Tail Boomer here and same situation. I was a Military Policeman in the late 70's and a security guard in the early 80's. I'd been writing programs since 1980 supporting my Dungeons & Dragons and board gaming hobby (first Timex program was a D&D Game Monitor and first Color Computer program was a Vehicle Generation program for Car Wars
[John]
Worse, the first time I typed in 'Super StarTrek' from the Red Computer Games book on an IBM PC (I had the Yellow one as well), I had failed to format a 5 1/4" floppy. After getting the game working successfully, I couldn't save it. I'd been typing in programs on a Color Computer before that and a Timex/Sinclair before that and all my program saving was on cassette (reset the tape counter and record the location on the tape for each program).
[John]
Pair of AMD 4870's with four monitors would blue screen on start up almost daily.
[John]
The driver would blue screen my Windows box on boot several times before finally clearing and letting the system run. This is before even getting a login prompt.
Pair of AMD 4870's (so old cards).
[John]
I've had the most problems with Video cards, the expensive ones. Specifically the drivers.
The AMD cards I first bought in 2008 generated driver related blue screens on boot. DiamondMM tested them and found no problems. I upgraded drivers including the set that forced me to go into single user mode and roll them back. Nothing seemed to take care of it.
The nVidia replacements I bought in 2012 don't blue screen however the driver resets (Windows has restarted the video driver) pretty often. Doesn't seem to cause a problem other than the aggravation of waiting while it recovers. The solution apparently is to underclock the GPU.
I don't seem to have any problems with the cards when I run them under Red Hat Linux however I suspect I don't use them quite the same way as on the Windows system.
[John]
The problem still is with folks putting in good numbers. Who vets the number to ensure it's a debt collection agency? And really, at least they're legitimate companies. It's the cruise, time share, vacation, auto warranties, home loan folks that need to die in a fire.
[John]
I've been playing Rocksmith since Dec 2011 and started taking lessons in Dec 2010. I do agree that it's teaching me to read and play by rote. I'm certainly a lot more familiar with the fretboard and general playing but it's hard to get away from Rocksmtih as it's fun and entertaining and a lot easier than breaking out the amp and getting all setup and then finding a good book or site for lessons.
Really the problem is finding folks who'll let you play with them so we can learn to get better. It's easy for a group of high school kids to play but harder for us older folks to find people to play with.
[John]
Actually I read through several sites a couple of years back looking for templates and ideas on how to implement standards for my code. I created a couple of web pages. One for a Coding Standard page and more recently, a User Interface standard page. I've been pulling out company identifying information and have a Sourceforge site to upload it.
[John]
Honestly I think my problem is that I tend to write my own code for stuff rather than trying to figure out what someone else has done and fit my thought processes into how they were working it through.
Examples:
I wrote a status management program to keep track of the work I do for yearly reviews. Tracks projects, hours, and even builds a timecard.
I wrote an inventory management program to keep track of our systems. We have an official asset tracking tool but it doesn't accommodate virtual machines, I can't script updates to it like I can my inventory program, the asset tracking system doesn't keep track of build dates or graph out the life timeline of systems, etc. I can customize it to do pretty much anything.
I wrote a budget management program where I can enter my financials (bank statements, credit card statements), plot out the trends, and do forecasts of what my financials look like as far out as I can to set a limit (currently 18 months out).
I wrote a combat management tool for one of the games I play where I just need to enter the data and it spits out my target numbers.
I think this goes back to when I started back in the early 80's. When you needed to do something, you either had to pay for it or learn how to do it yourself. They may not have the features other programs have but they're certainly customized to my needs.
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Well, it can but we've had a few underlying hardware issues make our servers unavailable. From san hiccups which flip systems into read-only mode for
There have been enough issues that we won't put Mission Critical systems on VMWare.
[John]
Mine was 10 or 11%. I did have alimony take a good 30% of my net though.
[John]
You probably should stop reading her mail.
[John]
Yep, tinnitus here as well. Too much time spent in data centers and firing weapons in the military. A portable device plugged into my almost 20 year old stereo works just fine for me.
[John]
How is a study on middle and high school students in Israel relevant to elementary students in the US?
Although the study took place in Israel, Mr. Lavy said that similar research had been conducted in several European countries and that he expected the results were applicable in the United States.
[John]
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
