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D’accord, je suis vieux. Des gens me demandent de leur raconter mon voyage avec Linux, mais il faut remonter bien avant cela. | D’accord, je suis vieux. Des gens me demandent de leur raconter mon voyage avec Linux, mais il faut remonter bien avant cela. | ||
- | Quand j’étais en dernière année | + | Quand j’étais en dernière année |
- | Je suis allé à la fac, Sterling, au Kansas. L’école avait un ordinateur de taille moyenne, c’était nouveau chez eux et ils démarraient un cours d’informatique. L’ordinateur était un Buffalo, je pense, mais c' | + | Je suis allé à la fac, à Sterling, au Kansas. L’école avait un ordinateur de taille moyenne, c’était nouveau chez eux et ils démarraient un cours d’informatique. L’ordinateur était un Buffalo, je pense, mais c' |
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Fast forward to when I lived in Denver the second time (1973-1978 was the first time, 1980-1990 the second). I had just gotten some amount of money, don't remember from what, and there was really nothing I had to do with it. While I could have saved it or something, I walked into a store which was selling Texas Instruments TI99/4A computers for $165, including a cassette tape recorder, two game cartridges and two joysticks. While I wasn't really into games, I knew I wanted to be in computers. I got this system... and found the BASIC employed was a bit rough, but I at least managed to recreate some of my better programs in college. But to move forward, I needed to have disk drives. That required the Expansion Box... which was $400, empty – the drives cost extra. I never made it over that hump, and the TI eventually became discarded.** | Fast forward to when I lived in Denver the second time (1973-1978 was the first time, 1980-1990 the second). I had just gotten some amount of money, don't remember from what, and there was really nothing I had to do with it. While I could have saved it or something, I walked into a store which was selling Texas Instruments TI99/4A computers for $165, including a cassette tape recorder, two game cartridges and two joysticks. While I wasn't really into games, I knew I wanted to be in computers. I got this system... and found the BASIC employed was a bit rough, but I at least managed to recreate some of my better programs in college. But to move forward, I needed to have disk drives. That required the Expansion Box... which was $400, empty – the drives cost extra. I never made it over that hump, and the TI eventually became discarded.** | ||
- | Mon intérêt pour les ordinateurs | + | Mon intérêt pour les ordinateurs |
- | Avance rapide à la deuxième fois où je vivais à Denver (la première fois était de 1973 à 1978, et 1980-1990 | + | Avance rapide à la deuxième fois où je vivais à Denver (la première fois était de 1973 à 1978, et la seconde en 1980-1990). Je venais de recevoir une somme d’argent, je ne me souviens pas pourquoi, et il n’y avait vraiment rien que j’étais forcé de faire avec. Alors que j’aurais pu le garder ou quelque chose comme ça, je suis entré dans un magasin qui vendait des ordinateurs Texas Instruments TI99/4A pour 165 $, y compris un magnétophone à cassette, deux cartouches de jeu et deux manettes. Bien que les jeux ne m’intéressent pas vraiment, je savais que je voulais faire de l’informatique. J’ai acheté ce système… et j’ai découvert que le BASIC utilisé était un peu sommaire, mais j’ai réussi au moins à recréer certains de mes meilleurs programmes |
**During this time, I also had a friend who got permission for me to work in her office, Education Commission of the States, and train on the word processor they used, which was NBI. That was a lot of fun, and got me away from using just a typewriter. (My handwriting was so poor that, in 7th grade, my school waived a required course for me to take a semester of Typing. I have been using a keyboard ever since, that would have been 1965).** | **During this time, I also had a friend who got permission for me to work in her office, Education Commission of the States, and train on the word processor they used, which was NBI. That was a lot of fun, and got me away from using just a typewriter. (My handwriting was so poor that, in 7th grade, my school waived a required course for me to take a semester of Typing. I have been using a keyboard ever since, that would have been 1965).** | ||
- | À cette époque, j’avais également une amie qui a eu l’autorisation | + | À cette époque, j’avais également une amie qui a obtenu |
