Yes, Tom Baker is still around... and acting, but as we saw him in Dungeons and Dragons a few years ago, he's getting up there in years, and probably not the best fit for The Doctor at this point.
More info on the Zip drives can be found here. There are apparently known problems with the Zips, hope this helps (check bottom of linked page for the info).
Around 5 years ago, in the state agency where I worked, I had to not only support WordPerfect apps (including 6.0 for Windows, which was as bad as advertised), but Netware 4 (including GroupWise mail) and TokenRing to 400 desktops, in addition to my Unix sysadmin duties.
Happily, after a minor nervous breakdown, I am now only a Unix sysadmin.;)
WP... oh the horror....
Re:For all those bashing "Blogs"
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Gee, maybe some of us miss those days of yellow text on purple backgrounds, 5 fonts sizes per page and misformatted tables (done by hand editing HTML, natch). And the blinking text, too. Always a favorite.
But don't compare blogs to a BBS... those were the days when you actually had to have a brain to get online, versus now, when Bertha Walmartski can blog it up to tell the world that one of her three toy poodles is depressed.
P.S. some of those awful personal pages still exist. I'd tell you where, but you'd go blind viewing them;)
Yes, but part of the issue here is determining when new terms and usage become standard enough to be taught as part of the language (and thus, acceptable for use in classwork). Many posts on here have mentioned the evolution of the English language, but I don't see any arguments for the notion that such changes happened in 'net time'.
OT: 'old-timer'? Hell, I'm 39, and students just a few years older than me had to learn Latin in high school. They probably thought we were slacking on the important stuff.
That's the way it's supposed to work, but the various corporate bungles of the early 2000's have shown that shareholders have little or no voice in the operations of modern companies. The HP-Compaq merger would have been a good example of your point that shareholders should have the power, but was the final vote count even released? HP said it was 'close'.
In unrelated news, President Bush's lawyers say he doesn't need Congress' approval to bomb Iraq. See any parallels here?;)
Commercial vehicle retreads are available because on a truck with 6, 10, up to 18 wheels on it, all that is needed is 'dumb rubber', a tire that is roughly the same dimension as the other tires on the vehicle. Contrast that with the 4-wheeled passenger car, which is moving ever faster and growing ever heavier. Would you really want retreads on that Lincoln Navigator that you're trailing down the highway at 75 MPH?
And aside from 'disposable society' comparisons, I'm not sure why this one's here. Slashdot readers re-use stuff on a regular basis, but there's little chance of a 0% waste product cycle for computer hardware.
Sabre-toothed cats? Hell, let's go for broke, and crank out the prehistoric sabre-toothed cows! Can't wait for the Gateway commercial with those babies in it...
... and as for the asphyxiated mammoth with an erection, isn't that how Michael Hutchence went too?
is that while a sysadmin typically has to wear a number of hats to do his/her job (at least I always have), Masters and PhD types have to specialize to be good at what they do. There are drawbacks to this... I worked with a couple of PhDs at a previous job, and they fit the proverbial "too smart to tie their own shoes" model. That might be why some academics are labeled as hard to work with; they care more for their subject than the 'normal' things, like office etiquette and ethics.
Anyway, if you can identify a field you have great undying interest in, and can narrow it down to a particular area within that field, I'd say "Go for it!" There's certainly nothing great happening in IT that you need to stick around for.
If they do, it's not because of lack of competetiveness... many of GM's cars are made across the border in Canada, and their just-in-time supply chain has been munged by post-9-11 border hassles. And as any car industry guy can tell you, it's an extremely cyclical business. If they import, it'll just be another phase in the cycle, nothing more.
As for the Holden Monaro, it looks a lot like a copy of a 7 year-old Pontiac Grand Am design. BFD. Couldn't hurt, I suppose; they wrecked the designs of their 2002 models. The Bonneville, in particular, got ugly real fast.
I briefly worked at Qwest... it was such a messed-up organization that I quit (before mgmt started laying off post-merger headcount). Yes, they overbuilt, not just fiber, but the CyberCenter concept (managed hosting) which never quite took off; think that may have been sold off. (?) Then of course the USWest merger, which allowed the PUC regulators in 14 states to get back in the game and address what was seen locally as poor service by US West.
Interested parties can check out Q complaints at 'Tsewq'.
IMHO: it'll be decades before all the built fiber capacity is used up, because not only did the telecoms install it, but non-telecoms, like Williams (later WilTel), and electric utilities with existing right-of-way space, like AEP, also laid fiber with the intention of marketing it. But Q won't go under; the RBOC will keep them afloat, and sale of their Yellow Pages asset will generate cash (as opposed to WCOM, who lists assets of $104 billion, half of which is intangible/goodwill, and the rest of which will likely be undervalued if sold).
