The Dart Summit was three years ago this week. Seems like longer ago. You're right the employees there were nice unlike the ones I've dealt with here in Seattle that work for Facebook. Arrogant is not a strong enough word for them.
Here's a pic I took from Google's lunch room balcony that week:
is a question Siri can't answer. Tried that yesterday eight times and had three coworkers try that each at least two times. One of the responses gave us directions to Austin, TX I assume because that is the home of Whole Foods. If AI isn't good enough to give us directions to a store a couple of blocks away, it's just useless and not even worth discussing.
Why do they insist on this broken update model which breaks things every fucking time. Last time was my VPN and Virtualbox network adapters.
"DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"
But seriously, our users run a lot of weird or old apps and nearly every month something breaks after a Windows update. It's gotten to the point where some departments refuse to install updates even on public-facing servers. Microsoft has created a serious problem.
I haven't seen the problem with VirtualBox. I have about three dozen vms, and sometimes run half a dozen of them at a time some with very complicated network setups with multiple interfaces. Also, I usually have three or four OpenVPN connections running simultaneously since we're too cheap to pay the 5 cents per hour to do site-to-site VPN to different Amazon regions or to buy better cisco firewalls to support it. It has been rock solid for me since I started using 10.
Microsoft has actually gone the other direction with their cumulative updates. Yes,,it really sucks to download >1G updates each month at several of our sites still stuck with dial-up, but they are more reliable than the old way of having dozens and dozens of different updates that can fail.
And changing your default search engine to Bing. Google is becoming more like Bing by showing unrelated search results for more and more synonyms and close spellings if you don't include search terms in quotes, but it's still so much better even with those newish problem.
They were fantastic. My AirPort Extreme I think I bought new in 2003 still works. It's slow so I only use it when my other access points quit. I think I've been through six of other brands since then so I've had to resort to using it many times, but it just keeps working unlike all of the other ones I've ever bought. The next closest one was the good old Linksys WRT54G that I think worked for four years before it started locking up and requiring cycling the power.
A coworker got hit by what looked like a phishing scam to open an account with Wells Fargo with a high monthly fee, and it turned out to actually be from the company.
I only know three people that own GM cars, and that's only because of MAGA. All three of them keep guns in their trunks. Hopefully some law prevents them from giving access to some random delivery person to their guns.
Completely off topic, but my boss's new Harley Sportster sounds like a huge angry sewing machine when he revs it. I made him so paranoid after saying that that he went back to the dealer to drive a used one to compare the sound.
Which helps because the engine has to work less hard against the wind. My 1994 Corolla just keeps going even though for many of those years I worked less than half a mile from Microsoft so the vast majority of time my engine didn't even get up to the correct operating temperature. I think it's been three years since I drove above 40 MPH. It also doesn't help since I only change the oil every three years since I only put about 500 miles a year on my car. With all of the problems my friends have with new cars, I'm not even tempted to buy a new one. Also, I think in two years Washington state will no longer require an emissions test on my vehicle so that's another reason to keep it.
Long and low hoods might look nice, but they're dangerous. The Jaguar E-Type and third generation Corvettes are incredible looking, but they're relics from a time when we didn't care about safety. The efficiency trade-off is worth it.
Someone over a year ago on Microsoft NBC said something along the lines that "we take what Trump says too seriously and what he does not seriously enough." Sounds like you're in that category. He's much more careful with his actions than his mouth.
Not true. That money was from Terry McAuliffe the Virginia governor who got it from Hillary, and the part from Hillary was much less than a million dollars. According to Newsweek, and I save the article just to debunk these sort of claims, it was only $675,288. Not evidence that it influenced McCabe has ever been release much less proof that McCabe didn't fully investigate Hillary because of it.
Wow, an article post-2002 from CNN about Bush that wasn't negative.
I'm more surprised the Chinese didn't approach you. I've worked in tech for over forty years in the Seattle area, and I have several friends that claim to have been approached by them. You sound like the perfect candidate to get leverage on.
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The Dart Summit was three years ago this week. Seems like longer ago. You're right the employees there were nice unlike the ones I've dealt with here in Seattle that work for Facebook. Arrogant is not a strong enough word for them.
Here's a pic I took from Google's lunch room balcony that week:
https://imgur.com/rV8ysp0
The location is amazing.
Some of the Windows programmers I work with certainly know how to do this.
