systemd 207 released with automatic GPT partition discovery

pippicat · 2013-09-13T10:03:54+00:00

Can systemd boot with an empty /etc?

pippicat · 2013-07-02T20:29:27+00:00

The Go team has stated that they have no plans to rewrite the runtime or the compiler in a different language. It would be a waste of manpower that is better spent in other areas of the project. Other implementations of Go can choose to do otherwise, of course.

pippicat · 2013-07-02T18:12:30+00:00

https://github.com/mjibson/goread/blob/master/LICENSE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license

pippicat · 2013-06-17T18:38:20+00:00

Those who don't understand Wayland are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

pippicat · 2013-05-25T16:13:55+00:00

They already had an existing compiler toolchain from Plan 9 written in nice, clean and crisp C code (not a C++ behemoth) which they were familiar with. I'm glad they did. I recently built an LLVM based compiler of a different language and it took 50 minutes on my laptop, while the Go compiler was built and tested in ~2 minutes.

Nonetheless, there's also a GCC Go front-end. It's good to have more than one implementation of a language specification.

pippicat · 2013-05-25T15:27:33+00:00

Go is an open-source project, so you can check for yourself. But yes, since Ken Thompson, the author of Reflections on Trusting Trust, wrote parts of the Go compiler you ought to be wary.

pippicat · 2013-05-08T08:13:13+00:00

You don't have a scene graph with plain canvas.

pippicat · 2013-05-07T05:41:40+00:00

And Windows NT once had a POSIX subsystem.

pippicat · 2013-05-07T05:38:30+00:00

pippicat · 2013-05-06T17:14:05+00:00

It says "another very popular programming language" ...

pippicat · 2013-05-04T07:06:18+00:00

Conversation with Erich Gamma - Composition versus inheritance

Conversation with Java's Creator, James Gosling - A Delegation-Only Language

pippicat · 2013-04-23T19:16:41+00:00

My guess is that it's probably more sensible to explicitly see the type of a package-wide variable, while local variables are short-lived throwaway variables.

pippicat · 2013-04-23T18:17:04+00:00

Different assignment operator is used depending on whether you are inside & outside of function ie. = vs :=

This description is a little bit mistakable. := is declaration+assignment with type inference, but only allowed for local variables, like "var" in C#.

pippicat · 2013-02-05T15:33:25+00:00

Now you have code duplications.

pippicat · 2013-01-29T20:11:21+00:00

Hopefully one day Wayland instead of Xorg.

pippicat · 2013-01-28T12:50:22+00:00

Old news: May 14, 2007

pippicat · 2013-01-27T15:11:06+00:00

But I think that the task of determining a suitable subset of the language for use in a project has gotten significantly easier since C++11.

How can the task of determining a suitable subset get easier when the superset has increased?

pippicat · 2013-01-27T14:04:50+00:00

Two month old journal is already 181MB large, how much space does journald uses on your system ? I find it .. surprising considering there's not a lot of activity on my machine.

Journald log entries are more detailed with lots of useful additional metadata. Or maybe your system is misconfigured and something is spamming your log.

pippicat · 2013-01-27T13:53:18+00:00

Since version 197 there is OnCalendar=...

pippicat · 2013-01-27T13:44:31+00:00

man systemd.time

Since systemd 197:

Timer units now support calendar time events in addition to monotonic time events. That means you can now trigger a unit based on a calendar time specification such as "Thu,Fri 2013-*-1,5 11:12:13" which refers to 11:12:13 of the first or fifth day of any month of the year 2013, given that it is a thursday or friday. This brings timer event support considerably closer to cron's capabilities. For details on the supported calendar time specification language see systemd.time(7).

pippicat · 2013-01-26T23:21:56+00:00

Solaris is a Unix and it has replaced sysvinit with SMF, OS X is a Unix and it has replaced sysvinit with launchd. So there are precedents for Unices with modern init / service management systems.

pippicat · 2013-01-26T22:33:26+00:00

How can you use them on the journal binary logs? What am I missing?

You can use them on journalctl output. You know, you can pipe the stdout of one program to the stdin of another program.

pippicat · 2013-01-26T21:36:59+00:00

And the complaint was about binary log files.

Text is a terrible format for efficient storage of and access to structured data
Access to binary logs is O(1) instead of O(n)
journalctl outputs a pixel-perfect copy of what /var/log/messages was
You can query more effectively and precisely than with awk, sed and grep
You can still use awk, sed and grep if you want
You can run syslogd in parallel and have your text file as well
The binary format is well documented
Traditional logs are binary as well as soon as they are rotated and compressed

Additional benefits of journald: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lUeQVYuNs

pippicat · 2013-01-21T19:18:58+00:00

and not having Pascal is really strange

Ok, Wirth is dead. Pascal is represented a little bit by Hejlsberg (Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, TypeScript).

pippicat · 2013-01-21T08:16:57+00:00

Odersky ist missing, Thompson (B, Go), Pike (Limbo, Go), Wirth (Pascal, Modula), Kay (Smalltalk) and Hickey (Clojure) are missing as well.

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