The ZX81 was a cool box. My friend had one and his mom had an semi-pro U-Matic video editor that we made programs on for titling. The only computer I had used before that one was the SWTPC 6800 (6800 w/ 4k, just enough ROM to load BASIC from cassette, 14 minutes.) I can see where the VIC and C64 took a lot from it with all the graphic chars on the keyboard.
I did have one of the early Sinclair programmable calculators, 32 steps IIRC. All RPN. My 7th grade teachers couldn't understand why I was so interested in base 2, 8 and 16. They never heard of that stuff!
Are you thinking of NorthWest InfoNet (Forbes Mercy)? I was talking about Northwest Internet in Wenatchee. NWInfoNet was a joke. That's why my friends and I talked Irving Wolfe into starting Wolfe.net in Yakima first. After taking care of the Yakima POP, my (now) wife and I moved to Seattle to work for Wolfe.net I use to live next to InCommand on 16th.
Sometimes I think I might want to retire over there, maybe Wenatchee. But then I think of the 20 years I spent in Yakima and come to my senses. But NWI/LocalTel does have some sweet pipe. I'm over there (from Tulalip) about twice a month to turn up circuits. Hell, my T-Mobile phone doesn't have signal in downtown Grand Coullee but the freaking tire store had 50Mb/50Mb service. They could have 100/100 for $5.00 more, but the 50/50 is the lowest plan available. Fuck Me!
Ever been in the telco closets of a 50 year old office building? Old 9600 baud modems still powered up and connected to 66 blocks, old DS0 smartjacks with red lights, all next to Cat5 and fiber cross connects.
Look above the drop ceiling of an old department store store sometime and gander at all the serial cable wire that is covered by the Token Ring wire covered by the 10base5 wire that is covered by the ThinNet wire that is covered by the Cat5 wire that is covered by the fiber ducts. All that tangled in with the old 25 pair telco wire.
If it's not on your work order, you don't touch it.
My wife and I were working at a startup back in 2000 and actually did get married just to get vacation. The company founders were the signing witnesses to our marriage.
Now if we can get Boeing to do the same. It's the Boeing workers that seem to like to drive jacked up 4x4 pickups to work. The Microserfs are the ones that drive hybirds. (Or BMWs)
I don't know were you get a feel for my income from my remarks.
But truth be told, if I had to drive a 10MPG truck for what I get paid for a job, I'd be closer to that poverty level than I would be comfortable with. Fuel costs are that much of a factor for me.
I just think that you are a short sighted for saying,"tax the hell out of gas and use the proceeds to fund mass transit."
The problem with the heater was that there was no fan. Worked great when running down the highway, but get stuck in traffic and your toes started to get nippy.
That's why I just put several thousand dollars into my '93 Saturn. I think it will be good for another 80,000 miles or so. That will be about 2.5 years with my current usage.
Ok, find me a nice spot downtown for 10,000 hens to pump out eggs, within walking/biking distance of a feed lot that is next to that downtown lot with 1000 acres of grain.
I'm all for multi-modal. (second one down) Although I do have issues with at-grade rail in a metro area.
It just gets at me a bit when people want to raise the gas tax to extreme heights to fund mass transit. Some people don't realize how many services and goods they receive depend upon local trucks, vans and cars. In Washington State we tax by the gallon. The state DOT is hurting because now that cars get better mileage and more people are on transit, they are getting less tax money for the roads. Their solution is more tolls, which transit doesn't pay. The cost for transit needs to come from all people, not just those driving. Everyone benefits from a good road system, even if they bike, bus, or walk everywhere. In fact, it is just those roads that allow the downtown hipsters to work and live downtown. The roads bring civilization to them.
Do we have too many long-haul trucks on the road when those shipments could be better transported by rail? Yes. Does Seattle's current mayor's solution of more bike lanes in a city of hills, rain and an aging population help that much? No. Maybe because I live in an area that is a major port I see cargo transport as more in need of solutions. But I'm also out on the road during the working day and see a lot of service vans running around. Those are the "living wage" (barely) jobs that would take the biggest hit from high gas taxes. If you think a plumber costs a lot now, try it with $10/gal gas. Organic local eggs and veggies don't get to the store on a bike.
Yeah, it's my second one. My first was an '89 4cyc that got sandwiched. I though it might be ok but then I noticed I had to close the ashtray to put it in first. Ouch. Then the cop when asking if I was hurt pointed out the cracked glass rear window. The one I have now is a red (inside and out) extended cab. I love the extra room inside. The only thing I've had to do is new tires and keep clean oil in it. I'm a short fuck, 5'4", Rangers fit me like a glove.
I looked up the specs on the latest Ranger and found that the 4cyl gets about the same MPG as my old 6cyl, WTF? (about 22ish MPG on the highway) The 2.3cc is just the old Pinto engine with extra spark plugs. Maybe the future is the Connect. I'll have to see how they are in 5-10 years. I'd love to be able to afford one though. But until my Ranger dies, I can't even think of getting another truck. And I suspect that it might just outlive me. I'm only putting a few hundred miles a month on it, it's mostly retired to hauling firewood and those few jobs where I need my 20' ladder.
