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On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did opine |
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> thusly: |
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> > You say OS X is "good enough" |
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> > I say you've got some mighty low standards. |
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> My manager's predecessor's precedessor's precedessor had the same thing with |
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> SuSE and installed that goddamn piece of shit on 100+ boxes. |
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> Sure, it all looks neat after first install. Sybase ASE goes on and starts up |
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> real nice as do all sorts of other proprietary (and despoke) apps. Wait 6 |
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> months, try do a perfectly reasonable upgrade. Something easy like, say |
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> syslog-ng-1.6 to syslog-ng-3.x. Carnage. |
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> There's a certain mentality that goes with these New! Improved! Shiny! OSes |
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> and their magic sauce special apps. They only work if you use it exactly as |
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> the vendors thinks - which is necessarily an extremely narrow view. |
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> /etc ain't broke, I can't understand why SuSE insists on fixing it |
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It's the desire to create something only you can fix, so you get users |
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over a barrel. Windows mentality... |
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caveat utilitor |
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