On 4 Oct 2009, at 01:17, Harry Putnam wrote:
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She worked with computers every day.. but I still knew nothing
whatever about them. She also was very good friends with a couple for
yrs, The guy was the `network' guy for UCSB a network system admin on
most of there computer networks. Largely unix of one stripe or
another.
(Yeah I'm finally getting there)
Over a yr or two I too became very good friends with him. As it
turned out he had a son who was a troublesome handful.. a kid about 13
or so at the time. Me and this kid hit it off pretty well and I sort
of took it on myself to try to help him along... it turned out he did
more helping along than I did.
He was a linux advocate... a slackware guy, having learned about Unix
from his dad.. and I guess Linux too.. It was really him who got
me interested.... I started to see where that `computer stuff' was
really nothing more than a very highly developed tool.
I was a guy who liked good tools and had used many of every
description. ...
Many thanks for your informative anecdote. I enjoyed very much
learning about you.
Stroller.
