I actually have about 100 old 8" floppies and two drives sitting out in the shed. Now that I've typed that on the Internet, the government knows where to find them. I'll just reset the combo lock to 8008 for them.
It took several days for them to at least agree to give me store credit... I found this to be an exceptionally poor way to handle a $150 purchase. I haven't been back to their site since..
The classic lament; "Where are my mod points when I need them!"
The FCC is also having fun with software defined radio (SDR) and very cheap but good radios from China. Another major paradigm shift.
Google "baofeng uv-5r" and see what they are being flooded with. At a tenth of the price of "standard" ham radios that one would have to open up and solder something to get to work outside the ham bands. Check the pictures from the Oregon wildlife preserve standoff, lots of those puppies around.
The indoor toilet would be my choice. It even takes care of some of the issues of not having refrigeration. I think you could call John Crapper's invention a gadget.
Plumbing (sanitation) and refrigeration are my two main things I'm thankful for having been born in this era. To think it took the earth 4.5Gy to come up with hot showers and cold beer. Add electricity into the mix and we're golden-age.
Come on, Lumpy. I see you posting almost everyday. But I do agree about the quality, I hope the new overlords will try to do a bit better./. still has one of the better mod systems for a large site.
Agreed. We don't find much US TV that is all that interesting to us. I would say about 70% of our watching is UK or AU and most of the other 30% is PBS. We're really sad that DocZone is off the air now, our favorite CA show (I miss Corner Gas too.) Replying to this I'm actually watching Selling Homes Australia. I think the only mainstream US show we watch is Deadliest Catch, but we live in a small native fishing village on the Salish Sea. Our ISP is run by the Tribes so I'm not really worried about a copyright notice.
So we don't have cable, our one big screen is just a monitor for the old linux box that is our torrent host. We have Amazon Prime but to be honest, it just as easy to torrent the show and not worry about buffering.
Does this mean I'll be able to watch MasterChef Australia and MKR in the US, without torrenting them like I do now? Maybe catch some extra videos from Ten's website?
The big powerhouse in the Puget Sound area is Boeing, a LOT of smaller businesses provide good manufacturing jobs supporting the Lazy-B. Aerospace is big in the Northwest, living wage jobs and good engineering jobs, a nice mix to have in an area.
Thanks for reminding me to renew my tabs, I almost forgot. I live just north of Seattle and it was only about $50. I don't see the issue. It would cost more in gas to switch the cars.
It was explained to me like this: Domino is a database that tried to become an email system. Exchange is an email system that tried to become a database.
I'm just glad that I'm not supporting 30k users over 100+ sites with sendmail/exim/postfix and whatever for calendaring and a pile of shell/perl scripts written over 20 years. There really is no freeware solution for a desktop client based system. As bad as IBM and Microsoft can be, at least they are there after you've paid hundreds of thousands to them for licensing.
But if you want to have 'fun', try to find a book on the current version of Domino (9 or even 7.) I would much rather be running an Exchange system, there are so many more resources out there for it. (Powershell and Exchange can do so much!) Domino just doesn't see Active Directory at all, hardly does LDAP. My mail/calendar/trouble ticket/CapEx/whatever system doesn't play with my DHCP/AD/file systems at all. But that's what I get working for a 125 year old French company, at least I get 4 weeks of vacation.
Really? The company that I work for got bought by a French multinational. Now I'm a Lotus Domino admin with 73 servers across the globe. I was just getting use to Exchange too.
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I actually have about 100 old 8" floppies and two drives sitting out in the shed. Now that I've typed that on the Internet, the government knows where to find them. I'll just reset the combo lock to 8008 for them.
It took several days for them to at least agree to give me store credit... I found this to be an exceptionally poor way to handle a $150 purchase. I haven't been back to their site since..
So can I have your store credit?
I'll be glad when you get a day job.
I didn't see any in the Bellevue, WA office when I installed their phones and data rooms.
Oh tell me about it! I work with ERP systems (Enterprise Resource Planning) in aerospace.
If you haven't listened to this, I think you will enjoy:
http://www.npr.org/sections/mo...
