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I feel good about myself, because with my fiddling around with GNU/Linux (for the past decade) I am able to help novices. I met my current lover on some drowsy Dutch Gay Dating site, which is quite funny, because my lover is Belgian and to be honest I'm quite "prudish" for Dutch GLBT standards. The most weird thing is that my lover is at the age of 47 and still "in the closet". However it was clear to me that "Julian" (not his real name) is a geek and mostly we share the same interests. He followed a study and graduated last year as a "Computer Hardware Technician" and this year he is doing "Network System Administrator". In his current study he has to use Fedora, yet only the CLI environment (Bash, yum etc.). He is not allowed to use GUI tools at all. Isn't that funny? I'm having a Lover who adores me for being a knowledgeable and seasoned "Linuxl00n" GNU/Linux knowledge gives you all sorts of benefits :-p -- |_|0|_| Marti T. van Lin, alias ML2MST |_|_|0| Registered GNU/Linux user 513040 |0|0|0| http://www.soundclick.com/martivanlin

On 2010-11-21, Marti van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> wrote: > I feel good about myself, because with my fiddling around with GNU/Linux > (for the past decade) I am able to help novices. > > I met my current lover on some drowsy Dutch Gay Dating site, which is > quite funny, because my lover is Belgian and to be honest I'm quite > "prudish" for Dutch GLBT standards. Is he Flemish? My first wife was Flemish, but I won't hold that against him... 8-) > The most weird thing is that my lover is at the age of 47 and still "in > the closet". Belgium is almost all Catholic. I found the people very straight-laced. It's probably not so unusual. > However it was clear to me that "Julian" (not his real name) is a geek > and mostly we share the same interests. > > He followed a study and graduated last year as a "Computer Hardware > Technician" and this year he is doing "Network System Administrator". In > his current study he has to use Fedora, yet only the CLI environment > (Bash, yum etc.). He is not allowed to use GUI tools at all. Yep.. it would be essential for a network systems admin to only use the CLI to administer a network. There's usually no room for GUI overhead on a server setup. > Isn't that funny? I'm having a Lover who adores me for being a > knowledgeable and seasoned "Linuxl00n" Don't we all live in our mother's basement? 8-) -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power

On 21-11-10 05:59, Gregory Shearman wrote: > On 2010-11-21, Marti van Lin<ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> wrote: >> I feel good about myself, because with my fiddling around with GNU/Linux >> (for the past decade) I am able to help novices. >> >> I met my current lover on some drowsy Dutch Gay Dating site, which is >> quite funny, because my lover is Belgian and to be honest I'm quite >> "prudish" for Dutch GLBT standards. > > Is he Flemish? My first wife was Flemish, but I won't hold that against > him... 8-) Hold it against him? Why should I? >> The most weird thing is that my lover is at the age of 47 and still "in >> the closet". > > Belgium is almost all Catholic. I found the people very straight-laced. > It's probably not so unusual. Oh well he lives in the same province as I do, only he on the Belgian side and I on the Dutch side of the border and we are Catholic too. But like I said, if this works for him, then I respect that. If it ain't broke, don't fix it ;-) >> However it was clear to me that "Julian" (not his real name) is a geek >> and mostly we share the same interests. >> >> He followed a study and graduated last year as a "Computer Hardware >> Technician" and this year he is doing "Network System Administrator". In >> his current study he has to use Fedora, yet only the CLI environment >> (Bash, yum etc.). He is not allowed to use GUI tools at all. > > Yep.. it would be essential for a network systems admin to only use the > CLI to administer a network. There's usually no room for GUI overhead on > a server setup. > >> Isn't that funny? I'm having a Lover who adores me for being a >> knowledgeable and seasoned "Linuxl00n" > > Don't we all live in our mother's basement? > > 8-) > Of course we all do. It's only that my mother passed away 15 years ago :-) -- |_|0|_| Marti T. van Lin, alias ML2MST |_|_|0| Registered GNU/Linux user 513040 |0|0|0| http://www.soundclick.com/martivanlin

