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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Akjwyzepal(m): 2:23pm On Oct 15, 2015
Anybody has d link to download d Mp3 format of dis 2face songs kindly quote me. Nt videos o
* see me so.
* Higher spiritual healing.
* Dance floor
* Ihe neme
* For instance
* My rainbow
* Enter the place
* Be there
* Nfana Ibaga
Pls if u have any on ur fone u could upload it on 247waptricks.tk i wil download frm there. THANKS
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by DAV001(m): 2:25pm On Oct 15, 2015
I AGREE WITH YOU TEMMI001
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Akjwyzepal(m): 2:25pm On Oct 15, 2015
My 4th FTC on this thread and still counting. #TEAMBBF Thread Wisely
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by GideonG(m): 2:26pm On Oct 15, 2015
Yungmilio2:
ROTFL but still on still we shall Get there no matter d distance
Amen oo

1 Like

Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Yungmilio2(m): 2:27pm On Oct 15, 2015
DharmyYinks:

Is it dat d light offcampus is dat bad ni or not enuf and also d issue of water...Unilorin students n essays..lol.

Tanks boss...d bolded gat me laughing..bae ko boo ni grin


the supply of electricity has been better since APC came to power
you can also buy a small gen ( 6 - 12k gen to solve that )
...
some hostels have general gen
with borehole to solve water problem
...
my own hostel
we have a general gen for pumping water
and
80% of us have gen - so light issue not a problem
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by starkid7k(m): 2:32pm On Oct 15, 2015
Yungmilio2:
i no be agent ooo but no worry when i enter ilorin this coming week i go try help out with some numbers
alryt.....tank u

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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Tobihence(m): 2:35pm On Oct 15, 2015
klarrychenko94:
See painment ooo. hehehehehe....... Guy u get problem(a very big one). You know what move dat ur lazy ass down to Ilorin if you really want an answer to ur question. I am sure Ambali will be happy to host and give you a satisfactory answer.
I can see how rude ur type of person is but am not bothered, let me let u know that for 2014/2015 thread, a staylite said that a total of 1,180 DE peeps would be admitted so if u don't have an answer to my question just keep mute and ignore, nobody is an island
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by klarrychenko94: 2:37pm On Oct 15, 2015
Akjwyzepal:
Anybody has d link to download d Mp3 format of dis 2face songs kindly quote me. Nt videos o
* see me so.
* Higher spiritual healing.
* Dance floor
* Ihe neme
* For instance
* My rainbow
* Enter the place
* Be there
* Nfana Ibaga
Pls if u have any on ur fone u could upload it on 247waptricks.tk i wil download frm there. THANKS
someone has told you the easy way to download music with google search already. Just type the name of the song then artist and add .mp3 to it (Be there by 2face.mp3). There you get ur different sites and download link. If one mess up try another site..................
.
.
well try this link for be there(remove the .... I put am because of ban) w.a.p.9j.at.ric.kz.net/site_168.xhtml?get-file=1577

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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by pushtani(m): 2:38pm On Oct 15, 2015
oga мιѕ ,,a qυeѕтιon ғor υ gυyѕ,ιғ υ нave goттen тнe alerт and υ plan тo ѕтay on caмpυѕ,can υ мaĸe arrangeмenтѕ ғor ιт вeғore тнe clearance and ѕcreenιng proceѕѕ ιғ yeѕ ,нow do ι go aвoυт ιт,ι мean wнere do ι go or wнo do ι conтacт ?? pleaѕe anѕwer мe. :-)



over тo yoυ
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by klarrychenko94: 2:40pm On Oct 15, 2015
pushtani:
oga мιѕ ,,a qυeѕтιon ғor υ gυyѕ,ιғ υ нave goттen тнe alerт and υ plan тo ѕтay on caмpυѕ,can υ мaĸe arrangeмenтѕ ғor ιт вeғore тнe clearance and ѕcreenιng proceѕѕ ιғ yeѕ ,нow do ι go aвoυт ιт,ι мean wнere do ι go or wнo do ι conтacт ?? pleaѕe anѕwer мe. :-)



over тo yoυ
stalites important question ooo. Gist us about the booking process.
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by micynute94(m): 2:46pm On Oct 15, 2015
Cant stop laughing Lol..
Been trying to install ubuntu on my system as it's way cool with its GUI and command line but have been having probs with the boot loader, silly me... twas just a li2 thing i omitted or say included that shouldn't v bin there. Finally installed it n enjoying it.
The angry part z Linux is dam.n memory hungry, it's a beast wen it comes to your memory....
Now the funny part z , i went online in search 4 y i shouldn't install linux ..
N i saw some very hilarious comments....


