Introduction
James
james2432 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 13 01:52:17 UTC 2010
alfred, that's a major case of tl;dr x__X
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:45 AM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> On 11/06/2010 10:24 PM, James wrote:
> > does assembly count as prehistoric?
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:03 PM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net
> > <mailto:alfred.s at nexicom.net>> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/06/2010 7:33 PM, Phil Woodland wrote:
> > > Hello World/List!
> > >
> > > I am not sure what the process is on here, but I suppose I should
> > introduce
> > > myself in some form:
> > >
> > > My name is Phil and I am not exactly what you would call new to
> > Linux (started
> > > with Slackware in '99 and have been using Kubuntu since 2008) but
> > I am
> > > certainly new to this mailing list.
> > >
> > > I live in the Kingston (Ontario) region and I work as a Fire
> > Fighter by day,
> > > and Computer Science student by night (okay..... the day and
> > night switch
> > > quite often and they tend to blur together quite a bit as well).
> > >
> > > I do a lot of contract programming work, which is mostly PHP,
> > SQL, and Java
> > > but also some C/C++, on the side.
> > >
> > > I tend to advocate when the situation arises but, I admit, I
> > don't randomly
> > > talk to people about Linux.
> > >
> > > There used to be a Kingston Linux User Group, or so Google
> > says.... but it has
> > > been abandoned for a very long time. So I don't know anyone who,
> > knowingly,
> > > uses Linux on a regular basis around this area.
> > >
> > > Anyway, that's me in a short and sweet manner.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Phil
> > >
> > Hi: I've been using Linux since Mandrake 5.2, but never got into the
> > programming end of it. I did Programming for a time, way way back in
> > time with some things that might now be considered Prehistoric. I
> also
> > Did Volunteer Firefighting a long time ago, Hope you don't havr to
> many
> > Burning Questions. :)
> >
> > Alfred!
> >
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> Hi: My First Confuser was an Ohio Scientific Challenger. Played with
> IBM's before that, 1130 and PDP 8, and assembler was what was used
> before Basic came about. I was more into Hardware than Software. I
> played with that gate called a Flip Flop, that was the First Computer
> thing I ever made. The OS didn't have a Hard Drive, just a floppy. I
> donated it to a school. Then when Timex Sinclair came about, got a few
> of them. I took Programming in School, in Basic, Fortran , Fortran 4,
> and a few others. Plus we learnt Octal when looking at CPU's. It all
> made sense back then, before Hex came about. Then I got a Commodore -
> 64, and after learning it's basic I started to program in Machine
> Language, using assembler, for the 6502. I made a few add ons for it -
> An 8 Channel A-D, D-A, for doing Automatic Testing then started to play
> with Z80, then kind of gave all the programming up, and just started to
> learn how to use programs. All that Code started to melt together, from
> all the different CPU's, it became to difficult to separate it.
>
> We used Flow Charts to do any kind of Programming, today, there are too
> many different Languages, to program in and Flow Charts seem to have
> vanished. Software is now Juggled together, and then published for Beta
> Testing. Most little programs I made Worked Perfectly, because I made
> use of Flow Charting. If I don't do something for about a year I forget
> about 80 % of it, I made Web Pages for a time with MS Agent Figures in
> in them using Bellcraf'ts MASH program to get the figures to do things,
> and say things, like AVATARS. Sort of could look at the produced code
> and edit it, even though it was sort of Alien to me. I made a web site
> that had Merlin Speaking the whole website, if you used IE. It was a big
> challenge, because the whole Web Page had to be smaller than 5 megs in
> size. All the graphics, music, and MS Agent Stuff. I used Serif Web Plus
> to make the Web site, and then edited the produced code to add the MS
> Agent stuff. That was about 5 years ago. So I've forgotten how to do
> just about all of that. Web Pages just became to difficult for me to
> continue with with all the new and completely different Extensions to
> it. Programs like Web Plus make it easier to do, but adding stuff to it
> like MS AGENT or similar is just too much to keep up with.
>
> Then there is the people aspect. The job was sort of Volunteer Work, and
> the people kept on wanting to make changes that were very hard to make,
> to keep the lower than 5 meg size limit. So One day after being told
> again and again that it was sort of a low priority, I just changed my
> Email address, and Stopped! They had too many other things going with a
> higher priority, and could not give me the updated info I needed, and
> for next to nothing money, it became to much of a hassle for me!
>
> For a few years I used Ubuntu, but since January, I've lost all my
> Internet Connected Ubuntu Installs, due to Viruses, Due to Upgrades that
> Don't work, and erased so much that I had to Start over. Due to Back-up
> programs not working at all. Published stuff that didn't work at all.
> Published Ubuntu stuff that destroyed my Hardware! That now I don't have
> Ubuntu Running on Internet Connected Machines, only Machines that don't
> have Internet! Many times to get a program to download "sudo" has to be
> used, and that makes it so a hacker can grab your password. Then all
> kinds of bad stuff starts to happen! The Password Changing programs
> don't work, so No Ubuntu, for now!
>
> Alfred!
>
> Alfred!
> >
> >
>
>
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