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Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 30, 2013 3:00 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by aleXXX
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Yes, we can do more today than 15 years ago, but it has not really become easier to understand and debug.

To be fair, modelines and working out which RAMDAC you had wasn't particularly easy to understand, or fun. And I am/was an X developer.

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Posted Jan 30, 2013 16:29 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

But it was a trial by fire! How can we get rid of such exciting trials by fire?

(And if you had an old enough monitor, a *literal* trial by fire, or sparks and smoke anyway.)

I am very glad that this sort of thing Just Works these days, I must say...