Way back when I was in the United States Marine Corps, I lived in a row house in South East DC. I haven't really done much with it yet but I've got to admit, it has a wonderful blue motif logon screen.ġ) After nearly 70 years of silence, the Supreme Court of the United States of America has finally ruled that gun ownership is an INDIVIDUAL right and struck down the District of Columbia's ban on hand guns. So I fired up a torrent to pull down the latest Fedora 9 and decided to install it. Lately I've been playing with Hyper-V a lot and I thought it was really cool that not only could it run Windows but it can just as easily run Linux.
I still remember all the old stuff, but for the life of me I can't imaging why anyone would actually prefer to write code with such primitive tools. But for the last few years I've really gravitated away from that world and into a GUI world of NT and. It's amazing how many vi commands I still remember.
Over the following few years I actually spent quite a bit of time on various Linux and Unix OS's ( Slackware, Mandrake, Redhat, DGUX, HPUX, Solaris ) doing back end ANSI C programming and shell scripting for various Department of Defense Client/Server systems. I built my own 486DX-120 and loaded Slackware on it. Then one day I realized it was time to get out of the Marine Corps and go pro. Back then I had a GVP GeForce040-33 board and I ran MSDOS/Windows via PC-Task and had an Emplant board for MacOS so I was no stranger to emulation/virtualization. Let's face it, MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 really did suck compared AmigaDOS/WorkBench. Of course that was the proper thing for any self respecting Amiga fan-boy back in those days. I used to be raving nut case when expressing my hatred for Bill Gates and Microsoft. My first shell was CPM on a Commodore 128 and of course I spent many years on Amigas back in my FidoNet BBS days. In fact I spent many years programming Commodore 64's and Apple II's. I don't talk about this much, but I wasn't always a Windows GUI guy.
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