Well damn, that's a real shame. When that site was up 'n running, it was such a great site. Yea, a lot of trolling on the front end, but behind that, there were some great technical posters that kept me coming back. Sadly, that death of that site means my world-famous chili recipe may also be gone. There was a call for chili recipes, I posted mine. Meat steamed in beer, no beans, and let the chili stew (ie ferment) overnight. Gawd-dam! was it good.
It was especially good, as I made it all completely up. Loosely based on my mom's recipe, but mostly a total fake-er-roo. Yet people made it, a lot of them. And they all loved it. Yep, I trolled K5 with a bogus chili recipe.
Then Rusty kept doing shit that made it no so much fun to visit as often. Then kept doing more of that shit that made it even less fun to visit. So I quit visiting. Other favorite sites have also disappeared: fuckedcompany.com and stilenetwork.com among them. At least http://everything2.com/ is still going, kind of.
When I switch from Republican registration to Democratic, it wasn't because I was 'in love with the DNC', but because the GOP had clearly become so 'bat shit crazy',
Then why go Democratic? There are other parties, even if minority. They are minority because people see the numbers and think that party is powerless. True, but it's self-fulfilling. It's like a perfectly great restaurant that's empty, and can't afford a decent advertising budget because it just doesn't have the traffic yet. I'm an old liberal Democrat that's in my mid-50's. I've watched my party go from the party of the people to just a bad clone of the "bad" guys, the Reagan-Bush area Republicans. Neither party has the morals or will to represent the people now. So I've gone over to the party that actually *is* the Democratic party of its golden age, the McGovern candidacy of the early 70's.
My party will probably never win anything not local, but I'll still put my vote there every time: The US Green Party.
I intend one day to haul out the old TRS-80 Model I and see if it still works. If not, I stand a really good chance of successfully repairing it myself, unlike most electronics released in the last couple of decades. (Of course, it's more likely to work than more recent equipment, if only because it predates the biggest capacitor-quality catastrophes.)
Yes, please do check for dry caps on that old mo-bo before powering it on! Even with the old cap-quality being much better 20+ years ago, it can still be a problem. And little is more disheartening that frying an antique mo-bo that probably would have worked fine with a few new caps on it. I say this as a proud owner of an ancient Kaypro 10 who's had to replace a few of its old caps to keep it humming. Gawd, the thrill of 9" green screen CP/M goodness!
Anyone who has ever cycled the slide on a semi auto can tell you that it's pretty much beyond a "child's" capability.
Hell, it's beyond my wife's capability. Admittedly, she's 65 with a growing osteoarthritis problem. But it's why I had to get her a nice little revolver for her self-defence EDC gun. Even the trigger on it starts to give her finger issues after a few shots, but she doesn't have to worry about racking it.
Same for Priuses, because it's either Aunt Marge or some granola-head hippy doing his "hyper-mileing" thing.
Actually a lot of company fleets use Priuses as their standard car. It's not just Aunt Marge or hippies, but even a lot of conservative companies. They're great cars with plenty of inside room, and when driven properly also get great gas mileage. While I was an on-site IT server repair tech, I was given a fleet Prius and absolutely *loved* driving the thing. By far the most comfortable car I've ever driven.
If you go to Orlando, you should visit Skycraft. You can spend a long time browsing in there.
Easy to find, just go "north" (actually west) on I-4 til you get to Fairbanks, look on the right for the building with a flying saucer and rocket on top. You're there!
And don't forget: if you see it and in any way think you'll want to buy it, take it with you! You will not find it there the next time.
I would guess that he did. It's fairly common here among locals to view most of Orange Blossom Trail south of 50 as a "wasteland". It's really not one of the nicer parts of town;
Actually, in years past, OBT going south of where it goes under I-4 to just about Sandlake Rd was referred to as "Orlando's Best Tourism." For all the strip joints and 'baudy houses' aka places where one could get sexually serviced. Now it's been considerably cleaned up, especially once OBT got widened. But do I remember when you almost had to run over the damn street walkers to drive down that road. Pretty sad...
Like the subject says, not often my home town gets a positive spin story. For all the complaints any local resident will have, this is still a pretty damn nice place to live and work.
But I find the location of the store odd: at Florida Mall, right near the tourist region. I guess they mean for this store to be shopped more by the tourists than residents. Those of us who live here don't usually go to that mall, unless they live relatively close to it. Seems like if they were selling more for residents, they would have put it more to the north of Orlando (Maitland, Altamonte, or Winter Park) or east (near UCF or Oviedo).
Somewhere in mid 92, playing around with the SLS disks I found on my favorite BBS. The sysop later posted the "new" Slackware disks, and I never looked back.
