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Alohaon CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

We just send out an email when the boss is in town and ask folks to come in, and enough people do to make the office seem full - and that works, we will even fly people in sometimes.

Alohaon OpenVMS x86 E9.2-3 fixes CDE (DECWindows) and adds a Guest Console

No, you get an ISO you can install on a hypervisor.

Alohaon OpenVMS x86 E9.2-3 fixes CDE (DECWindows) and adds a Guest Console

https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/

Alohaon OpenVMS x86 E9.2-3 fixes CDE (DECWindows) and adds a Guest Console

they still have it?

https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/

Alohaon OpenVMS x86 E9.2-3 fixes CDE (DECWindows) and adds a Guest Console

This is really awesome - it looks like it might work on Hyper-V now - the serial port was the biggest blocking issue to my knowledge.

Alohaon Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils

the underlying issue, is that tab completion can only do so much.

Alohaon Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils

Yeah, thats the issue, tab completion can only do so much.

Alohaon Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils

You must really like powershell then.

I love most of the language, but I'm convinced it was written by people who type 300 wpm.

Alohaon FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-776A1.pdf

Here is the much more readable PDF.

Alohaon Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)

Sorta like fresh naphtha with the volatiles still in it, and everclear combined?

That would smell sorta good, its a nice 'round' scent.

Alohaon NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control

You act like this is different now than it was with NAA or Grumman in 1965, it's not. The nature of companies has not changed that much since 1965.

But many of the same issues still exist, poorly defined requirements being the primary one.

Alohaon NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control

Yeah, I have, I've also read a couple retrospectives of Apollo by NASA - and some retrospectives of Shuttle too.

Alohaon Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it

every previous thread this has come up, essentially.

Alohaon NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control

I'd really love to see someone compare this to Apollo era hardware, I know there were significant defects that required rework during the Apollo era - this is an organizational competency issue within Boeing, NASA and the United States, we've lost the organization competencies to organize projects like this - that doesn't mean they're gone forever, just that those skills must be rebuilt.

I also feel like some of this, being starliner or SLS issues are shades of the "good, fast, cheap, pick two" problem.

Alohaon Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it

I get that there is probably a desire to solely blame Boeing for this - but this seems like as much of a Project Management and integration failure on the NASA side, as it does Boeing putting defective hardware/software into orbit.

It shouldn't have been allowed to happen, period.

I get that what I said will not be popular, but this has been the consensus of every previous thread on this topic that I've seen - NASA is sorta playing the role of a systems integrator here, and assumes the liability for defective components from their subcontractors, and has the ultimate supervision authority to decide if something can or cannot fly.

Alohaon "We ran out of columns"

He was in essence doing manual version and release control - just.. like you would in 1990 with floppy disks.

Alohaon Construction of the AT&T Long Lines "Cheshire" underground site

a modern call phone call, does actually meet or exceed the quality from a landline. I know because I still had a landline until 2019 - and I have a VoIP one now.

Alohaon Construction of the AT&T Long Lines "Cheshire" underground site

They did - it wasn't all ESS

http://autovon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/BELL-LAB-RECOR...

Alohaon Construction of the AT&T Long Lines "Cheshire" underground site

They also had Number 5 Crossbar switches as well, the switching fabric wasn't huge in size, like I've seen what the frames look like, ESS was still much smaller than the crossbar that preceded it, and not that much physically larger than a comparable 5ESS

Alohaon LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear

Couldnt you just add an LCD layer that turns on when you turn the TV on, to act as a black substrate?

Alohaon The rich history of ham radio culture

RF exposure at the frequencies involved are basically non-harmful.

Alohaon The rich history of ham radio culture

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183024470/julian-gannon

Looks like he passed in 1979, at the ripe old age of 90, we should all be so lucky!

Alohaon The rich history of ham radio culture

Want, sorry it was unclear. Edited the original post to clarify.

Alohaon The rich history of ham radio culture

Also, if you want to read the book, you'll find it going for a cool $245 a copy (as its very out of print), however a quick google search located a PDF (which is often the case for out of print technical books).

Alohaon The rich history of ham radio culture

I do not, I never would have gotten my ticket with it, and I tried and repeatedly failed to learn code.

Now I'm an Extra, and have been licensed long enough to join the QCWA.

Alohaon The rich history of ham radio culture

The smart ones know they just know enough to be dangerous - a foundation of knowledge, not the whole book.

Some of the best RF guys I know, have no formal training - because there is important theory around RF - it doesn't always work like projected.

In my industry a Ham Ticket has taken the place of a GROL as something employers look upon favorably, because it means you generally should already have a foundation of RF theory.

Alohaon Oh man! Our entire team has been replaced by Vietnam developers.

As soon as AI can understand organizational business logic lol - which considering how well read and educated humans struggle with that, I'm not too concerned.

Alohaon Building the Bell System

Yes, at first it was an analog process with toll tickets making their way to your local business office who would prepare your bill, eventually it went to tabulation technology (punched cards) and then into the 1960's computers.

As far as the bill - you'd be billed for local service (either unlimited or metered rate), plus a phone rental, and then on top of that local toll and long distance usage. For this, you got a telephone, and the phone company was responsible for your inside wiring as well.

Alohaon Building the Bell System

Western Electric people helped to teach Japan these skills post war.

Alohaon Building the Bell System

At least I'm not the only now who sees it - I feel a tremendous sense of loss when I look at Divestiture - we lost untold jobs, manufacturing and engineering capacity - and the ability to respond quickly.

For me, as someone who spent some portion of my career in wireline telephony, I feel these losses acutely, particularly as the copper wireline network dies - the fact that all of this infrastructure was built by one company was not lost on me, and was very obvious early in my career - but is less so now.