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Originally Posted by Perderabo

Why not? If I wanted to travel or teach theology, that is what I would be doing NOW. I would not wait until I'm 70+ to finally enter my chosen field. I entered my chosen field at age 15. I actually would be interested to hear how you selected your path. It seems as odd as the reverse...wanting to be in IT, but spending a few decades studying and teaching theology first.

I take a hiatus every 20 years or so and I'm on one now. But I plan to resume my career next year and work past age 70. And winning the lottery tomorrow would not change that. So I plan to be working at age 71 for sure. I do plan to retire sometime during my 70's, but I will continue to use computers as a user and a hobbyist. And I see no reason that I could not be a contributing member of this forum past age 100 (umm, well, ...assuming the forum survives that long).

Don't get me wrong on my current focus versus what I look forward to doing. I am working in my chosen field and, like you, I have been in this field since my mid teens (with a short suspension while trying to figure out what to do with my life at the age of 18). I thouroughly enjoy computer related activities, both from a work perspective as well as a hobiest perspective.

While I would love to be fishing or traveling Europe right now, I can't pay my bills that way. Shifting focus entirely into theological study and, some day, perhaps teaching, is a strong desire for me. I haven't persued that as a formal course of study with a change in carreers in mind to date simply because my life activities don't afford me the time that I know I will likely impose upon myself to get where I'd like to be. The books that I buy and read now days are related to theology versus computer science but I still look forward to updating my library of UNIX scripting (shell/awk/sed/Perl) and Oracle books next year some time.

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AGE(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    AGE(4)

NAME

     age -- Attansic L1 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device

SYNOPSIS

     age* at pci?
     atphy* at mii?

DESCRIPTION

     The age driver provides support for Ethernet interfaces based on the Attansic L1 Ethernet chipset.

     The age driver supports IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload and VLAN tag insertion and stripping.

     The following media types are supported:

     autoselect  Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
     10baseT	 Set 10Mbps operation.
     100baseTX	 Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
     1000baseT	 Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.

     For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).	To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
     ifconfig <device> media.  For example, ifconfig age0 media.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), atphy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The age device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.5.  It was then ported to NetBSD 5.1.

AUTHORS

     The age driver was written by Pyun YongHyeon for FreeBSD, ported to OpenBSD by Kevin Lo <kevlo@OpenBSD.org> then ported to NetBSD by
     Christoph Egger <cegger@NetBSD.org>.

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