Yeah, I see those guys on the road all day. A 4WD Ranger would do them just as well for getting in muddy lots. WTF does one need a diesel 12 cylinder pickup for? Drive a Focus or Yaris (or an old Saturn or Subaru) and rent a truck when you need one. A service van with ladders, yeah, I understand that, some jobs require a load of supplies and tools. But a yahoo jacked up wannabe semi? Ya gotta be kidding me, or you have issues with your "equipment."
I do have an '89 Ranger that I can haul my 28' ladder with when the job requires it. But I really hate taking the 15MPG hit driving it. The job has to pencil out for me to take it.
Sure, it would be fun to have a mega-truck that I could haul everything I could ever imagine needing but I can't afford the gas or the truck, and a lot of my jobs are downtown and you just can't find parking for something like that. I'm a short guy so climbing five feet up just to grab some CAT5 and some RJ45 ends would get old.
I'm making about a third of what I was making in 2001. Back then I was a stressed out asshole. I was responsible for keeping A large "bookseller" connected to the Internet and making 6 figures. After a string of jobs doing much the same, I burnt out. I'm glad I put my money into a fixer-upper in a good neighborhood. Sold that for a nice profit and now own a smaller home with no mortgage. Now instead of sitting at a desk playing George Jetson I'm out in the field fixing problems for people. Not big problems, more of the get the credit card machine working again or upgrade the VPN router type. 2-4 jobs most days, just drive there in my car. I get to meet all sorts of folks, save the day and on to the next job. Sure, I could make much more but my sanity and well being is worth than the pay cut. I'm happy, my wife is happy, and I don't get calls at night when something breaks.
Prisoner, I hope you're still young and have time to save money so you don't have to stress all your life. The cubical can eat your soul. Plan so you can have a way out someday.
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Damn kids with your high /. UIDs. ;)
The ZX81 was a cool box. My friend had one and his mom had an semi-pro U-Matic video editor that we made programs on for titling. The only computer I had used before that one was the SWTPC 6800 (6800 w/ 4k, just enough ROM to load BASIC from cassette, 14 minutes.) I can see where the VIC and C64 took a lot from it with all the graphic chars on the keyboard.
I did have one of the early Sinclair programmable calculators, 32 steps IIRC. All RPN. My 7th grade teachers couldn't understand why I was so interested in base 2, 8 and 16. They never heard of that stuff!
You just freaking blew my mind. Thank you.
If you're near the Everett plant, I'd love to buy you a beer and chat sometime. My email is above and the whois for the domain is current.
Good thing there is no Chick-fil-A in Washington State then. The closest one is in Boise Idaho, go figure.
Not modding you down but rather informing: APCO P25 come in to existence October of 1989. It had nothing to do with Katrina.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_25
You do wonder if Nikon could have been successful if that WW2 GI with a Kodak camera didn't help rebuild Japan after the war.
Are you thinking of NorthWest InfoNet (Forbes Mercy)? I was talking about Northwest Internet in Wenatchee. NWInfoNet was a joke. That's why my friends and I talked Irving Wolfe into starting Wolfe.net in Yakima first. After taking care of the Yakima POP, my (now) wife and I moved to Seattle to work for Wolfe.net I use to live next to InCommand on 16th.
Sometimes I think I might want to retire over there, maybe Wenatchee. But then I think of the 20 years I spent in Yakima and come to my senses. But NWI/LocalTel does have some sweet pipe. I'm over there (from Tulalip) about twice a month to turn up circuits. Hell, my T-Mobile phone doesn't have signal in downtown Grand Coullee but the freaking tire store had 50Mb/50Mb service. They could have 100/100 for $5.00 more, but the 50/50 is the lowest plan available. Fuck Me!
I bet your MySQL programmers aren't hot girls, on grits.
That should be a /48 per ISP/location. A /48 will be about the shortest prefix that will be announced. (Not by RFC but by practice.)
Ever been in the telco closets of a 50 year old office building? Old 9600 baud modems still powered up and connected to 66 blocks, old DS0 smartjacks with red lights, all next to Cat5 and fiber cross connects.
Look above the drop ceiling of an old department store store sometime and gander at all the serial cable wire that is covered by the Token Ring wire covered by the 10base5 wire that is covered by the ThinNet wire that is covered by the Cat5 wire that is covered by the fiber ducts. All that tangled in with the old 25 pair telco wire.
If it's not on your work order, you don't touch it.
My wife and I were working at a startup back in 2000 and actually did get married just to get vacation. The company founders were the signing witnesses to our marriage.
What the hell is drastic about using BSD?
(You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.)
Drastic is installing the KA9Q NOS TCP/IP package on MS-DOS 4.01 running a 80286 with QEMM to get Mosaic v1.0 to run on Windows 3.0
Hell, all the BSDs are more stable and more sane than Ubuntu. And all the desktop environments are in ports.
Just what I need, Clippy asking if I need help setting up a BGP peer. :)
The invention of the Internet, so I can torrent episodes of Master Chef Australia and MKR,
IOS is a proper operating system.
(So is JunOS.)
