mrbill

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by mrbill 7y ago
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...
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by mrbill 7y ago
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 both of the
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by mrbill 7y ago
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 install/maintai
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by mrbill 7y ago
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 T
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by mrbill 7y ago
It's not just workstation hardware - I've recently bought a couple of Dell T410s off eBay for $125 each (shipped!). Quad-core Xeon E5620s, 4G RAM, 6-bay hotswap chassis, DVD-ROM, iDRAC 6 Enterprise, PERC 6i RAID card. Upgrades: $
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by mrbill 7y ago
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.
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by mrbill 7y ago
From the page: "No you can't just "sed s'/Red Hat/CentOS/' (someone always offers that)"
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by mrbill 7y ago
I'm not always somewhere that I can get overnight delivery.
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by mrbill 7y ago
I had one. Horribly slow, and the keyboard was terrible and near unusable. Sold it to a coworker a couple of weeks later.
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by mrbill 7y ago
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.
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by mrbill 7y ago
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 cre
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by mrbill 7y ago
The book about Fordlandia is great. https://www.amazon.com/Fordlandia-Henry-Fords-Forgotten-Jung...
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by mrbill 7y ago
Tons. If not a POTS line its a VoIP connection.
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by mrbill 7y ago
I'm guessing that shipping is the biggest part of the cost? I see that a 10lb box is only $5 more than a 5lb box...
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by mrbill 7y ago
archive.org - look up Jason Scott/@textfiles on twitter.
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by mrbill 7y ago
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....
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by mrbill 7y ago
I love my Parker 51s. All of them older than I am (of course) but the ones that still work (aren't cracked, etc) work wonderfully (filled with Noodler's inks).
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by mrbill 7y ago
After I finally bought a copy (at a pretty expensive price), someone uploaded a version to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/lisploreguidetop00brom
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by mrbill 7y ago
I got mine back in the RHEL4 days, got a 97%, and yeah its bugged me for years as I want to know what I got wrong. Probably the "hardest", most involved, "gotta know your shit" certification I've ever done. I defini
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by mrbill 7y ago
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 VMS
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by mrbill 7y ago
The book "IBM's 360 and Early 370 systems" by IBM Press goes DEEP into the development of these systems, and is one of my very favorite technical books. I paid $50 for a used copy more than a decade ago and it's well wo
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by mrbill 7y ago
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! http://www.vint
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by mrbill 8y ago
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 ch
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by mrbill 8y ago
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: Amaz
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by mrbill 8y ago
The fancy bed was auctioned off in 2013. http://www.heinleinsociety.org/2013/07/own-heinleins-second-... It went for just over $2K. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Robert-A-Heinleins-Bed-/251317
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by mrbill 8y ago
google reader
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by mrbill 8y ago
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by mrbill 8y ago
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.
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by mrbill 8y ago
This is per-user, not per-entire-app-user-base, AFAIK
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by mrbill 8y ago
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 we'll order

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