Surprised and Disappointed

[Chuck Allison]

Hello Charles,

Monday, May 5, 2003, 12:17:34 PM, you wrote:

CC> A lot of these sound like typical teething problems, the sort of thing
CC> you know how to handle in Windows (because you are accustomed to it)
CC> but not in Linux (because you aren't accustomed to it).

Let me clear about one thing: I'm not against tweaking, per se. What
I'm finding frustrating is the lack of a definitive source to
determine the correct tweak. I have O'Reilly's Samba book, and have
tried to apply the online Samba tutorial, and I still can't find the
"right" way to make my Linux shares available to Windows. There should
be a HowTo that works. I'm a tweaker from way back, but I like the
right answer to be locatable in O(n) time, not exponential, which is
what I'm approaching at this point.

All this reminds me of when I worked on the Oracle 8i team at Oracle.
750+ developers using home-grown CM layers on top of CVS working
simultaneously on the Oracle complete release. It took three months to
get a successful build of the Oracle DB in an environment I could
develop with. It took my then boss the same amount of time when he
started. All this because people hack/tweak instead of engineer. I
quit after 3 months, even though I had a 6-figure salary (which was
good back then) and was working leisurely out of my basement. I
couldn't live with the lack of productivity. Seat-of-the-pants hacking
doesn't scale.

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Best regards,
 Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
 Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
 cda at freshsources.com