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cssmooon Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive

Ok.

Fresh steaming proof as requested:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=urgent&...

All high severity bugs against 7.1 which was relased 16 days ago. Check the dates on half of them. They're before the release date and half of them haven't even been assigned or triaged.

When 7.0 came out, datetimectl and systemd didn't even work properly. Enabling ntp threw dbus errors galore. On some kit it didn't even boot. Total lemon.

RHEL doesn't generally work properly until the .2 releases. I've been using it for 10 years so I've got plenty of experience on the matter.

I would go into detail about the CIFS/smb kernel hangs I've had on 6.x but I've had enough of it by now.

cssmooon Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive

RH don't have a great reputation here. Unlike Debian which does proper triage and practices "zero release-critical bugs", RH threw out RHEL7 with loads of critical issues still open.

cssmooon “So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

Which bit?

cssmooon “So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

Oh give me a break. This isn't star trek and you're not Picard.

Three simple words derail all idealism in your post:

Corruption. Power. Poverty.

You don't smash people's knees in because you've never had to so you can solicit a payment that you entered a contract and need to eat for the next couple of weeks and you approach the authorities and they've been paid off or don't give a shit.

Humans don't look after each other very well, even if you do.

I simply admit that smashing kneecaps is a valid recourse in a world with the above concerns.

You might want to live in Brazil or South Africa for a bit.

cssmooon “So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

Bailiffs and debt collectors are two different concepts.

cssmooon “So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

Yes. It was good for me and it was good for the other person too. Why? Because it enforces society's moral standards upon everyone. If there is no common ground it descends into anarchy because if someone owes me £1500 I'm going to pay £200 to smash his kneecaps if there wasn't a court and bailiff option...

cssmooon “So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

Court appointed bailiffs have been used by myself to recover owed cash on a couple of occasions so they serve a purpose and a good one. If people enter a contract they can't fulfil then there needs to be a method to obtain appropriate compensation.

As for the rest, I agree.

cssmooon Sabbath mode

Actually that's really interesting. Thanks for the detailed reply.

cssmooon Sabbath mode

Can you ask someone to press it for you?

cssmooon Sabbath mode

I have never observed correlation between the intended floor and the actual lift travel and floor you end up on so I'd suggest that all lifts probably operate in a similar manor. Either that or its just malicious embedded systems engineers :)

cssmooon Sabbath mode

If there was a god he'd probably be facepalming.

cssmooon Machines shipping with Windows 10 may see OEMs enforcing Secure Boot

Plenty of ARM SoC and even desktop class machines now. The problem will solve itself pretty much instantly. No tears will be shed.

cssmooon Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]

I was born in the 80s. I'm not stuck there...

cssmooon Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]

I still love Gopher. Its for people who give a shit about the content and structure, not oodles of CSS and JS cack wrapped around four square inches of content that looks like my teenage daughter fired up Word and set the font size to 18pt so she didn't have to write so much.

cssmooon Welcome to OpenBSD [pdf]

Works fine in VMware ESX and HyperV. Need to run NTP though to combat clock drift. Not tried it on Xen but it has drivers for virtual NICs and storage etc.

cssmooon All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two

Perhaps more worrying, they may have sold them elsewhere first and informed the purchaser that they have until the competition date to use it. Better business if you have to come back after the disclosure date for more holes...

Nohig ethical at all going on here.

cssmooon Massimo Banzi: Fighting for Arduino

Wow £2.15 for a Uno! Paid 4x that on eBay.

I currently have one switching a fan on and off periodically to exercise some seedlings (tomatoes, chillis) so not a massive CPU demand here :)

cssmooon Massimo Banzi: Fighting for Arduino

Well that absolves me of a ton of guilt!

I've bought a few cheap clones off ebay over the last couple of years.

cssmooon Uber offices raided in Paris by French police in 'car-pooling' controversy

Every time someone kicks Uber down, all it does is make me more sympathetic to their business. I've had nothing but expensive, shit service with no recourse or customer support from official regulated services. They operate like the government does in the film Brazil.

cssmooon MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

> I could just build in exactly the same way, using the same solution/project files, on my dev box and my build server

Do you run VS on your production servers? Because that's where it will shit a brick because you forgot to install ASP.Net MVC KB123123213 but the IDE installed it as part of update 4. Etc etc...

This problem gets VERY deep.

cssmooon MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

I hope you're joking. I've unfucked so much MSBuild cack in my time that it's not even funny now.

cssmooon MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

I like autotools more than MSBuild if that's any reference...

cssmooon Unifdef – remove preprocessor conditionals from code

Refactoring always existed. We just didn't have a name for it and it was done by us meat popsicles.

cssmooon Macbook screen coating issues

You're right but I'm a software guy so you should never let me at hardware :)

cssmooon German court issues nationwide ban on Uber driving services

Isn't that called Marxism?

cssmooon Macbook screen coating issues

I'd return it while you can. See my other posts in this thread about my experiences with them.

cssmooon Macbook screen coating issues

We're blessed with lots of old and failing HP kit which is slowly being swapped out for Supermicro stuff so every time something goes pop, they get on the phone and screw the warranty as hard as possible then sell the warranty bits as new on ebay and scrap the chassis.

This is our operations team's way of issuing karma for years of pain if that's any consolation :)

cssmooon Macbook screen coating issues

Well I went through an approximately similar process in an Apple Store in the UK.

What was proper shit is the Genius Bar dude tore the original printed receipt in half for the initial purchase (handed over to act as proof of purchase) and wouldn't issue a receipt for the replacement machine. Total PITA from a receipt/warranty/tax claim POV and probably completely illegal.

I flipped my shit, spoke to the store manager and was simply asked to leave and there was nothing more they would do.

So yes, scumbags. Makes Dixons and Argos in the 1990s look good.

Edit: ironically my boss just came back from lunch after flipping his shit at them because they want to charge him £200 to replace his iPhone 6 after the WiFi packed in.