Ha. I finally junked my CD cases and stuffed a few binders full of CDs and liners. Yes, I loved some of those liners.
And I have multiple libraries of rips, some.WAV, MP3 at two different rates, AAC, and OGG. If I could I would have ATRAC5 also. And a shameful amount of 'free' music downloaded from wherever, 'music' being a term not well suited to a lot of it. Free music is a lot like free fish, don't smell it.
I have all my emails from multiple accounts from 1996 to 2004, and most everything from 2004 on. Most in MBOX format, some in nasty text formats. Only my CompuServe stuff I'm missing much of. I do have some old FidoNet archives, and a few scraps I love, kept from a PLATO system I had access to for a while. Much of my post-2004 email is actually in three or more active accounts today. I stopped saving spam in 2004.
Keeping track of photos is worse, I've got spotty archives from around 1998-2006, and after that way too many files with way to many dupes, thank you so much Google Drive, HTC, and iCloud.
Today I have a sharing device online with most of this, 2 different USB drives with most of this one and all on the other of them, and an old DLT cartridge with this that is probably useless, since I bet I cannot find a drive for it, and software would be a painful search. Just can't throw it. I can't guess how much data this comprises, and I really don't care,
Beyond that I've got a manageable library of MiniDiscs, and a player/recorder that works great, and possibly 2 cassette tapes from the old days of all that, and I've lost 2 record collections in my lifetime, so I think I maybe have 2 LPs hidden away, because my wife would throw those out. Feh.
And I'm my personal librarian. No one else will do it. So yes, the difference between librarian and hoarder is intent. Maybe. And I'm keeping it as long as I can, not because anyone else will ever read it, and I may not, but just in case.
The Northeast Atlantic has been fished hard all of my life, and before. I expect the fishermen in Gloucester to fight over the last haddock.
Atlantic Salmon have been fished to near-extinction in the wild, on both sides of the Atlantic.
If the contention is that humans have been warming the ocean since the 1930s, they are indeed blaming the wrong thing for the decline in fish populations. Factory fishing, relentless school harassment by Scandinavian and other fleets, pure and simple overfishing is the primary stress.
Look at the North Pacific, they open crab seasons for days. Just days.
But also look at the Maine lobster harvest, fairly well self-regulated. And no, the guns come out over trap placement, not over size regulations.
And to be fair, a text-based solution demands care be taken to design a 'perfect' tab order, fields be laid out like any paper coming in, etc... My brother THE programmer bemoans the effort he puts into entry screens that is ignored because users never bother to use the TAB key, as instructed, to avoid taking their hand off the keyboard and dealing with a mouse. His stuff is forced into GUIs by OS and platform limitations, thank you IBM.
Which describes an entire era of software. Was ti useful before a mouse was considered so vital, actually before it was even used, or existed? Well, back then it was specified, purchased, and used. Same as now, this is a specious argument.
'Assessors are prone to make mistakes when using the vintage software because it can't display all the basic information for a given property on one screen'
Dear, it seems as if either this software was NEVER usable, or are users able to take the necessary care to do their work accurately...?
'The staffers have to open and exit several menus to input stuff as simple as addresses'
Ah, the slings and arrows.
'To put it mildly, the setup "doesn't reflect business needs now'
As in ease of use, etc, sure. As in it has always worked like this, why do I seem to read this as 'it's old and clunky, and it's the fault of the software that I make so many mistakes'. Where I work, we do have a lot of this. Because we care, and work in private industry, we understand the software, make the necessary adjustments to our habits, and take the time to do it right.
'It took her office almost four years to secure $36 million for updated assessors' hardware and software...' 'The design requirements are due to be finalized this summer.'
What comes first, the chicken, the egg, the funding, or the requirements?
After all that, has no one in San Francisco government made a CBA case for replacing it? I'm betting they are leaving revenue on the table by not having accurate data. And I'm betting they need to build reasonable, achievable requirements. So many government IT projects fail because the project was designed so poorly from the start.. Examples abound.
