the Mooninite thing in Boston several years ago. I see that people and cops haven't evolved since then and still regularly report items that are normal as suspicious and the cops dutifully rush in and blow them up.
Carly Fiorina wasn't exactly the best thing for HP. Right down to the fact HP is just a computer company now. They spun off the test gear division to Agilent. Oh and I think they still make printers.
The media echo chamber. They salivate over any snow storm event as a snowpocalypse.
Where I live in RI they had forecast 24 to 30 inches of the shit. We got maybe 5 or 6 inches of snow which is pretty much a non-event. But everything is shut down, the stores are closed, transit systems are shut down and the Governor appears on TV in bed hair. It's sort of amusing.
And I have the day off work. But then I couldn't get to work if I tried as they ban all car travel and public transit is all shut down and a 53 mile walk to Cambridge, MA is out of the question.
I wonder which new 'feature' will make O2K16 WORSE than it's predecessors thereby necessitating a mass flee to LibreOffice. As someone who develops on occasion in VBA I was pissed when they switch from dot notation to bang notation. Nice going guys.
That I went in the direction of the Linux world and got the hell away from Windows in general.
Between licensing costs, patches that break key functionality, etc. who the hell wants to stay on Windoze?
I like the Linux update mechanisms between apt-get on Debian and Ubuntu to yum on RedHat and CentOS. And it's fairly easy to roll back an update too. As opposed to windows where even some of your config data gets hosed in the process.
And if you're worried about things like AD, Domains etc. just install SAMBA on a Linux box and couple auth to LDAP. Life gets lots easier.
Yeah but with oil price per barrel hovering around $50 right now that might not be the case. However as many have warned, there's only so much oil in the ground. The smart money is on renewables.
The frackers aren't going to stop - the technology is at the point where it actually makes sense to extract horizontally.
That said I've often maintained if we want to cripple the jihadist strains of Islam we need to dump money into R&D for advanced electric storage and charging infrastructure and tell the middle east to go get fucked.
Deny them revenue and all of a sudden they don't have the money to do anything, look at Russia for example.
You have my condolences. I left the Windows world when they dropped support of XP. Went with Ubuntu instead - don't get me wrong Ubuntu has it's warts but nowhere near the level of say WIndows 7 or Windows 8.
My work machine is in fact a Windows 7 box - this is for a major defense contractor and in speaking with their I.T. folks we pretty much all pan Windows 8.
I've had the exact same thought. Only the way I thought of it - find the safest driver you know and just plug the device into their car. A low tech solution for a high tech problem.
Between the Stranger Danger and NIMBY and Snoops in the neighborhood a kid can't develop outside infantilism.
Which explains society today. Me - I was a latch key kid. Both parents worked so daily I'd do a sixth of a mile trek to and from school. Or school to my grandparents house which was also a sixth of a mile from the school. By age 7 I had my own key to the house.
Yeah - amazon has pretty much demolished Radio Shack. It's a shame - they once were on top of the game and slid so far down in the past decade or two it's pitiful.
And I can't honestly say last time I was in a Radio Shack store. I patronize a more local electronics place whose prices aren't astronomical, whose components are pretty damned good and they're a business who when they accidentally overcharged me called me up and told me they reversed part of the charge on my card. Nice!
But even that business is suffering the Amazon effect too. And I'll be honest - I can get a bag of say LM386's for $1.75 or so on Amazon that would cost the same per chip at Radio Shack or even the local place.
And since I'm an amateur radio licensee I'm always interested in kits like the Pixie QRP CW 40M one I just got off ebay for $7 - it's a 40M morse code transceiver kit. Putting it together this weekend.
No kidding it's long overdue. I've always said if we separated the last mile of coax from the incumbent provider and forced them to interconnect we'd be better off.
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the Mooninite thing in Boston several years ago. I see that people and cops haven't evolved since then and still regularly report items that are normal as suspicious and the cops dutifully rush in and blow them up.
Carly Fiorina wasn't exactly the best thing for HP. Right down to the fact HP is just a computer company now. They spun off the test gear division to Agilent. Oh and I think they still make printers.
They're going to discourage boys from the programs? I smell a Title IX lawsuit coming on this one.
In addition to which in Europe the last mile is owned by one company while the backbones are owned by multiples. Plus regulation is pretty heavy too.
Until they come with Windows 10 installed. I hate Windows 8.
Even though I've not been a dell employee for a few years I still have the employee purchase plan. I wonder how much I could get one for.
