based on what I saw on my last job, competent Linux system admins run Linux and/or Windows
I kind of followed what you were attempting to get at, until you spewed this drivel.
No competent Linux SysAdmin will ever voluntarily run Windows. They would rather ask for a 3270 Session onto a damn Mainframe ^H LinuxOne server before considering Windows as a viable alternative...
And since I've been a Linux SE (amongst some other things) for 18 years and, am, apparently (according to your blather), a "Python-writing hipster trendroid" as well, I may know a thing or two of which I speak here.
PS. Yes, I do indeed program in Python. And Perl. And C. And Shell Script. And, for all my sins, in Javascript and PHP. But not Java. Or C-Hash. God, no, never Java or C#!
Christ. This article, like so many here at Slashdot, summarizes to: Usability matters. Usability matters A LOT. Open source developers still don't fucking get it.
Here's a thought: if you want people to stop using Word, why not make something better than Word? Shocking.
Christ. This comment, like so many here at Slashdot, summarizes to: Not being a dick matters. Not being a dick matters A LOT. Some commenters still don't fucking get it.
Here's a thought: if you want people to start taking you seriously, why not stop being such an patronising dick? Shocking.
Reading the associated Twitter account, the voice seems young and very un-South African to my mind. Seems more like US or British youf.
My initial reaction was one of incredulous fury...
And then I realised, based on last visit to my local cop-shop, that this probably had less to do with breaking in and more to do with some incompetent leaving the door unlocked...
I'm feeling sorry for the (probably last two) remaining decent cops in the SAPS. Stuff like this must be damned demoralising.
But I think you are right that this is a foreigner; but from the Twitter bio I get the feeling this is an Aussie.
With slashdot's 15+ year history, coming here and reading trolls this transparently bad is frankly an insult. Whoever wrote this should be ashamed. Is this your very first troll? Did you just discover this site and say "hey this looks easy, I'm not even going to try"? Please.
Typical slashdot - classify anything against groupthink as troll with no explanation.
Except for one tiny problem: I can't even get it to install on VMWare over here...
Since I am a certified RHCE and have been installing and running Linux systems since before there even was a RedHat distribution I was slightly taken aback by that...
Be that as it may, Mint installed cleanly and easily, so I'll stick with recommending that to others for the time being...
IANAA (I am not an American) but why don't they turn the tables on the Newspaper and publish the names, specialities and addresses of the editorial staff of the paper in a full-page advertisement in its biggest rival in the city?
I assume that most of that data should be "publicly available" via some means or other...
After all, turnabout is still considered fair play in most places./evil_grin
Vernon Davis, for instance, is 6'3", 250 lbs. with abs. Bench Presses 225 for 33 reps, vertical jumps 42 inches, runs 100m in 10.7 seconds. You won't find any athlete in any other sport who is more of a well-rounded athlete than that.
Then realise that this is Rugby, where a forward will tackle someone at that speed, put him down hard, and then bounce up to tackle his mate since the other bugger probably got a pass in before he went to ground.
And 6'3" and 113kg? A bit of a piker, no? <evil grin/>
Oh, is that what it is? I thought it was the Teletubbies. All I could see was a bunch of guys in fat suits waddling up and down until one of them falls over and starts to cry, and then the others run up and give him a hug.
That looks like a pretty weaksauce "sport", to be honest.
Never really quite understood American Football...
Now Rugby, that is a game I can respect: all of the full-contact fun of American Football but none of the armour nor any of the all-too-frequent breaks... And a damn site more fun to play in either its full-contact or touch versions.
Touch-rugby on the beach with breaks for beer... Hmm. I loved summer!
Your attitude is like someone seeing Michelangelo's statue of David and complaining what a waste of time it was because you prefer giant naked women instead.
Which, to be honest, would be a completely valid point...
Just to elaborate a bit: during the years i have installed hundreds (if not thousands) of instances of Windows, Linux as well as OSX. The amount of questions i have had related to the ability to make bootable disks on OSX vs Linux and Win is comparable to the relative national debt of Vatican vs USA
<p>Oh God, I never realized the Vatican was in that much debt!</p>
We'd only started investigating ZFS recently (I work for a VERY conservative company) so all our current storage live on EMC/Veritas/etc...
