Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 06:07:31PM -0400, . via Dng wrote: > > On 7/29/21 6:00 AM, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: > > American != English > > > > Rowland > > Also, > >     British != English > >     Canadian != English > >     Indian != English > >     Australian != English > >    

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 04:57:44PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > al3xu5 said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:33:10 +0200 > > > >11) Document and document and document all the code (vars, functions, > >errors etc. ... all) > > I do that: Nobody else does. It really makes things difficult when I > need to work

Re: [DNG] Starting outline for the DNG Safe Programmer Certificate

2021-07-29 Thread Josef Grosch via Dng
On 7/28/21 1:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote: [ Beverity ] Does anyone have other list items to add? Now that you got me thinking; One should be explicit instead of implicit. I see this in code all the time and it drives me crazy // NO if (condition)     doSomething(); // YES if (condition)

Re: [DNG] Starting outline for the DNG Safe Programmer Certificate

2021-07-29 Thread Josef Grosch via Dng
On 7/28/21 2:02 PM, tito via Dng wrote: [ DELETED for brevity ] That's bad... I love global variables ;-( as they avoid shuffling around parameters in functions (KISS?) Global variables are a disaster looking for a place to happen, avoid at all cost. The scope of variables should be as

Re: [DNG] [OT] British vs American language

2021-07-29 Thread . via Dng
On 7/29/21 6:00 AM, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: > American != English > > Rowland Also,     British != English     Canadian != English     Indian != English     Australian != English     Ugandan != English Chaucer == English -Bob,mon.

Re: [DNG] Starting outline for the DNG Safe Programmer Certificate

2021-07-29 Thread g4sra via Dng
On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 10:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > g4sra via Dng said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:50:02 + > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 9:19 PM, Steve Litt > > sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: > > >

Re: [DNG] Starting outline for the DNG Safe Programmer Certificate

2021-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
g4sra via Dng said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:50:02 + >Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > >‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > >On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 9:19 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > >> spiralofhope said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:00:48 -0700 >> > >> > Once this gets complex enough it'll

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
al3xu5 said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:33:10 +0200 > >9) Write code to debug and log I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean to write errors and warnings to log files, or do you mean something more. > >10) Handle all kind of errors I know that's the *right* thing to do, and I do it often,

Re: [DNG] Starting outline for the DNG Safe Programmer Certificate

2021-07-29 Thread g4sra via Dng
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 9:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > spiralofhope said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:00:48 -0700 > > > Once this gets complex enough it'll need to be self-hosting in a sense; > > check the rules against

Re: [DNG] Starting outline for the DNG Safe Programmer Certificate

2021-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
spiralofhope said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:00:48 -0700 >Once this gets complex enough it'll need to be self-hosting in a sense; >check the rules against the rules -- de-duplicate, simplify, add >documentation, etc. :) > >Internal consistency? I don't know the correct term offhand. Huh? SteveT

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
tempforever said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:13:51 -0400 >Is this commandment (the code of one subroutine fitting into one >screen) an absolute rule?  What about, for example, assembly-language >programming?  Must I buy a bigger screen? :-) >I will admit that I do very little assembly anymore, so this

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread tito via Dng
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:16:31 + g4sra via Dng wrote: > <--snip->> > > > > > > There are just too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy > > > > > every corner case, > > > > > You would need to put Drivers and Firmware for every network device > > > > > in existence on the

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
Riccardo Mottola via Dng said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:17:28 +0200 >Also, most essentially, it is a matter of network driver, the rest can >stay on the non-free repository. You need the video drivers too. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
Riccardo Mottola said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:07:11 +0200 >Sometimes you can find another card, but that is not always possible. >Rarely you can know exactly what is inside a Laptop on beforehand. Riccardo, You just reminded me that I always recommend having a known good, doesn't-need-drivers

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2021 Thu, 29 Jul 10:57:50 -0700 spiralofh...@spiralofhope.com scripsit: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:33:10 +0200 > al3xu5 wrote: > > > 11) Document and document and document all the code (vars, functions, > > errors etc. ... all) > > It was mentioned earlier; variables and functions

Re: [DNG] [OT] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread Andreas Messer
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 03:58:02PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: >     With all respect due to your work, I tend to think that with such > expensive and dangerous machines, more investment should be put into > hardware so as to get controllers with a decent ram. And maybe the > firmware could take

Re: [DNG] Starting outline for the DNG Safe Programmer Certificate

2021-07-29 Thread spiralofhope
Once this gets complex enough it'll need to be self-hosting in a sense; check the rules against the rules -- de-duplicate, simplify, add documentation, etc. :) Internal consistency? I don't know the correct term offhand. ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread spiralofhope
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:33:10 +0200 al3xu5 wrote: > 11) Document and document and document all the code (vars, functions, > errors etc. ... all) It was mentioned earlier; variables and functions wouldn't need much (if any) documentation if they were long and descriptive. I like using short

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread g4sra via Dng
<--snip->> > > > > There are just too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every > > > > corner case, > > > > You would need to put Drivers and Firmware for every network device in > > > > existence on the installation media. > > Hi, > > let's add this up for example for amd64 >

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread Josef Grosch via Dng
On 7/29/21 9:13 AM, tempforever wrote: Is this commandment (the code of one subroutine fitting into one screen) an absolute rule?  What about, for example, assembly-language programming?  Must I buy a bigger screen? :-) I will admit that I do very little assembly anymore, so this wouldn't affect

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread tempforever
Is this commandment (the code of one subroutine fitting into one screen) an absolute rule?  What about, for example, assembly-language programming?  Must I buy a bigger screen? :-) I will admit that I do very little assembly anymore, so this wouldn't affect me much now.  I have many routines in C

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread al3xu5
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:31:12 -0700 - Josef Grosch : > On 7/26/21 11:26 PM, tito via Dng wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 22:53:02 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > >> Hendrik Boom said on Mon, 26 Jul 2021 17:21:24 -0400 > >> > >>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:48:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via Dng
Hi, g4sra via Dng wrote: > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert additional > installation media such as a USB stick. > There are just too many Gigabytes of Drivers required to satisfy every corner > case, put the drivers your quirky hardware requires on a USB stick and

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread tito via Dng
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:43:00 + g4sra via Dng wrote: > On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 6:58 AM, tito via Dng > wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:26:07 + > > g4sra via Dng dng@lists.dyne.org wrote: > > > <--snip--> > > > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola via Dng
Hi, Steve Litt wrote: > I hate the preceding hassle. Every Linux distro's install media should > have all drivers available during installation. After installation, if > the user wishes to remove all non-free from his computer, he can do so. > Or, the installation process can come with an

Re: [DNG] Rant: was fresh install of chimaera on an Ultrabook - no touchpad

2021-07-29 Thread g4sra via Dng
On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 6:58 AM, tito via Dng wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:26:07 + > g4sra via Dng dng@lists.dyne.org wrote: > > <--snip--> > > This is why Devuan's installer will ask\prompt you to insert additional > > installation media such as a USB stick. > > Hi > > The