Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
[How about being a bit more proactive with the trimming, guys.] On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:19:13PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Take windows, and say honestly that it does not contains applications? explorer, mspaint, calc, msconfig, notepad, etc. Those are applications,

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread Gunther Furtado
Em 17.10.2013, quinta, Luiz L. Marins disse: Uso aptitude apenas para localizar os arquivos, pois ele informa se está instalado, e o apt-get não. Fora isto, só apt-get mesmo .. o aptitude mexe demais em coisas que não queremos que mexa, pois se desinstalarmos algo, ele quer instalar novamente

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread d4n1
Além da interface e comandos mais simplificados, e ter sido desenvolvido como o sucessor do apt, o aptitude tem alguns aspectos já inclusos, como remover dependências ao remover um pacote, ou seja não fica pacotes órfãos. Com o apt há um parâmetro que faz a mesma coisa, mas tem que usá-lo toda vez

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread Luiz L. Marins
|aptitude|syntax |apt-get|/|apt-cache|syntax description |aptitude update| |apt-get update| update package archive metadata |aptitude install foo| |apt-get install foo| install candidate version of |foo| package with its

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread Elias Praciano
Um outro ponto interessante do aptitude é que ele parece ser necessário para usar o tasksel - que permite instalar todos os pacotes necessários para um determinado perfil de uso (LAMP-server, mail-server, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-server etc). On 18-10-2013 09:01, d4n1 wrote: Além da

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread hamacker
Ao usar o aptitude apenas considere em desligar as recomendações, pois nesse assunto, ele diverge muito do apt. Dependendo do caso ao remover ou instalar um programa com o aptitude, vai muito mais coisa do que o apt faria. Pode usar os dois simultaneamente, mas tem que saber que ambos usam

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread Thiago Henrique Ferreira Zoroastro
No Synaptic tem algo sobre remover e remover completamente. Talvez tenha algo ou tudo a ver. Pelo seu comentário, o aptitude é o remover completamente, não precisando fazer o seguinte comando após removê-lo: $ sudo apt-get autoremove Desculpa se foi equívoco. Att. Ao usar o aptitude apenas

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread Zandre Bran
2013/10/18 hamacker sirhamac...@gmail.com: Ôlas hamacker, Comunidade. Ao usar o aptitude apenas considere em desligar as recomendações, pois nesse assunto, ele diverge muito do apt. Não mais. O apt-get agora instala recommends by on: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 13:01 -0300, Shutdown -h now wrote: Caros, Há um tempo atrás ouvi dizer que a família de utilitários apt vai dar lugar exclusivamente ao aptitude no futuro. Verdade ou mentira, resolvi estudar e comecei a usar o aptitude, até então inédito pra mim. Consigo realizar

Ambientes gráficos (Era: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread Thiago Henrique Ferreira Zoroastro
dar lugar exclusivamente ao aptitude no futuro. Verdade ou mentira, resolvi estudar e comecei a usar o aptitude, até então inédito pra mim. Consigo realizar as mesmas operações que fazia quando com apt-get, e sem dificuldades. A exceção ocorre quando eu rodo 'aptitude search'. O que

Re: Ambientes gráficos (Era: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-18 Thread Pogorelsky
. Att. On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 13:01 -0300, Shutdown -h now wrote: Caros, Há um tempo atrás ouvi dizer que a família de utilitários apt vai dar lugar exclusivamente ao aptitude no futuro. Verdade ou mentira, resolvi estudar e comecei a usar o aptitude, até então inédito pra mim. Consigo realizar

Re: endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 18 Oct 2013, at 05:51, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: What's wrong with htonl and other similar functions/macroes? They are pretty good when they fit what you want to do, but there are holes: eg convert big endian source to host layout. Note that the glibc implementation uses

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 04:32, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I spoke about graphical applications,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 04:32, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses.

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 11:37 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:56, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : You're the one who said programmers need to know a lot of details about the hardware being used, not me. The more you need to know about different hardware, the harder it is to write code

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use standard smart pointers in C++, I tend to avoid them. I had so much troubles with

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 11:37 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:56, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : You're the one who said programmers need to know a lot of details about the hardware being used, not me. The more you need to know about different hardware, the

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 3:57 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: snip Do you know how the SQL database you're using works? Sure do. Don't you? I know how the interface works. Actually, I do know quite a bit about the internals of how it works. But do you know how it

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 8:31 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 17.10.2013 21:57, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 16:22, Miles Fidelman a écrit : But now, are most programmers paid by societies with hundreds of programmers? (and whether you actually mean developer vs. programmer) I do not see the difference between those words. Could you give me the nuances please? I still have a lot to

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 3:57 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: snip Do you know how the SQL database you're using works? Sure do. Don't you? I know how the interface works. Actually, I do know quite a bit about the internals of how it works.

