[TAG] Twisted update

[Jimmy O'Regan]

mso at oz.net wrote:
> I've been installing Gentoo applications at home since Sunday.  Previously
> I'd done the basic installation (tarballs, kernel, configuration).  Sunday
> I ran "emerge sync" (which updates the list of available builds), "emerge
> portage" (which updates the package manager) and "emerge system" (which
> updates all the base packages, of which there were only five or six since
> the 2004.2 release).  But "emerge xorg-x11" run from Sunday night to
> Tuesday, and "emerge kde" started Tuesday night and is still running. 
> (It's now Thursday morning.)  To be sure, it's installing a lot of
> dependencies as well as those packages, including LDAP and Samba which I
> don't need.  Still, it took only three nights on my two 1.5 GHz Pentium 4s
> at work, and it was finished by morning.  (Actually, some of the nights it
> worked only three hours and was done.)  What a difference a 450 MHz AMD
> K6-2 Duron makes.  It's a third the speed, but still, it's been compiling
> continuously 24 hours for four days.  I've taken two breaks to switch to
> my existing Debian for some Firefox websurfing, but that was just a couple
> hours each.  Once KDE is on, I have some 35 other applications to install.

Hee hee. I posted a broken version of this on IRC, but here's a working 
version. If you're familiar with Debian's vrms, you'll welcome vta 
(though obviously it /should/ be in Ruby):

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

while (<>)
{
	print "> $_";
	if (/java/i)
	{
		print "\nSo much bloat, so little use\n\n";
	}
	elsif (/kde/i)
	{
		print "\nIf I wanted to get rid of my RAM, I'd take it out of the 
machine\n\n";
	}
}

I think I'll have a look for some actual quotes, and set them to be 
random :)

>  I figure that will take me through the weekend.
> 
> It would be nice to get one of those
> [http://sys.us.shuttle.com/BuyModels.aspx Shuttles]
> Saw a 64-bit AMD jobbie in a store with a silver reflective front, but
> it's like $800.  (Thomas: note "like" used to mean "approximately".)  It

So you're not just using as punctuation? Phew, California hasn't taken 
another victim (though I can't say much, because in Ireland we use swear 
words as punctuation :)

> comes with a keyboard and mouse that look... very Macintosh-like.