On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 08:02:21 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:

Luis Bruno <im+usenet@lbruno.org> wrote:

How are yous doing?

I passed the Magic Age of Tech Unemployability(tm), so I quit working in >tech. I bought a house and rented it out, which almost pays the bills.

I left the business when my parents recruited me to take over the
family business - and then reneged when they decided that contrary to
the deal they made with me for 100% of it, that my brother should come
into the business for a 50-50 split which given he and I were
completely at odds on all kinds of things before he joined the
business was guaranteed to alienate me from them. And got my rate of
pay from the first day he joined the business!

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> posted:

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 08:02:21 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:

Luis Bruno <im+usenet@lbruno.org> wrote:

How are yous doing?

I passed the Magic Age of Tech Unemployability(tm), so I quit working in >tech. I bought a house and rented it out, which almost pays the bills.

...

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

I'm glad to see that this group is not quite pushing up the daisies yet :-/

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Colin Macleod ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://cmacleod.me.uk

(long-time lurker, now retired and only sysadminning a hobby webserver)

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On 08/10/2025 08:40, Colin Macleod wrote:

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I'm glad to see that this group is not quite pushing up the daisies yet :-/

That sounds far too much like hard work; those daisies are quite
fiddly. I'd rather write an assembler.

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Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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In article <1mobekt45lc0cb7b3s3afs5934keiacodr@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

I have twelve years to go before I recover, just in time for a
lucrative 32-bit-time_t consulting business to open up for those few
of us who still remember how to write and debug C code[1]. The years
don't seem as long as they used to when I was in my 30s; I'm still
having trouble with the fact that it's October already.

-GAWollman

[1] Assuming *I* still remember any of it by then. And assuming WG 14
hasn't screwed things up beyond all recognition by then.
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my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)

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Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote:

In article <1mobekt45lc0cb7b3s3afs5934keiacodr@4ax.com>,
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Both of them are now gone and I'm retired but there are certainly
things one doesn't forget.

Pimpin' ain't easy, I guess.

I have twelve years to go before I recover, just in time for a
lucrative 32-bit-time_t consulting business to open up for those few
of us who still remember how to write and debug C code[1].

Funnily enough, I have the same plan! It's a running battle between the neurons that store knowledge of C and the alcohol, though.

Assuming we both get there reasonably intact[0], there will be further challenges. We will have to explain that we require a computer with a
keyboard to patch the software, rather than doing it all via Arhenyvax.

We'll also have to get special dispensation to use old versions of tpp,
pynat, or whatever, that *don't* have the mandatory
'scp *c *h vagnxr@afn.tbi' step before compilation.

Matt Roberds

[0] I'm in the US, so there's a better-than-average chance I get shot
before I get to that point.

[1] NMF


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On 2025-10-12 09:12, mroberds@att.net wrote:

We will have to explain that we require a computer with a
keyboard to patch the software, rather than doing it all via Arhenyvax.

that Arheny VAX word looked funny until i reversed it; i don't think i
should be wantonly comparing the VAXes* to anything that sordid guy
does^W claims credit for

man i'm salty about everything that eejit is involved with, good grief :)

oh, and as with all recent postings of mine in these parts, i'm moving
jobs -- i was doing HFT, now i'm on my first ever career break: might
even start enjoying faffing w/ computers again!

*: which i never learnt; i'm from the ZX spectrum crowd

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Luis Bruno

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To: David Gersic
Re: Re: It's been too long
By: David Gersic to alt.sysadmin.recovery on Mon Apr 28 2025 02:12 pm


David Gersic said:

Hung it up and retired. Highly recommended.

Your name rings a bell - old Fido sysop?
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To: mroberds

mroberds wrote to alt.sysadmin.recovery <=-

I passed the Magic Age of Tech Unemployability(tm), so I quit working
in tech. I bought a house and rented it out, which almost pays the
bills.

Still working in tech here,

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On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:23:06 -0800, Kurt Weiske <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-tt5-this> wrote:

To: David Gersic
Re: Re: It's been too long
By: David Gersic to alt.sysadmin.recovery on Mon Apr 28 2025 02:12 pm

David Gersic said:

Hung it up and retired. Highly recommended.

Your name rings a bell - old Fido sysop?

Yes. Many many years ago. Ran a three node RBBS setup on Fidonet. I took it over from my former boss in 1990, moved it to RA, then shut it down around
1994 or so due to lack of time to keep it up.


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In the previous article, Kurt Weiske <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-m26-this> wrote:

I passed the Magic Age of Tech Unemployability(tm), so I quit working
in tech. I bought a house and rented it out, which almost pays the bills.

Still working in tech here,

I ride the subway for half-fare and I'm still working in tech. Okay,
"tech," but still.
--
jd

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