Lug-nuts June 2025

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Re: Systemd
by Kevin Brisson 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Gary, computers are hard and shouldn't be used by retired folks. :) Run it like below, it will load last. Use AI for docs - much easier and faster than our brains. Type=idle Behavior of idle is very similar to simple; however, actual execution of the service program is delayed until all active jobs are dispatched. This may be used to avoid interleaving the output of shell services with the status output on the console. Note that this type is useful only to improve console output, it is not useful as a general unit ordering tool, and the effect of this service type is subject to a 5s timeout, after which the service program is invoked anyway. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.service.html Kevin

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Ada jumps to 11 on the Tiobe index
by Brian E. Lavender 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Perhaps this is a testament to SPARK/Ada's focus on secure programming? Ada jumps to number 11 from 25 https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ I gained new respect for the Pascal family of languages after I started working with Delphi and later teaching introduction to programming. Much of Ada is influenced by Pascal. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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dot net free software / open source and next talk on C#
by Brian E. Lavender 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

Back in the day, we used to love to hate Microsoft. I imagine that still may be true with some. Did you know that Dot net is open source / free software? https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/open-source I am thinking that next meeting, we do C# on Fedora. I was just working through the following tutorial. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/tu… Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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meetup tomorrow
by Brian E. Lavender 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

Reminder for the SacLUG meetup tomorrow at Kupros on 21st St. Time: 6:30 - 8:30 https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/june-2025.html I will bring a paper printout of the tux penguin and put it in the holder on the table. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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