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On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:37:13PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:05:30PM -0400, Chet Hosey wrote: > [snip] > > I was comparing strace output piped through diff to try to find > > anything which might explain the difference in functionality. > > BTDTGTHTS, although not specifically with the Oracle client... > Quote snarfed, unless you mind terribly. > > [snip] > > I hate Oracle I hate mailers I hate lack of documentation hate hate > > HATE. Is Larry's dislike of all things Microsoft so thorough that he > > insists that his software fails in obscure ways when confronted with so > > much as a Windows text file, punishing users for so much as letting a > > configuration file hit a Windows machine in its path to something UNIXy > > enough not to raise Larry's hackles? > > Well, he wouldn't be alone in that - ISTR similar problems when the > junior so-called sysadmin of the uplink ISP was trying to feed a > Notepad-generated zone file to an earlier version of BIND. The problem > there was that BIND shrugged, accepted the file - and proceeded to > happily serve the data, with the CR's included in the answer records. > > G'luck, > Peter I suppose it's my fault for having accepted a file that was probably cut from a terminal screen and pasted into an email sent from a Windows machine. A large part of my hate is the simple lack of documentation or any sort of installation documentation -- at least BIND has documentation, comes with examples, and provides manual pages for those in need. That's not to say that BIND isn't without its own hatred. It's just that Oracle makes such an assumption that the end-users of its software will have hired DBAs or Oracle-certified staff that they don't even attempt to provide even the slightest amount of documentation or direction. The ISC will at least toss you a manual page. Maybe this should have been posted under the older post about software that can't handle CR/LF issues, but it's more the general attitude of the software that I'm targeting here. I can follow directions and take a few curveballs now and then, but toss me a freakin' bone here! I shouldn't have to strace a process to see what configuration files it expects. That's a class of elitism I cannot begin to fathom I shouldn't have to strace a process to see what configuration files it expects. To me, that implies a class of elitism I can't even begin to fathom. Five or ten years ago it might have been fun to try to figure out how to appease the binary gods; now it's just hateful that it would have taken Oracle less time to write a brief installation guide than it took me to track down the cause of the client's stomach purges. Thanks for the response!There's stuff above here
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