**In 1986 or 87, I met a woman whom I eventually moved in with and married. She was a QA engineer at Digital Electronics in Colorado Springs. She worked from home at times, so I had access to her VT-102 terminal and 2400 baud modem when she wasn't at home. I would modem into the VAX cluster which she administered ... and play Hack, a variant of Rogue. (I still play Nethack, an updated version). Then I got involved in the BBS world, and a local sysop loaned me an IBM 5150 he wasn't using. (Eventually I purchased it from him). This machine had the famous 8088 processor at 4.77 MHz, had originally come with 256 KB RAM on the motherboard and two full-height 5.25" floppy drives (double density). One of the floppy drives had been replaced with a half-height high density 5.25" floppy drive and a 10 MB hard drive, and there was also a RAM expansion card to improve its memory capacity to 640K (it literally could go up to 720K, but DOS could address only 640K so there were some chip slots left empty). So now I'm running DOS 3.1, and getting heavily into BBSing using Fidonet (I used some Mustang BBSes as well, but didn't like them). I also managed to swap my 10 MB hard drive, along with $100, for a 30 MB hard drive. What would I do with all that space???** | **In 1986 or 87, I met a woman whom I eventually moved in with and married. She was a QA engineer at Digital Electronics in Colorado Springs. She worked from home at times, so I had access to her VT-102 terminal and 2400 baud modem when she wasn't at home. I would modem into the VAX cluster which she administered ... and play Hack, a variant of Rogue. (I still play Nethack, an updated version). Then I got involved in the BBS world, and a local sysop loaned me an IBM 5150 he wasn't using. (Eventually I purchased it from him). This machine had the famous 8088 processor at 4.77 MHz, had originally come with 256 KB RAM on the motherboard and two full-height 5.25" floppy drives (double density). One of the floppy drives had been replaced with a half-height high density 5.25" floppy drive and a 10 MB hard drive, and there was also a RAM expansion card to improve its memory capacity to 640K (it literally could go up to 720K, but DOS could address only 640K so there were some chip slots left empty). So now I'm running DOS 3.1, and getting heavily into BBSing using Fidonet (I used some Mustang BBSes as well, but didn't like them). I also managed to swap my 10 MB hard drive, along with $100, for a 30 MB hard drive. What would I do with all that space???** | ||
- | En 1986 ou ‘87, j’ai rencontré une femme avec laquelle j’ai finalement emménagé et que j’ai épousée. Elle était ingénieur | + | En 1986 ou ‘87, j’ai rencontré une femme avec laquelle j’ai finalement emménagé et que j’ai épousée. Elle était ingénieur |
**In 1990, I moved to Michigan. At the local library I stumbled upon the 11th Edition of The Secret Guide to Computers (then 3 volumes). I was enthralled, and have nearly every edition they published from the 18th up to about 2015, which is when I noticed that Russ Walter refused to discuss Linux, and so it was no longer of as much value to me. I strongly recommend this book for new users, and you can find most of it for free online at https:// | **In 1990, I moved to Michigan. At the local library I stumbled upon the 11th Edition of The Secret Guide to Computers (then 3 volumes). I was enthralled, and have nearly every edition they published from the 18th up to about 2015, which is when I noticed that Russ Walter refused to discuss Linux, and so it was no longer of as much value to me. I strongly recommend this book for new users, and you can find most of it for free online at https:// | ||
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It wasn't too long before I needed to upgrade. I found that my 5150 box's 5 expansion slots were already obsolete, as the new computers with 80286s had 8 slots and the new motherboards would not fit into my old box. I managed to get a new box, motherboard, | It wasn't too long before I needed to upgrade. I found that my 5150 box's 5 expansion slots were already obsolete, as the new computers with 80286s had 8 slots and the new motherboards would not fit into my old box. I managed to get a new box, motherboard, | ||
- | En 1990, je suis allé vivre dans le Michigan. À la bibliothèque municipale, j’ai trouvé par hasard la 11ème | + | En 1990, je suis allé vivre dans le Michigan. À la bibliothèque municipale, j’ai trouvé par hasard la 11e édition du Secret Guide to Computers (en 3 volumes à cette époque). Il m’a fasciné et j’ai presque toutes les éditions qu’ils ont publiées, |
- | Avant longtemps, j’avais besoin d’une mise à niveau. J’ai découvert que les 5 fentes d’expansion dans ma boîte | + | Il n'a pas fallu longtemps |
