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I have to work providing remote support over very slow links. A good CLI, with history and editing facilities (like bash with the vi option) is the only way to work sometimes.....
Was Mozart really writing that music at 8? I mean, probably he improvised it at the piano and someone else (maybe his father, an acoomplished musician too) took the work to write the score and organize it into a cohererent piece of music.
It's like Gauss, which is said to have proved his first theorem at age 9. While not untrue, this is not what happened. Gauss found a clever trick to solve the tedious task of adding up all the numbers from 1 to 1000 (today we would say he found a hack). Later on, he or some of his proffesors formalized this hack into a rigorous mathematical proof.
On the ohter hand, every Unix/Linux course/book/manual insists that the admin logins as a regular user to do his daily job and do a su to root only when is needed.
It's a matter of culture. Unix culture emphasizes security, while MS culture emphasizes ease of use.
vi was designed to work over very slow connections.
sometimes, I need to work over very slow modem connections, using vi commands in a Unix shell is the only way to work. I mean a 9600 kbps modem dialing to a customer in another country.
Luggage locks are for when you fly. If upon arrival, you get your luggage and the lock is open, you can complain and ask for a refund from the travel agency.
You have to learn Spanish. Genre for things, for example. In english you say "the". The house, the Car, the Tree. In spanish all things have genre, so it will be "la casa", "el auto", "el arbol".
If you get all your rpms from the rpm repository maintained by your distro, everything is fine.
What happens if you want to install a package that is not int the rpm repository? A package that only cames in source code, for you to compile? (the Enlightenments epplets, for example.)
The problem with all package managers is that they rely in a database of known packages. If you want to install some obscure package that is not in ther databases, you will end up into a package dependency hell.
At the university, I'm taking a course in graphical interfaces and their design. Just to get a feeling of something new, I decided to try Enlightenment. The base packages installed fine in my Suse box, using apt-get, but several epplets came only in source code form. While compiling them, I found that I needed some obscure library or some library that has been deprecated. After some days of dealing with dependences and uncompatible versions of libraries (ImLib, for example) I had to give up. Enlightenment runs fine, but several epplets don't even start.
Until all developers agree to follow a standard for their code to be installed (and I can't foresee this in the near future), there will be no package manager that can get us out of dependency hell.
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I have to work providing remote support over very slow links. A good CLI, with history and editing facilities (like bash with the vi option) is the only way to work sometimes.....
The Lotus Notes client runs fine under wine....
Lotus Notes?
Lotus Notes is a great groupware tool. It's server runs in Unix/Linux, but the client is Windows-only (runs fine under wine).
This is weird, since Lotus Notes belongs to IBM.
To use my notebook.....
Was Mozart really writing that music at 8? I mean, probably he improvised it at the piano and someone else (maybe his father, an acoomplished musician too) took the work to write the score and organize it into a cohererent piece of music.
It's like Gauss, which is said to have proved his first theorem at age 9. While not untrue, this is not what happened. Gauss found a clever trick to solve the tedious task of adding up all the numbers from 1 to 1000 (today we would say he found a hack).
Later on, he or some of his proffesors formalized this hack into a rigorous mathematical proof.
On the ohter hand, every Unix/Linux course/book/manual insists that the admin logins as a regular user to do his daily job and do a su to root only when is needed.
It's a matter of culture. Unix culture emphasizes security, while MS culture emphasizes ease of use.
Note: I'm from Brazil, so please forgive my english.
How can a non-deterministic machine give a deterministic result?
will it support vi commands, like ksh?
vi was designed to work over very slow connections.
sometimes, I need to work over very slow modem connections, using vi commands in a Unix shell is the only way to work. I mean a 9600 kbps modem dialing to a customer in another country.
have a vi editor?
Will it let edit the commands in vi mode?
April 1 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon -
look at the date, it says everything.....
Luggage locks are for when you fly. If upon arrival, you get your luggage and the lock is open, you can complain and ask for a refund from the travel agency.
English is an extraordinarily complex language
You have to learn Spanish. Genre for things, for example. In english you say "the". The house, the Car, the Tree. In spanish all things have genre, so it will be "la casa", "el auto", "el arbol".
In a recent interview, he says that he has not seen a single email virus for at least 3 years.....
Are you talking about the same freedom that you gave the chilean people when you overthrow Allende?
The same that Saudi Arabia and Egipt have?
Nicaraguan people under Somoza? Cubans under Batista?
Nice idea of freedom americans have
A promoter of torture as Attorney General?
You already have what you asked for....
Evolution is a theory, not a fact.
Creationism is a belief, not a fact.
So that is 1 in a Thousand People who buy this stuff.
So if the spam reachs ten million people, there will be 10.000 buyers. That's enough....
Writing an OS is easy, writing Oracle Apps, SAP or Peoplesoft is much more complicated. Why?
Because there is only one Linus Torvalds and he works in Operating Systems, not ERP applications....
what if you are flying over the ocean?
In a long flight, some people may be sleeping, so when someone's cell rings, it will wake them up.
;-)
I would just ask them to go talking outside
it's called "Wishfull Thinking'
If you get all your rpms from the rpm repository maintained by your distro, everything is fine.
What happens if you want to install a package that is not int the rpm repository? A package that only cames in source code, for you to compile? (the Enlightenments epplets, for example.)
Does it support Enlightenment epplets?
And apps that are provided only in source code form?
The problem with all package managers is that they rely in a database of known packages. If you want to install some obscure package that is not in ther databases, you will end up into a package dependency hell.
At the university, I'm taking a course in graphical interfaces and their design. Just to get a feeling of something new, I decided to try Enlightenment. The base packages installed fine in my Suse box, using apt-get, but several epplets came only in source code form. While compiling them, I found that I needed some obscure library or some library that has been deprecated. After some days of dealing with dependences and uncompatible versions of libraries (ImLib, for example) I had to give up. Enlightenment runs fine, but several epplets don't even start.
Until all developers agree to follow a standard for their code to be installed (and I can't foresee this in the near future), there will be no package manager that can get us out of dependency hell.