He said Windows, not "80386 or less on DOS 6.0." I had to get an old '286 to program my Syntor9000. I do have a '486SLC laptop that I can use on Jedi and Maxtracs.
That boomer crowd you think my get lost with a few odd swipes was the same crowd that coded in machine language and flipped toggle switches to load memory. I don't think a toy interface is going to throw us.
Sharkman67 is correct. And I say this as a Seattle area lefty, Ruby Ridge was a massive cluster fuck by the BATF assisted by the US Marshals. Weaver was framed. Read up on what really happened.
Were he, and hundreds of thousands other fully capable practitioners, able to come here and just hang out their shingle,Were he, and hundreds of thousands other fully capable practitioners, able to come here and just hang out their shingle,..
Add to that all the returning US veterans that have been performing their skills under fire but can't get a job back home because they don't have the correct certification.
In the town of Belgrade Montana, population 7300. Beautiful log beam airport and with no security line wait. They have two of the machines there. Surprised the fuck out of me. But considering that, at least per capita, a red neck from the high country is more likely to forget to check his side arm, I can kind of see the reasoning.
Also consider it's not that far, at least in Montana miles, from where the Unibomber was found.
WTF are you talking about? I never paid and 'initial deposit.'
I've even had them drop a phone from my plan eight months early with no charge just because I have been a customer for so long. Every time I've need to change my plan due to life/work changes, they have been most helpful in finding the cheapest way to do it. You won't get better customer service from any other provider.
I was a "contract field tech" for the last year'bouts. This was mostly picking up jobs from several national "truck roll" companies installing and fixing VPN routers for national retail chains. My netbook, an HP Mini, was my Ethernet/RS232 butt set. I had an old Mint Linux loaded on it and a bag of various serial cables. Most routers needed either telent, web, or serial to setup or troubleshoot. The 'dhclient eth0 -v' command was the one I used the most. It would tell me what was out there on a net.
Nice small form factor with an extended battery that would give me a good 5 hours of work. I found a nice nylon zip bag at Home Depot that fit it well and protected it in a field environment. I think I used it more than my punch-down tool. It was perfect for that job.
Sure, a niche use, but I'm sure glad that I was able to pick it up for a very reasonable price. If it had been marketed just for that industry it would have cost ten times as much (and maybe still worth the price.)
The best customer service you'll get is T-Mobile. Not the best coverage if you are outside of a metro area but they have fantastic UMA (WiFi calling) support. Their plans are as good or better than others.
Just getting reasonable people on the phone for support is what has kept me happy for 7 years.
Well I remember back when slashdot was running on a CoCo-II and using a pair of VIC-20s as the database back end... mumble grumble...
Hey you with the 7 digit UID, go fetch the old man a beer and I'll tell you the story of LED watches that required two hands to use... and we liked it that way!
The other thing you might have seen in offices is that everyone is going dual screen. People just work faster that way. The only CPU upgrades we are doing are for the engineering (aerospace) staff that run AutoCAD all day. For everyone else we just give them a nice new widescreen monitor and they are more than happy. The real numbers they should be looking at are the disposables, mice and keyboards.
Hairy, that reads like one of my posts when I've been drinking. It's Friday and I'll give you a pass since I'm in my cups too.
Here is news that will shock you. I now have a job as a Windows System Administrator. Yes, nethead, that freaking FreeBSD geek, went and got hired as a Winders guy.
I started on BASIC before MS, the first was from Xerox via a DECwriter and a long distance phone call in high school. The next was on a friend's SWTPC 6800 loaded via Kansas City format. This was in Yakima, WA, a mountain range away from Seattle.
I did use a Forth on the C64, also made a breadboard using that 65HC11 Rockwell chip that came with embedded Forth. Great language but not everyone could wrap their head around it.
I too was an early MicroSoft user. I remember the paper tape of BASIC 1.0 being passed around at the computer club. I grew up using MS BASIC on the Altair, TRS-80, Kaypro, VIC-20 and C64 (sysres made that so sweet to work with.) I even "re-engineered" the VIC-20 BASIC and ROM for use in a telecom board (think of a VIC-88 with 4x6522 and 4x20 LCD display with a 4MHz 65C02, hella board for the day.) Come the PC I used QBASIC to run broadcast automation. I could freaking fly around a DOS machine with Norton Commander and my Northgate keyboard ("Function keys on the left, where God intended!")
When Windows came along and I found this Linux thing, and then later, this BSD thing. I just can't do Windows anymore.
But I do have to give it to them for giving us a common language that was easy to port from platform to platform back in the day. Not an easy thing considering the vast architectural differences between those machines. I'm not sure if that is what they intended, but it worked out that way. I mean, you could take a BASIC program for calculating orbits that was developed on a Cromemco and quickly get it running on a C64.
I do have to thank Bill Gates for choosing to locate in the Pacific Northwest. I've never worked for Microsoft, directly, (and god knows I've had the offers) but he created a great ecosystem where I am able to get people to pay me to play with very expensive network toys.
As much as I don't like working with current MS products (except keyboards and mice, hell, I'm typing on one now) I sure am glad to have grown up in their shadow.
Slashdot Mirror
Hotmail was FreeBSD.
re RSS:
He said Windows, not "80386 or less on DOS 6.0." I had to get an old '286 to program my Syntor9000. I do have a '486SLC laptop that I can use on Jedi and Maxtracs.
Don't forget to put out your orange cones.
No, that's an E. A is di-dah.
That boomer crowd you think my get lost with a few odd swipes was the same crowd that coded in machine language and flipped toggle switches to load memory. I don't think a toy interface is going to throw us.
