of the week and can't possibly remember them
all.
Thanks very much.
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Trey Harris http://www.lopsa.org/
President, LOPSA -- The League of Professional System Administrators
Opinions expressed above are not necess
I've been trying to learn git recently, and am finding it difficult
compared to the RCS → CVS → SVN curve, which was much more gentle.
I've already done two releases of one of my CPAN modules with the code
hosted on github, so I'm doing ok with simple stuff, but I still feel
very unsure of mys
In a message dated Tue, 4 May 2010, Aleksey Tsalolikhin writes:
Hi. The SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey reports for 2006 and 2005 state,
in "Statistical Exclusions":
The few respondents who cited salaries greater than
US$200,000 are excluded from most of the analyses
throughou
In a message dated Thu, 6 May 2010, Brian Mathis writes:
With your firewall issues you will probably be better served with the
distributed VCS tools, like Mercurial, Git, etc... They give each
developer a full copy of the repository, so they won't need to be
accessing over the network all the t
To follow on from what Jesse said: when I'm being interviewed by a
technical person who will be doing work similar to mine, I insist on
hearing about an area where the person is currently or was recently
frustrated (and if they try to tell me about a purely technical problem
they can't figure o
Yves,
Why do you say to use old-fashioned tools for storing binaries? In my
experience, git does a fine job managing binaries. You can even set an
attribute to tell git what tool to use instead of diff to compare revisions of
binaries (if such a tool is available to dump the file into text for
his wrote:
>Please don't start a "which VCS is better even though I know it's git"
>war. All we need to talk about are which options are out there, which
>I believe we have already done, and then allow the OP to make the
>right decision based on their own requirement
In a message dated Thu, 6 May 2010, John BORIS writes:
> Since I started this thread let me chime back in. I know the need for
> VCS but using it for binaries I think , for my setup, isn't a good fit.
> What I have done have always kept copies of ecery compiled COBOL code
> and C code with an ext
In a message dated Fri, 7 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey writes:
>> From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On
>> Behalf Of Trey Harris
>>
>> assuming you already have SSH access to machines; just set up a
>> pseudouser with a restricted login
