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rickid
Jan 17, 2012Aspirant
Thanks to all!
First of all, Happy New Year! 8) While I have been a member of this forum for a while, I have never posted... No need. Second, RTFM, "Read The Fine Manual" Third, RTFF, "Read the Fine Forum!" It ...
rickid
Jan 18, 2012Aspirant
Thanks for the kind words yoh-dah,
I don't know if I can impart any wisdom but, I will try.
I have a background in Linux from the early days around 1993 -94. There was only about four flavors of the Unix based OS at the time. Most people don't understand Linux, either its capability's or its limitation's or what it was like to get the largest hard drive and that was 200 ~ 400MB, and memory cost about $100 a meg, and the processors were rated at 100 MHz or less! Linux can squeeze more out of a processor than any other GUI Based OS out there(even the x-windows is more efficient). If the general user had an idea of what it took to create a new kernal for linux and make it stable it would stagger them, let alone add new features.(Remember Linux and all the drivers were created by people who didn't get paid, they were volunteers. I love GNU just for the idea of it) Apache was still an emerging and very developmental "work in progress". In today's world everyone expects something to work "Out of the box" exactly the way "they" think it should. I grew up in a world when if a carburetor was malfunctioning, er... gas wasn't getting to it, we learned How to fix it. This Forum is like that (a pioneering effort), if I don't understand, I ask questions? and I'm Polite about it, not demanding, if I was demanding when I was learning how to fix cars somebody would have told me to throw a pound of sand down the intake. Decorum and how we treat others is the reason forum's work. I laud the work(and patience) most people here have done! Unfortunately the large company's have left it to the support staff to fix their mistakes and rush a product out the door(I would blame marketing (the most useless third of any company))
I apologize for the rant, I've seen way too many obnoxious people on this forum, and I would blame their parents! for their incivility.
Rick
I don't know if I can impart any wisdom but, I will try.
I have a background in Linux from the early days around 1993 -94. There was only about four flavors of the Unix based OS at the time. Most people don't understand Linux, either its capability's or its limitation's or what it was like to get the largest hard drive and that was 200 ~ 400MB, and memory cost about $100 a meg, and the processors were rated at 100 MHz or less! Linux can squeeze more out of a processor than any other GUI Based OS out there(even the x-windows is more efficient). If the general user had an idea of what it took to create a new kernal for linux and make it stable it would stagger them, let alone add new features.(Remember Linux and all the drivers were created by people who didn't get paid, they were volunteers. I love GNU just for the idea of it) Apache was still an emerging and very developmental "work in progress". In today's world everyone expects something to work "Out of the box" exactly the way "they" think it should. I grew up in a world when if a carburetor was malfunctioning, er... gas wasn't getting to it, we learned How to fix it. This Forum is like that (a pioneering effort), if I don't understand, I ask questions? and I'm Polite about it, not demanding, if I was demanding when I was learning how to fix cars somebody would have told me to throw a pound of sand down the intake. Decorum and how we treat others is the reason forum's work. I laud the work(and patience) most people here have done! Unfortunately the large company's have left it to the support staff to fix their mistakes and rush a product out the door(I would blame marketing (the most useless third of any company))
I apologize for the rant, I've seen way too many obnoxious people on this forum, and I would blame their parents! for their incivility.
Rick
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