The first movie was just plain bad. I like seeing geek icons on screen as much as the next.. er.. geek, and I couldn't give a damn whose money got them there. (Okay, maybe if you were robbing old grannies...) It's the plot, the acting, treatment they get by the director that matters, and the first Spiderman movie was a formulaic, uninteresting, effects-laden waste of my $12 and 2 hours, geek icon or no.
And now they've gone and made another one. At least I know to sit this one out.
Linux has proved itself to be a very stable OS. That's the main reason I have chosen it as my primary OS. At work, however, we develop our telephony software for Windows NT. This is because major players in the IVR hardware industry have chosen to ignore Linux as a possible platform for their buyers' systems. I would _love_ to be developing for Linux and getting paid, but Dialogic (probably the biggest telephony hardware producer) will not write drivers for Linux nor will they release hardware specs. Not even under an NDA. This has kept Linux out of a market where it has much potential. IVR hotline systems are very commonly mission-critical machines and, as most of you are aware, NT isn't the most stable platform in existence. I have had to develop complicated startup and shutdown processes for our machines in the field so that they may babysit themselves. We also require pcAnywhere to be installed on the systems in order to fix them when NT decides to get ugly. VNC would fill that requirement on a Linux box. Now all we need is the help of some complacent hardware companies and the Linux community will be on its way!
(Somehow, I'm not too hopeful. Let's see the slashdot effect in action...)
Point #2: Ah yes. That's good. Get your client to pay out the ass for a crappy server OS. Then, after you're gone, they have problems and come crying to you. Smart move. I hope it makes you look good in the eyes of your contractors and not like someone who's trying to scam them.
Point #3: Use PHP. It is flat out better than ASP. And since your intelligence is only "marginal", you could even start out with the ASP2PHP converter.
Point #4: A machine w/ a P6-200 and 96MB of RAM using Linux 2.2.2, Apache & mod_php, and the same SQL server setup you've described was set up by your most humble narrator in less than a day for a fraction of the cost for my employer.
Point #5: They pay you too much.
Have a nice day.
--Simon Breakwater A hacker is a machine for turning caffeine into code.
I am my school's webserver admin and we rely on Samba heavily to provide access to all of the terminals running Windows (which is about 95%). My company also uses it to allow shareable resources for the windows boxen. Without it, we'd be screwed.. Oh. And I use it at home.
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No no, you've got it all wrong.
The first movie was just plain bad. I like seeing geek icons on screen as much as the next.. er.. geek, and I couldn't give a damn whose money got them there. (Okay, maybe if you were robbing old grannies...) It's the plot, the acting, treatment they get by the director that matters, and the first Spiderman movie was a formulaic, uninteresting, effects-laden waste of my $12 and 2 hours, geek icon or no.
And now they've gone and made another one. At least I know to sit this one out.
Aren't you proud, Ryan? Your question got posted.
Linux has proved itself to be a very stable OS. That's the main reason I have chosen it as my primary OS. At work, however, we develop our telephony software for Windows NT. This is because major players in the IVR hardware industry have chosen to ignore Linux as a possible platform for their buyers' systems. I would _love_ to be developing for Linux and getting paid, but Dialogic (probably the biggest telephony hardware producer) will not write drivers for Linux nor will they release hardware specs. Not even under an NDA. This has kept Linux out of a market where it has much potential. IVR hotline systems are very commonly mission-critical machines and, as most of you are aware, NT isn't the most stable platform in existence. I have had to develop complicated startup and shutdown processes for our machines in the field so that they may babysit themselves. We also require pcAnywhere to be installed on the systems in order to fix them when NT decides to get ugly. VNC would fill that requirement on a Linux box. Now all we need is the help of some complacent hardware companies and the Linux community will be on its way!
(Somehow, I'm not too hopeful. Let's see the slashdot effect in action...)
Point #1:
I want a file/print server.
Point #2:
Ah yes. That's good. Get your client to pay out the ass for a crappy server OS. Then, after you're gone, they have problems and come crying to you. Smart move. I hope it makes you look good in the eyes of your contractors and not like someone who's trying to scam them.
Point #3:
Use PHP. It is flat out better than ASP. And since your intelligence is only "marginal", you could even start out with the ASP2PHP converter.
Point #4:
A machine w/ a P6-200 and 96MB of RAM using Linux 2.2.2, Apache & mod_php, and the same SQL server setup you've described was set up by your most humble narrator in less than a day for a fraction of the cost for my employer.
Point #5:
They pay you too much.
Have a nice day.
--Simon Breakwater
A hacker is a machine for turning caffeine into code.
What makes RMS, Bruce, and ER seem so whiny? Is it just me or does this kind of crap come up with them every 2 months or so?
I am my school's webserver admin and we rely on Samba heavily to provide access to all of the terminals running Windows (which is about 95%). My company also uses it to allow shareable resources for the windows boxen. Without it, we'd be screwed.. Oh. And I use it at home.
Long live OSS!