I've lost all my Walkmen. On a business trip to NYC i walked by 47th St Photo just to look in the window. There it was. The TPS-L2. Mine in 15 minutes.
Before that I had an underdash cassette deck with a pack of NiCd batteries taped to it, omg. The Koss headphones were full isolation, and it is a minor miracle I wasn't run over skating around in traffic. A little like having a boat anchor on your hip, but it was music.
I was in NYC for training on Sony dictating machines, fortuitous because that Walkman, the first, was mechanically virtually identical to the new and svelte hand held cassette dictating recorder. So I could actually keep putting it back together. A couple of those NiCds were really really helpful.
Yes, my Sharp MiniDisc recorder has lasted much longer.
- Removing it from the sleeve, obsessively cleaning and cleaning the surface, each side as played, and transcribing that precious vinyl album to reel to reel tape, on your Revox, at 15ips? Then, after careful storage of the vinyl, transcribing from the tape to metal oxide cassette tape, high bias, Dolby C, and all, treading upon the maximum level but never exceeding, to have a replica you could play over and over and over, secure in the knowledge that this could be replaced by a new transcription - for years...
- Waiting until 10pm on a specific night on Sundays, patiently, so that your almost in range FM station, for instance WABE, to play the most recent release of whatever top band was in the market, complete with start announcements, lead-in silence, and lead-out silence, one side at a time, your finger poised over the PAUSE button on that Revox reel to reel recorder, capturing what you could not quite yet actually purchase, to be transcribed onto cassette...
- And happily making another cassette copy for a friend, who made a copy for a friend, and so on until the result sounded better if you merely LOOKED at the cassette, in preference to playing back the 7th generation copy, reduced to an analog of a rainstorm on oil drums. Or AM radio from Chicago. Or SW from Berlin.
Those days. Makes me want to get my MiniDisc player/recorder and copy my favorites. Again. Through the Koss Pro4A cans. Isolation. Yes, we probably paid more for the equipment than we should have, but that golden age of HiFi still rings in my ears. L100 speakers, Sansui receivers, Linn turntables (the SL1200 not yet produced), Grado cartridges, Ampex tape (I know...), Nakamichi cassette decks, all this before directional oxygen-free copper interconnects. Just to hear shoddy recordings, with the exception of The Who, they cared.
Actually, being a Republican since my junior hear in high school, it's not my beliefs that help foster these melting pot ghettos... And it's certain that my reverence for, and defense of, Constitutional rights for even these 'melting pot ghettos' would have served them well. As it is, they are cesspools of violence and corruption, designed so.
No, not by the Right. Recall that the Republican Party got its start as abolitionist, a civil rights champion. The NRA early on did not merely defend the rights black Americans to keep and bear arms, but trained them.
And so history is forgotten and memory twisted. 'Middle class white liberals' seem to have a particular proclivity for that.
Most container work seems to be in the config and packaging. The apps, code, readily developed in mainline kernel distros. But I do work in VMs often. Have to be careful I don't have 500GB of versions and lose track of the best fallback...
Actually, in developing my cloud services, for personal use, I bought a RPi. Worth every penny. Easy, good emulation of a remote server 'out there', pretty easy to migrate to a 'real' server. Then redeployable for a new project. Also doesn't hose up my work machine under any circumstances.
If you're seriously working in Starbucks, get batteries for it, do the serial terminal over USB, log it into Google Starbucks, later you tear out the GUI and VNC Viewer.
Well, that's not a new problem. Back 'in the day' we had Windows Server trying to be secure, reliable, and usable. SQL Server tying to be 'enterprise' grade. Before that, I actually sold NetWare servers running Advantage db, PostgreSQL, with fabulous uptime and perfiomance, security, and were manageable. And before that, LANtastic. Ugh.
And seeing sensitive apps running on what is really general-purpose platforms is painful. For a little while I did break/fix support for a blood bank business. running on a custom RTOS that needed FDA and other approvals. Merely recovering from a failed hard drive required recertification. They were serious.
