On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:37:18PM +0200, Örn Hansen wrote:
tisdag 12 oktober 2004 22:37 skrev Allen:
I'll be 22 in a month if anyone cares :) Blah, I'm getting old. Next I'll be getting a hip replacement, and talking about the old days when UNIX was able to fit on a single floppy, and you wrote your own damned device drivers....Days I was never apart of lol. I don't think I'm doing TOO bad, considering I just got into this a year ago.
I'm 20 years older than you are, and I started with computers in 1980 ... so, I've been around computers longer than you've been around. :-) The thing that I've experienced, is that in my first year I didn't have time to socialize ... it was all computers 24/7. Now, I grant myself the privelege of reading a mail or two, and browsing the internet :-)
Too me, I think people using computers now are spoiled. You have pretty GUIs, a mouse for everything, and NO ONE actually HAS to learn coding to use one. I like using a GUI, becaue well, text pron sucks, and I like watching video, and being on Gaim, and Kopete, but as for right now, I have Amarok playing a play list and I'm on Gaim and Kopete, but I'm in a VC text only checking my E-Mail. Do you agree that kids now have it easy? Including me of course, I got my first computer 5 years ago and just started using UNIX based OSs a year ago. I don't have to learna nything, I can just click and drool on the keyboard. I'm quite tired of it really. I feel I've missed out on the golden days of PCs because of a GUI. People who have beeb on computers longer have it better, you guys know how to code, you know networking inside and out and your OS inside and out. I had to force myself to learn all that. I still can't program for crap, and I'll blame that on GUIs too, because lookign at older computers and thwe web pages that talk about them, everyone knew how to code in at least basic, and in the 70s, even Macs came with Hex. I feel like a GUI is nothing more than a bondage instrument to hold you down. SUSE finds a good mix of both, and yes it looks beautiful, so I'll actually use X in SUSE, but I still shut X down when I'm not using something that needs it. A goal of mine: Too become one of those UNIX Wizards who sit there for ours on end hacking away at their Console/ Terminal. I want that, as it just,... I'm not sure how to explain it, but I just want to be able to be a UNIX Wizard. The guys who have been at this for a long time know what I mean. You don't have a GUI loaded, and you're sitting there re-writing your OS. Heh, I actually started designing an OS not long ago. OSs are something I'm good with and I know how they work OK, and so I wanted to design one for me, and started it. I've had good, and very good responces. People love it, and think ti's a great idea, but again I don't code. Woops, LONG Email.