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From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels
Date: Mon,  9 Apr 2001 17:08:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010409170204.14587Y-100000@einstein.ssz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104092136.f39Laqi05988@orthanc.ab.ca>


On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> writes:
>
>     Jim> You guys should work in a 'production' environment, you're
>     Jim> getting flabby around your pre-frontals...
>
> No, you should run 'production' software in your 'production' environment.
> We aren't running a 'production' environment here. And that's a Good Thing.

I do. I use one of my companies GA products as the test harness of my
automated system (the only team in the entire company to do so I might
add). We use a 'customer like' environment and to make sure it is we
actively work on resolving Crit-Sit's and Sev 1's the rest of the company
has failed to resolve.

In the two years I've managed the group we've hit every time target, come
in under budget, increased the volume of work executed each year (with a 2
person decrease in staff mind you) by a full order of magnitude. If you
look at my groups total performance in the last 24 months we've hit 1000%
improvement (and we ain't done yet).

An OS is meant to be used. Any environment is a 'production' environment
from a OS system admin perspective. Making a OS a chinese puzzle to solve
isn't doing anyone a service. It's just hard-headed self-congragulatory
mental mastrubation.

Computers are SUPPOSED to take the drudgery out of ones life...

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-09 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-09 21:15 Russ Cox
2001-04-09 21:52 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 21:36   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-09 22:08     ` Jim Choate [this message]
2001-04-09 22:34       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-09 23:08         ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:50           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-10  0:45       ` [9fans] " Steve Kilbane
2001-04-10  0:28         ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  8:18           ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-10  8:57       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-09 21:40   ` William Josephson
2001-04-09 22:10     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:16       ` William Josephson
2001-04-09 22:42   ` Dan Cross
2001-04-09 23:10     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  0:30       ` Dan Cross
2001-04-09 22:10 ` Mike Haertel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-17  8:35 nemo
2001-04-10 11:56 forsyth
2001-04-10 11:50 forsyth
2001-04-10 11:35 Matt
2001-04-10 10:52 forsyth
     [not found] <200104092210.RAA06371@einstein.ssz.com>
2001-04-09 22:12 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  9:00   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-09 22:00 jmk
2001-04-09 22:30 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 21:47 presotto
2001-04-09 21:43 Russ Cox
2001-04-09 22:16 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  8:59   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-10  9:00   ` Boyd Roberts
     [not found] <john@cs.york.ac.uk>
2001-04-09 14:33 ` John A. Murdie
2001-04-09 23:31   ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-09 10:19 forsyth
2001-04-09  9:09 forsyth
2001-04-09  9:32 ` Dave Iafrate - CSCI/F1997
2001-04-09 16:14   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-08 19:36 presotto
2001-04-08 17:55 Andrey A Mirtchovski

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