#148389 - 2005-09-22 10:38 PM
Your First Time?
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iffy
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Registered: 2005-05-29
Posts: 149
Loc: The Netherlands
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Just the other day I was thinking when I started using KiX, as close as I could trace back it was autumn 1996. Just wondering what the other board members first time was.
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#148391 - 2005-09-22 11:13 PM
Re: Your First Time?
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iffy
Starting to like KiXtart
Registered: 2005-05-29
Posts: 149
Loc: The Netherlands
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Luckily I largely missed doing sysadmin stuff with non NT machines. Earlier that year in 1996 the company I worked at had almost completely migrated to NT4 and I picked up from the parting sysadmin in a relatively virgin environment. A few years later I left and handed my work over to Mart who's been there until very recently.
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#148394 - 2005-09-23 09:02 AM
Re: Your First Time?
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iffy
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Registered: 2005-05-29
Posts: 149
Loc: The Netherlands
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Well, I was born in 1971 but I'm very sure my mom wasn't nowhere near Montreal that year 
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#148395 - 2005-09-23 09:22 AM
Re: Your First Time?
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NTDOC
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Registered: 2000-07-28
Posts: 11631
Loc: CA
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He said IN A 1971 Volkswagen, not in the YEAR 1971. Shawn was probably only about 8 years old in 1971. Just about the time he was finding himself (so to speak) 
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#148402 - 2005-09-23 12:52 PM
Re: Your First Time?
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iffy
Starting to like KiXtart
Registered: 2005-05-29
Posts: 149
Loc: The Netherlands
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Quote:
Aah a continental misunderstanding... In Europe we don't use the year of build if we talk about cars..
The same is for distances... Yankees and Canucks tend to refer to distances in time instead of clicks as in Europe. So much even that most North Americans I've met during my vacation only have a vague idea about the actual distance from A to B but they can with a fair amount of accuracy tell you how long it will take you.
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#148404 - 2005-09-23 02:38 PM
Re: Your First Time?
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burnsc
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Registered: 2004-04-14
Posts: 171
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My first kixing experience was most likely around 1998. I was at another job then. And I only dabbled trying to make a script that was really more intended to be a full blown program (I was too inexperienced to realize that at the time though). Because I could not get what I wanted to work, I moved on.
Then around 2002, I was trying to script something and in my searching I ran across kix again. I don't remember why, but that did not hold then either.
Finally in 2003, the company I worked for was bought out by another company they did a lot of 'basic' kixing. I looked back into it and found it could do a lot of what I was needing it for at the time(main purpose of logon and administration stuff).
Then it took me about a year to get around to actually useing the board.(it felt like a year anyway  ). After that I really started discovering what kix could do. I think I am probably the most advanced kix scripter in my corporation. They seem to have been focusing on winbatch, etc recently, and they are not to partial to 'community' on boards. Outside company communication is discouraged, etc.. I really think they miss a LOT because of that. Best to use any resource you can to learn  (imho)
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#148405 - 2005-09-23 02:48 PM
Re: Your First Time?
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maciep
Korg Regular
Registered: 2002-06-14
Posts: 947
Loc: Pittsburgh
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Mine was back in '02 sometime. I was trying to automate some tasks for our Inventory software. I was going to use c++, but a guy that i now work with sold me on kix. And i've been kiXing ever since.
Oh and i found this on our boot disk (that he wrote). I think it's a piece of decision code for a menu using kix dos. Talk about job security...
Code:
:jump
get $jump
while $jump <> '3' and ($jump < '1' or $jump > '2')
if $jump = '7'or '8' or '9'
get $jump
if $jump = '7' or '8' or '9'
goto 1
endif
endif
GOTO jump
loop
if $jump = '2'
goto end
endif
if $jump = '3'
goto 3
endif
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#148406 - 2005-09-23 03:09 PM
Re: Your First Time?
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burnsc
Starting to like KiXtart
Registered: 2004-04-14
Posts: 171
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Well it is definitely a user input processor. A menu could seem very likely (esp in the old dos days with numbers). I seem to think that the code could be a bit more optimized though. But I admit my lack knowledge of the older kix operational dynamics.
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#148407 - 2005-09-23 03:17 PM
Re: Your First Time?
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iffy
Starting to like KiXtart
Registered: 2005-05-29
Posts: 149
Loc: The Netherlands
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Summary so far for those of us who love stats
Code:
1996 Co
1996 iffy
1998 burnsc
1999 Jooel
1999 Shawn
2000 masken
2002 maciep
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#148408 - 2005-09-23 03:34 PM
Re: Your First Time?
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burnsc
Starting to like KiXtart
Registered: 2004-04-14
Posts: 171
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GEESH - I beat Shawn on a start time basis.
He flat kills me on community involvement though. 
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