So instead of switching to a better OS (hello, Solaris?), I have to obtain two JBoss "licenses" (~ $5K/per) JUST to solve this issue, since RHEL 4 is our "standard platform".
-- libcrypt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 04:13 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
lol tight-arse penny-pinching management
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
(mind, getting decent support from sun in 2008 is like pushing diarrhoea uphill)
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
beyond Sisyphean imagery
― kenan, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's not really that management is pinching the pennies. It's more my annoyance. Look, if y'r gonna pay for an app server, why the fuck not BUY a good one in the first place?
― libcrypt, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
I've been managing Solaris/sparc for 11 years now, and the only real issue I've had with their support is that they don't have anyone who knows VNBU, even though they "support" it.
― libcrypt, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ah okay, must just be hardware support that sucks then.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 3 May 2008 00:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
Microsoft bringing the lols
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 3 May 2008 01:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
That's pretty funny, but what's funnier is that the original blog post thought is was some kind of genuine motivational video or something, and hated it for it. I think that would have made it better.
― kenan, Saturday, 3 May 2008 01:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
See what's on employees' laptops
― libcrypt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 01:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
I have a friend who works @ MS and I am gonna rickroll him with that like a thousand times.
― libcrypt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 01:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
VISTA GOTTA GET ME SOME
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 3 May 2008 02:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fucking Pulseaudio.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 1 June 2008 01:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
which usb to serial adaptor is best
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 1 June 2008 04:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
I created a load of logical partitions (on a new hdd) and installed Fedora 9. Not only did it wipe away ALL my logical partitions and create a single one, it put some raid shit all over the drive that I cannot get rid of. SOOO fucking angry right now.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 July 2008 01:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
Linux. Fedora. RedHat.
Dude, it's hard to have a lotta sympathy for you here.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 6 July 2008 02:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yes, yes I know, I just wanted to install it on ONE TINY PARTITION in order to have a play. But no, it had to destroy my fucking hard drive.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 July 2008 02:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Cannot believe I now have to install VISTA in order to fix a problem that Linux created.
Wow I am so incredibly furious.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 July 2008 02:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
FIXED.
Fedora goes up my arse forever.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 July 2008 02:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
100 Uses of Vaseline
― libcrypt, Sunday, 6 July 2008 03:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
Ubuntu Hardy is a fucking disaster.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Er... in what way? I've got it on the Linux box - was going to net install debian, but debian refused to recognise my network card, so gave up on that idea - and I am neither happy nor unhappy with it, but then I don't do a great deal with it and don't have that much linux experience.
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
Though it did demand a reboot after some updates. And it does keep trying to give me updates, including for packages I don't have installed. Ahh, it's just like Windows, how reassuring...
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
Just waaaaaay too many bugs that get in the way. Still head and shoulders above Windows, but nowhere near as good as Gutsy or Feisty.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
i've switched to fedora as the default ubuntu build doesn't scale down my processor when it's idle whereas the default fedora build does. and it was easier reskinning fedora than compiling in the required module in ubuntu.
didn't have a problem with volume manager, just choose the right install option and you're fine. selinux though = pita.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 August 2008 10:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
and two days ago my £ disappeared. and yesterday it came back.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 August 2008 10:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Prob hold out for Insane Iguana or Jeering Jackal myself.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 21 August 2008 12:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
I hear that Kinky Kangaroo is going to have some way hep features tho.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 21 August 2008 12:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is beginning to sound like an awesome Saturday morning cartoon show.
― aldo, Thursday, 21 August 2008 12:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'd like to use Linux but...
I used the standard update-tool to update from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron. Near the end of the process it stopped doing anything. Now it won't boot. Good times. Guess I'll reinstall the whole damn thing. I won't really lose anything, so it's not that bad, but pretty damn disappointing nevertheless.
― Øystein, Thursday, 21 August 2008 12:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
Fuck a Linux. RHELL amirite???
― libcrypt, Friday, 22 August 2008 19:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Last straw. Chucking Ubuntu completely and buying a mac. Will continue to be fucking useless until they get their shit together.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 30 August 2008 23:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'd like to use Linux but... it has decided to FORGET HOW TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET IT CAN'T BE THAT FUCKING DIFFICULT U MANAGED IT BEFORE FUCKING UBUNTU
― Thomas, Saturday, 30 August 2008 23:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
you're joking, right? Autumn "MR UBUNTU" Almanac?? xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 30 August 2008 23:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
no I'm not joking, so much is wrong with hardy that it's rapidly becoming unuseable.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Go back to Gutsy, for God's sake! I never even updated and my ride's been smoother than smooth.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
Gutsy had the laptop lid closing problem which Hardy still has. Feisty was great but there's stuff it doesn't do very well. I have given up and am buying a mac.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am stunned.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am aggrieved.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
although vista is seriously precisely 983279238749238749234 times worse so at least there's that.
Thomas, are you dual-booting w/Windows on the same machine? Are you connecting to internet router by ethernet? Might you have used Windows between internets working and internets not working in Linux?
If YES to these many questions, check that Wake On LAN is enabled in Windows, as Windows disables some network cards on shutdown, and whereas Windows startup re-enables them Linux startup doesn't. I had this!
Then I installed some ubuntu updates and networking was stuffed again and no amount of manual setup worked in the normal mode, I have to go into whatever the Linux equivalent of safemode is called and then set up the networking manually and start X all still in emergency boot mode, so if you work it out I'd love to know. Grmbl.
(I have onboard ethernet by Realtek, I forget the model number and it's turned off now so I can't ask it, RTL 8somethingE)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 31 August 2008 01:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
Adam does yr eee still only get a couple hours? What OS you got on it? Nick has XP on his new one and using standby now and then he says he's gotten all day on the thing, even playing music and whatnot on it.
― Trayce, Sunday, 31 August 2008 01:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
yes, dual booting. but using USB ADSL modem.
was trying to pursuade the wireless card to act as an AP, and think I might have screwed something up there. but its not obvious, and always expects you to know which bloody file the settings are kept in and what the command was again that gives you access to write to that file and and and I give up and go back to windows.
― Thomas, Sunday, 31 August 2008 01:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
Trayce: yeah, maybe 3-4 with wireless off. I've not timed it recently. The new ones from most manufacturers get 6-8.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 31 August 2008 01:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah its the new larger-screen one N has now, he upgraded. Think he's still using XP on it same as before. Not sure.
― Trayce, Sunday, 31 August 2008 03:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
Congrats on choosing Mac. You will not regret it. Fuck Linux.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 31 August 2008 04:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
I think the iphone experience tipped me over the edge.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 31 August 2008 04:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
All desktop Linux can suck my nuts.
― You should be an artist, in in your shower. (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 27 September 2008 07:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
flabbergasted
― 12HOOS2012 (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 27 September 2008 08:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Everything is progressing at an impressive rate, then suddenly everyone at once decides that near enough is good enough and stops fixing bugs. Wank.
― You should be an artist, in in your shower. (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 27 September 2008 08:50 (4 years ago) Permalink