Previous IT job was at a university, and over a decade, who was in charge of the naming conventions changed a few times. Each had their own idea of what the convention should be; department+num, building+num, department+type+num, building+type+num (type being mac or pc, when we were a mixed system). So say you have a building named "DM" with a dep't name "HPER". Right down the same hallway, I found;
dm01 dmpc01 hperpc01 hpermac01...
It was a horror show. Where I'm at now does a building+room/dept+type+num, so the 1st computer in room 30 of the high school is;
HS030C01
while the art room's computers in the middle school are;
It has been awhile, but I thought the Terminators's vision there was looking at its surroundings and providing deconstruction and analysis. i.e. The targets running away, and it sees distance, relative speed, etc... or the famous "fuck you, asshole" chosen from a list of possible responses, generated by the context of the landlord's question.
Actual AR in fiction would be like the locative tech in Gibson's "Spook Country".
Exactly. That the author of this article suggests that trolling is required makes the article poster a troll. How ironic.
The directive is to make ID arguments in, quote, hostile websites. They are to look for forums where they know ID is not going to be kindly received and they must defend it in the face of the likely shitstorm of responses.
What do we call someone who posts something in a bbs/forum/website that is certain to generate controversy?
Oh yea, we call it "trolling". The author of this article was 100% spot-on.
All I needed a few weeks ago was a simple barrel connector, and they did not have the simple ones anymore. All they had was one with a grounding tap in the middle for about $13.99.
Went to Wal-Mart of all places and they had a 2-pack for $2.99.
OMG Hunt! That's what it was called. Me and the fellow MUDders used to hop onto that whenever the network dropped our connections to the outside world, which was frequent back then.
The sysop was brutal, having played it for a few years when he was a student, before we got there. Used to excel at running thru people and stabbing them.
An Emerson that has chugged along reasonably well...a few of the buttons got cracked pushed into the unit, and it flips out and blinks repeatedly if a tape is ever ejected for more than 5-6 seconds. But it still records just fine.
Higher ed setting I was at was completely Dell, and for the most part they were reliable but every few years or so there was a lemon model.
The OptiPlex Gn+ was the worst of them all, a P200 or so in the Win95/98 days. Details are hazy, but there was something extremely niggling about how the network drivers had to be installed, and doing it wrong resulted in a mess of manually removing files and editing.ini's.
But are they exactly the right length to pull from A to B, or do you have some coiled up uglies?
A forward thinking IT professional knows to leave some slack in the cables, otherwise plate tectonics makes fools of us all.
Yep, we called that the "buddy loop" cause you always want to be a friend to the cablers that come after you.
No worse feeling than having to move a wall plate a few feet to a side, looking up in the drop-ceiling grid to see a taut, slack-less cable run.:/
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Reminds me, some dusty shelf around here still has the 13-disk win95 set, I'm sure. From the dark days of CD-ROM being an option and not a standard.
Previous IT job was at a university, and over a decade, who was in charge of the naming conventions changed a few times. Each had their own idea of what the convention should be; department+num, building+num, department+type+num, building+type+num (type being mac or pc, when we were a mixed system). So say you have a building named "DM" with a dep't name "HPER". Right down the same hallway, I found;
dm01 ...
dmpc01
hperpc01
hpermac01
It was a horror show. Where I'm at now does a building+room/dept+type+num, so the 1st computer in room 30 of the high school is;
HS030C01
while the art room's computers in the middle school are;
MSARTC01, MSARTC02, etc...
Seems to work out ok.
It has been awhile, but I thought the Terminators's vision there was looking at its surroundings and providing deconstruction and analysis. i.e. The targets running away, and it sees distance, relative speed, etc... or the famous "fuck you, asshole" chosen from a list of possible responses, generated by the context of the landlord's question. Actual AR in fiction would be like the locative tech in Gibson's "Spook Country".
Literalism FTL.
Exactly. That the author of this article suggests that trolling is required makes the article poster a troll. How ironic.
The directive is to make ID arguments in, quote, hostile websites. They are to look for forums where they know ID is not going to be kindly received and they must defend it in the face of the likely shitstorm of responses. What do we call someone who posts something in a bbs/forum/website that is certain to generate controversy? Oh yea, we call it "trolling". The author of this article was 100% spot-on.
All I needed a few weeks ago was a simple barrel connector, and they did not have the simple ones anymore. All they had was one with a grounding tap in the middle for about $13.99. Went to Wal-Mart of all places and they had a 2-pack for $2.99.
What about counseling for us gnomes who are constantly picked on?
An important feature, y'know.
OMG Hunt! That's what it was called. Me and the fellow MUDders used to hop onto that whenever the network dropped our connections to the outside world, which was frequent back then. The sysop was brutal, having played it for a few years when he was a student, before we got there. Used to excel at running thru people and stabbing them.
They did something similar to Zero Software (micr0soft.com) back in the day, IIRC.
Bada Bing!
An Emerson that has chugged along reasonably well...a few of the buttons got cracked pushed into the unit, and it flips out and blinks repeatedly if a tape is ever ejected for more than 5-6 seconds. But it still records just fine.
Higher ed setting I was at was completely Dell, and for the most part they were reliable but every few years or so there was a lemon model. The OptiPlex Gn+ was the worst of them all, a P200 or so in the Win95/98 days. Details are hazy, but there was something extremely niggling about how the network drivers had to be installed, and doing it wrong resulted in a mess of manually removing files and editing .ini's.
Holy throwback, Al Gore.
But are they exactly the right length to pull from A to B, or do you have some coiled up uglies?
A forward thinking IT professional knows to leave some slack in the cables, otherwise plate tectonics makes fools of us all.
Yep, we called that the "buddy loop" cause you always want to be a friend to the cablers that come after you. No worse feeling than having to move a wall plate a few feet to a side, looking up in the drop-ceiling grid to see a taut, slack-less cable run. :/