Posts by Agamemnon

Re: Sometimes, it's the little things.

Heh. I know Snipe.

I'll have to share this with her.

Re: Pottering around not doing much

Mine used to say, "Pizza Box and Beer Bottle Removal Engineer" (I was the COO of a Start-Up).

After we designed the cards I modified the file for my cards when nobody was looking, and when we got the proofs back from the printers while everyone was Aghast, I said, "These are *perfect*" and slipped a few into my wallet (knowing my I.T. Buddy and I would be getting together for pints later that evening).

Always good to mess with your title, keeps people on their toes.

Re: doesn't solve ad bloat

I would actually Watch ASCII Art Ads!

Re: Impossible

Um...

I have never seen a Doctor or Lawyer use crypto, not even my patent attorney in Seattle a few years back.

And don't get me started about my girlfriend's daughter's medical records being sent in the clear.

The professions that should be using cryptography do not. As much as I want to blame them somehow, I realize that it is because it is their Customers that Can Not.

Re: Oh My!

The potted plants are Outside of the Desktop cases.

Though one school district I worked for in the early 90' (Dude(t)s, did we all work at some set of schools in our early careers? I see a trend which is why I bring it up.) Once of the nice ladies in the district office had a Lovely Cubicle with all sorts of plants...the one on top of her running desktop while she was watering caught my eye(re).

"Best case, you fry the machine, middle case you get `lectrocuted and die, worst case it it sets off a fire and burns the district build to the ground." Next maintenance week there was a rather nice safety radius of plants vs machine.

Re: All parties

*cough* I live in America... fortunately on the Left Toast so I'm spared much BS, but ummm...

Hypocrisy is very much a coin in this realm. In case you haven't been here, they *are* representing the people.

Re: Palemoon, check. Seamonkey, check.

I have a beloved, cross platform, eBook Management Joy: Calibre. Linux/PC/Mac (in most Linux distros.

I've over 1600 books, many of them I've even purchased (grin), and from Sir Doyle to Neil Stephenson I've probably got it. And I Have a Kindle aroound here somewhere (I think) but I Again a book, strip the DRM to ePUB and good to go.

And then I sync book to my NextCloud to my fondleslab/phone/lappy: all have the same book if I'm in a line (queue for right pond mates) or transit time, or the cafe.

PKWare ZIP being the most glaring example that pops to mind.

Re: Who got out of bed on the wrong side today?

That's actually not too bad.

In Downtown Seattle I know a garage (Car Park for our friends on the Right Side of the Right Pond) that's $25.00 USD the first two hours and $5.00 each additional hour.

Now I live in Redmond on the other side of Lake Washington. I take the Express Metro Bus, Round Trip, $6.50 [and also get to skip the several dollar Bridge Toll ... while reading my paperback/drinking tea/and generally not stressing about other drivers and traffic conditions].

Pretty cheap fix from my perspective and the money I save ends up in Seattle at one of the abundant places for excellent comestibles. [They get my money anyway, but I'd prefer something of value for it other than a rectangular space of asphalt to park my automobile ... like Curries, and Pints!]

Re: Sexing goldfish using MS Office

Rule 34 and all

I'm sorry I forgot to mention that in the US most of our parents had Call Waiting™ (so Aunt Kate could interrupt Mom's call with Aunt Terri) that would interrupt a call with a beeping tone, Not if the four tunes for a modem and cheerfully freaking your modern out.

*70 was how you killed that, and you added it to any dialing software worth a crud as a prefix.

Re: It becomes emabarrassing

I run KDE on Kubuntu that basically looks like a sexy Windows 7 on my daily carry laptop.

The fun part is; I'm an old Unix engineer that actually lives in Redmond, and do it just to piss off Microsofties.

Re: "I can stop a car much quicker without the interference of the ABS system."

That is almost verbatim what my Uncle Don* would say to describe ABS.

* He invented then at General Motors.

Re: RSS isn't dead.

I'm rather grumpy about them leaving XMPP since I had my own XMPP server with a wonderful bridge that allowed it to talk to both GChat and Facebook's (before Facebook became toxic and unusable).

And I could stack OTR on top of it completely disallowing content-based advertising on my chats.

Loved it.

Re: The teapot with craft IPA.

Brew of choice in the US Pacific North West (Seattle, and bloody Redmond where I, as a Unix guy, unfortunately live).

