... If you can't write software, then you are as much use as a computer scientist as an astronomer who couldn't build their own telescope. Even if you don't actually end up writing software (or building telescopes), the ability to is still important.
I've been hoping for awhile that Google Earth would add a scroll-wheel doohickey that would allow the user to scroll backwards and forwards in time, and that Google would stitch in old/new image data as needed.
Kinda like watching SimCity, but with real roads and buildings...
What you're wishing for sounds like the old VMS file system, where every file had a version number, and when you changed a file you just created a copy with the version number incremented. It worked OK...
That was a scheme that I really liked (way back when), until the BOFH set a system-wide limit of three versions...
Me, for one. Older hardware, still in decent shape. No reason to throw it away just yet.
Factory-installed Win 98. IE used only for windows update. Internally, it might be swiss cheese, but it runs so few services (and it's protected by an external firewall), it's probably more secure than the older "NT" derivatives...
And it's "too slow" for the kids. No Flash, IM, iTunes, etc.
Way, way back in the day, my.logout ran the UNIX fortune program, which sometimes coughed up something witty for me to read as I logged out.
One afternoon, I guess I was feeling a bit giddy, as I had arranged to take the following day off. The fortune program was also in a fine mood, and I thought so much of its output that I just had to log back in and preserve it in the MOTD.
Imagine my surprise the next morning at being rudely awakened by a call from the "senior" sysadmin. Seems the ol' Sun 3 was scaring the users with an error message whenever they logged in, and my superior couldn't find it anywhere in the man pages. It took all my willpower to keep from bursting out laughing.
The message?
Error:/dev/null is full. Please empty the bit bucket.
Oh how I love those Equifax commercials that I've been hearing on the radio. You know, the ones where they'll only charge you a small monthly fee to send you an email whenever they allow your identity to be stolen.
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Hot grits?
So what'll the new acronym be? LAPP?
The feeling is mutual.
Nice editing in the summary. The actual article says that the Queen's name was on the box, not on the tooth.
Sheesh.
I do love that Egyptian stuff, however.
SCSI modem? How moderne!
When I was young, all we had was a Megabyte Modem.
And we were happy to have it, despite all the screaming...
Depends on what your definition of "near" is...
What about that optical mouse you're using?
[looks down...]
Logitech.
[looks over at the 'ol Windows98 box...]
Logitech.
[goes downstairs, looks at wife's laptop...]
Logitech.
'Nuff said.
90 days? What luxury. Ours is every 30 days. Grrr...
You know you've been here too long when you can remember when that was first published...
Unless, of course, if you're developing Vogon Universalis
... If you can't write software, then you are as much use as a computer scientist as an astronomer who couldn't build their own telescope. Even if you don't actually end up writing software (or building telescopes), the ability to is still important.
I thought that's what grad students are for...
I was under the impression that this is part of the wargame project that put SPI out of business.
(SPI?!? see http://www.costik.com/spisins.html )
I still have some old IBM punch cards in my desk. I'll send 'em to you.
Spock would know to change the prefix codes ...
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/
I've been hoping for awhile that Google Earth would add a scroll-wheel doohickey that would allow the user to scroll backwards and forwards in time, and that Google would stitch in old/new image data as needed.
Kinda like watching SimCity, but with real roads and buildings...
A store with only self-checkout? Well, that'd be a store with a lot of fistfights.
All right, dinner and a show!
Begun, this price war has.
By some strange coincidence, just this morning Apple sent me an email with an offer to "Buy a Mac and get an iPod nano free after mail-in rebate."
Hmmm, hmmm, wife's birthday's soon to come. Shiny MacBook, like it she will.
What you're wishing for sounds like the old VMS file system, where every file had a version number, and when you changed a file you just created a copy with the version number incremented. It worked OK...
That was a scheme that I really liked (way back when), until the BOFH set a system-wide limit of three versions...
it is important not to just copy nature's work, but to take the best parts of it and apply it elsewhere.
Oh-oh-oh, sweet mystery of life - at last I found you!
From TFA:
"They literally blow you away," he says; "it's like picking up a leaf blower."
Great. As if I don't get enough of that sound when I'm trying to sleep in on weekends...
Me, for one. Older hardware, still in decent shape. No reason to throw it away just yet.
Factory-installed Win 98. IE used only for windows update. Internally, it might be swiss cheese, but it runs so few services (and it's protected by an external firewall), it's probably more secure than the older "NT" derivatives...
And it's "too slow" for the kids. No Flash, IM, iTunes, etc.
I NEED MUH FIREFOXEN!
"If only I could go back to 98...."
Some of us never left.
"If I want broadband in Seattle I basically have two choices, Comcast or Qwest."
Lucky dog. I'm so far from the phone company that smoke signals would have more bandwidth than DSL. So it's either Comcast or a big bonfire...
Way, way back in the day, my .logout ran the UNIX fortune program, which sometimes coughed up something witty for me to read as I logged out.
/dev/null is full. Please empty the bit bucket.
One afternoon, I guess I was feeling a bit giddy, as I had arranged to take the following day off. The fortune program was also in a fine mood, and I thought so much of its output that I just had to log back in and preserve it in the MOTD.
Imagine my surprise the next morning at being rudely awakened by a call from the "senior" sysadmin. Seems the ol' Sun 3 was scaring the users with an error message whenever they logged in, and my superior couldn't find it anywhere in the man pages. It took all my willpower to keep from bursting out laughing.
The message?
Error:
Oh how I love those Equifax commercials that I've been hearing on the radio. You know, the ones where they'll only charge you a small monthly fee to send you an email whenever they allow your identity to be stolen.
Priceless.