From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ns.shellworld.net ([64.29.16.176]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15YqJY-0006mt-00 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:46:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (amanda@localhost) by ns.shellworld.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA32375 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:45:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:45:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Amanda Lee To: Subject: Re: lookin' good In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: If you know of etext C Books,please write me offline. My new job is Unix and C and C is not my strongest language as I was a Mainframe Developer in IBM/370 Assembler and COBOL in my former life! Thanks! - Amanda Lee On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > Scott, if you need any help with C I'd be glad to help. I love teaching > that language! > > 73s > Jim WB0TFK > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Scott Howell wrote: > > > Well, I don't know any programming language, but hope to learn soon. I'm > > actually very interested in C, Perl, etc. Gotten pretty fair with Html and > > that's been interesting. In any case I digress. I can fully appreciate > > dreaming about solutions, but I think mine were kinda nightmarish in > > nature. Apt-get install this and that and this and that and on and on and > > it was really scary stuff after while.Not to mention before all that it > > was partitioning and hacking on reasons why things wouldn't boot and it > > was really nuts. I think this is a part of the process for figuring stuff > > out. Lastnight it was cooking kernels and I swear I had a dream I was > > roasting kernels on the grill or something. Was all insane, but well > > whatever works. The mind is a very scary playground or at least mine seems > > to be. > > > > cul > > > > > > > > > > --- > > Scott > > > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > > Scott: > > > > > > I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a > > > large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a > > > reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the > > > evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong. I > > > learned to go to sleep. > > > > > > Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed having > > > awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over > > > again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change. > > > Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and on > > > to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc. > > > > > > PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately correct. > > > But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off > > > inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour > > > somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me going > > > on this kind of crazy schedule. > > > > > > Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >