You bloody kids haven't got it all your own way. I see 60 in a couple of months and provide support for several Linux users older than me.
Age is only what you think it is. I find my manual skill based retired acquaintances tend to live in the past, on their past experiences, whereas mind skill based acquaintances retain their facilities much longer, always having an enquiring aspect. I prefer to keep the past in the past. I don't go much on old photographs, memorabilia, etc. Perhaps that may yet change and I might come to regret it in time, but that is the way it is. Enough rambling already, my glass is empty... ...and yes, I do prefer CLI, esp in an xterm. On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Grant Parnell wrote: > I'd like to think the Linux generation is well on it's way. Perhaps we > should survey visitors to the SLUG website for an age bracket. Maybe I can > convince Anthony to add the same for EverythingLinux. We get the odd > person in the warehouse every so often buying for someone under 15, > occasionally under 10 years of age. > > As for mum and dad, well in my case my Dad's got a 386 with about 4Mb of > RAM and Win3.11 unless it's been taken to the tip. I said the computer > probably wouldn't be suitable for viewing web pages but it'd be ok for > email but I couldn't convince my stepmother to allow Dad to make calls to > my system to pickup mail. When my real Mum was alive I had the thing > polling for email via Fidonet (um I forgot the term for the personal > non-echo-mail thingy... was it 'netmail'?). She seemed quite OK using > Fmail and Frontdoor under DOS and I think that's saying something, the > older generation are probably OK with a simple 80x25 text screen and no > mouse to worry about. > > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
