[sf-lug] Need help with VirtualBox on openSUSE and Feisty (orGutsy)

[Blake Haggerty]

Been reading this thread for awhile, I understand the need for requirements analysis.

 

Rick just brought up a question that I have always known you never do but I couldn't tell you why...

 

>Perhaps you can tell me: Why _is_ it a bad idea to install system 
>software in a user's home directory? (Take your time, but no passing of 
>notes with your classmates.) 


I would be very appreciative if someone could explain this.

 







Blake Haggerty
Permanent Placement Specialist 







Work: 415-788-8488 x6062
Fax: 415-788-2592

Email: blake.haggerty at sapphire.com
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/blakehaggerty

Sapphire Technologies



See who we know in common
 



 

-----Original Message-----
From:Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com 
To: "sf-lug at linuxmafia.com" ;
Sent: Apr 9, 2008 10:10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Need help with VirtualBox on openSUSE and Feisty (orGutsy)

Quoting Ernest De Leon (edeleonjr at gmail.com): 

> I don't think anyone gets offended per se...it's just pretty funny from a 
> 3rd person perspective. :) 

As I said, *I* find amusing people insisting on interpreting a 
substantive debate as interpersonal soap opera. That point even made it 
to my Lexicon page, quite a few years ago: 

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#moenslaw-debate1 

Moen's First Law of Debate 

"No matter what the issue, someone will try to turn it into a 
personality dispute." In part, this is because complex issues become 
more comprehensible if you convert them into soap opera, however 
inaccurately. [...] 

Call me a cynic, but I suspect that relatively few readers of this list 
actually got my point about the reasons why requirements analysis and 
competent system adminstration are essential for preventing a software 
project, especially on *ix, from being a waste of time and a sour 
experience for everyone. On the other hand, _everyone_ understands the 
concept of a dumb schoolyard brawl. 

Perhaps you can tell me: Why _is_ it a bad idea to install system 
software in a user's home directory? (Take your time, but no passing of 
notes with your classmates.) 



_______________________________________________ 
sf-lug mailing list 
sf-lug at linuxmafia.com 
http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug 


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/attachments/20080409/a20947e1/attachment.html>