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    Frank Kerrigan
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    I've some old programing books / software etc... that I will never look use, Is there a charity that I can donate them to too help education in the 3rd world ?

    Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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      I've some old programing books / software etc... that I will never look use, Is there a charity that I can donate them to too help education in the 3rd world ?

      Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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      Paul Watson
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      How old? (I am from a third world country.)

      regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

      Shog9 wrote:

      I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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        How old? (I am from a third world country.)

        regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

        Shog9 wrote:

        I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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        Frank Kerrigan
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        Big mix VB6 5 off .NET 1.0/1.1 MCAD traing books 3 off SQL server 6.5/2000 2 off Windows 2000 Linux Perl There are about 15-20 books all in

        Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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          Big mix VB6 5 off .NET 1.0/1.1 MCAD traing books 3 off SQL server 6.5/2000 2 off Windows 2000 Linux Perl There are about 15-20 books all in

          Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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          Frank Kerrigan
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          Sure I'm some C# and C++ as well.

          Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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            Big mix VB6 5 off .NET 1.0/1.1 MCAD traing books 3 off SQL server 6.5/2000 2 off Windows 2000 Linux Perl There are about 15-20 books all in

            Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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            Bradml
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            send me the perl one, I have an opening in my fireplace.


            Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

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              send me the perl one, I have an opening in my fireplace.


              Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

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              Frank Kerrigan
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              lol...... :-D

              Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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                Big mix VB6 5 off .NET 1.0/1.1 MCAD traing books 3 off SQL server 6.5/2000 2 off Windows 2000 Linux Perl There are about 15-20 books all in

                Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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                Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                Most of the Third Wolrd countries are now advanced at least in the area of computers, so your books will be outdated there too. Even if you were to send it to some third world country you will have to pay a lot to ship. So the best thing you can do is to send these books for recycling.

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                  Big mix VB6 5 off .NET 1.0/1.1 MCAD traing books 3 off SQL server 6.5/2000 2 off Windows 2000 Linux Perl There are about 15-20 books all in

                  Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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                  Paul Watson
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                  Cool, those aren't that old and still pretty relevant (I would have loved a .NET MCAD book back home when I got out of school. They cost a fortune.) They are probably more relevant for those coming out of high school though, going into college or uni. Books For Africa[^] might help.

                  regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                  Shog9 wrote:

                  I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                    Most of the Third Wolrd countries are now advanced at least in the area of computers, so your books will be outdated there too. Even if you were to send it to some third world country you will have to pay a lot to ship. So the best thing you can do is to send these books for recycling.

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                    Paul Watson
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                    I have to disagree with you, Rama. I asked him the age of the books because I feared he had a pile of DOS 5 manuals or QBASIC books. Instead he has .NET, VB6 (still widely used), Linux (not much has changed), Windows 2000 (loads of W2K boxes still around) and so on. India might be well advanced but most of Africa isn't. Those kinds of books will do well even in my home country of South Africa.

                    regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

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                    I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                      send me the perl one, I have an opening in my fireplace.


                      Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

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                      Rajesh R Subramanian
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                      :laugh: It must be the anti-humor officers giving you 1.


                      Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்ம குரு

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                        I have to disagree with you, Rama. I asked him the age of the books because I feared he had a pile of DOS 5 manuals or QBASIC books. Instead he has .NET, VB6 (still widely used), Linux (not much has changed), Windows 2000 (loads of W2K boxes still around) and so on. India might be well advanced but most of Africa isn't. Those kinds of books will do well even in my home country of South Africa.

                        regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                        Shog9 wrote:

                        I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                        Rajesh R Subramanian
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                        Paul Watson wrote:

                        I feared he had a pile of DOS 5 manuals or QBASIC books.

                        :laugh:


                        Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்ம குரு

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                          :laugh: It must be the anti-humor officers giving you 1.


                          Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero ப்ரம்ம குரு

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                          Paul Watson
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                          I've got a perl book on my desk, it is invaluable. Lot of perl code out there.

                          regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                          Shog9 wrote:

                          I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                            Cool, those aren't that old and still pretty relevant (I would have loved a .NET MCAD book back home when I got out of school. They cost a fortune.) They are probably more relevant for those coming out of high school though, going into college or uni. Books For Africa[^] might help.

                            regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                            Shog9 wrote:

                            I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                            Frank Kerrigan
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                            Thanks I've dropped them an email.

                            Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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                              I have to disagree with you, Rama. I asked him the age of the books because I feared he had a pile of DOS 5 manuals or QBASIC books. Instead he has .NET, VB6 (still widely used), Linux (not much has changed), Windows 2000 (loads of W2K boxes still around) and so on. India might be well advanced but most of Africa isn't. Those kinds of books will do well even in my home country of South Africa.

                              regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                              Shog9 wrote:

                              I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                              Bradml
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                              I had forgotten you were south African. You guys don't have it too bad out there, just you have the equivalent to no internet.


                              Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

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                                I had forgotten you were south African. You guys don't have it too bad out there, just you have the equivalent to no internet.


                                Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

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                                Paul Watson
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                                Living in Ireland though :)

                                regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                                Shog9 wrote:

                                I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                                  I have to disagree with you, Rama. I asked him the age of the books because I feared he had a pile of DOS 5 manuals or QBASIC books. Instead he has .NET, VB6 (still widely used), Linux (not much has changed), Windows 2000 (loads of W2K boxes still around) and so on. India might be well advanced but most of Africa isn't. Those kinds of books will do well even in my home country of South Africa.

                                  regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                                  Shog9 wrote:

                                  I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.

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                                  brianwelsch
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                                  Paul Watson wrote:

                                  QBASIC books

                                  hehe... we just inherited a QBASIC product recently from a company we bought. Thankfully, I've almost nothing to do with that project. We also have customers who still run DOS on their systems and we support them. All this in the sparkling 1st world.

                                  BW


                                  Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand.
                                  Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
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                                  • F Frank Kerrigan

                                    I've some old programing books / software etc... that I will never look use, Is there a charity that I can donate them to too help education in the 3rd world ?

                                    Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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                                    Steve Mayfield
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                                    you might try your local library... Steve

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                                    • F Frank Kerrigan

                                      Big mix VB6 5 off .NET 1.0/1.1 MCAD traing books 3 off SQL server 6.5/2000 2 off Windows 2000 Linux Perl There are about 15-20 books all in

                                      Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http:\\www.frankkerrigan.com

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                                      thequux
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                                      Ermmm... those ain't that old. Or, at least not compared to some of mine... the Clipper manual, Win3.1 manual, Assembly language programming for the 8086... Now, I can't say that I've used the first two recently. But, the assembly book is (along with the x86 manuals) indespensible, especially in real mode.

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