[ale] What happened to the command line

[tom]

Its the transition from imperfect parent to SysAd that I'd have to make. 
The good news is that the only possible change in pay is positive. The 
rest of the news isn't so good.

<<sigh>>

Still, life remains interesting if nothing else.

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> You could make the transition from Chemist to Systems Administrator -
> then you'd then get to play with far more computers than you sometimes
> want to do.  (Unfortunately this happens often enough at 3 AM to take
> some of the enjoyment out of it.)  I made the transition from Accounting
> many years ago.  Of course you sometimes have to take a cut in pay to
> make the leap if you're far enough up in the first profession.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tom
> Freeman
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:35 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] What happened to the command line
>
> On 03/06/2008 11:54:26 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:18 AM, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Ned Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> > So then does 15 response emails detailing how people have to
>> make
>> their own
>>> > shortcuts and how links to the console are no longer on most KDE
>> and Gnome
>>> > based interfaces confirm the original posters question that it
>> is
>> getting
>>> > harder and harder to find the console window?
>>> >
>>> > Ned
>>> >
>>>  <<snip>>
>>>
>>>  I don't think so. I think it shows how important the console is to
>> a
>>>  number of people on this list.
>>>
>>
>> Tom, are you in Sales/Marketing?   :-)
>>
> 8-) No. Worse, I'd have trouble selling a full course meal at a
> discount to a starving person with the product on a tray in front of
> me. Chemist by training, not an entirely successful parent by fate
> (having trouble launching the last one - anybody here have a need/use
> for a moderately artistic young adult with a known enthusiasm for
> architecture?), with a bad computer habit that I need to learn how to
> support...
>
>
>
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