Arrogent, cocky techie. If your startup company succeed, you may live comfortablely for the rest of your life. Chance of success is extremely low. You will make more enemy than friends on the way.
No clue type, learn about PC and windows in the basement. You might think you know something, but you probably don't know that you get lower pay than fresh out of college student.
"My destiny is with this company...", think again! Life is full of many choices. If the company failed, it's really hard to get a second job.
You might not need all the knowledge that school teaches you, but they should be the basic knowledge that you have access to them.
Most important of all, diploma still works better in giving you stability in life. Think of it as the insurance of finding GOOD jobs.
Linux 2000: a distro that never leave my basement
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I am one of the paranoid that attempted to create a new distro. My reasons were:
None of the distro had nice GUI that can install with one mouse click. (Back in 1998)
Make money.
Distros had problems. Some used pgcc, some used packages that was broked.
Make money again.
Make more money.
I was trying to make something that can be user friendly enough to install from a SVGA GUI and a push of mouse click and the distro will install itself into the harddisk. All of this was done within one boot disk. SCSI detection, mouse detection, stripped SVGA library, kernel, mkfs, untar functions linked to my installer program.
I also designed my system configuration program using html based programs. It was nicely done. Suddenly something hits me, I should unify the installing procedure and configuration using the same appearance to the user. Otherwise, it would end up like some product from Redmond.
By the time, I rewrote half of the boot disk, 30% of the install packages were outdated. I designed this distro to use binary tar files, like Slackware. However, I don't have enough time to keep track of each package and ensure the quality of the packages. I tried to catch up with the software packages and reviewed them. I finally realized that I will never have enough time to put all the pieces together, and I gave up on making this distro publicallyavailable.
Right now, I am on my own smallest distro, and I really love this system. It's slim, fast, and most easy to use for me personally. I need to edit the text configuration files from time to time, but I built the whole thing from ground up. Therefore, I know exactly where things were. I can't say others would like my distro. For personal experience, it was well worth.
Now, I can get any kind of linux machine going without having to worry about distro dependent configuration tool. Some of the stuff you can get it done in 3 minutes with text file, as oppose to run the linuxconf and hope for the best. I perfer to stick with text files. Although, I didn't make any money, I still recommend people to try it out.
I tried to ftp a kernel from ftp.ca.kernel.org, and compile it. Suddenly,the root came out and ask me to stop the ftp. If I can't get my source code on it, why bother testing their servers?
I kept all my ANSI drawings from iCE until Feb 5th of 1999 because my computer got stolen. I thought I would never get those nice ANSI back. I am surprised to see that iCE kept all my ANSI drawings from 1992-1993. It's a wonderful experience to know that someone else keeps my drawings. iCE was the best ANSI group, and still is the best!!
I developed a Text Email to Voice Mail system on a customized version of Linux. The system includes a Text to Speech Synthesis, ULaw audio to ADPCM converter, voice modem player. Kraemer Voice System has a web page here.
You can also find information about the customized version of Linux here, I called it Kraemer. It's a distribution designed to be an "All in One" server solution that I started in '96. The company never really sell enough of Kraemers to make it a popular distribution, and I want to make this distribution free for download, however, the company that I work with doesn't like it to be "FREE".
Maybe I should just release the distribution and get sued by the company. Hmmm, I guess I worked on the distribution for too long, and I am becoming a madman.
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Arrogent, cocky techie. If your startup company succeed, you may live comfortablely for the rest of your life. Chance of success is extremely low. You will make more enemy than friends on the way.
No clue type, learn about PC and windows in the basement. You might think you know something, but you probably don't know that you get lower pay than fresh out of college student.
"My destiny is with this company...", think again! Life is full of many choices. If the company failed, it's really hard to get a second job.
You might not need all the knowledge that school teaches you, but they should be the basic knowledge that you have access to them. Most important of all, diploma still works better in giving you stability in life. Think of it as the insurance of finding GOOD jobs.
My reasons were:
I was trying to make something that can be user friendly enough to install from a SVGA GUI and a push of mouse click and the distro will install itself into the harddisk. All of this was done within one boot disk. SCSI detection, mouse detection, stripped SVGA library, kernel, mkfs, untar functions linked to my installer program.
I also designed my system configuration program using html based programs. It was nicely done. Suddenly something hits me, I should unify the installing procedure and configuration using the same appearance to the user. Otherwise, it would end up like some product from Redmond.
By the time, I rewrote half of the boot disk, 30% of the install packages were outdated. I designed this distro to use binary tar files, like Slackware. However, I don't have enough time to keep track of each package and ensure the quality of the packages. I tried to catch up with the software packages and reviewed them. I finally realized that I will never have enough time to put all the pieces together, and I gave up on making this distro publicallyavailable.
Right now, I am on my own smallest distro, and I really love this system. It's slim, fast, and most easy to use for me personally. I need to edit the text configuration files from time to time, but I built the whole thing from ground up. Therefore, I know exactly where things were. I can't say others would like my distro. For personal experience, it was well worth.
Now, I can get any kind of linux machine going without having to worry about distro dependent configuration tool. Some of the stuff you can get it done in 3 minutes with text file, as oppose to run the linuxconf and hope for the best. I perfer to stick with text files. Although, I didn't make any money, I still recommend people to try it out.
I tried to ftp a kernel from ftp.ca.kernel.org, and compile it. Suddenly,the root came out and ask me to stop the ftp. If I can't get my source code on it, why bother testing their servers?
I kept all my ANSI drawings from iCE until Feb 5th of 1999 because my computer got stolen. I thought I would never get those nice ANSI back. I am surprised to see that iCE kept all my ANSI drawings from 1992-1993. It's a wonderful experience to know that someone else keeps my drawings. iCE was the best ANSI group, and still is the best!!
ex-iCE member
AADA
I developed a Text Email to Voice Mail system on a customized version of Linux. The system includes a Text to Speech Synthesis, ULaw audio to ADPCM converter, voice modem player. Kraemer Voice System has a web page here.
You can also find information about the customized version of Linux here, I called it Kraemer. It's a distribution designed to be an "All in One" server solution that I started in '96. The company never really sell enough of Kraemers to make it a popular distribution, and I want to make this distribution free for download, however, the company that I work with doesn't like it to be "FREE".
Maybe I should just release the distribution and get sued by the company. Hmmm, I guess I worked on the distribution for too long, and I am becoming a madman.