bdunbar

15 ms·

121.
by bdunbar 13y ago
If you think only the US is capable of these kind of shenanigans you have another think coming.
122.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> you find yourself completely lost when using another installation. That can also be true for the workstation. Example: I remapped my caps-lock key to ctrl. Swapped the top row around so the numbers and and symbols are reversed. Stuff
123.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> So it's definitely fair to say that simply damaging a carrier is not nearly as catastrophic as sinking one. It is fair to say that the situations are not equal. If the carrier can't fight, it's out of the battle until it
124.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> Some people would argue that a very simple daemon with fewer features might be more secure because it has less attack area. If it's true for something like a web server, it ought to be true for SSH. Thanks for the link to spiped.
125.
by bdunbar 13y ago
Yet, here we are. It has just occurred to me that I went from an employer for whom 'the internet' was just a medium over which biz was transacted to one for whom without 'the internet' would not exist at all.
126.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> is SSH still a safe tool? Is there something better?
127.
by bdunbar 13y ago
I just changed employers. Found the new desk does not come with a phone, and may never come with a phone. We communicate via email, or hipchat, or just walking over and saying 'hi'. I might miss it .. but so far, so good.
128.
by bdunbar 13y ago
All I've got is what I wrote, and what's on NDMA's site about it. I wish I'd kept that floppy. It was a full working copy, and the printed instruction manual. I have no idea how I acquired it, at this late date. Perhap
129.
by bdunbar 13y ago
'engelbart inspired augment software' without quotes. Which led me to the wiki page for NLS which contains the line ... "The HyPerform program sold by NDMA Inc. is a descendant of NLS and Augment." Which made my brain go
130.
by bdunbar 13y ago
A long time ago, 1995 or 1996, I fooled around with software that was written by one of Engelbart's team. It promised to augment the person running the program, to do for their brain what word-processing did for text. It was darn nifty
131.
by bdunbar 13y ago
Ah. I'm new to AWS, had not yet explored 'storage' options. I guess I'd been thinking of AWS as being 'vmware' but more so, without thinking hard about how it could be different.
132.
by bdunbar 13y ago
How does your organization mount volumes found on another host?
133.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> That it will allways become corrupted, sooner or later. Systems of governance will always fail. This is just the way things are. The very best one can do is what was done in Philadelphia in 1787: design a flexible system of checks and
134.
by bdunbar 13y ago
To apply for a government job you merely speak slowly and clearly into the nearest light fixture. Please include the job number for which you are applying for.
135.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> if Waze will become irrelevant if Google happens to productize self-driving cars How far off is widespread adoption of self-driving cars vs lifespan of a company / product? Waze may be obsolete before self-driving cars make the c
136.
by bdunbar 13y ago
If you're open to a card-based game, I think highly of Munchkin.
137.
by bdunbar 13y ago
Pretty vanilla. * 2-year old MBP, Snow Leopard. * An IBM Model-M keyboard. * Three 17-inch monitors I picked up from the desktop support group, using USB video adapters. * No dock, I have all of the cables twisty-tied together for neatness.
138.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> none of this attitude This is not an actual prevailing attitude in the US.
139.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> and the Argentinians did not occupy the entire island One of us needs to review that conflict. And it's not me.
140.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> There was no ground held in the long term. We've had forces in Kuwait ever since Desert Storm ended.
141.
by bdunbar 13y ago
OP said 'take and hold ground'. Which is what Grenada was. I will allow it was not a major conflict.
142.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> The British forces did not "take and hold ground", the repelled an invasion force. Incorrect. The Argentines surprised the small garrison, had the place in a few hours. The Brits then mobilized an amphibious force and had to take th
143.
by bdunbar 13y ago
I'm not a hiring manager but as a peer I'd be very uncomfortable sitting next to a felon. Now, a guy convicted of a non-violent misdemeanor, that's another story. Depends on circumstances. I myself was guilty, in the Marines, for offenses
144.
by bdunbar 13y ago
I am 46. I was trained - Marines - in COBOL. Although after I left Quantico they put me in a billet working with dBase III, I could just as easily been assigned to a billet at a RASC where I would have been using COBOL.
145.
by bdunbar 13y ago
> The last time a modern military in a major conflict actually took and held ground was probably the Korean War. Except for .. Falkland Islands Grenada Desert Storm OIF
146.
by bdunbar 13y ago
Where? Anywhere you find people, you'll find wretched crap like this. How? As a species we're real good at hurting each other.
147.
by bdunbar 13y ago
"healthcare is free." The money to pay for that ambulance ride is coming from somewhere.
148.
by bdunbar 13y ago
Where I work people still talk about 'the year they stopped giving away turkeys at Thanksgiving'. That was in 1986.
149.
by bdunbar 13y ago
I'm not a subject matter expert, but in the last decade, there have been some huge strides forward in aerospace: SS1 for example was a _brilliant_ hack on the 'how do we get back from the edge of space without burning to cinders' problem. N
150.
by bdunbar 13y ago
Implying there was not a space arms race? But there was. It wasn't a classic arms race with actual vehicles parading down the street, but money was spent, research was done. Two things we have as a result are adaptive optics, and the anti-

More ›