2015 um 07:21 schrieb Martijn Dekkers: There are several areas where there are significant legal requirements around disallowing the concept of a root / UID 0 user to have overriding access. Please be advised that SELinux was built by the NSA *specifically* to be able to meet these legal

Re: [Dng] Gnome

2014-12-28 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 28.12.2014 21:47, schrieb Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI: OTOH desktop users that will be attracted to Devuan will also be in majority the same who also already renounced Gnome and Kde. Very likely yes. But still the largest number of all is probably server admins. Linux is mostly a server OS anyway,

Re: [Dng] Gnome

2014-12-28 Thread Klaus Hartnegg
Am 28.12.2014 20:34, schrieb Go Linux: I understand that Devuan wants to give Debianites who use Gnome an option to move smoothly to a systemd-free future (and stick it to Gnome in the process). But does that have to be a top priority? Why not get Devuan up and running with DEs/WMs that are not