The internet was basically built on the GPL, and most of the code that makes it go was built using the GPL.
eh?
With any luck these people will off themselves prior to 2012 because they are flat out nuts. The ones that totally buying into hysteria but not nuts enough to kill themselves for fear of an event will hopefully fall into a deep depression and kill themselves when they realize they are dip-shits when the Gregorian new year rolls around.
Seems to me like the real reason for him being angry is that the iPhone application he's complaining about looks to be basically an iPhone version of his desktop application. Someone beat him to it on the iPhone and he's mad..
Actually, he did have an iPhone version of his app but Amazon.com forced him to pull it http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/2517428863
We use zebra printers all in our WH with linux workstations. I just write ZPL (similar to postscript) by hand for all our labels and our ERP application spits it out to
I'll throw in the typical FOSS response. Do it yourself
They released the spec (http://www.waveprotocol.org/draft-protocol-spec) so anyone can, and in fact other have started making their own wave servers http://code.google.com/p/pygowave-server/.
How many butts are too many?
Think for a moment about the other end of the spectrum of butts, the ones that you don't really want to look at but this person will invariably have to examine. One is too many for me.
While Jaunty may reboot in a short time, my servers hardware may take several min to reboot while they scan SCSI chains, attach iSCSI devices, wait for timeouts for various LOM cards to click by, etc... long before linux comes into play.
Are you talking USD?
I've never heard anyone offering 40k/year for an actual sysadmin, I was making that when I was 18 doing front line help desk. Heck, a quick google says the median is ~70k and I'm willing to bet the t-mobile sysadmins make a bit more than that (well, if this story is true - they are pulling in unemployment now).
http://www.linux.com/feature/46616
BSD systems of course include OS X http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060214081244545
Also if you have your UPS's in the server room you have one (or more) less heat generating step-down transformer.
When given the opportunity to design my current server room from scratch I got 208VAC into the room. But yes your correct, I do get some strange stares from people when they ask why all my PDU's have IEC-14 sockets (both to denote that this is not 'normal' 120VAC, and also so there is no live metal prongs exposed when plugging and unplugging devices).
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
