Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.mailgate.org!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC72A49.5171E1A4@cox.net> From: _zip <_zip@cox.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.hardware,comp.os.os2.beta,comp.lang.beta,comp.misc Subject: Re: Beta Testing References: <3CC567A8.6010805@gte.net> <3CC5DF8B.6AD979C8@cox.net> <3CC633BF.5040607@gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 61 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:53:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.13.203.42 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1019685202 68.13.203.42 (Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:53:22 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:53:22 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.edu:34394 comp.os.os2.beta:76465 comp.lang.beta:13222 comp.misc:82323 Jason Stefanovich wrote: > > _zip wrote: > > > Jason Stefanovich wrote: > > > >>Anteater wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I have done Beta Testing before for such companies as Microsoft, AOL, > >>>etc. I do beta testing for a hobby. I would like to do more beta > >>>testing. I do not charge anything, or even request anything in return. > >>> > >>>If anyone knows where I could register. I prefer Operating Systems, > >>>and Hardware, but I am open to anything. > >>> > >>>Jkeagle13@aol.com > >>> > >>>THANKS! > >>> > >>> > >>Nobody who's worth their salt at it does beta testing for fun. > >> > >>Even *properly* beta testing my own code is a pain in the butt. > >> > >>Jason S. > >>Software Test Analyst > >>US Army > >> > > > > Cool job. I got suckered into enlisting as a 13F. I ets'd in '96 from > > the 82nd. Whoa! :) > > > > So when you guys gona switch your desktops to linux? Some estimates are > > that a switch from a M$ centric desktop environment to a freely > > distributed open source operating system such as linux could save the > > department anywhere from $800 - $1200 per year per computer. With over > > half a million desktop pc's in the DOD the savings are considerable. > > > > I've been running SCO as my main production environment since Oct '98. > Don't think Win is ever going to go away on the desktop. More because > of Outlook and Access than anything else. And mostly because the US Military (I'll include congress here too) couldn't care less how they spend everyone's money. You'd think they would at least consider open source software first in their procurement cycles. But they don't, do they? I remember at fort bragg once a year we would have what's called the 'million dollar minute'. Pretty much every piece of weaponry at fort bragg would fire all the ammo they could into the impact area for about a minute. The artillery would line up about 75 howitzers and fire one round at a high angle trajectory and then another at low angle right after that so that all the rounds impacted in the same spot aT THE same time. Indeed it was a very awesome display of our hard earned dollars going to waste. It's a shame our military limits themselves with proprietary bullshit software produced by the evil money hungry empire M$haft. Or is that M$hit? :)