yes of course, but the drives also function as boot devices and allow me to flash firmware and such in certain environments, also old but still functioning (functional) such as my DEC alpha server. Besides the original question was what outdated tech do you still keep around. The problem with USB memory sticks is my retarded corporate bosses FORBID using USB sticks on their enterprise machines, while for some reason a USB attached floppy drive is acceptable. Management logic is beyond my ken...
While there might in fact be 2 Bing users I'm not one of them. I find Bing relies too much on looking pretty and less on delivering decent non-sponsored results. My parents seem to like Bing, though and all I can do is shake my head and set up their browser for them...
Anyone still using google gets what they deserve. White list their ad delivery domains and find another search engine. I really miss Alta-Vista, and DEC in general.
I live in an area that is serviced by several cable providers as well as at least 2 *DSL providers. We have chose to go with Astound http://www.astound.com/ , but Comcast and TWC are also available. On the *DSL side we can get Pac-Bell or CenturyLink. I've previously used SDSL with Pac-Bell and had good results but at a steep cost. About 2 years ago we decided to try Astound due to price issues and have been relatively happy with their performance, though customer service does lack a little in the technical skills area.
I've got 2 LS-120 USB attached floppy drives that I keep moving to new platforms. They are reliable, still using the same box of 10 disks I bought eons ago, mainly because I don't think you can get anymore, but also because they still work.
LOL, nah I can do without the tea or a blanket, but I could use a Newcastle. I had a pong machine, and a radio shack/tandy 16k computer as well, but my 1st machine was a heathkit I built in math class as a junior high student. I had a Atari 2600 and sadly I can still muscle memory my way through Adventure, long live the yellow Duck. Now excuse me while I go play a game of pinball on my vintage Delta Queen, STILL 2 plays (5 balls) for.25.
As for age, it doesn't matter how old you are the phrase old-school makes you sound like a self-absorbed retard. Sadly looking at my comment I have to say the phrase douche bag isn't much better so I'll have to take the heat for that as well.
#1 STOP USING 'old school', you aren't, and you sound like a douche bag. #2 DICE - Zilch, 10,000, liar's dice...etc #3 A deck of cards, Canasta, Bridge, Poker, Pinochle. #4 Risk, Stratego, Masterpiece, Chutes and Ladders for the youngsters, and of course Monotony, aka Monopoly. #5 Dungeons & Dragons, or more preferably Gurps, but any pen and paper RPG is awesome.
If they promised not to 'steal' your contents and sell them to someone else or use them to market 'partner' services, or actually have and supply a real secure site. You know at some point Google will alter their ToS to allow them to use anything in their never-ending quest to track everything and everyone that ever touches the web in any manner.
each store is a independent computer node and not all are interconnected. That indicates to me that it almost has to be an insider/employee/contractor travelling from store to store implementing the malware ? It seems unlikely that a hacker group could/would have the organization to get around to that many states/stores.
True, my example is a wee bit over-dramatic but I do know numerous people who commute more than 250 miles each way every day here in Calizerknia. The underlying argument of scale still does apply.
I can commute farther in the state of California than the entire nation of Finland. Solutions that are workable and even desirable in certain locations are not logistically feasible in others. I was very impressed with the public transportation options in GB, but the distances there lend themselves to such.
The worst issue and the real root cause of the rule change is the 'new' association with DERP. Fark, unlike Slashdot claims ownership of all comments and other postings and has now agreed to allow the Derp group to harvest and share all postings in whatever manner they see fit. Derp http://derp.institute/ It will likely have a measurable cooling effect on the postings at Fark.
Couldn't NASA find a generous corporate sponsor to shell out some $$$ to have their name on the side of a building or rocket ? Stupid companies pay for namespace on sports facilities why not take advantage of the side of the gantry.
Recycling, and re-using are great but that assumes the water is there to be used and re-used in the first place. The Colorado river doesn't even reach the gulf anymore without artificial aid.
