Mada ne mogu da zamislim zašto bi neko hteo da zna nešto o meni (moj nickname je patETIC...), ispisaćemo i tu par redaka, to tako treba.

JaAboutMe

Dakle: Ja sam, kao što rekoh, Goran Aleksić. Rodjen u januaru. U porodilištu. Kao da je juče bilo... Biografije kao što je moja i nisu za mesta kao sto je WWW.

Nisam tajni agent, pa mi dosadno pisati ono što mi posle dosadno čitati. blablabla... i onda sam nabavio svoj prvi kompjuter... Bila je to moćna mašina - Commodore64+. Ne mogu sebe da računam baš u pionire - nabavio sam ga kada je koštao 550 DeM.

Koji je to igranjac bio... Pokušavam da se setim igara: LodeRunner, CouldronII, Turbo250:), LeaderBord Golf, Pool, Super Nudge, Batty, (Elite i SimmCity mi nisu radili)... Žvrljuckao sam programčiće u Basicu. Kasnije sam nabavio ketridž sa Simon's Basicom...

Ovim sto pišem se nisam bacio u sevdah il' potragu za srodnim dušama (omiljeni film mi je Let iznad Kukavičjeg gnezda...), no hoću da kažem da smatram sebe umereno obaveštenim laikom kada su ove kompjuterske stvari u pitanju. A zašto ja to hoću da kažem?

Pa zato sto hoću ustvari nešto drugo da kažem, a to je - malo mi je čudno gde se obresmo prateći mesiju Billa Gatesa. Jer, nalazimo se u svetu GigaBajta i bližimo se GigaHercu, posedujemo ili su nam dostupne mašine koje smo pre nekoliko godina mogli samo da sanjamo ili - koje nismo ni sanjali da ce postojati i biti nam dostupne.

Zvali smo kompjuterom i Commodore koji ima 64 kB, a danas mislim da većina sebi može da priušti HDisk koji je više od sto hiljada puta veći od tih 64 kB, medjutim - utisak mi je da ne koristimo sto hiljada puta bolje programe. A malo sam se razočarao i kad sam uporedio brzinu 486DX4 na 100 MHz sa brzinom Commodora 64. Test program u QBasicu mi je na PCu radio samo 24.8 puta brže nego Basic V2 na Commodoreu.

Jurnjava za megabajtima čipova, gigabajtima diskova koje i kad stignemo ubrzo nam budu nedovoljni za normalan rad, zbog paralelne jurnjave za softwareom su, dozvol'te da se tako izrazim, dovoljan pokazatelj da Bill i njegovi saradnici vrlo dobro znaju sta rade, što se za mene baš i ne bi moglo reći. Jedva uspevam da ubedim sebe u to da moj c:\windows\system mora da ima toliko megabajta koliko ima i toliko tolikih dinamic link librariesa i jos čega ne - ne smem svaki put ni da pogledam.

Sve imam neki utisak da će da se pojavi neki Rus, Japanac ili neki naočarac sa Karaburme - nezavisni SoftverMesija, koji će da napiše Windowse koji zauzimaju 1.5 MByte, a rade brže i bolje od ovih koje upotrebljavamo, da ne kažem i onu drugu, suprotnu rec. Zar ti programi ne mogu da budu mašinskiji i kompajliraniji, tj. manji nego sto jesu?

Bilo kako bilo, onih 64 kB koliko ukupno ima Commodore, mi je tada bilo sasvim dovoljno. Kad ti treba program - sedneš pa ga napišeš. Probao sam da napišem Word for Windows, pa sam odustao...

Ovaj HoumPejdž (prošlu verziju...) sam radio u Notepadu (Win3.11). Uz malu pomoć mojih prijatelja...

Na primer, moj drug Charlie je dizajner i zadužen je za dizajn. Ja njega pitam za sve, ali na kraju uradim kako ja hoću. Tako je Charlie i počeo da se interesuje za kliničku psihijatriju...

Lektorski deo posla na ovom HomePageu je obavio gospodin Vitomir M. Brković iz Večernjih novosti. Ako nešto nije u redu, to je zato što ja 'oću da bude kako ja 'oću. Izvini ujo, ja malo...

