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by x0t 16y ago
I recently started building a machine, just as an exercise. I've spent 2-3 weeks researching parts now because I've been so far out of the loop.
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by x0t 16y ago
If it's family, they're running Ubuntu, so I use VNC to connect and resolve the issue (hopefully educating them along the way). My wife and I share a machine at home, so I suppose that one doesn't count. I generally tell friends that I'm
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by x0t 16y ago
I agree 100% with your last paragraph... their desire to keep bolting bits onto legacy software is a major annoyance and leads to a lot of kruft.
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by x0t 16y ago
I think it needs some polishing, but this is a pretty slick idea.
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by x0t 16y ago
I think perhaps it depends on the school you choose. I went through 6 years of college without obtaining that piece of paper. I bounced from electrical engineering, to pure mathematics, to computer science, and eventually to network admin
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by x0t 16y ago
Seconded.
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by x0t 16y ago
I hadn't considered that before. Maybe I won't be such a jerk in future conversations.
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by x0t 16y ago
Computer Guy generally translates to "this cat could fix my computer sometime." I'm a Network Administrator by day and I don't do any end user desktop support. Telling them I'm a Computer Guy automatically sets me up for "Hey, so I had th
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by x0t 16y ago
The problem with a repository is not every machine I work on has git installed (nor could I install it in some cases). I'm a netadmin doing a sysadmin's job, though. If I was slingin' code regularly, I'd use several plugins. When I wear my
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by x0t 16y ago
None. I use vim on so many different machines, so it isn't feasible for me to move a bunch of plugins around. I'll very rarely use BufferList, if it's installed, I often forget it's there. Here's my .vimrc: http://gist.github.com/517464
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by x0t 16y ago
I was pretty active in the suse project with bug testing and whatnot for a while, so that got me on freenode. I lurk about 15 channels there. I'm on two private networks with about 5 channels between them and I lurk on Undernet out of nost