ddrueding
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A more amazing multi-personality post-padder I have never seen...
sechs said:Fast fact: The banana tree is an herb.
Tea said:I hate bananaz!
CityK said:me, myself, and i
that was a stirring rendition. You made Harry proud.
Unfortunately, I've been too busy to spend much time here, and I'll be helping my friend who owns a taximeter shop with the rate change coming to the city taxis for the next three weeks so I won't be around much, if at all, after around next Monday. Don't despair. I should be back sometime in mid-May unless I croak from working that many hours.Tea said:Hell, it'z so quiet around here these last few dayz that I'd nearly value a nice long chat with a banana. Or possibly a mango.
Handruin said:Does anyone one else ever feel like they stumble onto a problem, wade through hours of searching for reading material to a solution, and when you get done learning about the problem, you're just to tired afterwards to fix it? Well, I go through this all the time, and I'm growing tired of not knowing so many things. Once I learn something new, my brain doesn't like to remember it...I would like my memory to be better, it pisses me off sometimes.
mubs said:What's going to become more and more important is not knowing all this stuff, but knowing where to find the info, and to have the ability to learn on-the-fly, what you need to know, when you need to know. Just-in-time learning. Unless humans end up with boulder-sized brains, there's no other way to cope.
Mercutio said:The other side to that is that I've been overqualified for every job I've ever had. It's not a big deal, and I like the work that I do, but I've never been someplace where my work has actually been challenging.
You could be describing me.ddrueding said:This is what I've been doing my whole life. I've never gone into a job qualified to do it.
mubs said:A bit o' luck, lots of serendipity and foolhardy guts. When I've been down and out, I've taken whatever I could, trusting my instinct that I was not getting way in over my head.
I won't give you my standard "AS/400 is better than everything else" speech, even though it is. But I will say that there are AS/400 resources all over the place online. And I don't mean IBM's site, although it is getting better. Feel free to PM me if you run into any specific questions. Or go to midrange.com and subscribe to an ML or 2. Or attend an IBM Technical Conference or a COMMON conference and you can learn a ton.ddrueding said:Exactly...everything but the instinct part. I just say yes. I currently have an AS/400 under my control, but I'm phasing it out as I have no idea how to work it.
IBM does a fine job of marketing the system within the installed user base. We get plenty of info regarding upgrade paths, OS products, etc.mubs said:One thing that has always amazed me is IBM's inept marketing. The 400 has to be one of the best kept secrets in the computing world.
ddrueding said:Things aren't going well for me lately, I'll be back later.