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Hey,

Off-topic! Off-topic! Off-topic!

Solar wrote:(I learned Basic at the age of 11, and that was still plenty early.)

IMHO, 12 is about the right age to learn to program, in mostly basic languages (pun intended). Anything earlier than that, and it sort of looks like stupidity to me.

On-topic! On-topic! On-topic!

Since I'm usually the one who is clicking photographs in my house, I lack any recent photograph of me (the last one was taken in 2005, when I was 7 - would that do?). Moreover, I lack any web-cams. The closest that I can get is, perhaps, http://www.assault.it/wp-content/upload ... /alien.jpg

Regards,
Shikhin!

In this day and age of digital cameras, camera phones, smart phones, family and friends using Facebook, laptops with integrated webcams, etc - I'm surprised so many people say they don't have a recent photo. I guess you're just bashful

MessiahAndrw wrote:I guess you're just bashful

Perhaps?

Geeks fall into two camps. The ones that love the really old hardware, and the ones that love the really new (dare I say it, I'm in both

CWood wrote:Geeks fall into two camps. The ones that love the really old hardware, and the ones that love the really new (dare I say it, I'm in both

You can probably see which camp I fall into just by looking at my signature. (By the way my current computer is fastest I have)

CWood wrote:Geeks fall into two camps. The ones that love the really old hardware, and the ones that love the really new (dare I say it, I'm in both

I guess I'm slowly falling out of the "geek" category, then, since I entered the "good enough" stage, with hardware ranging between a Celeron and a I2C T6550...

Then again, I have a JayBook 9901 running Debian and a self-written app to help be gamemastering my Rolemaster campaign (including MP3 playlist handling), and will soon set up a Raspberry Pi to act as a home firewall / net nanny, so there's hope I won't fall into the "boring" category all that soon. Besides, most of the time when I'm looking for a casual game, I'm firing up Vice to fly a round of Elite or somesuch...

As for photos... this here shows me, two years ago, cheering the local football club. Top row, just in front of the jacket hanging from the fence.

CWood wrote:Geeks fall into two camps. The ones that love the really old hardware, and the ones that love the really new (dare I say it, I'm in both

same here. i've got stuff like the osborne 1 and the IBM 5150 alongside octo- and quad-cores.

reading some of these posts, i flat-out can't believe how young some of you are and getting into OS development! crazy. wtf 10 and 12 year olds.

Yeah it is easier now compared to when I was that age (I'm 29) to find information on how to build an operating system but I do not believe it would be possible for them to grasp anything of it. Have anyone of them actually made something that works? That would surprise me.

Well, might as well join the bandwagon.



Gods, now that I look at it, I look young in that photo. Might have something to do with the camera angles (*note* replace that with a new pic)

@Jezze
I started when I was 15 iirc, it's kinda amazing what I've done in the invervening 6 years.

amd64pager wrote:I am not allowed to post any images of my own,but you can know that I am 10.(Learnt C at the age of 6)

Off topic to be On topic to the off topic-ness of this topic

Ill start teaching my kid physics the second hes out of the womb. Ill have you all beat.


Waiting for the lightening to strike in the background.

Hi,

Jezze wrote:I do not believe it would be possible for them to grasp anything of it.

Lies!

Regards,
Shikhin

Jezze wrote:Yeah it is easier now compared to when I was that age (I'm 29) to find information on how to build an operating system but I do not believe it would be possible for them to grasp anything of it. Have anyone of them actually made something that works? That would surprise me.

I made realmode mutitasking OS in assembly. Now I am writing microkernel in 286 protected mode.

JuEeHa wrote:I made realmode mutitasking OS in assembly. Now I am writing microkernel in 286 protected mode.

I put my hands to the sky and a tornado came down on all i hated. Ate their animals too.

Was it just an OS that had two functions running simultaneously. Speak to either of us when you have driver support of your own, Full FAT12/16 support, Memory management, and soon a 386 extender. The task swapper and its process handling functions i wrote in 3 hours.


Im not bragging, my point being, its not just multitasking.
And i would add the size in kloc but no one cares about that.

@JuEeHa: Ok I'm impressed and you obviously proved me wrong. =)

@VolTeK: Why are you bashing at someone so young? Do you steal candy from little kids too?