POLL: How old are you?

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POLL: How old are you?

#121 Post by L18L »

2**6

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echo $((2 ** 6))

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#122 Post by tubeguy »

Send me a postcard, drop me a line stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm echo $((2 ** 6))?
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#123 Post by L18L »

Beatles sung and tubeguy wrote:Send me a postcard, drop me a line stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm echo $((2 ** 6))?
:D

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#124 Post by vovchik »

My age? ecf27a776cdfc771defab1c5d19de9ab (md5) :)

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#125 Post by sunburnt »

vovchik; L.O.L. >>> :lol: ( very funny! ).

I`m 56, worked on CP/M O.S. on S-100 buss computers with Z-80 cpu.

Beat that !!! ( someone will come along that worked IBM 560 ).

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#126 Post by puppyluvr »

:D Hello,
I am 17,480 days old..
Having only reached my 15th Prime Number, I feel like a "kid" amongst some here.. 8) The rest of life, not so much.. :roll:
Less than 6 years till the next Prime Number landmark for me...
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#127 Post by Ghost Dog »

Old enough to know better... :D

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#128 Post by musher0 »

My sig says it! :lol:
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#129 Post by tallboy »

58, but I still feel and act like 26...

Based on the age of all you fossils :D , maybe we should add a line to all puppy's description:

The distribution that keeps you young! Proven by the age of it's users!

tallboy

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#130 Post by RSH »

Hi.

I am 0000000000110000 years old, or in other words: adding the 7. and the 11. Prime Number. Have reached the 15. Prime Number one year and abount 5 months ago.

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#131 Post by nooby »

I am too old and too lazy for my own good.
Sitting in front of the computer for almost the whole day
will make my life some 40% shorter the researchers say.

So being past 65 years old I most likely will not last much longer
than 70 years old or so ? Haha everybody will get happy
when I stop spamming the forum with my naive comments. :)
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#132 Post by Eyes-Only »

@tallboy: Good one and a great idea! I love it!! :D

@nooby: I highly doubt the "40%" theory and I'll tell you why: Look at Stephen Hawking. The computer and his brillant mind with the ability to think/reason have helped to keep him alive as the oldest surving person with Lou Gerhig's Disease for starters. Plus, if it also wasn't for the computer having kept my mind active and giving me a reason to continue I, too, would've thrown in the towel long ago as well.

Hmm... a very long story which I probably shouldn't have brought up on open forum as "who cares". LOL! But I immediately thought of it serving a point to prove that I seriously doubt a computer shortening one's lifespan. ;)

Cheers everyone!

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#133 Post by Tman »

I'm now 38, and time is flying by too quickly nowadays.
Honestly, what has happened in my life for the last decade is mostly a blur. Emotionally, I still feel like I'm 25.

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#134 Post by puppyluvr »

:D Hello,
Tman, we all feel 25 emotionally, lol..
Perhaps you would feel better about to realize some of us would kill to be 38 again...

Guys, I really think this thread proves that Puppy isnt delegated to the "college kids with taped glasses" but that it indeed includes a broad group of people.. I do believe that the TRS-80 / CPM / 6502 generation and before find Linux easier to grasp... than the Windoze generation.... we are just used to having to do a little more than "click"..

I cant say Puppy has kept me from "throwing in the towel", but it has kept an old hobby alive.. I can still make a "Computer Graduate" say "Wow, how did you do that" and that is worth it.. Plus I believe that Puppy, and studying how it operates, teaches you more about how your Computer works, than any MS certification....

Its like it gives you Commodore access to a Windoze PC... :wink: :wink:
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#135 Post by musher0 »

Hi, puppyluvr.

Nah, I disagree. There's a typo there. :lol: The sentence should read:

>Its like it gives you AtariXE access to a Windoze PC...

Also, truth be said, who really wants access to a Windoze PC... :twisted:

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#136 Post by nooby »

My life would be a disaster without Puppy. :)

Don't ask me how I feel emotionally. Half of what you guys feel.
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#137 Post by Eyes-Only »

FEEL 25? REALLY?! :shock: Maybe YOU guys do so speak for yourselves! lol! But speaking for myself I usually feel like the little kid I always was, and just never grew up. Ask my wife as she'll whole-heartedly agree! "Sheesh! You're always such a kid!" But I don't think she means it nicely. It's normally said out of exasperation at me! :wink:

Yes... I still feel much like a kid. However, it's this body that spends much of the day being pushed around in the "roadster" that simply will no longer follow my commands to do as it's told to equally behave as a child - and that can get rather frustrating most times.

Still though - and this is directed to Jay ( Puppyluvr ) - there's no way in hell I'd ever want to be 38 again. Nor even a child! I'm far more comfortable on this end of the spectrum and will be glad when I "buy the farm" as the proverbial saying goes. :D

My 2 cents worth anyway.

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#138 Post by Aitch »

tallboy wrote:The distribution that keeps you young! Proven by the age of it's users!
+1 from me....Nice!
I'm for adopting that as our slogan!

I'm 65 at the 2012 deadline date, 21st December, so feel very connected to all the changes going on in the lead-up...hope you're all keeping safe, and flowing with the changes

People have often asked me how old I am, and a favourite answer is 943, as I seem to have access to certain wisdoms that I know I haven't acquired in this lifetime...
...but as to how old I feel....well, like tallboy's quote, I feel about 27....as that was just a year before I was told I had 2 years to live....so the number of years doesn't matter as much as what you use them for, don't you agree?

Puppy certainly helps, and has been a source of inspiration and conversation since discovering it a few years ago

There's nowt wrong with feeling young, other than the body complaining of abuse, trying to keep up.... :lol: :lol:

Aitch :)

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#139 Post by tubeguy »

I remember some of my 20's, mostly they are a haze. 35-43 also not too clear. Not sure if I ever felt as good as I do now at 47, but I do miss how fast I could recover from long nights and injuries, seems like everything takes twice as long these days and I have half the time to do it.

I also missing being able to eat anything I wanted, these days it's all about low-fat, raw veggies, fruits, several small meals during the day and no binging on crap before bed. Gone are the "iron stomach" days.

I think the average age of Puppy users indicates the wisdom of choosing Puppy. We tried the rest, found the best. I used to spend hours dicking around with my computers, I just don't have the desire anymore, I do enough of that at work. Puppy just works, after due diligence with distro-hopping I learned my lesson.
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#140 Post by linuxbear »

sunburnt wrote: Beat that !!! ( someone will come along that worked IBM 560 ).
ummmm, does an IBM 370 running VM/OS count? Does other old mainframes tied to StorageTek six foot tall (American refrigerator sized) tape-drives count? This of course before the first IBM personal PC was available. Also of interest, IBM has a history of using what "just works" and not upgrading unless necessary. The first Blackberries available in the US were issued to IBM Global-Services personnel and connected to an old, though still usable mainframe. Later IBM created a virtual machine of that system and ran it on an AIX cluster.

....Glen

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