This is a rant. But I'm so angry and frustrated right now
that you're just going to have to live with the rant. And, for
you Linux people, you who know it all and look down upon
the people who don't spend day and night breathing in the
insane arcana of all the little fiddly bits that make up
modern distros, I have this to say: I don't have your kind of
time.
I've had it. I've had it with all the patched together pieces
and parts that all have to be just the right versions, with
just the right dependencies, compiled in just the right way,
during just the right phase of the moon, with just the right
number of people tilting left at just the right time.
I've had it with all the different package managers. With
some code distributed with one package manager and
other code distributed with other package managers. With
modules that can be downloaded on Ubuntu just by typing
the sequence in the anemic how-to, but won't work at all
on CentOS or Fedora, because the repositories weren't
specified in just, exactly, EXACTLY, the right frickin' order
on the third Wednesday of the month.
I've had it with all the different shells and UIs. With builds
and distros that won't even launch into a UI until you've
established a solid SSH connection, downloaded all the
parts, recompiled the package manager, and then -- while
the network connection happens almost like magic -- still
need to completely set up a remote monitor screen by
tweaking yet. Another. Frak-lapping. Ini. File.
I've had it with the fact that this stuff doesn't work reliably.
Oh, sure, if you work with Linux every hour of every day, if
this is all you do, and all you love, if you've never had a
date since you grew that one facial hair, if you've never
had any other responsibility in your entire life, then you
know every bit of every undocumented piece of folklore.
You know which forums and which forum posters have the
very long and bizarre command line that only. That. One.
Guy. Knows.
And you know that if you type that command line in on,
say, Distro version 4.3, it'll work, but it'll break miserably
on version 4.3a, because THAT version requires a
completely different entire program, packaged with a
completely different package manager, and THAT
command line sequence can be gotten by getting on just
the right IRC channel, at just the right time of night, and
talking just the right way, to that one incredibly self-
absorbed luser who happens to know that you need to put
the undocumented -lM in front of the fourth parameter.
And woe be it to the unfortunate fool who gets the
capitalization wrong, because putting an -Lm in front of the
fourth parameter does a completely different, and even
further undocumented, and possibly dangerous-to-the-
entire planet sort of thing, because, well, "you shoulda
known!".
Why have I had it, you ask?
I've had it because after spending months jumping through
all those hoops, and more, feeling like I had to pass
through all four levels of Ninja Warrior and climb to the top
of Mount Midoriyama, just to be allowed to launch frickin'
VNC in a GUI or load the backup program I use on all the
other machines on my network... after all that, the stupid,
horrible, nasty, back-stabbing, disloyal, hodge-podge,
disorganized, unsupervised, chaotic craptasm that's called
Linux... after I got the whole thing working, it crashed.
Oh, and it didn't crash easy. See, I was done. I was getting
ready to deploy my server. I just wanted to do a last-
minute update because I'm a good frickin' doobie and I do
my updates. So when Gnome said there were updates to
apply, I said okay.
Can you imagine my rank naivety here? I actually said
Okay to a Linux update. I know I should have known better.
I know I should have, instead, formatted another hard drive,
dd'd my furry little pile of files over, downloaded the source
tarball, compiled everything all over again, prayed to Linus,
turned my back to Redmond, and built my entire operating
system up from scratch, just to install some security
updates.
But I didn't. I figured that after all these years, Linux was
finally robust enough to not rip me a new one because I
just wanted to run a server and keep it up to date. Silly
me! Silly, silly me!
So I ran the update process. And it died. Abnormal
exception.
And there went all my work and all my time. Down the
drain.
Now, it won't boot.
Worse, the box is co-located at my ISP, so I had to make
a begging plea, requesting they please rebuild my drives
and please reinstall my OS. I'm fortunate it was still a box
in staging, that I wasn't running live systems on it, or I'd be
completely and totally screwed, rather than just pissed off
to the point of spitting.