They're going "Microsoft."
is a question Siri can't answer. Tried that yesterday eight times and had three coworkers try that each at least two times. One of the responses gave us directions to Austin, TX I assume because that is the home of Whole Foods. If AI isn't good enough to give us directions to a store a couple of blocks away, it's just useless and not even worth discussing.
Why do they insist on this broken update model which breaks things every fucking time. Last time was my VPN and Virtualbox network adapters.
"DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"
But seriously, our users run a lot of weird or old apps and nearly every month something breaks after a Windows update. It's gotten to the point where some departments refuse to install updates even on public-facing servers. Microsoft has created a serious problem.
I haven't seen the problem with VirtualBox. I have about three dozen vms, and sometimes run half a dozen of them at a time some with very complicated network setups with multiple interfaces. Also, I usually have three or four OpenVPN connections running simultaneously since we're too cheap to pay the 5 cents per hour to do site-to-site VPN to different Amazon regions or to buy better cisco firewalls to support it. It has been rock solid for me since I started using 10.
differential updates?
Microsoft has actually gone the other direction with their cumulative updates. Yes, ,it really sucks to download >1G updates each month at several of our sites still stuck with dial-up, but they are more reliable than the old way of having dozens and dozens of different updates that can fail.
And changing your default search engine to Bing. Google is becoming more like Bing by showing unrelated search results for more and more synonyms and close spellings if you don't include search terms in quotes, but it's still so much better even with those newish problem.
They were fantastic. My AirPort Extreme I think I bought new in 2003 still works. It's slow so I only use it when my other access points quit. I think I've been through six of other brands since then so I've had to resort to using it many times, but it just keeps working unlike all of the other ones I've ever bought. The next closest one was the good old Linksys WRT54G that I think worked for four years before it started locking up and requiring cycling the power.
A coworker got hit by what looked like a phishing scam to open an account with Wells Fargo with a high monthly fee, and it turned out to actually be from the company.
Apple knew exactly what they were doing.
Have you forgotten about road rage? Gun owners constantly murder us.
You type pretty well for someone "constantly murdered."
I only know three people that own GM cars, and that's only because of MAGA. All three of them keep guns in their trunks. Hopefully some law prevents them from giving access to some random delivery person to their guns.
It is the same old song and dance since they previously tricked Bill Clinton.with the Agreed Framework in 1994. Same old song and dance.
FDR also supported internment camps based on race. In your case and in that one, he was acting like a Republican so we should blame the Republicans.
> English sewing machine motors.
Completely off topic, but my boss's new Harley Sportster sounds like a huge angry sewing machine when he revs it. I made him so paranoid after saying that that he went back to the dealer to drive a used one to compare the sound.
Which helps because the engine has to work less hard against the wind. My 1994 Corolla just keeps going even though for many of those years I worked less than half a mile from Microsoft so the vast majority of time my engine didn't even get up to the correct operating temperature. I think it's been three years since I drove above 40 MPH. It also doesn't help since I only change the oil every three years since I only put about 500 miles a year on my car. With all of the problems my friends have with new cars, I'm not even tempted to buy a new one. Also, I think in two years Washington state will no longer require an emissions test on my vehicle so that's another reason to keep it.
Long and low hoods might look nice, but they're dangerous. The Jaguar E-Type and third generation Corvettes are incredible looking, but they're relics from a time when we didn't care about safety. The efficiency trade-off is worth it.
Someone over a year ago on Microsoft NBC said something along the lines that "we take what Trump says too seriously and what he does not seriously enough." Sounds like you're in that category. He's much more careful with his actions than his mouth.
Dammit.
> almost $1 million from Hillary.
Not true. That money was from Terry McAuliffe the Virginia governor who got it from Hillary, and the part from Hillary was much less than a million dollars. According to Newsweek, and I save the article just to debunk these sort of claims, it was only $675,288. Not evidence that it influenced McCabe has ever been release much less proof that McCabe didn't fully investigate Hillary because of it.
Yep. Trump kept his campaign promise to make them more accountable.
Verizon paid $4.48 billion for them so you would think that wouldn't be a problem.
Just ordered a new 960 last Friday so of course a faster one is coming.
Wow, an article post-2002 from CNN about Bush that wasn't negative.
I'm more surprised the Chinese didn't approach you. I've worked in tech for over forty years in the Seattle area, and I have several friends that claim to have been approached by them. You sound like the perfect candidate to get leverage on.
That's BS unless you can upload a file to the target web server or hijack the DNS that Let's Encrypt uses.