You would be right. You could say IS.

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mat branyon wrote:
> I should clarify.  When I think of IT, I think of systems and network
> admins, not programmers.
> 
> 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
>         <mailto: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
>             <mailto:dustin at puryear-it.com>> wrote:
> 
>                 YaST is still slow.
> 
>                 What are you doing now if not IT?
> 
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>                 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>
>                 > <mailto: 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
>                 <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.
>                 >         > ...
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