How many other Computer Nerds are here?

OldG

OldG

Elite Hobbyist
Psychobilly said:
I haven't done tech support as my job for some years now, which, is probably good.... I realized early on I was NOT a people friendly worker and I'm not so sure I hit the mute button in time every time I heard something that I thought was ridiculous LOL.

I now enjoy being in the Woods more than a Server room haha. Maybe that's why oldschool Unix engineers always had hiking boots on.
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It was a great career to retire from.. :D Freedom 52 is now years in the makiing and...
I love retirement
 
Inferno Mike

Inferno Mike

In Bloom
I am a cloud dork. I grew up in the 80’s when it was supremely uncool, but I never cared about that. Now we computer nerds run the world, for better or worse. I program, I do networking, systems architecture, I do it all. I make about $$$$$$ a year from home, in salary, and $$$$ a day as a private contractor, on occasion. Ain’t mad about any of that. I wish tech companies were less horrible, and the internet wasn’t largely surveillance capitalism, but what’ya gonna do?
 
OldG

OldG

Elite Hobbyist
So...what is weird was Y 2 K
But after that...and a recession I did ok...being a problem solver and all.

I realized it when i had a tent down and figured it out...and i fixed a bottleneck in production...OMG I am at work again....but shit i can get behind this !!

I resolve bottlenecks so much faster than the steel plant i worked at....but I get it.

Sorry for the hijack...
 
Psychobilly

Psychobilly

🧀Muenster
Inferno Mike said:
I am a cloud dork. I grew up in the 80’s when it was supremely uncool, but I never cared about that. Now we computer nerds run the world, for better or worse. I program, I do networking, systems architecture, I do it all. I make about $$$$$$ a year from home, in salary, and $$$$ a day as a private contractor, on occasion. Ain’t mad about any of that. I wish tech companies were less horrible, and the internet wasn’t largely surveillance capitalism, but what’ya gonna do?
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When I was in college, there was a dude there in my class that was a bit older than I was at the time, and he had been a systems coder for years and was now getting his degree for Networking, and we used to have a blast. He had used actual paid through the ass for it versions of Unix and ..... Brilliant dude to say the least. I actually gave him a copy of Slackware Linux to setup at his home, and he was kind of like "I dunno man Unix is expensive and you're saying this is free?" and so at first he had some trepidation, but after installing it, he said to me how a video card wasn't supported and he slapped an old one in the case and it worked great. I found it funny though because I hadn't had any real experience with "paid for Unix" outside of wanting an SGI workstation SO badly, but I couldn't ever afford them.

I actually just saw my old FreeBSD 10.X CD Set today after digging through old stuff a few weeks ago :)

I'm a big fan of BSD in terms of the most stable shit I've ever used straight up.... I don't think I ever managed to crash FreeBSD despite me trying LOL.

OldG said:
So...what is weird was Y 2 K
But after that...and a recession I did ok...being a problem solver and all.

I realized it when i had a tent down and figured it out...and i fixed a bottleneck in production...OMG I am at work again....but shit i can get behind this !!

I resolve bottlenecks so much faster than the steel plant i worked at....but I get it.

Sorry for the hijack...
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You're good bro; Shit I have trouble sticking on topic in a lot of my posts haha.
 
Inferno Mike

Inferno Mike

In Bloom
Psychobilly said:
When I was in college, there was a dude there in my class that was a bit older than I was at the time, and he had been a systems coder for years and was now getting his degree for Networking, and we used to have a blast. He had used actual paid through the ass for it versions of Unix and ..... Brilliant dude to say the least. I actually gave him a copy of Slackware Linux to setup at his home, and he was kind of like "I dunno man Unix is expensive and you're saying this is free?" and so at first he had some trepidation, but after installing it, he said to me how a video card wasn't supported and he slapped an old one in the case and it worked great. I found it funny though because I hadn't had any real experience with "paid for Unix" outside of wanting an SGI workstation SO badly, but I couldn't ever afford them.

I actually just saw my old FreeBSD 10.X CD Set today after digging through old stuff a few weeks ago :)

I'm a big fan of BSD in terms of the most stable shit I've ever used straight up.... I don't think I ever managed to crash FreeBSD despite me trying LOL.



You're good bro; Shit I have trouble sticking on topic in a lot of my posts haha.
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BSD is amazing. I agree entirely.
 
Psychobilly

Psychobilly

🧀Muenster
Inferno Mike said:
BSD is amazing. I agree entirely.
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That it is bro! I USED to have the DVD of Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick giving a history of Unix and BSD lecture and I loved it. I have the "video and audio" files saved but the DVD was lost along with my Quarter Centure of Unix book, and of course all my old BSD and Linux books after the ex and I split up.

I have FreeBSD boxers, tee shirts, and still have a lot of my software stuff though. BSD is one reason I feel like UC Berkeley > MIT
 
pwnytailjoe

pwnytailjoe

Come As You Are
Thought you might enjoy.

I'm in a cigarette shop buying zags one day and the guy behind the counter says 'hey, you fix computers right, my uncle's computer won't start all of the sudden?'

I show up at his place a week later, check the cables, and try to boot it up. It shuts down after 10 seconds.
Already I suspect something's up from the rank, stale cigarette smell.

I pull the side off and try another boot. Same thing. Fan starts whirring and dead.
I take the box home and start taking it apart beginning with the heatsink fan.

This is what I got.
Uncle sits in a closed room most of the day, chain-smoking. Tar and dust had built up to the point where the heatsink fan had made a little polished bowl on the heatsink.

Threw everything into a bucket of simple green and hosed it off the next day, reassembled, returned, passed Go, and collected my 200 bux.

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I couldn't get rid of the smell.
 
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meangreen

In Bloom
I evaluated CPM vs DOS for a flight simulation company a very long time ago. Used to have to turn in programs at school on punch cards (if you had a good run/program some people would steal your classwork and you would have to do it again). major bitch when doing cobol. Hacked dns at work one day and made it so everyone that looked at our stock quote saw it dropped 80%. shit hit the fan
 
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meangreen

In Bloom
meangreen said:
we chose cpm based on the tests but they lost the war
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we were running xenix and had a bunch of perkin elmer mini computers - I went on an interview at sun microsystems and asked if I new about email. I told them I used it on a Sel/Gould mini and they hired me. I was the computer operator at the flight simulation place in sunnyvale and had my boss came into the room where I kept all the 1/2 inch tapes for backups and he opened a cabinet and he asked what was this. It was my water pipe with a fish pump. Told him it was for smoking weed and he just shook his head
 
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