WoofyDugfock
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Posted: Oct. 27 2004,06:28 |
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Thanks again all - especially to John for starting the whole thing and to Roberts and the other developers for their generosity.
Advisory: readers under 40 should skip the next paragraph or two of (albeit early) middle aged rant.
rant_middle_aged()
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Caulktel, we're around the same age. I think we must maintain and believe that we are both far too young to start thinking of ourselves as too "old" to learn new tricks. I know that if we allow ourselves to think that way then we might come to believe it, which is fatal. Hell we're only barely middle aged! Many people our age are considered to be "at the peak of their careers". Remember that the world is largely run by people our age and much older (which is not to say that they do a good job). Our cultures might be youth/beauty obsessed but the baby boomers (of which we're on the tail end) run things and control much or all of the the capital - although I personally don't control much I can tell you, and if I consider this the peak of my career then I don't have much to look forward to (which is also a fatal point of view). And I have known, as the cliche goes, people at 18 who might as well have been 75, considering their mental ossification.
Technology may be tyrannically wielded by the very young, but many great artists, scientists and entrepreneurs only began to find their swing at our age or hadn't yet found it. Don't forget the great late starters of history, compared to which we are still but young chickens eg here are a few http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/latestart.html
So fiddle-ee-dee, dagnabbit, dribble-drool, where's my blanket etc!!
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# continue
I agree that green screen DOS was an interest killer - it was for me also - but it's surprising how many whipper-snipper geek types actually like it, especially when considering the infinitely greater power available in the *nix shell.
The huge volume of bash stuff on google is perhaps one of the best reasons to learn to use it - there is so much stuff there. The man entries are often helpful although I'm sure others will agree this doesn't make the cryptic-and-often-perverse "sed" (of which there seems to be a thousand versions each with slightly differing syntax - grrrrrr!) any easier to figure out - the man entry for sed (which I think contains no examples) is next to useless.
Personally I have found a few urls especially good - I'll post these when I boot into dsl later as they are bookmarked within dillo.
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"We don't need no stinkin' Windows"
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39149796,00.htm
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