It doesn't take 20 years to write a browser from scratch. Get yourself any book on TCP/IP programming( mostly for linux, as that's what I have ) had code to start you on a 20 line brower. Ok, it couldn't do jack yet but still, in a matter of months, you could end up with a fairly decent browser. Oh and as for the line: "even the best coders only do ~100 lines of code per day...", I have this to say, either you've never programmed in your life or you really aren't made for programming. I write more than 100 lines per day. and that includes time for debugging, testing, etc. So, before talking, maybe you should get your facts straight.
If your NT 4.0 file server is a BDC( which should probably be the case ), go into the user administration tool and double click on the users one by one and add at the bottom where you have a choice and can select a drive letter, select for instance H: and then map it to \\\users\%USERNAME%. This will create a directory for each user on the server. Then all you have to say to your users is to save all data to that drive and voila. Simply make sure that the backup on the server also backs up the users folder. And all your users data will be backed up. Send the backup to an offsite location and you have just implemented a good backup plan.
Before talking, try doing it just for fun, you probably wouldn't stand more than 2 or 3 minutes. Helpdesk jobs suck as hell. I've worked for the helpdesk of a local ISP and man was I glad when I left.
Most HW is supported now, if you take the time to look around. For instance, nVidia cards are supported with 3D accel now, by nVidia themselves, and they aren't the only ones. Most people don't know that because they didn't take the time to visit nVidia's web site and download the Linux version of the drivers and also because these people are the same that don't upgrade their drivers from the micro-drivers that comes with Windows and hence don't know that their hw only works at 15 to 20% efficiency unless they install the real drivers. So you see, drivers isn't an issue here, the issue is with people who don't take time to learn before talking. Get it...
Perl isn't a compiled language, it's interpreted. Ever notice the line: #!/bin/perl at the top of a Perl program? It tells the shell where to get the interpreter. None the less, Perl can be pretty fast if coded correctly.
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It doesn't take 20 years to write a browser from scratch. Get yourself any book on TCP/IP programming( mostly for linux, as that's what I have ) had code to start you on a 20 line brower. Ok, it couldn't do jack yet but still, in a matter of months, you could end up with a fairly decent browser. Oh and as for the line: "even the best coders only do ~100 lines of code per day...", I have this to say, either you've never programmed in your life or you really aren't made for programming. I write more than 100 lines per day. and that includes time for debugging, testing, etc. So, before talking, maybe you should get your facts straight.
If your NT 4.0 file server is a BDC( which should probably be the case ), go into the user administration tool and double click on the users one by one and add at the bottom where you have a choice and can select a drive letter, select for instance H: and then map it to \\\users\%USERNAME%. This will create a directory for each user on the server. Then all you have to say to your users is to save all data to that drive and voila. Simply make sure that the backup on the server also backs up the users folder. And all your users data will be backed up. Send the backup to an offsite location and you have just implemented a good backup plan.
Before talking, try doing it just for fun, you probably wouldn't stand more than 2 or 3 minutes. Helpdesk jobs suck as hell. I've worked for the helpdesk of a local ISP and man was I glad when I left.
Most HW is supported now, if you take the time to look around. For instance, nVidia cards are supported with 3D accel now, by nVidia themselves, and they aren't the only ones. Most people don't know that because they didn't take the time to visit nVidia's web site and download the Linux version of the drivers and also because these people are the same that don't upgrade their drivers from the micro-drivers that comes with Windows and hence don't know that their hw only works at 15 to 20% efficiency unless they install the real drivers. So you see, drivers isn't an issue here, the issue is with people who don't take time to learn before talking. Get it...
Perl isn't a compiled language, it's interpreted. Ever notice the line: #!/bin/perl at the top of a Perl program? It tells the shell where to get the interpreter. None the less, Perl can be pretty fast if coded correctly.