[NBLUG/talk] apt == dangerous

[Stephen Cilley]

I'm confused, are you saying that apt deleted your
homework?
(I can just hear the excuse now, "I'm sorry, teacher,
but linux ate my homework." ^_^)

Stephen

--- William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't.
> 
> Touch.
> 
> Apt-get.
> 
> On.
> 
> The.
> 
> Machine.
> 
> You.
> 
> Have.
> 
> All.
> 
> Your.
> 
> Homework.
> 
> On.
> 
> During.
> 
> The.
> 
> School.
> 
> Year.
> 
> Ever.
> 
> Ever.
> 
> Ever.
> 
> Especially not when you're on dial-up and it takes
> eight hours to
> re-download all the packages that X needs after
> apt's dependency
> management "helpfully" nukes them.
> 
> Don't ask me how I know. ;-)
> 
> On the bright side, I have Firefox 1.5 now! :-D
> 
> Random question: Anybody have any specific
> recommendations for
> hardware firewalls? I'm looking for something under
> $100 for a network
> with both Win32 and Linux machines. I would need to
> be able to
> configure it enough so that normal web browsing and
> FTP work for my
> mom, and I would like to be able to also use
> CVS/Subversion, myself.
> 
> I'd rather not have to install and maintain software
> firewalls on all
> the Winboxen in the house if/when we get DSL.
> 
> William
> 
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