Comments by "AlexXx" (@alexxx4434) on "DJ Ware" channel.

  1. This is an eternal struggle
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  2. Governments are still funding many open-source projects. But people should donate more to the projects they find useful.
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  3. Well, majority of home Windows users don't even know what NFS is.
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  4. Well, privatization is a trend going on since neo-liberal reforms of last century
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  5. The issue is that many small and medium companies might not survive the recession.
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  6. You can cut corners on the development stage, but then you will spend more resources on the maintenance. You can't cheat around this. It's unfortunate that the modern way of management is short sighted, only cares about NOW, not about the long run.
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  7. Usually artful ≠ practical
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  8. Apple will not move to the cloud willingly because they profit mostly from selling their brand consumer hardware, contrary to MS or Google. But mass movement of general public computations to the cloud is the inevitable (dark) future, as the Internet availability and speed will constantly increase. Most people will choose the cloud computing for the convenience it offers, like: not having to maintain their own hardware and systems; inclusion of cloud-backed AI and automation in the package, etc. People will pay a hefty price for such convenience: not only paying for the cloud will be more costly than were owning your own systems, you will also become dependent on some 3rd party service and its rules, and privacy will generally become the thing of the past. Of course private workstations won't totally go away for special use cases, but they'll become rare and hugely expensive.
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  9. That's the spirit! Wish I could keep the passion for IT till the old age. Also, "watch out, we have an older dinosaur than DJ Ware here!" ;)
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  10. The system allows and rewards evil deeds
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  11. Yeah, ARM's accelerated video playback is nowadays hinged more on the drivers and software support, rather than just hardware. And the best software support AFAIK is on PI: in Raspbian it is possible to enable hardware acceleration in Chrom(ium) for some time now.
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  12. The advantages of breaking abstractions seems ephemeral. I mean abstractions were invented for the reason — easier overall management of complex systems. It suggests to exchange so called "syscall dance" to "overall management, organization, security hell" for the purpose of possibly getting some performance with direct access to hardware. Is it worth it? I'm not convinced.
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  13. Here we see another case that bloat works against performance.
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  14. Thanks for your input on the topic. As I see it, Linux is a large scale community project driven by enthusiasts, not necessarily great engineers. Besides, having strict quality controls on such a large scale open community project is probably practically unfeasible. That's why we got what we got, and alternatives like BSD are generally better engineered.
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  15. DIGITS made be a corporation with proprietary technology will set us free? Um, somehow I'm doubtful of this premise. Also, PC became a widespread thing only because IBM have lost control of it.
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  16. Nice to hear your commentary on the comparison, that's new.
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  17. I guess the fact that HURD lies in dormancy is a kind of answer that people don't see a real practical value in it beyond just a proof of concept. Microkernels' general tradeoff is providing more stability and security in exchange of performance. And in most cases this tradeoff is unnecesary.
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  18. Thanks for good content!
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  19.  @Abdelkrim.  Yeah, not always, but usually. Takes kind of exponential effort to make artful AND practical.
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  20. Why worry about app having encryption when you should probaby run Remote Desktop over a VPN secure connection from outside of the local network?
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  21. They are quite usefull for rolling back bad system updates.
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  22.  @philhasacomputer  That's also true
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  23. I sense sarcasm 😏
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  24. Would have been nice to have concluding words.
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  25. @ Sure, for something small and simple the "fun" is enough. But big projects require more that just fun.
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  26. @ Maximizing efficiency and exploitation sucks the fun out of everything. But even besides that big projects require a lot of organization and planning, which I don't think most people find "fun".
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  27. What are RAID alternatives nowadays?
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  28.  @CyberGizmo  I won't deny that there was an intention to provide an idea for a follow up video. ;)
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  29. Reminds (now depricated) WMIC shell on Windows. It also structured all system management data in tables that could be queried in SQL fashion. But there's more, tables could also had custom commands integrated to execute on elements of the table, like in the Processes table you had process management actions like kill, etc. A lot of the system management could have been done in WMIC shell alone without any external program. Now Windows management moved to Powershell bloatware.
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  30. I'm in the same boat. Started on Win 3.11, can't remember when I had to "reinstall Windows to fix it" - it's more of a exception, cause I could troubleshoot most issues, and overal Windows installations were stable under my watch. Golden age of Windows was XP era. But since then I'm not a fan where the platform is heading. Windows 10 is gonna be the last one I use I think. Decided to the gradual transition to Linux.
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  31. When I've learned of Plato I was sufficiently amazed
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  32. Well, the IT is getting ever more complex which is a furtile ground for vulnerabilities.
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  33. If you don't ever fully load your RAM, then the fragmentation shouldn't be a problem. The valuable point agaist using swap, not mentioned in this video, is that it is very slow compared to RAM. So, killing another app might just be faster that resorting to swap (not in a stable server environment obviously). But then again, in server environment you better allocate as much RAM as to never resort to swap preferably.
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  34. Solution to package management hell: keep multiple versions of libraries in the store, then link particular lib versions to apps. BAM, problem solved.
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  35. Should have checked Trinity, it's a killer feature of this distro!
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  36. The fundamental problem of change in IT is that so much work is already done it can be a major headache to recreate it anew. That's why there are still COBOL systems in production use. For example for this shell to become worth it you'd basically need to rewrite a lot of user programs to give out data in the new format, then rewrite your scripts. Is it worth it? If you already have systems established, probably not. Starting fresh, maybe, if you have free time for that.
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  37. You don't trust ANY corporation
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  38. Hey, I want to suggest to add overlay text with news headlines while you talk about them. It would improve the presentation.
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  39. Loving your presentations!
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  40. 'For fun' is not conducive to anything serious, stable and long-lasting. What happens when the fun stops - the project gets abandoned? That's right. Linux ecosystem has plenty abandoned creations by enthusiasts and hobbyists. But any serious project needs additional motivation to deal with 'non fun' parts.
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  41. Maybe look int Ansible Playbooks to code in the apps and their settings?
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  42. Nice to see a balanced view from someone who knows both sides. So used to see biased arguments from each tribe, saying how the other one has it awful, but they they have it great.
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  43. Why so many different DEs? It's variety of evolution.
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  44. In the Wiki table all have 'parallel system startup' capability, except Epoch. Hmm.
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  45.  @CyberGizmo  BTW, talking about 'nutshells', you have a naming mistake on the first presentation slide, me thinks. ;)
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  46. Thanks for the overview, DJ Ware.
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  47.  @_sneer_  Fat corps usually have resources to spare. They could also be more likely bailed out.
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  48. Congrats, we came full circle!
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  49. • No indexed tag list browsing! • Free version is too limited
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  50. Creator of SysD moved to MS? How convenient! MS offers Linux subsystem for 'convenience'. And owns GitHub. MS has its tentacles all over open-source sphere. How come more people not concerned yet?
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