We were I/O bound with a saturated network. Our boss bought a Pentium to see if it would help. He didn't understand what "I/O bound" meant.

Went to a Comdex and saw this new fangled thing called a network switch. 3-4 of those in our system solved our problems.

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People can look for patterns in all sorts of algebraic spaces. I imagine there's probably a PhD or two in there.

I have to really want to see a movie to see one 2.5 hours long in a theater. Once the movie hits 3+ hours I'm watching it at home.

Doesn't help that inside the typical 3+ hour slog is a good 2 hour movie waiting for the fluff to be edited out.

It's the cost of the land the house sits on.

Good luck getting non-USA hackers to add this to Linux. Good luck preventing kids from downloading and installing Linux from non-USA sources.

Or are these geniuses going to outlaw an entire OS?

I don't care if the minimum wage wage slave says please and thank you. I want tasty food at a decent price. Problem is, then the C suite needs to look into the mirror instead of blaming some powerless minion.

Have you realized yet someone did 'ln -s /usr/bin/gvim /usr/bin/emacs"?

When I retired we were using 2.4. Time moves on, wonder if I could still write a device driver?

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These things have motors, therefore they're a motor vehicle. We already have tons of rules on those. After all, if you replaced the electric motor with an ICE you bet your sweet bippy the cops would require you follow those rules.

Here being Trumpville, of course.

For 50+ years an essential part of my budgeting has been to pull $x from the bank once a week. When I'm low on cash I start thinking "do I really need this?" When I'm out of cash I quit spending money.

Now that places only take credit or debit cards that strategy goes out the window. What we really need is a card that A) is not directly connected to my bank account; B) is not directly traceable to me; C) is easily refillable at the ATM, and D) has a display on it showing how much money is left on it.

I can't think of a bigger world wide stage than the Olympics. If Cloudflare takes their ball and goes home then their internet coverage goes to hell.

On the other hand, it would also show companies are bigger than countries and no longer have to follow their laws.

On the gripping hand, I'll just grab my popcorn and watch.

Another famous computer that had it's guts in the keyboard.

As someone above said, A) why not a laptop? and B) I don't trust HP anymore.

I setup Thunderbird to get mail from Google via POP3 or IMAP, I don't remember which. And that's the problem, I did it 10-15 years ago and no longer have a clue on what I did.

Any links to help me figure out both the problem and the potential solutions? Leaving my email on Google's servers and using their web interface is a no-go for me.