Steve Handy wrote:
>  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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You can't even use an email client to quote past messages prioperly. What
chance do you have with a piece of software more complex than a simple
text editor?

Feel free to throw good money down the drain on an expensive backup
program that will be less feature rich and more buggy, and with a company
less responsive to bug reports than bacula if you like, but everyone else
here knows you are an idiot already!

Still, you've kept me amused on a Friday where I have been deprived of my
usual dose of BOFH, so I have to commend you for that at least.
-- 
Mike Holden




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