Is 'twat' the past tense of tweet?

Why do you care about uptime statistics on a laptop?

When I went from Kubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, it automatically removed that package. I tried the plasmoid, but it was a buried shovel, as it provided no means to actually configure the network settings. I had to use iwconfig from the shell. I finally ended up using wicd, which I am very pleased with.

At any rate, KNemo is this new thing, and it hardly qualifies as Alpha, let alone something that should have been in a release. Avoid it at all costs.

With Amarok, yeah, my iPod was mounted and all, and still nothing. So they suck now. I switched to RhythmBox, which I don't like as much, but at least it plays nice with my iPod, and doesn't obscure it. Wrong turn there, Amarok team.

I swear, is TrollTech outsourcing to Slovenia?

How about we find a few apps that work and improve upon them, instead of replacing them with something that barely works?

I'm talking specifically about replacing the network management app that worked with this KNemo piece of shit that doesn't work at all.

And how come Amarok no longer works with iPods?

Speaking of which, can anyone tell me what happened to the tagging facility in Dolphin? After moving to Kubuntu 9, it seems to have disappeared.

SUsE 5.2

I remember reading so much about how tough Linux could be to get up and running, but I remember how easy it was. I was up and using it within an hour or two.

I remember how psyched I was that it breathed new life into an older computer that I had. I was hooked.

I guess you could use KDE, because none of those work.

You joke, but the Chinese actually have this. They have the capability, at least in theory, to disconnect the entire country from the larger internet.

Yeah, but when you go into a more tradtional UNIX, you know where to look for things, there's only a handful of variations.

When you go into MacOS, and look in all the traditional places, the files aren't there, or when they are, it's obvious from looking at the contents that they aren't used in at all the same way.

I had a buddy who had a problem with his Mac, and I said to myself, "Well, it's just BSD, so I can figure it out." It was laid out like BSD, but I couldn't make heads or tails of what it was doing with it all.

They definitely, would, but they have legacy support issues around HPUX.

If you wanted to buy a bunch of brand-new HP big iron, they would definitely steer you towards RHEL or something along those lines.

I'm a Unix wizard.

That's like saying that you're 'cool' or a 'maverick'. If you call yourself one, chances are, you aren't.

There's nothing especially unique about MacOS that lets that happen. You can say the same thing about Windows or Linux. Unless you're running MacOS on your production server (you aren't). On today's machines, you can have a miniature version of just about any configuration, I can't think of anything in that respect that MacOS can do that others can't.

It certainly depends on the web development you're doing, but my company's developers use everything from Windows to BSD to MacOS, and by far the hardest ones to support are the ones using MacOS. They have the most problems getting our tools configured properly, and I had one guy who spent an entire day trying to figure out how to get Tomcat to run. We don't use anything esoteric, straight Java, no frills. On every other system used by our teams, it's been trivial to get things to run, but every Mac user has had to jump through flaming hoops to get where those that use Windows or Linux get to in under an hour.

I think that the Web developers who use it use it because that's the system they're comfortable with, not because it offers anything that cannot be done with another system.

This whole meme about how software companies are a 'young man's' game... I just don't get it.

Maybe at your way-hip, Web 2.0, here today, gone tomorrow kind of outfit, that might be true, but perhaps that's the reason why those companies always tank.

At 36, I am the youngest member of our operations in the US. My boss and our CTO cut their teeth on punch cards. As an aside, our CTO never completed college, which leads me to my main point.

Do you want this degree because you believe you'll pick up some more marketable skills, or because you're interested in CS? If you can already write code, you won't learn any more of that getting a CS degree.

If you want to boost your paycheck, getting a BS in CS may or may not help you.

After having spent about 15 years in the software business, I can safely say that only about half of the engineers and developers I have worked with have formal education in CS. The rest have a wide variety of backgrounds. I myself have a BA in Sociology. One of our developers was a veterinarian!

I have also worked with some people with CS degrees who were shitty engineers, and difficult to work with, as well.
Go get your bachelor's in CS, but do it for the learning, not because you think it will get you a higher paycheck.

Actually, if a textbook is not acceptable to either the California or Texas State curricula, it's much more costly to the publisher.

My wife was a teacher, we have a library full of 'California edition' textbooks.

Private schools are not businesses. Accredited, non-parochial private schools (at least the ones worth sending your kids to) are non-profit organizations.

Teachers are not service industry workers, either.