Been meeting with the same group for more than 30 years now on Saturday night. I started playing the when the 1st red-book with crayons came out, I was like in 6th grade, and yes I still have the boxed set and nearly EVERY other book, module, and accessory. I'm 46 now and NO other form of RPG online or other can compare to the fun and comradeship of a face to face pen and paper RPG. More imagination, more interaction, and for those of you who doubt it is family fun, our group consists of 2 single ladies, 3 single guys, 2 married couples all my relative age (mid 40's) and 3 much younger players in their mid 20's ( 2 guys and a girl. We have 3 players who rotate as Game Master and we play in a long standing organically customized world. We have been at several Gen-Cons and we ran a full tourney game that was very successful several years ago. Long live D&D
and if I visit a retailer that won't accept cash you lose the sale. I have credit and debit, but I prefer to pay cash for what I want. As for the criminal economy, I'd say corporate America is doing just fine with credit and cash. I also do a healthy side business dealing in barter for services, even more anonymous and generally tax free.
Do you have experience that points to other sources ? I've done this for several years now and I've yet to have to work a teachers or admins workstation for anything but a part failure, while I spend more time cleaning up student workstations and shared library stations with the software filter and the tampering students...
NOTE : quite often I learn NEW and interesting things fixing stuff after the kids are done, things I never would have considered or thought of trying:)
WOW I wish more people thought like you. I volunteer and manage a network and wireless setup for a high-school in my area, the bandwidth is provided free of charge by AT&T, I know it surprised me as well. Kids can and DO break things in ways I never even conceived of before taking on this responsibility. I work as an admin for a very LARGE business and do this professionally and I've never seen the cluster-fsck that 2 dozen high school kids can make of a network in 10 minutes without even really trying. Hardware and software companies need to get these kids to be beta testers.
When you are listening to low definition mp3's. It always makes me laugh to see folks with hi-fi head phones hooked up to an mp3 player listening to 64kbs - 128kbs music.
and ensure the cars are safe, registered, and are not ripping people off ? "Haven't we been around the park already driver....?" While I agree cabby licenses DO restrict who can run a cab or taxi, without some regulation you will soon be riding in a car you'd see on the road in India. I've been a cop and inspected cabs for the county. The owners and drivers of cabs would do without insurance, seatbelts, windows, doors, tread on tires, ANYTHING to make a buck.
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yes of course, but the drives also function as boot devices and allow me to flash firmware and such in certain environments, also old but still functioning (functional) such as my DEC alpha server. Besides the original question was what outdated tech do you still keep around.
The problem with USB memory sticks is my retarded corporate bosses FORBID using USB sticks on their enterprise machines, while for some reason a USB attached floppy drive is acceptable. Management logic is beyond my ken...
While there might in fact be 2 Bing users I'm not one of them. I find Bing relies too much on looking pretty and less on delivering decent non-sponsored results. My parents seem to like Bing, though and all I can do is shake my head and set up their browser for them...
Anyone still using google gets what they deserve. White list their ad delivery domains and find another search engine. I really miss Alta-Vista, and DEC in general.
I live in an area that is serviced by several cable providers as well as at least 2 *DSL providers.
We have chose to go with Astound http://www.astound.com/ , but Comcast and TWC are also available. On the *DSL side we can get Pac-Bell or CenturyLink. I've previously used SDSL with Pac-Bell and had good results but at a steep cost. About 2 years ago we decided to try Astound due to price issues and have been relatively happy with their performance, though customer service does lack a little in the technical skills area.
I've got 2 LS-120 USB attached floppy drives that I keep moving to new platforms. They are reliable, still using the same box of 10 disks I bought eons ago, mainly because I don't think you can get anymore, but also because they still work.
LOL, nah I can do without the tea or a blanket, but I could use a Newcastle. I had a pong machine, and a radio shack/tandy 16k computer as well, but my 1st machine was a heathkit I built in math class as a junior high student. I had a Atari 2600 and sadly I can still muscle memory my way through Adventure, long live the yellow Duck. .25.
Now excuse me while I go play a game of pinball on my vintage Delta Queen, STILL 2 plays (5 balls) for
As for age, it doesn't matter how old you are the phrase old-school makes you sound like a self-absorbed retard. Sadly looking at my comment I have to say the phrase douche bag isn't much better so I'll have to take the heat for that as well.
#1 STOP USING 'old school', you aren't, and you sound like a douche bag.
#2 DICE - Zilch, 10,000, liar's dice...etc
#3 A deck of cards, Canasta, Bridge, Poker, Pinochle.
#4 Risk, Stratego, Masterpiece, Chutes and Ladders for the youngsters, and of course Monotony, aka Monopoly.
