* [TUHS] Of birthdays etc
@ 2018-02-17 6:47 Dave Horsfall
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2018-02-17 6:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
Blimey... How was I to know that a throw-away remark would almost develop
into a shitfight? It would help if people changed the Subject line too,
as I'm sure that Ken must've been a little peeved... It would also help
if users didn't bloody top-post either, but I suspect that I've lost that
fight.
Anyway, this whole business started when I thought it might be a good idea
to post reminders of historical events here, as I do with some of the
other lists that I infest^W infect^W inhabit. I figured that the old
farts here might like to be reminded of (IMHO) significant events, and
similarly the youngsters might want to be reminded that there was indeed
life before Linux (which, by the way, I happen to loathe, but that's a
different story).
I'm glad that some people appreciate it; and don't worry, Steffen, you'll
soon catch up, as they should all be in the archives :-) A long-term goal
(if I live that long) is to set up one of those "this day in history"
sites, but it looks like Harris' Lament[*] has already applied :-(
I've had a number of corrections (thanks!), some weird comments on
pronunciation (an Englishman can probably pick my ancestry from me saying
"castle" as "c-AH-stle" and "dance" as "d-A-nce" etc), but oddly enough no
criticism (well, unless I'm talking about mounting a magtape as a
filesystem; no, I will not forget the implication that I was a liar), and
Warren has yet to spank me...
For the morbidly curious I keep these events in Calendar on my MacBook
(which actually spends most of its time in Terminal, and I don't even know
how to use the Finder!), and am always noting things which interest me and
therefore possibly others.
Anyway, thanks all; it is an honour and a privilege to share a mailing
list with some of the people who wrote the software that I have both used
in the past and still use to this day.
[*]
Harris' Lament? Look it up with your favourite search engine (I don't use
Google).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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* [TUHS] Of birthdays etc
@ 2018-02-18 9:42 Rudi Blom
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From: Rudi Blom @ 2018-02-18 9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
>Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:47:22 +1100 (EST)
>From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
>To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>
>Subject: [TUHS] Of birthdays etc
>Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802171649520.798 at aneurin.horsfall.org>
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>...
>Harris' Lament? Look it up with your favourite search engine (I don't use Google).
>
probably early 1995 I dabbled a bit in AltaVista Search. So even now
still using Yahoo somehow :-)
Keep it coming Dave, it's appreciated, at least by me.
From a former DECcie,
uncle rubl
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