Well, I've just relised that I've been a member of this forum for about a month now, and I haven't even bothered to introduce myself.  I know, I know how rude of me?

Well, better late than never!

Hi, I'm DarkGuyver and I'm an alcoholic.... HAHAHA just kidding.  I thought I would add a little humour to my introduction.

DarkGuyver, as some of you will probably relise from my screen name, I am a fan of the Guyver anime/manga francise. 

I found this forum, while searching for more Tess Gerritsen (yes, I watch Rizzoli & Isles) eBooks for my Sony PRS-350 eReader, which I got a couple of months ago.  But found a surprisingly large amount of books for my eReader, which I am honestly thankfull for.

Besides reading, I like watchin action, sci-fi, thriller movies and TV shows.  I'm a martial artist, I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Shotokan Karate, and I currently study Lin Kuei martial arts (a Chinese martial art, which is the ancester of Japanese Ninjitsu).  I'm a videogamer, I'm a fan of Street Fighter, Bayonetta, God Of War, Soul Calibur, House Of The Dead, and the Need For Speed games (in particular the Underground series, and Most Wanted).

I'm very knowledgable about computers so if you have any questions about computers or computer related problems post a topic and I will see what I can do for ya.  I'm also a technology nut, so any related technology discuss are game.

I hope to meet some new friends here and share some of my collection of eBooks which may be of interest to others.

I was a Data Processing Tech.   I ran the big Mainframe computers. 
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I also did Shore Patrol out of the Master at Arms office.

Wow now that sounds something that goes zooooom past over my head
Philo is there anything besides being a drag queen that you havent done?

Life is short.  You don't want to die saying "I always thought I would have more time to do things."

I probably will say "ugh make me 15 again I want to try another thing too!" I already want 3 more lives.
But its really commendable, philo!
I'm going to start writing from april

I was a Data Processing Tech.   I ran the big Mainframe computers. 
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I also did Shore Patrol out of the Master at Arms office.

You are kidding me right!    You actually used one of those old time computers, which took up a whole room!  I've always wanted to play around with one of those things! 

No, I'm not.  I was trained on a Univac.  We had a tape drive we had to thread because it didn't have a vacuum.  The ones we used after I left school used the old multi layer discs that looked like LPs in a strange sort of carrier with a handle on top.

I was  lucky I took typing in school because we used a keypunch to do the cards for the instructions.

I gotta laugh just because I can picture the young ones reading this and sitting there with a glazed-over look.  My first job was in a corporate communications department where we had to send out news releases on a machine where we typed in the message, it sent, and then it printed it out on thermal paper.  And our computer was a linksys/sperry, if I remember right.  I tried to describe this to my kids one time, and got that same glazed-over look....

I know what you are talking about but darn if I can remember the name.

I just changed my message ... it used the thermal paper, right?  (Gawd that was so long ago..)

No, I'm not.  I was trained on a Univac.  We had a tape drive we had to thread because it didn't have a vacuum.  The ones we used after I left school used the old multi layer discs that looked like LPs in a strange sort of carrier with a handle on top.

I was  lucky I took typing in school because we used a keypunch to do the cards for the instructions.

That reminds me of a story a college friend (Tony) told me.  When Windows 95 was 1st released it was a released in a series of floppy discs, I think it was about a 100 disc to install the OS, which is what his big brother was suppiled with when he purchased his desktop computer.  A few months later Tony's parents got him a computer and it was supplied with a CD-Rom for Windows 95.  The moment his brother saw that CD-Rom tears started streaming out of his eyes 

We had a tape drive with an X on it.  When it froze up, you went over and nailed it with a mallet on the X and it would start back up.

And people say that I have a bad habit of resorting to violence when I am p!$$€d 

uh..

 

Actually you had a choice.  You could get the  8" or the 5 1/4".  You had to sit there and you would get 'Insert Disk #'  wait wait wait have a cup of coffee, curse Bill Gates for the moron he really is about programming, wait have a donut  then 'Insert disk #"   Then you had to tell your computer it HAD all those things it should know you have because plug and play was actually plug and pray.

I always did best with DOS because DOS was so easy.  You were simply talking to the computer.  Go to C drive, Go to folder books, run bookread.exe   Real simple and fast.
And you could lie to DOS and get it to do stuff it shouldn't.  Windows on the other hand?  It wouldn't do stuff it was suppose to do.  Gates is such a lousy programmer.  Good businessman,  heck great businessman, bad programmer.   He's always been the second half of my presidential dream team.  Gates for VP because he could sell everyone on what should be done after the policy was made.  He sold us Windows didn't he?  If he can convince that many that Windows is a good OS, he can sell anyone anything.

Wow ... I don't think I've even seen the 8" ones .... 

Actually you had a choice.  You could get the  8" or the 5 1/4".  You had to sit there and you would get 'Insert Disk #'  wait wait wait have a cup of coffee, curse Bill Gates for the moron he really is about programming, wait have a donut  then 'Insert disk #"   Then you had to tell your computer it HAD all those things it should know you have because plug and play was actually plug and pray.

I didn't even know that Windows 95 came in 8" floppy discs?    I knew they came in 3.5" floppy discs but not the really old 8" floppy discs...  I'm just glad that when I finally got a computer, Windows came on CD/DVD Rom discs.  It would have taken forever to do a reinstallation of windows using 8" or 3.5" floppy discs.   

I always did best with DOS because DOS was so easy.  You were simply talking to the computer.  Go to C drive, Go to folder books, run bookread.exe   Real simple and fast.
And you could lie to DOS and get it to do stuff it shouldn't.  Windows on the other hand?  It wouldn't do stuff it was suppose to do.  Gates is such a lousy programmer.  Good businessman,  heck great businessman, bad programmer.   He's always been the second half of my presidential dream team.  Gates for VP because he could sell everyone on what should be done after the policy was made.  He sold us Windows didn't he?  If he can convince that many that Windows is a good OS, he can sell anyone anything.

The same could have been said about Steve Jobs, he was a great programmer and great inventor but a lousy product promotor.  Which is the reason why Apple computers were always considered 2nd best to Windows based computers.

technology speak is like a foreign language. If I figure out and learn what ya'll are talking about can I say I speak another language?