Job Search Goal #1
I have decided that in my list of goals for my next job, at the top of the list is that I will not be required to sit at Microsoft-based workstation. I'll go with Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Java OS, even Mac OSX. Just no more Windows.
Windows has had more than 10 years to not be a steaming pile of dogsh!t and it really isn't making a whole lot of progress in that regard. Microsoft really should get out of the OS business forever and just stick to writing applications, which is all they're even slightly good at.
Imagine what might have happened to the PC industry if the IBM PC had shipped with a real operating system like Unix instead of the reworked CPM or whatever it was that MS snagged for their first "MS DOS". The experience of early PC computing would probably have been ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE better. I actually think the world might be a much more beautiful place.
I feel that every time I learn to be proficient with a commonplace *nix tool like SED, AWK, or even GREP that I'm unearthing amazing magical powers after being crippled by the "lets use a GUI wizard for EVERYTHING" mentality of Microsoft operating system tools.
But seriously, even if it's a little harder to find some work that's not in a Windows shop, I'm willing to take the time. It will speak volumes about the mindset of the company I work for.
Windows has had more than 10 years to not be a steaming pile of dogsh!t and it really isn't making a whole lot of progress in that regard. Microsoft really should get out of the OS business forever and just stick to writing applications, which is all they're even slightly good at.
Imagine what might have happened to the PC industry if the IBM PC had shipped with a real operating system like Unix instead of the reworked CPM or whatever it was that MS snagged for their first "MS DOS". The experience of early PC computing would probably have been ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE better. I actually think the world might be a much more beautiful place.
I feel that every time I learn to be proficient with a commonplace *nix tool like SED, AWK, or even GREP that I'm unearthing amazing magical powers after being crippled by the "lets use a GUI wizard for EVERYTHING" mentality of Microsoft operating system tools.
But seriously, even if it's a little harder to find some work that's not in a Windows shop, I'm willing to take the time. It will speak volumes about the mindset of the company I work for.