Now, despite what I'm sure you commenters will say, I'm
no tech babe in the woods. I've been a UNIX product
manager, I've written kernel code, and I've taught
programming at the college level. But the problem with
today's modern Linux is that it's more than just the kernel.
It's an amalgamation of thousands of crufty pieces, all
stapled together, most of which work for only one specific
combination of moving parts. Mismatch anything, and the
entire tower of cards falls to pieces.
Sure, Linux machines can make great servers. But they
require a dedicated group of Linux groupies who know all
the folklore, all the secret handshakes, and where all the
bodies are buried.
Me, I'm just a busy dude with other stuff to do. I just need
to feed some Web pages and run my programs. I don't
have the time to do the dance of blood it takes to truly be
one with the Linux culture.
I've had it. Oh, sure, I'll still run some turnkey appliances
based on Linux in VMs that I can backup, snapshot, and
restore in a heartbeat, but for the core engine that drives
my servers, I am -- from now on -- all Windows, all the
time.
I just can't afford to waste any more time with Linux. Not
when -- by design -- everything is held together with
toothpicks, duct tape, and bailing wire.
No way. You couldn't pay me to run Linux on my raw iron.
Never again.
Update after I've calmed down
I talked with my ISP today. They told me that when they
came in this morning, the server monitor was spewing an
incredible number of error messages, and -- in their words
-- it was erroring worse than they've ever seen.
Here's where it gets crazy, though. I asked if they used
this distro (CentOS, version 5.6) anywhere else in their
organization.
"Yes," I was told. "On lots of machines. But we don't ever
run updates. Once it's installed, we leave it alone."
That's how you survive with a Linux distro apparently.
Once it's installed and works, never, ever update it.
If that is, in fact, how other ISPs are managing their Linux-
based machines, that means they're not updating their
systems as new security exploits become known. In order
to prevent their machines from becoming radioactive piles
of rubble because a simple update was initiated, they're
leaving their machines (and their customers) open to all
sorts of malicious attacks.
In my professional (and slightly more lucid opinion), Linux
is a fine operating system. It is a robust operating system.
It is a flexible operating system. Just not all three. It can't
be fine, flexible, and robust.
Try that, and the Earth will open up and swallow you whole.




So funny..

1 Like

Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by DharmyYinks: 2:49pm On Oct 15, 2015
Yungmilio2:
the supply of electricity has been better since APC came to power you can also buy a small gen ( 6 - 12k gen to solve that ) ... some hostels have general gen with borehole to solve water problem ... my own hostel we have a general gen for pumping water and 80% of us have gen - so light issue not a problem
I guess dat solves it all...tanks..am grateful.

BTW. wats d price of ur hostel
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by holuwamurewa(m): 2:57pm On Oct 15, 2015
lhorla:
soon,i pray....y askin BTW

LA dp la cray grin

Nice hat

ND wah course
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by LEGITLAYO: 2:57pm On Oct 15, 2015
micynute94:
Cant stop laughing Lol..
Been trying to install ubuntu on my system as it's way cool with its GUI and command line but have been having probs with the boot loader, silly me... twas just a li2 thing i omitted or say included that shouldn't v bin there. Finally installed it n enjoying it.
The angry part z Linux is dam.n memory hungry, it's a beast wen it comes to your memory....
Now the funny part z , i went online in search 4 y i shouldn't install linux ..
N i saw some very hilarious comments....