Yeah, leaving the GUI running in production is bad form. Once the system is debugged and production ready, tear out all the unnecessary stuff. But that's hard work, the same sort of work that Windows programmers needed to do, and did not, to permit their apps to install cleanly as Power User, and not as Administrator. Yeah, I bet these all woke Linux apps need root for a variety of lesser tasks, bad form again. I wonder how many don't even bother to do minimal port hardening. And this is a common problem. Windows Server is just as hard to secure from those common service exploits. Then you ad in Windows vulnerabilities and nothing important should run on Windows without substantial external security.
But this is really a screed about the sad state of software quality. It's ubiquitous. I'll just go back in the corner and watch the next sprint peter out, unfulfilled.
YouTube hasn't abandoned or even limit censorship in any way.
They have outsourced it.
Now, consider that YouTube will censor your video, by denying you full exposure/rights/permissions, not (ostensibly) for the content, but because of the comments, even (especially) those you have no control over. If someone wants to harm you, they can easily post objectionable comments to your posts, and *poof*, you suffer consequences of their deliberate acts.
The State wins.
Oh, be sure the State is working their evil on this site also.
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I finally trashed my copy of Balance of Power. Could not find a way to make it run on anything.
Ha. I finally junked my CD cases and stuffed a few binders full of CDs and liners. Yes, I loved some of those liners.
And I have multiple libraries of rips, some .WAV, MP3 at two different rates, AAC, and OGG. If I could I would have ATRAC5 also. And a shameful amount of 'free' music downloaded from wherever, 'music' being a term not well suited to a lot of it. Free music is a lot like free fish, don't smell it.
I have all my emails from multiple accounts from 1996 to 2004, and most everything from 2004 on. Most in MBOX format, some in nasty text formats. Only my CompuServe stuff I'm missing much of. I do have some old FidoNet archives, and a few scraps I love, kept from a PLATO system I had access to for a while. Much of my post-2004 email is actually in three or more active accounts today. I stopped saving spam in 2004.
Keeping track of photos is worse, I've got spotty archives from around 1998-2006, and after that way too many files with way to many dupes, thank you so much Google Drive, HTC, and iCloud.
Today I have a sharing device online with most of this, 2 different USB drives with most of this one and all on the other of them, and an old DLT cartridge with this that is probably useless, since I bet I cannot find a drive for it, and software would be a painful search. Just can't throw it. I can't guess how much data this comprises, and I really don't care,
Beyond that I've got a manageable library of MiniDiscs, and a player/recorder that works great, and possibly 2 cassette tapes from the old days of all that, and I've lost 2 record collections in my lifetime, so I think I maybe have 2 LPs hidden away, because my wife would throw those out. Feh.
And I'm my personal librarian. No one else will do it. So yes, the difference between librarian and hoarder is intent. Maybe. And I'm keeping it as long as I can, not because anyone else will ever read it, and I may not, but just in case.
"might not ask Congress to renew its legal authority,"
Yeah, so who watches the watchers? We have no good reason to trust this or any other agency. None.
The Northeast Atlantic has been fished hard all of my life, and before. I expect the fishermen in Gloucester to fight over the last haddock.
Atlantic Salmon have been fished to near-extinction in the wild, on both sides of the Atlantic.
If the contention is that humans have been warming the ocean since the 1930s, they are indeed blaming the wrong thing for the decline in fish populations. Factory fishing, relentless school harassment by Scandinavian and other fleets, pure and simple overfishing is the primary stress.
Look at the North Pacific, they open crab seasons for days. Just days.
But also look at the Maine lobster harvest, fairly well self-regulated. And no, the guns come out over trap placement, not over size regulations.
Even better, and since it probably came from S/3x midrange, they could have looked into a java GUI and front-end it.
Of course, a decade ago, the GUI tools in RPG would have been very attractive.
And also, since this is undoubtedly a vendor package, the vendor would prefer to hold them hostage for real money. Time to move to AIX. Oh, wait...
