Continuation

ok, got a twitter account @joeseeder … will see what’s gonna happen

This was suppose to be a long post describing the differences and similarities of Linux distributions to other software…

But I just want to say that you should have a look at Mac OS and Ubuntu, I’ve notice they are bloody similar in their current market and … ambitions.

They are both good on a home desktop, they can do as a home server ( they have server editions ). They also lack hardcore enterprise solutions.

Lets say you have a dozen of servers. Lets say you connect to them very often to do some work. You have a very nice and descriptive domain for all your servers. Domain is organized nicely organized.

Now you wish to connect to one of the servers. You are typing

ssh mylovelyserver.somesubdomain.mylovelylongdomain.tld

How much do you like to type such a long address ?

Read more…

I love when software is giving you a message which tells nothing except to contact administrator … and what administrator gets from the msg ? nothing, just a memo to contact himself …  crap.

My solution to :   “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window.
The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact
your administrator if this condition persists.”

Is : Rename||copy PST file and get outlook to point to new location. ( Oh and I also have removed shitty Nokia PC Suite from users machine ).

Ania is writing a dissertation. She knows nothing about text editing, they never taught it in her university. When I had questionable pleasure of being asked how to do something in OpenOffice every five minutes, I have asked her if she can send the file over to me, and I will create some styles for her text.

What I have received was nowhere to be said ‘pro’ …
I have spend around 8h or more to remove all the extra empty paragraphs, repeated spaces and finally styling each of the paragraphs, converting formula’a to objects… adding correct captions. Really not the most interesting stuff to do.
Before sending corrected document back to Ania, I had to explain what I have done, and how she should carry-on editing it. And during that time I have written some useful tips for a newbie, all in Polish ( except names from OpenOffice ). I will try to compile a short and no doubt incomplete tutorial. Just after I will get over with this ‘dissertation problem’.

What is X is a nice article introducing to X Window System

Didn’t mention it, but on wednesday I had an accident with rm

I’ve lost /bin, /boot and some /etc(minor), ah and links in /dev

right now i think that /dev, /boot are completely rebuild, but I’m worried about my /etc

I don’t want to halt or reboot system , it’s running with config from time before rm , so it is useable

remember, never reboot a system , which lost its config files, and/or basic functionality ( like programmes from /bin )

ah , and i’ve used mc, and irb to manipuled the system without functional *sh

right now, i’m thinking about a wrapper for rm to catch all rm -rf /