This is a rant. But I'm so angry and frustrated right now
that you're just going to have to live with the rant. And, for
you Linux people, you who know it all and look down upon
the people who don't spend day and night breathing in the
insane arcana of all the little fiddly bits that make up
modern distros, I have this to say: I don't have your kind of
time.
I've had it. I've had it with all the patched together pieces
and parts that all have to be just the right versions, with
just the right dependencies, compiled in just the right way,
during just the right phase of the moon, with just the right
number of people tilting left at just the right time.
I've had it with all the different package managers. With
some code distributed with one package manager and
other code distributed with other package managers. With
modules that can be downloaded on Ubuntu just by typing
the sequence in the anemic how-to, but won't work at all
on CentOS or Fedora, because the repositories weren't
specified in just, exactly, EXACTLY, the right frickin' order
on the third Wednesday of the month.
I've had it with all the different shells and UIs. With builds
and distros that won't even launch into a UI until you've
established a solid SSH connection, downloaded all the
parts, recompiled the package manager, and then -- while
the network connection happens almost like magic -- still
need to completely set up a remote monitor screen by
tweaking yet. Another. Frak-lapping. Ini. File.
I've had it with the fact that this stuff doesn't work reliably.
Oh, sure, if you work with Linux every hour of every day, if
this is all you do, and all you love, if you've never had a
date since you grew that one facial hair, if you've never
had any other responsibility in your entire life, then you
know every bit of every undocumented piece of folklore.
You know which forums and which forum posters have the
very long and bizarre command line that only. That. One.
Guy. Knows.
And you know that if you type that command line in on,
say, Distro version 4.3, it'll work, but it'll break miserably
on version 4.3a, because THAT version requires a
completely different entire program, packaged with a
completely different package manager, and THAT
command line sequence can be gotten by getting on just
the right IRC channel, at just the right time of night, and
talking just the right way, to that one incredibly self-
absorbed luser who happens to know that you need to put
the undocumented -lM in front of the fourth parameter.
And woe be it to the unfortunate fool who gets the
capitalization wrong, because putting an -Lm in front of the
fourth parameter does a completely different, and even
further undocumented, and possibly dangerous-to-the-
entire planet sort of thing, because, well, "you shoulda
known!".
Why have I had it, you ask?
I've had it because after spending months jumping through
all those hoops, and more, feeling like I had to pass
through all four levels of Ninja Warrior and climb to the top
of Mount Midoriyama, just to be allowed to launch frickin'
VNC in a GUI or load the backup program I use on all the
other machines on my network... after all that, the stupid,
horrible, nasty, back-stabbing, disloyal, hodge-podge,
disorganized, unsupervised, chaotic craptasm that's called
Linux... after I got the whole thing working, it crashed.
Oh, and it didn't crash easy. See, I was done. I was getting
ready to deploy my server. I just wanted to do a last-
minute update because I'm a good frickin' doobie and I do
my updates. So when Gnome said there were updates to
apply, I said okay.
Can you imagine my rank naivety here? I actually said
Okay to a Linux update. I know I should have known better.
I know I should have, instead, formatted another hard drive,
dd'd my furry little pile of files over, downloaded the source
tarball, compiled everything all over again, prayed to Linus,
turned my back to Redmond, and built my entire operating
system up from scratch, just to install some security
updates.
But I didn't. I figured that after all these years, Linux was
finally robust enough to not rip me a new one because I
just wanted to run a server and keep it up to date. Silly
me! Silly, silly me!
So I ran the update process. And it died. Abnormal
exception.
And there went all my work and all my time. Down the
drain.
Now, it won't boot.
Worse, the box is co-located at my ISP, so I had to make
a begging plea, requesting they please rebuild my drives
and please reinstall my OS. I'm fortunate it was still a box
in staging, that I wasn't running live systems on it, or I'd be
completely and totally screwed, rather than just pissed off
to the point of spitting.

Now, despite what I'm sure you commenters will say, I'm
no tech babe in the woods. I've been a UNIX product
manager, I've written kernel code, and I've taught
programming at the college level. But the problem with
today's modern Linux is that it's more than just the kernel.
It's an amalgamation of thousands of crufty pieces, all
stapled together, most of which work for only one specific
combination of moving parts. Mismatch anything, and the
entire tower of cards falls to pieces.
Sure, Linux machines can make great servers. But they
require a dedicated group of Linux groupies who know all
the folklore, all the secret handshakes, and where all the
bodies are buried.
Me, I'm just a busy dude with other stuff to do. I just need
to feed some Web pages and run my programs. I don't
have the time to do the dance of blood it takes to truly be
one with the Linux culture.
I've had it. Oh, sure, I'll still run some turnkey appliances
based on Linux in VMs that I can backup, snapshot, and
restore in a heartbeat, but for the core engine that drives
my servers, I am -- from now on -- all Windows, all the
time.
I just can't afford to waste any more time with Linux. Not
when -- by design -- everything is held together with
toothpicks, duct tape, and bailing wire.
No way. You couldn't pay me to run Linux on my raw iron.
Never again.
Update after I've calmed down
I talked with my ISP today. They told me that when they
came in this morning, the server monitor was spewing an
incredible number of error messages, and -- in their words
-- it was erroring worse than they've ever seen.
Here's where it gets crazy, though. I asked if they used
this distro (CentOS, version 5.6) anywhere else in their
organization.
"Yes," I was told. "On lots of machines. But we don't ever
run updates. Once it's installed, we leave it alone."
That's how you survive with a Linux distro apparently.
Once it's installed and works, never, ever update it.
If that is, in fact, how other ISPs are managing their Linux-
based machines, that means they're not updating their
systems as new security exploits become known. In order
to prevent their machines from becoming radioactive piles
of rubble because a simple update was initiated, they're
leaving their machines (and their customers) open to all
sorts of malicious attacks.
In my professional (and slightly more lucid opinion), Linux
is a fine operating system. It is a robust operating system.
It is a flexible operating system. Just not all three. It can't
be fine, flexible, and robust.
Try that, and the Earth will open up and swallow you whole.




