For Production Servers in work i use Debian exclusively.<br>For testing servers and home I use ubuntu server.<br>For my Aspire One (netbook) I use Crunch Bang <a href="http://crunchbanglinux.org/">http://crunchbanglinux.org/</a> (ligthweigth ububntu based distro)<br>
For Main Desktop Vista 64 ultimate (Its used for gaming and has 12gb of ram so had to be vista :( )<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/25 Stephen Mount <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen@dreamcreators.co.uk">stephen@dreamcreators.co.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I understand what you are saying about PHP - the main reason why I write<br>
PHP at the moment is that it is generally available on many web hosts. I<br>
don't (usually) write CLI-based applications using PHP to do any sort of<br>
tasks it's mainly for the web. I understand the security concerns of<br>
PHP-based applications and it seems a put-off that so many people just<br>
use PHP as it's simple to pick up because of it's good documentation -<br>
but this obviously causes the concern that people are using PHP/MySQL<br>
without escaping strings and all sorts of bits.<br>
<br>
I'll definitely take your advice on trying other languages Simon, and<br>
re: chris - I think you definitely have a much better amp than I<br>
have :-)<br>
<br>
Also, re: Simon - I understand your point about learning different<br>
languages and on the way I could learn perhaps a more flexible way or<br>
more efficient way using other languages which also could be beneficial.<br>
<br>
On a more geeky note, I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 on my MacBook Pro and<br>
everything seems to be going well. Still not found a good reason to move<br>
from OS X but just trying things out! It's mainly the fact that Ubuntu<br>
doesn't have the Adobe suite. Ubuntu's text rendering is great but OS X<br>
+ Adobe + it's font support just wins for me. Also the UI seems more<br>
polished and with things like Cocoa and all that jazz it just makes<br>
everything seem so native and just plain _good_.<br>
<br>
I would have thought as a linux user group though you'd have different<br>
views, but still I'm a linux sysadmin for various people, mainly with<br>
web servers/ security and all sorts. We use Ubuntu in fact for most of<br>
our DreamCreators servers, with the exception of one or two CentOS boxes<br>
(booo)<br>
<br>
What distros do you use?<br>
<br>
Thanks for all advice,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Stephen.<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:58 +0100, Simon Johnson wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi Stephen,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Just wanted to follow up Chris by saying that I was extremely<br>
> impressed with your knowledge and understanding of audio<br>
> stuff. I've been heavily interested in music and audio<br>
> engineering since around the time I was 15, and I didn't know<br>
> then as much as you do now. As for your web magickery, you<br>
> would far exceed my knowledge as I frittered my youth away on<br>
> music. It's too late for me!<br>
><br>
><br>
> Keep up the "geekery" :) Knowledge is power, and all that.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Andrew<br>
><br>
> Yes, I have to second all the comments in this thread. For a 15 year<br>
> old, your knowledge was extremely impressive.<br>
> The only bad life decision that you appear to have made so far is the<br>
> choice of PHP. :) When I was your age, I was hacking around in Visual<br>
> Basic 3 - so I can hardly talk.<br>
><br>
> My only advice would be to try a bunch of languages. Just like<br>
> learning another spoken language gives you insight in to your own<br>
> tongue - learning other programming languages exposes you to different<br>
> takes on the same problem.<br>
> In particular, I would recommend something head bending like Scheme.<br>
> God, in his act of creation, probably used Scheme. It is simple<br>
> language and that simplicity gives it great power. Unfortunately, it<br>
> lacks tools support and a comprehensive set of libraries.<br>
><br>
> Learning Scheme teaches you how to think flexibly. However, if you<br>
> want to get any actual stuff done you'd probably want to use a<br>
> language like Python.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> Simon<br>
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