[Labyrinthos]

5 whole years? Jeeze. I have a desktop that has more years than you. Heck, I have CHEESE in my freezer with more time than that. I started in 1977. I have lost count of my Microsoft Certs -- I can get one in 24 hours by doing a class and then doing the Cert course. I get them as needed by my upcoming assignments. I have been tech leader of installations for companies with 200,000 employees and 10+ billion dollars a year. I have 4 servers in my upstairs office (2 linux, 2 Win 2K/XP Pro). Trust me, you don't want to point to your 5 whole years of experience again (at least here in FR) as some sort of proof you are anything beyond diaper trained.

BFD. I invented DOS, WIN95 and its progeny, desktop computers, the internet, and office networking while on a tequila binge back in 1980. Unfortunately, when I drink tequila I tend to get a little loose in the lips, and just my luck, Bill Gates was sitting on the bar stool next to me where he carefully wrote down on the back of a napkin every word that I spoke. The rest is history. BTW, I also own 1,346,211 patents, 266,970 copywrites, 11,999 trademarks, and I just saved money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. In addition, on my 40th birthday, I climbed Mt. Everest while walking backwards, blindfolded, and completely naked.

[tacticalogic]

Yeah, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[dubie]

BFD. I invented DOS, WIN95 and its progeny, desktop computers, the internet, and office networking while on a tequila binge back in 1980. Unfortunately, when I drink tequila I tend to get a little loose in the lips, and just my luck, Bill Gates was sitting on the bar stool next to me where he carefully wrote down on the back of a napkin every word that I spoke. The rest is history. BTW, I also own 1,346,211 patents, 266,970 copywrites, 11,999 trademarks, and I just saved money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. In addition, on my 40th birthday, I climbed Mt. Everest while walking backwards, blindfolded, and completely naked.


Is that you Al Gore? Welcome to FR!

[freedumb2003]

BFD. I invented DOS, WIN95 and its progeny, desktop computers, the internet, and office networking while on a tequila binge back in 1980.

I thought you looked familiar. Ensenada with the floppy sombrero, right? ;)

[dayglored]

> BFD. I invented DOS, WIN95 and its progeny, desktop computers, the internet, and office networking while on a tequila binge back in 1980. Unfortunately, when I drink tequila I tend to get a little loose in the lips, and just my luck, Bill Gates was sitting on the bar stool next to me where he carefully wrote down on the back of a napkin every word that I spoke. The rest is history. BTW, I also own 1,346,211 patents, 266,970 copywrites, 11,999 trademarks, and I just saved money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. In addition, on my 40th birthday, I climbed Mt. Everest while walking backwards, blindfolded, and completely naked.

Okay, that's all cool.

But have you done anything really cool, like write a FORTRAN program that prints a data pattern to a 132-column, 600 line-per-minute IBM 1403 chain printer, that causes it to print out an American Flag, while at the same time the pitch of the sound of the chain plays the Star Spangled Banner?

That, my FRiend, is an accomplishment.

I saw it done, on a Burroughs 5500, in 1972. I wish I could claim to have done it myself. But just seeing it happen in person was a life-changing experience.