On 2010-11-21, the following emerged from the brain of Marti van Lin: > On 21-11-10 05:59, Gregory Shearman wrote: > >> Belgium is almost all Catholic. I found the people very straight-laced. >> It's probably not so unusual. We're supposed to be catholic ;-) It's more folklore than anything else. Not that there are no die-hard catholics anymore (unfortunately there are), but it's more of an inheritage than real belief. > Oh well he lives in the same province as I do, only he on the Belgian > side and I on the Dutch side of the border and we are Catholic too. I'm in that province as well ;-) Perhaps we should meet up some day! As long as you don't try to hit on me ;-) > But like I said, if this works for him, then I respect that. If it ain't > broke, don't fix it ;-) I think it's a shame that someone has to stay 'in the closet'. Fsck the small-minded masses I say. >>> However it was clear to me that "Julian" (not his real name) is a geek >>> and mostly we share the same interests. >>> >>> He followed a study and graduated last year as a "Computer Hardware >>> Technician" and this year he is doing "Network System Administrator". In >>> his current study he has to use Fedora, yet only the CLI environment >>> (Bash, yum etc.). He is not allowed to use GUI tools at all. >> >> Yep.. it would be essential for a network systems admin to only use the >> CLI to administer a network. There's usually no room for GUI overhead on >> a server setup. Fully seconded. A server admin should have a deep knowledge of the console-based environment and be able to run a server headless from A to Z. -- Engineering: where the noble semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream. Hello, Ooompa-Loompas of science. ~ Sheldon Cooper

On 2010-11-21, Marti van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> wrote: > On 21-11-10 05:59, Gregory Shearman wrote: > >> On 2010-11-21, Marti van Lin<ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> wrote: >>> I feel good about myself, because with my fiddling around with GNU/Linux >>> (for the past decade) I am able to help novices. >>> >>> I met my current lover on some drowsy Dutch Gay Dating site, which is >>> quite funny, because my lover is Belgian and to be honest I'm quite >>> "prudish" for Dutch GLBT standards. >> >> Is he Flemish? My first wife was Flemish, but I won't hold that against >> him... 8-) > > Hold it against him? Why should I? Just a joke... I didn't get on with my first wife... 8-) >>> The most weird thing is that my lover is at the age of 47 and still "in >>> the closet". >> >> Belgium is almost all Catholic. I found the people very straight-laced. >> It's probably not so unusual. > > Oh well he lives in the same province as I do, only he on the Belgian > side and I on the Dutch side of the border and we are Catholic too. I've been there and windsurfed on the North Sea coast, right on the border. >> Don't we all live in our mother's basement? >> >> 8-) >> > > Of course we all do. It's only that my mother passed away 15 years ago :-) My mum passed away 10 years ago. She didn't have a basement and I left home when I was 17 years old. -- Regards, Gregory. Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power

"Marti van Lin" <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> wrote in message news:ic9s9f$7p6$1@news.albasani.net... > I feel good about myself, because with my fiddling around with GNU/Linux > (for the past decade) I am able to help novices. That's good, but read the 2007 FAQ & Primer. https://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/43327f0c6ce4d84b?hl=nl&dmode=source&output=gplain > > I met my current lover on some drowsy Dutch Gay Dating site, which is > quite funny, because my lover is Belgian and to be honest I'm quite > "prudish" for Dutch GLBT standards. I don't support your tendency to drag, your gay lifestyle into a Usenet NG. > > The most weird thing is that my lover is at the age of 47 and still "in > the closet". Maybe bad experiences with Roman Catholic priests marked him for life? > > However it was clear to me that "Julian" (not his real name) is a geek and > mostly we share the same interests. > > He followed a study and graduated last year as a "Computer Hardware > Technician" and this year he is doing "Network System Administrator". In > his current study he has to use Fedora, yet only the CLI environment > (Bash, yum etc.). He is not allowed to use GUI tools at all. Click & run is so much easier, CLI environments are something of the past, old school computing, that is! > > Isn't that funny? I'm having a Lover who adores me for being a > knowledgeable and seasoned "Linuxl00n" Being a "Linuxl00n" is not something to be proud of, son! > > GNU/Linux knowledge gives you all sorts of benefits :-p > Get your facts straight, Marti, GNU/Linux *SUCKS* It sucks because it is free of cost. There can't be any free lunch in today's world. I know what these free things are up to. It sucks because there is no copyright infringement or any other limitation on the use. Anybody and everybody can contribute in its development. It is messy. It sucks because nobody can claim the ownership on it-people just contribute and develop. Who is the authority on it and who is liable? I don't like software that are uncertain about who is handling them. It sucks because it has the spirit of spreading computers to one and all. What I would do if everybody knows computers and knows how to use it. It will ruin my business and my panache in my small towns where I am the celebrity and the-computer-guy. It sucks because there are many distributions in it. People just don't stick with one distro-I like to choose one thing and then stay with it. It sucks because its release cycle is 6 months-I have to upgrade it time and again. I hate these upgrades making me feel that I will be termed a retard if I don't upgrade. It sucks because people don't know what is the exact pronunciation of it? - Linix, Lynex, Linax, or what. I mean it does not have a name that can be uniform throughout the world. A name is a mark of functionality-people who claim that it works so well and does not have any working problems are under an illusion. It sucks because there are communities and groups who help you if you face problems. I don't like talking to humans. I love the computer sounds that make you feel talking to aliens. It sucks because it does not have any problem and is simple to use-how can a system without problem exist? A problem-less system is not reliable.there must be something fishy about it. It sucks because everybody who uses it says: "I like it!" This is perhaps a borrowed sentence. Nobody is giving genuine review of it. How could be a system for fool-proof? And the very best reason for it: open source. What does it mean? Is the source open and very wide from where these developers are taking new updates. Surely, one day they will term it as "empty source" or will have to "re-source".

