Re: whoever you hire, make sure it isn't a college graduate

From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <ste...@xxxxxxxxxx>
You did *not* mention that you were considering installing
software on a machine that you had not been given permission to
install software on.

That's correct. I never expressed any interest in installing
system-level software on FreeBSD Unix (the ISP where I pay
$20/month for a personal VT100shell account). I was simply checking
whether a particular program was already installed, finding no
result from whereis or man:
% whereis ruby
ruby:
% man ruby
No manual entry for ruby
(I.e. ruby isn't available on the FreeBSD Unix system that I use.
Or does it have a different name?)
and as you see I asked whether it is commonly installed under some
other name that somebody might be able to tell me so that I can use
the appropriate parameter to whereis or man to find it.

It was another poster who told me some commands I should invoke:
cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18
make install clean
which I am not able to do because I'm not the admin on this ISP.

In summary, I was never considering installing software at system
level on the shell machine, which is why I never mentionned that I
was. I hardly ever mention I'm doing something that in fact I'm not
doing. Why should you be surprised?

I thought you were talking about your own machine.

Whatever gave you that idea? If I had my own machine on the net,
then I'd be able to configure the SMTP server on my machine to
reject spam with 5yz rejection code, and I wouldn't be posting so
much to anti-spam newsgroups lamenting that I have no decent way to
protect myself from spam. (FYI: Currently the only account I have
that that has enough storage space for the spam that has been sent
to me is Yahoo! Mail, where SMTP-5yz filtering is *not* available,
and consequently my only useful way to filter spam is to require a
special keyword in Subject field for anyone wishing me to actually
see their first-contact e-mail.)
.

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