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by bdunbar 15y ago
The military does. It's called - or used to be called - zulu time. It's only used by guys who -must- use it. Air plane drivers, strategic guys, comm center operators. Everyone else uses the local time. I suspect if UTC / zulu were really
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by bdunbar 15y ago
There is a lot to be said for baggage. You mess with stuff like that at great peril. We already have a great example for this: the military. The military operates on zulu time for things like air operations. You want to know exactly when
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The player had been unemployed for a while, benefits ran out, savings depleted. Where the player went wrong was letting things get so desperate that choices were limited.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I didn't see racism there. There are a whole lot of white folks embedded in their own failed culture in the U.S. Edit: never mind - I read the wrong post.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
kids: if you can't afford them, use a condom Agreed. The game background implies the player had a good job, could afford kids, but fell on hard times after cranking out some pups.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
My father passed last summer. He had a busy life online, post-retirement - built and ran a website for a yacht club, used the computer to book stand-by travel with his former employer (American Airlines), online banking, etc. Nothing where
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I don't know the suburbs of Chicago. Where I live we have enough public transportation (bus) and a decent library system. We don't need the massive public infrastructure you have because we're not a Big City.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
In my experience, yes. But I haven't lived everywhere - a fellow who lives in LA might have a different experience than a guy living in Wisconsin.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
No. My kids were not high school age at the time, and we didn't live in the area for that high school. I would have had no qualms about it, if it were otherwise.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
My wife taught at a 80% Hispanic majority high school in Dallas in the 90s. The gang violence on white kids thing just didn't happen there. Gangs, yes. Gang violence, no.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Kids are adaptable - I suspect any kid with a good home life is going to enjoy growing up wherever.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
www.chrisnorstrom.com is redirecting to 127.0.0. ... why?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I will never understand the attraction of suburbs Low taxes. Lower cost of living. Privacy of a detached house. The lack of 'city' noise. Letting my kids play in the yard, on sidewalks. Letting my kids tear around the cul-de-sac. I'v
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Pong was old school in 1985. Atari 5200 had been released a few years earlier. It wasn't exactly caveman days, ya know.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I was there, in 1985. I don't think I would have thought it magical, or invented by aliens, just a neat bit of hardware. And it would have beat the krep that Kirk was forced to use on Star Trek.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The serial consoles won't work if the parent poster removes all local accounts and goes 'LDAP only'. Unless I've misunderstood something about that. It happens. We do the redundant Active Directory thing. It didn't help during the DR exer
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Why can't we still kill the local login If LDAP ever goes down you might want to retain the ability to login to your box. I ran into a problem similar to this on a recent DR exercise. Active Directory (an LDAPish service) was down. Was g
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I use a noise generator. Noisy - http://code.google.com/p/noisy/ Turn it on and - for me - it sounds incredibly distracting. A few minutes later I don't notice it all and the background distractions fade away. I've used it at work, I've
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by bdunbar 15y ago
just an observation that according to some accounts she was a rather odd individual. I suspect if you subject a random group of people to intense scrutiny, attention and deep info dives you'd find the majority of them qualify as 'odd'.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Well, that should be interesting. I contracted at Motorola for a half-year - systems administration. They were very segmented, regimented and separation of duty'd. It felt like you couldn't sneeze without having the boss's boss's boss sign
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by bdunbar 15y ago
<i>So, go ahead, someone sell me on Macs.</i> I can only tell you why I use one: OS X just gets out of my way and lets me get at my work. What I do is systems administration - Windows, Solaris, Linux, BSD. Some light coding
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I have been told - first by the CEO of a retail chain [1] - that 'a college degree' isn't so much for talent, or fit, as a proof that the applicant can stick with something for a few years. He proved his point by hiring me [2] for a job. A
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Sometimes economics can make it impossible. Sometimes, sure. More often people who _say_ they are stuck are not stuck so much as lacking imagination, or will. How quickly can you learn a completely new skill set if you only have one day
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Not everyone has what it takes to be a rock star software engineer. Everyone is in a position to improve themselves. Take a class, get a degree, network, learn a skill. It is not easy. But this is not the same thing as impossible.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I never claimed to be original. I could have gone long-winded, gotten into Clausewitz, made a side trip into Westphalia with a detour around the Tower of London. But life is short. My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be
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by bdunbar 15y ago
You are actively ignoring evidence that might not support what you already take to be true. This is bad science. This isn't science. It's politics and it's extension, war.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Chain-link can be taken down and moved quicker than a standard wall. This used to be an important factor when you didn't want 'stuff' to be seen by satellites, needed to setup and take things down quickly. I don't know if it's still a facto
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I wouldn't be shocked to learn that most Americans don't know anything about the man, Geronimo. Soldiers generally know more history than you expect. If they used Geronimo it's likely a top o' the hat to the warrior, not a call back to a
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Can anyone say when Oracle is justified? When the ERP application you are installing has in it's specs - Supported database: Oracle I am sure a crack Postgres guy can bash and file that sucker to work. But the vendor will not support the
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Saying that you're sorry doesn't mean it was your fault or even have legal liability (which they might), it just means that you have a heart. Saying 'I'm sorry' does legally imply it was your fault and you are liable, legally. I am not a

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