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Skriven 2006-04-13 21:56:16 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 5688 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
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Hi Maurice :)

>> Ah.. that will indeed do it :(  That's too bad.

>Yep.  I got used to it though.  I figure, usually correctly, that if the perso
> responsible isn't worried about it then there isn't anything to be worried
> about and I leave it at that.  If I am missing anything I am not aware of it
> and thus am not missing anything.  Right?  :-)

That's the truth :)

>> Yep, know what you mean...  I run into it now and again as well :(

> Usually the text browser is correct though.  If it can't display then there
>more then likely isn't anything useful in the way of information and it is saf
> to move on.  A few times out of curiousity I have double checked with a gui
> browser which usually confirms this; Much bytes about nothing constructive
> and/or useful.

Lol  - maybe I will mention it to the web master guy <grin>

>> I use Mozilla Firefox when I have to go into Xwindows for some site

>That isn't too bad but a bit bloated methinks.  Like I said, usually no reason
> to even browse most pages that a text browser can't display.  All glitz, no
> glory.

Yep, it's a bit bloated, but it's not too bad.. I don't run X all day.. only
when I need to.. sure, it's installed but doesn't get used that often.. I run
all the other stuff I do all day on consoles.. works for me <grin>.. I just
could never stand windowy things.. works for me :)

>> or whatever..  Most times I'm on a console running lynx though..<g>.
>> I went to the fptech site with it, and yep, you don't see all the
>> info. :(

> I like lynx.  I use it mostly to read html pages and sometimes use it to
>convert whatever html to text if there is something of interest there.  Mostly
>cut and paste any bits of information though to a text file for later retreval
> for whatever reason.  Works excellent for that.

Yep, it does ;)  Sometimes I use wget to grab a page too.. not too often.. bbbs
even lets you do essentially that if you come in on the telnet interface.. I
could probably write a script in it's programming language to let you do that
from the Web Interface, but I haven't done that yet as you've probably seen
<grin>

>> Sure, I understand.. didn't think you would really... it's a tool for
>> a specific audience, that's for sure.

> Right.  I did note that it is terminal based which I though was interesting.
> Looks like they are sparing the horsepower for the important work, which is a
>good thing methinks.  Too bad they don't write their webpages that way eh?  ;-

Lol :)  I will tell them that :) :)

>> When we have people decide to "jump ship", & it happens, believe me..
>> it's not a big deal to move the data out because the data is
>> available in a number of common formats.

> That is the important thing for sure.

Yep..


>> Right.. those vax/vms systems weren't PC's that's for sure <grin>..

>There is an understatement if I've ever seen one.  I was told it took 24 hours
>to boot the sucker up and I believed it although I never actually witnessed it

Wow.. 24 hours.. :) (go home, get some sleep, come in, get some coffee, hang
around, get ready to go home.... it's ready ... <g>)

>> we were definitely addicted <laugh>  Well, I was.. it took him a
>> while to decide to quit his 'real' job and work on our own business
>> programming custom C apps..:)

>It took me awhile to get into C.  Playing around with the c-shell in Solaris i
> where I started to see the value in it.

hehe.. you know, I have never installed the c-shell.. I thought about it a
couple of times.. just never did ... I use bash for all the scripts I do..
works for me.. maybe someday I'll check it out..

 >> Ah, the select few :)

> Heh, heh.  The biggest sucker is more likely.  :-)

Lol :)

> I had fun though and
> learned quite a bit about archiving data nevermind for just tapes.  Scripting
>is what I really learned and that attitude actually helped out later in dos, o
>my first PC (386).  I could suck that thing into thinking it could do things n
> other 386 could do.  Also that was where I actually learned to compile C
> programs and wrote some fortran source on there for later compilation on a
> Sparc station.  It was probably the only 386 that had dos2unix on it in a
> 1000km radius ... possibly greater.  I never saw other 386 that knew anything
> about unix.

:) :)

When we finally bought our 2nd computer, it was a Leading Edge ..wow..
<grin>.. Had a 10 meg drive, so we put dos on 5 meg, and Mark William's
Coherent on the other 5 meg partition so we could learn unix.. then we started
looking as some of the unix systems.. I'm trying to remember the name of the
one I fell in love with <bg>.. geez.. blanked out.. it was quite a system..
somehow I think later the Lisa might have been based on that cpu but I could be
way off..  been too many years <grin>.  We didn't get it though.. we decided to
stick with dos and try to make a living <smile>..

>> the only thing I ever got to touch in college
>> that was computerized was a light board for plays when I did Stage
>> managing on tour we took with a play one year :)  Sad..

> That sounds like fun.  I could have probably got into that.

Yeah, it was cool :)  Though I much preferred being the star of the show
<laugh>  Acting was all I really knew then :)  The stage manager job was
something I got suckered into by the director because he said I'd be good.. and
I was.. but.. it's not the same if you know what I mean haha

>>> Yeah that is a real boar's nest for sure.

>> Can be indeed... ;)

> For sure.  Another understatement?

Lol.. I think so :)

Take care,
Janis

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