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Burning Brakes
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Gawd... what a bunch of users.
I've been in the software business for 20 years and the main reasons I do it is:
1. it's Applied Mathematics; leave the theory to the propeller heads in white coats.
2. I get a huge kick out of making users happy. Making their doo-doo happen better/faster.
3. It makes large quantities of cash.... sometimes.
I know what it's like run software on large, complicated, ever-changing, constantly service-packed platforms. But good software deals with it. Hardware is a pain in the ****. It fails. It weirds out. Overheat it, under/over volt it, spike it some... dead. Next. Then to bolt a whole pile of software, in the right order, and make sure everything points at the right stuff... bring in the white coats.
JD... you and yours have done a magnificent job over the years of placing a presence on the Internet that all of us have come to depend on. You're 'down for maintenance' and the ripple is felt all the way to Hong Kong. Yet, in less than a day you resurrected a box from scratch that came back online with new and improved as gravy. Out-fugging-standing. Thank you.
I've been in the software business for 20 years and the main reasons I do it is:
1. it's Applied Mathematics; leave the theory to the propeller heads in white coats.
2. I get a huge kick out of making users happy. Making their doo-doo happen better/faster.
3. It makes large quantities of cash.... sometimes.
I know what it's like run software on large, complicated, ever-changing, constantly service-packed platforms. But good software deals with it. Hardware is a pain in the ****. It fails. It weirds out. Overheat it, under/over volt it, spike it some... dead. Next. Then to bolt a whole pile of software, in the right order, and make sure everything points at the right stuff... bring in the white coats.
JD... you and yours have done a magnificent job over the years of placing a presence on the Internet that all of us have come to depend on. You're 'down for maintenance' and the ripple is felt all the way to Hong Kong. Yet, in less than a day you resurrected a box from scratch that came back online with new and improved as gravy. Out-fugging-standing. Thank you.
