My screed against 'script kiddies' and what passes for 'IT pros' these days.

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[Looking4Truth]

I'm not as pissed as I sound. Enjoy.

[Looking4Truth]

I've just about had it. Why, you say? It's this constant 'leapfrogging' of technology. I worked in the IT world for almost 20 years. I learned programming in 1985 on a 1960's Honeywell H-6000 mainframe computer that took up a whole climate-controlled, generator-backed building and had disk drives the size of washing machines. For you 'kiddies' here, this was a 'text only' environment. The technology just wasn't there yet for graphics, much less video and what you all call the 'internet' the GUI 'interface to the intenet' which has been around longer than you have been alive even though thru your public school education you don't even know that.

Here's my problem. Nearly every time I pull up a web page it loads and loads and loads a bunch of useless crap and advertisements that I have NO use for or WILL EVER RESPOND TO! Half the time I get an error about a 'wayward' SCRIPT that forces me to restart the browser or in some cases the whole damn system.

My hardware has been functioning perfectly since 2004 and I am too damn cheap to upgrade it to accomodate your memory hogging crap. (That includes the damn 'upgrades' to every piece of software in existence from the operating system to the simplest piece of application software. Most of you 'script kiddies' don't even know the distinction between those two types of software.)

Now the sites are pandering to 'social media'. If you want to give feedback to most major corporations, they don't even have their own websites advertised anymore, it's 'find us on facebook/putcorpnamehere. I'll be damned if I'm going to start a f**king facebook account just to get in touch with some business. How much like lemmings are these idiots anyway? Don't they realise that not everyone on the planet depends on their facebook account to breathe?

Back to you script kiddies. Can you be bothered to sit down to a meal and eat for 10, 20, 30 minutes (BTW, a nice 5 course meal lasts at least an hour if not more, and you can sit badk and ENJOY IT with NO DISTRACTIONS) without 'texting' or 'browsing' or 'social networking'?

Call me an old bastard or behind the 'times' but my quality of life is better than yours, I guarantee!

[the invisib1e hand]

if Bill Gates had a son, he'd look like script kiddies.

these little sh!ts would be serving up hamburgers if it weren't for him.

[the invisib1e hand]

some of my first programs were on punch cards. I remember the “Timex” computer. I owned a Commodore 64 and I used to spend hours playing Ms. Pac Man with my girlfriend.

[JRandomFreeper]

Prunes help. ;)

/johnny

[dfwgator]

Back in my day, we coded in 0’s and 1’s, and sometimes we didn’t even have the 1’s.....and that’s the way it was and we liked it.

[cspackler]

I had the VIC 20. Played the Lunar Lander game for hours on that thing when I wasn’t cranking out the BASIC programs. Even got the cassette drive to save my programs.

Good times.

[UB355]

Amen. My first programming was on a IBM 1130 in Fortran also on punch cards.

[cspackler]

I had the VIC 20. Played the Lunar Lander game for hours on that thing when I wasn’t cranking out the BASIC programs. Even got the cassette drive to save my programs.

Good times.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: I'll be damned if I'm going to start a f**king facebook account just to get in touch with some business.

I totally agreed.. and that goes for getting in touch with talk show hosts too.

As for businesses.. at least they can be reached by snail mail -- and I think a letter/email to the syndicator may reach the talk show host. Otherwise it's on to listen to someone else.

[Chickensoup]

I assure you that no business geets done through facebook, nor through Linkedin.

These are tech non-starters.

[the invisib1e hand]

If I'm not very much mistake, every pc out there is running an OS whose kernel was lifted from DEC by Bill Gates. So the legend goes (from a old time DECkie).

[the invisib1e hand]

If I'm not very much mistaken, every pc out there is running an OS whose kernel was lifted from DEC by Bill Gates. So the legend goes (from a old time DECkie).

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I remember what a hassle it was with that damn IBM7080 mouse.

[MileHi]

Here's my problem. Nearly every time I pull up a web page it loads and loads and loads a bunch of useless crap and advertisements that I have NO use for or WILL EVER RESPOND TO! Half the time I get an error about a 'wayward' SCRIPT that forces me to restart the browser or in some cases the whole damn system.

Getting to where I hate to click news links anymore because they take so long to load all the bloatware on their pages. I don't do farcebook/twit-her and I don't need car insurance or a school grant (click your age) or anything else.

[ICCtheWay]

Bloated code does not an application make... it just makes for a lot of loading loading loading. Visicalc - then Lotus 123 ran in DOS on 32K of RAM space and did magical things. Computers has 64 to 128 k of RAM - but an amazing amount of work was done. I had a word processor that ran on a PRE - PC S100 based computer - in a DOS like environment it was astounding in what it could do ... Today’s BLOATED WORD still cannot do what this little Word Processor could do ... Mountains of available RAM and Hard Drive Space just makes for bloated unresponsive applications with a thousand features that are used by the average user one time a year. I use the Editor in Thunderbird for all my document drafting - then dress it up in Word if I have to ... most of the time I don’t.

[Tired of Taxes]

The punch cards, the Commodore 64... and don’t forget Pong. Old times. (I was not a programmer, btw, just the child of one in the early days.)

[Looking4Truth]

Thanks for the prunes tip. Don't think I'm there yet.

I was waiting on the usual 'smartass remarks' and I damn sure wasn't disappointed. :-)

Good day, FRiend.

[Looking4Truth]

Back in my day, we coded in 0’s and 1’s, and sometimes we didn’t even have the 1’s.....and that’s the way it was and we liked it.

OK grandpa Simpson. I was so good I coded in PEN. :-)

[the invisib1e hand]

he's probably never even heard of Geritol.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My good computer's mother board bricked ( have to wait to repair ) so I'm using an old DELL somebody gave me as a web surfer. I doubled the memory to 500 MB using both memory slots which shows how old it is. Because of that, I've had to notice how much junk there is on a web page and not just ads. It does look like we're being coerced into buying a new computer before we need one.