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 17:54, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 8:31 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 17.10.2013 21:57, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/17/2013 10:32 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I spoke about graphical applications,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 17:50, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : And, again, just a guess, but I'm guessing the huge percentage of programmers these days are writing .NET code on vanilla Windows machines (not that I like it, but it does seem to be a fact of life). A lot of people also seem to be writing stored

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 12:11 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 3:57 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: snip Do you know how the SQL database you're using works? Sure do. Don't you? I know how the interface works. Actually, I do know quite

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.10.2013 17:22, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use standard smart pointers in C++, I tend

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 1:10 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:22, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Joe
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:36:13 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 04:32, Miles Fidelman a écrit : I'm pretty sure that C was NOT written to build operating systems - though it's been used for that (notably Unix). I never said I agreed that C was designed to build OS

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:48 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: In the REAL world, program behavior is very much driven by the properties of underlying hardware. And... when actually packaging code for compilation and/or installation - you need to know a lot about what

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 16:22, Miles Fidelman a écrit : (though it's pretty hard to get hired for anything in the US without a bachelorate in something) I do not think it can be worse than in France. Ok. I wasn't sure about that, though France does seem as

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/17/2013 10:32 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I spoke about

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:50, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : And, again, just a guess, but I'm guessing the huge percentage of programmers these days are writing .NET code on vanilla Windows machines (not that I like it, but it does seem to be a fact of life). A lot of

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 6:11 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:48 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: In the REAL world, program behavior is very much driven by the properties of underlying hardware. And... when actually packaging code for compilation and/or

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 7:24 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: snip I'd simply make the observation that most SQL queries are generated on the fly, by code - so the notion of building SQL requests to experts is a non-starter. Someone has to write the code that in turn generates SQL

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 7:33 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:50, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : And, again, just a guess, but I'm guessing the huge percentage of programmers these days are writing .NET code on vanilla Windows machines (not that I like it, but it

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 6:11 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:48 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: In the REAL world, program behavior is very much driven by the properties of underlying hardware. And... when actually packaging code for

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 7:24 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: snip I'd simply make the observation that most SQL queries are generated on the fly, by code - so the notion of building SQL requests to experts is a non-starter. Someone has to write the code that in

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 7:33 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:50, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : And, again, just a guess, but I'm guessing the huge percentage of programmers these days are writing .NET code on vanilla Windows machines (not

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 11:00 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 6:11 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:48 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: In the REAL world, program behavior is very much driven by the properties of underlying

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/18/2013 11:02 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 7:24 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: snip I'd simply make the observation that most SQL queries are generated on the fly, by code - so the notion of building SQL requests to experts is a

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:00 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 6:11 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/18/2013 11:48 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: In the REAL world, program behavior is very much driven by the

apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Shutdown -h now
Caros, Há um tempo atrás ouvi dizer que a família de utilitários apt vai dar lugar exclusivamente ao aptitude no futuro. Verdade ou mentira, resolvi estudar e comecei a usar o aptitude, até então inédito pra mim. Consigo realizar as mesmas operações que fazia quando com apt-get, e sem

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Gunther Furtado
Oi, Em 17 de outubro de 2013 13:01, Shutdown -h now sh11td...@gmail.comescreveu: Caros, Há um tempo atrás ouvi dizer que a família de utilitários apt vai dar lugar exclusivamente ao aptitude no futuro. Verdade ou mentira, resolvi estudar e comecei a usar o aptitude, até então inédito pra

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Shutdown -h now
Amigo, 'aptitude show pacote' apenas mostra em detalhes um pacote específico, que dá o mesmo resultado de 'apt-cache search pacote' A minha dúvida é com 'aptitude search' e 'apt-cache search' Abraços Em 17 de outubro de 2013 13:17, Gunther Furtado gunfurt...@gmail.comescreveu: Oi, Em 17

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread P. J.
geralmente vc vê muito tutorial com apt-get... em fim... a coisa que me fez parar é que essa briga entre os dois gerenciadores é que nem a do vim versus emacs... é questão de gosto... boatos falam que aptitude seria uma evolução do apt-get... mas o pessoal que é fiel a ele o mantém na ativa até hj... em

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Wiliam Freitas
O apt-cache busca o termo no nome do pacote e dentro do 'description'. O aptitude só no nome. Se vc buscar por dstat, o aptitude localizará pacotes que tenham 'dstat' no nome ao passo que o apt-cache encontrará os mesmos pacotes + aqueles que possuam 'dstat' no description. -- Wiliam Freitas

