Bad thoughts!! Bad thoughts!! Think pure thoughts!!!!
When you apply for a credit card you do not need a SSN until it comes time for verification. You just did yourself a disservice... I hope someone that can do this will see your post and will remove your number for you.
A few years ago I got a new bank account and they told me that due to a federal social security law they could not use my SSN as an identification source and that anyone who used it as such was breaking the law.
I know that many institutions and businesses use it (SSN) that way, but isn't it against the law? Or did I misinterpret the statement from the bank?
I know this is getting off-topic, but I feel I must respond to this. Firstly, emerge protects you against these things by firstly:
a. Allowing you to do a "pretend" emerge and seeing what dependencies will need to be resolved before your package can be installed.
b. I have done what you have done too. Sometimes on purpose, once during an emerge --update world the power went out... emerge downloads and builds the files then installs them. This is what you and I do without a nice manager like emerge. What happens if you kill a make install in the middle? Exactly - type it again, finish the process. If you farked something up, it was probably not emerge.
If you use any other distro and have equal packages and don't upgrade dependencies for a new kde add-on like kde-multimedia, you will be asking for trouble anyway. Automatic installation of packages makes life a breeze!;-)
Slackware is no more or less difficult of an installation than Gentoo (unless you count patience as an installation step).:-)
Granted, the last I used slack it was at 8.1, but the console setup has not changed. It's a wee less buggy than it was a few years ago (from 4.0 is as far as I've used it) but it is still "too much, too quickly" for a new user.
(Though really, not a bad distro from a stability standpoint. I never had any more or less crashes with slack than I have had with gentoo..)
If a new user can handle slack than they should be able to use gentoo.. Gentoo is a GREAT distribution for new Linux users that are interested in learning how linux works from an organizational point of view (directory structure and file layouts, config locations, etc) - from the ground up.. I admit, the installation is rather touchy at this point (i.e. manual and hackin' by hand) but if you follow the instructions EXACTLY you will find that it installs like a charm. Solid and easy to use package management, bundled up in an intuitive and easy to use package called emerge.
It's true BSD style portage for linux! Yeah! What more could one ask for in life?:-) Besides yet another distro - perhaps we'll call this one Red Slacksetoobian?
So which is worse, playing the same game over and over for two months or staring at the same piece of crap ASP code and trying to figure out what the 30 developers in front of you were thinking (or not as the case may be) while your boss is screaming about deadlines, the financial people are screaming about budgets, and your co-workers are screaming about forming a union?
Now ask yourself, which would you rather do: Test games, or be unemployed and "test games" without pay?
I myself log about 10+ hours a week on games - no pay. My roommate logs about 40+ hours a week - no pay - this on top of a full time job. (I know, I know....) Why are these people complaining again??? The rest of the world has long hours and probably less job satisfaction than these "game testers".
The system is only as stable as you make it. I have a friend who runs a shop with Redhat 6 (I *think*) and other than the occasional security patch he does not touch it. In fact, he fired an intern who logged in as root.
My point is this - any *NIX system will be as stable as any other, provided you put enough time and energy into making it this way. And once you get it there - DON'T CHANGE IT.
Linux can be changed easily and dramatically which can cause instability. For a mission critical operation it is not the OS, it is the operator.
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Bad thoughts!! Bad thoughts!! Think pure thoughts!!!!
When you apply for a credit card you do not need a SSN until it comes time for verification. You just did yourself a disservice... I hope someone that can do this will see your post and will remove your number for you.
A few years ago I got a new bank account and they told me that due to a federal social security law they could not use my SSN as an identification source and that anyone who used it as such was breaking the law.
I know that many institutions and businesses use it (SSN) that way, but isn't it against the law? Or did I misinterpret the statement from the bank?
Hahahaha! Have you ever used Slackware?
I know this is getting off-topic, but I feel I must respond to this. Firstly, emerge protects you against these things by firstly:
;-)
a. Allowing you to do a "pretend" emerge and seeing what dependencies will need to be resolved before your package can be installed.
b. I have done what you have done too. Sometimes on purpose, once during an emerge --update world the power went out... emerge downloads and builds the files then installs them. This is what you and I do without a nice manager like emerge. What happens if you kill a make install in the middle? Exactly - type it again, finish the process. If you farked something up, it was probably not emerge.
If you use any other distro and have equal packages and don't upgrade dependencies for a new kde add-on like kde-multimedia, you will be asking for trouble anyway. Automatic installation of packages makes life a breeze!
Slackware is no more or less difficult of an installation than Gentoo (unless you count patience as an installation step). :-)
:-) Besides yet another distro - perhaps we'll call this one Red Slacksetoobian?
Granted, the last I used slack it was at 8.1, but the console setup has not changed. It's a wee less buggy than it was a few years ago (from 4.0 is as far as I've used it) but it is still "too much, too quickly" for a new user.
(Though really, not a bad distro from a stability standpoint. I never had any more or less crashes with slack than I have had with gentoo..)
If a new user can handle slack than they should be able to use gentoo.. Gentoo is a GREAT distribution for new Linux users that are interested in learning how linux works from an organizational point of view (directory structure and file layouts, config locations, etc) - from the ground up.. I admit, the installation is rather touchy at this point (i.e. manual and hackin' by hand) but if you follow the instructions EXACTLY you will find that it installs like a charm. Solid and easy to use package management, bundled up in an intuitive and easy to use package called emerge.
It's true BSD style portage for linux! Yeah! What more could one ask for in life?
So which is worse, playing the same game over and over for two months or staring at the same piece of crap ASP code and trying to figure out what the 30 developers in front of you were thinking (or not as the case may be) while your boss is screaming about deadlines, the financial people are screaming about budgets, and your co-workers are screaming about forming a union? Now ask yourself, which would you rather do: Test games, or be unemployed and "test games" without pay?
I myself log about 10+ hours a week on games - no pay. My roommate logs about 40+ hours a week - no pay - this on top of a full time job. (I know, I know....) Why are these people complaining again??? The rest of the world has long hours and probably less job satisfaction than these "game testers".
The system is only as stable as you make it. I have a friend who runs a shop with Redhat 6 (I *think*) and other than the occasional security patch he does not touch it. In fact, he fired an intern who logged in as root. My point is this - any *NIX system will be as stable as any other, provided you put enough time and energy into making it this way. And once you get it there - DON'T CHANGE IT. Linux can be changed easily and dramatically which can cause instability. For a mission critical operation it is not the OS, it is the operator.