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Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> Well, I've already got a powerbook, but the desktop is quite an expense.
> The main reason I'm putting it off, though, is that I'm a Unix consultant;
> it seems like I should be using at home something I'm likely to use at
> work.
I've found that by and large there's not a lot to actually fight
in OS X. Sure, there's NetInfo and a variety of other things that
are almost but not entirely unlike everything else, but they tend
to keep the hell out of the way. Which is pretty much the point of
using it.
Which reminds me...
> Well, I can't use KDE, because their workspaces app is completely
> unacceptable. Yeah, I could use Afterstep (which I mostly use at work)
> but I'd still need to _have_ most of the Gnome crap to use GUI software
> like AIM clients and such.
Last time I looked, most of that crap just needs gtk+. Which
is still stupidly big, but isn't quite on the scale of "most
of Gnome".
Oh, and Afterstep? Bloated FPOS.
[I wrote:]
> > (most of my hate right now is devoted to our DRP scripts. Weird
> > cruft written in ksh by a guy who isn't alive to maintain them any
> > more in an environment where nobody knows ksh from a hole in the ground.
> > Guess who's the DRP bunny this year?)
>
> Yeah, I worked at a shop that lost a guy who maintained a set of sh
> scripts that rsh'ed to multiple machines and did various and sundry
> operations all over the network, and he didn't have any version control,
> so the scripts were in no way synchronized. Yay. Enjoy!
Copying the data isn't that big a deal -- I've already rewritten
the different-for-every-host ksh scripts that did that and turned
them into a single perl script that works for every host.
The problem now is the stuff for taking users and printer configurations
from five hosts and merging them for use on the DRP box. And it has to
work right first time if used in anger, as this stuff manages HR, student
records, and finances for a reasonably large University.
(Oh, and it's all on Tru64, a mix of 4.mumble and 5.mumble, and
the users are all in the TCB database. Fun fun fun.)
It looks like I'm re-writing all of that so we can maintain it
properly. I am thankful that we have version control and real
live coding standards.
Matt
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Probably a bad thing; most things are bad things."
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