TOT as usual: train spotters

Roger Traviss wrote:
We were discussing something about the nerdiness of trainspotters and now
the thread seems to have been hijacked by nerdy computer geeks. :-)

Yes, and this group is supposed to be for digital TV geeks. I say bugger
off all you other types of geek!

Bill

On 15/12/2011 10:07, ian batten wrote:

The Gnome 3 debacle has made things worse, but today we have
at least three desktop options, all of them under-designed, under-
engineered and working on the assumptions that if ten tunables are
good, twenty are better.

Certainly not true in the case of GNOME. If there's one thing GNOME has
always taken stick for post-1.4, it's (the perception among geeks) that
it has far too few user configurable options. Linus Torvalds famously
ranted about this not long after GNOME 2 was released.

GNOME 3's main problem at the moment isn't lack of design (I know quite
a few of its designers personally, and they are designers first and
foremost-- not geeky hackers), just that it's half-finished and
(understandably) being judged before it's really become what it was
intended to be. But the schedule had already slipped a couple of times,
so they decided just to release it and take the inevitable flak anyway.

It's also quite amusing that a lot of the people claiming that GNOME 3
is an unmitigated disaster and that GNOME 2 should never have been wound
up (including that man Torvalds again), made almost exactly the same
fuss about their now-apparently-beloved GNOME 2 when that was released...

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wrote:
Roger Traviss wrote:
We were discussing something about the nerdiness of trainspotters and
now the thread seems to have been hijacked by nerdy computer geeks.
:-)

Yes, and this group is supposed to be for digital TV geeks. I say bugger
off all you other types of geek!

Geeks bearing GIFs, eh? :-)

Oh dear, that takes us towards people learning greek in school rather than
geek...

Slainte,

Jim

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ian batten wrote:

[snip loads of OSAF]

I've been using Linux for assorted tasks since about 1993, and I've
got Unix pedigree going back to sixth edition on pdp11/34s. Linux
today is the RiscOS of its time, and it's no accident that uk.railway
used to have a lot of that, too. It appeals to people who think that
it gives them some sort of "independent thinker" badge of honour. I
refer the honourable gentleman to http://goo.gl/ssiG

I am wondering if you meant RISC OS or RiscOS. Quite an amusingly worded
non-sequitur, though. Or did PDP11's confer on its users a magic ability to
read the minds of trainspotters? if so, rather a dubious benefit, I fear.
:-)

Afraid I started with ICL1900s and only used PDPs some of the time later
on. Mixed in over the decades with various other systems from Cromemco to
GECs supporting GAELIC. FWIW My limited (pre-Linux) *nix experience was
with Solaris.

Didn't seem to give me mindreading abilities. Oh well, I'm not a train
spotter, so maybe I've not been close enough to one to discover I can read
their mind as an unexpected consequence of having used various types
of computer. Phew!

STOP OK

Jim

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Roger Traviss wrote:
We were discussing something about the nerdiness of trainspotters and now
the thread seems to have been hijacked by nerdy computer geeks. :-)

Yes, and this group is supposed to be for digital TV geeks. I say bugger
off all you other types of geek!

Bill

Hang on the trainspotters were around long before you lot (Babbage doesnt
count), so clear off you jonny-come-lateleys :-)

Cheers,
Simon

simon wrote:

Hang on the trainspotters were around long before you lot (Babbage
doesnt count), so clear off you jonny-come-lateleys :-)

I think you'll find Babbage could count. He was known for it.

Bill

On 17/12/11 01:01, Bill Wright wrote:

I think you'll find Babbage could count. He was known for it.

Nah, he had to use a calculator.

Ian

On Dec 16, 7:07*pm, Jim Lesurf wrote:

Afraid I started with ICL1900s

#upper and #lower, eh? PLAN was great fun.

ian

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ian
batten wrote:
On Dec 16, 7:07 pm, Jim Lesurf wrote:

Afraid I started with ICL1900s

#upper and #lower, eh? PLAN was great fun.

Surely 44k of core is enough for any user. :-)

(Mind you, it was so long ago I now wonder if I dreamed it was a 44k limit
for normal users on the QMC ICL1900s. Rather less than Uncle Bill's old
limit, though! 8-] )

Slainte,

Jim

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On 13/12/2011 11:45, MB wrote:
On 12/12/2011 22:38, ian batten wrote:
On Dec 12, 10:23 pm, Bill wrote:
allantracy wrote:
Then there was the local Labour party quiz night, well if you're ever
in need of a lifetime of disappointment look no further.

You want to try a Conservative Party function if it's stereotypes you're
after!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...77_468x665.jpg


ian


So a Conservative MP was at an event where someone else dressed up like
Ed Balls, big deal!



LOL!

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