Where are my mod points! Very insightful, swb. I love the "strip-mined for their wealth.."
Hard to do when they keep back filling with salt water.
Ah, good old Randal. I recalled him when I read this story. I still have a Perl t-shirt signed by him from LISA '96.
The classic lament; "Where are my mod points when I need them!"
The FCC is also having fun with software defined radio (SDR) and very cheap but good radios from China. Another major paradigm shift.
Google "baofeng uv-5r" and see what they are being flooded with. At a tenth of the price of "standard" ham radios that one would have to open up and solder something to get to work outside the ham bands. Check the pictures from the Oregon wildlife preserve standoff, lots of those puppies around.
The indoor toilet would be my choice. It even takes care of some of the issues of not having refrigeration. I think you could call John Crapper's invention a gadget.
Plumbing (sanitation) and refrigeration are my two main things I'm thankful for having been born in this era. To think it took the earth 4.5Gy to come up with hot showers and cold beer. Add electricity into the mix and we're golden-age.
Maybe because of where I work we get all the laid-off Boeing workers. And you wonder why we can't get seats delivered in time!
Good catch.
Come on, Lumpy. I see you posting almost everyday. But I do agree about the quality, I hope the new overlords will try to do a bit better. /. still has one of the better mod systems for a large site.
If you've seen the US version of MC... let me just say, Gordon Ramsey is a host.
I went with https://www.privateinternetacc... for $40/mo unlimited. It also has UK endpoints.
Agreed. We don't find much US TV that is all that interesting to us. I would say about 70% of our watching is UK or AU and most of the other 30% is PBS. We're really sad that DocZone is off the air now, our favorite CA show (I miss Corner Gas too.) Replying to this I'm actually watching Selling Homes Australia. I think the only mainstream US show we watch is Deadliest Catch, but we live in a small native fishing village on the Salish Sea. Our ISP is run by the Tribes so I'm not really worried about a copyright notice.
So we don't have cable, our one big screen is just a monitor for the old linux box that is our torrent host. We have Amazon Prime but to be honest, it just as easy to torrent the show and not worry about buffering.
Does this mean I'll be able to watch MasterChef Australia and MKR in the US, without torrenting them like I do now? Maybe catch some extra videos from Ten's website?
The big powerhouse in the Puget Sound area is Boeing, a LOT of smaller businesses provide good manufacturing jobs supporting the Lazy-B. Aerospace is big in the Northwest, living wage jobs and good engineering jobs, a nice mix to have in an area.
I don't see so much so for Amazon or Microsoft.
Thanks for reminding me to renew my tabs, I almost forgot. I live just north of Seattle and it was only about $50. I don't see the issue. It would cost more in gas to switch the cars.
I love the comment when there is a merging lane, "I just have to watch out for BMWs."
Good article. Thanks for turning me on to the site.
And platypus and Mormons, what the fuck is up with them? Did the Coder miss a semicolon somewhere?
It was explained to me like this: Domino is a database that tried to become an email system. Exchange is an email system that tried to become a database.
I'm just glad that I'm not supporting 30k users over 100+ sites with sendmail/exim/postfix and whatever for calendaring and a pile of shell/perl scripts written over 20 years. There really is no freeware solution for a desktop client based system. As bad as IBM and Microsoft can be, at least they are there after you've paid hundreds of thousands to them for licensing.
But if you want to have 'fun', try to find a book on the current version of Domino (9 or even 7.) I would much rather be running an Exchange system, there are so many more resources out there for it. (Powershell and Exchange can do so much!) Domino just doesn't see Active Directory at all, hardly does LDAP. My mail/calendar/trouble ticket/CapEx/whatever system doesn't play with my DHCP/AD/file systems at all. But that's what I get working for a 125 year old French company, at least I get 4 weeks of vacation.
Really? The company that I work for got bought by a French multinational. Now I'm a Lotus Domino admin with 73 servers across the globe. I was just getting use to Exchange too.
Washington Post, Salon, Raw Story, C&L.. any place progressives hang out and echo each other.