Oracle had one of its wet pushes on Linux a few years ago, yeah. It made all this noise about how the impending Red Hat db was rubbish and only Oracle on Oracle Linux was any good etc etc.
Ellison even went through a bizarre phase of clearing everything Microsoft out of the company. That lasted three months. I spent that entire time configuring all the internal apps (mostly Java) to work perfectly on Red Hat 8/9 and received NO FUCKING KUDOS FROM ANYONE.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 14 March 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Linux experience probably means being able to do all the unixy stuff like cron jobs, disk configuration and graceful shutdowns, but also understand package management and compiling the kernel. Or not.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 14 March 2008 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"must have linux experience" = the guy who's job you're taking over solved some problem using magic smoke and a linux server. The MCP here is afraid to touch it.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 14 March 2008 07:32 (sixteen years ago) link
wet pushes
― libcrypt, Friday, 14 March 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
this one's for you autumn almanac
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4281/tynan6in.gif
― Edward III, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
<3
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 14 March 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Posting this from my new Eee PC. It is fscking fantastic.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 March 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Everyone needs one of these. Just awes. Thinner and lighter would be great though.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I am bidding for one on eBay now!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Thinner and lighter??
Yeah, the battery pack is annoying. Not a deal-breaker, just annoying. It's still less than a kilo.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 05:12 (sixteen years ago) link
okay i'm being unreasonable.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link
But ... How is the battery life? I've been looking at some of this microlaptops and they're quoting like 11 hours?????
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Christ. This thing will get you 3.5.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Does it really? I've been hearing tell that practically it's more like 1.5-2
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh I hope not. Seems all right so far, but I've hardly pushed it.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess I'll stick with my five year-old PowerBook. With a $79 battery replacement I'm getting 3.5 (wireless on) and it runs Leopard. At least 3.5!
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link
True, but the Eee is TINY. It fits in my funny little satchel thing.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
is that what you call it
― remy bean, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link
A gay friend calls it my fag bag.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Two PCs, ^ running Xandros, the other running Ubuntu. I still cannot believe how quickly and smoothly and efficiently and faultlessly and awesomely everything works.
Every time I go anywhere near Vista it does at least three unnecessary stupid annoying totally shit things every minute.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, Xandros is the one with a swastika-like logo.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 3 April 2008 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wow, so it is.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
so i opted against getting one for now
but it may magically turn up as a grad gift 4 me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 April 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd like to use linux but i don't want to have to backup/delete my entire hard drive to install the damn thing. also, i'm too dumb to understand the documentation.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Get one LiveCD and just boot off it.
Also, what documentation?
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
so i'm downloading an iso for CentOS right now and PRAYING TO GOD everything goes ok. (crosses fingers)
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
this
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I recently upgraded my laptop to something OpenBSD would recognize, so I no longer have to run Linux on anything. Rah.
― shieldforyoureyes, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:20 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:15 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
wtf? Just get an Ubuntu LiveCD and boot off it. This gives you a complete Linux desktop environment, and nothing on your HDD is touched. If everything runs and all your hardware works properly, you can choose to install it by clicking a few icons. No documentation required.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Also Red Hat Enterprise is for business. If you want a Red Hat for home use, look at Fedora 7.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
just might do that.
As you can see, I know fuckall about linux. But i want to get better!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Heh, that's cool.
Seriously, grab Ubuntu 7.10 from here (select Desktop version 7.10). It'll send you a 700Mb .iso file which you can burn to a CD as bootable. Then restart your PC (booting off the CD obv) and it'll give you a desktop complete with all the main applications ready to run, so you can check sound video, network, etc. If it all works and you want to install it properly, you can choose to click the Install icon on the desktop.
Ubuntu is probably the more compatible and best supported version right now. The new one's out in three weeks if you'd rather wait.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for the help. i've heard nothing but good things about ubuntu.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
ubuntu is good but nothing wrong with centos either. i use centos and fedora
― Tracksuit Party, Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
They're all good. I think Ubuntu's the easiest to get going, though.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Thinking of going for the RHCT or RHCE, anyone got this?
― Tracksuit Party, Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/
― chiquita, Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I went for the RHCT and fell over at the networking bit because I've never done networking.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
(that was for Red Hat 9 btw, so yonks ago)
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
How hard is it? Its a full practical right?
― Tracksuit Party, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah. Mine was either three or five days, I can't remember.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 6 April 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
(the course, not the test)
I'd like to use Linux, but... AND I AM!!! WOOT!!! I successfully installed CentOS on my new computer and am now decent in vi and I'm about 1/4 of the way through Learning Perl. I guess you could say I'm going to grok perl, because if you don't grok perl, you are pitiful.
Not that I have any clue what "grok" means, but...
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
good work mang
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, nice. How are you going with the more plebeian apps?
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
RedHat is shit
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:26 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
All other things being equal, I would definately be more inclined to push someone off a cliff if I knew they "grokked" pearl.
("grok" is a Stranger in a Strange Land hippy-sci-fi reference, BTW.)
― shieldforyoureyes, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Put down the kool-aid.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link