One cannot hide from it. From my deck where I'm sitting, there are four breweries and five "tasting rooms" within walking distance.

IPA, Double IPA, Triple IPA, YouPA IPA, WePA IPA, Let's PA IPA.

I prefer a good Porter.

Re: Better to light a single candle than curse the darkness

Why does this address sound familiar?

Oh! It's my old BofA. If stop there on the way to O'Reilly's pub on (Beach Blanket Blvd) Green St.

(I'd get cash on the way to the pub because the two times I threw down my credit card ended either really well or really poorly, depending on one's point of view.)

It's still there. I promise.

I recall IE on SUN. Most of my gear including my home Sparc 25 was Solaris.

I said at the time: "You can hold a gun to my head but I'll not be installing Microsoft Code on my SUN Boxes... Have you lost it? Should I call a shrink, or the sheriff's office (while backing away slowly, have very not threatening, edging to door).

Re: break up after a long marriage

I've been through a few breakups and you sir are Correct.

It's Rough.

Separating, bazillions or not in play it's personalities.

I live in Redmond. I can walk to Xadadu2 [Bellevue not Redmond] for kicks before the sun goes down.

I'm actually stunned.

Breakups suck and I... Wish both of them Well.

People grow and move.... Ideally Forward.

Bill and I have been a few rounds in business, internet, etc. Came to my desk at WiReD to apologize (with a security team to keep me from beating him with a 2x4)

Dunno what his home situation is. It's really none of our business.

I walk by the Foundation at least once a month. I take the bus to Seattle and pass their home.

People are folk and like the test of us have Issues.

I was in LA when Arnie got busted for screwing the maid.

*Sigh*

People are people and we fuck up and are stupid.

This seems a pleasant disconnect.

No scandal! That's new.

Re: Off Topic

This post moved me.

Thank you.

And may I please... since I live in this mess.

I love us folk around here because we're from all over and that makes me happy.

The US is down but not out.

You cats in Europe, I think, New Zealand, etc etc, have some Serious excellence that I wish we had here. But please don't lose hope... and hope isn't my bag (last thing out of Pandora's box), and I'd ask to let us Grow, again.

As an analyst, I got... nothing.

As a human I'd ask for some time to try and figure things out... and I Do think some of this crap will start to get sorted.

Make no mistake, my patience is zero, but next to this lint in my pocket I just found a little more. Split it with you?

Re: What if MS had not become dominant ?

Agreed.

SCO and I go Way back (I'm from Santa Cruz). And SCO was my primary desktop (also ran NT 3.51, and this little mutt called Slackware had just come on scene, plus a DOS/Win toy).

One of my mentors, and a good friend worked there. I found some nasty bugs with SCO-E and and a new Intel chipset... they rewarded me with a complete developer package. Just the OS would have been prohibitively expensive for Joe User.

Ah the Good ol Days of hot tubbing in the Redwoods and SCO Follies.

I would quite have preferred SCO be the dominant desktop, to be blunt.

Ours was "The Purple Stick of Thumping" delivered to the poor soul, by the Engineering Team** (33 people packed around the desk), silent and glaring.

The only way to have it removed was someone had to screw up worse than whatever got our ire up in the first place.

** Nobody in Eng could screw up as bad as a sales flunky and occasionally someone from Admin. V-and-C level employees were not exempt and PSoT made a few laps through the upper floors.

It's a fucking Acronym, hell it's A Backronym.

G.I.M.P.

Do we really need the periods? Seems we do.

Re: Commuting

Being from SillyValley during that time, I lived in Los Gatos and was loathe to drive to Mountainview or Sunnyvale daily [I was whiny about going to the Data Center in San Jose and I could ride my bike straight up LG Creek Trail, making it tolerable].

I worked for a NOC and was the Sr. so 25x8x366 I was on call. Had a home office, my own SUNs, and pushed my NOC to home and company paid T1 [no DSL yet], got a bonus/stipend for space and power.

The offset was having to come in to the office at 0300 when the Fan Got Clobbered but I lived ten minutes away by car and five by bike.

I Had to be in the office 50%, sometimes across the three shifts [team coherence and gave time with my boss and Powers That Be].

The arrangements we Most Excellent indeed.

The Better Half was less than amused when I assembled a small network lab in the living room once, and I paid for it, but that was the only 'incident' to speak of.