A story
here (at the register) talks about how some computer geeks started going through withdrawls after a couple weeks of not having internet access.
I for one can say I have this. In cougar village, where the internet mysteriously goes down at random times, I find myself entirely lost. I minimize and maximize windows over and over again, open up firefox and the close it again, open up solitaire play about 2 cards and close it. I don't know what to do without the internet on my computer. I don't even know what I did on my computer back in the pre-internet-everywhere days.
Quotedon't even know what I did on my computer back in the pre-internet-everywhere days.
Doom.
Pre-Internet Everywhere:
1. Used a BBS yellow pages
2. Wizardry
3. Zork
Quotepre-internet-everywhere days
I must be living in the past because there is no internet at my house. Due to a lack of disposable income I have never had the internet at home.
I guess I'm not a true computer geek since I don't have Internet. On the other hand, I run Slackware Linux and I'm capable of recompiling the kernel :nerd:, so you decide.
As for what I use my computer for:
Back in the day when I had free time I played a lot of Rise of the Triad. :gunfire:
In college I only used it for homework.
Now it is only used as a jukebox full of MP3s. :punk:
I can't recompile the kernel (you got me there), I do have internet, and my computer is also a jukebox full of Mp3s. Netzero I think is $9.95 a month. I guess I just live large . :pc:
Recompiling the kernel isn't hard with RedHat. Now that I think of it I didn't actually recompile the kernel on Slackware, I recompiled it with the tools on RedHat and copied it over to Slackware. I was hoping that recompiling the kernel for my P3 would make it faster, but I couldn't tell any difference--at least with the GNU compiler I used.
In November my internet will be free--Boeing will pay for it since I'll be working from home. :-D Since it costs the company less for office space they'll buy me a laptop, DSL, and a cell phone to work from home. It will save me over 2 hrs/day commuting. Sweet deal, eh? 8-)