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[alfred]

On 12/06/2010 9:52 PM, James wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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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> alfred, that's a major case of tl;dr x__X,

Gee I had a lot of Trouble learning English as it was not my First 
Language. What is this a Typo?
I'm not into Text messaging, have no idea at all what you are saying 
here. It does not look like Latin or Greek or Dutch, or French or 
German, nor does it at all look like English, or Esperanto. My telepathy 
isn't that good right now to know what this means. If you are going to 
use expressions like this at least write out once what they refer to or 
a direct translation!

Alfred!