Lol, nice. Does an audio recording of an ivory-billed exist?
It was the sadness in his voice and the look in his eyes that aligned with his words. I certainly experienced plenty of skepticism directed at me based on my age in my youth, this was not that.
Before I worked at TSS doing in-home PC repair, I did a short stint at Radio Shack and got the Compaq experience you described. I remember going to the introduction event for the Compaq roll-out into Radio Shack stores,…
These old ads are great, really takes me back to that era. In the mid to late 1990's I was a pimply faced youth in community college and picked up a part time job doing "PC repair". I couldn't put my finger on it, but…
I skimmed over half way through and they were still talking about gourds.
It's cute to see folks who have completely drunk the in-house koolaid try to communicate to outsiders, and we're better off for it. I really struggled to understand OS/400 coming in with a working knowledge of…
Yes. I could not fathom why anyone would want to run anything besides AIX on them though. You can run all the other OS's on cheap commodity hardware, the draw for me was having an AIX system to work with.
I was familiar with both the "laptop AS400" and the PowerPC thinkpad - these were different hardware unrelated to each other. I believe the sales demo machine was a CISC architecture demo machine that predated PowerPC,…
As a youth a few decades ago I had an opportunity to play with one of these systems at home (and I actually still have it boxed up somewhere). I managed to acquire a 9401 Model 150 that fell off the back of a truck, it…
Anyone running ripgrep on a an HPC cluster against a large cluster filesystem needs to stop and redesign their workflow. This generates high amounts of small I/O which is the Achilles heel of any large cluster…
Anyone remember the predecessor, Today With A Techie (Twatech Radio): https://twatech.org
TL;DR: I believe the Datamaster should be considered part of the lineage of the ATX standard today. The interesting thing I recently noticed about the Datamaster is that I believe this system's motherboard inadvertently…
AI is the industrial revolution finally arriving at the land of information and software development, full stop. Read Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope if you want to understand whats happening and see a roadmap of…
Those that can, do - and those that can't, teach. Teaching is rewarding which is why people do it, but you're asking them to take less pay for what is often a harder job - convincing kids to learn something when they…
#loadbearing
Robotic sputnik tool, it is very slick. Something that's not obvious is that these work best on ABUS or other locks that have one solid driver pin and spools in every remaining pin stack. This way, when you locate and…
It's not an accident that its so hard to get this stuff right, I've heard countless stories like this from friends who are parents. If the market wanted parents to be able to figure this out it would be getting it…
I miss Notacon and Jason Scott's Demoscene parties.
Man, this brings back memories of playing with Festival back in the day. I wrote a bunch of scripts to generate dynamic Festival text2speech audio for a Part15 AM radio station, a virtual radio station DJ over 15 years…
Heh, reminds me of the days I kept Win95 and Win98 DOS boot disks for emergency booting Windows machines.
Man, this takes me back.
That's certain to spread joy.
Ah yes, memories of my laptop, an Orinoco card, and Netstumbler cruising down the highway during my day-job. Shortly after that I added an X-10 video receiver and a USB Hauppauge WinTV adapter to capture video…
I think this was the plot of an episode of CSI (don't recall which sub-series, maby Miami?) in the 2000's. Eventually they determine a guy dies of lead poisoning and they figure out he ate massive amounts of chocolate…
Very interesting. A TL-15 is an excellent container, but I'm not familiar with a 5 wheel combination lock in commercial service in the US. I have a S&G vault lock which has 4 wheels. I don't doubt 5 wheel locks exist…
Lol, nice. Does an audio recording of an ivory-billed exist?
It was the sadness in his voice and the look in his eyes that aligned with his words. I certainly experienced plenty of skepticism directed at me based on my age in my youth, this was not that.
Before I worked at TSS doing in-home PC repair, I did a short stint at Radio Shack and got the Compaq experience you described. I remember going to the introduction event for the Compaq roll-out into Radio Shack stores,…
These old ads are great, really takes me back to that era. In the mid to late 1990's I was a pimply faced youth in community college and picked up a part time job doing "PC repair". I couldn't put my finger on it, but…
I skimmed over half way through and they were still talking about gourds.
It's cute to see folks who have completely drunk the in-house koolaid try to communicate to outsiders, and we're better off for it. I really struggled to understand OS/400 coming in with a working knowledge of…
Yes. I could not fathom why anyone would want to run anything besides AIX on them though. You can run all the other OS's on cheap commodity hardware, the draw for me was having an AIX system to work with.
I was familiar with both the "laptop AS400" and the PowerPC thinkpad - these were different hardware unrelated to each other. I believe the sales demo machine was a CISC architecture demo machine that predated PowerPC,…
As a youth a few decades ago I had an opportunity to play with one of these systems at home (and I actually still have it boxed up somewhere). I managed to acquire a 9401 Model 150 that fell off the back of a truck, it…
Anyone running ripgrep on a an HPC cluster against a large cluster filesystem needs to stop and redesign their workflow. This generates high amounts of small I/O which is the Achilles heel of any large cluster…
Anyone remember the predecessor, Today With A Techie (Twatech Radio): https://twatech.org
TL;DR: I believe the Datamaster should be considered part of the lineage of the ATX standard today. The interesting thing I recently noticed about the Datamaster is that I believe this system's motherboard inadvertently…
AI is the industrial revolution finally arriving at the land of information and software development, full stop. Read Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope if you want to understand whats happening and see a roadmap of…
Those that can, do - and those that can't, teach. Teaching is rewarding which is why people do it, but you're asking them to take less pay for what is often a harder job - convincing kids to learn something when they…
#loadbearing
Robotic sputnik tool, it is very slick. Something that's not obvious is that these work best on ABUS or other locks that have one solid driver pin and spools in every remaining pin stack. This way, when you locate and…
It's not an accident that its so hard to get this stuff right, I've heard countless stories like this from friends who are parents. If the market wanted parents to be able to figure this out it would be getting it…
I miss Notacon and Jason Scott's Demoscene parties.
Man, this brings back memories of playing with Festival back in the day. I wrote a bunch of scripts to generate dynamic Festival text2speech audio for a Part15 AM radio station, a virtual radio station DJ over 15 years…
Heh, reminds me of the days I kept Win95 and Win98 DOS boot disks for emergency booting Windows machines.
Man, this takes me back.
That's certain to spread joy.
Ah yes, memories of my laptop, an Orinoco card, and Netstumbler cruising down the highway during my day-job. Shortly after that I added an X-10 video receiver and a USB Hauppauge WinTV adapter to capture video…
I think this was the plot of an episode of CSI (don't recall which sub-series, maby Miami?) in the 2000's. Eventually they determine a guy dies of lead poisoning and they figure out he ate massive amounts of chocolate…
Very interesting. A TL-15 is an excellent container, but I'm not familiar with a 5 wheel combination lock in commercial service in the US. I have a S&G vault lock which has 4 wheels. I don't doubt 5 wheel locks exist…