As far as I am concerned the problems I had with YaST plus the obvious quality of apt-get etc. have made me an Ubuntu convert.
The problems with YaST are allegedly fixed. Personally I'm in the exact opposite situation as you, whereby I tried switching from SUSE to Ubuntu on one of my laptops and I'm now bitterly regretting it and will almost certainly now switch it to SUSE 10.3. Ubuntu seemed to be vastly slower for "most things", whereas SUSE was only slow for YaST package-management (allegedly now fixed, but not exactly a day-to-day activity anyway). I also have a wireless card that needed all sorts of hackery for Ubuntu but "just worked" on SUSE. To get "normal" stuff (java/shockwave/acrobat/mplayer/i-don't-remember) working I needed to locate and add all sorts of extra repositories to Ubuntu, only one (packman) to SUSE (and even THAT sounds like it's now really easy).
My user number is probably lower than yours.
Close, but nope. Can we leave these threads for the slashdot-is-10 stories though?:-)
I meant the "repo/oss" and "repo/non-oss" trees used by net installs.
No, they're not the same as the DVDs, though I'll concede there's a fair bit of overlap.
... so you un-tick the box for ZZZ package you dislike. If you've broken something by doing so, it says "XXX needs YYY or ZZZ", you didn't like ZZZ so you tick the box for YYY instead.
I'm not sure I remember what a "default install" is (I think you have a choice of about 12 different types of "default install" in SUSE), but anyone who complains about a default install should probably try a non-default install before pretending the entire distribution sucks "because it uses ZZZ", particularly when in reality it doesn't need to.
% cat/etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 10.2 (i586)
VERSION = 10.2
% rpm --query zen
package zen is not installed
% rpm --query mono
package mono is not installed
10.2 doesn't, nor did 10.1, nor 10.0. What are you talking about?
SUSE has always been good at providing Torrents of the CD and DVD ISOs, but I was wondering if there's a torrent of the installation repository available? I prefer to dump the install repository on one server somewhere, then net-install all my other machines, but I've always had to mirror with wget -r, and I'd rather torrent the lot...
... as in, a torrent for the entire tree of RPMs and stuff, not for an ISO file?
I found I was getting too many false-positives when banner-filtering with my brain. Someone looking over my shoulder was saying "click on [blah]" and I couldn't see it, "there, at the top! In the orange box!", but I had totally missed it because the orange box was at the top of the page and was about 300 pixels wide by 50 pixels high and I'd subconsciously ignored it as an assumed Ad, when it was actually a menu.
I decided it was time to install an ad blocker (adzap for squid at the time, later AdBlock / AdBlockPlus) in an attempt to give my brain a helping hand, improve the signal-to-noise ratio, so I'll see more of what I'm SUPPOSED to see.
You forgot:
<input type=hidden name=token value="34879cmaezwqph54yv78trvhzqwiurectwyerty"> ... which stores my session, and can't be stolen by your form or even your JS on another page in another tab.
Who needs cookies if every operation is a POST anyway?
I've never understood why people put any trust whatsoever in cookie security, when the WHOLE POINT of them seems to be to replay something back to the same site regardless of where you came from.
Cookies are a nice way to REMEMBER who you are, they've never been a nice way to PROVE who you are.
No wonder the OCR software can't read them... I had to reload about 4 times before I could identify both words, and even then, I can't help wondering why they added the extra strike-through to make it even harder.
I'm somewhat sick of too many people making silly comparisons with the analogy...
To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers
You don't need Yet Another Analogy, but here's a nice technical hack. Click on this link, or better still, use wget or something because I think the tracker happens to be "clever" enough to block browsers. You have just connected to a tracker and said "I am interested in joining a swarm, I would like to start downloading this particular file [which may or may not be illegal and/or copyright-infringing - I've not actually checked], I have 0 bytes so far".
You have clicked on a link. You have "joined a swarm". You are not actually going to upload or download a single byte. It's that easy.
Was years ago I hacked my employer's printer to say:
"Insert Coin" instead of "Ready" and
"Feed Me" instead of "Paper tray empty"... and I know I could have done a lot worse.
