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by bdunbar 13y ago
My boss was huge into OS/2 at the time. He got it up, and running, at home, and work. Reported (and I recall agreeing after playing with it) that it was a better environment to run windows / DOS applications than was Windows. Our employer
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Ah! Thanks.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
When you insert this in the first line of your script #!/bin/bash The specified program is run. From that point on, the bits you're executing in that script are 'bash' no matter what the shell you called it from is. I've been runn
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Problem is zsh is not omnipresent like bash is I don't think it's that much of a problem. My local machine is zsh, my linux servers run bash, my solaris hosts csh. Where ever I am, I just adjust to the local environment.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I don't know what those are, but why not start them with a bash script, that you launch from zsh?
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> I don't want to use zsh specific features in my scripts How is this a worry? The topline in your bash script is '#!/bin/bash' Which tells the system 'run this with bash'.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I don't feel 'where you work' or 'what you work with' is taboo. In social chit-chat, it's .. awkward? to bring it up, sometimes. I'd guess that maybe 1/20 people know anything about what I do. Mention [Puppet, Solaris, Linux, BASH, Ruby,
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> I hope you know what Desktop Linux is. Until yesterday, if asked, I would have said 'A linux for end users'. And if asked for an example I would have pointed at my laptops running Slack/Enlightenment and said 'like that'. Maybe it's w
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Modern Desktop Linux is very fragile because everything has to be configured and managed automatically. You haven't been able to startx without a lot of reconfiguring for years. I guess I don't know what a Desktop Linux from a hole in
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> What does that even mean? I think it means 'use Slackware'.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Once you do something as drastic as changing the default window manager on a distro you are largely on your own. That's crazy. When did Linux get so _fragile_? A windows manager is the application that handles windows management. Ap
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by bdunbar 13y ago
How could I not? My first job in IT, I got tossed into the deep end of LAN administration - sink or swim - and Banyan was the pool.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Thank you! That sure beats running it over ssh from my linux host.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
Banayan .. github .. Hurray - VINES is finally open sourced! "GitHub of Science" Aw.
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by bdunbar 13y ago
I get emails intended for other guys with my first and last name at gmail. Since periods don't matter, I assume since _I_ grabbed firstlast those other guys have had to settle for firstlast + a random bit tacked on. Later they write it dow
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> Do you mean that truth has the potential of ruining lives and relationships? Of course it can. If you don't believe me, please do answer honestly when your wife asks 'does this outfit make my bum look big?'
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by bdunbar 13y ago
"What’s so sad too is how little it would often take to resolve the situations. You bend a policy here, you expedite an order there, you bubble an issue up to a manager." This might be harder than it looks. A lot of customer care is outsou
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by bdunbar 13y ago
> There are a ton of reasons to have top-secret security clearances that have nothing to do with counterterrorism or intelligence gathering. Agreed. I held TS clearance in the Marines for a job that was, bottom-line, 'security guard'.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
It sounds like emacs org-mode would be what you're looking for. - I use org-mode table feature to write checklists for system outages. Not as exiting as a space walk, granted. - I don't use revision history but ... emacs. I bet it _has_ r
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> go to the AA gates You have to be a ticketed passenger to get _to_ the gates.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> using haskell,R and emacs org-mode. That last is so very, very, cool. I'll have to dive in, take a look, see if I can find out _how_ you're using it. Been wanting to do a project with org-mode for a while, now.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Because no one has heard of LaTeX.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
We could call it .. LaTeX.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
My 02 cents, you need to worry about security, but it's more like wearing seatbelts on a sunny day. The odds you'll need them are remote, as long as you exercise care and diligence. When you're running an MS system, I guess the analogy wou
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I'm semi-captivated by the idea. I'm not spending my (ha) fortune on it, but if the opportunity presented itself, I'd go. You know how, for millennia, people have been drawn over the hill, to see new sites, live in places no one else has?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Second the motion for a desktop client I _have_ an Android, but I dislike typing on it. For me, it's a phone, period.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
If Oracle gets heavy handed with Java ... doesn't that just mean it's time to use something else? Am I missing something?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Two pronged approach is in order. Litigation _and_ education. Won't do any good - the TSA is here to stay, short of the government ceasing to be. But it's a good fight, and might delay the inevitable for a while.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> If I go through the airport with her, there is no guarantee the agents will let me stay with her and explain the situation. I am - without being an expert - pretty sure there is a procedure for care givers. The last time I flew - 2010
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by bdunbar 14y ago
They borrowed an amphibious backhoe from the Navy.

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