PoiBoy - Slashdot User

Comment: Thanks Taco! (Score 1) 1521

by PoiBoy on Thursday August 25, @09:09AM (#37205576) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

I first started reading slashdot in about 1999, and I've been reading it everyday since. I don't know cmdrtaco or any of the other editors here, but after a dozen years it feels like a fraternity or family. Best of luck in your future endeavors.

Comment: Too Early (Score 1) 462

by PoiBoy on Wednesday June 15 2011, @01:14PM (#36453312) Attached to: Re: the U.S. 2012 election campaign, I am:

The election's not for 17 months, and some candidates have been going for several months already. Why can't we cut this down to a six-month cycle instead? Politicians spend too much time campaigning. Pundits are already saying we will see nothing out of Congress or the WH because it's an election year. Even for Representatives who serve two-year terms, it seems like a third of their time is spent in campaign mode. If the D's and R's are at a standstill, fine, go fishing or something. But constant campaign mode just elevates the divisiveness in Washington.

AIX 7 Open Beta is here!-> 0

Submitted by dreamtripper on Monday July 19 2010, @03:15PM

dreamtripper writes "IBM has started offering its new version of AIX UNIX as an open beta."
Link to Original Source

Comment: Re:IOS == Cisco Internetworking Operating System (Score 1) 282

by PoiBoy on Monday June 28 2010, @01:36PM (#32720070) Attached to: iOS Update May Tackle iPhone 4's Antenna Problems

Oh, so it's more like i OS, IBM's midrange OS.

Comment: Libraries (Score 3, Insightful) 222

by PoiBoy on Friday June 04 2010, @01:58PM (#32461930) Attached to: Windows 7: The Missing Manual

Is it me, or are the libraries in Windows 7 stupid? I prefer Vista because it doesn't have those damn things. I've read about registry hacks to disable them, though I've not had any luck getting those hacks to work.

Comment: Not dead yet (Score 1, Insightful) 227

by PoiBoy on Monday April 05 2010, @04:54PM (#31741714) Attached to: Microsoft Announces End of the Line For Itanium Support

In addition to HPUX, OpenVMS and NonStop both require Itanium hardware. Itanium might be relegated to a role like IBM's Power chips, but it's not dead yet, Jim.

Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years 408

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 21 2009, @09:56AM
from the all-we-need-is-a-little-patience dept.

H. Beatty Chadwick has been in a staring match with the judicial system for the past 14 years, and the system just blinked. Chadwick was ordered to pay his ex-wife $2.5 million after their divorce. He refused to pay saying that he couldn't because he lost the money in a series of "bad investments." The judge in the case didn't believe him and sent him to jail for contempt. That was 14 years ago. Last week another judge let Chadwick go saying that "continued imprisonment would be legal only if there was some likelihood that ultimately he would comply with the order; otherwise, the confinement would be merely punitive instead of coercive." Chadwick, now 73, is believed to have served the longest contempt sentence in US history.

Comment: Only the nasal version (Score 2, Interesting) 452

by PoiBoy on Wednesday June 17 2009, @09:11PM (#28368799) Attached to: FDA Says Homeopathic Cure Can Cause Loss of Smell

This warning only applies to the version of Zicam that you stick in your nose. When I have a cold, I use the lozenges that dissolve in your mouth, and I swear they really do help control the symptoms of a cold.

Comment: System i (Score 1) 655

by PoiBoy on Sunday April 05 2009, @04:23PM (#27468459) Attached to: How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years?

Move everything to an entry-level IBM System i machine with a couple of terminals. The hardware will last 15 years and the OS is as reliable as a tank.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/?cm_re=masthead-_-products-_-sys-iseries

Comment: Re:When will it end? (Score 5, Insightful) 623

by PoiBoy on Thursday January 22 2009, @11:50AM (#26561317) Attached to: Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM

I suggest you study advanced economics more critically. Having a PhD in economics from a top-tier program, yes I agree that armchair economists are much different from real academic economists. However, I also think there is a tendency for many economists to place too much reliance on ornate mathematical and statistical models and not enough time spent stepping away from the computer, looking out the window, and asking whether or not those models are realistic. Note that looking out the window and seeing what people are actually doing is NOT the same thing as running 10,000 regressions to try and prove your model is correct. Common sense has no substitute.