#5 Dungeons & Dragons, or more preferably Gurps, but any pen and paper RPG is awesome.
If they promised not to 'steal' your contents and sell them to someone else or use them to market 'partner' services, or actually have and supply a real secure site. You know at some point Google will alter their ToS to allow them to use anything in their never-ending quest to track everything and everyone that ever touches the web in any manner.
each store is a independent computer node and not all are interconnected. That indicates to me that it almost has to be an insider/employee/contractor travelling from store to store implementing the malware ? It seems unlikely that a hacker group could/would have the organization to get around to that many states/stores.
Jenkies and Zoinks, made me laugh and almost snort OJ out my nose, thanks :)
True, my example is a wee bit over-dramatic but I do know numerous people who commute more than 250 miles each way every day here in Calizerknia. The underlying argument of scale still does apply.
I find that I have trouble concentrating on an audio book vs printed/e-book.
I can commute farther in the state of California than the entire nation of Finland. Solutions that are workable and even desirable in certain locations are not logistically feasible in others.
I was very impressed with the public transportation options in GB, but the distances there lend themselves to such.
The worst issue and the real root cause of the rule change is the 'new' association with DERP.
Fark, unlike Slashdot claims ownership of all comments and other postings and has now agreed to allow the Derp group to harvest and share all postings in whatever manner they see fit. Derp http://derp.institute/
It will likely have a measurable cooling effect on the postings at Fark.
If it would get some more cash for NASA to do real science independent of the nitwits we call Congress I'd put up with it...
Couldn't NASA find a generous corporate sponsor to shell out some $$$ to have their name on the side of a building or rocket ?
Stupid companies pay for namespace on sports facilities why not take advantage of the side of the gantry.
Recycling, and re-using are great but that assumes the water is there to be used and re-used in the first place. The Colorado river doesn't even reach the gulf anymore without artificial aid.
Been meeting with the same group for more than 30 years now on Saturday night. I started playing the when the 1st red-book with crayons came out, I was like in 6th grade, and yes I still have the boxed set and nearly EVERY other book, module, and accessory. I'm 46 now and NO other form of RPG online or other can compare to the fun and comradeship of a face to face pen and paper RPG. More imagination, more interaction, and for those of you who doubt it is family fun, our group consists of 2 single ladies, 3 single guys, 2 married couples all my relative age (mid 40's) and 3 much younger players in their mid 20's ( 2 guys and a girl. We have 3 players who rotate as Game Master and we play in a long standing organically customized world. We have been at several Gen-Cons and we ran a full tourney game that was very successful several years ago.
Long live D&D
and if I visit a retailer that won't accept cash you lose the sale. I have credit and debit, but I prefer to pay cash for what I want. As for the criminal economy, I'd say corporate America is doing just fine with credit and cash. I also do a healthy side business dealing in barter for services, even more anonymous and generally tax free.
Do you have experience that points to other sources ? I've done this for several years now and I've yet to have to work a teachers or admins workstation for anything but a part failure, while I spend more time cleaning up student workstations and shared library stations with the software filter and the tampering students...
NOTE : quite often I learn NEW and interesting things fixing stuff after the kids are done, things I never would have considered or thought of trying :)
WOW I wish more people thought like you. I volunteer and manage a network and wireless setup for a high-school in my area, the bandwidth is provided free of charge by AT&T, I know it surprised me as well. Kids can and DO break things in ways I never even conceived of before taking on this responsibility. I work as an admin for a very LARGE business and do this professionally and I've never seen the cluster-fsck that 2 dozen high school kids can make of a network in 10 minutes without even really trying.
Hardware and software companies need to get these kids to be beta testers.
When you are listening to low definition mp3's. It always makes me laugh to see folks with hi-fi head phones hooked up to an mp3 player listening to 64kbs - 128kbs music.
like user feedback... display test results from users of the listed ISP's in the area...
and ensure the cars are safe, registered, and are not ripping people off ? "Haven't we been around the park already driver....?" While I agree cabby licenses DO restrict who can run a cab or taxi, without some regulation you will soon be riding in a car you'd see on the road in India. I've been a cop and inspected cabs for the county. The owners and drivers of cabs would do without insurance, seatbelts, windows, doors, tread on tires, ANYTHING to make a buck.
you make good points but you are wasting them and your effort feeding the trolls.