[plug] UCC friday night meets?

[Shayne O'Neill]

Eegads. that staircase brings back memories....

Back when I was a tafe student in 91 doing the "asociate dip of computer
science" (was actually a bloody good course... except for cobol. Ack!) and
joining the UWA computer club for the express purpose of accessing there
copy of Minix: I was obsessed with the notion of getting unix on my AT.

I remember walking in and seeing these older deep-fried nerdy guys just
stare at me in horror when I told em where I studied, then proceeded to
help one of em with a COBOL problem he had for his comp class (they where
very impressed). I must admit I became a little disturbed when one of em
shrieked from his terminal "Whoa guys! I've just got the yellow crystal on
level 45 and advanced another level! I'm a KICK ASS MAGE NOW!". Aparently
the dude slept in the lab at night cos he played nethack all day
everyday. I always thought that the queerest thing till I ended up at
murdoch and met the MARS kids and discovered there where many legions of
said geeks in this world.

Now that all said, I got my copy of Minix and oh boy was it a buggy mess.
But I could roll my own hd driver for my crazy parallel port version of
network file sharing and THAT made it allll worth while. Minix , being a
learning OS was stupifyingly easy to work out the kernel insides.

Naturally when I got my linux box, slackware was THE BOMB. Never looked
back. Still got a place in my heart of minix tho.

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"Must not Sleep! Must warn others!"
-Aesop.
Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, James Devenish wrote:

> In message <20040313103641.301893AA466 at ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com>
> on Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 06:36:41PM +0800, Ari Finander wrote:
> > If you have any orthopaedic problems you'd be lucky to make it up
> > three stories to the UCC clubroom...
>
> (It's only two, but I guess you might be adding emphasis. And watch out,
> you might ignite the old jokes -- but where they -- about a walkway, nay
> monorail, between the three buildings. It would inadvertently facilitate
> lift access.)
>
>
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