to what I just went through, although I was not threatened with being fired. We are a 5 person shop (currently running one short) and my boss just got fired... Mgmt had come to me a few weeks prior and asked if I would be interested in the position "when my boss retired in 3 years" and I told them yes, but only if I was allowed to stay "hands on". This seemed to be what they wanted from the position all along (my boss was not up to speed enough to be involved in the development)
Anyway, I took the position for two reasons: 1) I really like the company I work for - it is not a normal corporate environment at all, and 2) my ex-boss gave me some good advice before he was canned. He knew I had serious reservations about taking the position and "losing touch" by becoming too wrapped up in management to keep by skills fresh. He said that in our company, I could make the position whatever I needed it to be. It turns out that my 'management' duties are rather light and I am essentially doing the same job as before with more pay and more power to make decisions.:-)
Why is it that, even though nobody likes the idea of having religious views crammed down their throat, very few people seem to see this from a Christian perspective? I am neither for or against this game (haven't seen it - sounds kinda cheesy though) but it really bothers me to see any expression of Christian views leapt upon by so many with such vehemance... So often I hear people say "if you don't like it then ignore it" As a Christian I have to "ignore" a lot of things I find offensive or distasteful in the media whether it be TV, radio, games, or whatever. That should be a two way street. Christians should have the same right to expression through whatever medium we use to communicate.
I just get tired of the bashing from BOTH sides...
agreed - indiscriminate use of rpm can hose things but I don't consider that rpm's fault. Like any tool it needs to be used properly.
I see more danger in mixing tarball-compiled stuff in the filesystem and not respecting the proper guidelines: non-rpm stuff should be installed under/usr/local. (Rpms will not install there unless they have been created by someone who doesn't follow the rules) The main reason for this is because rpm has no knowledge of it's existance. Hence it can be easily clobbered by a package...
For what it's worth, I am a big proponent of source rpms - you can upgrade them fairly painlessly in most cases, they can be built on the target system, and they are a neat way to distribute source.
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to what I just went through, although I was not threatened with being fired. We are a 5 person shop (currently running one short) and my boss just got fired... Mgmt had come to me a few weeks prior and asked if I would be interested in the position "when my boss retired in 3 years" and I told them yes, but only if I was allowed to stay "hands on". This seemed to be what they wanted from the position all along (my boss was not up to speed enough to be involved in the development)
:-)
Anyway, I took the position for two reasons: 1) I really like the company I work for - it is not a normal corporate environment at all, and 2) my ex-boss gave me some good advice before he was canned. He knew I had serious reservations about taking the position and "losing touch" by becoming too wrapped up in management to keep by skills fresh. He said that in our company, I could make the position whatever I needed it to be. It turns out that my 'management' duties are rather light and I am essentially doing the same job as before with more pay and more power to make decisions.
Why is it that, even though nobody likes the idea of having religious views crammed down their throat, very few people seem to see this from a Christian perspective? I am neither for or against this game (haven't seen it - sounds kinda cheesy though) but it really bothers me to see any expression of Christian views leapt upon by so many with such vehemance... So often I hear people say "if you don't like it then ignore it" As a Christian I have to "ignore" a lot of things I find offensive or distasteful in the media whether it be TV, radio, games, or whatever. That should be a two way street. Christians should have the same right to expression through whatever medium we use to communicate.
I just get tired of the bashing from BOTH sides...
Arkeia from Knox Software will do this.
Alternately you could use BRU and do the same thing (via scripts and shares...)
HTH
agreed - indiscriminate use of rpm can hose things but I don't consider that rpm's fault. Like any tool it needs to be used properly.
/usr/local. (Rpms will not install there unless they have been created by someone who doesn't follow the rules) The main reason for this is because rpm has no knowledge of it's existance. Hence it can be easily clobbered by a package...
I see more danger in mixing tarball-compiled stuff in the filesystem and not respecting the proper guidelines: non-rpm stuff should be installed under
For what it's worth, I am a big proponent of source rpms - you can upgrade them fairly painlessly in most cases, they can be built on the target system, and they are a neat way to distribute source.