Since I live in Silicon Valley, the fastest way to download a Linux distro during the dial-up days was to download from Australian FTP servers. They and my dial-up UNIX provider had a direct connection to MAE-West, which was about five miles from where I lived at the time. It often took a week to download overnight each CD of a five-CD distro.
when you take it (from your friend, I assume) do you shout echo, amazon, or alexa?
Current name is "Computer" (think Star Trek). If I speak in my telephone voice for work, Computer understands me quite well without having to use the training app. That pisses off my friend since Computer doesn't understand him half the time.
or do you mean when you make one, that this is the noise your asshole produces?
No, I do the fruity-toots.
like is your asshole lingual?
Yes, I'm an asshole. Otherwise, I wouldn't be working in IT.
Nope. APK and I had our falling out a few months ago. It was epic. We've been keeping our distance since then. Slashdot would not survive we if got into it again.
Your college English instructor didn't know the Reagan Administration ended in January 1989?
You're aware that the Reagan tax reform with "revenue enhancements" took place in 1986? My instructor didn't tell me the story until I was in college in the early 1990's.
If you had, you would not claim you installed one.
I've installed Dell disk arrays.
Please stop posting made up bullshit to draw traffic to your blog.
The increase traffic comes from the asshats who are complaining about me. People see that, wonder why I get all this shit, and then check out my websites. I don't mind the extra $75 in ad revenues last month.
People are trying to have a conversation here.
That's funny. A bunch of asshats started bitching about my weight yesterday and continued this morning. If you got a complaint, take it up with them.
Cisco UCS guy here. Umm no, they do not have "NICs" for dedundancy. They do not have NICs at all. There are 8 servers in a module that has a bus. That bus has 2 unified IO cards that to 2 FI switches. There is no such thing as Channel bonding - there are Port Channels. Several ports in one channel, not several channels as one port - the exact opposite of what you said.
I stand correct. I thought the discussion was general server hardware.
According to my college English instructor in the early 1990's, the Reagan Administration raised taxes on warehouses in general and book warehouses in particular. Publisher used to print one million books, warehouse them and sell them as needed. After the warehouse tax went into effect, it was no longer viable for publishers to store books for years at a time. If a bookstore sends back books that don't sell, it's cheaper for the publisher to pulp them. It's one of the reasons why print books have a short shelf lifespan.
OTOH, I've read that the so-called warehouse tax was a story created by the teacher union to discredit the Reagan Administration.
I don't see the relationship between COBOL and C#.
As pointed out in a different comment, I have a coworker who taught COBOL programmers how to use C# before HP laid him off. A quick search indicates that C# as a replacement and/or front-end for COBOL.
COBOL will probably out live C#, even if COBOL programmers won't live that much longer.
A coworker told me that there's good money in COBOL, either programming COBOL on the mainframes or teaching COBOL programmers to program in C#. He did the latter until HP laid him off.
Then there are the sleazoids that just repackage public domain stuff (Wikipedia articles, books from Project Gutenberg) and sell it at high prices.
My favorite repeat offender is Stephen King. If you're not familiar with the bibliography for the REAL Stephen King, you might accidentally buy one of these ebooks. Not sure how this person can get around the safeguards that Amazon has in place. Several my ebooks got flagged because I name dropped Stephen King in the tags.
here's a project i did. migrating about 2k windows/linux server VMs, and about 20 aix boxes from standalone and a flex farm on sharks to a cisco san on ucs and vmax3 tiered.
The server team I work with is doing a similar project to set up Win2K12 VMs to replace physical Win2K3 and Win2K8 servers, as the older servers represent a security vulnerability in terms of patching. I don't know the exact numbers buy they're freeing up half the physical space in the data centers around the country.
do you even know what I'm talking about?
Yes, but only because I previously worked for Cisco and my current job is one of Cisco's larger customers.
I've never seen what a helpdesk ticket looks like.
That's the nice thing about my current job: 80,000+ workstations and NO USERS. The only tickets I deal with are the ones I create for the local desktop tech to go find a workstation and turn it on for me.
