yep. that's about right. it's so much easier now. when i was a kid, we borrowed books from the library and had to actually read theory and shit. crazy.
Started with a bunch of blank card stock, data entry on the 029 Keypunch machine, then run the set of cards through the 056 Verifier machine, and in to the room-sized Processing machine. While it was running the program, grabbed a plugboard control panel and a bunch of patch cords to set up the printer for the desired output. Kids today have no idea what it was like.
I think a lot of people think smart people are some kind of special, like you're born smart, and also that they weren't. At best you're born with a desire to look things up.
Or they just stole tech from someone else and pretended like it was their own. Like bill gates taking Doug Engelbarts windows based operating system with a mouse and calling it his own. Or when Daniel Bricklen invented spreadsheets and Gates took that as well and patented it. I mean it seems more like success is waiting around to see if you can patent something someone else chooses not too, naively thinking it will becomes developed freeware. Tldr 86 dos as well.
See I find people have talents, but not in the way most think. Like compared to most my family, I'm REALLY good with computers. But it's not because I woke up one day and just magically knew about computers. It's more like an itch in my head got scratched when first messing with computers so I just dove into learning about them. I feel as though everyone has that itch, they just have to find it. On the reverse end, I'm bad at art and no matter how much I push myself, I don't "scratch that itch"
tl;dr: talent in my mind is you being naturally attracted to wanting to pursue and learn more about a thing vs you struggling to learn about a thing no matter how much effort is put in.
I have an HP DL380 gen9 server. When it arrived(amazingly dent free) from eBay, I immediately started firmware updates. I found out too late that the secondary update path i used would load the wrong network adapter firmware(intended for same model 10th gen). It would lock up during boot. Found the specific weird combination of "chakra hand gestures" to make it jump past the failure point so I could install the right firmware.
Nerd mode: it is ok to update firmware with the HPE SPP iso and also update the "intelligent provisioning" feature, just don't let intelligent provisioning do the network firmware update it over the spp's one.
nikinnorge
yep. that's about right. it's so much easier now. when i was a kid, we borrowed books from the library and had to actually read theory and shit. crazy.
Snipsuper
back in my day, I obeyed the rule of not getting external help on my CS assignments... not to mention that stackoverflow was barely a thing...
did it make me a better programmer? no... but man i wish i had google like this then
nimeton0
Started with a bunch of blank card stock, data entry on the 029 Keypunch machine, then run the set of cards through the 056 Verifier machine, and in to the room-sized Processing machine. While it was running the program, grabbed a plugboard control panel and a bunch of patch cords to set up the printer for the desired output. Kids today have no idea what it was like.
bippityboppitybuttsex
I am a Cisco CCIE (a fancy tech cert with a number and everything), my abilities are solely based on my ability to google the error message...
HeresYourSauce
That's really the trick of a lot of things.
I think a lot of people think smart people are some kind of special, like you're born smart, and also that they weren't. At best you're born with a desire to look things up.
It's never to late to learn.
PenguinNamedWobbles
Or they just stole tech from someone else and pretended like it was their own. Like bill gates taking Doug Engelbarts windows based operating system with a mouse and calling it his own. Or when Daniel Bricklen invented spreadsheets and Gates took that as well and patented it. I mean it seems more like success is waiting around to see if you can patent something someone else chooses not too, naively thinking it will becomes developed freeware. Tldr 86 dos as well.
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
See I find people have talents, but not in the way most think. Like compared to most my family, I'm REALLY good with computers. But it's not because I woke up one day and just magically knew about computers. It's more like an itch in my head got scratched when first messing with computers so I just dove into learning about them. I feel as though everyone has that itch, they just have to find it. On the reverse end, I'm bad at art and no matter how much I push myself, I don't "scratch that itch"
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
tl;dr: talent in my mind is you being naturally attracted to wanting to pursue and learn more about a thing vs you struggling to learn about a thing no matter how much effort is put in.
gilliamv
I have an HP DL380 gen9 server. When it arrived(amazingly dent free) from eBay, I immediately started firmware updates. I found out too late that the secondary update path i used would load the wrong network adapter firmware(intended for same model 10th gen). It would lock up during boot. Found the specific weird combination of "chakra hand gestures" to make it jump past the failure point so I could install the right firmware.
gilliamv
Nerd mode: it is ok to update firmware with the HPE SPP iso and also update the "intelligent provisioning" feature, just don't let intelligent provisioning do the network firmware update it over the spp's one.
evilspock
Learning by doing is highly effective if the cost of failure is low.
I learned by typing in video games from magazines, then modding them. Low risk, fairly high reward for a kid. It was super effective!
nikinnorge
me too. it made me push deeper over time. i remember my first experiments editing Gorillas and nibble in qbasic, even. so fun.