Still crazy after all these years

[David A. Bandel]

Hey Kurt, et. al.,

Still hanging in there. $DAYJOB is at Rice Univ running Linux servers for
the Computer Science department and clients for the grad students.  RHEL7
(ugh) and Ubuntu.  RHEL is "official" but the grad students prefer Ubuntu
-- libraries and stuff more up-to-date.

Grub -- still a smoking pile of dung.  Unfortunately, most of the distros
default to that POS. I still prefer lilo.  Grub is larger than DOS 6.2 and
qualifies as an OS in and of itself.  And yes, it often just craps all over
itself.  Deal with it.

Also deal with systemd (sweet Jesus why can't they leave well enough
alone).  Always fixing what's not broken.  And then there's SELinux.

Oh well.  Guess they need to keep us on our toes somehow.

Ciao,

David-

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:25 PM, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>
wrote:

> Not much happening. Older, wiser, better looking!
>
> Finding I'm using opensource as the glue for a lot of stuff these days.
> You can create a fix/bridge/workaround with Perl, PHP or Postscript etc
> that works...
>
> I would love to create a browser based barcoding app that would create
> product carton and pallet labels and drawing the information from a DB...
> just the problem is time.
>
> Australia is still beautiful one day, perfect the next.
>
> James McD.
>
> On 16 February 2015 at 10:57, <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>
>> This thing turned on?
>>
>> The obligatory joke: Man comes home after work holding a heart-shaped box
>> of chocolates over his head to. Wife asks him if it is raining outside. He
>> says, "No, I just have a heart on."
>>
>> I see a few posts continue to dribble in. What's up, old friends?
>>
>> K
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