And to be fair, a text-based solution demands care be taken to design a 'perfect' tab order, fields be laid out like any paper coming in, etc... My brother THE programmer bemoans the effort he puts into entry screens that is ignored because users never bother to use the TAB key, as instructed, to avoid taking their hand off the keyboard and dealing with a mouse. His stuff is forced into GUIs by OS and platform limitations, thank you IBM.
Since it was designed that way, it always made the users pay attention and be inefficient.
So it was a result of the limitations of the industry at the time.
MicroFocus COBOL, I bet.
Which can indeed be modernized with GUI and all, but probably not cost-effective if the salient complaints are true.
'can't be used with a mouse'
Which describes an entire era of software. Was ti useful before a mouse was considered so vital, actually before it was even used, or existed? Well, back then it was specified, purchased, and used. Same as now, this is a specious argument.
'Assessors are prone to make mistakes when using the vintage software because it can't display all the basic information for a given property on one screen'
Dear, it seems as if either this software was NEVER usable, or are users able to take the necessary care to do their work accurately...?
'The staffers have to open and exit several menus to input stuff as simple as addresses'
Ah, the slings and arrows.
'To put it mildly, the setup "doesn't reflect business needs now'
As in ease of use, etc, sure. As in it has always worked like this, why do I seem to read this as 'it's old and clunky, and it's the fault of the software that I make so many mistakes'. Where I work, we do have a lot of this. Because we care, and work in private industry, we understand the software, make the necessary adjustments to our habits, and take the time to do it right.
'It took her office almost four years to secure $36 million for updated assessors' hardware and software...'
'The design requirements are due to be finalized this summer.'
What comes first, the chicken, the egg, the funding, or the requirements?
After all that, has no one in San Francisco government made a CBA case for replacing it? I'm betting they are leaving revenue on the table by not having accurate data. And I'm betting they need to build reasonable, achievable requirements. So many government IT projects fail because the project was designed so poorly from the start.. Examples abound.
Higher tape speeds moved hiss up in frequency, hopefully to inaudible ranges. Bias increased levels, drowning out hiss, we just hoped.
Of course Dr. Bose pretty much destroyed most theories of high fidelity playback.
I've lost all my Walkmen. On a business trip to NYC i walked by 47th St Photo just to look in the window. There it was. The TPS-L2. Mine in 15 minutes.
Before that I had an underdash cassette deck with a pack of NiCd batteries taped to it, omg. The Koss headphones were full isolation, and it is a minor miracle I wasn't run over skating around in traffic. A little like having a boat anchor on your hip, but it was music.
I was in NYC for training on Sony dictating machines, fortuitous because that Walkman, the first, was mechanically virtually identical to the new and svelte hand held cassette dictating recorder. So I could actually keep putting it back together. A couple of those NiCds were really really helpful.
Yes, my Sharp MiniDisc recorder has lasted much longer.
Does no one remember;
- Removing it from the sleeve, obsessively cleaning and cleaning the surface, each side as played, and transcribing that precious vinyl album to reel to reel tape, on your Revox, at 15ips? Then, after careful storage of the vinyl, transcribing from the tape to metal oxide cassette tape, high bias, Dolby C, and all, treading upon the maximum level but never exceeding, to have a replica you could play over and over and over, secure in the knowledge that this could be replaced by a new transcription - for years...
- Waiting until 10pm on a specific night on Sundays, patiently, so that your almost in range FM station, for instance WABE, to play the most recent release of whatever top band was in the market, complete with start announcements, lead-in silence, and lead-out silence, one side at a time, your finger poised over the PAUSE button on that Revox reel to reel recorder, capturing what you could not quite yet actually purchase, to be transcribed onto cassette...
- And happily making another cassette copy for a friend, who made a copy for a friend, and so on until the result sounded better if you merely LOOKED at the cassette, in preference to playing back the 7th generation copy, reduced to an analog of a rainstorm on oil drums. Or AM radio from Chicago. Or SW from Berlin.
