4x5-Guy

I'm truly saddened by this. One of my favorite artists. Loved his work all around.

Easy. "Here, hold my beer"

There was a 2020 report. Haven't looked for a later one.

https://www.bondcap.com/report/onw/#view/1

I'm retiring in 3 months. I'll miss the work and people, won't miss the stress and hours.

During my career, I've repaired mainframes and graphics systems. I've managed Unix systems for over 25 years. SysVr4 on NCR frames, AIX systems, Sun Systems and now a mixed environment of Linux and AIX. I think I'm reasonable good at it, at least no ones complained.

I've worked in a variety of industries, finance, food service, distribution. I've work at a PAAS startup that successfully exited. I know the business world better then when I started and can relate to business employees a lot better than I did when I was younger. I've also learned how to coax a problem out of a non IT employee, especially when they really can't describe the problem.

I've found as I got older, I mellowed a bit, I don't rush to judgement as fast, and I've learned to look at a problem and try to understand it before I try to fix it. I've also got a long history of troubleshooting to lean on when I need it. If I did something wrong or screwed up, I admitted it and apologize. If I didn't understand something, I also admitted it and asked for help. I can also use Google with the best of them. I've found out that though the joints are creaking a bit, I have no problems keeping up.

I believe that I've given fair work to whatever company I worked for, for the compensation they gave me. Consider I'm still employed in the field after so long, I have to believe it's so.

I've also learned not to put anything in writing where it can be used against me in the future. I would never post this question on such an emotional and inflammatory topic. I really hope no one knows your real id, otherwise this could bite you in the future.

I also hope you keep this someplace and read it when you are in the middle of your career. I think you will be dismayed at how callous you were.

Good luck.

Well said.

There was a completed cabinet devoted to outputs for the field engineer. All the register were displayed, as well as buttons to set them. At least on later systems, they were in a big square, and someone patched the OS to display the Burroughs, big B, logo during the systems idle time.

Not a class per se, but a former company I worked at was trying to get the technical staff working closer to the business side a little better. There were several books we were asked to read. Dale Carnegies, "How to make Friends and Influence People" was one of them, along with a few others. Since I read a lot, and they were going to let me do it on company time, I gladly did it. Then we had to discuss them with our manager on our one on ones.

It made me look at my behavior a little bit closer, but a lot of that book was BS from what I remember...

You might check out https://libre.space

I believe there have been some small sat projects documented in Make magazine also.

The rocket was called Orion. You would probably need more than 200 nukes for it.

Proxima Centauri is ~4 light years away, not a half of a light year.

If you would have checked, they've scaled back the party to family and close friends. Before they scaled it back, invitees were asked if they were vaccinated and results of a Covid test.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/04/barack-obama...

Been there, done that, need the t-shirt...

You do realize how far Pluto is, plus ottomh there is only one moon orbiting Pluto. You wouldn't see the flash anyway.

From what I remember, paper tape was a slower input device, while cards could be read much faster. To make a change, you had to repunch the whole tape, while for cards you could just punch one card.

Plus punch cards were much nicer to write notes on, and stick in your pocket... :)

I was really saddened to hear this. I've always loved his music, and I didn't know he was ill.

He will be missed.

Sorry, I hate dark mode apps. Too much eye strain for me. Give me a terminal screen with dark grey letters against a not quite white background and I'm good. Too many books when I was younger I guess.

It would have been nice to have those capabilities, but we still aren't there yet. Such an optimistic view of things.

Interesting form factor of the board. Everything on one edge. I wish I could buy just that.

I supposed I will have to settle for the whole thing and toss the keyboard.

I played alto and tenor sax in high school/college. What a great instrument. It still gives me chills when I hear a great sax tune.

You could always start doing high powered rocketry. Some of the current rocket companies started that way. You could also develop a payload and test it as well.

Interesting. But while the first kit is listed as "free", there is nothing I could find on prices to keep going.

Cats, definitely.

Friendlier then a panel heater, and contrary to popular opinion they are social animals.

People have been using wet plate photography for years. Others have started using dry plates, and someone is selling them commercially.

Then there is a community working on the above and a few working on true roll film.

Probably the best site for making your own materials is http://thelightfarm.com, good discussions about all films commercial or homemade at http://apug.org

I thought I read some place, which I can't remember, that you would probably not make it past 800 yrs or so. Accidents happen.

Unless you just hole up someplace and never do anything, and even then something could happen.

Being in Junior College in 1973, some of the kids had 4 function calculators hanging off their belt. The rest of us in a tech track usually carried a slide rule.

I did take a technical math class that involved programming a desktop calculator. Basically the first programming class I had.

I wish I remembered what brand it was, I'd like to try to pick one up if I could find one.

6G

Definitely a blog I'll have to keep track of.

That just bites.

Since it looks like it works on a Raspberry Pi, I think I'll give it a try.

In the First Amendment, the government is not allowed to either promote or attack speech. The courts have ruled that some speech, such as hate speech, does not have this protection. Just by deciding whether or not the government will spend ad-money on a platform or not, based solely on what is said on the platform, is one form of the government either rewarding or punishing that platform. I can't comment on the platform protections at the moment.

I'm going to say I believe the courts will block this, but it will look good to Trump's base in an election year.

It would seem to me that this order tramples on the First Amendment. No matter how much the executive wants to trample on twitter, they are still a private company and can publish or not publish what they wish.