On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:03:32PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > The real and substantial impairments, both physical and mental, which > accrue with advancing age, are easily overlooked in the ignorance of > youth, or even middle age. Though two decades behind our petitioner for > a quick hint, I have for a decade and a half found it necessary to > accumulate a private multifarious manpage, or brain-fade-insurance, now > amounting to 350 pages of stuff which has worked for me, but spans a > quarter of a century of using dozens of unix utilities, scripting > languages, cross-copilers, linker scripting, system administration, and > embedded systems development, etc. Without that, I'd be asking a few > more questions on the less hostile lists too. Ya can't remember it > all, and in declining years, the time remaining looms in all its stark > brevity. The increasing rate of wetware memory drop-outs in our autumn > years becomes increasingly unnerving, and even figuring out where to > look isn't as easy as it once was.
That sounds like a fantastic compilation, not just for practical knowledge, but I'm betting a little of history as well. Would you care to share it? :) -- Eduardo Alvarez "Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum" -- Rincewind The Wizzard
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