[brlug-general] SuSE......wow who'da thunk it

[Bret J. Esquivel]

I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers
don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people.
Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

 

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From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On
Behalf Of Andrew Baudouin
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:37 PM
To: general at brlug.net
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] SuSE......wow who'da thunk it

 

Laff.  These programmer analyst positions are 85% dealing with clients
and 15% programming.  Don't delude yourself.

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> 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> wrote:

YaST is still slow.

What are you doing now if not IT?

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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>> 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> >>
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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