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.

The day Netflix offers The Wire and the Star Wars movies I may consider doing the same. Until then they are my $8/month source for bad British or Swedish series, although they are becoming quite a good source for bollywood movies too.

I'm not kidding. Recently I had the opportunity to watch the puzzling movie Besharam on Netflix. The scene with the exploding car at the beginning got me hooked but the highlight of the movie is definitely this dynamic duo of Indian guys dressed in aluminium foil who dance like Michael Jackson on what sounds like Korean pop played on a 8-bit Casio keyboard.

See for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(notice the frequent zooms on the main guy's crotch)

THANK YOU NETFLIX

Just like before I can lose entire tv series when the disk fails. But now it's the HD version of the series I will lose. That's called progress.

I get the "bought" part, that is after all how lobbying works (it's not a secret), but how does one "sell" a politician? Do you mean that political parties are pimping out their people?

Also I would suggest that given the kind of loyalty one can find in Washington, the proper term should be "rent" rather than "buy".

The Egyptians did not move those blocks into place. They did like those companies we know and admire, they made plans and outsourced the backbreaking work to unscrupulous partners in countries where labor is cheap and workers safety is not a priority. And then pretended they were not aware of the abysmal work conditions in the pyramid factories.

I'm pretty sure that if someone was to raise the pyramid there would be a Made in China label at the bottom.

Whenever I hear about Box, I hear about Aaron Levie. I even got spam the other day telling me that "Aaron Levie Wants You To Register For BoxWorks".

Name-dropping used to involve famous people. Now startups name-drop their CEO all the time and this sucks.