deGrasse is a modern genius. Listening to him speak is sooo awesome. He did a few interviews on Point of Inquiry which are really good. One in particular: http://www.pointofinquiry.org/?p=63
http://www.youtube.com/v/xi1IT69QlSs&rel=1 For the guys I rode with Sunday....this is the boat I was talking about.
I like the little side battles. I was going to ask where MySQL was but there it is duking it out with Oracle and MSSQL.
I miss the good old days. When you could power off your computer without loosing anything (DOS) and you could hear your dial-up connection. http://lazylaces.com/56Kmodem/
Wow. This is so cool. I'm serious. Seeing all you guys in your natural habitat, going on about your lives. It's like going to the zoo or seeing Bigfoot.:lol::beer:
Talk about old technology. My first real job out of school was working on low speed modem chips V.21 300BPS, and V.22BIS 2400BPS. All you would here is screeech screech ooooooo chisssssss screeech. Just like the Terminator girl in terminator 3 who was doing the modem handshaking tones.
No, never made it to the Atari camps. While in high school, my football buddies and I used to crack-up and make fun of all the pocket protector wearing geeks who used to spend their lunch time hour in the computer lab to write Basic, CP/M and Cobol code (1979-1982) on all dumb terminals attached to a mainframe which took-up a whole room next door. Keep in mind, there was no DOS just yet (let alone Windows/Linux). Nothing appealing about it but they used to hoot and holler when they were able to write code to be able to print, play silly text games or echo from one terminal to the next (via RS-232). I didn't get it nor appreciate but now, I've become one of them. "What the Eff, David Blaine!!!"
Fortran?? You got away easy! When I started they still made us take freakin' assembly language! :lol:
Assembly taught me a lot about how stuff is stored and what's going on behind the scenes. I thought it was very valuable even though I don't write assembly in the job... I studied it on my own.
Okay, what other geeks used to belong to fee based local BBS's where you could download/upload freeware useless (for most part) files and chat with who's online, all done over a 300/1200/2400 bps modems. I confess! Hell, I still have my US Robs external V. Everything modem, just because. Back in the day, that was the shiznit! I'm also saving my 2 original PC's from the 80's. 1: IBM PC, 8088, 4.77 Mhz., dual 5 1/4 floppy's and 256 Mb Ram. 2: IBM-XT, 8086, 8.0 Mhz., 384 mb ram (AST expansion board), single full height Tandem floppy drive and a 20 mb hard drive. One of these years, stuff will be worth some money. Not sure if he does anymore but Tam (FooRiders.com) used to have a collection of IBM PS/2's & IBM AT's, every possible model you can think of he had. Pretty cool stuff!
I was a BBS-aholic. Started w/ an authentic Hayes 1200bps external hooked up to my 8088. Screamin' fast.
I remember some of the older guys doing the BBS's, but I didn't even have my own machine until well into the 90s. My 80s computer experience was with the school's trash-80s and my buddy's C64.
I'm such a g33k that I kept my old PC even when the Mobo was fried!! in hopes that I would fix it one day!!#-o it doesnt take much to replace the moBo #-o:lol: just no time to do it.8-[ btw the Pc is not havy duty oLd but I like it b/c it was like my first nice one that I've put together my self!!:bang:
I saw that coming... I turned one of my dead boxes into a Linux Router using that LRP software. Funny. I have a couple old laptops that when I tried to load Windows it says the disk is bad. When I boot Linux it just hides the bad sectors and installs. Is that a Linux feature... "Linux the OS that will run on the crap hardware you have that even Windows doesn't want to install on."
