drummojg

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by drummojg 1mo ago
Now I'm just wondering if wustl is still running any excellent FTP servers.
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by drummojg 2mo ago
I might have 1 or 2 compositions in backup that I could load up...amazing! I love it too.
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by drummojg 3mo ago
My initial thought as well, so you're no outlier, unless we are.
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by drummojg 3mo ago
"WHO'S 'THEY?????'"
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by drummojg 3mo ago
Right? I've been waiting a lot of years for an upgrade to my voice-activated timer setter/music player launcher.
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by drummojg 4mo ago
The best thing I ever did for my father was to buy him a kindle and an access point and show him how to use Project Gutenberg to get books. He loved the old writings (he being a GED holder who was in the Navy during Korea yet had read th
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by drummojg 8mo ago
I also enjoy the one about testing bird strike tolerances with store-bought chicken.
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by drummojg 10mo ago
I loved Pegasus. Specifically because to move it to another machine you just had to copy the PMAIL folder and make a shortcut. No registry awareness, no dependencies.
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by drummojg 1y ago
I stopped reading once the author claimed it was a lie because the SecSrv knew technical terms, then claimed it was a lie because they didn't know the technical terms. It's too early in the morning to be purposely confused.
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by drummojg 1y ago
I would be perfectly satisfied with the ST:TNG Computer. Knows all, knows how to do lots of things, feels nothing.
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by drummojg 1y ago
TIL '\a' is bell on POSIX. That's neat to me all by itself.
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by drummojg 2y ago
I have a MicroVAX in my living room that I use as an end table.
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by drummojg 2y ago
I helped interview a guy recently who was (a) ESL, and (b) Typing in our questions and reading the answers at a breakneck pace to the point where it was almost pathological; we could not get a word in. In unspoken horror and synchronizatio
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by drummojg 2y ago
I still miss bitnet.
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by drummojg 2y ago
I feel this in my soul. I work in higher education, and every major contribution I've made has been ripped from my hands and either dashed like the first copy of the ten commandments or handed over to someone shinier. I'm still
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by drummojg 2y ago
I have always thought the infinite proliferation of TLDs was a stupid idea. I'd be enlightened if I could think of one scenario that benefits from it outside of the registrars.
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by drummojg 2y ago
I still remember looking at these with my mother when I was small. We loved to hunt for Gold Bug. She told me later in life that her favorite was, "Lowly worm washes his face and foot." (He always wore a sock and shoe on the end
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by drummojg 3y ago
Not sure if the photoset is biased, or if drunk people really like pointing.
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by drummojg 3y ago
I second this.
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by drummojg 3y ago
> All HTTP forums are pretty much just centralized recreations of various components of Usenet The VAXbb clone I wrote in 1999 would beg to differ. :)
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by drummojg 3y ago
I used "rollicking" in one description and it was exactly what it sounds like to your unconscious when you are far too drunk at a country bar
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by drummojg 3y ago
This comment is bang on.
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by drummojg 3y ago
Plenty guitarists are far better than Hendrix, but they didn't get there in a vacuum.
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by drummojg 3y ago
I have an old sampler religious text and inside the cover is The Golden Rule in every major religion--I want to say there are ten or a dozen of them, from Zoroaster to the Bhagavad Gita.
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by drummojg 3y ago
It's, for lack of a better term, "High English." It is meant to sound grand, and thus the grander old style was used. Which is entirely appropriate; IIRC the original Hebrew uses grander language for poetic passages & t
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by drummojg 3y ago
What I keep thinking of following this is from Matthew 5: > Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ 34But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for
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by drummojg 3y ago
I'm just happy that a tool that PropriAdobe has sat on and crowed about for years is soon to be a click away for the masses and the hackers.
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by drummojg 3y ago
I love this debate and I expect it will go on forever. It boils down to, A: "California's problems are because California is too California!" "B: Nooo, we have not yet begun to California! If we California harder we c
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by drummojg 3y ago
Similarly, I used it to answer the question, "Who was the Black female author whose works were saved from an estate bonfire?" Neither DDG nor Goog could answer for me (kept coming up Maya Angelou which is totally wrong--it was, o
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by drummojg 3y ago
It's Warren Ellises, all the way down.

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