No offense, but right now the last thing Debian needs is a new Developer who only wishes to look after one or two pet packages and do nothing else.
If somebody else is now maintaining the packages you mention - is anything lost? The packages are available to Debian users, and somebody else is saving you from doing work.
Stable packages are not supposed to be current, but Unstable is. Still if you know Debian sufficiently well to know about creating and maintaining packages you'd know this already, right?
The big problem with it is that there seems to be die-back is pretty much inevitable because the later letters are constrained in what they eat. If there aren't enough immediate ancestors they eventually die out.
If there were an injection of 'fresh blood' when things got stagnent that might help. I noticed that after a while I was left with 'C', 'D' and 'H' pieces which just didn't find each other. Sometimes new letters such as 'L' would appear and not even move - presumably they couldn't find anythign to eat nearby.
Nice to watch, although unfortunate it's a curses application so I can't run it as a screensaver!
The best bit I think was watching an 'L' chase a 'K' left across the screen - closly followed by an 'M' hunting it in turn!
I'm not holding back out of hiding something. I'm holding back out of a desire to not do any more harm to the distro than I have to
It sounds suprising to me that you'd have so many problems when many, many, other users are running Sarge without problems.
Instead it sounds more like you are trying to do harm to the distro by suggesting that it's so full of problems that you couldn't use it - without actually clarifying what they are.
Sure the distro has bugs, just like any other. But the Debian Developers generally care a lot about fixing them when they're reported.
Anybody who complains about a bug, on the other hand, without taking the time to report it I believe is wasting everybodies time.
(Not necessarily suggesting you're doing that).
Listing specific problems isn't going to make me argue more, it's going to show that you were actually being honest - and not just randomly spewing fud like so many other distro-bashers.
The symbolic links in Debian do have a purpose, for things like the alternatives system, etc. Although it's understandable that newcomers to the Debian way might not understand why they're there, etc.
As for pacakge managers all of dpkg, apt-get, and aptitude have manpages - so I'm not sure what you're meaning there.
I've probably not helped change your mind or anything, but at least it's clear to others now that you did have genuine problems..
So you had "lots of problems", but you can't even name one?
I guess suggesting you report bugs would be redundent if you've wiped the install already - but Debian shouldn't give you more problems than any other distribution.
After all with a recent release of Fedora, etc, chances are the same package versions and kernel were installed.
Still I'm sure that with your indepth knowledge of having a broken system for three days your suggestion of redoing things from scratch will be taken on board by all Debian developers.
Sounds like you've hit on the perfect solution.... </irony>
There are no "core libraries" in Linux in the sense you are suggesting.
There may well be core libraries for particular purposes, such as libgtk, libqt, etc.
But you can't expect anybody to believe that you linked statically to a library, after looking up it's API enough to use it - then were suddenly suprised by licensing conditions, can you?
Your mistake was to a) ignore the license, and b) think that 'free libraries' didn't have conditions attached.
Ours monitors temperature and water, although sadly the only time the server room flooded (due to a leaky air-conditioning unit) the water sensor wasn't located near the wet areas.
The device plugs into the mains and can be programmed to telephone a list of numbers on alert conditions.
The unit also has backup batteries which will allow it to make a call in case of power outage - although in our case with a digitial phone system I suspect that wouldn't work..
Simple to use, and reliable for the temperature sensing at least.
Hell my first day I walked in as a freshly shaved skinhead with a couple of bonus new piercings to celebrate landing the job.
Since then I shave my hair of to the skull approximately every three-four weeks.
Nobody has ever made an issue of my piercings, (stretched lobes, septum, etc).
Sure most of my piercings (13) and tattoos (7) are hidden - but the folk there know I have them.
There's only one thing I change. When I visit a customers site I remove the obvious piercings and wear a suit.
The rest of the time I'm the sole-sysadmin and I can wear what I like. Jeans + T-shirt for most days, a shirt if there's a big meeting/outside people coming in.
I'd not work for somewhere which insisted on all their workers being anonymous and identical suit-clad folk.
I've never heard of anybody in the local area in the UK been given trouble for appearance. Maybe it's different in the USA, or it might be more subtle over here..
According to at least one of the Samba developers documentation wouldn't be useful anyway:
"There can't be a specification that's worth anything," says Jeremy Allison, joint lead of the Samba Project.
"The source code itself is the specification . The level of detail required to interoperate successfully is simply not documentable - it would produce a stack of paper so high you might as well publish the source code."