Here's one company that has taken to providing not just bus passes, but actual buses to get employees off the road.
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/12/microsoft-connector-adds-runs-to-help.html
Now if we can get Boeing to do the same. It's the Boeing workers that seem to like to drive jacked up 4x4 pickups to work. The Microserfs are the ones that drive hybirds. (Or BMWs)
I don't know were you get a feel for my income from my remarks.
But truth be told, if I had to drive a 10MPG truck for what I get paid for a job, I'd be closer to that poverty level than I would be comfortable with. Fuel costs are that much of a factor for me.
I just think that you are a short sighted for saying,"tax the hell out of gas and use the proceeds to fund mass transit."
Agree. I have an issue with "tax the hell out of gas and use the proceeds to fund mass transit."
The problem with the heater was that there was no fan. Worked great when running down the highway, but get stuck in traffic and your toes started to get nippy.
That's why I just put several thousand dollars into my '93 Saturn. I think it will be good for another 80,000 miles or so. That will be about 2.5 years with my current usage.
Ok, find me a nice spot downtown for 10,000 hens to pump out eggs, within walking/biking distance of a feed lot that is next to that downtown lot with 1000 acres of grain.
I'm all for multi-modal. (second one down) Although I do have issues with at-grade rail in a metro area.
It just gets at me a bit when people want to raise the gas tax to extreme heights to fund mass transit. Some people don't realize how many services and goods they receive depend upon local trucks, vans and cars. In Washington State we tax by the gallon. The state DOT is hurting because now that cars get better mileage and more people are on transit, they are getting less tax money for the roads. Their solution is more tolls, which transit doesn't pay. The cost for transit needs to come from all people, not just those driving. Everyone benefits from a good road system, even if they bike, bus, or walk everywhere. In fact, it is just those roads that allow the downtown hipsters to work and live downtown. The roads bring civilization to them.
Do we have too many long-haul trucks on the road when those shipments could be better transported by rail? Yes. Does Seattle's current mayor's solution of more bike lanes in a city of hills, rain and an aging population help that much? No. Maybe because I live in an area that is a major port I see cargo transport as more in need of solutions. But I'm also out on the road during the working day and see a lot of service vans running around. Those are the "living wage" (barely) jobs that would take the biggest hit from high gas taxes. If you think a plumber costs a lot now, try it with $10/gal gas. Organic local eggs and veggies don't get to the store on a bike.
Yeah, it's my second one. My first was an '89 4cyc that got sandwiched. I though it might be ok but then I noticed I had to close the ashtray to put it in first. Ouch. Then the cop when asking if I was hurt pointed out the cracked glass rear window. The one I have now is a red (inside and out) extended cab. I love the extra room inside. The only thing I've had to do is new tires and keep clean oil in it. I'm a short fuck, 5'4", Rangers fit me like a glove.
I looked up the specs on the latest Ranger and found that the 4cyl gets about the same MPG as my old 6cyl, WTF? (about 22ish MPG on the highway) The 2.3cc is just the old Pinto engine with extra spark plugs. Maybe the future is the Connect. I'll have to see how they are in 5-10 years. I'd love to be able to afford one though. But until my Ranger dies, I can't even think of getting another truck. And I suspect that it might just outlive me. I'm only putting a few hundred miles a month on it, it's mostly retired to hauling firewood and those few jobs where I need my 20' ladder.
Yeah, I see those guys on the road all day. A 4WD Ranger would do them just as well for getting in muddy lots. WTF does one need a diesel 12 cylinder pickup for? Drive a Focus or Yaris (or an old Saturn or Subaru) and rent a truck when you need one. A service van with ladders, yeah, I understand that, some jobs require a load of supplies and tools. But a yahoo jacked up wannabe semi? Ya gotta be kidding me, or you have issues with your "equipment."
I do have an '89 Ranger that I can haul my 28' ladder with when the job requires it. But I really hate taking the 15MPG hit driving it. The job has to pencil out for me to take it.
Sure, it would be fun to have a mega-truck that I could haul everything I could ever imagine needing but I can't afford the gas or the truck, and a lot of my jobs are downtown and you just can't find parking for something like that. I'm a short guy so climbing five feet up just to grab some CAT5 and some RJ45 ends would get old.
And my "equipment" isn't that small.
I'm making about a third of what I was making in 2001. Back then I was a stressed out asshole. I was responsible for keeping A large "bookseller" connected to the Internet and making 6 figures. After a string of jobs doing much the same, I burnt out. I'm glad I put my money into a fixer-upper in a good neighborhood. Sold that for a nice profit and now own a smaller home with no mortgage. Now instead of sitting at a desk playing George Jetson I'm out in the field fixing problems for people. Not big problems, more of the get the credit card machine working again or upgrade the VPN router type. 2-4 jobs most days, just drive there in my car. I get to meet all sorts of folks, save the day and on to the next job. Sure, I could make much more but my sanity and well being is worth than the pay cut. I'm happy, my wife is happy, and I don't get calls at night when something breaks.
Prisoner, I hope you're still young and have time to save money so you don't have to stress all your life. The cubical can eat your soul. Plan so you can have a way out someday.