Re: denyhosts quandry

["Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>]

modern hardware makes a huge difference, which is why I was looking for a 
place to host the mud.
I went from 3 minutes compile time to 20 seconds or so, if that.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry


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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:49:05AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> Then I wouldn't be at the
>> mercy of the package maintainers.
>
> Huh? Just because you're using a distro with a package manager that
> tracks dependencies, and has a bunch of stuff already built as
> packages, doesn't mean you're at the mercy of the package
> maintainer. If you don't like how a certain package is built, there's
> nothing stopping you from using something like apt-build, or apt-src,
> to build your own local copy of the package, which is what I've done
> in a couple instances.
>
> As for the comment that recompiling is fun, I would have agreed in the
> past, but don't agree with that now. When I first got into gnu/linux,
> I thought compiling my own software was fun, but it started being a
> hassle after about 3 years or so, which is why I went from slackware
> to debian. I thought I'd prefer the convenience of just being able to
> install a built binary, and that turns out to have been the
> case. That's my own opinion of course, and I'm sure there are folks
> out there who would enjoy compiling their own software 20 years later,
> as much as they enjoyed it on day one. Also, when compiling, it does help 
> too have modern hardware to
> do it on, which I don't have currently.
>
> Greg
>
>
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