Oh, I'm not objecting to the idea... hey, if Alton can be the guy of the house and cook, so can I. But I'm waiting for that 'better deal', wherein I cook and do the dishes, and she cleans the tubs and toilets and dusts and vacuums and... hmm. Do I need a girlfriend, or a maid?;)
As mentioned by someone below, if you want a 'real' cookbook, get The Joy of Cooking, and make sure it's the latest edition... not the Used-BookStore 1984 edition but the late 90's one. It's a complete reference, includes sections on techniques and ingredients, does include cuisines from more than just North America, and runs about 1100 pages.
Here's a link.
Yes, cooking is a tech skill, and a survival one in case you get snowed in during the winter. But another facet of cooking is that it can be a gadget guy's dream, or nightmare if taken to extremes.... they make stupid little gadgets for damn near every possible kitchen task, and just like the classic garage guy who has every air tool made, or the tech geek who has 7 video cards for 3 PCs:) some people just have to have the melon-baller and the lemon-zester, whether they need it or not. Really... if you have two garlic presses, you have two too many.
I like the show, too; Alton is roughly the food equivalent of Mr. Wizard.
OBCooking: More and more, I find that the women I meet not only know nothing about cooking, they intend to meet a guy who will do it all for them! Talk about stereotype reversal....
... and in the end, nothing came of it. A few years back (mid-90's), a group of Midwestern states formed a compact to locate and build a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility. But it never happened. First, one or two states dropped out of the compact, then the siting committee decided that the politics would never allow the site to happen, so they decided to continue sending current wastes to a South Carolina facility, and then vote their own committee out of existence! Ohio still sends the nuke plant waste down there, apparently, as I'm sure some other places do too.
On the Yucca Mountain issue, I wonder whether other Western sites would be worth considering, like the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming... nothing there, nobody lives there, and Interstate 80 is near enough to get the waste transported there. Maybe the geology's wrong, or Wyoming's politicians are too strong for it to happen;)
Amen, brotha! I would only add to that fine post the reminder than when Spielberg is good with sci-fi, we get 'Close Encounters'... when he's bad with sci-fi, we get 'Batteries Not Included', one of the worst and most depressing films ever made (second only to A.I. in that regard).
Interesting idea there (they'd have to boot out John Williams and have Danny Elfman do the SW theme music though...and maybe Johhny Depp as the semi-adult Vader? Ouch!)
But if we're going down *this* road... may as well have John Waters do the last SW flick. Sure, SW3 would have to be set in Baltimore, and... and...
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Probably plenty of goofs like that... in the 'locker' scene, where K retrieves his watch, J replaces it (at the behest of the 'little people', gag) with his own watch... but in cuts back to the little-people shot, the old K watch is still in place. More will eventually show up at Movie Mistakes.
Saw the flick last night, and felt cheated.... it's virtually a copy of the first movie, the effects brought nothing new to the screen, and at 1 hour 20 minutes, hardly a movie-going value.
Trading in WCOM and MCIT has been halted by NASDAQ... not unusual for this sort of debacle. They may stay halted for some time. Last trades I saw were for $0.10 on Island, $0.09 on Instinet. Ouch.
Corporations may look on EBay for this stuff, but more likely they will find it through resellers that buy it through auction/liquidation; the 'remarketed' equipment market is a large one, and it's where my company buys much of its IT hardware. Benefits vs. EBay are service and support; the remarketed stuff can be certified for original vendor support, whereas with an 'all-sales-final' vendor, you take your chances.
of the WKRP in Cincinnati episode where the mgmt. discovers a DJ taking payola... with the usual hilarious consequences.
As for real life payola, it has to be the main explanation why so much crappy music gets on the air.
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it's not dead judging from the three computer guys I know who are also licensed operators...
It has probably peaked, though, much like the shortwave broadcasting by nationally-sponsored stations like VOA, BBC World Service, etc. The equipment has improved, but the Net seems to have put a big dent in its appeal. It's somewhat like the medium-format camera poll posted some weeks ago... a number of Slashdotters had serious opinions and knowledge about the brands and capabilities, while the majority seemed to say "Huh? Was there photography before digital?" (P.S. Anybody wants to toss an old-tech Hasselblad with lens my way, be my guest;)
So regardless of whether it's new tech or old tech, where there are gadgets, there are geeks. Check out this link from another poster, WC8VOA. They've got some cool pics of the old VOA station, its antennae (before their consumption by suburban sprawl) and its equipment... like 100,000 watt transmitter tubes and other heavy-duty stuff.
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Still, he was always my fave Doctor, too.