So funny..
angry
Are you alright at all....
You think it'd everybody here that likes reading tech news?? undecided

Wetin dey do all these ICS students sef?

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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by DharmyYinks: 2:59pm On Oct 15, 2015
Akjwyzepal:
Anybody has d link to download d Mp3 format of dis 2face songs kindly quote me. Nt videos o
* see me so.
* Higher spiritual healing.
* Dance floor
* Ihe neme
* For instance
* My rainbow
* Enter the place
* Be there
* Nfana Ibaga
Pls if u have any on ur fone u could upload it on 247waptricks.tk i wil download frm there. THANKS
For enter d place

www.naijaguddys.com/music/view/27979816?get-file=2Face%20Idibia%20-%20ENTER%20THE%20PLACE

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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by fateemah06: 3:00pm On Oct 15, 2015
LEGITLAYO:
angry Are you alright at all.... You think it'd everybody here that likes reading tech news?? undecided
Wetin dey do all these ICS students sef?
I wonder o....
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by micynute94(m): 3:02pm On Oct 15, 2015
LEGITLAYO:
angry Are you alright at all.... You think it'd everybody here that likes reading tech news?? undecided
Wetin dey do all these ICS students sef?
grin grin
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by NOBODYY: 3:02pm On Oct 15, 2015
Pls does Unilorin's private hostel have a viewing center wey i fit dey watch my chelsea??
Is dere a Shopping mall within the campus too??
And if i acquire a private hostel will i be allowed to leave the campus on saturday or sunday evening??
Is dere a soccer pitch wey person fit take chill out at least once in a while on saturdays
A reply will be so much appreciated
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by debbiebliss: 3:02pm On Oct 15, 2015
fateemah06:
I wonder o....
the tin tire me oh . I tink its high time school resumes cos I smell jobless ness in the air
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by micynute94(m): 3:12pm On Oct 15, 2015
debbiebliss:
the tin tire me oh . I tink its high time school resumes cos I smell jobless ness in the air

ACTUALLY plan on installing d OS @ work...
#L.A. JOBLESSNESS grin grin grin
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by haywhy911(m): 3:15pm On Oct 15, 2015
GideonG:

I remember wo, u no dey 4get oo. Well as a matter of fact I feel like relishing on jallof rice right now.
*blushes* @bolded. Bro G,e b like say u sabi cook?
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by agent9(m): 3:27pm On Oct 15, 2015
lotusflower:
Looooooolzzz...9yc idea


Naso grin grin grin grin
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Tobihence(m): 3:34pm On Oct 15, 2015
The school is really busy with convocation & anniversary plans......#optimisticofsecondlist
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by quiethollu(m): 3:37pm On Oct 15, 2015
micynute94:
Cant stop laughing Lol..
Been trying to install ubuntu on my system as it's way cool with its GUI and command line but have been having probs with the boot loader, silly me... twas just a li2 thing i omitted or say included that shouldn't v bin there. Finally installed it n enjoying it.
The angry part z Linux is dam.n memory hungry, it's a beast wen it comes to your memory....
Now the funny part z , i went online in search 4 y i shouldn't install linux ..
N i saw some very hilarious comments....


