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No offense, but Perl is like rolling an armadillo over your keyboard. ;)
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patrikG wrote:No offense, but Perl is like rolling an armadillo over your keyboard. ;)
:lol: I like perl.
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Even though i agree that it looks like a perl script is just "like rolling an armadillo over your keyboard," I feel like it is beautiful in the fact that someone who even has beginner programming skills cant read it at all. PHP is a very simple looking language, the structure makes sense, and even non-programmers can read it for the most part.

I have never learned perl because of its complexity and the fact that I can do anything i want to with perl with a php script. :(
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d11wtq wrote:
patrikG wrote:No offense, but Perl is like rolling an armadillo over your keyboard. ;)
:lol: I like perl.
+1. I'd say Perl is beautiful in its own way... same way as Anacondas are :)
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Practically Everything Really Likeable *coughs* :P

I was never much a fan of Perl...it's why I switched to PHP.
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I'm just sitting here wondering how Patrick knows about my armadillo?! :oops: Egads! My closest held pair programming secret has gotten out!! 8O
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panic! wrote:If you love RPM you'd love Debian's API, you can even convert an RPM to a DEB using debain's ALIEN, all this stuff is obviously avaliable on Ubuntu because it's a fork. :)
APT not API..whoops
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scottayy wrote: I'm usually too busy. =
How can you be too busy to use your computer ;) hahaha.
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panic! wrote:
scottayy wrote: I'm usually too busy. =
How can you be too busy to use your computer ;) hahaha.
It makes sense, when you start out using the 'nux as your primary desktop operating system, productivity is slowed, then gets faster and faster.
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Todd_Z wrote:
panic! wrote:
scottayy wrote: I'm usually too busy. =
How can you be too busy to use your computer ;) hahaha.
It makes sense, when you start out using the 'nux as your primary desktop operating system, productivity is slowed, then gets faster and faster.
Amen...I haven't got anything done in the last 3-4 days of toying with this distro and that...finally I settled on Ubuntu and now I'm trying to learn it's package management...

Once I learn *nix however, no dought my productivity will sky rocket...I love the flexibility and complete control over everything, but at the same time it's a PITA x 10 :P
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Check out the hotkeys with ubuntu. They are so good in terms of speeding up random <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>. I never touch my mouse.
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Hockey wrote: I'm trying to learn it's package management...
Apt is easy, you can learn it in 30 seconds..

Enable repositories:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list - then uncomment the lines that start with deb-src and deb

Update your sources
sudo apt-get update

Find Stuff:
sudo apt-cache search *keyword*

Install stuff:
sudo apt-get install *package name*
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Hockey wrote:Amen...I haven't got anything done in the last 3-4 days of toying with this distro and that...finally I settled on Ubuntu and now I'm trying to learn it's package management...

Once I learn *nix however, no dought my productivity will sky rocket...I love the flexibility and complete control over everything, but at the same time it's a PITA x 10 :P
I had a lot better luck with the Kubuntu than the Ubuntu Live CD same versions total different results.

Might want to download EasyUbuntu.

I'm a lazy bastard ... just using Adept GUI.
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Todd_Z wrote:Check out the hotkeys with ubuntu. They are so good in terms of speeding up random <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>. I never touch my mouse.
I read alot, so because of that I use a mouse, mostly my scroll wheel...

Although I'm huge fan of custom hot keys :P

panic!

I think I'm starting to see how Ubuntu uses apt and it's native application installer, etc...seeing how they differe from RPM...

One thing I can't figure out though, is these damn dependancies...I mean I understand why...but...WTF...

For instance I want to drop accessibility features (Don't need em') and I can't because along with them go ubuntu-desktop :?
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you can ignore the depency with a certain package. man apt-get maybe?
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