How many GEEKS do we have on this board?

[Bob3]

Anybody interested in the Desktop Linux Summit being held in San Diego on February 20th and 21st?
http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org.

Southwest is having another good sale...

 

[The Chairman]

my very first program was in machine code... it was a Wang programable calculator back in 1973... we didn't have PCs or access to a main frame in my "Computer Science Class". It was a part of the math department. You could input in either binary or hexadecimal. The bit gave you the "function" and the second bit in the string was the modifier, which might be the register modified or a function like pause, goto etc...

0001 0010
0100 0001
0001 0010
0010 0010
0001 0010

was the program to add two numbers together... I know I am missing half of the actual steps, but I haven't used that in a LONG time. Fortran seemed to be at odds with the simplicity of the Wang, and I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I had to punch a hundred cards to do essentially the same thing. Well, it wasn't that bad, but I found it extremely cumbersome to deal with.

 

[Dectek]

My first was the TRaSh-80 with a cassette recorder as storage media. I remember waiting for for the new gaming books to come out so we could take close to a week to load in every line just to get syntax errors coming out the yahoo (Before there was a yahoo)

You know you are a geek if you think Hackers are good guys and Crackers are bad guys.

 

[DaveO]

I'm doing some heavy forensic financial stuff, and just finished writing a search utility for MS Excel that works better than the original. Well, _I_ think so, anyway!

 

[bottom_sucker]

Lotsa years of IT. Actually wrote programs on Commodore 64 for QA Lab in 1984. Majority in software world, now supervising hardware and network technicians. Oh yeah, Penquin lover as well since 1994.

If heredity hadn't decreed I'd be prematurely grey, IT jobs would have anyhow.


Dave

 

[aquababe]

NetDoc once bubbled...
REAL programmers use

1001111010110010010011 1001010001001110010010
0011011001000100010100 1001000001000000111111

:tease:

a joke i received today says it all:
"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

another UNIX geek here

 

[landlocked]

NetDoc once bubbled...
Timex Sinclair??? Now THAT'S a mo-chine!!! :tease:

I really wanted one of those! Yesterday I was playing with the new Compaq tablet. Things have changed. Oh... add me to the list of geeks.

 

[Dr. Jay]

OK, so far we have:

ckharlan66
sillygrendel
Spectre
C_C
cwb
Jonathan
Rush
benncool
NetDoc
kalvyn
canuckdiver
ScubaVP
MgicTwnger
GeekDiver
Mr. Nice Guy
JeffG
Dectek
DaveO
bottom_sucker
aquababe
landlocked
Dr. Jay

Now that's an impressive list of geeks! :geek:

Any more?

 

[WJL]

I have a category issue here.

My undergrad degree was a BS in Computer and Communication Sciences in 1976. (Holy Sh*t, that's a long time ago.) I remember going to a Tau Beta Pi meeting where some guy from this startup company called Intel showed us these 8080 chips that were originally designed to run a digital clock, and somebody realized they could be used to make a computer, and would we like to buy a kit to try it? We were programming on terminals attached to an Amdahl 370 mainframe with a staggering 512K of core memory, writing code in IBM 360 Assembler, Algol, and Fortran. If you wanted the lastest, coolest info, you read it in Byte.

So I graduated, went to law school, and I've been a lawyer ever since. I was an early Mac convert (try using a 512K Mac for word processing) and I write programs in C++ and VBA for my own amusement. I doubt if this could be considered normal.

I guess I'm a geek wannabe.

 

[Dxtreme]

WHY IS LINUX SO STABLE AND NEVER CRASHED ??

coz ... there aint too much program that you can use it with.... ut:


IMHO, linux is good only for Cheap FREE backend servers ( MAIL, APACHE, MYSQL ........etc.)