This is a rant. But I'm so angry and frustrated right now
that you're just going to have to live with the rant. And, for
you Linux people, you who know it all and look down upon
the people who don't spend day and night breathing in the
insane arcana of all the little fiddly bits that make up
modern distros, I have this to say: I don't have your kind of
time.
I've had it. I've had it with all the patched together pieces
and parts that all have to be just the right versions, with
just the right dependencies, compiled in just the right way,
during just the right phase of the moon, with just the right
number of people tilting left at just the right time.
I've had it with all the different package managers. With
some code distributed with one package manager and
other code distributed with other package managers. With
modules that can be downloaded on Ubuntu just by typing
the sequence in the anemic how-to, but won't work at all
on CentOS or Fedora, because the repositories weren't
specified in just, exactly, EXACTLY, the right frickin' order
on the third Wednesday of the month.
I've had it with all the different shells and UIs. With builds
and distros that won't even launch into a UI until you've
established a solid SSH connection, downloaded all the
parts, recompiled the package manager, and then -- while
the network connection happens almost like magic -- still
need to completely set up a remote monitor screen by
tweaking yet. Another. Frak-lapping. Ini. File.
I've had it with the fact that this stuff doesn't work reliably.
Oh, sure, if you work with Linux every hour of every day, if
this is all you do, and all you love, if you've never had a
date since you grew that one facial hair, if you've never
had any other responsibility in your entire life, then you
know every bit of every undocumented piece of folklore.
You know which forums and which forum posters have the
very long and bizarre command line that only. That. One.
Guy. Knows.
And you know that if you type that command line in on,
say, Distro version 4.3, it'll work, but it'll break miserably
on version 4.3a, because THAT version requires a
completely different entire program, packaged with a
completely different package manager, and THAT
command line sequence can be gotten by getting on just
the right IRC channel, at just the right time of night, and
talking just the right way, to that one incredibly self-
absorbed luser who happens to know that you need to put
the undocumented -lM in front of the fourth parameter.
And woe be it to the unfortunate fool who gets the
capitalization wrong, because putting an -Lm in front of the
fourth parameter does a completely different, and even
further undocumented, and possibly dangerous-to-the-
entire planet sort of thing, because, well, "you shoulda
known!".
Why have I had it, you ask?
I've had it because after spending months jumping through
all those hoops, and more, feeling like I had to pass
through all four levels of Ninja Warrior and climb to the top
of Mount Midoriyama, just to be allowed to launch frickin'
VNC in a GUI or load the backup program I use on all the
other machines on my network... after all that, the stupid,
horrible, nasty, back-stabbing, disloyal, hodge-podge,
disorganized, unsupervised, chaotic craptasm that's called
Linux... after I got the whole thing working, it crashed.
Oh, and it didn't crash easy. See, I was done. I was getting
ready to deploy my server. I just wanted to do a last-
minute update because I'm a good frickin' doobie and I do
my updates. So when Gnome said there were updates to
apply, I said okay.
Can you imagine my rank naivety here? I actually said
Okay to a Linux update. I know I should have known better.
I know I should have, instead, formatted another hard drive,
dd'd my furry little pile of files over, downloaded the source
tarball, compiled everything all over again, prayed to Linus,
turned my back to Redmond, and built my entire operating
system up from scratch, just to install some security
updates.
But I didn't. I figured that after all these years, Linux was
finally robust enough to not rip me a new one because I
just wanted to run a server and keep it up to date. Silly
me! Silly, silly me!
So I ran the update process. And it died. Abnormal
exception.
And there went all my work and all my time. Down the
drain.
Now, it won't boot.
Worse, the box is co-located at my ISP, so I had to make
a begging plea, requesting they please rebuild my drives
and please reinstall my OS. I'm fortunate it was still a box
in staging, that I wasn't running live systems on it, or I'd be
completely and totally screwed, rather than just pissed off
to the point of spitting.

