Posts by TrevorH

Nice selective quoting there... the original says "ordinarily used by ..." meaning xz the package, not restricting it just to the compromised version.

This guy was on freenode and then libera.chat IRC in the #centos channels for years and came across as a thoroughly nasty person.

This is not the first time that hobbes has announced it's going away. Last time it was rescued after a lot of complaints and a number of students or faculty came forward to continue to maintain it.

*This* is what counts as innovation at Microsoft?

It should also be noted that the vast majority of homes in cities in the UK cannot use individual heat pumps due to lack of space and/or noise from the fan units. If you live in a terraced street with no garden, where do you put your heat pipes? There are hand-wavy vague and untested plans for utility companies to install street-wide pipe networks under roads and pavements but so far nothing concrete (no pun intended) about how this would function nor how much it would cost. To meet the 2050 deadline they would need to be converting 20,000 properties a *week* to heatpumps. I suspect the current conversion rate is more likely closer to 20 a week than 20,000!

Nor do they mention "Where can I find £25,000 a _year_ stuffed down the back of the sofa to allow me to migrate my CentOS 7 systems to RHEL"

It's been obvious they think it ought to be Windows for some time.

why would you have anything installed with "tracker" in its name!

Some of us took one look at the package list and found something called "tracker" and immediately ran `yum remove \*tracker\*`

The infamous Tuttle!

Previously known only for making the headlines for https://www.theregister.com/2006/03/27/tuttle_email/

Last time I looked Office 2019 was the last version you could install on your own computer.

$0.005/h is US$44 a year so not going to break the bank for most people who need one. People that use hundreds of them, not so much.

So you pay $44B for a brand name and then dump the name, logo and even the verb "tweet" associated with the name you bought.

What a cupid stunt.

> No API changes, and no internal ABI changes either

This is a bit disingenuous. The so called "Stable KABI" almost *always* breaks at a RHEL point release. And since this is Stream and the kernel will be continually updated with new changes during the lifetime of one RHEL point release so I would expect multiple KABI changes to happen during Stream's lifetime between one RHEL point release and the next. If you run RHEL then you just get used to the "stable" KABI not being stable over a point release. If you run Stream then it could break at any time.

Never heard of "when you're in a hole ..."

...then stop digging. Or, double down on what you just said and go on a "you're all picking on us" rant: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

> Regomize

Nit pick time.

I'm pretty sure this should be 'regonomize' as in a smash of register and anonymize.

Regomize sounds more like a word smash of register and sodomize. Similar and maybe very registerish...

Eurpean format numbers?

> 21.921MB

Did you use Euro formatted numbers here with a . instead of a comma? Is that twenty one point nine two one MB or is it 21 thousand, 9 hundred and twenty one MB? The first seems unbelievably small and the second seems more realistic but quite bloated.

> the RHEL clone CentOS changed its focus

I'm not sure why you continue to spout the RH company line on this.

What they did was kill CentOS. Only fools (and horses?) still use CentOS.

> a single Rockhopper 4 would let customers replace at least 36 x86 servers, reducing energy consumption by 75 percent and space by 67 percent

So if it can replace 36 x 1U servers and use 67% of the space, does that mean this beast is a 24U rack mounted server? Does it come with a free forklift to get it into the rack?

K9YO is a $12 balloon but is KY90 33 year old personal lubricant?

"barely larger than a Raspberry Pi " for some value of "barely"

rpi4 85x56mm

this 119x121

so that's 14399 vs 4760mm² or about 3 times as big.

VirtualBox requires the guest additions to do integrated mouse. Those GA are not included in any RHEL9 clone, not even RHEL 9 itself so any rebuild of RHEL 9 will be lacking mouse integration in VBox. It's not unexpected.

You'd think that after the number of times they've had solar panels covered up in dust they would have invented a solar panel windscreen wiper

Much as I like VirtualBox for home use, it's hardly Enterprise.

> To wit: opensae[.]io, opensea[.]org, and opensea[.]xyz would be bad domains.

OpenSAE is what you do with a Stamped Addressed Envelope when it arrives?

Yes, but how much?

Enquiring minds want to know

> However, 39.9 percent said they were unsure, for whatever that means.

I'd guess that since the conference didn't end until the 9th June, some people could still be unsure since the COVID-19 incubation period is still listed by the WHO as being on average 5-6 days but with outliers up to 14 days. So if it ended last week, there might still be new cases for another week yet.

VoIP attacks

The various VoIP extortion attacks last year were all claiming to be REvil so DDoS attacks would not be a new thing (if indeed the ones last year were REvil).

Running Rawhide is like playing Russian Roulette. It's definitely not for the faint of heart. Nor for those without backups!

Another dangerous megalomaniac throws a strop.

The arch wiki is excellent

The arch wiki is one of the best resources out there for any flavour of linux. It's clear, concise, detailed and even better, it's usually right!

I was always told the reason why it could not be opensourced was that a lot of the source files are "Copyright IBM, Microsoft" and that getting the two teams of lawyers to agree to anything like that would be, shall we say tricky.

Thoughtcrime :-(

Still not patched in CentOS Stream

so much for Red Hat's promise to keep CentOS Stream up to date and free of exploits then...

A rebuild isn't really a rebuild if it doesn't include the same kernel as the original. Are they also doing what OEL do and providing the original RHEL distro kernel as an optinon as well?

We discard something like 50% of applicants based solely on the contents of their CV which generally shows that they are not suitable for the role in question. Without a CV we'd have to interview all those too which sounds like a massive waste of everyone's time.

> "Yeah 2021 is wrong. We're still stuck in 2020."

No, it's 2020 too.

It's that Russian Troll farm liking posts most likely to lead to the demise of democracy...

After Kaseya it appears that REvil got out of the ransomware business. If the recent attacks on VoIP infrastructure are to be believed they've moved into plain extortion instead - "Send us 10 BTC or we will DDoS your business to death".