The media echo chamber. They salivate over any snow storm event as a snowpocalypse.
Where I live in RI they had forecast 24 to 30 inches of the shit. We got maybe 5 or 6 inches of snow which is pretty much a non-event. But everything is shut down, the stores are closed, transit systems are shut down and the Governor appears on TV in bed hair. It's sort of amusing.
And I have the day off work. But then I couldn't get to work if I tried as they ban all car travel and public transit is all shut down and a 53 mile walk to Cambridge, MA is out of the question.
I wonder which new 'feature' will make O2K16 WORSE than it's predecessors thereby necessitating a mass flee to LibreOffice. As someone who develops on occasion in VBA I was pissed when they switch from dot notation to bang notation. Nice going guys.
Reason being the tax code is so complex that to code that takes an enormous effort.
That I went in the direction of the Linux world and got the hell away from Windows in general.
Between licensing costs, patches that break key functionality, etc. who the hell wants to stay on Windoze?
I like the Linux update mechanisms between apt-get on Debian and Ubuntu to yum on RedHat and CentOS. And it's fairly easy to roll back an update too. As opposed to windows where even some of your config data gets hosed in the process.
And if you're worried about things like AD, Domains etc. just install SAMBA on a Linux box and couple auth to LDAP. Life gets lots easier.
Yeah but with oil price per barrel hovering around $50 right now that might not be the case. However as many have warned, there's only so much oil in the ground. The smart money is on renewables.
The frackers aren't going to stop - the technology is at the point where it actually makes sense to extract horizontally.
That said I've often maintained if we want to cripple the jihadist strains of Islam we need to dump money into R&D for advanced electric storage and charging infrastructure and tell the middle east to go get fucked.
Deny them revenue and all of a sudden they don't have the money to do anything, look at Russia for example.
You have my condolences. I left the Windows world when they dropped support of XP. Went with Ubuntu instead - don't get me wrong Ubuntu has it's warts but nowhere near the level of say WIndows 7 or Windows 8.
My work machine is in fact a Windows 7 box - this is for a major defense contractor and in speaking with their I.T. folks we pretty much all pan Windows 8.
The whole thing about fraud against a corporate entity makes me a little bit angry. Who the fuck do those corporations think they are anyhow?
I've had the exact same thought. Only the way I thought of it - find the safest driver you know and just plug the device into their car. A low tech solution for a high tech problem.
Well - my Android phone came standard with a call block app that says only allow calls and texts from contacts. So that solves that problem.
Yeah by the time I was 12 I had a ten speed bike - I'd take that thing all over creation sans helmet. Nobody said a fucking thing.
Between the Stranger Danger and NIMBY and Snoops in the neighborhood a kid can't develop outside infantilism.
Which explains society today. Me - I was a latch key kid. Both parents worked so daily I'd do a sixth of a mile trek to and from school. Or school to my grandparents house which was also a sixth of a mile from the school. By age 7 I had my own key to the house.
They tried getting into amateur radio too with the HTX-202 and the 70cm version. But for the money - you were better off buying a Kenwood or Yaesu.
Yeah - amazon has pretty much demolished Radio Shack. It's a shame - they once were on top of the game and slid so far down in the past decade or two it's pitiful.
And I can't honestly say last time I was in a Radio Shack store. I patronize a more local electronics place whose prices aren't astronomical, whose components are pretty damned good and they're a business who when they accidentally overcharged me called me up and told me they reversed part of the charge on my card. Nice!
But even that business is suffering the Amazon effect too. And I'll be honest - I can get a bag of say LM386's for $1.75 or so on Amazon that would cost the same per chip at Radio Shack or even the local place.
And since I'm an amateur radio licensee I'm always interested in kits like the Pixie QRP CW 40M one I just got off ebay for $7 - it's a 40M morse code transceiver kit. Putting it together this weekend.
Yes in fact you should limit it to I.T. professionals. After all they would be a jury of peers.
No kidding it's long overdue. I've always said if we separated the last mile of coax from the incumbent provider and forced them to interconnect we'd be better off.
Was when I worked for the RI Secretary of State's office. The Archives divisions prepared all sorts of data retention schedules and we used them.
Yeah - come to think of it there is one radio station I stream - it's KBCS out of the Seattle area. No commercials at all.
Yeah that's pretty much what killed radio. The incessant repetition is awful to the point I'd rather drive in silence a lot of the times.