Those days. Makes me want to get my MiniDisc player/recorder and copy my favorites. Again. Through the Koss Pro4A cans. Isolation. Yes, we probably paid more for the equipment than we should have, but that golden age of HiFi still rings in my ears. L100 speakers, Sansui receivers, Linn turntables (the SL1200 not yet produced), Grado cartridges, Ampex tape (I know...), Nakamichi cassette decks, all this before directional oxygen-free copper interconnects. Just to hear shoddy recordings, with the exception of The Who, they cared.
What 200 felonies? Really?
'not illegal'.
So we've finally abandoned the fiction of 'the appearance of impropriety'.
Good. Multimillion dollar contributions, tens of thousands of dollars in speaking fees, certainly not illegal except by a strict reading of the law.
Save that I actually believe the parties are not, in fact, much different from their foundings at all.
You may have missed a few.
Of course, it would seem there's hardly any reason to suspect this, right?
The Democrats have never been accused of outsourcing election fraud.
"that their beliefs help foster."
Actually, being a Republican since my junior hear in high school, it's not my beliefs that help foster these melting pot ghettos... And it's certain that my reverence for, and defense of, Constitutional rights for even these 'melting pot ghettos' would have served them well. As it is, they are cesspools of violence and corruption, designed so.
No, not by the Right. Recall that the Republican Party got its start as abolitionist, a civil rights champion. The NRA early on did not merely defend the rights black Americans to keep and bear arms, but trained them.
And so history is forgotten and memory twisted. 'Middle class white liberals' seem to have a particular proclivity for that.
Posting fake, disingenuous, deliberately bad reviews will not lower ticket prices.
Please reconsider your tactics.
Sincerely,
PLU
Most container work seems to be in the config and packaging. The apps, code, readily developed in mainline kernel distros. But I do work in VMs often. Have to be careful I don't have 500GB of versions and lose track of the best fallback...
Actually, in developing my cloud services, for personal use, I bought a RPi. Worth every penny. Easy, good emulation of a remote server 'out there', pretty easy to migrate to a 'real' server. Then redeployable for a new project. Also doesn't hose up my work machine under any circumstances.
If you're seriously working in Starbucks, get batteries for it, do the serial terminal over USB, log it into Google Starbucks, later you tear out the GUI and VNC Viewer.
Drivers for what? A sound card on your cloud server?
Well, that's not a new problem. Back 'in the day' we had Windows Server trying to be secure, reliable, and usable. SQL Server tying to be 'enterprise' grade. Before that, I actually sold NetWare servers running Advantage db, PostgreSQL, with fabulous uptime and perfiomance, security, and were manageable. And before that, LANtastic. Ugh.
And seeing sensitive apps running on what is really general-purpose platforms is painful. For a little while I did break/fix support for a blood bank business. running on a custom RTOS that needed FDA and other approvals. Merely recovering from a failed hard drive required recertification. They were serious.
Yeah, leaving the GUI running in production is bad form. Once the system is debugged and production ready, tear out all the unnecessary stuff. But that's hard work, the same sort of work that Windows programmers needed to do, and did not, to permit their apps to install cleanly as Power User, and not as Administrator. Yeah, I bet these all woke Linux apps need root for a variety of lesser tasks, bad form again. I wonder how many don't even bother to do minimal port hardening. And this is a common problem. Windows Server is just as hard to secure from those common service exploits. Then you ad in Windows vulnerabilities and nothing important should run on Windows without substantial external security.
But this is really a screed about the sad state of software quality. It's ubiquitous. I'll just go back in the corner and watch the next sprint peter out, unfulfilled.
"A hob is what most of the world calls the burners on top of your stove. "
No. Maybe, just maybe, most of the English-speaking world. But I doubt that also.
YouTube hasn't abandoned or even limit censorship in any way.
They have outsourced it.
Now, consider that YouTube will censor your video, by denying you full exposure/rights/permissions, not (ostensibly) for the content, but because of the comments, even (especially) those you have no control over. If someone wants to harm you, they can easily post objectionable comments to your posts, and *poof*, you suffer consequences of their deliberate acts.
The State wins.
Oh, be sure the State is working their evil on this site also.