You would be right. You could say IS. -- 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: > 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? > > -- > 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> > > <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. 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