egriebel - Slashdot User

Comment I bought one, then sold it a few months laterâ (Score 1) 62

by egriebel on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:33PM (#66114740) Attached to: Remembering The 1984 Unix PC. Why Did It Fail So Hard?

I bought one of these in the mid 90s (from a Bell Labs engineer). It had upgraded memory and some kind of digital PBX type card that could route calls and record voicemails. I did a few things with it and created accounts for everyone in the house. I even got a bigger hard drive for it, this big MFM/RLL full height 5 1/4 drive that sounded like a jet taking off when it started up. I sold the system to somebody else a few months later because there wasnâ(TM)t much to do with it besides play some games. This was in the era of the Sega Genesis, and it was a far more capable game system. It was still probably the sexiest system Iâ(TM)ve owned, even today it looks retro-futuristic like in a space opera or Aliens franchise movie.

Comment Prioritizing time-to-market and cost over security (Score 1) 57

by egriebel on Sunday October 26, 2025 @10:28AM (#65751322) Attached to: Are Network Security Devices Endangering Orgs With 1990s-Era Flaws?

Thatâ(TM)s it, no elaboration required. Well, maybe throw a bit of shade at offshoring, vibe coding, and other software engineering practices that have cost and âoeuser delightâ as the primary metrics of success.

Comment %s/Canada/Worldwide/g (Score 1) 88

by egriebel on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:17AM (#65619114) Attached to: Canada's Tech Job Market Has Gone From Boom To Bust In Last Five Years

Specific numbers are great, but itâ(TM)s happening everywhere

Comment Re: Imagine (Score 1) 53

by egriebel on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:56PM (#65606460) Attached to: Meta Freezes AI Hiring

âoeThe problem with socialism is that you always run out of other peopleâ(TM)s moneyâ - Margaret Thatcher âoeTax the richâ is a great idea except that thereâ(TM)s not enough of The Rich to support all the people with their hands out. (Or more accurately, pols trying to hand out money to registered voters.)

Comment Re: don't drop the soap! (Score 1) 143

by egriebel on Thursday March 28, 2024 @02:56PM (#64351865) Attached to: Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison

Making fun of prison rape. Stay classy my friend!

Comment Re: No Ta! (Score 1) 122

by egriebel on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @11:27PM (#62385039) Attached to: Have you returned to working in a physical office?

Thanks champ, please proselytize somewhere else. Or maybe you think that somehow your particular rendition of these facts is going to be stirring enough to be more persuasive than the thousand other times they heard them?

Comment They do, it's called a browser (Score 1) 307

by egriebel on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:21PM (#58765642) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should All OSs Ship With a Programming Language Built In?

You can do so much by just opening a console with F12 and start typing. You have an integrated debugger, a variable inspector, a REPL, graphics, and instant feedback. I would have killed for something like this back in the 80s.

Comment Poor IT practices? (Score 5, Insightful) 1044

by egriebel on Friday January 11, 2019 @11:45AM (#57944038) Attached to: Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down

I know that this being /. that people like to bash Trump at every opportunity (even when unwarranted), but isn't this problem one of crappy cert management? Waiting until the very last minute before renewing a cert isn't a Best Practice. It's not like your wasting money by renewing a cert early.

Comment This just in, people also think the average... (Score 1) 110

by egriebel on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:42PM (#57425866) Attached to: Average Time To Resolve Problems is Three Times Higher Than Customers Want

* time to become a millionaire is three times higher than they want

* meal is three times higer than they want

* cost of a Porsche is three times higher than they want

* Cable TV bill is three times higher than they want
etc.

Comment Re:High school doesn't prepare you for college (Score 1) 841

by egriebel on Monday November 07, 2011 @11:54AM (#37973614) Attached to: Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out?

I'll be content with ... the fact that I have no nagging wife, kids, or roommates to deal with. I'll be content with being able to surf everyday after work because I'm not stuck in school. I'll be content with having free time and money for dating and crawling pubs because I don't have any homework to do.

No wife, kids, and surfing the web in between getting knackered? You are a wild man, I want to party with you! I'll give you a shout when I'm at DisneyWorld, or wherever else you're living your man-child life.

Comment Re:and in florida (Score 1) 256

by egriebel on Friday June 17, 2011 @09:57AM (#36473810) Attached to: Iowa Rejects Video Privacy Protection For Cows

A factory farm is ... strewn with feces six-inches deep and animals literally one foot in the grave.

You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Comment The Singularity approaches!!!!! (Score 1) 239

by egriebel on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:13PM (#33525136) Attached to: Robots Taught to Deceive

So robots can now replicate what my 2 year old does daily? Time to stock up NOW! on food and weapons to survive the coming robot horde!

Comment Re:"None" is better than inconsistent? (Score 1) 657

by egriebel on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:09PM (#33525064) Attached to: Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad'

I'd rather not have the option myself. Having Flash available is a disincentive to creating a better HTML5 experience suitable for mobile devices. With Flash available, mobile site developers can just create their sites and call it a day, regardless of how poor the experience is.

Not having the fallback means that you have no alternative but to create suitable code in order to reach mobile users. Since Flash for whatever reason already encourages lazy development, it would be better that the option didn't exist at all.

Websites written in HTML have all kinds of issues when rending on different platforms and browsers, for some reason HTML encourages developers to be lazy. To fix this problem, in iOS5 Steve is removing HTML rendering from the browser. Boy am I happy that Apple is single-handedly trying to improve things for all of us! If only every tech company had the guts to question the status quo!

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