Well, in defense, our Unix servers were (trying to remember) System 5, I think. . . Which SCO owns. . . But there were several contributing factors to having to reboot the servers.
a) crappy server cases, not enough cooling b) crappy SCSI HDs, prone to fail in their RAID configuration c) We had shitty programmers, and there were so many programs running concurrently that our programmers wrote, its not easy to kill each one individually. d) Making the registers useless for about 5 minutes, because we hate the cashiers.
I completely agree with this. I've worked tech support, and even POS (point-of-sale) support before. Often times, if some layman asks you what you did to fix the problem, I give them a non-sensical (to the layman) answer, just so they stop bothering me. I have also developed new words for cashiers, as taught to me from other techs to get people to comply to what you're doing.
For instance, you don't say: "We are going to reset/restart your unix server"
you say: "We are going to bump your server"
You don't say: "A backhoe dug up your local T-1 line, and now you're on dialup, credit authorizations are going to take longer"
You say: "Please don't call me, call the credit authorization company"
There are so many more, but I just can't think of any handy right now.
Key is, you have to dumb things down a bit so the average lay person doesn't take 45 minutes chatting about what could be the technicial difficulty.
What are the various laws your states have on ticketing by photo speed traps and such, the systems that sense speed, and then take a picture of your license plate etc. I'm asking, because I know the law in Utah, doesn't allow photo-speed traps, except in/for school zones. Do most states allow this sort of speed-trap?
You've never been to Utah or Montana. Back in Utah, the octane levers were: 85,87-89,91-93. Up here in the great state of Montana, our octane levels are similar to Utah's at: 85.5,87-89,91-93. Pretty crappy octane levels if you ask me.
Sad thing was, the only thing my smart-ass could think of reading half of these comments are those "old" Apple "Switch" commercials? Are they too old to even get a good joke in here somewhere?
While I am no computer novice, I will speak for the computer illiterates (sp?). Plugging a small, simple unit (smaller than 8"^3) and inserting one cd in the top try, and inserting a blank cd in the bottom tray, and pressing one of the two buttons located on the unit is purely simple. The ability to have the power of CD duplication in a unit that has no more than 4 buttons on it is quite nice when working with people that aren't famliar with computers. Also, as I refer back to my DJ job, I could actually burn the CDs while working, and not concern myself with the outcome, while I was working on the mic. Super simple to throw two CDs in and press a button. I know you might say it is super easy to burn a CD on a laptop/computer, it isn't *THAT* easy.
How is this so dramatically different from the author's previous stated stein post? Does the original story differ that much from stein to pitcher? You'd think the original empty stein could be very easily modified to fit on to a pitcher, and voila! a wireless pitcher that would notify bar personnel that your pitcher is empty.
Being a former DJ (using CDs), I never understood the beauty of units that you could just plug in, and copy cd to cd (ala CD Duplicator). The one caveat I list to this, is that they are overpriced, and often times run more than $300. But none the less, one day while DJing, I had a DJ from another club (same owners, different locations) come in, and show me some of his new CDs, and showed me what was really hot and so on. In an instant, he went to his car, grabed his duplicator, and some CD-Rs and burnt me copies, real quick like. It was beautiful to have an on-site on-location CD duplication. If I could have afforded the equipment, I would have bought one myself (even after seeing the somewhat rediculous prices of the equipment).
CD Duplicators can come in real handy, in situations you wouldn't believe!
Ahhh, my sweet, sweet, TI99, too bad you never really hear anybody talking about them in the "consoles of years/decades past"; you always here about Atari's 2600 and so on, but never along any console timeline do you ever see mention of the TI99. I grew up on a TI99, and an Apple ][e. Parsec was awesome, but during those long refueling tunnels, there was a command you had to enter that would slow you down, Maybe it was like T and a number key or something. Thats how I was always able to do those long tunnes.
I remember, one of the funniest things I've ever seen, this was back in the early mIRC 5.x days. I remember seeing a website thanking the 12 people who actually bought mIRC. Priceless, I would have to say a vast majority of people on the IRC networks were MS Windows users running mIRC.
Technical - The Driver What Does it Do? Controls the wheel using its bodyweight,
the joystick, throttle and brake. Looks out
for suicidal pedestrians and bicyclists.
Aims toward them.
That is the purpose of this article. It just stated that no matter how much we have alike, and how easily we can communicate, as the "world shrinks", there are some major differences in preferences.
