Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: olduse.net Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:04:24 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <380151905416045011.204212usenet-stephenthomascole.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="189748f827f5005aa08ac3cba2786117"; logging-data="28537"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18uro38JENAwbFFJxu1Q/W8l+rmbmOchx0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wOrCddysuowlmLI9ZVgLBLcpIkg= sha1:aOkNQAGkJx9V1S0ENnpYttFpIIU= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1385 Stephen Thomas Cole 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. -- Dan Espen