But the SOUND is so cool! Clack-clack-clack-clack DING! I am looking for an old NEC SpinWriter just for that reason.
If nothing else, the punched out dots on the paper tape (now known as "chads") were great fodder for practical jokes. Take a handfull of them, pour them down the defroster of a friend's (??) car and turn the fan on 'high'. Sit back and wait for him to come out and start the car...:-)
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computers could survive a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union.
Well, yeah, the computers survived but the power grid that runs them and their environmental support got hosed.
"MS ought to have Windows Update turned on by default and set to auto-download and auto-install all patches"
Right. You obviously don't run Windows in a business environment. SP4 breaks a lot of things and I don't trust Microsoft to put out a patch/SP without first testing it on a non-production box.
I was experimenting with nessus several months ago. I unchecked the "safe checks only" option and ran it against a series of internal Windows systems and crashed RPC. I thought "wow, this could be really dangerous if nessus'd a range of public IPs."
"over-the-horizon stereo navigation"? I can do this any time I want... just listen for my daughter's stereo and I can tell where home is from miles away.
"Borealis" refers to the Arctic regions of the world. The "dolphin" is actually a Beluga whale (no dorsal fin, funny shaped head). Belugas are native to the cold waters of the Arctic and near-Arctic. You see where I am going with this?
If IT or IT-track college students are coming up with ideas like "Linux is too hard to use" or "it needs a common GUI", what hope does Joe Sixpack have of getting things sorted out?
Is there a quick answer? No, not really. It will take time for the *nix "mystique" and myths to die out...
The dead mail queue on my mail server is huge. If all the sysadmin in the world were to just never clear their dead mail queue, we'd have a pretty accurate archive of the state of the Net.
2315 AD: It would appear that the entire society was obsessed with "NAKED HORNY CHEARLEEDERS WET AND WAITING FOR U!!!!!!!!!!", "online casinos", messages from some person named "bounce@" and worshipped a diety called "Viagra". No wonder they vaporized themselves.
I used to work at a mainframe center, and every year we would "test the BRS", or Big Red Switch. You know, the master power disconnect, right beside the Halon panel?
We would auction off the rights for pushing The Button. It was a really cool set up, geek heaven. A back-lit red push button about 2" in diameter with two safety covers on it, as well as a tamper-evident seal. All high tech lookin' "Wargames" type stuff. The only thing missing was the two key system ("TURN YOUR KEY, SIR! TURN YOUR KEY!")
The Operations staff always made it a big potluck/BBQ type thing and fed the programmers and other weenies... we found that it kept the whining down to a minimum.
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Found on the inside of my firefighting helmet, among 3 dozen other labels and warnings:
"Warning: firefighting is inherently dangerous"
An Alzheimer's patient, wandering around with a bionic exoskeleton.
Perhaps there is a reason why the human body fails?
But the SOUND is so cool! Clack-clack-clack-clack DING! I am looking for an old NEC SpinWriter just for that reason.
:-)
If nothing else, the punched out dots on the paper tape (now known as "chads") were great fodder for practical jokes. Take a handfull of them, pour them down the defroster of a friend's (??) car and turn the fan on 'high'. Sit back and wait for him to come out and start the car...
Well, yeah, the computers survived but the power grid that runs them and their environmental support got hosed.
"MS ought to have Windows Update turned on by default and set to auto-download and auto-install all patches"
Right. You obviously don't run Windows in a business environment. SP4 breaks a lot of things and I don't trust Microsoft to put out a patch/SP without first testing it on a non-production box.
Anybody remember NT 4.0/SP4? There ya go.
I was experimenting with nessus several months ago. I unchecked the "safe checks only" option and ran it against a series of internal Windows systems and crashed RPC. I thought "wow, this could be really dangerous if nessus'd a range of public IPs."
Apparently punctuation and capitalization don't count, either.
"over-the-horizon stereo navigation"? I can do this any time I want... just listen for my daughter's stereo and I can tell where home is from miles away.
"Borealis" refers to the Arctic regions of the world. The "dolphin" is actually a Beluga whale (no dorsal fin, funny shaped head). Belugas are native to the cold waters of the Arctic and near-Arctic. You see where I am going with this?
If IT or IT-track college students are coming up with ideas like "Linux is too hard to use" or "it needs a common GUI", what hope does Joe Sixpack have of getting things sorted out?
Is there a quick answer? No, not really. It will take time for the *nix "mystique" and myths to die out...
2315 AD: It would appear that the entire society was obsessed with "NAKED HORNY CHEARLEEDERS WET AND WAITING FOR U!!!!!!!!!!", "online casinos", messages from some person named "bounce@" and worshipped a diety called "Viagra". No wonder they vaporized themselves.
One of the few benefits of living in Alaska... the Aurora, while always beautiful, aren't a major life event. :-)
I used to work at a mainframe center, and every year we would "test the BRS", or Big Red Switch. You know, the master power disconnect, right beside the Halon panel?
We would auction off the rights for pushing The Button. It was a really cool set up, geek heaven. A back-lit red push button about 2" in diameter with two safety covers on it, as well as a tamper-evident seal. All high tech lookin' "Wargames" type stuff. The only thing missing was the two key system ("TURN YOUR KEY, SIR! TURN YOUR KEY!")
The Operations staff always made it a big potluck/BBQ type thing and fed the programmers and other weenies... we found that it kept the whining down to a minimum.