I needed a car. I decided to get a used car for nothing. My mom warned me, 
"okay but you get what you pay for son." I bought a used car anyway, 
essentially free. I had for it for a year.  Put well over 5000 dollars into it, 
as problems surmounted, new radiator, fuel pump, and finally the engine died. I 
wised up and BOUGHT A NEW CAR. (Nissan Sentra).


Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Dixon [mailto:jdixon AT omniti DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:55 PM
To: Frank Sweetser
Cc: Steve Handy; 'John Drescher'; bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:12:58PM -0500, Frank Sweetser wrote:
>
> Seriously, though, if you think that a paycheck suddenly turns someone into a
> brilliant software engineer, then you've obviously never had to painstakingly
> read and explain RFCs to the developers who supposedly implemented them in the
> product you bought, had a trouble ticket filled with with carefully documented
> details and transcripts of reliably reproducible problems come back with a
> response that basically says "Oh, our software doesn't do that, so you're not
> having that problem!", or, when you finally convince them that it really is a
> real bug, have the vendor respond by simply retracting any claim to having
> that feature rather than fix it.  And yes, those are all experiences I have
> personally had when dealing with "highly paid engineers."

I used to work for a highly respected security/VPN company.  The lead
engineer in charge of their IPSec management application walked into the
test lab one day and saw the "ACK" on the back of my black t-shirt.

   him:   "LOL, that's great.  Bill the cat."

I turned around, showing him the "SYN" on the front of the shirt.

   him:   "I don't get it."
   me:    "You know, the 3-way handshake.  TCP."
   him:   "Nope.  What is it?"

And there you go.  You too can be a lead engineer of an IPSec company by
knowing Java.

--
Jason Dixon
OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
jdixon AT omniti DOT com
443.325.1357 x.241

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