We use JFS2 (which seems to handle the load fairly well) and GPFS on AIX but most of the Solaris systems are on either UFS or VXFS.
Most of the heave lifting, database wise, gets done by the mainframe so we can still get away with it.
Most of the other Unixey systems (mostly RedHat, but some SuSE and some FreeBSD) are not SAN connected (yet, they will have to be within this year) so we have no worries there.
IBM is pushing PPC/AIX quite aggressively over here; and I'm porting our in-house code to AIX as fast as I can.
Thank $DEITY I've beed coding rather defensively for a while, so most of my C compiles just fine on AIX. Perl/Python is a cinch, but I will admit some of the Shell scripts (most of them written years before I started here) are giving me some headaches. Too many Sun-isms in those...
If it carries on like this we'll be on AIX as our majority platform before year-end (Power7/LPARS/AIX makes a convincing argument) with Solaris being relegated to only those systems where we really have no choice.
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based on what I saw on my last job, competent Linux system admins run Linux and/or Windows
I kind of followed what you were attempting to get at, until you spewed this drivel.
No competent Linux SysAdmin will ever voluntarily run Windows. They would rather ask for a 3270 Session onto a damn Mainframe ^H LinuxOne server before considering Windows as a viable alternative...
And since I've been a Linux SE (amongst some other things) for 18 years and, am, apparently (according to your blather), a "Python-writing hipster trendroid" as well, I may know a thing or two of which I speak here.
PS. Yes, I do indeed program in Python. And Perl. And C. And Shell Script. And, for all my sins, in Javascript and PHP. But not Java. Or C-Hash. God, no, never Java or C#!
It's just peoples interpretation of the facts that makes things 'racist'.
Fair enough. but
Were it you and your's you probably be more than just slightly (and equally justifiably) upset as well.
Clueless much?
Christ. This article, like so many here at Slashdot, summarizes to: Usability matters. Usability matters A LOT. Open source developers still don't fucking get it.
Here's a thought: if you want people to stop using Word, why not make something better than Word? Shocking.
Christ. This comment, like so many here at Slashdot, summarizes to: Not being a dick matters. Not being a dick matters A LOT. Some commenters still don't fucking get it.
Here's a thought: if you want people to start taking you seriously, why not stop being such an patronising dick? Shocking.
Payback, that is, for all the hurricanes they send us every year. Suck on it, Africa.
Oh izzit?
Batten down the hatches, boys. Hurricane season next year might be a bit... uncomfortable...
Reading the associated Twitter account, the voice seems young and very un-South African to my mind. Seems more like US or British youf.
My initial reaction was one of incredulous fury...
And then I realised, based on last visit to my local cop-shop, that this probably had less to do with breaking in and more to do with some incompetent leaving the door unlocked...
I'm feeling sorry for the (probably last two) remaining decent cops in the SAPS. Stuff like this must be damned demoralising.
But I think you are right that this is a foreigner; but from the Twitter bio I get the feeling this is an Aussie.
Ha!
That's the end of you, then, Earth-invading Martian Scum!
Cumulous, I think. This is because they tend to build vertically, leaving space one from another.
i would go with cirrus, as they seem to be more spread out across the sky!
ObXKCD
http://xkcd.com/1117/
With slashdot's 15+ year history, coming here and reading trolls this transparently bad is frankly an insult. Whoever wrote this should be ashamed. Is this your very first troll? Did you just discover this site and say "hey this looks easy, I'm not even going to try"? Please.
Typical slashdot - classify anything against groupthink as troll with no explanation.
Now see guys, this is how you troll...
Maybe F18 should be considered VM only?
Except for one tiny problem: I can't even get it to install on VMWare over here...
Since I am a certified RHCE and have been installing and running Linux systems since before there even was a RedHat distribution I was slightly taken aback by that...
Be that as it may, Mint installed cleanly and easily, so I'll stick with recommending that to others for the time being...
