On 12/16/2012 08:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/16/2012 05:15 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Age is irrelevant when quantifying competence or skill nor should it be
(you'd feel peeved I should imagine if somebody referred to you
similarly because you first installed Linux from a floppy).
I'm not saying that he's wrong or not competent and, in fact, by the
time I first installed Linux (an early version of RedHat in the '90s)
it came on CD. I just thought it worth commenting on the fact that he
didn't even appear to know about installing from floppy.
If you feel the rest of the arguments he made in his post are somehow
wrong & feel you could enlighten him & help the whole community out as
well, I'm sure he would be only too delighted to benefit from your years
of experience.
Oh, no, I have no quarrel with his explanation; I just found it
interesting that he was just as unaware of installing from floppy as
he (probably) was about installing an OS from punched cards, as we
needed to do on the first computer I ever programmed. (If memory
serves, what we'd now call the binary image, along with a program to
load the cards and write them properly on the hard disk, filled three
drawers of punched cards.)
OMG!.......incredible!
EGO II
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