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LUKS does not really have a password screen. It must have been your X-window session or terminal emulator that did not support it. LUKS can handle it!


It was actually neither, most probably. Rather, a prompt generated by https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/Plymouth/


Ah yes! Thanks for the correction.


What a delightful data set!

I was very surprised to see the ocurence of goto lines in the Unix source code. Not to mention an increasing amount of them in the later years! I've heard [0] that Goto's are considered harmful.

[0] http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_T...


The original context in which Dijkstra wrote that was very different; he was primarily referring to old versions of Fortran and BASIC, where gotos where more or less the only (or the predominant) form of branching. In other words, something like

if (foo() || bar()) xyzzy(); else idkfa();

would have often been written something like

100 F = FOO() 200 B = BAR() 300 IF F OR B 400 GOTO 4840 500 ELSE 600 GOTO 8000 700 ....

and whatever was happening at 4840 would GOTO back to 700 (with predictable catastrophic results if anything before 700 changed) and so on.

Local use of goto in the context of e.g. bailing out of an ini function if something failed early in the initialization sequence is useful and not frowned upon by people whose daily work consists of something other than writing coding standards. There are a few (well-meant!) exceptions that have to do with e.g. static analysis, but those tend not be so important outside the field of high-reliability systems.


That's not what I need.

I need download stats, checkout stats, per page view stats and per file view stats.


This tool is designed to work with Git, not Github. The stats you are referring to would need to be made available by Github.


Actually, if you look at the project more closely, it does support github. In fact, there's even a derivative project that directly interacts with github. However, I think the point of this poster's comment was that this project's scope doens't include ey's needs, not that it doesn't interface with a particular service (I, of course, could be wrong in that interpretation).


So it is a Sanfran-scale?


I use Reddit's Worldnews subreddit /r/worldnews for a nice crowdsourced news source. It will often contain breaking news at incredible paces.

The news agency Al Jazeera in English is an amazing news source. They stream 24/7 and it's free to watch. Very daring journalists whom approach the happenings moreso than most other agencies. Very rarely biased.

Google News, while old, is still quite good.


I love Hackernews.

Here are my additional addictions (in order of preference):

* http://reddit.com/r/futurology

* http://reddit.com/r/linux

* http://theverge.com

* http://techcrunch.com

dying place (although I still read it): http://slashdot.org

* http://techdirt.com

* http://reddit.com/r/bsd

* http://reddit.com/r/opensource


I don't know. This was really f depressing.


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