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On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:55:05 +0000, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:

> Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> writes:
>> 
>>> My field is the creative industry and my degree is in photography, but
>>> over the last 10 years or so I've become increasingly a "computer
>>> nerd" and would love to drop everything and spend 3 years doing a CS
>>> degree, not necessarily to pursue a career but rather to just geek
>>> out. Any chance I can gate crash your session on the 17th? ;-) heh.
>>> Probably best not to, I don't know shite from dirty pudding when it
>>> comes to Unix, only significant CLI work I ever did was on my Amiga
>>> 1200, and I never got on with it.
>> 
>> It has been a long time since the CLI was a necessary part of using
>> unix.
>> 
>> If you have a Kindle, you are using a flavor of unix.
>> Good luck even finding the CLI there.
>> 
>> If you do want to learn about computers,  doing a Linux install is
>> probably the best way to go.  And, it's completely free.
>> Get yourself a live CD or bootable USB key and you don't even have to
>> change anything on your hard disk.
> 
> I've certainly used Linux before, I had a brief toy with Ubuntu on an
> old laptop a couple of years ago. Didn't go much on it, to be honest,
> although I know I only just scratched the surface of the thing. I have a
> long parked project to get a Linux install working on one of my PowerMac
> 9600s, must get round to that soon. No, what got me excited about Bob's
> post was the thought of being a nerd for 3 years, playing with computers
> and not having any other responsibilities. If I had the money, I'd
> permanently be enrolled on university degree courses, one after the
> other. :)

Most of ours do it for four years...they do a year working in industry, 
too (getting paid for it). We have students at IBM, HP, Microsoft, Red 
Bull, Glaxo....and in Hong Kong at HSBC. We even have about 18 at Cisco 
in San Jose this year...



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olduse.net RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 20:23 +0000
  Re: olduse.net john <nospam@no.net> - 2014-03-07 12:35 -0900
    Re: olduse.net Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-08 07:23 +0000
      Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-08 14:27 +0000
        Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-08 15:13 +0000
          Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-08 15:46 +0000
            Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-08 17:35 +0000
              Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-08 19:07 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-09 08:15 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-03-09 09:43 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-09 10:51 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-03-09 11:04 -0400
                Re: olduse.net Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-09 17:27 +0200
                Re: olduse.net RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-09 17:54 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-09 18:12 +0000
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                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-09 17:55 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-09 18:14 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-10 08:59 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-10 10:18 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-10 10:39 +0000
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                Re: olduse.net Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-10 11:48 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-10 12:05 +0000
                Re: olduse.net RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-10 12:09 +0000
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                Re: olduse.net RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-10 13:08 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-10 13:16 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-10 14:27 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2014-03-10 13:13 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-10 22:28 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-10 16:51 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-10 16:55 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-10 21:25 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-10 22:31 +0000
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                Re: olduse.net Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-10 00:31 +0000
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                Re: olduse.net Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-03-11 17:39 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-03-11 15:02 -0400
                Re: olduse.net Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-11 19:32 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-03-11 15:56 -0400
                Re: olduse.net Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-11 23:31 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-12 00:34 +0000
                Re: olduse.net Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-12 01:34 +0000
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