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The Lounge War Stories Prize of being an Admin - Part 2 Post 302816793 by os2mac on Tuesday 4th of June 2013 03:04:41 PM
Old 06-04-2013
Thoughts....

"Unix is user-friendly. It just isn't promiscuous about which users it's friendly with." – Steven King

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie

xkcd: tar

not a religious war on my part. I am the only UNIX admin in a mostly windows shop... yet I'm still here, not going anywhere and my footprint is actually increasing. We must be good for something....

I'd also like to add that I don't think windows admins are lesser beings, the implication was that they weren't used to our environment and it was something to watch for. Our app layer was coded by windows programmers so the numbering systems and naming conventions weren't consistent. If you made assumptions either way it would bite you...

Last edited by os2mac; 06-04-2013 at 04:10 PM.. Reason: additional comments.
 

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purple-url-handler(1)						   User Commands					     purple-url-handler(1)

NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL Example: purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5) purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/ NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007. SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-url-handler(1)
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