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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Matt McLeod wrote:
> Luke A. Kanies wrote:
> > At this point I'm just fighting off replacing all of my x86 hardware with
> > Mac hardware;
>
> What's to fight? I got some funny looks when I became the first
> sysprog where I work to ask for a Mac, but now maybe half the group
> is seriously thinking about making the move too.
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 expect to lose the fight later this year, but I'm waiting as long as
possible.
> > And I've got plenty of non-linux hate that would be just as present on
> > FreeBSD, for things like Gnome, OpenLDAP, etc.
>
> So don't run them.
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.
And I'm still fighting this conflict of knowing enough about this cruft to
make money with it.
> Matt
> (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!
Luke
--
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining
and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
-- Mark Twain
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