Reminds me of an early release build of Win95. It would properly set time back an hour for Daylight Saving Time, but not set a flag that it had been done, so it would do it over, and over, and over...
I'm amazed that they can sell them for $125 including shipping (which has to be at least $40-50) and still make a profit. Makes me wonder what THEY paid for them.. Vendor said they had more than 100 still available, and…
It wasn't really the sysadmins that got free stuff - it was department managers / tech leads, etc, that would get gear in for review to see if it fit with our workflow, processes, etc. Us sysadmins just had to…
I worked in oil and gas (Halliburton) for 12 years. The amount of stuff we got in "for review", "for test", "preview", etc. was simply amazing. Even pre-production gear a lot of the times. I found a pair of Tesla cards…
It definitely still exists - I used my old DECUS membership number to get a new set of license PAKs (and a link to download the install media and software kits) last week.
From the page: "No you can't just "sed s'/Red Hat/CentOS/' (someone always offers that)"
I'm not always somewhere that I can get overnight delivery.
No wireless charging on the new phones. I used the heck out of it in the Nexus 5 days, but got so used to plugging in my Pixel 1 in the interim that I hardly used it at all once I got the P3.
I'm currently using a Pixel 3, but just ordered the 3a as my new "backup" phone (replacing my OG Pixel 1 and a P1XL I bought refurbished). I'll probably use the 3a as my primary phone for a month so I get the $100 Fi…
Tons. If not a POTS line its a VoIP connection.
archive.org - look up Jason Scott/@textfiles on twitter.
Protip: cheap ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. You wouldn't believe some of the gunk i've gotten out of pens that sat in a drawer for 20 years....
Dave Cutler (one of the designers of VMS at DEC) led the development of WNT at MS. While some ideas may have trickled down, WNT isn't "based" on VMS. If it was, it would be a lot better :D (Still waiting for the x86-64…
I was one of the poor folks who could only afford the Matrox m3d (aka PowerVR PCX2), which shuffled video data to and from the 3d accelerator over the PCI bus, and was therefore slow as crud.. but, I had GL Quake!…
I bought a bunch of the Cree LED bulbs from HD when they first came out, and I've had probably 6-8 of them fail into what I call "disco strobe" mode. Eventually I'll replace the rest of them as they fail with whatever…
I worked for Halliburton as a sysadmin for 12 years.. during that time they owned 34/8 and 134.132/16. Looking now: 134.132/16: still LGC/HAL 34/10: HAL 34.64/10: Google 34.128/10: HAL 34.192/10: Amazon So I guess they…
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Article mentions smallparts.com - however, SmallParts was an independent company that Amazon bought years ago (2005). I remember getting their (awesome) catalog in the mail before the takeover.…
I used this as an example for my public speaking class in college in '94. I also passed out a Pop-Tart (in a baggie) to every person in the class. Wow, memories.
I usually brought my own keyboards (you can get one with MX browns or mx brown clones for $35-75 on amazon) to whatever job.. but at this one they saw my keyboard, said "Budget of $100, spec out whatever you want, and…
Mattresses (Casper), office chairs (Steelcase LEAP), keyboards (something with Cherry MX Brown switches). I spend the majority of my life using these bits so I buy quality.
I had to provide a picture of the death certificate and a link to an obit (IIRC, it's been nine years).
And "memorialization" just makes it so that the account can't post, log in, etc - but other people can still post to that account's "wall" - "we miss you" messages, etc.
Nope. You have to specifically request that an account be "memorialized", otherwise it stays there just like they've not logged in. I had to do it with my wife's when she passed away.
The very first "real UNIX box" I owned was a PC7300/3B1. Got it working with the built-in 1200 baud modem and everything. Eventually replaced it with a Sun 3/50, but I have fond memories of the 3B1 (and there are great…
Reminds me of an early release build of Win95. It would properly set time back an hour for Daylight Saving Time, but not set a flag that it had been done, so it would do it over, and over, and over...
I'm amazed that they can sell them for $125 including shipping (which has to be at least $40-50) and still make a profit. Makes me wonder what THEY paid for them.. Vendor said they had more than 100 still available, and…
It wasn't really the sysadmins that got free stuff - it was department managers / tech leads, etc, that would get gear in for review to see if it fit with our workflow, processes, etc. Us sysadmins just had to…
I worked in oil and gas (Halliburton) for 12 years. The amount of stuff we got in "for review", "for test", "preview", etc. was simply amazing. Even pre-production gear a lot of the times. I found a pair of Tesla cards…
It definitely still exists - I used my old DECUS membership number to get a new set of license PAKs (and a link to download the install media and software kits) last week.
From the page: "No you can't just "sed s'/Red Hat/CentOS/' (someone always offers that)"
I'm not always somewhere that I can get overnight delivery.
No wireless charging on the new phones. I used the heck out of it in the Nexus 5 days, but got so used to plugging in my Pixel 1 in the interim that I hardly used it at all once I got the P3.
I'm currently using a Pixel 3, but just ordered the 3a as my new "backup" phone (replacing my OG Pixel 1 and a P1XL I bought refurbished). I'll probably use the 3a as my primary phone for a month so I get the $100 Fi…
Tons. If not a POTS line its a VoIP connection.
archive.org - look up Jason Scott/@textfiles on twitter.
Protip: cheap ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. You wouldn't believe some of the gunk i've gotten out of pens that sat in a drawer for 20 years....
Dave Cutler (one of the designers of VMS at DEC) led the development of WNT at MS. While some ideas may have trickled down, WNT isn't "based" on VMS. If it was, it would be a lot better :D (Still waiting for the x86-64…
I was one of the poor folks who could only afford the Matrox m3d (aka PowerVR PCX2), which shuffled video data to and from the 3d accelerator over the PCI bus, and was therefore slow as crud.. but, I had GL Quake!…
I bought a bunch of the Cree LED bulbs from HD when they first came out, and I've had probably 6-8 of them fail into what I call "disco strobe" mode. Eventually I'll replace the rest of them as they fail with whatever…
I worked for Halliburton as a sysadmin for 12 years.. during that time they owned 34/8 and 134.132/16. Looking now: 134.132/16: still LGC/HAL 34/10: HAL 34.64/10: Google 34.128/10: HAL 34.192/10: Amazon So I guess they…
google reader
Article mentions smallparts.com - however, SmallParts was an independent company that Amazon bought years ago (2005). I remember getting their (awesome) catalog in the mail before the takeover.…
I used this as an example for my public speaking class in college in '94. I also passed out a Pop-Tart (in a baggie) to every person in the class. Wow, memories.
I usually brought my own keyboards (you can get one with MX browns or mx brown clones for $35-75 on amazon) to whatever job.. but at this one they saw my keyboard, said "Budget of $100, spec out whatever you want, and…
Mattresses (Casper), office chairs (Steelcase LEAP), keyboards (something with Cherry MX Brown switches). I spend the majority of my life using these bits so I buy quality.
I had to provide a picture of the death certificate and a link to an obit (IIRC, it's been nine years).
And "memorialization" just makes it so that the account can't post, log in, etc - but other people can still post to that account's "wall" - "we miss you" messages, etc.
Nope. You have to specifically request that an account be "memorialized", otherwise it stays there just like they've not logged in. I had to do it with my wife's when she passed away.
The very first "real UNIX box" I owned was a PC7300/3B1. Got it working with the built-in 1200 baud modem and everything. Eventually replaced it with a Sun 3/50, but I have fond memories of the 3B1 (and there are great…