Wow Royce - nice story. Are you able to come to the May meeting and
tell the story or maybe create an audio file of it in your own voice? I
wanted to do a talk on storytelling as it applies to marketing open source.
On 3/23/2011 9:09 AM, Royce Souther wrote:
I tried to avoid xrandr for many years even stuck with an older distro
because everything new was switching to xrandr. The problem is that
xrandr has a size limitation that would not let me use my four 19inch
monitors all as one desktop, only xinerama could do that because my
desktop was 5120x1024. In the end I just gave up and traded my four
19inch monitors for two 24inch ones. Now I have 3D desktop with
rotating cube on an okay desktop size of 3840x1200. It is cool but I
don't think I like it much, most of the time I turn 3D desktop off. It
tends to mess up many productivity applications.
What are your passions in GNU/Linux?
I have never been passionate about the new toys that come with the
latest distro of Linux. I am more of a person that is passionate about
something new I can learn. At last count I could program in 20
different languages on six different operating systems (counting all
versions of Linux as just one). I write code, I design circuit boards,
I develop embedded systems, I build telephone servers, web servers and
databases. All of these things I do because Linux distro's give me the
tools and encourage me to use them.
Some things I never do, I never ever clean viruses out of computers,
tell people to reboot Windows or spend sleepless nights awake and
panicking because the Microsoft servers are going to die any day now
and there is nothing I can do about it. That is the sate I was in back
in 1998, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I had panic
attacks that caused my whole body to shake violently, so bad that I
had to go to the hospital emergency room. In a Microsoft world I was a
worthless consumer who's only purpose for existence was to continue to
pay for all eternity for broken promises. I was so powerless in a
Microsoft world that I considered getting out of the computer
business, maybe I would have gone to work in construction, anyplace
that did not have something to do with computers. I could just be one
of the other mindless zombies that when Windows crashes I take a
coffee break and wait for the stressed out computer repair guy to fix
it. Feckless and ignorant to the decay of a failed society where
stupidity is the most valued asset of your customers.
When I think about it I can truly say that Linux saved my life. With
Linux I know that nothing is beyond my abilities, everything has a
solution and the system is designed to help me find it.
What am I passionate about? The freedom, freedom to live, freedom to
learn and the freedom to make my own choices as to what is best for me.
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