Hallo, João Miguel Pais hat gesagt: // João Miguel Pais wrote:
oh, you mean that for your system to work you must have had a programmer
setting it up, since you couldn't do it yourself? that's exactly what I
mean that is the problem, thanks for agreeing with me. I think it's great
that you found a sollution. In my case (and many other ones) where I don't
know any programmer who has the time / will to come here and spend some
hours/days working on it, so I'll have to keep doing it slowly if I want
to set up that system.
Actually the kind of person you talk about here is not a programmer, it's a system administrator. Our previous sysadmin at work used to become very upset when someone called him a programmer: "I'm not a programmer, I'm a system administrator. I don't code."
Installing printer drivers or configuring a webserver has nothing to do with coding. You're a programmer when you are developing Pd patches, but you're not, when you're filling out some dialog boxes in the Control Panel.
Personally I didn't start using Linux because I was convinced of the Free Software idea (that came later). I started, because I just didn't manage to get Windows 3.1 to connect to the internet, which is a typical sysadmin task. Compared to that, with Linux, configuring TCP/IP and PPP was dead easy. Also a freshly installed Linux system has all software I need, whereas a freshly installed Windows system doesn't even come with a decent text editor, let alone a full Office Software package, a useable email client (no, Outlook Express is not useable) and good sound and image editing software. All of this has to be installed later and maybe even is very expensive or bothers its users with nasty registration procedures.
Ciao
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