Posts by rjmx

Re: A rose by any other name...

Uh-oh. Somebody's triggered ...

Re: wow

From the Wikipedia article:

"The Lexington Herald-Leader described Johnson's nondenominational Heart of Fire church as "part evangelical church, part motorcycle bar"

Sigh.

I must admit that using Emacs' "M-x unmorse-region" has helped a lot today.

Re: New technical terms.

John G Imrie: Since it'd be completely useless, it'd be bound to have an ISO classification. Say, ISO910367812-45bis?

Re: smoke and mirrors

Yep. The only reason we need lawyers these days is to defend ourselves from other lawyers.

Re: Companies only put charges like this on

Hmmm. I wonder if the price might help deter a would-be burglar? You know, call the company, claim you're the homeowner, and try and get them to give you the password?

Re: I'd be more excited

Sigh. If only I could upvote that one 5000000 times.

systemd was/is a classic example of what *not* to to when you change a basic OS component.

Re: Uh oh!

> With NO Internet connection.

Are you sure?

Re: Certainly looks like a stall...

> Maybe they ought to change the name from "Airlander" to "Groundpounder".

... or "Crashlander" (h/t to Larry Niven).

I just went through that exercise and found the same thing (kernel source 4.4):

> /usr/src/linux$ find . -name Kconfig | xargs grep "select KEYS"

> ./fs/cifs/Kconfig: select KEYS

> ./fs/ext4/Kconfig: select KEYS

> ./fs/f2fs/Kconfig: select KEYS

> ./fs/nfs/Kconfig: select KEYS

> ./init/Kconfig: select KEYS

> ./net/ceph/Kconfig: select KEYS

> ./net/rxrpc/Kconfig: select KEYS

> ./security/integrity/evm/Kconfig: select KEYS

Looks like selecting any of CIFS, ext4 encryption, f2fs encryption, nfs v4, System Data Verification (whatever that is), Ceph, RxRPC or EVM will select CONFIG_KEYS. Which probably means that, if you build your own kernels, simply turning off CONFIG_KEYS is not an option.

Re: No MX record - really?

I don't think so. Note the "ANSWER: 0" bit:

~$ dig malcolmturnbull.com.au mx

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-12-Debian <<>> malcolmturnbull.com.au mx

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65357

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:

; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;malcolmturnbull.com.au. IN MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

malcolmturnbull.com.au. 900 IN SOA brenda.ns.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2019221722 10000 2400 604800 3600

;; Query time: 120 msec

;; SERVER: xx.xx.xx.xx#53(xx.xx.xx.xx)

;; WHEN: Fri Oct 09 11:02:46 EDT 2015

;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115

Re: Politicians really hate it

> What an utterly ludicrous set of claims - the latter verging on an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Look up the connection between Hearst and the Spanish-American war some time.

Re: The Impact On The Public Was Terrible

> she turned and headed for Breast

I think you mean "Brest".

Still, the mistake is understandable. I tend to do the same thing.

Re: You, that website's author, and everyone else have missed the point entirely

And then you'll complain that your tax refund is a day late. Or that the FDA missed a major salmonella outbreak because there wasn't enough staff to inspect everything.

Sheesh.

Re: HP disagrees

> and they don't believe at least that Red Hat has the resources to do it (right)

I don't believe that Red Hat has the resources (or even the will) to do *anything* right. The only thing they seem to be good at is producing badly-written implementations of poorly-thought-out concepts, usually by individuals who have the social skills of a newt.

Examples (over the years):

linuxconf

dbus

systemd

Re: So-called "piracy" high on the priority list in Nigeria?

Anything you like -- they haven't got a leg to stand on.

Re: A tard...

> However I think the ME109 was probably more his style and that had a stick

I see what you did there.

Re: @AC @ 02:10

If it is indeed a closed system, where do you extract it to, pray tell?

Re: Just the other day

Thank you. I hadn't thought about uniselectors and step-by-step switches in years.

Re: Whittering Lesbians Groucho Sheep

My wife's car has one of those Onstar thingys that supposedly includes a phone. The thing point-blank refuses to understand me (although, to be fair, I _am_ an Australian living in Massachusetts). Sometimes I've been reduced to flat-out screaming at the thing, to no avail. Lucky I wasn't driving at the time.

The silly part is that all it has to do is recognise numbers from zero to nine, and it can't even do that reliably.

Re: "We may scoff at Harold's fear of Halley's Comet"

You mean "hAROLD" (well, that's what the tapestry says).

Looks like somebody had caps lock on when they made it.

Re: There was a redback on the toilet seat

Ah, Slim Newton's best.

I've been told that the original words were "There were footprints on the ceiling when I got home last night"..

(use your imagination from there on)

Pirate icon, 'cause it's almost TLAP day.

Re: Lost in Translation

Worst movie ever made. Should have been called "Two Actors In Search Of A Plot".

They never were ...

Remember, it was "Truth, Justice AND the American Way". Three separate items there.

Loss of height

I've read that some of that is due to some (FAA?) requirement that stall recovery should involve a specified maximum loss of height -- to the point where some pilots undergoing checks got reluctant to push the stick too far forward, lest they exceed that maximum. True, stall recovery should involve losing as little height as possible, but specifying a maximum height loss gets counter-productive.