[windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics

  • From: Bill Beckett <Bill.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:24:17 -0400

My wife gets mad and I do have broadband! Thinks I'm on the PC too much :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Jesse [mailto:jjesse@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:20 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics


I remember in my early years, ok it was high school and my 2400 baud
modem.... OK I'm really a young person compared to some of you... But
anyways I remember tying up the phone line and my mom being mad at me
because I was busy play TradeWars.  Now I keep the phone busy and my wife is
mad at me due to my dial up use (Yes I still use dial up, saving for a house
so no broadband until then)

Jonathan Jesse
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Malczewski
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:31 PM
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Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics

Indeed.  I remember being thrilled when I got a 1541 drive, and then, a
1571!

And prior to my C=64, I had an Apple //e with a 5 1/4" floppy.  Big huge
external metal box that sounded like it was EATING your disks..  I remember
being SO happy when I got a second drive so I could copy disks without
having to swap them back and forth 20 times...

And my first 300 baud modem was on the Apple..  It had a card that was
internal, and then a ribbon cable that came out the back to an external box,
and then you plugged the phone line into that..  My, how far we've come...

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Beckett [mailto:Bill.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:16 PM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics


Had an C64 in the 80's as well. Before they had even come out with a hard
drive. Used to use a casette tape to save the data.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Malczewski [mailto:jmalczewski@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday August 31, 2004 11:50 AM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics


I remember being about 11 years old and paying $60 for a used 1200 baud
modem for my C=64..  Ahh, the good old days...

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Beckett [mailto:Bill.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:38 AM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics


I actually did start out on a 300baud modem. Paid $300 for the 14.4 when it
came out...yeah I was blazing then!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Malczewski [mailto:jmalczewski@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:30 AM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics


Oh, don't get me wrong..  Like I said, I've got about 20 years of training..
I started with 110 baud acoustical modems when I was 6 years old... LOL

I remember the old WWIV bbs's..  Those were great!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:54 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics


On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:42:02 -0400, Jeff Malczewski wrote:

>Old?!?  I'll be 28 tomorrow!!

In IT you're stone-age. ;-)

I'm 32 this year, and some of the more computer-litterate phd-students here
at the dept gaze at me in awe when telling them I've used 2k4-modems for
quite a few years doing FidoNET and BBSing "back in the days". Then took the
step to the twice-as-fast 4k8 modems and so on. 8-) Broadband is as common
as air to them. It's not more than about ten years ago, maybe less. 8-)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:49 AM
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: [OT] Quarterly Review Metrics
>
>
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:29:09 -0400, Jeff Malczewski wrote:
>
>>Indeed...  I have one "muppet" that I'm supposed to be able to 
>>delegate stuff to, but if someone comes and asks me, I usually just do

>>it myself,
>for
>>the same reasons that Glenn lists..  It just takes FAR too long to 
>>explain to people how to do the job that they were hired to do.
>
>I second that!
>
>The Assnt Sysadmin I have now though is pretty good, in the meaning 
>that he doesn't try to do things he doesn't know about, ie he knows 
>when to stay clear and ask for help and/or support. To bad his 
>admin-tasks are 2ry to his real job as a PhD-student...
>
>>What happened to all the self-started and self-motivated learners??  I
>guess
>>they all get promoted to positions like mine and don't remain 
>>"muppets"... Hence, the "muppets" that are left aren't very useful...
>
>It's a generational thing. Do you ever see middle-aged sysadmins 
>sniffing your firewalls or trying ceaselessly to connect to your 
>servers, except when trying out the security? Script-kiddies and their 
>teen-friends however are a different matter...
>
>Anyway, you're getting old. ;-)


BW,

Sorin

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