* * * * *

                                 Impressions

Rob the Graphics Designer was amazed at two things I did while at his house.
[1] The first is my ability to log into my home computer from anywhere on the
Internet (that, and the ability to retrieve files from my home computer from
anywhere on the Internet). Rob has never really used a multi-user system
before and I think the concept of controlling a computer remotely isn't in
his experience. Then again, he is a graphics designer, not a computer
programmer or admin.

The next thing he was amazed at was my writing code. He was amazed the last
time [2] Mark [3] and I coded on the fly (as it were) and this time he was
equally impressed (fifteen minutes to write a C program to feed his Flash-5
[4] interface he was developing, including time to type the code in locally
on his machine, uploading it to my server, compiling and testing).

I was equally impressed with his setup: a dual headed Windows box (I had no
idea Windows could support multiple displays—X Windows has had this ability
since 1987) on a nice fast machine. I was also impressed with his ability to
navigate through the arcane interface of the Flash-5 development environment.

I guess it's easy to be impressed with stuff you aren't familiar with.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/09/01.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2000/08/24.2
[3] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[4] http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/

Email author at [email protected]

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.conman.org. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.