Get APLawrence.com by RSSEating your own dogfood
Mon Jan 3 13:27:46 2005 Eating your
own dogfood
Posted by Tony Lawrence
Referencing: /Blog/B1216.html
A comment from the above article:
Of course we have to be so bashful here. For someone with such a well informed opinion of unix you are very unnecessarily anti-microsoft.
Who cares what they run themselves? Maybe they have a reason to have a problem with Apache... (which I might remind you and all other readers, does not equal Linux, which is fundamentally a KERNEL).
We could consider, best offer of price for bandwidth and hosting performance. Use of specific design tools, or rapid development interfaces unavailable on other platforms with the same install to finalise times. Simply the price point of a near base configuration? Obfuscation of real server type? TINAEL, it could go on forever.
Shut up and get on with it is what I say, as a *nix and 'dows admin and user.
Looking at the source of the index page, it is awash with mess, suggesting a poor coding style and bad practices. This would suggest to me that the site developer would be unable to build and use a Linux based system due to the lack of a full GUI administration system.
Drag already answered the main point here: it's about eating your own dogfood. But there are two other points that need to be made here. First, yes, Linux is a kernel. But Linux systems embrace a Unix philosophy, and THAT is what makes them preferable to Windows. I AM anti-Microsoft, for a lot of reasons, but if we separate the political objections from the pure operating system points, we're still left with an ugly, clumsy philosophy and it is THAT which I dislike.
I don't have any particular love of Linux, BSD, Solaris, SCO or anything else as operating system environments. I DO like the political idea of open source, but again, if we just keep it to the level of USING the computer, I don't care what I run - AS LONG AS IT HAS A UNIX PHILOSOPHY.
I have said before that I cannot understand how anyone can really USE a Windows system and not hate it. It's too damn hard to do anything that someone else hasn't already decided is what you need to be doing. See Linux Sucks Windows Sucks and Linux Sucks.
So, even if Microsoft weren't an ugly, greedy and abusive monopoly, and Linux weren't open source, I'd still prefer Linux over Windows. Even if Windows were free and Linux cost hundreds of dollars. I'd pay it.
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"The prospect of earning money should be your primary motivation - it's the reason folks contribute."
The above comment was posted on the "why publish" page and succeeded in exciting my ire, as it were. My suggestion to the unidentified author of that remark is, "Speak for yourself, bubba!"
I won't speak for the others who write articles. However, I have a hunch they do so mostly because they want to add to the body of knowledge on this site, not to their bank accounts. In any case, and as Tony has explained, the amount of money involved is modest, so clearly many of the authors here are not posting contributions as a means of accummulating college tuition funds for their children.
I write an occasional article because I enjoy wordsmithing, and because I have been dealing with this stuff for many years and believe that the learning process is something to be shared. Being paid for doing something I like may make my step a little lighter as I trip down the sidewalk of life, but knowing that someone else may benefit from what I have written makes it easier to dodge the numerous cracks along the way (sorry, that damned wordsmith guy just took over).
I started learning about computers years ago (before UNIX even existed) by reading about and studying what others had accomplished, as well as by writing programs, playing around with things and seeing what did, or didn't, work. In particular, I was fortunate to be exposed to electronics at an early age (fourth grade, to be exact) and to get involved with computer hardware design at a time when many different ideas about how to accomplish things were being floated about. The resulting exposure made it much easier for me to understand diverse concepts and practical solutions to theoretical problems (in contrast to the boring sameness of what permeates much of today's computing scene).
Because the ability to recall the distant past is finite (increasingly so as I approach my so-called retirement years), I have documented a lot of what I did years ago in cryptic notes that still serve me to this day. I have continuously built upon those days of early learning and thus I believe I have something that can and should be passed onward to the next generation of information technology accolytes. Part of the information I like to pass onward is historical perspective, which often helps in understanding how something came to be as it is today. Only a long period of experience makes this possible.
The writing of articles, in itself, is a learning process, as aggregating material for an article may involve sifting through the results of research conducted both on-line and off. The researching process, in itself, becomes yet another learning experience, as new concepts/methods, or perhaps previously unknown historical data, may come to light and lead to still other sources...
So at least in my case (and, I'm sure, that of others), the anticipation of remuneration is not a factor in writing. Rather, it is the dual experiences of sharing and acquiring knowledge, a self-sustaining process whose value far transcends that of mere money.
"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not infinite." --BeatsMe
--BigDumbDinosaur
"The prospect of earning money should be your primary motivation - it's the reason folks contribute."
The above comment was posted on the "why publish" page and succeeded in exciting my ire, as it were. My suggestion to the unidentified author of that remark is, "Speak for yourself, bubba!"
I won't speak for the others who write articles. However, I have a hunch they do so mostly because they want to add to the body of knowledge on this site, not to their bank accounts. As Tony has explained, the amount of money involved is modest, so clearly many of the authors here are not posting contributions as a means of accummulating college tuition funds for their children.
I write an occasional article because I enjoy wordsmithing, and because I have been dealing with this stuff for many years and believe that the learning process is something to be shared. Being paid for doing something I like may make my step a little lighter as I trip down the sidewalk of life, but knowing that someone else may benefit from what I have written makes it easier to dodge the numerous cracks along the way (sorry, that damned wordsmith guy just took over).
I started learning about computers years ago (before UNIX even existed) by reading about and studying what others had accomplished, as well as by writing programs, playing around with things and seeing what did, or didn't, work. In particular, I was fortunate to be exposed to electronics at an early age (fourth grade, to be exact) and to get involved with computer hardware design at a time when many different ideas about how to accomplish things were being floated about. The resulting exposure made it much easier for me to understand diverse concepts and practical solutions to theoretical problems (in contrast to the boring sameness of what permeates much of today's computing scene).
Because the ability to recall the distant past is finite (increasingly so as I approach my so-called retirement years), I have documented a lot of what I did years ago in cryptic notes that still serve me to this day. I have continuously built upon those days of early learning and thus I believe I have something that can and should be passed onward to the next generation of information technology accolytes. Part of the information I like to pass onward is historical perspective, which often helps in understanding how something came to be as it is today. Only a long period of experience makes this possible.
The writing of articles, in itself, is a learning process, as aggregating material for an article may involve sifting through the results of research conducted both on-line and off. The researching process, in itself, becomes yet another learning experience, as new concepts/methods, or perhaps previously unknown historical data, may come to light and lead to still other sources...
So at least in my case (and, I'm sure, that of others), the anticipation of remuneration is not a factor in writing. Rather, it is the dual experiences of sharing and acquiring knowledge, a self-sustaining process whose value far transcends that of mere money.
"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not infinite." --BeatsMe
--BigDumbDinosaur
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