A good list for C++ programmers, but I'd have to add 'Design Patterns'.
Whilst it's not specifically C++ based it's a useful summery of many patterns of designs, and can be useful to new programmers who don't know how to design.
I used to do this, then I left the company and realised that my address book was lost.
Since then I can get friendly with customers and random contacts made through work - but I always use my personal mail account for personal mail outside that.
The rare times that I've become friends with contacts made via work we'll move to my personal account for future conduct - people like the engineers who came out to install a phone system, and then became drinking pals.
Or ex-staff who I want to keep in touch with since they've moved on to green pa$ture$.
As things stand I'm the sole sysadmin and I'm the one who would be responsible for either reading other peoples mails, or setting up such a system, so I have low risk - but I know that sooner or later I'll leave my current job (or get sacked!) so getting the mail split now is a good thing.
But it's no great loss, there is a kernel module available to allow on-access scanning for arbitary purposes : Dazuko.
I used that to hookup real-time virus scanning with a couple of different engines - there's a userspace deamon which you can use to block, or allow, any file operations with.
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Until recently Joey was the only active member.
In the past couple of weeks Michael Stone has become active again, which has helped.
No offense, but right now the last thing Debian needs is a new Developer who only wishes to look after one or two pet packages and do nothing else.
If somebody else is now maintaining the packages you mention - is anything lost? The packages are available to Debian users, and somebody else is saving you from doing work.
Stable packages are not supposed to be current, but Unstable is. Still if you know Debian sufficiently well to know about creating and maintaining packages you'd know this already, right?
Branden is not a member of the Debian Security Team. (and his name is spelt with an 'e' not an 'o').
The current members are listed on the Debian Organizational chart - albeit some are less active than others.
First run the highest I saw was a 'P'.
The big problem with it is that there seems to be die-back is pretty much inevitable because the later letters are constrained in what they eat. If there aren't enough immediate ancestors they eventually die out.
If there were an injection of 'fresh blood' when things got stagnent that might help. I noticed that after a while I was left with 'C', 'D' and 'H' pieces which just didn't find each other. Sometimes new letters such as 'L' would appear and not even move - presumably they couldn't find anythign to eat nearby.
Nice to watch, although unfortunate it's a curses application so I can't run it as a screensaver!
The best bit I think was watching an 'L' chase a 'K' left across the screen - closly followed by an 'M' hunting it in turn!
I agree that just doing it is best.
I started looking at the SDL Wiki example page, and after looking over the code and browsing the game programming wiki I just started coding.
My first game, and first use of SDL is mousetrap - the graphics suck, but at least one person liked it.
SDL really was a pleasure to work with, and suprisingly easy to get started with.
Now I'm working on a more graphical platform game.
It sounds suprising to me that you'd have so many problems when many, many, other users are running Sarge without problems.
Instead it sounds more like you are trying to do harm to the distro by suggesting that it's so full of problems that you couldn't use it - without actually clarifying what they are.
Sure the distro has bugs, just like any other. But the Debian Developers generally care a lot about fixing them when they're reported.
Anybody who complains about a bug, on the other hand, without taking the time to report it I believe is wasting everybodies time.
(Not necessarily suggesting you're doing that).
Listing specific problems isn't going to make me argue more, it's going to show that you were actually being honest - and not just randomly spewing fud like so many other distro-bashers.
The symbolic links in Debian do have a purpose, for things like the alternatives system, etc. Although it's understandable that newcomers to the Debian way might not understand why they're there, etc.
As for pacakge managers all of dpkg, apt-get, and aptitude have manpages - so I'm not sure what you're meaning there.
I've probably not helped change your mind or anything, but at least it's clear to others now that you did have genuine problems..
So you had "lots of problems", but you can't even name one?
I guess suggesting you report bugs would be redundent if you've wiped the install already - but Debian shouldn't give you more problems than any other distribution.
After all with a recent release of Fedora, etc, chances are the same package versions and kernel were installed.
Still I'm sure that with your indepth knowledge of having a broken system for three days your suggestion of redoing things from scratch will be taken on board by all Debian developers.
Sounds like you've hit on the perfect solution.... </irony>
So lets get this straight you've entirely switched to a new distro because security updates have been struggling for all of three weeks?
And worse you've switched to a Distro like SuSE which isn't the most timely releaser?
This is why things don't get fixed .. too many people complain, and jump ship, without offering to help.
There are no "core libraries" in Linux in the sense you are suggesting.
