Whiner! I used to spend 3 days compiling GCC for SCO UNIX on a 486 66 MHz DX/2. And GCC took 3 passes to compile. BTW, this box was also my workstation so I'd start the compiles on Friday afternoon and they usually finished around lunchtime on Monday.
And if I had a compile error? Come back next week and try again!
All this because my boss wouldn't shell out a thousand bucks for the SCO Dev Sys.
BTW, these were the good old days when SCO was just a nobody in the OS business, not pure EVIL!
I remember coming in one day and finding four 2000 pound bombs outside my office. Yes, the bombs were labled "live". Yes, they were guarded my nice men with MP badges and automatic weapons, which also had "live" on their ammo magazines. No, I was not a member of the armed forces, I was a contractor.
The thought of 8000 lbs. of explosives outside my office was very disturbing. I really doubted the 1/4" of drywall between me and them would be any protection in case of an accident. I enquired about hazzard pay with my site manager. He asked why and turned white when he looked outside my door. Apparently the bombs came in after the early morning crew.
I was getting paid for PC maintenance so I took my tools and went to the far side of the base. I refused to come back into the office for the rest of the week, calling in to meetings from another building. I wasn't getting paid enough to deal with MPs or explosives.
There were no accidents, and the bombs disappeared as silently as they appeared. Much to our relief.
A friend of mine found
this fix on the macnet2.com message boards. I have tried it on 5 TiBooks so far and it works great. The fix involves popping out our battery and squeezing the side of the case where the serial number label is. I don't understand why it works because the antenna cable runs in the ofther direction. But it does work. I have about 4x the WiFi reception/transmission range since I fixed my TiBook.
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Whiner! I used to spend 3 days compiling GCC for SCO UNIX on a 486 66 MHz DX/2. And GCC took 3 passes to compile. BTW, this box was also my workstation so I'd start the compiles on Friday afternoon and they usually finished around lunchtime on Monday.
And if I had a compile error? Come back next week and try again!
All this because my boss wouldn't shell out a thousand bucks for the SCO Dev Sys.
BTW, these were the good old days when SCO was just a nobody in the OS business, not pure EVIL!
I remember coming in one day and finding four 2000 pound bombs outside my office. Yes, the bombs were labled "live". Yes, they were guarded my nice men with MP badges and automatic weapons, which also had "live" on their ammo magazines. No, I was not a member of the armed forces, I was a contractor.
The thought of 8000 lbs. of explosives outside my office was very disturbing. I really doubted the 1/4" of drywall between me and them would be any protection in case of an accident. I enquired about hazzard pay with my site manager. He asked why and turned white when he looked outside my door. Apparently the bombs came in after the early morning crew.
I was getting paid for PC maintenance so I took my tools and went to the far side of the base. I refused to come back into the office for the rest of the week, calling in to meetings from another building. I wasn't getting paid enough to deal with MPs or explosives.
There were no accidents, and the bombs disappeared as silently as they appeared. Much to our relief.
A friend of mine found this fix on the macnet2.com message boards. I have tried it on 5 TiBooks so far and it works great. The fix involves popping out our battery and squeezing the side of the case where the serial number label is. I don't understand why it works because the antenna cable runs in the ofther direction. But it does work. I have about 4x the WiFi reception/transmission range since I fixed my TiBook.