Crazy Days
I'm just another ordinary guy with crazy dreams and a wiered life...who wouldn't know what's wrong with this world and life...let's try to find what?Saturday, April 22, 2006
FOSS and me
Education is a fascinating thing, for some it is their only salvation, but some time it can ruin your life too...that might be where I'm getting right now. Anyway even without that step still my life is gonna rot, so I have no choice in this case. When you come to think of it, a UNIX sysadmin + DBA + partly developer + Project manager, would not have any other option but to expand his scope (hardly think of the scale), this must be the only option left for me. I think it is high time for me to decide which way I'm gonna walk, it is not a choice, but a must.
Recently I started thinking what type of impact FOSS/FLOSS had in my life style. About 10 years ago I was a DOS platform programmer who loved the lower level hardware programming, specifically game development. Then my life changed when I decided to linger on M$ products, just because of there ease of use (I guess, anyway I'm a lazy personality). That wasted half of my life (computer life), and the worst part is that was the most productive time frame of my life. Learning ASP before PHP could be one big mistake I made at one point. Anyway both were equally easy to learn :).
After joining university (working) was the first direct involvement with Linux usage. I think anyone can guess what happened after that...so how on earth I fall in love with big boxes (yes I still love them), AIX in particular. In a certain angle AIX is no better than Windows or any other proprietary software. You hardly get to know about the internals of the OS, still I like it.
Could my affinity for UNIX is because of my affinity towards FOSS counterpart? prbably.
Hmm....so FOSS and me, how suitable are we together?.....better let time decide that.
Education is a fascinating thing, for some it is their only salvation, but some time it can ruin your life too...that might be where I'm getting right now. Anyway even without that step still my life is gonna rot, so I have no choice in this case. When you come to think of it, a UNIX sysadmin + DBA + partly developer + Project manager, would not have any other option but to expand his scope (hardly think of the scale), this must be the only option left for me. I think it is high time for me to decide which way I'm gonna walk, it is not a choice, but a must.
Recently I started thinking what type of impact FOSS/FLOSS had in my life style. About 10 years ago I was a DOS platform programmer who loved the lower level hardware programming, specifically game development. Then my life changed when I decided to linger on M$ products, just because of there ease of use (I guess, anyway I'm a lazy personality). That wasted half of my life (computer life), and the worst part is that was the most productive time frame of my life. Learning ASP before PHP could be one big mistake I made at one point. Anyway both were equally easy to learn :).
After joining university (working) was the first direct involvement with Linux usage. I think anyone can guess what happened after that...so how on earth I fall in love with big boxes (yes I still love them), AIX in particular. In a certain angle AIX is no better than Windows or any other proprietary software. You hardly get to know about the internals of the OS, still I like it.
Could my affinity for UNIX is because of my affinity towards FOSS counterpart? prbably.
Hmm....so FOSS and me, how suitable are we together?.....better let time decide that.
posted by Kosala Atapattu # 6:25 AM 
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