A veiled attempt to enslave the proletariat with empty bourgeois promises

[pyesetz]

The subject above is a surprisingly-popular answer for the poll at the bottom of this diary over at DailyKos.  I had originally sent it to TorFur, but the initial response was rather poor (I had been warned that job postings to furry lists usually don't get much of a response), so I reposted it to DailyKos.

In case you're wondering (and who wouldn't?), the [CENSORED] items are

• Dogbiscuit crumbs and Nutella
• Wear a diaper and not bathe
• Cute foxboi

As of today, I'm still talking to one of the TorFur respondents and one of the dK respondents, but so far no one has actually signed up for the job.  So my unblemished record of "always a programmer, never a manager" continues!  I expect that becoming a manager will cause my headfur to go grey overnight, because management is one of those "life passage" things that causes your body to think that you need to start looking older and more distinguished.

Comments

[dotter-can.livejournal.com]

Ah, my mistake; you required PHP, C, YACC, etc. You also mentioned LAMP, CSS, ssh, cvs, gcc, bash and qmail.
- PHP I know is a scripting language.
- C I know is a programming language, the one used mainly since the 80s.
- CSS stands for "cascading style sheets," which replaced tables in HTML, probably because tables weren't complex and fussy enough for M$.
- gcc was familiar; Googles tells me it's the Gnu C compiler.
- Bash I know is a Linux shell, the only item from the list I've actually used.
- Qmail might be a better idea than Thunderbird, which has inconvenienced me through several emergencies and platform changes.

I have no idea what the rest are. Do I still sound like a promising candidate? (I ask because it doesn't sound like that to me and I'm the one who needs the job!)

[pyesetz]

Do I still sound like a promising candidate? ... I'm the one who needs the job!

It depends on how acute your financial need is.  It takes a while to build up your programming-skill level to the point where it's worth money.

What happens if you point your browser at localhost?  Suppose you install Ubuntu package 'apache2' and try again.  Does something different happen?

If you create file /var/www/phpinfo.php containing this text

<? phpinfo(); ?>

and point your browser at localhost/phpinfo.php, what happens?  If you install Ubuntu package 'php5' and try again, does it show somewhat-interesting factoids about your computer?

If you install Ubuntu package 'php-doc' and point your browser at file://usr/share/doc/php-doc/html/index.html', you should see the reference manual for PHP.  Can you think of anything that you can make this thing do?

[dotter-can.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I'm going to need work pretty soon. Thanks anyway for the offer! :)

I've already re-installed Karmic, which fixed the no-video problem and allowed kpackage to install NVIDEA accelerated graphics driver V1.73, which has been working okay as far as I can tell. I don't want to fuss with it anymore in case I make another schmutz. But thanks anyway for the advice, it was nice that you wanted to help.