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Leandro Henrique Stein
Acho que um bom começo é ler o link [1] ele fala sobre gerenciamento de pacotes com apt e aptitude e faz um comparativo entre as duas ferramentas. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations Leandro Henrique Stein Analista de

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Shutdown -h now
Caros, As respostas de todos foram muito proveitosas. Obrigado e Abraços Em 17 de outubro de 2013 14:07, Leandro Henrique Stein leandro.h.st...@gmail.com escreveu: Acho que um bom começo é ler o link [1] ele fala sobre gerenciamento de pacotes com apt e aptitude e faz um comparativo entre

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Fred Maranhão
o aptitude search é extremamente poderoso, mas a sintaxe é meio pesada. RTFM: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03.html logo aqui http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s01.html já fala dos parâmetros ?name e ?description, que acho

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Tobias Sette
Comumente dizem que o aptitude veio para substituir o apt-get, que este último é inferior; mas no último guia de dist upgrade do debian é recomendado utilizar apt-get. Alguém sabe explicar? Att, Tobias http://gnu.eti.br -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM/G/H/IT/L/SS d?(--) s

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Tobias Sette
The upgrade process for some previous releases recommended the use of * aptitude* for the upgrade. This tool is not recommended for upgrades from squeeze to wheezy. [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-full Att, Tobias http://gnu.eti.br

Re: apt-get ou aptitude?

2013-10-17 Thread Luiz L. Marins
Uso aptitude apenas para localizar os arquivos, pois ele informa se está instalado, e o apt-get não. Fora isto, só apt-get mesmo .. o aptitude mexe demais em coisas que não queremos que mexa, pois se desinstalarmos algo, ele quer instalar novamente; é um terror. Em 17-10-2013 19:52, Tobias

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.10.2013 16:42, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 13:04, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Anybody who thinks that being able to write code (be it Java, C, or .NET crap), without knowing a lot about the environment their code is going to run in, much

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.10.2013 17:56, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : You're the one who said programmers need to know a lot of details about the hardware being used, not me. The more you need to know about different hardware, the harder it is to write code to fit all of that hardware. I did not said a lot but

endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:29:33PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Speaking about endianness, it really is hard to manage: void myfunction( ... ) { #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN move_bytes_in_a_specific_order #else move_bytes_in_the_other_specific_order #endif } Bad way to manage

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use standard smart pointers in C++, I tend to avoid them. I had so much troubles with them, so now I only use them for polymorphism and sometimes

Re: endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 17.10.2013 18:17, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:29:33PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Speaking about endianness, it really is hard to manage: void myfunction( ... ) { #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN move_bytes_in_a_specific_order #else

Re: endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 17 Oct 2013, at 17:47, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I do not understand why? In both cases with decent compilers it is solved at compile-time, so what is the problem with preprocessor here? In case BIG_ENDIAN is not defined but should be? For the reason I wrote: otherwise

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use standard smart pointers in C++, I tend to avoid them. I had so much troubles with them, so now I only use

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 17.10.2013 21:57, Miles Fidelman a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : I only know few people who actually likes them :) I liked them too, at a time, but since I can now use standard smart pointers in C++, I tend to avoid them. I had

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what you name an OS is only drivers+kernel? If so, then ok. But some people consider that it includes various other tools which does not require hardware accesses. I spoke about graphical applications, and you disagree. Matter of opinion, or maybe

Re: endianness (was Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude))

2013-10-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:29:33PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Speaking about endianness, it really is hard to manage: void myfunction( ... ) { #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN move_bytes_in_a_specific_order #else

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:10:42AM CEST, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org said: Le 15.10.2013 19:32, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all.

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 10/16/2013 12:16 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Or do you just turn it on and watch your favorite show? Kinda helps to know how to wire together all the various pieces that go with a TV these days- cable connection snip Of course you can call up the local Best Buy

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 11:37 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 6:50 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Geeze Jerry, you're just so wrong, on so many things. What's a coder? In over 40 years of programming,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Darko Gavrilovic
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Which is also why Universities require about 3/4 of the course hours be outside of your major. Huh!!?? I think you may be referring to distribution requirements and you might mean 1/4 of your course hours. It's a

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.10.2013 03:25, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Ah, but you are more than a simple user. I guess so. I am not even a TV user anymore in fact, but that's not the question. The point is that I can hardly consider a programmer to be a simple user of a computer, because when you write a program,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.10.2013 08:24, Erwan David a écrit : On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:10:42AM CEST, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org said: Le 15.10.2013 19:32, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.10.2013 13:04, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Anybody who thinks that being able to write code (be it Java, C, or .NET crap), without knowing a lot about the environment their code is going to run in, much less general analytic and design skills, is going to have a very short-lived career.

