From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels In-Reply-To: <200104092136.f39Laqi05988@orthanc.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:08:06 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c3bdd20-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Choate 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... ____________________________________________________________________ To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x+1)-ecrable. Edgar Allan Poe The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------