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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Rob Beard wrote:
Neil Stone wrote:<4 Yorkshiremen>You compile your compiler, when I were a lad I used to polarize the individual bits on my discs, by hand, in the dark with nothing but the earth's magnetic field </4 Yorkshiremen>Roland Tarver wrote:On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:The first thing I tend to do it disable anything that's going to steal my resources.. then I recompile everything, after turning off the stuff I don't want.. but that's just Gentoo for ya..Sounds good to me Neil. I have much to learn before I can do that myself. But I will... best wishes rolyManual pages included.. in fairness the documentation is much much better than it used to be.. the fun bit comes when you assemble your assembler and compile your compiler, oh and link your linker.. and wget wget etc..etc..
Discs? You had discs? Luxury! When I wur a lad, we had to memorize binary instruction set and use our teeth to puch paper tape ...
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