Just hang everyone who may have a different sense of right and wrong from you.
Or:
There are days I'm really glad I live in Africa... At least we can easily identify our despots...
IANAA (I am not an American) but why don't they turn the tables on the Newspaper and publish the names, specialities and addresses of the editorial staff of the paper in a full-page advertisement in its biggest rival in the city?
I assume that most of that data should be "publicly available" via some means or other...
After all, turnabout is still considered fair play in most places. /evil_grin
Vernon Davis, for instance, is 6'3", 250 lbs. with abs. Bench Presses 225 for 33 reps, vertical jumps 42 inches, runs 100m in 10.7 seconds. You won't find any athlete in any other sport who is more of a well-rounded athlete than that.
Two Words: Beast Mtawarira
Have a quick look at the man here, on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1nCe9iZ2u0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0hOxFH3aC8
Then realise that this is Rugby, where a forward will tackle someone at that speed, put him down hard, and then bounce up to tackle his mate since the other bugger probably got a pass in before he went to ground.
And 6'3" and 113kg? A bit of a piker, no? <evil grin/>
Do you realize the NFL is on TV right now?
Oh, is that what it is? I thought it was the Teletubbies. All I could see was a bunch of guys in fat suits waddling up and down until one of them falls over and starts to cry, and then the others run up and give him a hug.
That looks like a pretty weaksauce "sport", to be honest.
Never really quite understood American Football...
Now Rugby, that is a game I can respect: all of the full-contact fun of American Football but none of the armour nor any of the all-too-frequent breaks... And a damn site more fun to play in either its full-contact or touch versions.
Touch-rugby on the beach with breaks for beer... Hmm. I loved summer!
Pity I'm a tad too old for that now.
/sigh
Well, I chuckled, at least...
When someone starts a statement with:
"I'm not a bigot." it means you are
It's just like "I don't want to offend, but.."
"I don't want to say you're being a knucklehead here, but..."
Your attitude is like someone seeing Michelangelo's statue of David and complaining what a waste of time it was because you prefer giant naked women instead.
Which, to be honest, would be a completely valid point...
Oi! That's not quite fair! I'm fairly certain it's got snakes and sheep in it! It is in the Karoo, after all...
Mind you. doesn't sound all that different from Aussie Outback, does it?
Or maybe, because the rest of us lose out on the 90% they would have given back?
Which, strangely enough, also sounds like an aggravated sense of entitlement...
Perhaps it's time to become familiar with something better...
Just to elaborate a bit: during the years i have installed hundreds (if not thousands) of instances of Windows, Linux as well as OSX. The amount of questions i have had related to the ability to make bootable disks on OSX vs Linux and Win is comparable to the relative national debt of Vatican vs USA
<p>Oh God, I never realized the Vatican was in that much debt!</p>
Inherited code and scripts. Most of them looking like they'd been regurgitated by a deranged monkey. On LSD.
We'd only started investigating ZFS recently (I work for a VERY conservative company) so all our current storage live on EMC/Veritas/etc...
We use JFS2 (which seems to handle the load fairly well) and GPFS on AIX but most of the Solaris systems are on either UFS or VXFS.
Most of the heave lifting, database wise, gets done by the mainframe so we can still get away with it.
Most of the other Unixey systems (mostly RedHat, but some SuSE and some FreeBSD) are not SAN connected (yet, they will have to be within this year) so we have no worries there.
IBM is pushing PPC/AIX quite aggressively over here; and I'm porting our in-house code to AIX as fast as I can.
Thank $DEITY I've beed coding rather defensively for a while, so most of my C compiles just fine on AIX. Perl/Python is a cinch, but I will admit some of the Shell scripts (most of them written years before I started here) are giving me some headaches. Too many Sun-isms in those...
If it carries on like this we'll be on AIX as our majority platform before year-end (Power7/LPARS/AIX makes a convincing argument) with Solaris being relegated to only those systems where we really have no choice.
Isn't that a bit extreme...
Shouldn't they at least look under the pillows on the couch first? I tend to find my lost remote there quite often...