It was so great then, I could have a full Unix workstation and not pay a metric shit-ton of $$$ for media and license.
Pro business tip: try to get your clients to be completely truthful and upfront on the requirements, and find that half don't even know or have the slightest clue, and the other half will lie through their teeth, why I just don't know.
In fact, I was well into the installation when it was brought to my attention that the time clock app quit working. *That's* when I find out about the Java v6 issue, after the Java versioning was discussed at several meetings leading to the installation, and I've been mindlessly installing the Java v8 RT with medical office's complete knowledge and permission.
Note: I'm the IT support/installation vendor of one medical app, the one that requires Java v8, the time clock app that requires Java v6 is a completely separate vendor of human resources software which I have nothing to do with, other than to try to share non-compatible Java versions. The mutual client is a large public health clinic spread over a 60 mile radius.
Just so you know the whole story, and so can quit thinking yourself such a damn smarty-pants...
Seriously, I see no NEED for Java any more. I probably have more Silverlight things I like to use than I do Java, and neither are vital any more.
As much as I'd love for Java to be dead, that's as far from reality as you can possibly get and still be walking on terra firma. That's completely ignoring the corporate world, where Java is just as much a part of life as.net and IE compatibility. I don't like it, you don't like it, but it's still a fact of corporate life. I was just dealing with a large medical client yesterday whose big name time tracking app requires v6 (v6!) of Java, while our own medical app requires v8. And I've rarely gotten multiple versions of Java working on one workstation.
Personally I detest Java, too, and find it frustrating to program in, which is why I gave up Android app development. And slow, Java is slow as molasses in the depths of a winter snow storm. But there it is, still being used, and a lot, in the corporate world.
Someone working on Excel, a product used inside government agencies and nearly every major business, including secret unapproved features? Yeah, that's absolutely a fire-able offense.
Didn't at least Excel 97 include a striped down version of Flight Simulator? You had to open an empty spreadsheet, fill in some value at some specific cell, voila, you're flying around. I'm sure that including that Easter egg was approved by Excel development's management, but unless they had a government and/or business specific version of Excel, it was there for everyone to play with. Did anyone at a government agency or business get fired for playing it?
Fogerty's was a very sad case, indeed. It probably had less to do with a faintly similarly sounding song than with a perceived insult the president of of CCR's former record company felt over a solo song Fogerty wrote about how the president basically stole CCR's music catalog. It's why Fogerty didn't perform those old songs for so long, he didn't want to put money in that guy's pocket. Fogerty won all those cases against him, and later started doing CCR songs again.
As a long time resident of the Central Florida - Orlando area, I give you beautiful Lake Apopka.
Ah, once beautiful. It was the bass fishing capital of the South. Large clean lake, the tastiest bass you could ever catch. A virtual paradise before Disney.
Then WW2 happened, the top third of the lake was drained for war-time farming. Then the land was given over to the farmers, who loved their pesticides and fertilizers. All that flushed into the lake, freely and without restriction.
The fish, and everything else that depended on the fish, like the birds and the lake's fisherman, all died out. The lake turned into a huge sewer, almost completely bereft of any hint of life. On a hot August day, residents said you could smell the lake from downtown Orlando.
In the last twenty years, we've slowly brought the lake out of its catatonia, and life is starting to return. Birds have come again (at least two times, the birds were killed by the lake's poisonous muck), and there are fish, not bass, and not edible.
But to celebrate Lake Apopka becoming possibly beautiful and fishable, there's a nice proposal to build a large airport very near it. That won't scare the birds, we're advised.
Yes. When I think government service, I think good customer service. Then we would have the choice between an ISP that charges for carry on and another that is modeled after the DMV.
I don't know about your state or province (or whatever), and as a resident of Florida, I can certainly find a lot to complain about with my state's services. Our DMV is not one of them. Excellent and friendly service, in and out in minutes (beside a the small wait in the lobby), just an overal great experience from off all places, a freakin' state agency. As the guy ahead of me mentioned, my time with AT&T is nothing to compare with our DMV. A lot of companies could learn from them.
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Well damn, that's a real shame. When that site was up 'n running, it was such a great site. Yea, a lot of trolling on the front end, but behind that, there were some great technical posters that kept me coming back. Sadly, that death of that site means my world-famous chili recipe may also be gone. There was a call for chili recipes, I posted mine. Meat steamed in beer, no beans, and let the chili stew (ie ferment) overnight. Gawd-dam! was it good.
It was especially good, as I made it all completely up. Loosely based on my mom's recipe, but mostly a total fake-er-roo. Yet people made it, a lot of them. And they all loved it. Yep, I trolled K5 with a bogus chili recipe.