Amazon has a robot that trolls the web watching the price of e-books from competitors. If the robot finds a book offered for less than the Amazon price anywhere, at any time, Amazon will pull the book off of Amazon because their contract says nobody else is allowed to sell it for less.
If you're not a member of the KDP Select program, which requires that you pull your ebooks from other retailers, you can't price your ebooks for free on Amazon. I used to trick the Amazon robot into setting some of my ebooks to free by having them for free elsewhere and then informing Amazon of the lower price. That trick doesn't work anymore.
Your comment starts with "charging more for the Ebook than you do for the paperback!" and that makes no sense.
Under the wholesale model, Amazon charged $9.99 for most ebook titles to take market share away from other ebook retailers. Apple forced the industry to adopt the agency model that let publishers — not retailers — to set the ebook price. What some traditional publishers have done was to keep ebooks prices higher than paperbacks or hardbacks to protect their print business.
Despite being the world's largest marketplace, I get most of ebook sales through Smashwords and not Amazon. I doubt whatever changes Amazon had to make for Europe will trickle down to my bottom line.
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Since I live in Silicon Valley, the fastest way to download a Linux distro during the dial-up days was to download from Australian FTP servers. They and my dial-up UNIX provider had a direct connection to MAE-West, which was about five miles from where I lived at the time. It often took a week to download overnight each CD of a five-CD distro.
As long as Alexa doesn't learn to fart and then giggle.
Given the choice between a homicidal AI and a snarky AI, I'll take the snarky AI every time as they're easier to kill.
One time my dad grumbled something and I say "whut?". He says "I didn't say anything, I farted."
My father was the same way. The only time he ever farted was at the dinner table.
when you take it (from your friend, I assume) do you shout echo, amazon, or alexa?
Current name is "Computer" (think Star Trek). If I speak in my telephone voice for work, Computer understands me quite well without having to use the training app. That pisses off my friend since Computer doesn't understand him half the time.
or do you mean when you make one, that this is the noise your asshole produces?
No, I do the fruity-toots.
like is your asshole lingual?
Yes, I'm an asshole. Otherwise, I wouldn't be working in IT.
are you APK?
Nope. APK and I had our falling out a few months ago. It was epic. We've been keeping our distance since then. Slashdot would not survive we if got into it again.
My friend has one of these. I can't take a fart without Alexa making comment.
Why would you want to pay Amazon to help you give away free books?
I don't pay Amazon anything on a FREE ebook. A 30% cut on a FREE ebook is nothing.
Your college English instructor didn't know the Reagan Administration ended in January 1989?
You're aware that the Reagan tax reform with "revenue enhancements" took place in 1986? My instructor didn't tell me the story until I was in college in the early 1990's.
If you had, you would not claim you installed one.
I've installed Dell disk arrays.
Please stop posting made up bullshit to draw traffic to your blog.
The increase traffic comes from the asshats who are complaining about me. People see that, wonder why I get all this shit, and then check out my websites. I don't mind the extra $75 in ad revenues last month.
People are trying to have a conversation here.
That's funny. A bunch of asshats started bitching about my weight yesterday and continued this morning. If you got a complaint, take it up with them.
Cisco UCS guy here. Umm no, they do not have "NICs" for dedundancy. They do not have NICs at all. There are 8 servers in a module that has a bus. That bus has 2 unified IO cards that to 2 FI switches. There is no such thing as Channel bonding - there are Port Channels. Several ports in one channel, not several channels as one port - the exact opposite of what you said.
I stand correct. I thought the discussion was general server hardware.
[...] you have an ethernet card for network traffic [...]
Server motherboards have dual-NIC for redundancy or quad-NIC for channel bonding.
[...] a host bus adapter which is connected to some disks [...]
Those disk arrays are so damn heavy. I actually nicked the center of my palm when installing one.
[...] and a host bus adapter which is connected to some disks [...]
Dual cards for redundancy.
This is about using a single card in the server to do all the different types of external IO.
Uh, no. Single point of failure is reduced with redundant cards. At least, in my work experience at Fortune 500 companies.
You'd think that warehousing [...]