**From that time on, I used PC clones. I had to use Windows 2 Runtime at one job, and it really was bad, but better than GEM Desktop. I moved to several other places, and upgraded my computer or bought used ones I could manage to afford. I remember one 386 machine, and a 486 DX/2 I continued to own when I " | **From that time on, I used PC clones. I had to use Windows 2 Runtime at one job, and it really was bad, but better than GEM Desktop. I moved to several other places, and upgraded my computer or bought used ones I could manage to afford. I remember one 386 machine, and a 486 DX/2 I continued to own when I " | ||
- | À partir de là, j’utilisais des clones de PC. À un boulot, j’étais forcé d’utiliser Windows 2 Runtime et c’était vraiment mauvais, mais meilleur que GEM Desktop. J’ai déménagé plusieurs fois et je mettais à niveau mon ordinateur ou j’en achetais d’occasion que je pouvais payer. Je me souviens d’une machine 386 et d’une 486 DX/2 que je gardais quand j’ai « déménagé » à Asheville en Caroline du nord en 1998 (j’y ai eu un accident de voiture et je n’avais aucune raison de repartir ... c’est une longue histoire). | + | À partir de là, j’utilisais des clones de PC. Dans un boulot, j’étais forcé d’utiliser Windows 2 Runtime et c’était vraiment mauvais, mais meilleur que GEM Desktop. J’ai déménagé plusieurs fois et je mettais à niveau mon ordinateur ou j'en achetais d’occasion que je pouvais payer. Je me souviens d’une machine 386 et d’une 486 DX/2 que je gardais quand j’ai « déménagé » à Asheville en Caroline du nord en 1998 (j’y ai eu un accident de voiture et je n’avais aucune raison de repartir... c’est une longue histoire). |
**This is the time I was getting tired of Windows already, and started looking at Linux. I don't know when I got the Red Hat 5.1 book or the copy of Slackware, but they were too daunting for me to try. I've always been a bit timid, and as I said, I tended to let life happen to me rather than jumping in with both feet. So when I got a copy of Mandrake in 2002, and it loaded on my machine without me entering the serial number of all my internal devices, I mean it JUST LOADED and found everything, I was quite happy. It wasn't good enough to replace Windows for my uses -- I'm just a typical desktop user who mostly did Internet and word processing, not a coder or gamer (I have noted in my life that gamers always have more expensive gear than I can afford). And then I was disappointed when an upgrade of Mandrake would not install on my machine. A short while later, I did find a copy of SuSE Linux (not long before they created openSuSE), and it ran pretty well, but again, it was dual-boot time, not time to throw Windows over the rail just yet.** | **This is the time I was getting tired of Windows already, and started looking at Linux. I don't know when I got the Red Hat 5.1 book or the copy of Slackware, but they were too daunting for me to try. I've always been a bit timid, and as I said, I tended to let life happen to me rather than jumping in with both feet. So when I got a copy of Mandrake in 2002, and it loaded on my machine without me entering the serial number of all my internal devices, I mean it JUST LOADED and found everything, I was quite happy. It wasn't good enough to replace Windows for my uses -- I'm just a typical desktop user who mostly did Internet and word processing, not a coder or gamer (I have noted in my life that gamers always have more expensive gear than I can afford). And then I was disappointed when an upgrade of Mandrake would not install on my machine. A short while later, I did find a copy of SuSE Linux (not long before they created openSuSE), and it ran pretty well, but again, it was dual-boot time, not time to throw Windows over the rail just yet.** | ||
- | C’était l’époque où je me lassais déjà de Windows et je commençais à envisager Linux. Je ne sais pas quand j’ai obtenu le livre Red Hat 5.1 ou l’exemplaire de Slackware, mais ils étaient trop intimidant | + | C’était l’époque où je me lassais déjà de Windows et je commençais à envisager Linux. Je ne sais pas quand j’ai obtenu le livre Red Hat 5.1 ou l’exemplaire de Slackware, mais ils étaient trop intimidants |