Then Rusty kept doing shit that made it no so much fun to visit as often. Then kept doing more of that shit that made it even less fun to visit. So I quit visiting. Other favorite sites have also disappeared: fuckedcompany.com and stilenetwork.com among them. At least http://everything2.com/ is still going, kind of.
What's a "union"
It's like an uncola, except for charged moieties...
When I switch from Republican registration to Democratic, it wasn't because I was 'in love with the DNC', but because the GOP had clearly become so 'bat shit crazy',
Then why go Democratic? There are other parties, even if minority. They are minority because people see the numbers and think that party is powerless. True, but it's self-fulfilling. It's like a perfectly great restaurant that's empty, and can't afford a decent advertising budget because it just doesn't have the traffic yet. I'm an old liberal Democrat that's in my mid-50's. I've watched my party go from the party of the people to just a bad clone of the "bad" guys, the Reagan-Bush area Republicans. Neither party has the morals or will to represent the people now. So I've gone over to the party that actually *is* the Democratic party of its golden age, the McGovern candidacy of the early 70's.
My party will probably never win anything not local, but I'll still put my vote there every time: The US Green Party.
I intend one day to haul out the old TRS-80 Model I and see if it still works. If not, I stand a really good chance of successfully repairing it myself, unlike most electronics released in the last couple of decades. (Of course, it's more likely to work than more recent equipment, if only because it predates the biggest capacitor-quality catastrophes.)
Yes, please do check for dry caps on that old mo-bo before powering it on! Even with the old cap-quality being much better 20+ years ago, it can still be a problem. And little is more disheartening that frying an antique mo-bo that probably would have worked fine with a few new caps on it. I say this as a proud owner of an ancient Kaypro 10 who's had to replace a few of its old caps to keep it humming. Gawd, the thrill of 9" green screen CP/M goodness!
Anyone who has ever cycled the slide on a semi auto can tell you that it's pretty much beyond a "child's" capability.
Hell, it's beyond my wife's capability. Admittedly, she's 65 with a growing osteoarthritis problem. But it's why I had to get her a nice little revolver for her self-defence EDC gun. Even the trigger on it starts to give her finger issues after a few shots, but she doesn't have to worry about racking it.
Same for Priuses, because it's either Aunt Marge or some granola-head hippy doing his "hyper-mileing" thing.
Actually a lot of company fleets use Priuses as their standard car. It's not just Aunt Marge or hippies, but even a lot of conservative companies. They're great cars with plenty of inside room, and when driven properly also get great gas mileage. While I was an on-site IT server repair tech, I was given a fleet Prius and absolutely *loved* driving the thing. By far the most comfortable car I've ever driven.
If you go to Orlando, you should visit Skycraft. You can spend a long time browsing in there.
Easy to find, just go "north" (actually west) on I-4 til you get to Fairbanks, look on the right for the building with a flying saucer and rocket on top. You're there!
And don't forget: if you see it and in any way think you'll want to buy it, take it with you! You will not find it there the next time.
> uses a desktop or laptop. Not a tablet in sight,
Except when maybe the desktop and/or laptop -is- a tablet. And vice-versa all three ways.
Now I'm all confusaled!...
You really think it's a good idea to use your amateur radio call sign as your Slashdot user name?
I would guess that he did. It's fairly common here among locals to view most of Orange Blossom Trail south of 50 as a "wasteland". It's really not one of the nicer parts of town;
Actually, in years past, OBT going south of where it goes under I-4 to just about Sandlake Rd was referred to as "Orlando's Best Tourism." For all the strip joints and 'baudy houses' aka places where one could get sexually serviced. Now it's been considerably cleaned up, especially once OBT got widened. But do I remember when you almost had to run over the damn street walkers to drive down that road. Pretty sad...
Like the subject says, not often my home town gets a positive spin story. For all the complaints any local resident will have, this is still a pretty damn nice place to live and work.
But I find the location of the store odd: at Florida Mall, right near the tourist region. I guess they mean for this store to be shopped more by the tourists than residents. Those of us who live here don't usually go to that mall, unless they live relatively close to it. Seems like if they were selling more for residents, they would have put it more to the north of Orlando (Maitland, Altamonte, or Winter Park) or east (near UCF or Oviedo).
Somewhere in mid 92, playing around with the SLS disks I found on my favorite BBS. The sysop later posted the "new" Slackware disks, and I never looked back.
It was so great then, I could have a full Unix workstation and not pay a metric shit-ton of $$$ for media and license.
Here in Florida you can be arrested for DUI while mowing your yard on a tractor mower. And it has happened.
Bikes and tractor mowers are considered vehicles (motorized or not), and you're responsible for the safe operation of any of those vehicles.
