Bah. You old fogies should all be marched out to sea. The old and feeble are whats wrong with todays society. They are a financial drain. And not to mention the time wasted with all that excessively slow arthritic rheumatoid typing. :)
People say that each cigarette takes 5 minutes off your life. I say fucking excellent..... There go the incontinent years. :) Dane All you holistic types can hold off your incensed anger too. Im only joking....moatly On 0, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
