Geek count

"Mr. Alan Paterson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers as a
profession.?

Quite a few I'd bet.

Well, nearly all of our chemical lab equipment is operated by computers but
we are not computer technicians, we are lab technicians, so I don't think I
would count.

--

Simon M.

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers
as a profession.?

Nope.

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers as a
profession.?

Quite a few I'd bet.

Linux sysadmin more or less since there's been a penguin. SunOS before
that

Eugenio

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers as a
profession.?

Cough. I build, manage and feed Beowulf clusters for a living.

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers as a
profession.?

Me too. Computational linguist at the moment. Heavy on the programming
side. Wouldn't really call myself a geek for choice, though.

My guess is that users of usenet are pretty heavily biased towards
computer people.

A

Eugenio Mastroviti said:

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers as a
profession.?

Quite a few I'd bet.

Linux sysadmin more or less since there's been a penguin. SunOS before
that

Software engineer, or at least that's what it says on my contract. I also
teach on computing courses for the OU. My ambition is to not work with
computers.

Colin

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers as a
profession.?

Quite a few I'd bet.

Project Manager - IT systems.

Never written a line of deliverable code in my life. Too late to
start now.
--

Cheers,

Al

Colin Blackburn said:

Software engineer, or at least that's what it says on my contract. I also
teach on computing courses for the OU. My ambition is to not work with
computers.

Mine too. I did two interviews for a position as playboy billionaire, but
in the end they selected someone else...

Al C-F said:

Never written a line of deliverable code in my life. Too late to
start now.

Normal for a programmer :-)

I'm a geek, too.

Guy
--
May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers as a
profession.?

Quite a few I'd bet.

I play the piano in a bordello, honest.

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Quoted message said:

Software developer. Sometimes to be found looking out of the
window wishing I was on a bike. I'm behind schedule at the
moment, too, and still posting to usenet.

I'm impressed, lots of sharp people in here..

I feel for ya mate, I find myself looking quite frequently out the window
wishing the same thing.

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

Quoted message said:

work with computers as a profession.?

Used to be a programming manager (then projects manager), but gave it all up
to become a theoretical mathematician...

Which is miles more fun and I have all the free time I like.

It's a grand life.

--
Kev

Kevin Stone <[email hidden]> wrote:

: Used to be a programming manager (then projects manager), but gave it all up
: to become a theoretical mathematician...

I went the other way - from a maths department to computers. Being a RA is
not fun when you have a mortage to pay.

Work .sig below

--
Dr. A. Clune, Systems Security Advisor, Computing Service,
University of York, UK, YO10 5DD. 01904 433129 [email hidden]

PGP Public Key - http://www.clune.org/pubkey.txt

Arthur Clune said:

I went the other way - from a maths department to computers. Being a
RA is not fun when you have a mortage to pay.

Ah, the joys of no mortgage and simple life style.

--
Kev

in message <[email hidden]>, Jeremy Collins

(') said:

Mr. Alan Paterson said:

OK, how many people reading this NG ( like me ) work with computers
as a profession.?

Quite a few I'd bet.

Software developer. Sometimes to be found looking out of the
window wishing I was on a bike. I'm behind schedule at the
moment, too, and still posting to usenet.

Ditto. Mind you, I'm officially on holiday this week. But if I weren't
on holiday I would probably be engaging in my displacement activity of
choice, anyway.

Oh, I usually delete this .sig when the .sig selector selects it, but it
seems apt.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

in message <[email hidden]>, Colin Blackburn

(') said:

My ambition is to not work with
computers.

Why? I think getting other people to pay you for playing with toys is
rather wonderful.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; If you're doing this for fun, do what seems fun. If you're
;; doing it for money, stop now.
;; Rainer Deyke

Simon Brooke said:

Quoted message said:

http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

Quote: I don't have a computer virus - I don't run an operating system which
is vulnerable to them - so there's no need to mail me to tell me I have.

I love this, I challenge you to name your operating system!

--
Kev

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Colin Blackburn

(') said:

My ambition is to not work with computers.

Why? I think getting other people to pay you for playing with toys is
rather wonderful.

Programming seems to encourage my stomach to produce acid. God knows
why, but it does. OTOH, I do enjoy it.

A

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:35:05 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Colin Blackburn

(') said:

My ambition is to not work with
computers.

Why?

Because I don't see them as toys anymore?
Because I'd rather be out there doing something else?
Because I've worked with them all my adult life and now I'm bored?
Because doing other stuff is more fun?
Just because.

Colin