Can we please stop feeding the troll?
This list has a lot of really good, useful information from a lot of
informed and insightful people; but, this is junk.
Can we please move on to doing what this list does very well, helping
out bacula users?
Thank you.
John Kloss.
On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Mike Holden wrote:
> 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
>>
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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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