How about Steve Huffman and John Oliver in a clear plastic bubble flying through the skay. Steve giving John a blow job?

I use Linkedin, along with Reddit, and Facebood to announce my story telling website (ilovearthur.org and stories.ilovearthur.org); these are storiies where I share things about my live and my one and only true love, Arthur Rosenau. I am retired. I don't care if some HR department chief has a personal accident when they read my stories or because of my stories, they don't like me. I often get positive feedback on all the platforms including Linkedin and Nextdoor as well as Reddit (bellingham) and Facebook.

My most sencere condolences. This person's contributions are priceless.

I Love You All

Mark Allyn

For decades, C was my only true love in this arena.

It is good for general programming, CGI programming, real time programming, and one of my favorite sports, writing Linux device drivers.

In fact, as far as I know, the entire Linux kernel is written in C. Linus, I think, is starting to embrace C++, but not C sharp.

I have not heard any suggestion that the kernel will have any python in it.

I attended a lecture about trends in computer programming held at the Mount Baker Theatre here in Bellingham, Washington. Where the speaker did not even mention C.

I stood up in the middle of the crowd and shouted at the top of my lungs, "How about our beloved C programming language!"

The auditorium broke out in applause and shots of "Right On!" and people thanked me when the show was over and we were leaving the theatre!

So, consider me shouting out "How about our beloved C programming Language!"

In True, Sincere, Compassionate, and Enduring Love,

Mark Allyn

Bellingham, Washington

Folks

I hear the song singing, "Memories of the fun we had a long time ago!"

I took over a system admin role (person gifted us an extended middle finger and left very fast).

And the database corrupted. Yes, I know that a production relational database is supposed to have redo logs and archived redo logs.

Except that the backed up archived redo logs each had nothing but and EOF character.

I looked at the backup script. The cp $archive /backup/server/$archive was commented out.

I immediately wet my pants.

We called in Oracle and they did their magic and were able to restore the database.

Before I let the customer use it, I corrected the script and another script that had and error. I performed a backup. I then did a restore of that backup to another machine we had in spare. The database worked. Only then did I let the customer use their database.

Please. Please. Check *all* scripts when you take over a role.

Perhaps all this FAA drama is due to an accidentally commented out line in an itty bitty script file.

May the tears flow from my eyes and form a new Niagara Falls as I cry with these memories.

With Deep, Endearing, and Compassionate Love

Mark Allyn

May I express my sincere grief and condolences at Mr. Cunningham's passing.

If this all continues and many crypto coins systems lose value . . .

Will there be a sudden leap in the number of high end servers, especially those with GPUs, that are (were) used for crypto mining be suddenly available, thereby pushing down the price?

If this does happen, I sure would love to pick one up cheap to do rendering for my animation that I am creating using Blender, the open source modeling and animation software.

It sure will be interesting to see the massive crypto mining farms start to collapse and become available on the cheap for other non-crypto uses!

I Love You All

Mark Allyn

Bellingham, Washington

Great comments about Meta and Facebook! I am thinking of migrating off to Mastadon. Keep up the good comments!

1. Twitter wants everyone back in the office 2. Some Twitter employees now moved far away from Tritter San Francisco 3. WeWork in trouble Result: 1. Twitter buys WeWork 2. Twitter employees forced to work in nearest WeWork space; don't have to go to San Francisco 3. Everyone should be theoretically happy

Folks: I have been making my own clothing for the last 27 years. And yes, I still have several of the garments that I had made in that first year of my sewing hobby (1995). I use snaps, not buttons as buttons do fall off. I repair/repatch my clothing to make it last. If it's at the end of the life, I keep it as rags to help me do cleaning for my metal arts hobby. I cannot remember throwing away any garment since this all began. Also, as I make my own clothing, I also do my own design. And no, I do not follow fashion trends at all. Everything comes from my own heart. I get fabrics from a fabric reseller here in Bellingham, Washington (Ragfinery) as well as the local thrift stores. At the local thrift stores, I will purchase tablecloths, curtains, and what are called runners; the coverings for side-tables. Many of those are still in their department store wraps; never used at all. Many are also made out of sturdy fabrics that outlast much apparel fabrics. I also use drapery and upholstery fabrics as they have a much wider selection of colors and textures that enhances my wearable art. And those fabrics also outlast much apparel fabrics. You can see a tiny sample of what I make on my art journal website at https://www.allyn.com/ Mark

Please. Do not insult Front Street. Front Street is a beautiful street in my childhood hometown of Marion, Massachusetts!

My only phone is a princess phone that I bought at Goodwill many years ago. It is connected to a land line. All it does is ding when there is a call and allows me to push numbered buttons when I make a call. The extension cord is about 20 feet long, just enough for me to carry the phone to any room in my small house. I am sorry, Qatar, but that extension cord is not long enough to fly to you. So, how do you folks force me to install malware on something that is at least 60 years old and who's extension cord is only 20 feet long and whose main optional feature is a very tiny and very dim light to illuminate the touchtone pad? Respectfully and Humbly Yours I Love You All! Mark Allyn Bellingham, Washington

If this dude would have invested in a halon flood type suppression system, would that have helped? I remember from my data center days that there is a flood type fire suppression system that floods the machine room with halon to suppress a fire. I remember warning that if an alarm sound, you have only about 30 seconds to get out of the machine room. After that, all of the ventilation systems stop and the air in the room is flooded with halon gas, which suffocates the fire. Mark

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My mistake. Your colleague who did visit the museum was quite knowledgeable in the trunked radios and P25. If you should find yourself in the Pacific Northwest, it's worth a visit! Mark