Re: [Scottish] New to Scotland

[Andrew Calverley]

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On 22/09/05, William Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [snip]
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> > Also, if anyone knows of any good jobs or resources in Glasgow for a linux
> > (and perl, rdbms, etc...) guru that would be great.
>
> If you don't mind the idea of a commute to Leith, on the east side of
> Edinburgh, there's a currently-unadvertised PHP/Perl/RDBMS job coming up at
> Lumison - http://www.lumison.net/ ... 
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Re: [Scottish] New to the group...

[Allan Whiteford]

Colin McKinnon wrote:



Hi Raj,





'widely' used with Linux (and other operating systems, but there are lots 
more languages of more minority interest (Fortran, Brain-f*ck, assembly...). 




Fortran - minority interest?!? Bah!

:)

Thanks,

Allan


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Re: [Scottish] New to Scotland

[William Anderson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> Also, if anyone knows of any good jobs or resources in Glasgow for a linux
> (and perl, rdbms, etc...) guru that would be great.

If you don't mind the idea of a commute to Leith, on the east side of
Edinburgh, there's a currently-unadvertised PHP/Perl/RDBMS job coming up at
Lumison - http://www.lumison.net/ ... 

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_ __/|  William Anderson  | It's called a "changeover."  The movie
\`O_o'  neuro at well dot com | goes on, and nobody in the audience has
=(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/   | any idea.
   U  - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 |   -- the Narrator, "Fight Club"



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Re: [Scottish] New to Scotland

[Sandy Dunlop]

Hi Adam,

Our meetings are on the last thursday of each month, so our next meeting
will be next week on Thursday, September 29th.

Some of us usually gather at the Counting House <
http://glasgow.openguide.co.uk/wiki/Counting_House>, before moving onto the
official meeting at Strathclyde University's Livingstone Tower.

I've always found  is good for looking for local
jobs, and if you're in the #scotlug IRC channel on
freenode.net,
you'll ocasionaly hear people talking about jobs that are available.

Sandy Dunlop
http://sorn.net/sandy

On 9/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all...
>
> I just moved to Glasgow with my wife from the US. She will be studying
> Veterinary Medicine for the next five years, so I thought it would be good
> for me to introduce myself to the community.
>
> Also, if anyone knows of any good jobs or resources in Glasgow for a linux
> (and perl, rdbms, etc...) guru that would be great.
>
> Whenever the next meeting is, I look forward to meeting some of you.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Adam Batkin
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Re: [Scottish] New to Scotland

[Billy]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi all...

I just moved to Glasgow with my wife from the US. She will be studying
Veterinary Medicine for the next five years, so I thought it would be good
for me to introduce myself to the community.

Also, if anyone knows of any good jobs or resources in Glasgow for a linux
(and perl, rdbms, etc...) guru that would be great.

Whenever the next meeting is, I look forward to meeting some of you.


Hello Adam,

Welcome to the scotlug :-)  Next meeting is a week today I think - 
details will no doubt appear from someone or other on the website :-)


Try the IRC channel for getting to know people :-)


Billy.

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Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie part 2

[abatkin]

> - Conceptual #1.  I'm struggling to figure out where Suse/Linux puts
> things.  On XP, on the whole, programs are installed (by default) in
> c:\Program Files, dlls etc in C:\Windows and subdirs, user data in
> C:\Documents and settings\User\ and sub dirs.  Is there a direct Linux
> equivalent?  And I'm beginning to think that Suse ain't the same as
> Redhat?  Can you give me a HoNe Rule Of Thumb for where to find stuff?

On Windows (and sort-of on OSX), each application has its own directory,
and within there it contains whatever it needs: Executables, additional
resources (images, sound files, etc...), possibly some DLL files and maybe
documentation if you are lucky.

_In general_ on Linux, each application will scatter its files throughout
the system (at least if you use most packaged distributions). But it isn't
as bad as you think. First of all, binaries will usually go in /usr/bin,
other random resources probably go in something like
/usr/share/application-1.2.3 (whatever its name/version), docs in
/usr/share/doc/application-1.2.3, manpages in /usr/share/man/manX
etc...Also, supporting libraries (on windows, all those .dll files) are
often part of a separate package, but either way they will probably go in
/usr/lib (and possibly a subdir of that with the library name).

Managing all of that is much easier than you think. "man rpm" for more
information. The major advantage of a package manager (rpm, deb, etc...)
is that it takes care of all of that for you.

What package owns file /blah/x?
% rpm -qf /blah/x
What in the world IS package x?
% rpm -qi x
Show me all of the files that belong to x?
% rpm -ql x
I hate x, delete it!
% rpm -e x

The wonderful thing about this whole system, is that when you use a distro
that uses packages like this (i.e. suse, redhat/fedora, debian among
others), almost EVERY file on the system is owned by a package. This means
that installing, removing and querying anything about any file or package
is quite easy. I know of nothing on Windows that even comes close.
(example: pick a random dll file from your Windows system
directory...where did it come from? how do you uninstall it)

RPM can do much more, just check out the manpage, and that should help
quite a bit with getting you started.

Hope that was helpful and not too long-winded.

-Adam Batkin




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[Scottish] New to Scotland

[abatkin]

Hi all...

I just moved to Glasgow with my wife from the US. She will be studying
Veterinary Medicine for the next five years, so I thought it would be good
for me to introduce myself to the community.

Also, if anyone knows of any good jobs or resources in Glasgow for a linux
(and perl, rdbms, etc...) guru that would be great.

Whenever the next meeting is, I look forward to meeting some of you.

Thanks!

-Adam Batkin



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