Re: OT Telephone technology circa 1950 [Was Newsgroup sci.electronics.repair]

Meat Plow wrote:

Linux Registered User # 302622
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How long have you been using linux? And are you just as GUI user or have
you some more detailed experience. I have one issue that I need to pick a
brain on.

Sadly, the most 'real' work I've had to do on it is reconfiguring and compiling the kernel to support my sound card back in the days when it didn't do this 'out of the box'.

Nowadays, I have it in my sig more for historical reasons rather than anything else.
I moved to Linux after running a DOS box for at least a decade(and doing things under that which windblows couldn't!), and moved to Windows some time after that due to a software support issue where Wine was simply too slow, and some critical support utilities for this app set wouldn't run under Wine anyway. And before you ask, virtual machine software was not an option (again to due to speed) because of the overall slow nature of the CPUs of the day. (probably a different story today).

You'll notice my headers say Thunderbird for windows, and the reason for this was I had a substantial quantity of stored mail for Mozilla Suite (back before Mozilla split and separated Firefox and Thunderbird) that I could transfer _really_ easily between Linux and windows and still have it work.

Real Soon Now (meaning when I get around to it), I'll be running a Linux box once again (although alongside Winblows) ironically again due to a software issue that's only available under Linux this time...
This time around, my use of virtual machine software won't be stopped by machine horsepower, but rather that I've become spoiled for speed (non-shared CPU use) and another box is cheap enough to do this anyway.

Alongside the fact that Windows support (more network rather than desktop) has become my job in real life now, which means I'm likely staying with windows in the future, Linux is going to be (in the near future) merely a means to an end rather than my primary reason for living...

I don't know if that's a reason to slash my wrists over just yet, either way, being of viable assistance to you is unlikely at least until I start setting up and playing with the new app anyway. Though I'm guessing my Linux hacking in that capacity will be limited to well documented stuff anyway.




On a slightly different note, I was going to send this via email because it's venturing enough beyond off topic, but your email addy in your newsgroup header appears to be invalid (at least things at this end appear to indicate that anyway).
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