Also, that GTA3, Halo, and Madden are the bread and butter of most college-aged males doesn't matter for shit. As far as I've seen while at college, beer and pizza are also the bread and water of most college-aged males. So, GTA3, Halo, and Madden are on par with cheap food and inebriated idiocy.
Good thing we have our Japanese anime games/movies that are obviously more refined and tactful than any Amercian game.
Just understand that we are in two different cultures that value different things in all parts of our lives.
You're not looking at the whole picture here. You cited that one game was popular in both regions. The fact of the matter is that you will not see most Japanese games, because they just don't attract the popularity that "American" games do. This doesn't apply to every single game made, but it is generally held true.
And just to take a little break from things, what elements of "his real life" did the developer take for the "Legend of Zelda" that is sort of creepy.
I remember, when I first started using Linux, I got the "Tri-Linux distro set" (which included Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware), along with it came a 3 cd set of a sunet mirror FTP site. So by today's standard, I would like to see a CD mirror of the iBiblio.org FTP archive.
Financial situation is okay, I like my toys, and I like to buy new toys, and still stay above water, hence the second job.
Your second question there is actually some of the feedback I wanted to listen to, as I said, my main job, is a mainframe operator on a 1976 mainframe, no huge advances in technology there, but about all it gives me is more time to log as a "mainframe operator", which I might add is not a career option I'd like to see.
Your third question is also excellent, because, that is probably one of my main concerns, I have no free time, as it is right now, to look for another job.
Another thing, that another poster mentioned is, security, I feel more secure with 2 jobs. But this is also a concern with the low wages I'm getting from both of my current jobs (also, bartending during the day is quite awful, as far as wages go).
Just reminding you, you are talking in a thread about Conker's Bad Fur Day. I don't know what sort of intelectually stimulating event you were expecting to occur in this game. . .
I almost always do (when I don't its because I personally know the customer, and his/her card). What I find is that 75% time, if a person has "See ID" written down on the back of the card, and I ask to see their ID, they actually thank me for taking the time, and comparing signatures/names. And, for those people that say they are too busy and don't have the time, I am a bartender and I will take the time, even when the bar is extremely busy, and I have been able to walk away many times with very few complaints about time.
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Well, in defense, our Unix servers were (trying to remember) System 5, I think. . . Which SCO owns. . . But there were several contributing factors to having to reboot the servers. a) crappy server cases, not enough cooling b) crappy SCSI HDs, prone to fail in their RAID configuration c) We had shitty programmers, and there were so many programs running concurrently that our programmers wrote, its not easy to kill each one individually. d) Making the registers useless for about 5 minutes, because we hate the cashiers.
I completely agree with this. I've worked tech support, and even POS (point-of-sale) support before. Often times, if some layman asks you what you did to fix the problem, I give them a non-sensical (to the layman) answer, just so they stop bothering me. I have also developed new words for cashiers, as taught to me from other techs to get people to comply to what you're doing.
For instance, you don't say: "We are going to reset/restart your unix server" you say: "We are going to bump your server" You don't say: "A backhoe dug up your local T-1 line, and now you're on dialup, credit authorizations are going to take longer" You say: "Please don't call me, call the credit authorization company" There are so many more, but I just can't think of any handy right now.
Key is, you have to dumb things down a bit so the average lay person doesn't take 45 minutes chatting about what could be the technicial difficulty.
What are the various laws your states have on ticketing by photo speed traps and such, the systems that sense speed, and then take a picture of your license plate etc. I'm asking, because I know the law in Utah, doesn't allow photo-speed traps, except in/for school zones. Do most states allow this sort of speed-trap?
You've never been to Utah or Montana. Back in Utah, the octane levers were: 85,87-89,91-93. Up here in the great state of Montana, our octane levels are similar to Utah's at: 85.5,87-89,91-93. Pretty crappy octane levels if you ask me.
Sad thing was, the only thing my smart-ass could think of reading half of these comments are those "old" Apple "Switch" commercials? Are they too old to even get a good joke in here somewhere?
While I am no computer novice, I will speak for the computer illiterates (sp?). Plugging a small, simple unit (smaller than 8"^3) and inserting one cd in the top try, and inserting a blank cd in the bottom tray, and pressing one of the two buttons located on the unit is purely simple. The ability to have the power of CD duplication in a unit that has no more than 4 buttons on it is quite nice when working with people that aren't famliar with computers. Also, as I refer back to my DJ job, I could actually burn the CDs while working, and not concern myself with the outcome, while I was working on the mic. Super simple to throw two CDs in and press a button. I know you might say it is super easy to burn a CD on a laptop/computer, it isn't *THAT* easy.
