Was it Jaap van Ganswijk who wrote on Thursday 29 August 2002 08:03:
> At 2002-08-28 09:38 -0800, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> >Was it Uwe Zimmermann who wrote on Wednesday 28 August 2002 16:48:
> >> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> >> > > Hacking the structure would be a challenge, and I
> >> > > guess successful in one weekend. If I only had more weekends... :-)
> >> >
> >> > Life's too short for that sort of thing.
> >>
> >> weekends? ;-}
> >
> >NO! Wasting a weekend on work - like hacking an obscure file format,
> >because some smart alec engineer is sitting there like a kid saying
> >"I'm not telling you!"
> >when enquiries are made. I had enough of that floppy thing to give me a
> > very strong aversion to it. And when I had it all working, everyone told
> > me what programs I SHOULD have used (Thanks again guys - not!). Then it
> > came back years later to haunt me, and I had forgotten it :-(. Then it
> > came back AGAIN, after I wiped the hard disks >:-((, and I had to figure
> > things from scratch.
>
> Seems you're taking these things a lot more seriously
> then we do. Perhaps you should also read Linus' book:
> 'Just for Fun'. I have a lot in commen with him. I also
> considered writing my own OS after I had seen Minix.
You did? What were you smoking?
> I also did most of my programming 'for fun'. Writing
> disassemblers and decompilers and trying to figure
> out file and FS formats was part of the fun.
Er, no thank you. Not my idea of fun. Fun is something you think can do
better when you've swallowed a few pints of your favourite beer.
>
> And the funny part of having fun, is that it even
> pays quite well...
Thankk you for your advice, Jaap. For my sins, I am currently programming a
PIC in assembler, so if you enjoy programming, I'll come bleating when I get
stuck ;-)). It might pay well, but some things (like weekends) are more
important than money.
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Declan Moriarty
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A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
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that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out!
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