Ezzaral - That's interesting, especially the normalized list at the bottom. I think it's also very interesting to see which resources list which languages more... Craigslist seems to be a little...

Bummer about your current job. Sounds like it might be time for you to consider your options.

This market is bad right now for making moves, so perhaps the thing to do right now is just hang on...

I'm surprised no one has replied to this yet.

I work for a company that employs three people in its IT department, so I'm pretty much a jack-of-all-trades. The three of us do, however, have...

Yes, consulting would be very tough. Open-source solutions have to be "sold" to the customer, while Microsoft almost sells itself. Another very important thing to remember is that with open-source...

Ok... here we go...


Yeah, this is the ultimate Catch-22. Fortunately, you studied computers in school, so you have that added advantage. Is your degree actually in something computer-related,...

Hmm... I disagree with almostbob's assessment. He's right... JPEG is lossy, but that doesn't necessarily equate to the issue you're seeing.

Paint's JPEG implementation is crud. What I typically...

lionheart, you are not alone.

I am in the same boat as you... I want to push my career toward open-source. The work is more interesting, the technology is more exciting, and (let's not forget) on...

Do you feel that Debian is more stable that Fedora? I'm not poking at you, or trying to start a distro-war... I'm honestly really curious. Is there any particular reason why you feel that way? Of...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'm going to stick with Fedora. I've got nothing against Debian at all... heard really good things about it... but I'm so used to where everything is located...

It always amazes me how very little machine Linux and Apache really require, as long as you're not expecting a really high volume of hits on your site. I'm running Fedora 7 and Apache/PHP on a...

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! You don't need to drop $10k for something that will do the trick. If you can live with a machine that's maybe one or two generations old, you can save yourself a...

Wow... that was...

Anyhow... your choice of server really depends on what you're planning on doing. As jbennet just suggested, secondhand equipment can do the trick really very well, and costs a...

Good points... it really is all about the money. With that in mind, you might also investigate getting ahold of a multi-core CPU'd PC to use as a server. In a lot of cases, a "non-server" PC can...

I totally agree with DimaYasny... it completely depends on what you're going to have the server doing, and what sort of volume load you're expecting it to handle.

Brand name is always a plus, if...

Well... Nice to meet you, too! You're right... everywhere you go online, you'll meet somebody who's either from Omaha, or knows somebody there, or has family there, etc. Weird, it's it?

First...

Nice... I had no idea. I'm assuming that includes C#?

Hey!!! What's wrong with Omaha? I was born 'n' raised there! :cheesy:

First of all, and you might hear this again, I think you're going to have to get out of Nebraska. You're probably at Metro,...

Another consideration would be what compilers you might have access to. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't know if there are any free compilers of C#. Isn't that still Microsoft...