Jaunty: Notifications

marc gmane at auxbuss.com
Mon Apr 13 13:23:50 UTC 2009


Lindsay Mathieson said...
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:34:48 pm marc wrote:
> > Ah, the Four Yorkshiremen approach.
> 
> 
> Heh! When I were a lad we wove our own punched cards from flax in the snow 
> uphill on the way to coal mine and were grateful for the opportunity!
> 
> nb. I actually learnt to code using punched cards. We had to mail them to the 
> nearest data processing center in Invercargill (New Zealand). Turn around for 
> bugs was three days :)

Yup, been there. And I'm still in my 40s. We were usually guaranteed one 
compile a day, though. Two if you really got to know the ops. And now my 
IDE finds compile errors as I type... while doing a zillion other things 
simultaneously.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc





More information about the kubuntu-users mailing list