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I meant the "repo/oss" and "repo/non-oss" trees used by net installs.
No, they're not the same as the DVDs, though I'll concede there's a fair bit of overlap.
... so you un-tick the box for ZZZ package you dislike. If you've broken something by doing so, it says "XXX needs YYY or ZZZ", you didn't like ZZZ so you tick the box for YYY instead.
I'm not sure I remember what a "default install" is (I think you have a choice of about 12 different types of "default install" in SUSE), but anyone who complains about a default install should probably try a non-default install before pretending the entire distribution sucks "because it uses ZZZ", particularly when in reality it doesn't need to.
% cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 10.2 (i586)
VERSION = 10.2
% rpm --query zen
package zen is not installed
% rpm --query mono
package mono is not installed
10.2 doesn't, nor did 10.1, nor 10.0. What are you talking about?
SUSE has always been good at providing Torrents of the CD and DVD ISOs, but I was wondering if there's a torrent of the installation repository available? I prefer to dump the install repository on one server somewhere, then net-install all my other machines, but I've always had to mirror with wget -r, and I'd rather torrent the lot...
... as in, a torrent for the entire tree of RPMs and stuff, not for an ISO file?
Speaking as a radio ham... Electric razors frequently emit FAR more RF spew than WiFi cards, orders of magnitude more, yet they're allegedly allowed.
I thought *I* held out for a long time (19946). Sir, I admire your staying-power. :-)
No RIAA jokes? Hang on, I thought I was on slashdot?
So the power companies should pay money to a company who's used to running cables all around the country? Oh, hang on...
Oh you poor PC users, My Amiga 1200 clocked at 14MHz played mp3s with ease, and I think the 7MHz Amiga 500 did OK too.
Hang on, what year is it? Didn't I give up on this Amiga vs PC stuff about 10 years ago?
We need a "score: -1 FuckOff" really, don't we? :-(
I found I was getting too many false-positives when banner-filtering with my brain. Someone looking over my shoulder was saying "click on [blah]" and I couldn't see it, "there, at the top! In the orange box!", but I had totally missed it because the orange box was at the top of the page and was about 300 pixels wide by 50 pixels high and I'd subconsciously ignored it as an assumed Ad, when it was actually a menu.
I decided it was time to install an ad blocker (adzap for squid at the time, later AdBlock / AdBlockPlus) in an attempt to give my brain a helping hand, improve the signal-to-noise ratio, so I'll see more of what I'm SUPPOSED to see.
You forgot:
... which stores my session, and can't be stolen by your form or even your JS on another page in another tab.
Who needs cookies if every operation is a POST anyway?
<input type=hidden name=token value="34879cmaezwqph54yv78trvhzqwiurectwyerty">
I've never understood why people put any trust whatsoever in cookie security, when the WHOLE POINT of them seems to be to replay something back to the same site regardless of where you came from.
Cookies are a nice way to REMEMBER who you are, they've never been a nice way to PROVE who you are.
No wonder the OCR software can't read them... I had to reload about 4 times before I could identify both words, and even then, I can't help wondering why they added the extra strike-through to make it even harder.
"BlackBerry goes down, it's headline news. Exchange goes down, it but be Friday"
damn, cheers :-/
It's not email. The response is on the web site.
:-)
If they DID also email it, I must have spam-filtered it already
... or you man-in-the-middle it.
You have clicked on a link. You have "joined a swarm". You are not actually going to upload or download a single byte. It's that easy.
Will you get a takedown notice? Who knows :-)
Don't take the piss out of American Beer. ... there wouldn't be anything left!
So boycott Exxon-Mobil, and when you must buy dinosaur-juice for you car, buy it from Shell and BP?
Was years ago I hacked my employer's printer to say: "Insert Coin" instead of "Ready" and "Feed Me" instead of "Paper tray empty" ... and I know I could have done a lot worse.
... just can't get the slaves these days, can you? I remember when we used to use real stones, hewn out of quarries many miles away...
Going gnome? Hasn't SUSE always offered both KDE and Gnome?
Oh, it was covered by the X-Files??? Must be true then :-)