Gregory Shearman pulled this Usenet face plant: > On 2010-11-21, Marti van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> wrote: >> On 21-11-10 05:59, Gregory Shearman wrote: >> >>> Is he Flemish? My first wife was Flemish, but I won't hold that against >>> him... 8-) >> >> Hold it against him? Why should I? > > Just a joke... I didn't get on with my first wife... 8-) "My wife and I were happy for 20 years! And then we met." >> Of course we all do. It's only that my mother passed away 15 years ago :-) > > My mum passed away 10 years ago. She didn't have a basement and I left > home when I was 17 years old. My mom is still around, bowling and golfing. Sent us a newsclip with her picture, for winning her group in golf. -- The problem with graduate students, in general, is that they have to sleep every few days.

Clogwog pulled this Usenet face plant: > Click & run is so much easier, CLI environments are something of the past, > old school computing, that is! > > Get your facts straight, Marti, GNU/Linux *SUCKS* > It sucks because it is free of cost. There can't be any free lunch in today's > world. I know what these free things are up to. > > It sucks because there is no copyright infringement or any other limitation > on the use. Anybody and everybody can contribute in its development. It is > messy. > > It sucks because nobody can claim the ownership on it-people just contribute > and develop. Who is the authority on it and who is liable? I don't like > software that are uncertain about who is handling them. > > It sucks because it has the spirit of spreading computers to one and all. > What I would do if everybody knows computers and knows how to use it. It > will ruin my business and my panache in my small towns where I am the > celebrity and the-computer-guy. > > It sucks because there are many distributions in it. People just don't stick > with one distro-I like to choose one thing and then stay with it. > > It sucks because its release cycle is 6 months-I have to upgrade it time and > again. I hate these upgrades making me feel that I will be termed a retard > if I don't upgrade. > > It sucks because people don't know what is the exact pronunciation of it? - > Linix, Lynex, Linax, or what. I mean it does not have a name that can be > uniform throughout the world. A name is a mark of functionality-people who > claim that it works so well and does not have any working problems are under > an illusion. > > It sucks because there are communities and groups who help you if you face > problems. I don't like talking to humans. I love the computer sounds that > make you feel talking to aliens. > > It sucks because it does not have any problem and is simple to use-how can a > system without problem exist? A problem-less system is not reliable.there > must be something fishy about it. > > It sucks because everybody who uses it says: "I like it!" This is perhaps a > borrowed sentence. Nobody is giving genuine review of it. How could be a > system for fool-proof? > > And the very best reason for it: open source. What does it mean? Is the > source open and very wide from where these developers are taking new > updates. Surely, one day they will term it as "empty source" or will have to > "re-source". Bizarre! -- Little known fact about Middle Earth: The Hobbits had a very sophisticated computer network! It was a Tolkien Ring...

Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Clogwog pulled this: > >> Click & run is so much easier, CLI environments are something of the >> past, old school computing, that is! >> >> Get your facts straight, Marti, GNU/Linux *SUCKS* Snip rest of troll rant. >> And the very best reason for it: open source. What does it mean? Is the >> source open and very wide from where these developers are taking new >> updates. Surely, one day they will term it as "empty source" or will >> have to "re-source". Troll gibberish. > Bizarre! Well designed application CLI interfaces work very well. An example is data base input and display. Those worked very well with text based input. Using a GUI gives no added advantage. I know of medical input operators who decried the day their Unix system was "upgraded" to a Windows system, which took more time to do input because the mouse got in its way. It was a lot easier to use hot keys to navigate and type input. Also, the only way to fix a locked up or disfunctional Windows workstation was to *REBOOT*. This was unnecessary with a Unix terminal, it worked day in and day out WITHOUT *REBOOTING*. Not everyone requires a GUI. Also, Sterling Ball put it: [quote] The other thing is that if you look at productivity. If you put a bunch of stuff on people's desktops they don't need to do their job, chances are they're going to use it. I don't have that problem. If all you need is word processing, that's all you're going to have on your desktop, a word processor. It's not going to have Paint or PowerPoint. I tell you what, our hits to eBay went down greatly when not everybody had a Web browser. For somebody whose job is filling out forms all day, invoicing and exporting, why do they need a Web browser? The idea that if you have 2,000 terminals they all have to have a Web browser, that's crazy. It just creates distractions. [/quote] Read more: http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html Thus, Linux DOES NOT SUCK. Linux desktops in a medical data input environment makes perfect sense communicating with a Unix or Linux server data base. We will see more quiet migrations as users give up the leaking sieve (with viruses, root kits, privacy information loss, spam generators, etc.) call Windows for much much more stable Linux. -- HPT

On 2010-11-21, the following emerged from the brain of Chris Ahlstrom: > Clogwog pulled this Usenet face plant: > >> Click & run is so much easier, CLI environments are something of >> the past, old school computing, that is! Bollocks. The CLI has always been the preferred way of interacting with a system for many IT professionals. >> Get your facts straight, Marti, GNU/Linux *SUCKS* It sucks because >> it is free of cost. There can't be any free lunch in today's world. >> I know what these free things are up to. People have always been donating their time and money to free services. Some help out the local fire brigade, some help feed the homeless, others write free software. While a lot of people indeed are evil and greedy to the bone, there still are lots of good-natured people around, taking pride in the free work and services they provide. >> It sucks because there is no copyright infringement or any other >> limitation on the use. Anybody and everybody can contribute in its >> development. It is messy. Yes, free software can be messy, but it certainly isn't by definition. There are a lot of well organized projects and an increasing amount of generally accepted standards in the F/OSS world. And things can get very messy in the greedy corporate world as well, perhaps even more so. >> It sucks because nobody can claim the ownership on it-people just >> contribute and develop. Who is the authority on it and who is >> liable? I don't like software that are uncertain about who is >> handling them. For the F/OSS ecosystem as a whole there's no authority, that's true. For a lot of its components there is though. Linus Torvalds still defines the direction of the Linux kernel. The Gnome team decides how Gnome will evolve. Distributors decide what they package, how they package it, and how they glue it all together. >> It sucks because it has the spirit of spreading computers to one >> and all. What I would do if everybody knows computers and knows >> how to use it. It will ruin my business and my panache in my small >> towns where I am the celebrity and the-computer-guy. If you want to stay on top of your game, you have to work for it. But don't worry: while GNU/Linux indeed encourages the idea of learning how your computer works, it is not a requirement. There will always be pleny of people with no interest in how a computer works, ready to worship you as 'the computer guy'. >> It sucks because there are many distributions in it. People just >> don't stick with one distro-I like to choose one thing and then >> stay with it. I chose Debian ages ago. If I can do this, so can you. >> It sucks because its release cycle is 6 months-I have to upgrade it >> time and again. I hate these upgrades making me feel that I will be >> termed a retard if I don't upgrade. GNU/Linux doesn't have a release cycle. The different distributions of it do, though. And it certainly isn't '6 months' for all of them. Debian for example releases 'when it's ready', while Gentoo never 'releases'. >> It sucks because people don't know what is the exact pronunciation >> of it? - Linix, Lynex, Linax, or what. I mean it does not have a >> name that can be uniform throughout the world. A name is a mark of >> functionality-people who claim that it works so well and does not >> have any working problems are under an illusion. Pronounce it however you like. >> It sucks because there are communities and groups who help you if >> you face problems. I don't like talking to humans. I love the >> computer sounds that make you feel talking to aliens. Now this is just odd. >> It sucks because it does not have any problem and is simple to >> use-how can a system without problem exist? A problem-less system >> is not reliable.there must be something fishy about it. While GNU/Linux is very stable, it doesn have the occasional problem. Like any operating system out there. You're right about it being easy to use. >> It sucks because everybody who uses it says: "I like it!" This is >> perhaps a borrowed sentence. Nobody is giving genuine review of it. >> How could be a system for fool-proof? GNU/Linux is being reviewed all the time. But I have no idea how you see this a a criterion for quality. >> And the very best reason for it: open source. What does it mean? Is >> the source open and very wide from where these developers are >> taking new updates. Surely, one day they will term it as "empty >> source" or will have to "re-source". Whatever you're on, I want some too! > Bizarre! That's the least you can say O_o -- Respect the cock... and tame the cunt! Tame it! ~ Frank T.J. Mackie