**In 2006, I was running Asheville Homeless Network, and used some of the funds we raised to get a few Asus EeePCs for the more stalwart members to have so that they could have a better life and an easier time looking for work, These computers had Linux on them, which I insisted on. I'm not sure what I was running at home at the time, but I was probably dual-booting to some version of Linux. We first got the 701 models, and then, when they turned out to be too small for some members, got 901s.** | **In 2006, I was running Asheville Homeless Network, and used some of the funds we raised to get a few Asus EeePCs for the more stalwart members to have so that they could have a better life and an easier time looking for work, These computers had Linux on them, which I insisted on. I'm not sure what I was running at home at the time, but I was probably dual-booting to some version of Linux. We first got the 701 models, and then, when they turned out to be too small for some members, got 901s.** | ||
- | En 2006, je gérais Asheville Homeless Network (Réseau pour les SDF d’Asheville) et j’ai utilisé une partie des sommes recueillies pour acheter quelques Asus EeePC pour les membres les plus courageux afin qu’ils puissent vivre mieux et chercher du travail plus facilement. Ces ordinateurs étaient sous Linux, ce que je voulais vraiment. Je ne sais pas ce que j’avais à la maison à l’époque, | + | En 2006, je gérais Asheville Homeless Network (Réseau pour les SDF d’Asheville) et j’ai utilisé une partie des sommes recueillies pour acheter quelques Asus EeePC pour les membres les plus courageux afin qu’ils puissent vivre mieux et chercher du travail plus facilement. Ces ordinateurs étaient sous Linux, ce que je voulais vraiment. Je ne sais plus ce que j’avais à la maison à l’époque, |
**At some point, I got just so tired of Windows that I went back to Linux. This time I went with Ubuntu. I could use it for everything I needed, so I soon stopped dual-booting. I joined LinuxQuestions 3/14/08 and Ubuntu Forums (with Ubuntu One ) 3/12/08. I was happy until, with 12.04, they moved to Unity Desktop. 12.04 would not install on my computer, and while people kept telling me that there were ways to install 12.04 with a different desktop, nothing I tried worked. So it's back to Windows 7. At this point, I was living in Blaine, TN, the first of 3 addresses there. I moved into Knoxville for a year, and purchased a couple Windows 8 computers, which upgraded to 8.1. I was not happy. When I moved back to Blaine, I had a Windows 7 Dell tower desktop, I don't even remember what happened to those Win8 laptops. And then, Windows prodded and prodded for me to upgrade to Windows 10. I did so. I saw all the security holes people had talked about. I closed all the ones I could, and found there were some which I could not close. I reverted to Windows 7, and found the holes that were opened in Windows 10 were still there. So I got mad. I downloaded Linux Mint 17, and deleted Windows. Forever.** | **At some point, I got just so tired of Windows that I went back to Linux. This time I went with Ubuntu. I could use it for everything I needed, so I soon stopped dual-booting. I joined LinuxQuestions 3/14/08 and Ubuntu Forums (with Ubuntu One ) 3/12/08. I was happy until, with 12.04, they moved to Unity Desktop. 12.04 would not install on my computer, and while people kept telling me that there were ways to install 12.04 with a different desktop, nothing I tried worked. So it's back to Windows 7. At this point, I was living in Blaine, TN, the first of 3 addresses there. I moved into Knoxville for a year, and purchased a couple Windows 8 computers, which upgraded to 8.1. I was not happy. When I moved back to Blaine, I had a Windows 7 Dell tower desktop, I don't even remember what happened to those Win8 laptops. And then, Windows prodded and prodded for me to upgrade to Windows 10. I did so. I saw all the security holes people had talked about. I closed all the ones I could, and found there were some which I could not close. I reverted to Windows 7, and found the holes that were opened in Windows 10 were still there. So I got mad. I downloaded Linux Mint 17, and deleted Windows. Forever.** | ||
- | À un certain moment, quand j’en avais vraiment assez de Windows, je suis retourné à Linux. Cette fois-là, j’ai choisi Ubuntu. Je pouvais l’utiliser pour tout ce dont j’avais besoin et j’ai donc arrêté le double amorçage sans trop attendre. Je me suis inscrit sur LinuxQuestions le 14/03/08 et sur Ubuntu Forums (avec Ubuntu One) le 12/03/08. J’étais content jusqu’à ce que, avec la 12.04, ils ont pris le bureau Unity. La 12.04 ne voulait pas installer sur mon ordinateur et, bien que des gens me disent sans cesse qu’on pouvait installer la 12.04 avec un autre bureau, rien ne fonctionnait. Je suis donc retourné sous Windows 7. À ce stade, je vivais à Blaine au Tennessee, la première de trois adresses dans cette ville. Je suis allé vivre à Knoxville pendant un an et j’ai acheté deux ordinateurs sous Windows 8, qui se sont mis à niveau sous la 8.1. Je n’étais pas heureux. Quand je suis retourné à Blaine, j’avais un ordinateur de bureau Dell sous Windows 7 et je ne me souviens même pas de