Okay, there are many fatal design flaws, such as the inability to actually cluster like OpenVMS has been able to do since the early 1980s, but one is going to bring it to a screeching halt industry wide. What is that? Requiring a video driver be compiled into/with the kernel. I haven’t looked at the code, nor do I want to. If it is like most Linux/OpenSource code I get to look at it will … Linux Fatal Design FlawRead more
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Is California a Modern Day Jim Crow State
On New Years Eve, like many geeks, I set about doing some year end backups and OS upgrades. It also lead to some experiments with OpenMandriva and OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, but that is fodder for another post. I bring it up to set the stage for why I ended up surfing to the UseNet group “Political Euwetopia” and being entertained by people who obviously haven’t been taking all of their meds. You can’t really do much … Is California a Modern Day Jim Crow StateRead more
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Ubuntu/Linux List All Exit Status Codes
I see this questions about this posted a lot. I also see numerous responses telling people to read through C header files. While you certainly cannot identify application level exit codes without valid documentation for the package, you can get the Ubuntu/Linux exit codes with one easy command. kill -l
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So Secure You Are Insecure
Recently I had to change my password for a Jeep owners forum. It didn’t expire or anything like that, I simply couldn’t remember the one I had used. Well, they had “new rules.” Keep in mind this is a user forum for owners of both new and beater Jeeps to exchange info. The crawler sections talk endlessly about mods to their Jeeps and events. Those of us who tend to buy beater Jeeps talk about … So Secure You Are InsecureRead more
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Qt Pi Stuff on Pause for Now
A few weeks back I took an on-site contract far away from home and could not bring all of my toys so the Qt on Pi stuff is on hold until this contract ends. My apologies. I will still be writing the occasional blog post but they will be “thought pieces” instead of coding pieces.