Now, despite what I'm sure you commenters will say, I'm
no tech babe in the woods. I've been a UNIX product
manager, I've written kernel code, and I've taught
programming at the college level. But the problem with
today's modern Linux is that it's more than just the kernel.
It's an amalgamation of thousands of crufty pieces, all
stapled together, most of which work for only one specific
combination of moving parts. Mismatch anything, and the
entire tower of cards falls to pieces.
Sure, Linux machines can make great servers. But they
require a dedicated group of Linux groupies who know all
the folklore, all the secret handshakes, and where all the
bodies are buried.
Me, I'm just a busy dude with other stuff to do. I just need
to feed some Web pages and run my programs. I don't
have the time to do the dance of blood it takes to truly be
one with the Linux culture.
I've had it. Oh, sure, I'll still run some turnkey appliances
based on Linux in VMs that I can backup, snapshot, and
restore in a heartbeat, but for the core engine that drives
my servers, I am -- from now on -- all Windows, all the
time.
I just can't afford to waste any more time with Linux. Not
when -- by design -- everything is held together with
toothpicks, duct tape, and bailing wire.
No way. You couldn't pay me to run Linux on my raw iron.
Never again.
Update after I've calmed down
I talked with my ISP today. They told me that when they
came in this morning, the server monitor was spewing an
incredible number of error messages, and -- in their words
-- it was erroring worse than they've ever seen.
Here's where it gets crazy, though. I asked if they used
this distro (CentOS, version 5.6) anywhere else in their
organization.
"Yes," I was told. "On lots of machines. But we don't ever
run updates. Once it's installed, we leave it alone."
That's how you survive with a Linux distro apparently.
Once it's installed and works, never, ever update it.
If that is, in fact, how other ISPs are managing their Linux-
based machines, that means they're not updating their
systems as new security exploits become known. In order
to prevent their machines from becoming radioactive piles
of rubble because a simple update was initiated, they're
leaving their machines (and their customers) open to all
sorts of malicious attacks.
In my professional (and slightly more lucid opinion), Linux
is a fine operating system. It is a robust operating system.
It is a flexible operating system. Just not all three. It can't
be fine, flexible, and robust.
Try that, and the Earth will open up and swallow you whole.




So funny..


lipsrsealed undecided undecided...not 'so funny'..plz try again
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by lotusflower(f): 3:40pm On Oct 15, 2015
agent9:


Naso grin grin grin grin
grin grin grin grin

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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Tushkid74(m): 3:44pm On Oct 15, 2015
GideonG:
Monikerz that amazes me for real!
Shankies215 : Sounds like one delicious fish pepe soup.
Divadeola : Sounds like sweet chocolate.
Nicky058: Sounds like Nicky Minaj licking lolipop and acting funny lolsss
Mzlarem: Sounds like something you can just walk up to a pharmacy and get, some sweet like codeine at el, to use them is ok but to abuse them is a no no
Blazzze, Tushkid74 and Poshflames1: Sounds like royal highness (EG His royal highness and Your Majesty )
What's good,Bro.
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by IQDONABLE(m): 3:50pm On Oct 15, 2015
duke59:
Mzlarem my dearest daughter in law hope itz not really bad oo and do hv a speedy recovery
Praying for u luv

Get well soon Mzlarem

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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by haywhy911(m): 3:50pm On Oct 15, 2015
I guess Unilorin is delaying the release of the 2nd list just to give ample opportunity and time to those who haven't learnt how to cook. Nobodyy,dharmyYinks,GideonG,IDGAF,LegitLayo,duke59. hope u are all putting the finishing touches to ur culinary skills?
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Hajihbholah(f): 3:59pm On Oct 15, 2015
SuperModz:
Watchu thinking??
wer 2 reside btw off campus&hostel
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by IQDONABLE(m): 4:02pm On Oct 15, 2015
Akjwyzepal:
About the hostel issue 90% of d guys here av a mission and most of us already no dat nah oustide sch tinx. Especialy my oga @ d top sveen. Why would I stay in a rum with 7 other guys nd gals wunt be able 2 visit me wen am nt a gay. Nt 2 talk of sum guys dat dnt bath and d odour that would be in d rum, the toilet is a no go area. My dad use 2 say sumtin dat if u cannot eat in ur toilet den u're dirty.

1 bottle of Origin for this man!!!

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Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by NOBODYY: 4:04pm On Oct 15, 2015
haywhy911:
I guess Unilorin is delaying the release of the 2nd list just to give ample opportunity and time to those who haven't learnt how to cook. Nobodyy,dharmyYinks,GideonG,IDGAF,LegitLayo,duke59. hope u are all putting the finishing touches to ur culinary skills?
See haywhy o...
Who tell u say i no sabi cook shocked shocked
Even Ladies like Temmi001 can't compete wiv me lipsrsealed
Re: Unilorin Utme 2015/2016 Aspirants by Akjwyzepal(m): 4:04pm On Oct 15, 2015
Micynute94 wetin dy wory u sef? My armour tank go soon reach ur area. See as u dy type like sey 2moro no dy. No make me vex o or else i go ubuntu ur head. And doze of u wey quote d guy u nid cwious flogging.

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