Article <66c3c100@news.ausics.net>

Warning: mysqli::__construct(): (HY000/1203): User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in D:\Inetpub\vhosts\howardknight.net\al.howardknight.net\includes\artfuncs.php on line 21
Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
Warning: mysqli::query(): Couldn't fetch mysqli in D:\Inetpub\vhosts\howardknight.net\al.howardknight.net\index.php on line 66
Article <66c3c100@news.ausics.net>

Deutsch English Français Italiano

<66c3c100@news.ausics.net>

View for Bookmarking (what is this?)
Look up another Usenet article

Message-ID: <66c3c100@news.ausics.net>
From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
References: <v9ibk5$qcj$1@gallifrey.nk.ca> <P4mdnbCYM_pktV37nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <v9ppp3$lv7l$1@news1.tnib.de> <66c12e40@news.ausics.net> <v9taqq$s3kh$1@news1.tnib.de> <66c2765b@news.ausics.net> <v9uoos$ukvi$1@news1.tnib.de>
User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586))
NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net
Date: 20 Aug 2024 08:02:41 +1000
Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net
Lines: 26
X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net
Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail
Bytes: 1766

Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
>>Fighting buggy scripts, that's hard.
> 
> Those scripts are in use on millions of installations millions of
> times daily. They can hardly be unusably buggy.

Most aren't multi-boot installations. Anyway, if you accept that
writing menu.lst entries wasn't hard, why adopt a bootloader that
requires those scripts in the first place? They're just another
point of failure, and no I'm not going to be convinced against
personal experience that it's an impossible point of failure.

>>Old Grub just did
>>what you asked it to, like Syslinux/Extlinux mercifully still do.
> 
> In my world, using exotic solutions without pressing reason is
> considered a technical liability.

Yes well I install Linux on personal PCs instead of Windows or
MacOS, so that battle is already completely lost in the eyes of
many.

-- 
__          __
#_ < |\| |< _#