Englesku polovinu ovog HomePagea započesmo gospodin Srdjan Mitić i mister Ja. I mister Ja se tu zamrsim u lavirinte engleskog jezika. A onda se pojavila Cinderella... i kad je sat otkucao ponoć - ja sam imao ingliš veržn. I staklenu cipelicu...

Na ovom mestu moram da pomenem i gospodina Elma Ivy-a i da mu zahvalim na freewareu koji mi se pokazao vrlo korisnim.

Program je BMP, GIF i JPEG viewer, ako se to tako kaže. Često mi se dešavalo da ne mogu da vidim neki .gif ili .jpg u jednom programu nego moram da ga otvaram u drugom ako i on moze da ga prikaze. Sada je to redji slucaj - odkad koristim msherc.exe. Program je namenjen nama koji koristimo Hercules monochrome monitor.

To bi bili tih par redaka AboutMe.

Though I can't imagine why anyone would want to know anything about me (my nickname is pathETIC...), I'll scribble down a few lines, it seems to be the standard procedure:

AboutMe

As I said, I am Goran Aleksic. Born in January. In a maternity hospital. Seems only yesterday... Perhaps the biographies like mine are not meant for WWW sites.

It's not that I'm a secret agent, but it bores me to write what I will be bored to read. blahblahblah... and then, I got my first computer... It was a mean machine - Commodore64+. Can't say I was truly a pioneer. I bought it when it was 550 DEM.

What a game it was! Tryin' to recall some games: LodeRunner, CouldronII, Turbo250:), LeaderBord Golf, Pool, SuperNudge, Batty, (Elite and SimmCity didn't work)... I was scribbling some programs in Basic. Later on, I got Simon's Basic unit...

I'm not getting sentimental really, nor am I looking for a soul mate (by the way, my favorite movie is DeerHunter). I only want to say that I see myself as a moderately informed laymen where computer stuff is concerned. And why am I saying this?

Because I really want to say something else. It's little weird where all this following Bill Gates the Guru has got us. We live in a world of gigaBytes, moving toward the gigaHertz, we own or can obtain the machines we could only have dreamt of some years ago - or we never dreamed of.

We called Commodore 64 a computer, and nowadays most of us can afford a HDisk hundred thousand times greater than those 64 kB. But, I don't have the impression that we also use hundred thousand times better programs. And I was a bit disappointed when I compared the speed of 486DX4 with 100 MHz to the speed of Commodore 64. The test program in Qbasic ran only 24.8 times faster then Basic V2 on Commodore.

This chase after RAM megabytes, disk gigabytes runs in vicious circles. No sooner are they gotten, but they turn out inadequate for normal work on account of the concurrent chase after new software. Which only goes to show that, unlike me, Bill&Co. know very well what they're doing.

I find it difficult to believe that my c:\windows\system must have as many megabytes as it does, and as many (a great many...) dynamic link libraries and whatnot - it scares me to check how much it's got.

I keep hoping that a Russian guy, a Japanese, a Cleverinsky from Budjanovci, Yu, a free-lance SoftwareMessiah, will come up with Windows which will occupy 1.5 MB and will run faster. Couldn't those programs be more compiled and take up less space?

Anyway, those 64 kB Commodore had were good enough to me. When you needed a program - you wrote it. I tried to write Word for Windows, but I gave up...

This Homepage (previous version...) was made in Notepad (Win3.11). With a little help of my friends...

For example, my friend Charlie is a designer. First I ask him for advice and then I go and do as I wish. That's how Charlie got interested in clinical psychiatry...

The reader of this Homepage was Mr. Vitomir M. Brkovic from Vecernje novosti. If there's something wrong, I'm the one wot done it. Sorry nuncle...

The English half of this Homepage was first undertaken by Mr Srdjan Mitic and Yours Truly.

Yours Truly sort of got lost in the maze of English syntax. Then Cinderella showed up... and when the clock struck midnight - I had the English version. And the glass slipper...

Here I must mention Mr. Elmo Ivy and thank him for the freeware program which proved very useful to me.

It enables the previews of BMP, GIF and JPEG images. I was often unable to view a *.gif or a *.jpg in one program, and had to start another one (or two) to open them. This no longer happens - since I use msherc.exe. The program is meant for those of us who have Hercules monochrome monitors.

This would be the few lines About Me.