I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
------------------------------------ Bret J. Esquivel besquivel at immense.net Immense Networks, L.L.C. http://www.immense.net Ofc: (225) 754-9005 Cell: (504) 301-7413 From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Baudouin Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:37 PM To: general at brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] SuSE......wow who'da thunk it Laff. These programmer analyst positions are 85% dealing with clients and 15% programming. Don't delude yourself. On 10/19/07, mat branyon < mat.branyon at gmail.com <mailto:mat.branyon at gmail.com> > wrote: I code now... I don't deal with clients. On 10/19/07, Andrew Baudouin < andrewmb at gmail.com <mailto:andrewmb at gmail.com> > wrote: How is that not IT? On 10/19/07, mat branyon <mat.branyon at gmail.com> wrote: mobile software development. I am working for bluedotsolutions out in Denver Colorado building workorder and asset management apps for mobile devices ( from which I have learned that 'JDE SUCKS!!') On 10/19/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: YaST is still slow. What are you doing now if not IT? -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration mat branyon wrote: > SuSe is a great distro, but I have always had just one problem with > it... it runs so very slow on every machine I have ever installed it on, > especially YaST. I have played around with kernel configurations and > everything, and it's just never been quick enough. Does it still take a > while for YaST to respond, or was that just me? > > Every few years though, I pick it up and give it another try. Right now > I am in the middle of a dist-upgrade on my laptop, which will probably > break things more. Hibernate already stopped working in Ubuntu on that > machine (out of nowhere really... no new packages installed or anything; > I think the machine is dying on me... stupid Dell). > > I should also disclose that give enough time, I will break all > installations, of every operating system, ever, and unintentionally > even, which is why I stay away from IT work now. > > --mat > > On 10/19/07, *Andrew Baudouin* <andrewmb at gmail.com > <mailto: andrewmb at gmail.com>> wrote: > > I've broken many a system with dist-upgrade (and emerge -U world), > especially if non-standard packages are installed, I'm talking > kernel panic broken. This sounds like the Holy Grail of > distribution upgrades. > > > > On 10/18/07, *willhill* <williamhill2 at cox.net > <mailto: williamhill2 at cox.net <mailto:williamhill2 at cox.net> >> wrote: > > Cool. It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster. > > On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote: > > [Suse was] smart enough to resolve all the package > > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent > packages > > in the new version. An hour and a half later, I rebooted to > find an > > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user / > > configuration data in place. No skips, bumps, nothing, it just > worked > > -- and properly at that. I had to re-compile one > non-distributed Apache > > module and I was running again. > > ... > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net <mailto: General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General at brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General at brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General at brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General at brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071019/041ca397/attachment-0001.html
