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Comment Worse that it already is? (Score 5, Interesting) 91

Really? Now that would be an achievement.
Between the AI crud that's remarkably inaccurate and the litany of sponsored links, it's hard to get Google to return results of value anymore.
Perplexity (mentioned in systemd-anonymousd' comment) is one good alternative. Here's another (IMHO):
https://www.startpage.com/
Useful Google results without the crud.

Comment Re:My first (Score 1) 523

Same progression here, though I was a bit older.

Started with Trash-80s in High School. Networked off of a cassette tape player. Finally got my own IIe when I was a Senior and the school switched to them. The IIe carried me through college, until I was able to get a blistering fast 286 once I had a real job & income. How far we've come.

Comment Re:Ancient news for nerds? (Score 1) 142

Actually, I have.

I made a group of friends there years ago, some of whom I'm still in touch with, albeit via other means now. Those forums, and some of the friends we had there came up in conversation just the other day.

Hmmm. Perhaps I'll go see if I can dig up an old copy of OzWin and see if it still works. I might even have some of the old forum message threads around...

Comment Dammit (Score 1) 141

Now I have to go find another distro to move to. I have multiple computers with multiple users, all running Mint/KDE. I thought I'd finally found a easy to use, Debian based distro with KDE. I tried Kubuntu a couple of times, and it was very clearly a second class citizen, even to the point where it almost imploded in Oct 2015. Unless it has improved very dramatically in both quality, focus, and stability it's not a viable alternative.

Sigh. Fine. Back to the drawing board.
Dammit.

Comment Re:I hate push button start (Score 1) 865

Not all are like that. My X5 is, but my wife's Maxima is far smarter. The fob is basically a proximity device. I can walk up to the locked car with the fob in my pocket, push a button on the door and it unlocks. I then get in, put my foot on the brake, tap the start button, and it starts. I never even have to get the fob out of my pocket. Want accessories without starting the car? Don't step on the brake, and tap the start button. Easy.

Comment A sad day (Score 2) 187

I can't remember how long I've been a Geeks customer - years. I've bought laptops, CPUs, memory, and miscellaneous hardware from them over the years. They were always a great place to check when you needed an older or oddball piece of hardware - often times they had it. Great service, great people.

You will be missed.

Comment It depends (Score 1) 142

Largely on the kind of testing you are going to be doing. For functional software testing, one big box hosting VMs is great. I do it with ESXi, a quad core, 8gb, and several disks. good enough for a virtualized server and a couple of workstations. If that's your target, then more spindles is better. 4 250gb hard drives give better performance than a 1TB drive, because there is no contention for disk access (if you set it up right).

Comment Thank you Rob (Score 1) 1521

I don't remember when I first started reading Slashdot, but I know it was well before i registered. I vaguely remember my first submission that was accepted and made the front page. That was a long time ago.

Thank you, Rob, for creating this space for geeks to gather. It has been a part of my life for a long time, and an important one at that. I've learned to look for and acknowledge a wider set of viewpoints. I've dealt with stuff from the past, and gotten hints about the future. I've wasted countless hours following story links. And I've had fun.

Slashdot will remain, but it won't be the same. You will be missed.

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