"High Plains Thumper" <hpt@invalid.invalid> schreef in bericht news:icb760$6ou$1@news.albasani.net... > Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >> Clogwog pulled this: >> >>> Click & run is so much easier, CLI environments are something of the >>> past, old school computing, that is! >>> >>> Get your facts straight, Marti, GNU/Linux *SUCKS* > > Snip rest of troll rant. > >>> And the very best reason for it: open source. What does it mean? Is the >>> source open and very wide from where these developers are taking new >>> updates. Surely, one day they will term it as "empty source" or will >>> have to "re-source". > > Troll gibberish. > From: "High Plains Thumper" <highplainsthum...@invalid.invalid> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Who's trolling here fsckwit? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: C.O.L.A. Newcomer FAQ and Primer Edition: 23 - 10/24/07 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:39:37 +0200 Lines: 238 Organization: c.o.l.advocacy MVP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20080702133959.3D5961C0008E@mwinf6206.online.nl> X-Abuse-Contact: ab...@bananasplit.info +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + C.O.L.A. Newcomer FAQ and Primer + Edition: 23 - 10/24/07 + Group: comp.os.linux.advocacy + + Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Linux Reality Team + + PLEASE VISIT OUR HALL OF LINUX IDIOTS: + + http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/ + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

On 21-11-10 15:09, TomB wrote: > On 2010-11-21, the following emerged from the brain of Chris Ahlstrom: >> Clogwog pulled this Usenet face plant: >> >>> Click& run is so much easier, CLI environments are something of >>> the past, old school computing, that is! > > Bollocks. The CLI has always been the preferred way of interacting > with a system for many IT professionals. Indeed I'm only a hobbyist, yet in my City known as "the" computerguy. Some call me Bill Gates (yes I forgive them, they don't know any better) :-) This is what I hated about Windows ME: if you wanted to boot WinME in "dosmode" you had to boot the system from a floppy disk. With a few modifications in MSDOS.SYS and a modified AUTOEXEC.BAT Batch-file and eventually modified CONFIG.SYS. (For the non MS-DOS "experienced" a Batch-file is the DOS (wannabe) equivalent of a Shell-script). That wasn't really a horror, yet booting from floppy-disk was quite slow. >>> Get your facts straight, Marti, GNU/Linux *SUCKS* It sucks because >>> it is free of cost. There can't be any free lunch in today's world. >>> I know what these free things are up to. I have my facts straight Hans. I don't need a clicketee click Bart Sh1t interface to get my work done. A CLI is just fine and in many cases much more efficient then a GUI. On the other hand the popular desktop environments on GNU/Linux are much more advanced that Windows. It is very easy to mimic the Windows (Aero), MacOS X (Aqua) and everything else under Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Enlighment etc.. I'm not even going to respond on the rest of Clogwog's bogus arguments, since they are just pathetic. > People have always been donating their time and money to free > services. Some help out the local fire brigade, some help feed the > homeless, others write free software. While a lot of people indeed are > evil and greedy to the bone, there still are lots of good-natured > people around, taking pride in the free work and services they > provide. > >>> It sucks because there is no copyright infringement or any other >>> limitation on the use. Anybody and everybody can contribute in its >>> development. It is messy. > > Yes, free software can be messy, but it certainly isn't by definition. > There are a lot of well organized projects and an increasing amount of > generally accepted standards in the F/OSS world. > > And things can get very messy in the greedy corporate world as well, > perhaps even more so. > >>> It sucks because nobody can claim the ownership on it-people just >>> contribute and develop. Who is the authority on it and who is >>> liable? I don't like software that are uncertain about who is >>> handling them. > > For the F/OSS ecosystem as a whole there's no authority, that's true. > For a lot of its components there is though. Linus Torvalds still > defines the direction of the Linux kernel. The Gnome team decides how > Gnome will evolve. Distributors decide what they package, how they > package it, and how they glue it all together. > >>> It sucks because it has the spirit of spreading computers to one >>> and all. What I would do if everybody knows computers and knows >>> how to use it. It will ruin my business and my panache in my small >>> towns where I am the celebrity and the-computer-guy. > > If you want to stay on top of your game, you have to work for it. But > don't worry: while GNU/Linux indeed encourages the idea of learning > how your computer works, it is not a requirement. There will always be > pleny of people with no interest in how a computer works, ready to > worship you as 'the computer guy'. > >>> It sucks because there are many distributions in it. People just >>> don't stick with one distro-I like to choose one thing and then >>> stay with it. > > I chose Debian ages ago. If I can do this, so can you. > >>> It sucks because its release cycle is 6 months-I have to upgrade it >>> time and again. I hate these upgrades making me feel that I will be >>> termed a retard if I don't upgrade. > > GNU/Linux doesn't have a release cycle. The different distributions of > it do, though. And it certainly isn't '6 months' for all of them. > Debian for example releases 'when it's ready', while Gentoo never > 'releases'. > >>> It sucks because people don't know what is the exact pronunciation >>> of it? - Linix, Lynex, Linax, or what. I mean it does not have a >>> name that can be uniform throughout the world. A name is a mark of >>> functionality-people who claim that it works so well and does not >>> have any working problems are under an illusion. > > Pronounce it however you like. > >>> It sucks because there are communities and groups who help you if >>> you face problems. I don't like talking to humans. I love the >>> computer sounds that make you feel talking to aliens. > > Now this is just odd. > >>> It sucks because it does not have any problem and is simple to >>> use-how can a system without problem exist? A problem-less system >>> is not reliable.there must be something fishy about it. > > While GNU/Linux is very stable, it doesn have the occasional problem. > Like any operating system out there. > > You're right about it being easy to use. > >>> It sucks because everybody who uses it says: "I like it!" This is >>> perhaps a borrowed sentence. Nobody is giving genuine review of it. >>> How could be a system for fool-proof? > > GNU/Linux is being reviewed all the time. But I have no idea how you > see this a a criterion for quality. > >>> And the very best reason for it: open source. What does it mean? Is >>> the source open and very wide from where these developers are >>> taking new updates. Surely, one day they will term it as "empty >>> source" or will have to "re-source". > > Whatever you're on, I want some too! > >> Bizarre! > > That's the least you can say O_o > -- |_|0|_| Marti T. van Lin, alias ML2MST |_|_|0| Registered GNU/Linux user 513040 |0|0|0| http://www.soundclick.com/martivanlin

