3 Apr 2000 tony   » (Journeyer)

So, does this append, prepend, or add another entry for entries of the same date? I'm about to find out.

COLLEGE

I've been to college. I spent some years as a physics geek, ended up working as a student in the "media" shop in the library, and from there worked on a Netware LAN. So I ended up with a real job and dropped out.

I discovered Linux in '93, though. Some SLS distribution, you know the one? Took 60 floppies. I loved installing Linux. I found it one day while looking for Unix on Usenet. I knew I wanted to learn a real OS, and was lucky enough to get in when Linux only had about half-a-million users.

That's about the only good thing college ever gave me, besides fencing. Well, and perhaps the creative writing classes. The ones that taught me not to use sentence fragments. And said that prepositions are bad things to end sentences on.

So, why do you care? I suspect you don't. But I was giving away source code before I ever discovered Linux, or the GPL; I gave away the source to a program called "Shepard," a TSR that read keystroke sequences from a file, and used those to exit out of DOS-based applications after a period of user-inactivity. So my discovery of Linux, and the culture it personified, made me feel at home for the first time.

I was completely disillusioned by the computer industry; there was so much greed, when I first went to school for CS (before I switched to physics), almost half the class had never touched a computer before. They just knew there was a lot of money in a career in computers. I realized then that my love of computers, and my love of programming, didn't much matter. It was like discovering that wrestling is fake.

Now I'm slowly getting back into programming, and loving every minute I geek.

And it sure beats the hell out of working.

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