According to my college English instructor in the early 1990's, the Reagan Administration raised taxes on warehouses in general and book warehouses in particular. Publisher used to print one million books, warehouse them and sell them as needed. After the warehouse tax went into effect, it was no longer viable for publishers to store books for years at a time. If a bookstore sends back books that don't sell, it's cheaper for the publisher to pulp them. It's one of the reasons why print books have a short shelf lifespan.
OTOH, I've read that the so-called warehouse tax was a story created by the teacher union to discredit the Reagan Administration.
This is a community you don't belong to. You are not welcome here.
Complain to management. However, since I'm consistently upvoted than downvoted by the mods on a daily basis, I doubt they will do anything.
I don't see the relationship between COBOL and C#.
As pointed out in a different comment, I have a coworker who taught COBOL programmers how to use C# before HP laid him off. A quick search indicates that C# as a replacement and/or front-end for COBOL.
Actually, it is Fortran. Maybe it was FORTRAN when FUN3D was originally written, but now it's most certainly just Fortran.
Or FORTRAN because early keyboards couldn't do lowercase letters?
COBOL will probably out live C#, even if COBOL programmers won't live that much longer.
A coworker told me that there's good money in COBOL, either programming COBOL on the mainframes or teaching COBOL programmers to program in C#. He did the latter until HP laid him off.
If this was written in COBOL, the replacement code would be in C#.
Then there are the sleazoids that just repackage public domain stuff (Wikipedia articles, books from Project Gutenberg) and sell it at high prices.
My favorite repeat offender is Stephen King. If you're not familiar with the bibliography for the REAL Stephen King, you might accidentally buy one of these ebooks. Not sure how this person can get around the safeguards that Amazon has in place. Several my ebooks got flagged because I name dropped Stephen King in the tags.
here's a project i did. migrating about 2k windows/linux server VMs, and about 20 aix boxes from standalone and a flex farm on sharks to a cisco san on ucs and vmax3 tiered.
The server team I work with is doing a similar project to set up Win2K12 VMs to replace physical Win2K3 and Win2K8 servers, as the older servers represent a security vulnerability in terms of patching. I don't know the exact numbers buy they're freeing up half the physical space in the data centers around the country.
do you even know what I'm talking about?
Yes, but only because I previously worked for Cisco and my current job is one of Cisco's larger customers.
I've never seen what a helpdesk ticket looks like.
That's the nice thing about my current job: 80,000+ workstations and NO USERS. The only tickets I deal with are the ones I create for the local desktop tech to go find a workstation and turn it on for me.
Do you see plumbers who change your water filter trying to contribute to forums on industrial water purification systems?
My plumber is a woman. She's 100% dyke.
We do not believe you.
This picture was taken last year. Cheers and jeers!
https://www.cdreimer.com/images/cdreimer_350.jpg
If you're wondering about the shirt, it can be found here.
http://6dollarshirts.com/viewer-discretion
Amazon has a robot that trolls the web watching the price of e-books from competitors. If the robot finds a book offered for less than the Amazon price anywhere, at any time, Amazon will pull the book off of Amazon because their contract says nobody else is allowed to sell it for less.
If you're not a member of the KDP Select program, which requires that you pull your ebooks from other retailers, you can't price your ebooks for free on Amazon. I used to trick the Amazon robot into setting some of my ebooks to free by having them for free elsewhere and then informing Amazon of the lower price. That trick doesn't work anymore.
Your comment starts with "charging more for the Ebook than you do for the paperback!" and that makes no sense.
Under the wholesale model, Amazon charged $9.99 for most ebook titles to take market share away from other ebook retailers. Apple forced the industry to adopt the agency model that let publishers — not retailers — to set the ebook price. What some traditional publishers have done was to keep ebooks prices higher than paperbacks or hardbacks to protect their print business.
http://publishingtrendsetter.com/industryinsight/simple-explanation-agency-model/
Despite being the world's largest marketplace, I get most of ebook sales through Smashwords and not Amazon. I doubt whatever changes Amazon had to make for Europe will trickle down to my bottom line.
Quick question - was the last time you saw your dick 10+ years ago?
This morning. I used to do long-distance bike riding (20+ miles). From the waist down, my junk and legs look awesome. The rest of me, meh.