Introduction
James
james2432 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 13 02:47:32 UTC 2010
sorry: tl;dr : too long; didn't read
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:42 PM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> 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!
>
>
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