Next step past this invention would be a cocktail waitress that would actually pay attention to your/your "buddy" bars orders and drinking needs.
How is this so dramatically different from the author's previous stated stein post? Does the original story differ that much from stein to pitcher? You'd think the original empty stein could be very easily modified to fit on to a pitcher, and voila! a wireless pitcher that would notify bar personnel that your pitcher is empty.
Being a former DJ (using CDs), I never understood the beauty of units that you could just plug in, and copy cd to cd (ala CD Duplicator). The one caveat I list to this, is that they are overpriced, and often times run more than $300. But none the less, one day while DJing, I had a DJ from another club (same owners, different locations) come in, and show me some of his new CDs, and showed me what was really hot and so on. In an instant, he went to his car, grabed his duplicator, and some CD-Rs and burnt me copies, real quick like. It was beautiful to have an on-site on-location CD duplication. If I could have afforded the equipment, I would have bought one myself (even after seeing the somewhat rediculous prices of the equipment).
CD Duplicators can come in real handy, in situations you wouldn't believe!
Ahhh, my sweet, sweet, TI99, too bad you never really hear anybody talking about them in the "consoles of years/decades past"; you always here about Atari's 2600 and so on, but never along any console timeline do you ever see mention of the TI99. I grew up on a TI99, and an Apple ][e. Parsec was awesome, but during those long refueling tunnels, there was a command you had to enter that would slow you down, Maybe it was like T and a number key or something. Thats how I was always able to do those long tunnes.
I remember, one of the funniest things I've ever seen, this was back in the early mIRC 5.x days. I remember seeing a website thanking the 12 people who actually bought mIRC. Priceless, I would have to say a vast majority of people on the IRC networks were MS Windows users running mIRC.
Yes, yes, yes, we are all impressed by your computer. . . Now let me take my turn in this pissing contest.
How does something like this get modded +1 Interesting? Sounds like an obvious attempt to brag about your computer.
Tighten up the good ol' tin-foil hat, it seems to be getting a touch loose. . .
That is the purpose of this article. It just stated that no matter how much we have alike, and how easily we can communicate, as the "world shrinks", there are some major differences in preferences.
Good thing we have our Japanese anime games/movies that are obviously more refined and tactful than any Amercian game.
Just understand that we are in two different cultures that value different things in all parts of our lives.
You're not looking at the whole picture here. You cited that one game was popular in both regions. The fact of the matter is that you will not see most Japanese games, because they just don't attract the popularity that "American" games do. This doesn't apply to every single game made, but it is generally held true.
And just to take a little break from things, what elements of "his real life" did the developer take for the "Legend of Zelda" that is sort of creepy.
There are a few other things I would be concerned with, if there was a flash flood in a narrow 16+ mile canyon.
I remember, when I first started using Linux, I got the "Tri-Linux distro set" (which included Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware), along with it came a 3 cd set of a sunet mirror FTP site. So by today's standard, I would like to see a CD mirror of the iBiblio.org FTP archive.
Oh Yeah? Let's see you're college/university do this.
Probably because of the fact that you said you were fluent in Klingon.
Financial situation is okay, I like my toys, and I like to buy new toys, and still stay above water, hence the second job.
Your second question there is actually some of the feedback I wanted to listen to, as I said, my main job, is a mainframe operator on a 1976 mainframe, no huge advances in technology there, but about all it gives me is more time to log as a "mainframe operator", which I might add is not a career option I'd like to see.
Your third question is also excellent, because, that is probably one of my main concerns, I have no free time, as it is right now, to look for another job.
Another thing, that another poster mentioned is, security, I feel more secure with 2 jobs. But this is also a concern with the low wages I'm getting from both of my current jobs (also, bartending during the day is quite awful, as far as wages go).
Just reminding you, you are talking in a thread about Conker's Bad Fur Day. I don't know what sort of intelectually stimulating event you were expecting to occur in this game. . .
I almost always do (when I don't its because I personally know the customer, and his/her card). What I find is that 75% time, if a person has "See ID" written down on the back of the card, and I ask to see their ID, they actually thank me for taking the time, and comparing signatures/names. And, for those people that say they are too busy and don't have the time, I am a bartender and I will take the time, even when the bar is extremely busy, and I have been able to walk away many times with very few complaints about time.
Those two little s--ts, that is what they have been doing all this time without telling me?