I am still making good money from writing good PHP code. I was about to trade it for something else till I found Laravel which is making PHP saner and more convenient. One thing I love(d) about PHP, is the code/functions style is as messy as legacy C code. People coming from C background will find their same function names in PHP and working on the web.
Our company uses only Linux desktops at work. Windows is not allowed. Infact, we forbid our employees from using Windows PCs to connect via ssh to any of our servers.
They are sunni group following wahbisim interpretations which are officially adopted by Saudi Arabia.
On the other hand , Iran backed forces (Shiaa militas) were the first to resist ISIS progress and defeated them in Tikrit,Anbar,Diyala.
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I live in Baghdad and bandwidth here is very very expensive as it comes from VSAT terminals , 1024/512 link costs more than $3000USD/month.
As a temporary solution , I started integrating Squid Cache Servers for ISPs , and I am thinking about building a city wide cache network using ICP (Internet Cache Protocol), normally the request hit ratio is more than $40 , with some servers it is 60%.
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from the don't-weld-shut-the-doors-then dept.
BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"
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from the ekiga-has-the-best-screenshots dept.
thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.
I was just like you , but when I used Ubuntu I found that there is no need for Yast when everything works just fine without touching any configuration utilities.
But I might go back to SuSE when they stop using Mono in their system utilities , especially the ones in the startup !