Trumpet was a pretty easy way to connect to the internet with Windows 95. Sure, Windows should have had TCP/IP but if there's an easy workaround, who really cares? Anyway this is 20 years ago, it's like refusing to buy an iPhone because you hate how Apple got rid of 3.5" disk drives way too early.

And Openoffice & iwork have been around for years now, and are still obviously inferior to MS Office.

What a ridiculous idea...you're on an internet forum, and you're not swearing at each other? Thanks a lot George W Bush!

Dear asshole,

      Planted trees. Bought house close to work. Use public transit 9 days out of 10.

      Unfortunately, it's not going to make up for you and your friends using any excess power you can for the fuck of it. It's like you're the jerks who toss their empty drink and food containers out of the car window in our street, for us to clean up.

              mark

Bullshit.

You're not listening to Linux, you're not listening to the folks who forked Debian, you're not listening to all the sysadmins who work for a living in organizations, and have enough trouble getting the users to accept updates.

In addition to which, you replace it with something that requires more typing, and does not give any feedback.
service nfs restart
stopping nfsd
starting nfsd
etc.

systemctl restart nfs

And the entire concept of *BINARY* logfiles, when you're trying to fix a broken system is insanely stupid, as are xml configuration files when X won't run, or isn't installed (like on a server). And telling me that oh, it boots up *so* much faster means something *only* if I'm on a laptop. Anything else, hell, an fsck takes *far* longer.

It's a pain in the neck, and you won't make *any* accommodation to the 99% of us that have been doing it the way we have all along. Arrogance and solipsism, that's you, Poettering.

                mark

Come *on*, you expect HR departments to *find*, much less hire qualified women? Most hiring managers have a hard enough time finding *any* qualified candidates, since about 80% or more of HR departments are completely staffed by people who have NO IDEA of what the company actually does, NO IDEA of what they're hiring for, and DON'T CARE TO LEARN.

Come on - for anyone working for any medium to large size, do *you* think HR knows their ass from a hole in the ground? When I was last looking, around '09, Grumman wanted you to upload your resume (Word format only, please), and not even a cover letter, and they said that they found "qualified candidates" by DOING DATABASE SEARCHES. So, you with the six years of Oracle, you're not qualified to work on MySql, or Sybase. And oh, you haven't done this, and don't have that certification, never mind how many years you've been doing it, you're not qualified.

Come the Revolution, we're going to lead HR departments into the parking lot, throw asphalt on them, and PAVE THEM INTO THE ROADWAY, and *then*, and only then, will they have any social or corporate utility....

                    mark

PS: and for those of you who think women aren't good enough, I'd suggest that one of my daughters who's a programmer and tester for a major aerospace firm is a *hell* of a lot better than you are at her job.

"Mainframe declared dead, film at 11".

And within a year or two, IBM announces that they're shipping more mainframes that year than they've ever sold before.

Datapoint: around 2001 or so, some crazy at IBM, using VM (IBM tech first developed in the seventies), maxed out a good-sized mainframe... running 48,000 *seperarate* instances of Linux, and it ran happy as a clam with "only" 32,000.

How many VMs you got on your server?

*I* have a nice toolbox in my head, with hammers and wrenches and screwdrivers, on how to program on everything from MS DOS to mainframes to Linux. I also know how to admin all but the mainframe, but know something of that. What, Ah say, what do you have to compare, Boy? One ballpeen hammer that only works in Windows?

                    mark, who prefers to use the right tool for the job

Fwiw radio shack actually does carry a selection of contact-free phones.

Get a tiny $200 fanless laptop.

If you buy the top of the line model for around 2k you get about 6 years out of it, so that is $300 per year. If you buy a starting PC for $400 you will get about 2 years out of it $200 per year.

Ridiculous. For one thing, who would bother with a $2000 desktop, except for a gamer with money to burn?

Mexico also sells spectrum. Did you even read the article, or did you just start ranting?

I've been self-employed (and now my wife is), I have investment income, and doing taxes myself takes me maybe an hour or two, once a year. It would be silly to get outside help for that.

If I was in a truly difficult tax situation, sure. But especially Schedule D, what the heck? I imagine it's a very common form, and it's trivial to do oneself.

The paper is essentially a racist rag where old white men push the buttons of minorities. Of course the bombing was wrong, and I support the paper's right to say what I disagree with, just as I support the right of Neo-Nazis to hold parades down Peoria, Illinois. However, having the government/Google go further and give public funds towards a racist paper is a step too far.

It'd be nice to see a lot of the people who would really *like* to go be able to go... again. "Again", because the GOP has been hacking at the Pell grants for decades. When I worked for a major city community college in the early eighties as a programmer, one of my jobs was the tape exchange with the feds, part of the grant process. Therefore, I knew from direct data that better than 80% of the students were there on Pell grants.

These days, from what I read, it's a fraction of that.

We keep hearing how education is the key to a better job... but the folks who don't have it can't afford it, because all they can get are part-time jobs flipping burgers and working in big box stores (while the owners of them, the Waltons, etc, are seeing increased billions of dollars for the few of them). More people with better jobs means a bigger economy... but the GOP and the billionaires paying them are running on two rules: 1, if you're not a billionaire, you're not working hard enough, and c) he who dies with the most money wins.

                mark

This doesn't prove it at all. You shouldn't have been modified +5 Insightful. Over the course of a game, luck is very important. Like you get dealt the card you already have, or you get dealt crap.

Blackjack also has a perfect strategy, and of course blackjack has a great amount of luck.

I guess if you planned on playing an infinite amount of games, luck wouldn't be a part of Texas Hold Em. For somebody playing a finite amount, luck is key.

I consider them unAmerican, at least. And btw, when I was looking for my current house, I told my agent that if there was an HOA, I wouldn't even look at it.

Had a friend whose carriage lamp on the front of her house, which was really *cheap* aluminum, died, she had it replaced with a better one... and the HOA demanded she replace that with another cheap one. And then there was the time that someone from the HOA got her given a ticket for dogshit in her back yard (the one with the 5'+ high fence around it, and it was a bit after a snowstorm, and it was all melting. (The judge tore up the complaint).

No, they all are run by tin-plated petty dictators, with delusions of godhood. Unfuck 'em (no fucks for any of 'em).

                          mark