Am I alone in thinking that the "hates-software" web page should stay just as
broken as it is? If people insist on tickling it where it is clealy broken, eg
sending quoted-printable messages, having characters in their email addresses
that make it choke, whatever, then guess what? It will break! How hateful! In
this respect, how is it different from any other of the milliard broken bits of
web-hosted crapware you have to deal with on a daily basis? I likes it just the
hateful way it is
Obligatory hate: the bazillion and one things I have had to do to get a vaguely
serviceable RedHat installation. Having negotiated the rapids of the second
install-time-only dependencies file to trim down to 193 packages, written an
extensive %post section in the kickstart file to:
* update the locate & whatis databases, and make locate be updated nightly
* remove all traces of colorls
* take the boneheaded aliases out of root's profile
* blahdeblah;
having done all that, I still can't figure out any way of having a machine
automatically register itself on Red Hat Network, other than wrapping their poxy
web site with WWW:Mechanize. My spider senses tell me that I'll bitterly regret
doing that, so I just try to keep from grinding my teeth into dust as I ...
register ... yet ... another ... server ... manually. I also need to install
all of Dell's management stuff manually, because the alternative appears to be
to install expect to handle the installer's stupid questions. So today's hate
is non-scriptable installs. As well as plenty of last week's hates, and
tomorrow's too, I shouldn't wonder
