How about the lunar lander game that was in the back of the TRS-80 model one manual? I blew about 3months of lunches in High School (yeah I'm getting old) programing this in, as well as learning to type. Half the period was spent loading it and then backing it up on the cassette deck storage unit...... oh and after it's all said and done, no pictures...just numbers....
I've tried to sneak linux into production where I work, but no, we pay big $$$ for DNS and DHCP running on Windows servers. Same goes for web servers, Apache=FREE! IIS=$$$$$. We shelled out over 50K for a web filtering software package and appliance that I could of duplicated for the cost of a decent PC (799.00). I did sneak a squid box in as a lockdown device ( we don't allow pc's in public areas much in the way of internet access). The resistance? Because it IS linux, the superiors don't trust anything but "proven" technology. Proven to them means they're comfortable with it. So when linux is as common as windows, then we may move, and the only way that is going to happen is for Linux to evolve and standardize, not give up it's freedom, but perhaps turn the gui over to someone like Linus who can have the appropriate "vision" for the job.........
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How about the lunar lander game that was in the back of the TRS-80 model one manual? I blew about 3months of lunches in High School (yeah I'm getting old) programing this in, as well as learning to type. Half the period was spent loading it and then backing it up on the cassette deck storage unit...... oh and after it's all said and done, no pictures...just numbers....
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I've tried to sneak linux into production where I work, but no, we pay big $$$ for DNS and DHCP running on Windows servers. Same goes for web servers, Apache=FREE! IIS=$$$$$. We shelled out over 50K for a web filtering software package and appliance that I could of duplicated for the cost of a decent PC (799.00). I did sneak a squid box in as a lockdown device ( we don't allow pc's in public areas much in the way of internet access). The resistance? Because it IS linux, the superiors don't trust anything but "proven" technology.
Proven to them means they're comfortable with it. So when linux is as common as windows, then we may move, and the only way that is going to happen is for Linux to evolve and standardize, not give up it's freedom, but perhaps turn the gui over to someone like Linus who can have the appropriate "vision" for the job.........
I find find it more ironic that everything in the distro works, correctly and the first time....