Desktop computer

[Brooke]

On 2000 most of the linux distros were still for hardcore users only

I bought my first linux cd in 1998, Caldera linux. I didn't even have a broadband connection at that time. It wasn't as easy as the distros now if you know what I mean

 

I remember playing around (only a very small amount, though) with MINIX when it first came out.

Also, I remember using Xenix.  Man, what a monstrosity that was to install and get running.

Compared to that, OS/2 was a breeze, and it had everything I wanted:  excellent stability, protected memory, multitasking, batch language, low resource needs, and could still run DOS apps very well (like Air Warrior, which I used to run on it).

[gyrene81]

can i come work with you? i've been trying to learn something as simple as regex for the past 4 years and unless i see it in an existing structure, i just can't grasp it all. it's like algebra was in high school, who the hell decided x=10 when y was zero, and how the hell am i supposed to know when to use "$/|\(+)[^]"?  

[Brooke]

can i come work with you? i've been trying to learn something as simple as regex for the past 4 years and unless i see it in an existing structure, i just can't grasp it all. it's like algebra was in high school, who the hell decided x=10 when y was zero, and how the hell am i supposed to know when to use "$/|\(+)[^]"?  

   The company that I most recently formed is a very small one (7 people currently).  We have only a couple of software folks (including me) for machine control and bioinformatics (no web development in this one currently).

Regex is very messy looking in my opinion, too, and was never a specialty of mine.

[wpeters]

What does your company do?

[Brooke]

What does your company do?

We build customer-specified sequences of DNA on semiconductor chips, and equipment for doing that.  The technology is used in fields related to biological research and diagnostics (to read what a person's sequence of DNA is) and synthetic biology (such as making synthetic genes).

[gyrene81]

We build customer-specified sequences of DNA on semiconductor chips, and equipment for doing that.  The technology is used in fields related to biological research and diagnostics (to read what a person's sequence of DNA is) and synthetic biology (such as making synthetic genes).

wouldn't happen to be called cyberdyne systems...would it?