[OT] became PM, was (Re: ubuntards)

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:00:19 +1000, Res posted:

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Thorny wrote:

It's called "a life" you should try it sometime, its amazing!
Well, I've had one for more than 6 decades so far, but I feel some need
to

Well, at 42 i'm only a pup, so you'd know better then me that the other
half often commands attention, and i rather enjoy complying :)

Well, that kind of demand is usually not onerous.

"give back" in some small way for the open source software that has been
provided for me.

Oh I've given back many times over the years to several projects, but i'm
not a chest beater so dont feel the need to add them all to things like my
sig or advertise it, i've always been and will be, a "quiet achiever"


To my mind, that is the best way. Except in specific instances, for
example in a list where developers are discussing issues and identifying
oneself may be necessary and it may be standard practise to digitally
sign ones email. Other than that, I almost always find "credential" sigs
grate on me and waste bandwidth, why should I care who someone is, I just
care about the quality of the discussion.


Note: Your spellchecker is broken. :-)

I don't use one, its a pain to manually go ctl-T in pine :)


;-)

We know that you are a Slackware user and all the elitism that
implies.

Actually, Slackware, RHEL, Solaris, no more AIX thank god, but ubuntu
is 3rd boot option in laptop, you see i dont dis a distro without
trying it first :) However I spend a fair amount of time in ubuntu on
laptop, mostly coz I detest KDE and my time is limited these days so I
CBF building all the gnome packages for slack, as I am a great fan of
gnome and prefer it over any othe GUI.


Hey man, you've been around long enough to know, real geeks use the CLI.
:-)

I do, what do you think im using now? :) what do you think I use on all
list/newsgroups under this account hehe. Of course I use Evolution and ff
in gnome a lot for work, afterall, some of these programmers dont
understand anything exits outside of GUI, and trying to use portals in
lynx is a pain, but its awesome loading pages if i'm away on laptop using
dialup, 150k pages load in 2 seconds ... some webmasters think its cool to
concentrate on "eye candy" rather than factual content or usability, one
day I hope they will wake up to reality.


Yah! As I'm sure you know from my headers, I like a nice GUI newsreader
for this list with good threading and filtering (and one with which I'm
familiar) so I can find things easily when I want to. Agree with you about
eye candy, feel sorry for the people who are visually challenged and have
to wade through things with a screen reader.

Not our problem if you are bored, go back to the life you mentioned.
;-)

I did, right after I posted that message lol. I'm here now coz works
very quiet this morning, enjoying a coffee, some Pink Floyd, and
ssh-to-home for your entertainment on usenet/mailing lists, what more
could I ask for
:)

I like Pink Floyd too.

Everyone else is now probably bored with our "lovefest".

Thorny on Cassandra, over and out.


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