On Friday 11 May 2018 11:28:08 Curt wrote: > On 2018-05-11, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > On 05/11/2018 08:13 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:59:30AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> On 05/06/2018 09:22 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >>> I've been introduced to many commands and some of the "logic" of > >>> the Linux way of doing things. > >>> > >>> Thanks everybody. > >> > >> Thanks for keeping things interesting & fun with your (sometimes > >> whimsical ;-) enquiries. > > > > I don't recall being whimsical. > > Weird. Possibly. Been told that for >70 years ;} > > Yeah. And one man's fun and interesting is another man's so narrow and > exiguous a corner case no one but Owlett himself could possibly fit > into it.
But he is not quite alone in his corner. I was about 8 years old when I asked my uncle, who made his beer money fixing the "all American" 5 tube radios of the day (this was about 1942) what was wrong with the waxed paper sealed electrolytic capacitor he had just changed. He didn't know but pulled a cabinet door open that had a hand written menu on it titled; IF and one of the lines said "it hums, change the filter caps." But that didn't tell me why and I was full of why's. So on my mothers (she had the distinction of being the only girl in the 1929 class on aviation technology at Des Moines Tech High School, and if she didn't know the answer to my questions, she did know where the library was) next trip to town, she hit the library and brought home a couple books that were state of the art in 1942, about high school physics. One chapter was on capacitance and how it was made. So on our next Sunday trip to Des Moines, I blew my uncle away by telling him what was wrong with those capacitors. That of course got me introduced to his collection of sci-fi books. And generated a lifelong passion for things technical. With an 8th grade education, I have made my living in some field of electronics since I was 13, and retired from a tv station in June 2002 as the Chief Engineer, a chair I didn't spend a lot of time in but had it for 18 years. Nothing went out of the building to be repaired during my tenure unless the maker refused to supply parts or docs. Even Fuji had to learn they weren't the only magicians who could repair their $7800 tv zoom lenses. Now I'm 83, and still putzing with this stuff, with 4 metal carving machines that I converted to be cnc controlled. I suspect, if we could get Richard to talk, that he too was a nerd before the word was invented. Maybe, but he got a later start... -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
