The two of you old farts should really jump ship to Slackware
Floffe Send a noteboard - 15/02/2010 02:59:47 PM
I never really made the jump from DOS to the other things. I skipped windows 3.x entirely and going from GW an Q Basic to V-Basic, well, I never got it down. C:\DOS, C:\DOS\RUN, RUN\DOS\RUN. Still funny, but other than the basic html scripts necessary to play with the font types and colors I never have gotten use dot nay of the modern gibberish, I feel proud just being able to configure my email to download directly into my mail program.
Still doing better than me. I don't TRUST the GUI; I never know what it's doing behind it's charismatic display, and miss the days when DOS did EXACTLY WHAT I TOLD IT TO AND NOTHING MORE! This despite the fact my dad setup that original PC so that it used the "extra" RAM we sprang for (a second 256k stick) as a virtual C drive, including a reminder on the boot disks jacket that anything unsaved in the C drive would disappear when the computer was deactivated. It greatly annoys me that I have to wait for Windows to do that now when I want to just hit the power switch and leave, just as it annoys me that Windows has all kinds of complicated architecture to do similar things for which I used to write three line batch files.
Where KISS is still the dominant design principle, and the amount of 3-line batch scripts is how your e-penis is measured.
Note: I'm only half joking here. To be a bit more serious, there are quite a few linux distributions who encourage users to mess about on their own.
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I thought it was looking pretty big and bright at 5pm today... *NM*
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that was very interesting. *NM*
The illusion always seemed pretty simply explained to me.
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I was, naturally, interested in seeing it. Clouds thwarted my plans.
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Re: I was, naturally, interested in seeing it. Clouds thwarted my plans.
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You'd be suprised how much you can see with "ordinary" binoculars.
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Likely wise, though it also reminds me of one those expensive addons I mentioned.
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Heh, it may have actually gone DOWN, I believe.
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Anemiconomy, I'll have to steal that
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Stealing my one liners is all the rage these days. 
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Theft is flattery
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Only when confessed and not contorted into caricature.
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I feel your pain, people steal my jokes than give wretched deliveries
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At least they retain rather than perverting the sense.
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Regrettably not
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Re: Regrettably not
- 15/02/2010 08:54:34 AM
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The two of you old farts should really jump ship to Slackware
- 15/02/2010 02:59:47 PM
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I should have moondog give me a Linux tutorial one day is what I SHOULD do.
- 15/02/2010 03:03:56 PM
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