The geek test was too short! While those are good questions to ask, I was expecting a fifty thousand item questionaire to rival the purity tests. I think the geek community needs to embellish the FBI list with more/better questions. Make it the FBI geek test that the FBI would have thought up if they were geeks.
I think there should be a profiling system for potential FBI agents. Remember, J. Edgar Hoover wore women's clothing.
I would have posted this yesterday, but I couldn't connect to/. for some reason. Probably because everyone else was crowding the bandwidth to post their responses? Anyway, that TCO (total cost of ownership) comment struck me as really funny. The only money I have EVER spent on linux was to purchase a second ethernet card to make my box a router. (I also spent another few bucks on some ethernet cable.) The point is, the only required cost to run linux is the purchase of hardware. My entire computer cost less than an NT license. Counting other expenses, I have purchased a few O'Reilly books on linux, perl, and other related subjects, but these are not essential to running linux. Besides, I have bought books on Windows programming as well, which raises the TCO of the Microsoft os. Count time as well in your TCO. I have spent many hours reading man pages, web pages, Howto's, Mini-Howto's, etc, and everything else. I've missed meals, classes and sleep learning about linux. That is quite a costly investment. But how much time have I spent trying to fix driver problems in Windows? I have spent a slightly smaller amount of time (relative to the total time of owning the system) on Windows, but isn't windows supposed to be so much easier? The difference in time invested is probably because I am not as knowledgeable about linux as I am about Windows, not because of smart design. I suspect in six months I'll still be having the same problems with Windows(2000 not 98 and NT) but my linux problems will be new ones. TCO is reduced if you learn something useful by running the system. I have learned a lot of stuff from windows, but I have learned about ten times as much from a tenth the time using linux.
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The geek test was too short! While those are good questions to ask, I was expecting a fifty thousand item questionaire to rival the purity tests. I think the geek community needs to embellish the FBI list with more/better questions. Make it the FBI geek test that the FBI would have thought up if they were geeks.
I think there should be a profiling system for potential FBI agents. Remember, J. Edgar Hoover wore women's clothing.
I would have posted this yesterday, but I couldn't connect to /. for some reason. Probably because everyone else was crowding the bandwidth to post their responses? Anyway, that TCO (total cost of ownership) comment struck me as really funny. The only money I have EVER spent on linux was to purchase a second ethernet card to make my box a router. (I also spent another few bucks on some ethernet cable.) The point is, the only required cost to run linux is the purchase of hardware. My entire computer cost less than an NT license. Counting other expenses, I have purchased a few O'Reilly books on linux, perl, and other related subjects, but these are not essential to running linux. Besides, I have bought books on Windows programming as well, which raises the TCO of the Microsoft os. Count time as well in your TCO. I have spent many hours reading man pages, web pages, Howto's, Mini-Howto's, etc, and everything else. I've missed meals, classes and sleep learning about linux. That is quite a costly investment. But how much time have I spent trying to fix driver problems in Windows? I have spent a slightly smaller amount of time (relative to the total time of owning the system) on Windows, but isn't windows supposed to be so much easier? The difference in time invested is probably because I am not as knowledgeable about linux as I am about Windows, not because of smart design. I suspect in six months I'll still be having the same problems with Windows(2000 not 98 and NT) but my linux problems will be new ones. TCO is reduced if you learn something useful by running the system. I have learned a lot of stuff from windows, but I have learned about ten times as much from a tenth the time using linux.