The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)
In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software...
Good RPC systems versus basic 'RPC systems' (utcc.utoronto.ca)
In my entry on how HTTP has become the default, universal communication protocol, I mentioned that HTTP’s conceptual model was simple enough that it was easy to view it (plus JSON) as an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) system. I saw some reactions that took issue with this (eg comments here), because HTTP (plus JSON) lacks a lot...
On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions (utcc.utoronto.ca)
The reality is that reliable backports of security fixes is expensive (partly because backports are hard in general). The older a distribution version is, generally the more work is required. To generalize somewhat, this work does not get done for free; someone has to pay for it....
All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)
I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.
Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located (utcc.utoronto.ca)
Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located (utcc.utoronto.ca)
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Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located (utcc.utoronto.ca)
utcc.utoronto.ca/…/ReportConfigFileLocations