[PD] Gem: can't load library

[Thomas Mayer]

padawan12 wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:03:39 -0500 (EST)
> Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
>> When I was born, "manual" was all about punching holes in cardboard and 
>> feeding it to the card-reader. However, when I actually started 
>> programming, "manual" was about having to press Play at the same time and 
>> listen to the sound of files recorded at 600 bauds, and pressing 
>> Fast-Forward to skip over them, and having to listen to the files to count 
>> how many had been skipped over and reading the sleeve to make sure I got 
>> to the right file. It was not as manual as splicing tapes though.
>>
>> I mean, one should marvel at how much something like dpkg is automatic :)
> 
> 
> You lucky bastard. We had suck the air out of vacuum tubes using our own breath.
> And we were grateful!
> 
> :)

You lucky bastard! Where I grew up, we had no air and had to live on
anaerobic muscle work ;)

cu Thomas
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