Why I don't like Linux anymore

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:17:53 GMT

I'm not anti-Linux, I do manage a small number of the little blighters running it. I do, however, have a thing against all the extraneous software bundled along with it.

This is actually an opinion I've formed while working with Solaris, Solaris 10 in particular.

I have nothing against choice, I just don't want to have too much choice, and that's what I'm presented with by current iterations of Linux.

I guess that I should start with how I've come to this head...

I just finished rebuilding a network and two of the servers on it
added two new SATA drives to a third server

couldn't find a GUI disk partitioning tool to save my life, I know the installer uses Disk Druid
fired up `fdisk /dev/sdb` checked to see if there were any existing partitions
which I started doing to make sure I wasn't wiping anything out.
did the same for /dev/sdc, again, no complaints there either...
started mkfs for /dev/hdb1, and a few seconds in my head catches up to me and I wildly stab ^c
I have just partitioned the right disks, and started formatting one that's bloody mounted.

swear
swear a lot
swear a lot under my breath...

It's at this point that the rational part of my mind kicks in and I try salvaging my situation.
Where was /dev/hdb1 mounted? ok, what's the filesystem look like now? ok, partition the right damned disks, and put a filesystem on one of them. `tar -cf /u01/usr2.tar /usr2`. wait. 68GB of ~80GB later I'm untarring the file to see if what I got is still good, or if it's partly-to-mostly scrambled gibberish.

In retrospect I guess this isn't so much about having too many options, it's about displaying those options in a reasonable manner. In three different versions of this particular distribution I've used, I am constantly looking in sub-menus for the system tool I want to run as it's not actually in the "system tools" menu, or if it is it's name isn't all that descriptive...

...

I've been in a command shell for too long...

The Nigerian Bell Scam

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:25:45 GMT

Messages like this should be propagating about Animal Crossing: Wild World in the next while.

Dear Stranger

recently got many bells I
need help to get it I give
alot for helping. email
knl_brn@gmail 2 help

From Kendel

What drove us to do this? Greed!
Not our own, but a curiosity as to how many people wanted to “win” Animal Crossing by filling their bank account or collecting everything. It’s also in a way a test of the “Message in a Bottle” propagation rates, as both myself and my co-conspirator interpreted Nintendo’s statement of bottle propagation rates in different ways.

Clueless and greedy beware, we won’t steal your bells, but we may well mock you.

mors_d

Why I don't like Linux anymore

The Nigerian Bell Scam