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On 4 Oct 2009, at 01:17, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> She worked with computers every day.. but I still knew nothing |
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> whatever about them. She also was very good friends with a couple for |
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> yrs, The guy was the `network' guy for UCSB a network system admin on |
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> most of there computer networks. Largely unix of one stripe or |
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> another. |
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> (Yeah I'm finally getting there) |
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> Over a yr or two I too became very good friends with him. As it |
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> turned out he had a son who was a troublesome handful.. a kid about 13 |
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> or so at the time. Me and this kid hit it off pretty well and I sort |
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> of took it on myself to try to help him along... it turned out he did |
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> more helping along than I did. |
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> He was a linux advocate... a slackware guy, having learned about Unix |
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> from his dad.. and I guess Linux too.. It was really him who got |
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> me interested.... I started to see where that `computer stuff' was |
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> really nothing more than a very highly developed tool. |
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> I was a guy who liked good tools and had used many of every |
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> description. ... |
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Many thanks for your informative anecdote. I enjoyed very much |
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learning about you. |
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Stroller. |
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