On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:09:41PM +0000, James Freer wrote:
very much at the heart of the earlier windows. I have a liking for the simple but effective things in life - like my seven classic cars... there's nothing i can't do on them - can't do a lot on modern vehicles. On linux i enjoy the mix of graphical and cli. To me it's
I dispute your analogy heavily, modern cars require a very different set of skills and knowledge to work on them. I chipped my old car from 170hp to around 235hp using some bits of old wiring loom a Thinkpad PSU a magic parallel port adaptor and some software, was very enjoyable. If anything I see older cars more like Windows... held together with bodges and bits of string :)
I'm much happier hacking around with software than with hardware and getting my hands covered in grime (although can quite happily do both, and have been paid to both professionally in the past).
Adam