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: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 > >
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
