Old farts and new Linux (was: new FC1 install problems)

[neil]

john at os2.dhs.org wrote:

>On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:00:34 +0100
>Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com> wrote:
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>>Around 03:44pm on Monday, May 03, 2004 (UK time), duncan brown
>>scrawled:
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>>>and i don't mean to insult you in anyway, but... i wonder who's the
>>>oldest computer literate linux user out there?  i sort of have the
>>>mentality of the hippies back in the 60s/70s, don't trust anyone
>>>over 30 =] ... it's hard for me to believe that someone over 30 uses
>>>linux personally, once you're over 30 you have to start thinking
>>>more like a manager =]... then again, i'm almost over that line, but
>>>i don't feel like i'm that close =]
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>>Well I'm 43 and have 5 PCs/Servers in my study running Gnu/Linux.  I
>>started as a trainee programmer on a Honeywell maiunframe in '79.
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>>And I know there are plenty older and more skilled than me.
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>Young'un.
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>I'll be 49 next month and I have a home network with 2 linux machines
>(RH9 and FC1), 2 NetBSD machines (1.6.1), and 2 FreeBSD machines (4.8
>and 5.2.1).  Oh, and one Win2k machine.  But I'm no computer
>professional.  The only formal computer training I've had was a FORTRAN
>class back in 1972.  The rest I've picked up on my own.
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Hehe. You know it's all gone too far when your family and friends all 
have single sign on kerberos authentication from one of the several thin 
clients dotted about your home - just so they can check the web mail you 
have provided them....

And no - before you ask - I haven't. The kerberos authentication is 
happening in two weeks...plan, plan and plan.

n ;-)