"It's time for you to leave."

[Gerhard Magnus]

On 12/31/2011 11:13 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/31/2011 09:06 AM, Jim wrote:
>> For those of you that are garus , if you do not have the patience with
>> dealing with NEWBIEs to Linux. just ignore the post and let someone who
>> does.
>
> I'm not claiming to be a guru, but I don't consider myself a newbie any
> more. I've been using Linux, off and on, since about '98, and as my sole
> OS since FC6. I won't go into how long I've been using computers, but
> when I started, I had to use an IBM 029 keypunch.

...talk about "The Long Goodbye"! (also a cool book by Raymond Chandler 
and a great 1973 movie by Robert Altman, both far more interesting than 
this thread...)