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Gary Kline |
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[Libreplanet-us-wa] among the truths |
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Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:14:36 -0800 |
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Fellow members,
yes, it's true that at my age, I'm among the geezer-geeks
yet living. [[ I wasn't able to finished my EECS until I earned
a rehab scholarship at Cal ~15 years after high school. And it
was a brutal 4+ years until I finished. ]] but then I was able
to earn a decent living and jumped at the opportunities in the
open src community: FreeBSD, at first, then Linux. I've written
several small utilities for FBSD that need some tweaks to
compile for Linux.
Last month, a tech I had to hire to do some cabling and install
a KVM switch, found a Dell quad i5 computer. I spend weeks
fighting over the newest Micros**t-driven tweak: I think it
was something to do with "creating a better BIOS for the
64-bit world." this according to the propaganda.
I spent 14 hours yesterday installing Linux on the new box;
it is still not quite right. Day by month by year I'm convinced
that MS and Apple {and others} will do whatever it takes to
restrict folks' freedom of choice to try other --and likely
superior-- ways.
gary kline
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Gary Kline address@hidden http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
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