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:jdi...@omniti.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. jdi...@omniti.com 443.325.1357 x.241 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
