[ale] A little gripe

[Rod Young]

The Ham community has a similar schism between those who had to make 
their own vacuume tubes and those just go out by their rigs pre 
assembled. Personally I like getting under the hood. But some people 
don't.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 04/19/2001, 5:24:11 PM, Leonard Thornton <Leonard at Intelis-inc.net> wrote 
regarding 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....

> >         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
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