There may well be core libraries for particular purposes, such as libgtk, libqt, etc.
But you can't expect anybody to believe that you linked statically to a library, after looking up it's API enough to use it - then were suddenly suprised by licensing conditions, can you?
Your mistake was to a) ignore the license, and b) think that 'free libraries' didn't have conditions attached.
I've got one of those too.
Ours monitors temperature and water, although sadly the only time the server room flooded (due to a leaky air-conditioning unit) the water sensor wasn't located near the wet areas.
The device plugs into the mains and can be programmed to telephone a list of numbers on alert conditions.
The unit also has backup batteries which will allow it to make a call in case of power outage - although in our case with a digitial phone system I suspect that wouldn't work ..
Simple to use, and reliable for the temperature sensing at least.
I concur.
Greylisting has its drawbacks, and can cause problems in some cases, but it's singlehandedly reduced my incoming SPAM by at least a third.
The attraction is that it's 100% automatic, and requires no retraining, etc.
I also reviewed The Book Of Postfix this week.
I also enjoyed it, and recommended it.
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
Don't forget that episode of the Simpsons where Ralph wants to go to Bovine University!
Of course now I've seen the first iteration of this comment, and been disappointed I'll not go back.
Whenever I hear the name of your company I'll recall that first experience of the empty, featureless, and buggy comment.
That's a potential downside to releasing things early - before they're shiny and pretty - full of features.
And this coming from the people who gave the world the HME ("Happy Meal Ethernet") network devices?
I guess you're not being too serious.
Only if you've not bought some of Alex Chiu's Immortality Rings.
I shave my head too - but only to make the ear piercings stand out and be more obvious ;)
Hell my first day I walked in as a freshly shaved skinhead with a couple of bonus new piercings to celebrate landing the job.
Since then I shave my hair of to the skull approximately every three-four weeks.
Nobody has ever made an issue of my piercings, (stretched lobes, septum, etc).
Sure most of my piercings (13) and tattoos (7) are hidden - but the folk there know I have them.
There's only one thing I change. When I visit a customers site I remove the obvious piercings and wear a suit.
The rest of the time I'm the sole-sysadmin and I can wear what I like. Jeans + T-shirt for most days, a shirt if there's a big meeting/outside people coming in.
I'd not work for somewhere which insisted on all their workers being anonymous and identical suit-clad folk.
I've never heard of anybody in the local area in the UK been given trouble for appearance. Maybe it's different in the USA, or it might be more subtle over here..
I don't get why so many people put letters in envelopes, what have they got to hide?
Why not write on the back of postcards so everybody can make sure they're not hiding illegal words..
It's a slippery slope. Encryption is useful.
According to at least one of the Samba developers documentation wouldn't be useful anyway:
(Source - Found via the Implementing CIFS book)
A good list for C++ programmers, but I'd have to add 'Design Patterns'.
Whilst it's not specifically C++ based it's a useful summery of many patterns of designs, and can be useful to new programmers who don't know how to design.
C++ shouldn't be used as merely C with classes ..
I used to do this, then I left the company and realised that my address book was lost.
Since then I can get friendly with customers and random contacts made through work - but I always use my personal mail account for personal mail outside that.
The rare times that I've become friends with contacts made via work we'll move to my personal account for future conduct - people like the engineers who came out to install a phone system, and then became drinking pals.
Or ex-staff who I want to keep in touch with since they've moved on to green pa$ture$.
As things stand I'm the sole sysadmin and I'm the one who would be responsible for either reading other peoples mails, or setting up such a system, so I have low risk - but I know that sooner or later I'll leave my current job (or get sacked!) so getting the mail split now is a good thing.
I don't think they've even cared to try.
But it's no great loss, there is a kernel module available to allow on-access scanning for arbitary purposes : Dazuko.
I used that to hookup real-time virus scanning with a couple of different engines - there's a userspace deamon which you can use to block, or allow, any file operations with.
Run Windows 2000 under Qemu - it rocks.
The only downside is you dont' get access to the host's USB ports - but I'm not sure if VMWare allows that anyway.
In my house I have five Linux machines, and one rarely used Windows 2000 installation. I think it's the best of their operating systems to date.
The stability of NT4, with fewer mandatory reboots after changing settings, and the benefit of USB support for all the toys you can buy nowadays.
Having said that I've noticed newer hardware doesn't always support it, so it's probably dying even if Microsoft keep supplying updates.