More info on the Zip drives can be found here. There are apparently known problems with the Zips, hope this helps (check bottom of linked page for the info).
Happily, after a minor nervous breakdown, I am now only a Unix sysadmin. ;)
WP... oh the horror ....
But don't compare blogs to a BBS... those were the days when you actually had to have a brain to get online, versus now, when Bertha Walmartski can blog it up to tell the world that one of her three toy poodles is depressed.
P.S. some of those awful personal pages still exist. I'd tell you where, but you'd go blind viewing them ;)
OT: 'old-timer'? Hell, I'm 39, and students just a few years older than me had to learn Latin in high school. They probably thought we were slacking on the important stuff.
Depends... how many pico-frames per second are you getting on that mono-graphics version of Quake? ;)
In unrelated news, President Bush's lawyers say he doesn't need Congress' approval to bomb Iraq. See any parallels here? ;)
And aside from 'disposable society' comparisons, I'm not sure why this one's here. Slashdot readers re-use stuff on a regular basis, but there's little chance of a 0% waste product cycle for computer hardware.
... and as for the asphyxiated mammoth with an erection, isn't that how Michael Hutchence went too?
Anyway, if you can identify a field you have great undying interest in, and can narrow it down to a particular area within that field, I'd say "Go for it!" There's certainly nothing great happening in IT that you need to stick around for.
and that's good enough for this sysadmin. Skip the cards, and buy me a pint instead ;)
As for the Holden Monaro, it looks a lot like a copy of a 7 year-old Pontiac Grand Am design. BFD. Couldn't hurt, I suppose; they wrecked the designs of their 2002 models. The Bonneville, in particular, got ugly real fast.
Interested parties can check out Q complaints at 'Tsewq'.
IMHO: it'll be decades before all the built fiber capacity is used up, because not only did the telecoms install it, but non-telecoms, like Williams (later WilTel), and electric utilities with existing right-of-way space, like AEP, also laid fiber with the intention of marketing it. But Q won't go under; the RBOC will keep them afloat, and sale of their Yellow Pages asset will generate cash (as opposed to WCOM, who lists assets of $104 billion, half of which is intangible/goodwill, and the rest of which will likely be undervalued if sold).
Oh, I'm not objecting to the idea... hey, if Alton can be the guy of the house and cook, so can I. But I'm waiting for that 'better deal', wherein I cook and do the dishes, and she cleans the tubs and toilets and dusts and vacuums and... hmm. Do I need a girlfriend, or a maid? ;)
As mentioned by someone below, if you want a 'real' cookbook, get The Joy of Cooking, and make sure it's the latest edition... not the Used-BookStore 1984 edition but the late 90's one. It's a complete reference, includes sections on techniques and ingredients, does include cuisines from more than just North America, and runs about 1100 pages. Here's a link.
I like the show, too; Alton is roughly the food equivalent of Mr. Wizard.
OBCooking: More and more, I find that the women I meet not only know nothing about cooking, they intend to meet a guy who will do it all for them! Talk about stereotype reversal....
On the Yucca Mountain issue, I wonder whether other Western sites would be worth considering, like the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming... nothing there, nobody lives there, and Interstate 80 is near enough to get the waste transported there. Maybe the geology's wrong, or Wyoming's politicians are too strong for it to happen ;)
Bag Spielberg and let George do his own thing.
But if we're going down *this* road... may as well have John Waters do the last SW flick. Sure, SW3 would have to be set in Baltimore, and... and...
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Saw the flick last night, and felt cheated.... it's virtually a copy of the first movie, the effects brought nothing new to the screen, and at 1 hour 20 minutes, hardly a movie-going value.
Nice pic link... the guy's name is "Detective Bart Beavers"??? Now there's a natural for the pr0n squad...
Trading in WCOM and MCIT has been halted by NASDAQ... not unusual for this sort of debacle. They may stay halted for some time. Last trades I saw were for $0.10 on Island, $0.09 on Instinet. Ouch.
Corporations may look on EBay for this stuff, but more likely they will find it through resellers that buy it through auction/liquidation; the 'remarketed' equipment market is a large one, and it's where my company buys much of its IT hardware. Benefits vs. EBay are service and support; the remarketed stuff can be certified for original vendor support, whereas with an 'all-sales-final' vendor, you take your chances.
As for real life payola, it has to be the main explanation why so much crappy music gets on the air.
So regardless of whether it's new tech or old tech, where there are gadgets, there are geeks. Check out this link from another poster, WC8VOA. They've got some cool pics of the old VOA station, its antennae (before their consumption by suburban sprawl) and its equipment... like 100,000 watt transmitter tubes and other heavy-duty stuff.