Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:26:47PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > > > >On Feb 20, 2006, at 0:41 , Tom Dunstan wrote: > > > >>Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> > >>>my *son* (whose name is Tom btw ;-) ) was 3 yrs old in '82 ... > >> > >>So, as you were

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Feb 20, 2006, at 0:41 , Tom Dunstan wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: my *son* (whose name is Tom btw ;-) ) was 3 yrs old in '82 ... So, as you were responsible for me at the time, the fact that *I* don't have any usenet posts back that far is

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-20 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Feb 20, 2006, at 0:41 , Tom Dunstan wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: my *son* (whose name is Tom btw ;-) ) was 3 yrs old in '82 ... So, as you were responsible for me at the time, the fact that *I* don't have any usenet posts back that far is clearly your fault. My goodness. When I first

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-20 Thread Tom Dunstan
Andrew Dunstan wrote: my *son* (whose name is Tom btw ;-) ) was 3 yrs old in '82 ... So, as you were responsible for me at the time, the fact that *I* don't have any usenet posts back that far is clearly your fault. :) Tom ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: don't feel upset, that time I already learned how to control missile :) Ack, you were one of those in the missile silo's?? Definitely not a job I'd envy anyone :( I doubt that if her were still doing it, that he would be allowed to tell us ;)

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Anyone able to beat that? Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) At Marc hand

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
don't feel upset, that time I already learned how to control missile :) Ack, you were one of those in the missile silo's?? Definitely not a job I'd envy anyone :( I doubt that if her were still doing it, that he would be allowed to tell us ;) Joshua D. Drake Marc G. Fournier

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Anyone able to beat that? Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) At Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Lamar Owen wrote: So, as to Usenet, earliest documented date is May 1992. Ran a leaf node with Waffle for a while, then an AT&T 3B1 later, running C News and SMail. The skypod.UUCP email that I posted earlier was on a friends 3B2 machine ... my first Unix account :) --

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> damn, now *I* feel old :) >>> >>> >> I *GRADUATED* High School in 1975. >> > Can you still walk without a cane? > > /me laughs as Larry chases after him with his cane, swearing about > whipper snappers. > >> Started posting on UseNet in 1988. >> >> LER Quite well,

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
damn, now *I* feel old :) I *GRADUATED* High School in 1975. Can you still walk without a cane? /me laughs as Larry chases after him with his cane, swearing about whipper snappers. Started posting on UseNet in 1988. LER -- The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> Anyone able to beat that? >>> >>> Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) >>> >> >> At Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82. > > damn, now *I* feel old :)

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Tom Lane
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, Tom, did you enjoy being linked with the Backbone Cabal? What part did > you play in the Great Renaming? CMU was never part of the Usenet backbone, really. The backbone was the sites that did the bulk of the work in passing news to places that had to

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday 18 February 2006 12:16, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > > In 1982 I was doing hexadecimal machine code on that TRS-80 Model III, > > whose non-disk boot lines you quote. My favorite Z80 joke: > > 01 > > 110100 > > 21 > > EDB0

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > In 1982 I was doing hexadecimal machine code on that TRS-80 Model III, whose > non-disk boot lines you quote. My favorite Z80 joke: > 01 > 110100 > 21 > EDB0 > (Punchline: one-track mind.) Heh heh :-) Did plenty of that, tho

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 17 February 2006 20:44, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:35:32PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) > > Anybody know some reasonable postgresql.conf settings for a system > that starts up with > > Cass? >

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jonah H. Harris said: > /me was 1 year old in 1982 > my *son* (whose name is Tom btw ;-) ) was 3 yrs old in '82 ... :-) As for the "first used Usenet" thing, I am fairly sure I used it or something very like it during "The VAX years", probably around '87. The earliest record I can find is '91 th

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Joshua D. Drake schrieb: > >>> >>> >>> Anyone able to beat that? >> >> >> Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) >> > > At Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82. cool. You too? :-) 1973 must have been a great year .-) Tino

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-18 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Joshua D. Drake Sent: Sat 2/18/2006 4:09 AM To: Marc G. Fournier Cc: Tom Lane; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature >> >> >> Anyone able to beat that? > &g

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
> don't feel upset, that time I already learned how to control missile :) Just curious ... how old does one need to be to be allowed that? :) I was of "legal drinking age" then, btw .. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the plann

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Anyone able to beat that? Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) At Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82. damn, now *I* feel old :) don't feel u

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Anyone able to beat that? Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) At Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82. damn, now *I* feel old :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Jonah H. Harris
/me was 1 year old in 1982On 2/17/06, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyone able to beat that?>> Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :(  Man, you are *old* :)>And Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82. Joshua D. Drake>> > Marc G. Fournier   Hub

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Anyone able to beat that? Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) At Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82. Joshua D. Drake Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Anyone able to beat that? Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) And Marc hands himself a foot gun... I was 9 years old in 82. Joshua D. Drake Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:35:32PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) Anybody know some reasonable postgresql.conf settings for a system that starts up with Cass? Memory Size? 'cuz I st

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) would write: > I said: >> The oldest thing I can actually document at the moment > > After further digging, I found something older: conclusive proof that > I was present at the invention of the smiley. I've been heard to asser

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:35:32PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Sorry, I was still in Junior High in '82 :( Man, you are *old* :) Anybody know some reasonable postgresql.conf settings for a system that starts up with Cass? Memory Size? 'cuz I still have one :-) -- Michael Fuhr --

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Tom Lane wrote: I said: The oldest thing I can actually document at the moment After further digging, I found something older: conclusive proof that I was present at the invention of the smiley. I've been heard to assert that before, but apparently someone has actually m

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
I said: > The oldest thing I can actually document at the moment After further digging, I found something older: conclusive proof that I was present at the invention of the smiley. I've been heard to assert that before, but apparently someone has actually managed to unearth archives that had bee

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Bruce Momjian writes: >>> My first post to Usenet was May 1991: >> >> Newbie ;-) > OK, don't taunt us. What date do you have? :-) Not sure, but I remember being netnews admin for CMU in '87. (Grad student slave labor position, mind you, not prestigi

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: I have updated my email signature because I think it is no longer necessary to list contact information now that my home page has all that information. (At the time I created it, email was becoming popular b

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > My first post to Usenet was May 1991: > > Newbie ;-) OK, don't taunt us. What date do you have? :-) -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > My first post to Usenet was May 1991: Newbie ;-) regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have updated my email signature because I think it is no longer > > necessary to list contact information now that my home page has all that > > information. (At the time I created it, email was becoming popular but > > personal web sites were ra

Re: [HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: I have updated my email signature because I think it is no longer necessary to list contact information now that my home page has all that information. (At the time I created it, email was becoming popular but personal web sites were rare.) Also, I wanted to mention that I

[HACKERS] Updated email signature

2006-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have updated my email signature because I think it is no longer necessary to list contact information now that my home page has all that information. (At the time I created it, email was becoming popular but personal web sites were rare.) Also, I wanted to mention that I work for SRA OSS more p