Even though most of my coding is in C (and I've done a handful of useful things with it), I've occasionally whipped out my creaky old VB3 for a task of two that was better done there. Am I somehow not a developer because I touched VB, even though it's not my usual language of choice?
I'm sick and tired of people saying "you're not autistic, you're just faking it" because I'm not sitting around rocking back and forth, mumbling incoherently, pissing and shitting myself, shaking some ragdoll and being able to say no other words than "MORE COOKIE".
Not all people are created alike and this goes double for people with neurological disorders.
Never use "abnormality" as an excuse not to try to better oneself, but don't give up what makes you *you*!
It's hell enough having Asperger's (or full-blown autism, I've known quite a few such people living at a home for autistic children for 3 years), imagine if you don't ONLY have Asperger's.
I've been diagnosed with Asperger's, toxic anger syndrome and a gender identity disorder, along with social phobia and probably a few other things. So? I get pissed off at the world sometimes for treating me like a freak, but I try to get above it. It's not MY fault I'm "fucked up in the head" (read: neuro-atypical).
For the record - they thought I had Tourette's at one point - they scanned my brain and I don't have it.
As I said earlier, I have Asperger's (officially diagnosed, not someone looking at a paper and saying "oh, you might be Asperger's").
I often have difficulty expressing myself. Typing versus talking does make it easier, but even still sometimes I fail for words. It gets very frustrating, and I don't see why anyone would be proud to suffer like this. That said, I don't think I'd like to trade off my above-average intelligence for "normalcy" by any means!
As if!! I don't claim to suffer from it, I was actually diagnosed with it (earlier autism, later amended to Asperger's), so unlike some of you, I *can* use it as a crutch. (Though I don't, not directly anyway.)
I'm in Niagara Falls just across the crick and we ain't seen -40 (that's the same in C and F mind you) all the time I lived here. I doubt Toronto's much cooler.
I use pieces of GNOME, mainly gnome-panel, but on the whole I don't use GNOME. I use FVWM, with no file manager active, and do most of my work from an xterm. (That said, xchat is always open and maximized, so it doesn't matter that I can't see my desktop).
As for launching apps even though I have the gnome panel running, I don't really use its launcher (except if, say, I need for some odd reason to change my ip settings, like when I moved), I use fvwm's.
I could probably maintain it. After all, I'm already maintaining another userland (FOX, based mostly on BSD), and it would be easier to maintain the GNU projects (I think) than FOX, because more people would care about them.
I've got this ISO here says not every Linux distro is a GNU/Linux distro... it's based on the svn tree at the site in my profile, and it's actually closer to BSD/Linux than GNU/Linux (though, FOX ain't exactly BSD either)...
It was undoubtedly chosen as a vowelization of HTML, in fact I think in the beginning (I had a hotmail address in 1996, it was my first e-mail address), it was punctuated HoTMaiL (don't quote me, it's been years).
While I prefer Linux, Solaris has a big advantage. Solaris is Unix.Linux is not Unix.
Actually, of all the freenixen out there, the closest to Solaris in Unixness is, I think, NetBSD. (So I've been porting the NetBSD userland to Linux in hopes of getting that "authentic Unix feel" on Linux.)
Anyone know how far away NetBSD is from qualifying for UNIX certification, were someone to shell out the ca$h?
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Except at this time neither is actually Unix (though I think Apple's pushing for certification).
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Even though most of my coding is in C (and I've done a handful of useful things with it), I've occasionally whipped out my creaky old VB3 for a task of two that was better done there. Am I somehow not a developer because I touched VB, even though it's not my usual language of choice?
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Prolly be easier if I actually had VB5 lol...got 3 and I think 4, might have 6 somewhere...
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This is Visual Basic.NET, not actual Visual Basic...
If there were a VB6 compiler for Linux, that would be much more interesting to me.
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It is the users who are considered to be in the wrong when a patent is violated.
Still, I call FUD, and if it ain't, software patents should be outlawed anyway.
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THANK YOU.