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Try again. States do not differentiate between civil engineers, mechanical engineers, etc. and other engineers. Use of the term Engineer is what is illegal. Check with your state licensing board. The three states I've checked (Maryland, Texas and North Carolina) are

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 13:04, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Anybody who thinks that being able to write code (be it Java, C, or .NET crap), without knowing a lot about the environment their code is going to run in, much less general analytic and design skills, is going to

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/16/2013 12:16 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Why? Do you know how a TV signal is encoded at the station? How it is modulated onto the carrier? The operation of the RF and IF strips in your TV? The frequencies of the local oscillator(s) being used? How the RF signal is

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/16/2013 7:15 AM, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Which is also why Universities require about 3/4 of the course hours be outside of your major. Huh!!?? I think you may be referring to distribution requirements and

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/16/2013 8:19 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 03:25, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Ah, but you are more than a simple user. I guess so. I am not even a TV user anymore in fact, but that's not the question. The point is that I can hardly consider a programmer to be a

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/16/2013 9:01 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 13:04, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Anybody who thinks that being able to write code (be it Java, C, or .NET crap), without knowing a lot about the environment their code is going to run in, much less general analytic and

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/16/2013 7:15 AM, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Which is also why Universities require about 3/4 of the course hours be outside of your major. Huh!!?? I think you may be referring to

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/16/2013 12:27 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/16/2013 7:15 AM, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Which is also why Universities require about 3/4 of the course hours be outside of your major.

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 16:27:00 Jerry Stuckle wrote: Which is also why Universities require about 3/4 of the course hours be outside of your major. Which is to say: Which is also why the Universities *in the USA* require... Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/16/2013 5:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2013 16:27:00 Jerry Stuckle wrote: Which is also why Universities require about 3/4 of the course hours be outside of your major. Which is to say: Which is also why the Universities *in the USA* require... Lisi Yup,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 October 2013 13:41:51 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have no idea about how it works in other countries, but in France, when the enterprise is big enough, sysadmins does not take care of single systems. That job is left to people with less qualifications. I think that

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: In our household, it is my husband's job to grow the vegitables and it is my job to cook them. Neither of us gets paid for it. While I agree with the rest of the explanation, I disagree with the above part. It's a barter deal, it just isn't

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jeff Bauer
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Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Catherine Gramze wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL modem may also contain a firewall, etc. But most (A)DSL modems, cable modems, etc., only

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 03:28, Catherine Gramze a écrit : On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL modem may also contain a firewall, etc. But most (A)DSL modems,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 8:53 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2013 03:28, Catherine Gramze a écrit : On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:12:32 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: Maybe where you are, but not in the world scheme of things. A router is a specific box. A (A)DSL

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 15:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : If you want to confuse things by getting into the OSI model, modems are Layer 1 (Physical). Routers are Layer 3 (Network). Thanks for precision. I stayed away from this because it's mainly of interest to engineers and network programmers; the

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Catherine Gramze
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:37:25 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: No, a cable modem does both MOdulation and DEModulation - which is why it is called a MODEM. On the internet, input/output on one side of the modem is digital, through an RJ-45 to category cable. But you can

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 10:06 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 15.10.2013 15:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : If you want to confuse things by getting into the OSI model, modems are Layer 1 (Physical). Routers are Layer 3 (Network). Thanks for precision. I stayed away from this because it's

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not necessarily. I've seen great programmers who don't know or worry about the internals. And I've seen poor

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric signals to analogical ones, and vice versa. I wonder why someone would explicitly call

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric signals to analogical ones, and vice versa. I wonder why someone

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 1:21 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not necessarily. I've seen great programmers who don't know or worry

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:10:09AM -0300, Marcelo Lacerda wrote: Just to make it clear in my normal package management these are *all* commands that I use: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade # apt-get install foo-bar # apt-get install -f # apt-get remove|purge

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 1:21 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not necessarily. I've seen great programmers who

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 1:21 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Programmers nowadays do not have to manage computer's memory too, but it seem that when they know how low level works they write more robust programs. Not

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-15 Thread Ivan Kovnatsky
On Oct 15, 2013 at 20:52, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:10:09AM -0300, Marcelo Lacerda wrote: Just to make it clear in my normal package management these are *all* commands that I use: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade # apt-get

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/15/2013 2:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Geeze Jerry, you're just so wrong, on so many things. What's a coder? In over 40 years of programming, I've met many programmers, but no coders. Some were better than others - but none had limited and low-level skill

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 19:32, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric signals to analogical ones, and vice

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread berenger . morel
Le 15.10.2013 18:28, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : Why? Do you know how a TV signal is encoded at the station? How it is modulated onto the carrier? The operation of the RF and IF strips in your TV? The frequencies of the local oscillator(s) being used? How the RF signal is demodulated? How the

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