Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

Thus spake the master programmer:
                "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
                be maintained."
                                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.

This same thing happened to a relative though Steam has refused to return the account. I used it as a learning opportunity about dependence on online brokers (Google, Steam, Amazon, you pick one) and digital licensing. Funny how others view us experienced IT folks as "fuddy duddy's" that the young ignore until its too late...

Thanks for all the grits.

Really? Voters know better? That must be some part of the alternate reality I can't see. What I see is a landscape of blind faith in words rather than peer-reviewed facts. By people swayed by a single source of information, rather than from a collection of information sources inside and outside the country.

When my significant-other's company laid her off and then wanted to call her and ask questions I was adamant she tell them that as soon as they would pay our $500/hour, minimum one hour, invoices she'd answer their questions. This consulting thing is something I think everyone needs to more seriously consider no matter how good a friend might be calling you from your former company.

I heartily disagree and have witnessed it first-hand. There are plenty of companies out there that do that. You should already know if you work for one of those unless this is your first job/company. There is no one-size answer for the thread OP because it strongly depends on the category of employer.

Perhaps people died, which happens even in modern times on modern construction projects, but there is evidence they were not slaves. Maybe you weren't trying to infer that, but that's how your post came across to me given the Confederate reference.

https://harvardmagazine.com/20...

Let's accept some PMs are rigid and use excessive formality, often in subject areas which have zero relevance. Over 15 years of doing this I can tell you sgrover's take is the one all PMs should be trained. Seeing roadblocks before they become roadblocks (RISK!) and clearing them, only holding a discussion (NOT status) when needed solely with those required, ensuring your business partner knows what's going on but isn't bored by technical chit-chat, and supporting your s/w team needs. Dates MUST be set or, in many cases, s/w guys slack or get easily distracted. I know this, I was a prog/analyst for a very long time, and observed the same human behavior in many other technical staff (infra, security, app dev, arch, etc).

The proscribed solution? Agile. Most of industry's take on Agile is just a way of avoiding accountability for hard work, IMO. Very few seem to get it and do it right, maybe that will change.

Linus, is that you?

And having lived 10 years in IN, my experience is that the quality of schools shows it. A top-level private education turned out to be roughly equivalent to public schools in IA. The roads outside Indy were atrocious, too, and it was the first state in which I observed paved roads being rolled back to gravel.

You do get what you pay for, IMHO.

There's a COBOL shop in my small town that contracts for corporations and the government. I know several COBOL specialists in their 30s. It's actually an extremely lucrative field to get into these days, with good pay and job security.

Rewriting all that COBOL code in some other language would be bound to cause major problems.

I'm told I'm too wordy and unnecessarily use complex words.

Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/...

The auto industry is long-known for having taken the "Beat the supplier over the head with price" approach. It was a monumental failure and the Japanese auto makers, who collaborated with their suppliers on various price improvement mechanisms, were monumentally successful in quality and price. This will fail and Walmart will crash. The question is who else will go down with them riding the coat tails.