On 07/22/2018 09:06 AM, songbird wrote:
cyaiplexys wrote:
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That's the one cool thing about this group and groups like it is the
conversations where you learn a little bit about those folks in the
group in between learning other useful things. Reminds me of the old
FidoNet days (and later newsgroup days - do they still even have either
anymore??)
how do you think i'm reading/writing here? via usenet
and gmane. :)
i'm more often on the gardening group these days.
I am reading these directly in Thunderbird as the posts get emailed to
me. Since I normally just subscribe to the email lists, I don't even see
the newsgroups anymore. Haven't been on one in years.
my history with computers starts about 1978 and then
15yrs of nothing but computers at the university. my
degree was computer science and i also worked as a
programmer, then i was project lead and then systems
programmer and did all sorts of things during a
conversion from the mainframe to the mini-computer
system. also worked on a MS degree but never finished
it.
i semi-retired about when the internet was just
taking off (in the mid-90s). haven't worked much
since then, but did some months of being a computer
operator for a local business until i realized that
working two jobs was crazy, so i went back to the
part-time library job only until i quit that too.
I am semi-retired since last June (been a year already, time flies). I
still work from home part time for a mom & pop web hosting company I've
worked at for almost 15 years. It's a fun job (and sometimes a little
challenging but not in a bad way). Keeps my brain cells from decaying
too fast, I guess. :)
some years later i still like tinkering at times
but it hasn't been until this spring i finally got a
new enough machine to be interesting in working on
a project of my own. so i can learn python bits at
a time. after learning so many computer languages
picking up another one is just not that interesting
any longer so i have to have some project which is
also interesting enough to keep me poking along.
I think I can understand at some point. Though I don't have any "new"
machines. My ThinkPad T61 I got back in 2007 and the main machine (an HP
g7 2010nr 17" laptop) is at least half that age. Both have been through
upgrades and repairs. I have the ThinkPad on my work table getting ready
to replace the fan. I already replaced the CPU in that one to a 2.x GHz
and upgraded the RAM to the max 4GB. I run Debian Stretch on both (with
KDE desktop) and for work and other things I use VirtualBox virtual
machines for testing things. Both work quite well for what I need to do.
I don't have any need for heavy graphics or video processing and don't
play games on them. So an old system works good enough.
with the gardening season being here i only have
time once in a while when it rains or i'm taking a
break from the heat.
songbird
It's been one hot summer, too! I used to do gardening too but my health
took more of a nose dive and can't really do that anymore. I do love
nature though. It's a nice break from computers and tech. Variety is the
spice of life!
