Subj : Maximus on Solaris 10
To : Ryan de Laplante
From : Mvan Le
Date : Wed Apr 11 2007 12:17 pm
ML> I still have my 286/20 with 2mb ram and plan on
ML> powering it up one day, maybe put another Maximus node on it :)
RdL> Cool! I kept my old 386 that used to run the BBS. It
RdL> still has a copy on it.
I lost my first BBS on that 286. It was a Maximus board with a loser uncreative
name. These days I use an even MORE unimaginative name :/ I was poor back then
and couldn't afford the backup media. Bummer.
RdL> Yeah I think you're right there. I don't know what I'd
RdL> do with myself when retired. Start a software
RdL> company? :)
Mate, if you don't know what to do now I suggest start forming some dreams.
Avoid being defined by your work. People who say "I wouldn't know what to do on
my day off" (or time in lieu, paid leave etc.) have absolutely NFI. They might
as well get a Second Life account or some rope and a chair.
RdL> True, and that's why they went open everything. New
RdL> CEO, they've turned the company uside down, layed off
RdL> thousands, restructured their business. I like what
RdL> they are doing. I own SUNW shares which don't really
RdL> go up or down, but obviosuly I'm hoping they go up
RdL> some day. I bought in after their price went down.
Were they awarded as part of an employee plan ? or did you actually buy those
shares -- good grief if the latter.
RdL> Good advice, thanks. I've realized that many of the
RdL> companies we work with no longer have programmers.
RdL> They only keep business system analysts and software
RdL> architechts. The programmers are off-shore. Many
Yep. All SAP analysts, or learning some in-house ERM/CRM, work flow,
collaboration, delegation process. Bleh.
RdL> programmers have told me to build strong system
RdL> analyst skills meaning be able to gather and document
RdL> requirements in a certain way etc... That's part of my
RdL> focus now.
I use this thing called Visio. I can draw some spiffy pics with that.
RdL> As for building wealth, I got a head start on
RdL> building my wealth and am doing pretty good so far.
RdL> I'm still quite young though and have a lot to learn.
RdL> It sounds like you're quite the seasoned professional
RdL> when it comes to contracts and finances.
I'm an equities trader/investor. I have lost a lot of money. I have made more.
ML> Well basically it's a complex process to run doors
ML> under DOS EMU. Sycnrhonet uses a mod to make the
ML> process easier.
RdL> Oh it's easy, you can do it :)
VMware I tell you. VMware !
ML> See, you spend $4k on a PC. I control almost half a
ML> million dollars with it. That's how much $4k is really
ML> worth to me - not to be spent on easily
ML> obsolete/redundant stuff.
RdL> I didn't say I would buy it for myself at home, I
RdL> meant for businesses. Don't buy Dell, HP, IBM. Buy Sun
RdL> SPARC. Faster, uses less electricity and you need
RdL> fewer servers. It can be more affordable.
Yeah. The whole vertical scaling thing. Until your big server dies and there's
no failover ... Sorry. I'm a big cynic.
RdL> I have no idea what your calculations meant, but you
RdL> obviously know your stuff. I put more money into my
RdL> retirement savings and extra payments on my mortgage
RdL> every year than I spend on computer gadgets, clothing
RdL> and entertainment. I too hope to retire by 40. I'm
RdL> quite the penny pincher.
Man. You mean that 401k ponzi scam your government runs ?
You need to be more active than that.
You can't beat me. I had to think about attending my best friend's birthday. If
I did I would've had to move my body, which burns energy, from the food I
bought. Every calorie costs money. So try not to breathe.
RdL> For some reason the full screen editor won't show me
RdL> the last few lines to quote them. You asked me to
RdL> look around the room and see how much black I see.
RdL> Then you asked how much blue I see. I don't get it?
RdL> What's kind of funny is that I'm in a blue room.
It's an exercise in perception, meant to demonstrate that you see what you want
to see. Or more accurately you see what you have learned to see :)
RdL> So how many years have you been working as a programmer?
I don't program professionally.
I know some C. Now I'm learning C++ so I can understand all that PowerShell
stuff. I'm a strong Unix shell scripter (Perl, Ksh/Bash, Awk/Sed, Regexps).
I started in OPs. These days I work in "infrustructure support" (whatever that
means). I have to kiss a lot of ass, and work with them all day.
--- Maximus 3.01
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