I worked in a corporate enviromnent and the only way we could get a purchase order approved by the Veeps was to explain our variety of servers as the ingredients of a salad. LETTUCE was the main webserver (the "money" machine) and the other servers were named for other ingredients from the garden. ONION for database (layers of relational data) and RADISH for email (more than a sprinkle is an irritant) and SCALLION of logging (nobody ever remembers, but so much flavor)
We named workstations after fruits -- because we were an Macintosh department. Nobody got a workstation named APPLE, but I did get the laptop named TOMATO, because I worked on the vegetables as the sysadmin. Tomatos are fruits which are legally considered to be vegetables.
The CLI-loving Linux people soak themselves in ill-tempered advocacy that does nothing more than irritate people like you. Do you distance the old UNIX-y you from the new Windows-y you -- or do you have the maturity to see a computer as a tool and the OS choice is a wash in the environment of your work. (In other words, what kind of computer and OS do you boot at home?)
Run. Run like hell. This is an obvious attempt to pollute the world with intellectual property that they can then turn around and sue the living daylights out of the rest of us.
Think about this: You write a piece of functionality for a GNU piece of software after you've seen something that is somewhat similar to the Winders source code? Then the M$ cops come down for a visit because you signed your life away on the NDA?
In your Linux pursuits, do you find any difficulties within your age/peer/social circles in choosing your OS? Do you get pressure to use or embrace Windows or MacOS in pursuit of more "mainstream" activities? In short, do you constantly find yourself explaining what and why you do what and why you do?
I am surely surprised by this one -- nobody has mentioned the first national TV nipple. Yup, the Spanish guy is accepting his award for "Best Foriegn Language Film" and his wife is waggling around and clapping -- and there it is as her dress comes open.
Atop a 34B cup breast is one very erect and very pink nipple standing at attention for all American viewers to see. There was no mistaking it -- and the network had no other options to cover it up with another shot.
Go back and look at the tapes, guys. It's a nipple!
Of all the nipples I thought I'd see that night -- and it's the Spanish guy's wife! God Bless Foriegn Films!
According to the Netcraft probe, you're running RedHat pretty much right out of the box. It appears to be the standard Apache with very few, if any, modifications (based on my quick perusal of your site.) I just put Apache 1.3.9 on a Solaris box here in the states...after about three hours of tinkering.
I may be asking an off-topic question: "Was this a decision based on a strong desire to use Apache, or a strong desire to use Linux?"
Also, did you toil with anything unusual to get the box online, or is this pretty much the same type of install that we can expect out here in Linux-Land. (No specifics, please.)
I work on the fringe of a Windows NT environment and your input would make some great kindling for a us-vs.-them debate with the Micro-heads downstairs. People in other parts of our plant think the sun rises and sets over IIS/NT4.0. Your words of encouragement would mean a lot.
Tim Smith, Webmaster, St. John's Health System, Springfield, MO
You may hate the guy, but re-read this once or twice. This is the customer of the future. A man so driven to actually understand instead of just install his own software.
Jon seems to speak for a secret sect of our new installed base. Hurrah. Jon has left the establishment of MacOS for the disestablishment of the FreeOS. Think about the changes in thought process that that requires.
No coder inside him -- just someone who wants to extend the tool of the OS to its pinnacle -- in the way that he can best understand. We should be embracing him and those like him, and then extending them into the potential of their aptitude.
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...welcome our new Slashdotting switch overlords.
I for one welcome our new race of furry overlords.
Wow, this place is slipping. If you want something done, you have to do it yourself.
Although, think about a half-cow/half-Cowboy Neal...
I worked in a corporate enviromnent and the only way we could get a purchase order approved by the Veeps was to explain our variety of servers as the ingredients of a salad. LETTUCE was the main webserver (the "money" machine) and the other servers were named for other ingredients from the garden. ONION for database (layers of relational data) and RADISH for email (more than a sprinkle is an irritant) and SCALLION of logging (nobody ever remembers, but so much flavor)
We named workstations after fruits -- because we were an Macintosh department. Nobody got a workstation named APPLE, but I did get the laptop named TOMATO, because I worked on the vegetables as the sysadmin. Tomatos are fruits which are legally considered to be vegetables.
Good times, very good times.
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The CLI-loving Linux people soak themselves in ill-tempered advocacy that does nothing more than irritate people like you. Do you distance the old UNIX-y you from the new Windows-y you -- or do you have the maturity to see a computer as a tool and the OS choice is a wash in the environment of your work. (In other words, what kind of computer and OS do you boot at home?)
Everyone listen!!!
Run. Run like hell. This is an obvious attempt to pollute the world with intellectual property that they can then turn around and sue the living daylights out of the rest of us.
Think about this: You write a piece of functionality for a GNU piece of software after you've seen something that is somewhat similar to the Winders source code? Then the M$ cops come down for a visit because you signed your life away on the NDA?
Save yourself now -- just say no.
#30 TLS
In your Linux pursuits, do you find any difficulties within your age/peer/social circles in choosing your OS? Do you get pressure to use or embrace Windows or MacOS in pursuit of more "mainstream" activities? In short, do you constantly find yourself explaining what and why you do what and why you do?
I am surely surprised by this one -- nobody has mentioned the first national TV nipple. Yup, the Spanish guy is accepting his award for "Best Foriegn Language Film" and his wife is waggling around and clapping -- and there it is as her dress comes open.
Atop a 34B cup breast is one very erect and very pink nipple standing at attention for all American viewers to see. There was no mistaking it -- and the network had no other options to cover it up with another shot.
Go back and look at the tapes, guys. It's a nipple!
Of all the nipples I thought I'd see that night -- and it's the Spanish guy's wife! God Bless Foriegn Films!
According to the Netcraft probe, you're running RedHat pretty much right out of the box. It appears to be the standard Apache with very few, if any, modifications (based on my quick perusal of your site.) I just put Apache 1.3.9 on a Solaris box here in the states...after about three hours of tinkering.
I may be asking an off-topic question: "Was this a decision based on a strong desire to use Apache, or a strong desire to use Linux?"
Also, did you toil with anything unusual to get the box online, or is this pretty much the same type of install that we can expect out here in Linux-Land. (No specifics, please.)
I work on the fringe of a Windows NT environment and your input would make some great kindling for a us-vs.-them debate with the Micro-heads downstairs. People in other parts of our plant think the sun rises and sets over IIS/NT4.0. Your words of encouragement would mean a lot.
Tim Smith, Webmaster,
St. John's Health System,
Springfield, MO
#30 TLS
You may hate the guy, but re-read this once or twice. This is the customer of the future. A man so driven to actually understand instead of just install his own software.
Jon seems to speak for a secret sect of our new installed base. Hurrah. Jon has left the establishment of MacOS for the disestablishment of the FreeOS. Think about the changes in thought process that that requires.
No coder inside him -- just someone who wants to extend the tool of the OS to its pinnacle -- in the way that he can best understand. We should be embracing him and those like him, and then extending them into the potential of their aptitude.
He is our future. Kudos Jon Katz. #30 TLS