Hallo Or! >Seems like since the internet became more popular in the scene, >the general population intrest in Computers have raised. Either from Oh, yes, everybody around me keeps talking about "the internet", but i know only about 3 people who are actually using the internet somehow. And most people talk about the bad sides of internet. Child sex, pirated MP3s, hacking (hey, what's so bad about hacking? It's the same old problem with the differences between "hacking" and "cracking"), stolen credit card numbers. That's mostly due to the media promoting such thoughts, and it is somehow typically german, in my opinion. >A recent social habit that I noticed >is that people now rate people according to the programs that >they are using, in addition to their cloths of choice, cars, >shoes, and external looks. "He is using Linux, so he gotta be one I did not really notice that with other people here, only with my friends thinking "He must be slightly mad as he is still using a DOS- based email system. And he can program microcontrollers in Assembler. He must be a walking harddisk." I really do not like being called "harddisk". A lot of the other people i know do not use computers for anything else but playing the newest games. >got an Intel computer. Get an alternative computer/OS, and you'll be >in deep trouble. I recently browsed some job advertisements, and in a lot of them it said "Word and Excel knowledge required". Not one said "text processing knowledge required". MS is the one-and-only standard in german offices, it seems. Using Windows, of course. Exceptions are telecommunication companies who seek people with CGI, AS/ 400 and similar areas of knowledge. >But now, the "computer fashion" is switching from Wintel, to the >alternative options. People still regard "DOS" as being old and Not here. >I'd like to confess, that I never cared for brand names. I buy a cloth >because the way it looks like, and the way it feels. Have you read the "Hacker Jargon File"? There it says in one of its appendices "A portrait of a random hacker": "A Hacker chooses clothes for comfort, function and little maintenance hassles." You qualify as a hacker... May i ask how old you are? (As i have a similar feeling about my clothes with my short 21 years of life experience) >Eh. Hope I didnt got you people to fall a sleep over there. ;) Was very interesting. Oh, whereever i said "here" above, i mean a rural area in northern germany, 100 km north-west from Hamburg, where i live. -- Gunnar Th�le To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