Sharkman67 is correct. And I say this as a Seattle area lefty, Ruby Ridge was a massive cluster fuck by the BATF assisted by the US Marshals. Weaver was framed. Read up on what really happened.
Were he, and hundreds of thousands other fully capable practitioners, able to come here and just hang out their shingle,Were he, and hundreds of thousands other fully capable practitioners, able to come here and just hang out their shingle,..
Add to that all the returning US veterans that have been performing their skills under fire but can't get a job back home because they don't have the correct certification.
In the town of Belgrade Montana, population 7300. Beautiful log beam airport and with no security line wait. They have two of the machines there. Surprised the fuck out of me. But considering that, at least per capita, a red neck from the high country is more likely to forget to check his side arm, I can kind of see the reasoning.
Also consider it's not that far, at least in Montana miles, from where the Unibomber was found.
What I was going to say. trailmasters.com Did webpage work for them back in '97.
Making sure to get a good seating between the handset and modem.
WTF are you talking about? I never paid and 'initial deposit.'
I've even had them drop a phone from my plan eight months early with no charge just because I have been a customer for so long. Every time I've need to change my plan due to life/work changes, they have been most helpful in finding the cheapest way to do it. You won't get better customer service from any other provider.
A third use:
I was a "contract field tech" for the last year'bouts. This was mostly picking up jobs from several national "truck roll" companies installing and fixing VPN routers for national retail chains. My netbook, an HP Mini, was my Ethernet/RS232 butt set. I had an old Mint Linux loaded on it and a bag of various serial cables. Most routers needed either telent, web, or serial to setup or troubleshoot. The 'dhclient eth0 -v' command was the one I used the most. It would tell me what was out there on a net.
Nice small form factor with an extended battery that would give me a good 5 hours of work. I found a nice nylon zip bag at Home Depot that fit it well and protected it in a field environment. I think I used it more than my punch-down tool. It was perfect for that job.
Sure, a niche use, but I'm sure glad that I was able to pick it up for a very reasonable price. If it had been marketed just for that industry it would have cost ten times as much (and maybe still worth the price.)
The best customer service you'll get is T-Mobile. Not the best coverage if you are outside of a metro area but they have fantastic UMA (WiFi calling) support. Their plans are as good or better than others.
Just getting reasonable people on the phone for support is what has kept me happy for 7 years.
..their downtime is due to a faulty PDU that happened to fail..
So, anyone got a spare powerstrip?
Fuck me! I'm getting old!
Well I remember back when slashdot was running on a CoCo-II and using a pair of VIC-20s as the database back end... mumble grumble...
Hey you with the 7 digit UID, go fetch the old man a beer and I'll tell you the story of LED watches that required two hands to use... and we liked it that way!
Reminds me of those trying to get the DOD, et al to give up their legacy IPv4 space, so they can make money, of course.
The other thing you might have seen in offices is that everyone is going dual screen. People just work faster that way. The only CPU upgrades we are doing are for the engineering (aerospace) staff that run AutoCAD all day. For everyone else we just give them a nice new widescreen monitor and they are more than happy. The real numbers they should be looking at are the disposables, mice and keyboards.
You sir, are correct! My drinking was giving me trouble parsing basic concepts.
Now if I can just remember what I changed all my passwords too. It seemed like a good idea at the time. ;)
Hairy, that reads like one of my posts when I've been drinking. It's Friday and I'll give you a pass since I'm in my cups too.
Here is news that will shock you. I now have a job as a Windows System Administrator. Yes, nethead, that freaking FreeBSD geek, went and got hired as a Winders guy.
I'll send you an email and tell you all about it.
-Joe
Just a guess but maybe coming in via IPv6?
And for those that missed the toilet humor check out Packing For Mars by Mary Roach. A very excellent book on the nitty gritty of space travel.
NASA saves the big iron for the important job: Payroll.
Trust me, snow boggles Seattle drivers.
I started on BASIC before MS, the first was from Xerox via a DECwriter and a long distance phone call in high school. The next was on a friend's SWTPC 6800 loaded via Kansas City format. This was in Yakima, WA, a mountain range away from Seattle.
I did use a Forth on the C64, also made a breadboard using that 65HC11 Rockwell chip that came with embedded Forth. Great language but not everyone could wrap their head around it.
I too was an early MicroSoft user. I remember the paper tape of BASIC 1.0 being passed around at the computer club. I grew up using MS BASIC on the Altair, TRS-80, Kaypro, VIC-20 and C64 (sysres made that so sweet to work with.) I even "re-engineered" the VIC-20 BASIC and ROM for use in a telecom board (think of a VIC-88 with 4x6522 and 4x20 LCD display with a 4MHz 65C02, hella board for the day.) Come the PC I used QBASIC to run broadcast automation. I could freaking fly around a DOS machine with Norton Commander and my Northgate keyboard ("Function keys on the left, where God intended!")
When Windows came along and I found this Linux thing, and then later, this BSD thing. I just can't do Windows anymore.
But I do have to give it to them for giving us a common language that was easy to port from platform to platform back in the day. Not an easy thing considering the vast architectural differences between those machines. I'm not sure if that is what they intended, but it worked out that way. I mean, you could take a BASIC program for calculating orbits that was developed on a Cromemco and quickly get it running on a C64.
I do have to thank Bill Gates for choosing to locate in the Pacific Northwest. I've never worked for Microsoft, directly, (and god knows I've had the offers) but he created a great ecosystem where I am able to get people to pay me to play with very expensive network toys.
As much as I don't like working with current MS products (except keyboards and mice, hell, I'm typing on one now) I sure am glad to have grown up in their shadow.
flags planted in the Moon's soil ..
The lunar surface has no soil. It's all regolith.
Minus one geek point for Samzenpus.