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Re: If not "newbie" then ????

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On 07/22/2018 09:06 AM, songbird wrote:
> cyaiplexys wrote:
> ...
>> That's the one cool thing about this group and groups like it is the
>> conversations where you learn a little bit about those folks in the
>> group in between learning other useful things. Reminds me of the old
>> FidoNet days (and later newsgroup days - do they still even have either
>> anymore??)
> 
>    how do you think i'm reading/writing here?  via usenet
> and gmane.  :)
> 
>    i'm more often on the gardening group these days.

I am reading these directly in Thunderbird as the posts get emailed to 
me. Since I normally just subscribe to the email lists, I don't even see 
the newsgroups anymore. Haven't been on one in years.

>    my history with computers starts about 1978 and then
> 15yrs of nothing but computers at the university.  my
> degree was computer science and i also worked as a
> programmer, then i was project lead and then systems
> programmer and did all sorts of things during a
> conversion from the mainframe to the mini-computer
> system.  also worked on a MS degree but never finished
> it.
> 
>    i semi-retired about when the internet was just
> taking off (in the mid-90s).  haven't worked much
> since then, but did some months of being a computer
> operator for a local business until i realized that
> working two jobs was crazy, so i went back to the
> part-time library job only until i quit that too.

I am semi-retired since last June (been a year already, time flies). I 
still work from home part time for a mom & pop web hosting company I've 
worked at for almost 15 years. It's a fun job (and sometimes a little 
challenging but not in a bad way). Keeps my brain cells from decaying 
too fast, I guess. :)

>    some years later i still like tinkering at times
> but it hasn't been until this spring i finally got a
> new enough machine to be interesting in working on
> a project of my own.  so i can learn python bits at
> a time.  after learning so many computer languages
> picking up another one is just not that interesting
> any longer so i have to have some project which is
> also interesting enough to keep me poking along.

I think I can understand at some point. Though I don't have any "new" 
machines. My ThinkPad T61 I got back in 2007 and the main machine (an HP 
g7 2010nr 17" laptop) is at least half that age. Both have been through 
upgrades and repairs. I have the ThinkPad on my work table getting ready 
to replace the fan. I already replaced the CPU in that one to a 2.x GHz 
and upgraded the RAM to the max 4GB. I run Debian Stretch on both (with 
KDE desktop) and for work and other things I use VirtualBox virtual 
machines for testing things. Both work quite well for what I need to do. 
I don't have any need for heavy graphics or video processing and don't 
play games on them. So an old system works good enough.

>    with the gardening season being here i only have
> time once in a while when it rains or i'm taking a
> break from the heat.
> 
> 
>    songbird

It's been one hot summer, too! I used to do gardening too but my health 
took more of a nose dive and can't really do that anymore. I do love 
nature though. It's a nice break from computers and tech. Variety is the 
spice of life!

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