They tried to book events in Laramie, Muskogee, Tupelo and Pine Bluff, but even if a few people tore off the vertical phone numbers on the ads posted in the community centers in those cities, nobody reached out to the local organizers so the events were cancelled.

Too bad for you, 1335 was pretty good. Look it up in your non-Google search engine, you'll see.

Dilbert -> XKCD -> Red Meat -> Plastic Brick Automaton -> obscene graffiti in the bathroom of a rest area in Idaho.

If you maintain an email account, it's not a burner.

Thank god for the Alibaba IPO. Someone has to pay for Tumblr.

This being said she can't take the whole blame for the Yahoo downfall. The company was already not doing well. At least they got some press coverage and nice photo ops out of the deal.

Good ol' NET SEND *.

Just for fun I showed that command to the office administrator so she could interrupt everyone's work to ask to stop throwing paper towel in the toilet or to say that the person who ate the shrimp salad she left in the fridge is a thief. That was hilarious... for a day or two.

I understand how you feel but you have to move on. Forget the concept of ownership as far as proprietary software goes and don't try to make old versions of something run on newer versions of something else. Just assume that everything in that industry is like a used card with a "sold as is" sign in the windshield.

It does not matter if this is right or wrong. That's how things work now. So either you deal with it, or you start looking into FOSS and build for yourself a digital life free of the capricious nature of proprietary software.

The original article is pretty bad so I ended up browsing the website and found more, such as this:

CHEF starring Robert Downey Jr., Sofia Vergara, Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo and Dustin Hoffman is a movie on social media and it's impacts in our lives. Written and directed by Favreau, this movie is focused on social media and it's usege.

http://airfuz.com/2014/05/15/c...

Also interesting, the contact page with the clever antispam system:
http://airfuz.com/contact

One can't expect the internet to be filled with high-quality websites, and "news" websites where contributors have bad grammar and can't be bothered to run a spellcheck are common enough. But why is that site a source of news for Slashdot, that's the interesting question.

I remember we were having a blast with NET SEND at the office, using it to talk shit between developers.

It allowed for short messages only (like twitter), and no incriminating evidence was left behind so no holds barred... Until we found out that each message is automatically logged by Windows and that the sysadmin we had made fun of in those messages had been reading our clever discussions for months... Good times!

Because all the good ones have already been created.

Wherever you go you must be the life of the party.

The RAM on this thing is limited to 32GB. Pretty soon there will probably be laptops at Best Buy that support more than that.

Q: How much RAM do you really need?
A: It doesn't matter. GIVE ME MORE RAM!

Five years ago I would have agreed with you. But all my machines nowadays are laptops with SSD, and the internal disks are 128 or 256GB. What really matters is in the cloud, and for what is less important I am not about to start doodling around with pairs of external drives.

Maybe I should get a device like a Drobo. Or go nuts and get myself a nice SAN. I saw a Dell PS400E on eBay for $5,0000. 42TB of highly-redundant, high-performance storage... Now THAT would be awesome. Except the the noise and power bill.

I use various cloud providers to backup important stuff.

But I would expect that a hard drive for which I pay $120 would last at least a year. Of course we live in a world where failure is expected in computer hardware so the blame is on me for not rsync'ing 6 seasons of Nash Bridges and 3 seasons of Airwolf.

Hurry before the next flood in Thailand, where most of the major hard disk factories in the world are conveniently located nearby each other (hence the price surge of 2011).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11...

From the article:
“Surely one of the inevitable impacts of this is that never again will so much be concentrated in so few places,” said John Monroe, an expert on storage devices at Gartner, a technology research firm.

Yeah, sure.