I worked on the first big web-enablement for AA's Sabre system, back in 97-99. Saabre was the key to inter-airline reservation scheduling. Travel agents used this as their main system, and some other folks around here may remember the gateway with CompuServ. eAAsySaber. LOL.
It was unlike any dotcom experience I had around that time. Super legacy. Impossible to change anything - and grave uncertainty that changes were even possible!
The Sabre core compute and data storage stack was built on a series of different mainframe and mid-range systems, back when instead of writing new business functions, you instead attached new business systems.
The glut of stuff crossed vendors occasionally. Mostly IBM. Parts dated to the 70's and through the 90's. I never met anybody who had a "mastermind" view of how it all worked. Instead, lots of analysts with diagrams - mostly from vendors and "big five" firms. Any proposed change had to be run through an exercise that called on the various experts in different parts of the system. Most were not so much expert, as "acquiring some expertise".;-)
Our work became the basis for travel services like Expedia, and customer offerings by American Express Travel, etc.
I'm sure that this may have changed only somewhat. Saber was sold off, and became a core to Travelocity - who in turn were finally bought by Expedia, who consumed Saber information. Behind it all, there are a 360 and some front-end processors ported to AS400 systems, I'm nearly certain.
"the planet's early ocean evaporated, water-vapor molecules were broken apart by ultraviolet radiation, and hydrogen escaped to space. With no water left on the surface, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere, leading to a so-called runaway greenhouse effect that created present conditions."
How about insecure ad delivery being commonly intercepted as a channel to deliver "clickless" infections by banking trojans - which is epidemic, not hypothetical.
Remember how different this looked in 800x600, without antialiasing of text, abominable Times New Roman, heavy link underlining, and a mid-grey colour as the browser default, inherited from development on TBL's NeXT?
Or the MacOS 7 black and white...
You really need an old computer, to truly appreciate the experience of this old page.
I'd read the "Please, please, please" heading as a James Brown quote, but Henny Youngman seems more appropriate.
Crystal said Friday that while the ship is structurally sound, the technical and commercial challenges with restoring the rusting, docked ship to the high seas were too titanic to undertake.
Of course, I remember the old days. BBC and a bailiff come with a knock on the door of our squat.
"We are here to deliver notice of operating an unlicensed television, and register collection of a license fee." Mind you, the license fee in those day were less than 145 quid, but despite all, we were skint and didn't have it.
Well, I insisted we were exempt, 'cos the telly was free, left behind in the flat before we came - and for good reason! The only button that worked was for ITV.
I tried to demonstrate this to the assembled officials by summarizing the most recent "Lady Loves Milk Tray" and just how funny it would be, if the secret agent had been revealed in closing shot to be Leonard Rossiter.
We were delivered a bailiff's notice to pay the fee or surrender the telly. I'm pretty sure that that was the beginning of the MDMA period, come to think.
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Based on my experience in the late 90's, to "webify" the access to these systems, you pretty much have it.
I worked on the first big web-enablement for AA's Sabre system, back in 97-99. Saabre was the key to inter-airline reservation scheduling. Travel agents used this as their main system, and some other folks around here may remember the gateway with CompuServ. eAAsySaber. LOL.
It was unlike any dotcom experience I had around that time. Super legacy. Impossible to change anything - and grave uncertainty that changes were even possible!
The Sabre core compute and data storage stack was built on a series of different mainframe and mid-range systems, back when instead of writing new business functions, you instead attached new business systems.
The glut of stuff crossed vendors occasionally. Mostly IBM. Parts dated to the 70's and through the 90's. I never met anybody who had a "mastermind" view of how it all worked. Instead, lots of analysts with diagrams - mostly from vendors and "big five" firms. Any proposed change had to be run through an exercise that called on the various experts in different parts of the system. Most were not so much expert, as "acquiring some expertise". ;-)
Our work became the basis for travel services like Expedia, and customer offerings by American Express Travel, etc.
I'm sure that this may have changed only somewhat. Saber was sold off, and became a core to Travelocity - who in turn were finally bought by Expedia, who consumed Saber information. Behind it all, there are a 360 and some front-end processors ported to AS400 systems, I'm nearly certain.
"the planet's early ocean evaporated, water-vapor molecules were broken apart by ultraviolet radiation, and hydrogen escaped to space. With no water left on the surface, carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere, leading to a so-called runaway greenhouse effect that created present conditions."
Then, the real trouble started....
Than any voter asked to submit a ballot is allowed to see.
Democracy. Republic. Transparency.
PPppppppppppptttttttttt!
UTF-8! UTF-8! It's so fucking GREAT! UTF-8!
How about insecure ad delivery being commonly intercepted as a channel to deliver "clickless" infections by banking trojans - which is epidemic, not hypothetical.
You obviously don't thumb through the later pages in Road & Track.
"Invasive malware and 0day attack vectors are a part of the Facebook experience.."
Your ideas about Soviet Russia are intriguing to me sir, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
(As a rip from the Simpsons, I think that one was originally my own on /. and Everything)
Well, I'm shellshocked about this. My heart bleeds.
I really DO have to agree. None of them are really "fancy".
What!?
No Mac II or an Orchid ProDesigner for VESA Local Bus?!
The pictures look like the rebel base on Hoth.
Eerily so.
I think they must have payed Lucas to FAKE this whole thing! Like they did for Kubrick with the moon landings.
My shrink IS a Beowulf cluster, you insensitive clod!
Remember how different this looked in 800x600, without antialiasing of text, abominable Times New Roman, heavy link underlining, and a mid-grey colour as the browser default, inherited from development on TBL's NeXT?
Or the MacOS 7 black and white...
You really need an old computer, to truly appreciate the experience of this old page.
I'd read the "Please, please, please" heading as a James Brown quote, but Henny Youngman seems more appropriate.
Crystal said Friday that while the ship is structurally sound, the technical and commercial challenges with restoring the rusting, docked ship to the high seas were too titanic to undertake.
Of course, I remember the old days. BBC and a bailiff come with a knock on the door of our squat.
"We are here to deliver notice of operating an unlicensed television, and register collection of a license fee." Mind you, the license fee in those day were less than 145 quid, but despite all, we were skint and didn't have it.
Well, I insisted we were exempt, 'cos the telly was free, left behind in the flat before we came - and for good reason! The only button that worked was for ITV.
I tried to demonstrate this to the assembled officials by summarizing the most recent "Lady Loves Milk Tray" and just how funny it would be, if the secret agent had been revealed in closing shot to be Leonard Rossiter.
We were delivered a bailiff's notice to pay the fee or surrender the telly. I'm pretty sure that that was the beginning of the MDMA period, come to think.
FOILED! BBC! Mobile Device VPN.
https://www.vpnunlimitedapp.com/en
http://justanothergeeksite.com/2013/11/vpn-unlimited-ios-app-review/
Windows: 10
Users: Zero
This much capacity is overkill for music storage, and only useful in the homes of pr0n enthusiasts. SATAn storage.
Let's make this go viral:
Windows: 10
Users: Zero
Oh yeah? Whattabout SystemD?
She wants the D!
Agreed. We are illustrating, imperfectly, one flaw in the parent comment's proposition, with a thought-experiment.
Yes! Of course!
I did try to preface my imprecision with the caveat...
We aim to uphold a glorious tradition.