Not meaning to sound too much like a complete doofus, but at what age do you graduate from high-school in the States, and what level certs do you have for doing so?

Here is the UK you leave secondary school at 16 with GCSEs, and then you can go on to do other courses (such as A-levels) from then on. Quite a normal route for Uni students in the UK is
GCSE-->A-Level-->Degree-->Job (hopefully) or Masters/PhD/PGCE, etc, etc.

Just to compare:

I took my 9 GCSEs at 16, June 1996.
Took my 4 A-Levels at 18, June 1998
About to finish my degree at 22, June 2002.

well all you people are making me feel old. My parents got me the Pong video game, Atari I think, back when it first came out - 1974 or so. Wasn't any such thing as PCs back then.

I'm sure I'm not old, but I had a binatone game machine with the usual ball vs wall games. Kept me occupied for hours. And then there was the ZX81 with the wobbly 16k ram pack that crashed the machine if it moved.

On the average we gradiate highschool at 18 with a plain old diploma. Our structure is a little less sure I think. We go through 4 years highschool and then you can do whatever you want...LOL As for me, I dropped out at 17 as a senior and got my G.E.D. which is a highschool equivelancy cert. if you will....

And as for PONG! That was THE best atari game, along with space-invaders and breakout. We did get a commodore 64 a little later, but that didn't do much, BUT it DID have color.

It was only back in 1998 that my company switched from an NEC Astra system to unix/linux.

There is nothing like going from a computer room to a cabinet!!!

I can't say I miss the black and green screen nor the 50kg dot matrix printers.

Hmm, aren't you guys getting a bit too nostalgic here?! ;-)

Nope, nostaliga's just a thing of the past these days...

Anyway, maybe pekuekfir apart, you lot are all rank amateurs when it comes to one downmanship in ancient computers.

Me dad built a Nascom in nineteen eighty cough, that had 1k of RAM and you could see individual bytes being loaded in by (cassette) tape. But by gum, in those days people knew how to write lean, efficient code. We had great games like "Keys of Kraal" that used things like the bell symbol as one of the baddies. Graphics? Pah!

All based on the Z80, which is still used by many, many people for embedded code in industrial and commercial products.

I'd just like to say at this point, all your fresh faced youngsters, I'm only 37, not your grandad.

Come on all your oldies, I have no doubt you have some stories about valve based computers the size of the Eiffel tower that had the secondary function of heating the maths department at the university of Geektown when Linus was just a twinkle in his Daddy's Finnish eye.

The age old forum conversation between youngens and older folks who tell the youngens how it REALLY was. Well, i'm 26 and things were as they were when I was growng up. I had no control over being able to have a modem in my commodore as much as the person 20 years older than I had no control over changing tubes 10 times a day. Things are what they are. Nostalgy should be fun, not a KDE theme....

Hmmm, maybe I should have sprinkled a few emoticons around my post to show I was 'aving a larf...

So here are some to make up for it.

;-) <g> <BG>

<gd&r>

:-)

Much better!!

Heh, I still have a box of 8" floppies still in the shrink wrap (10 I think). Not sure what I'm going to do with them, but every now and then I drag them out to prove there was such a thing.

Talking about old 'removable media', has anyone had any success in connection the old Amstrad PCW 3" drives to their PC (parrallel or serial, or whatever)?

And anyway, there's nothing wrong with being young and fresh faced. When I'm as old as as an old person, I can tell the fresh faced youngsters about CDs! 'Whoa - now that was a funny medium. First you could only write once to them, then someone developed...' and so on, and so forth.

Oh, BTW, I'm 21.

hey DiBosco, I think we're the oldest ones here. From your posts, I thought you would be as old as me, or older!! NOT! I got you beat a little.

When I posted my original thoughts about windoze turning my brain to mush, didn't think it would get this much action.

I was just covering myself in case any of you thought I was.... mentally challanged.

I'm too old to have the patience to spend days learning something new. That's why sometimes I post some simple questions on the newbie board. Been working with computers for 20 years now, but linux is new for me.

I've been an on oand off linux user for some time. I still read about it, but didnt have it running all the time. Now I got my main web server over to linux and its great. I also have an extra linux box i use to screw around with, so if i break it, i can take my time to fix it. So far I love linux. Just when you think you want to throw the box out the window, you find the solution, and ALWAYS remember it. I already had my spare box up for 28 days...and thats nothing.

Hi Brian,

I've ran into the weirdest problem so far. My mouse doesn't work... It DID... but as soon as the screensaver comes on it dies.

Since I've been uninstalling and reinstalling redhat for a couple of days now just to get the understanding of it, I tried it again and now it dsoesn't see the mouse even when I do the install routine.

The mouse works fine though... Of course, it's a MSFT mouse, so maybe it's just revolting against being forced to click through Linux (grin).

Oh Well.... I'm doing this for fun anyway.

My web server is an AMD 1gig running RH7.1, with 512 megs of ram, and a 20 gig IDE drive. with Plesk (Uggghhh) control panel. So far I have 50 domains on it and it's actually starting to make money.

I HAVE to learn more Linux. I'm MSFT'd out... I've probably seen the blue screen of death more than most people (since I supported a site with 1800 Win users...)

Besides, it's fun to play with Linux. You're way ahead of me though. , but hopefully I'll catch up sooner or later!
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