On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:11:47 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
> tito via Dng said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:26:03 +0200
>
>
> >Ten Commandments
> >
> > 1) use the least amount of code possible
> > 2) try harder and go to point 1
> > 3) if the code doesn't fit into one screen go to point 2
> > 4) always
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:07:01 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
> tito via Dng said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:26:03 +0200
>
>
> >Ten Commandments
> >
> > 1) use the least amount of code possible
> > 2) try harder and go to point 1
> > 3) if the code doesn't fit into one screen go to point 2
>
> Do you me
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I did a ls -l on syslog*
>
> april:~# ls -l /var/log/syslog*
> -rw-r- 1 root adm 734459 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog
> -rw-r- 1 root adm 1197017 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog.0
> -rw-r- 1 root adm 79876 May 13 2013 /var/log/syslog.1.gz
> -rw-r- 1 root ad
Josef Grosch via Dng said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:31:12 -0700
>7) Pay attention to the scope of variables and functions.
LOL. When I was a lot younger and stupider, my C code enabling 40 data
entry people to input data crashed once or twice a day, costing about
1/2 hour of work for each (20 hours
Miles Fidelman said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:59:49 -0400
Andreas Messer said on Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:38:23 +0200
> My feeling is, that you can not simply teach someone how to write
> safe software.
Why not? You can teach a person to do anything else. But maybe not
tito via Dng said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:26:03 +0200
>Ten Commandments
>
> 1) use the least amount of code possible
> 2) try harder and go to point 1
> 3) if the code doesn't fit into one screen go to point 2
> 4) always initialize your vars at declaration time
> 5) always set your vars to N
tito via Dng said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:26:03 +0200
>Ten Commandments
>
> 1) use the least amount of code possible
> 2) try harder and go to point 1
> 3) if the code doesn't fit into one screen go to point 2
Do you mean if the code OF ONE SUBROUTINE doesn't fit into one screen,
go to point 2
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 12:50:36PM -0400, tempforever wrote:
> Question: do you have /var mounted on a separate partition? I
> encountered some weird behavior when I attempted to do so. That is,
> there were files opened before the mount command was issued, resulting
> in some weird things like t
Question: do you have /var mounted on a separate partition? I
encountered some weird behavior when I attempted to do so. That is,
there were files opened before the mount command was issued, resulting
in some weird things like that.
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> well, by syslog isn't exactly missing, b
well, by syslog isn't exactly missing, but ...
Today my server was mysteriously unresponsive; that is, ssh to its IP
address did not work.
So I went over to it, and found the screen blanl.
I tried directly into its keyboard (and yes, at this point I had checked
that that power was on and the re
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:
Andreas Messer said on Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:38:23 +0200
My feeling is, that you
Andreas Messer said on Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:38:23 +0200
My feeling is, that you can not simply teach someone how to write
safe software.
Why not? You can teach a person to do anything else. But maybe not in
college, because college is built to make money, not to teach.
Consider the average t
On Tuesday, July 27th, 2021 at 7:26 AM, tito via Dng wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 22:53:02 -0400
> Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com 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:
> > > > Andreas Messer said on M
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