Pro business tip: try to get your clients to be completely truthful and upfront on the requirements, and find that half don't even know or have the slightest clue, and the other half will lie through their teeth, why I just don't know.
In fact, I was well into the installation when it was brought to my attention that the time clock app quit working. *That's* when I find out about the Java v6 issue, after the Java versioning was discussed at several meetings leading to the installation, and I've been mindlessly installing the Java v8 RT with medical office's complete knowledge and permission.
But thank you for your sage advice...
Note: I'm the IT support/installation vendor of one medical app, the one that requires Java v8, the time clock app that requires Java v6 is a completely separate vendor of human resources software which I have nothing to do with, other than to try to share non-compatible Java versions. The mutual client is a large public health clinic spread over a 60 mile radius.
Just so you know the whole story, and so can quit thinking yourself such a damn smarty-pants...
Seriously, I see no NEED for Java any more. I probably have more Silverlight things I like to use than I do Java, and neither are vital any more.
As much as I'd love for Java to be dead, that's as far from reality as you can possibly get and still be walking on terra firma. That's completely ignoring the corporate world, where Java is just as much a part of life as .net and IE compatibility. I don't like it, you don't like it, but it's still a fact of corporate life. I was just dealing with a large medical client yesterday whose big name time tracking app requires v6 (v6!) of Java, while our own medical app requires v8. And I've rarely gotten multiple versions of Java working on one workstation.
Personally I detest Java, too, and find it frustrating to program in, which is why I gave up Android app development. And slow, Java is slow as molasses in the depths of a winter snow storm. But there it is, still being used, and a lot, in the corporate world.
Someone working on Excel, a product used inside government agencies and nearly every major business, including secret unapproved features? Yeah, that's absolutely a fire-able offense.
Didn't at least Excel 97 include a striped down version of Flight Simulator? You had to open an empty spreadsheet, fill in some value at some specific cell, voila, you're flying around. I'm sure that including that Easter egg was approved by Excel development's management, but unless they had a government and/or business specific version of Excel, it was there for everyone to play with. Did anyone at a government agency or business get fired for playing it?
Fogerty's was a very sad case, indeed. It probably had less to do with a faintly similarly sounding song than with a perceived insult the president of of CCR's former record company felt over a solo song Fogerty wrote about how the president basically stole CCR's music catalog. It's why Fogerty didn't perform those old songs for so long, he didn't want to put money in that guy's pocket. Fogerty won all those cases against him, and later started doing CCR songs again.
I must be maybe one of about remaining four people who -still- prefers the nice boxy greyness of old beloved OS/2 2.1
http://www.classic-computers.o...
And maybe I'm one of the last two people who loved programming OS/2 apps, or at least remembering doing so.
Probably the reason I try to shoehorn FVWM onto Ubuntu...
Erh, people actually -use- Adobe DE for any other legitimate purpose besides stripping out that damn DRM on an ebook?
Didn't know it was useful for any other reason...
I was actually thinking Crystal Caves or the original Duke Nukem.
Kinda fun, though, I logged and and created some stuff. No one minded. Wish I could do that in WoW.
Well, there was (or still is?) SCO OpenServer... oh, wait.
But Bryan A Smith. Two different Bryans Smith's.
Thought I should clarify that.
As a long time resident of the Central Florida - Orlando area, I give you beautiful Lake Apopka.
Ah, once beautiful. It was the bass fishing capital of the South. Large clean lake, the tastiest bass you could ever catch. A virtual paradise before Disney.
Then WW2 happened, the top third of the lake was drained for war-time farming. Then the land was given over to the farmers, who loved their pesticides and fertilizers. All that flushed into the lake, freely and without restriction.
The fish, and everything else that depended on the fish, like the birds and the lake's fisherman, all died out. The lake turned into a huge sewer, almost completely bereft of any hint of life. On a hot August day, residents said you could smell the lake from downtown Orlando.
In the last twenty years, we've slowly brought the lake out of its catatonia, and life is starting to return. Birds have come again (at least two times, the birds were killed by the lake's poisonous muck), and there are fish, not bass, and not edible.
But to celebrate Lake Apopka becoming possibly beautiful and fishable, there's a nice proposal to build a large airport very near it. That won't scare the birds, we're advised.
Yes. When I think government service, I think good customer service. Then we would have the choice between an ISP that charges for carry on and another that is modeled after the DMV.
I don't know about your state or province (or whatever), and as a resident of Florida, I can certainly find a lot to complain about with my state's services. Our DMV is not one of them. Excellent and friendly service, in and out in minutes (beside a the small wait in the lobby), just an overal great experience from off all places, a freakin' state agency. As the guy ahead of me mentioned, my time with AT&T is nothing to compare with our DMV. A lot of companies could learn from them.