Unfathomable crap

Ever read Oracle's advertising? That one which says how they are the king of the hill, the latest, greatest, best choice, industry leaders, yada, yada, yada? Now, let me ask you: did you believe a word of that bull crap? I used to. Until I tried to install Solaris 11.3 and 11.4 on a real server.

Their lie: Solaris is a server OS.

Truth is that it is not. It does not even fucking install on the most common Intel C602 chipset, for crying out loud.

Yes, it boots and installs on the older Intel 900 series, on AMD 700/800 and APU, and other obsolete junk. But try it on 2011 and 2011v3 x79 and x99 platforms, and it will glue its pages.

Yes, this is true. I kid you not. It does not even boot to the language selection menu, on that chipset. This is a kiss of death and a seal of doom, from my perspective. From this point on, it does not matter how awesome Oracle considers their product.

I can boot almost anything on those systems, except probably for QNX pre-4 or eComStation exotics. Solaris? Not so much. Boo!

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Dumb as a door knob

Yes, I am talking about another FOSS project as you may have already guessed. This time it is LibreOffice. This stinking POS can't even perform basic editing that other editors do for 30-40 years now. What are they thinking, if they do at all? What are they smoking? What is the point of this crap? Die already! Go and smash your shitheads into the wall! You are useless wastes of skin and O2! You can't even paste format from one paragraph onto another, you can't even revert bullet style to a normal paragraph by Backspace! You are one, giant failure of developers! But yes, you are fucking GENIUS!

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Genius degenerates rule our world

This feels like echo-chamber. Over and over, I come back to the same topic. The more genius, the more degenerate.

Enter the glorious JAXB. Undoubtedly, it is a brain child of genius developers at Oracle. Now, let's take a closer look.

You want to unmarshall an XML file. It contains some collection elements with items and some w/o items. What does JAXB do? Yes, in its wisdom, it de-serializes the empty collection elements not as empty collections of POJOs as you might expect but as collections with one empty element in them.

What was your genius line of thinking, dolts?

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Genius degenerates rule our world

In our regular topic we look at another genius piece of crap: RHEL/Fedora and its package management. Whereas Fedora is a guinea pig fodder for gullible users, RHEL is a commercial product offered to corporate customers. I pity them and here's why.

Since some 10-15 years ago, Red Hat family of Linux uses first YUM next DNF for package management. Back then, they devised repodata XML format and web site structure for the distribution of packages. Genius? I wish.

It is nice to know names of packages, but it is also nice to know which group packages belong to. It should be easy? Ha-ha, suckers! Fooled you. Red Hat devs thought (oh!) that it was a good idea to split group information from the rest, to include it in a separate XML file but not in SQLite database, and to make that file multilingual. Instead of keeping all of the repodata in one single SQLite DB, they split it in 3 (!) and kept group data out of all of them. (Duplication anyone? Celebration, duplication, altogether!)

Now, how do you work with that shit, considering that DNF is slow as fuck, and its commands only barf out a subset of information each? That's right: you have to write tons of code that is just as slow as the original DNF. There is no escape, suckers.

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