[ale] A little gripe

[Chris Fowler]

When I first got into PC's, during DOS days, I was getting bored.  I almost
quit because I thought I knew everything there was to know about computers.  My
world consisted of only Macs, PC's, Tandy 1000s and Trash-80s.  DOS  bored
me after I had master QuickBasic and BBS communications.  My neighbor, who got
me interested in the first place, told me I was just scratching the surface and
I should continue. So I did.  I really knew I knew little when I found UNIX.
But,  If UNIX was to leave computing,  I may have to switch careers myself.
I will not bow down to Windows.




-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Thornton [mailto:Leonard at Intelis-inc.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:24 PM
To: Michael Smith; 'chrisf at computone.com'
Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: RE: [ale] A little gripe



At 04:48 PM 4/19/2001 -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
>In Unix, you have to work a little harder to reap the rewards.  Here's my
>phrase of the day comparing Windows to Unix - "You don't learn how to build
>an engine by only changing the oil".  I think people that use Windows are
>only allowed to change the oil.  Unix(particular open sourced versions of
>Unix) people are allowed to look at the engine and learn see how it works.
>That's my analogy for the day.
An excellent analogy......making notes so as to plagiarize later....


>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  I think that people coming into IT today are just not interested in
>learning the intricacies of the hardware.  People now tend to specialize in
>areas be it Development, QA, Systems Administration, Network Administration,
>or Hardware Administration.


I remember when I first started coding and building PC's 20 years ago(God, 
am I getting old).  Back then if you want to do anything, you have better 
understand everything from cabling to program PICs (That's programmable 
interrupt controllers, for you kids out there).  The experience I gained 
from having my hands in all of the machine from the iron up has proven to 
be invaluable.  I have said many times that you cannot properly code for an 
environment if you do not understand the inner workings of the 
environment.  A lot of you will disagree with that, but from experience I 
will stand by it....



>The difficult while you wait.....the impossible overnight.



Leonard Thornton
Intelis, Inc.
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Suite 30
Norcross, GAÂ  30092


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