From: dsolaro at coffeehaus.com (Denis Solaro)
Subject: irc over ssl

On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:15:10 -0500 (CDT)
Ron DuFresne <dufresne@...ternet.com> wrote:

> 
> I think if they were savvy unix/ISO users, they certaily would have at
> least a linux/*bsd partition to work from.


When a place gets money to throw at 100+ solaris boxes and Cisco gear, permanent
leased lines, fiber-chan storage... what's the point of saving 1 GB of HD
space?  Most electronic trading stuff around is on that, has to do with what
back-end the exchanges give us to trade on their markets(DAX, Monep, SWX,
EAX...) rather than by geeky choice.  

Also, you might find out that it's quicker to make money with Solaris Banking
jobs,  that you can spend at home on dozens of OpenBSD and Linux boxes,  than to
work on a linux job trying to achieve the opposite.

If you are lucky in your Solaris site job, you can always walk home with a few
old Suns with 4 CPUs that the place is throwing away along with SCSI RAID boxes,
SCSI DLT tapes readers, DLT tapes, switches... Good stuff to run BSD or Linux
on. 

When you work in a Linux job, you might get free pentiums II, an
old IDE drive and a promotional penguin plush toy.

I'll take the Slowlaris nightmare job any day.  Have you seen how much Linux
admins get paid?  When people start saving money on licenses by installing Linux
instead of Windows these days, It's a bad sign.  They are after shaving
that $80 per box off more than by Kernel purity issues.  Don't expect them to
buy the latest 16 CPU monsters Sun has to offer, don't expect them to pay that
well either. 

Now let's end those assumptions and resume the thread. 

SSL + IRC..mmm... 


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