I'm sick and tired of people saying "you're not autistic, you're just faking it" because I'm not sitting around rocking back and forth, mumbling incoherently, pissing and shitting myself, shaking some ragdoll and being able to say no other words than "MORE COOKIE".
Not all people are created alike and this goes double for people with neurological disorders.
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Never use "abnormality" as an excuse not to try to better oneself, but don't give up what makes you *you*!
It's hell enough having Asperger's (or full-blown autism, I've known quite a few such people living at a home for autistic children for 3 years), imagine if you don't ONLY have Asperger's.
I've been diagnosed with Asperger's, toxic anger syndrome and a gender identity disorder, along with social phobia and probably a few other things. So? I get pissed off at the world sometimes for treating me like a freak, but I try to get above it. It's not MY fault I'm "fucked up in the head" (read: neuro-atypical).
For the record - they thought I had Tourette's at one point - they scanned my brain and I don't have it.
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As I said earlier, I have Asperger's (officially diagnosed, not someone looking at a paper and saying "oh, you might be Asperger's").
I often have difficulty expressing myself. Typing versus talking does make it easier, but even still sometimes I fail for words. It gets very frustrating, and I don't see why anyone would be proud to suffer like this. That said, I don't think I'd like to trade off my above-average intelligence for "normalcy" by any means!
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As if!! I don't claim to suffer from it, I was actually diagnosed with it (earlier autism, later amended to Asperger's), so unlike some of you, I *can* use it as a crutch. (Though I don't, not directly anyway.)
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I'm in Niagara Falls just across the crick and we ain't seen -40 (that's the same in C and F mind you) all the time I lived here. I doubt Toronto's much cooler.
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I use pieces of GNOME, mainly gnome-panel, but on the whole I don't use GNOME. I use FVWM, with no file manager active, and do most of my work from an xterm. (That said, xchat is always open and maximized, so it doesn't matter that I can't see my desktop).
As for launching apps even though I have the gnome panel running, I don't really use its launcher (except if, say, I need for some odd reason to change my ip settings, like when I moved), I use fvwm's.
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I could probably maintain it. After all, I'm already maintaining another userland (FOX, based mostly on BSD), and it would be easier to maintain the GNU projects (I think) than FOX, because more people would care about them.
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Which is also Verizon, I think.
Also when I use my roaming dialup account I have a da.uu.net ip.
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nameserver 151.203.0.85
nameserver 151.202.0.85
nameserver 65.121.99.5
nameserver 65.121.99.6
And rest assured, so far, neither ISP whose nameservers I'm using seems broken at the moment. (The first two are Verizon, the last two are Coffeynet)
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Sure. It just confirms my point that you can have Linux without GNU (granted I think there is GNU Project code in Busybox but still...)
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I've got this ISO here says not every Linux distro is a GNU/Linux distro... it's based on the svn tree at the site in my profile, and it's actually closer to BSD/Linux than GNU/Linux (though, FOX ain't exactly BSD either)...
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I know of TenDRA and the 4.3BSD-Reno pcc, what's the other one?
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I would say that the Internet would run perfectly fine without GPL'd software because the code that runs the 'net is BSD, not GPL.
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Might I suggest a new strategy, Artoo, let the Wookiee win.
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I hardly use my gmail, I just feed it into my regular local mailbox with fetchmail.
Still, nice to have if I need it (as when I was stuck on dialup for a week).
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It was undoubtedly chosen as a vowelization of HTML, in fact I think in the beginning (I had a hotmail address in 1996, it was my first e-mail address), it was punctuated HoTMaiL (don't quote me, it's been years).
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Same here but hey, nothing lost but 2 minutes of my time.
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While I prefer Linux, Solaris has a big advantage. Solaris is Unix. Linux is not Unix.
Actually, of all the freenixen out there, the closest to Solaris in Unixness is, I think, NetBSD. (So I've been porting the NetBSD userland to Linux in hopes of getting that "authentic Unix feel" on Linux.)
Anyone know how far away NetBSD is from qualifying for UNIX certification, were someone to shell out the ca$h?
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I guess I'm lucky I'm on Medicaid... I've never had to pay a doctor or a pharmacy anything.
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Yeah, where's the CPU?
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