[Liverpool] Hi!

[Graeme Dyas]

For Production Servers in work i use Debian exclusively.
For testing servers and home I use ubuntu server.
For my Aspire One (netbook) I use Crunch Bang
http://crunchbanglinux.org/(ligthweigth ububntu based distro)
For Main Desktop Vista 64 ultimate (Its used for gaming and has 12gb of ram
so had to be vista :( )


2009/4/25 Stephen Mount <stephen at dreamcreators.co.uk>

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