ce qui est arrivé aux portables sous Win8. Puis Windows me poussait et me poussait | + | À un certain moment, quand j’en avais vraiment assez de Windows, je suis retourné à Linux. Cette fois-là, j’ai choisi Ubuntu. Je pouvais l’utiliser pour tout ce dont j’avais besoin et j’ai donc arrêté le double amorçage sans trop attendre. Je me suis inscrit sur LinuxQuestions le 14/03/08 et sur Ubuntu Forums (avec Ubuntu One) le 12/03/08. J’étais content jusqu’à ce que, avec la 12.04, ils passent au bureau Unity. La 12.04 ne voulait pas s'installer sur mon ordinateur et, bien que des gens me disent sans cesse qu’on pouvait installer la 12.04 avec un autre bureau, rien ne fonctionnait. Je suis donc retourné sous Windows 7. À ce stade, je vivais à Blaine au Tennessee, la première de trois adresses dans cette ville. Je suis allé vivre à Knoxville pendant un an et j’ai acheté deux ordinateurs sous Windows 8, qui se sont mis à niveau sous la 8.1. Je n’étais pas heureux. Quand je suis retourné à Blaine, j’avais un ordinateur de bureau Dell sous Windows 7 et je ne me souviens même pas de ce qui est arrivé aux portables sous Win8. Puis Windows me poussait et me poussait |
**I've been running Mint since that time, with no Microsoft influences in my life (I changed from Microsoft Office to SoftMaker Office in 2008 while still running Windows, and kept it when I moved to Linux). I was completely impressed with how far Linux had come, with Linux Mint 17, and started looking at other distros to see if they had kept up. I have found that most of them have, and keep hopping in my multibooting life to check them out.** | **I've been running Mint since that time, with no Microsoft influences in my life (I changed from Microsoft Office to SoftMaker Office in 2008 while still running Windows, and kept it when I moved to Linux). I was completely impressed with how far Linux had come, with Linux Mint 17, and started looking at other distros to see if they had kept up. I have found that most of them have, and keep hopping in my multibooting life to check them out.** | ||
- | Je fais tourner Mint depuis, sans aucune influence de Microsoft dans ma vie (j’ai remplacé Microsoft Office par SoftMaker Office en 2008, pendant que j’étais encore sous Windows, et je l’ai gardé quand j’ai migré vers Linux). J’étais vraiment impressionné par le chemin fait par Linux avec Linux Mint 17, et j’ai commencé à regarder d’autres distrib. pour voir s’ils | + | Je fais tourner Mint depuis, sans aucune influence de Microsoft dans ma vie (j’ai remplacé Microsoft Office par SoftMaker Office en 2008, pendant que j’étais encore sous Windows, et je l’ai gardé quand j’ai migré vers Linux). J’étais vraiment impressionné par le chemin fait par Linux avec Linux Mint 17, et j’ai commencé à regarder d’autres distrib. pour voir si elles avaient progressé autant. Je trouve que c’est le cas pour la plupart et, dans ma vie en multiple amorçage, je ne cesse de sauter de distrib. en distrib. pour les examiner. |
**In August 2018, I heard that mintCast was looking for new hosts. I answered the call, with no prior knowledge of what I was doing, and Rob Watkins accepted my application. Of course, he accepted ALL the applications, | **In August 2018, I heard that mintCast was looking for new hosts. I answered the call, with no prior knowledge of what I was doing, and Rob Watkins accepted my application. Of course, he accepted ALL the applications, | ||
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I hope you've enjoyed this trip down Memory Lane. There are bound to be omissions and inaccuracies in it, my memory is not my best feature.** | I hope you've enjoyed this trip down Memory Lane. There are bound to be omissions and inaccuracies in it, my memory is not my best feature.** | ||
- | En août 2018, j’ai entendu dire que mintCast cherchait de nouveaux hôtes. J’ai répondu à l’appel sans avoir de connaissances préalables sur ce que j’allais faire et Rob Watkins a accepté mon application. Bien entendu, il a accepté TOUTES les applications et à créé des réunions en ligne pour former | + | En août 2018, j’ai entendu dire que mintCast cherchait de nouveaux hôtes. J’ai répondu à l’appel sans avoir de connaissances préalables sur ce que j’allais faire et Rob Watkins a accepté mon application. Bien entendu, il a accepté TOUTES les applications et à créé des réunions en ligne pour former |
- | Cet essai ne contient pas beaucoup d' | + | Cet essai ne contient pas beaucoup d' |
- | J’espère que ces souvenirs du bon vieux temps vous ont plu. Il contient | + | J’espère que ces souvenirs du bon vieux temps vous ont plu. Ils comportent |
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