On 21-11-10 10:56, TomB wrote: > On 2010-11-21, the following emerged from the brain of Marti van Lin: >> On 21-11-10 05:59, Gregory Shearman wrote: >> >>> Belgium is almost all Catholic. I found the people very straight-laced. >>> It's probably not so unusual. > > We're supposed to be catholic ;-) It's more folklore than anything > else. Not that there are no die-hard catholics anymore (unfortunately > there are), but it's more of an inheritage than real belief. It's exactly the same up here. The Carnival tradition is still very strong in Maastricht but it has nothing in common with the Catholic Church. >> Oh well he lives in the same province as I do, only he on the Belgian >> side and I on the Dutch side of the border and we are Catholic too. > > I'm in that province as well ;-) Yeah, I noticed when I watched the Hyves site of the fantastic band, you formerly joined ;-) > Perhaps we should meet up some day! As long as you don't try to hit on > me ;-) I never hit on anyone, that's the Dude's job, I follow :-p >> But like I said, if this works for him, then I respect that. If it ain't >> broke, don't fix it ;-) > > I think it's a shame that someone has to stay 'in the closet'. Fsck > the small-minded masses I say. Exactly my thought, yet for "Julian" it obviously doesn't work that way. >>>> However it was clear to me that "Julian" (not his real name) is a geek >>>> and mostly we share the same interests. >>>> >>>> He followed a study and graduated last year as a "Computer Hardware >>>> Technician" and this year he is doing "Network System Administrator". In >>>> his current study he has to use Fedora, yet only the CLI environment >>>> (Bash, yum etc.). He is not allowed to use GUI tools at all. >>> >>> Yep.. it would be essential for a network systems admin to only use the >>> CLI to administer a network. There's usually no room for GUI overhead on >>> a server setup. > > Fully seconded. A server admin should have a deep knowledge of the > console-based environment and be able to run a server headless from A > to Z. Well fortunately I'm here to teach "Julian" all this stuff. And I'm 100% convinced that he will make it. If he only had a little more faith in himself... Oh well, I'll *CHACKA* him :-) -- |_|0|_| Marti T. van Lin, alias ML2MST |_|_|0| Registered GNU/Linux user 513040 |0|0|0| http://www.soundclick.com/martivanlin