cjsmith: (cjre joe2)
cjsmith ([personal profile] cjsmith) wrote2002-03-28 01:46 pm

YEAH!

In my zombielike state I am at least productive. THE BOOT LOADER WORKS!

[identity profile] yoak.livejournal.com 2002-03-28 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's even cooler than I imagined. Somehow I took it that your boot loader was messed up as a user, which doesn't often happen, and that you fixed it, which happens even more rarely.

But this is cool. Yea for geek girlz! ;-)

The stuff you do is all greek to me. I consider C a "low-level" language. ;-) You hardware types scare me and I hold you in awe.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2002-03-28 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's even cooler than I imagined. Somehow I took it that your boot loader was messed up as a user, which doesn't often happen, and that you fixed it, which happens even more rarely.

That's way too studly for me. I don't have the patience to understand systems designed by other people, much less fix their buggy code :-)

The stuff you do is all greek to me. I consider C a "low-level" language. ;-) You hardware types scare me and I hold you in awe.

Fortunately the hardware is well-documented and I don't have to write much assembly. People who actually MAKE hardware... I hold them in awe. On the other hand, I also hold anyone who can make a decent software user interface in awe, too, no matter how high-level the language. In short -- competence in whatever area is GOOD. Um, except for advertising. ;-)

What do you do?

[identity profile] yoak.livejournal.com 2002-03-28 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
My understanding and feelings about low-level systems are perfectly encapsulated by the fact that I implied you were a "hardware" person. Even if you don't make it or even use assembly, at least you only have a couple of layers of abstraction between you and 0-5 volts. I'm more comfortable with about 12 levels of systems below me that I just expect to work.

I develop web applications with mod_perl / Oracle on Linux right now for CitySearch.com . Specifically, I'm in charge of the real estate site (http://realestate.citysearch.com/).

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2002-03-28 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooo cool! Pretty maps! Decent ui! Nice houses... um.... mumble... I feel broke now :-)