Comment: Re:MasterTroll (Score 1) 965
None of this would be necessary if you just used HP-UX!
Comment: Re:Try.. (Score 0) 295
The Moto Droid is not even 3 years old yet
The iPhone 3GS is older (coming up on 3 1/2 years) and is still very much usable. In fact, it even supports the latest release of the operating system.
But Apple's the evil, money-grubbing one, right?
Comment: Re:Mac Users (Score 1) 223
Our friends at Unicomp also have a Mac version of their keyboard - the Spacesaver M. Freakin' awesome.... feels like '92 all over again.
This post was brought to you by the Unicomp Spacesaver M.
Comment: Re:microchannels? (Score 1) 112
Does it come with Reference USB Keys?
Sadly, I don't think anyone else reading slashdot was alive during the Micro-Channel era, let alone gets the joke
Comment: Re:Don't go there... (Score 1) 671
Not true.
It's absolutely accepted - and encouraged - to use our company-issued vehicles for personal use, including vacations.
Not all policies are completely draconian.
Now, having said that, modifying the vehicle (i.e. adding a remote starter, changing the radio, installing NOx) is strictly forbidden.
The person who posted this "question" really just needs to buy his own laptop. A MacBook Air would work well for travel. Even at home, I do the same -- work on one machine, personal on the other. Point, set, match.
Comment: Re:Nothing to see here (Score 2) 224
That's still once too many.
And still one more than I've ever seen of VxFS. I've managed many, many petabytes of VxFS file systems, and never lost so much as a single file to FS corruption.
(even when I had a coworker manage to import the same VxVM disk group on 2 cluster nodes simultaneously and mount the FS in both places...). A little private region editing and I was able to correct the damage.
Comment: MoCA. (Score 1) 196
Seriously, if you have coaxial jacks, get MoCA bridges. They're awesome.
Comment: OpenDoc? (Score 1) 213
Welcome to 1992.
The revenge of Taligent.
What's next? Microsoft CyberDog?
Comment: Re:Do your part! Snail-mail your comments! (Score 4, Insightful) 734
... and you think dropping a check off in person will help?
My (previous) mortgage company deposited my mortgage check... and I have no idea whose account got credited for it, but it wasn't mine.
The check cleared, I marked it as such in my bank book, and the only clue something was wrong was when I went from 0 bill collector calls (since I pay all my bills on time) to 4 in one day all about my mortgage. Even after I opened a case, and they started investigating, AND finally credited me back, they STILL had the hounds calling me.
I had to tell them the next call was going to my attorney before they stopped.
So, even dropping that check off in person won't necessarily help. Mistakes can (and do) happen.
Comment: Where's Cabletron you insensitive clod?? (Score 1) 322
Cabletron token-ring 16mbps!
Comment: Godspeed, Endeavour. (Score 4, Interesting) 55
Godspeed, Endeavour. It's a real shame to retire these workhorses. Are they expensive? Yes. Are they exactly what was envisioned in the 70's? No. But, so what? They're still incredible machines that do things mankind has NEVER been able to do before.
The ISS? Wouldn't be possible without the Shuttle.
Hubble? Impossible without Shuttle.
They're workhorses, and it's a damned shame that we, as Americans, have gotten ourselves into such a political quagmire that we can't figure out how to keep man in space. Depressing.
Comment: Final Abend (Score 5, Funny) 202
UNLOAD NOVELL.NLM
System halted Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:30:00 pm EDT
Abend: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000002)
OS version: Novell NetWare 4.10 November 8, 1994
Running Process: SCRSAVER.NLM
Stack: AC 1F 65 01 E7 66 03 F1 50 CA 65 01 03 00 00 00
D0 1F 65 01 09 00 00 00 B0 81 01 F9 54 CE 65 01
39 67 03 F1 0B CB 65 01 B4 D0 65 01 B0 81 01 F9
Press "Y" to copy diagnostic image to disk.
Otherwise press "X" to exit.
Comment: Re:Definitely a nail biter (Score 1) 205
Is that you Vaclav? How many hectares to a tank of kerosene?
Comment: Re:I wish Maude were alive to see this. (Score 0) 648
Why, oh WHY don't I have moderator points today ?????