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by mdip 5y ago
This model (and every other that I've seen, though, admittedly it's been a while since I've looked at a typical rack mount server) had an easily removed battery.
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by mdip 5y ago
I'm not sure what that engineer's reason specifically was, but I'll chock it up to laziness. The CMOS batteries, themselves, have a shelf life and for whatever reason, we probably had none of the specific size required on han
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by mdip 5y ago
I'll weigh in outside of Twitter. Back when I worked for a large telecom, we decided to move a datacenter from a mid-west, barely staffed site out to one of our larger datacenters. This was a year-long several-hundred rack problem tha
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by mdip 5y ago
This never, ever bit me in the Pascal days. I suspect this was primarily because the stack I was using was either "provided by the Borland Pascal standard library" pieces, or it was my own Pascal or assembler code. I had a limite
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by mdip 5y ago
Let me extend my sympathies to you. I think a lot of folks hang onto a fantasy that as your folks get toward the end of their lives that you'll somehow be more ready to lose them. We're not too far off age-wise. I'll never
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by mdip 5y ago
While I agree that the mistake Mr. Sharp made -- it sounds like he had a network disconnection which briefly caused him to perform actions via his home IP address, rather than his VPN address -- we also don't know everything here. It
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by mdip 5y ago
I've written about this software in the past, but I was a former user for quite some time. Back in the day I ran a multi-node BBS and like the vast majority of BBSes in my area, they were all DOS-based applications[0]. I had written m
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by mdip 5y ago
I debated replying to this because it'd involve revealing something about my past that I'm not very proud of/may not want searched by my name, but I don't think I've ever seen someone put so bluntly exactly how I fe
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by mdip 5y ago
This sort of thing drives me crazy because it just needs someone to ask the question "Why is this necessary?"[0] The reality is that a sufficiently motivated cheat will cheat and will more than likely get away with it regardle
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by mdip 5y ago
> it's sooo easy to write a React component taking in another component as a prop and some props for that other component ... but somehow lose the type safety of the props being passed in. Previous comments interpreted this,
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by mdip 5y ago
> The best way to fund that is to have everyone pay a nominal fee to use the facilities. IIRC, pay toilets are not a thing in the US (they are not legal in much of the US). And I don't entirely know where I stand on it, per
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by mdip 5y ago
Does anyone have experience with the processor they're including? I ask because I recently had to switch back to Windows for my work laptop after about 7 years of running OpenSUSE Linux[0] and have been looking to buy a less powerful l
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by mdip 5y ago
> I don’t know if it was outright maliciousness, or just extreme anxiety from the IT team lead about job security It's probably anxiety about job security/being overworked rather than maliciousness, but it could be bo
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by mdip 5y ago
My first thought: Your district had an IT department? I guess that's probably more common now than when I went to HS in the 90s but I'm fairly certain IT duties are still farmed out to a small business for the districts I live ne
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by mdip 5y ago
Every district is different, heck -- every school within a district can be different in extreme discipline like this. Frankly, the size of his district represented a lot of risk; those often have the policies with the least wiggle-room -
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by mdip 5y ago
This is excellent; reminds me of (very much smaller and far less cleverly executed) grief that I caused the administration at my HS back in the day[0]. There's a few comments about the risks along with a little surprise/at least a
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by mdip 5y ago
The quote is a little misleading. It was popular with multi-line BBSes back in the day for its accessible multitasking of DOS-based software on x86-based systems. The software that many BBSes ran in the 90s (at least in my area code and
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by mdip 5y ago
I get your point and thanks for the info -- I wasn't aware that ArcaOS was out there. It's a testament to how long it truly takes to make a technology go completely "extinct". Like a lot of technology, once it's em
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by mdip 5y ago
I was young when the first two versions of OS/2 were released[0] but worked at a large (US) national computer retailer around the time Windows 95 and OS/2 Warp were at war. I ran Warp on my home PC. And I replaced it with Window
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by mdip 5y ago
If it's anything like my past employers, they probably have a lot of time. They probably also got in a lot of trouble. When we'd have situation bridges put in place to work a critical issue, there would usually be 2-3 people
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by mdip 5y ago
> why am I paying for bandwidth on AWS? Because when you signed up for services on AWS, you agreed to pay for egress and ingress bandwidth delivered at very high speeds. When I signed up for my ISP, I agreed to pay for a rate of
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by mdip 5y ago
I think it's fairly simple: in the original arrangement where ISPs provided access to content and that content was not video, ISPs were making out like bandits offering unlimited service at ridiculous speeds while not having to upgrade
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by mdip 5y ago
It's more of a "false advertising" arrangement than that, though. If the ISP is selling me 1Gbps access to specific internet content only and I purchased the plan I use based on that knowledge[0] then charging me a toll for
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by mdip 5y ago
I find this thinking just bizarre and displays quite a bit of hubris from the ISPs and/or S. Korean courts. What's happening here is simple: Netflix is so popular that an ISP dare not block their content. Really, put simply:
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by mdip 5y ago
For those using these maps to determine the service you can expect from an MVNO operating on these providers, beware. I've been using Google Fi and tried a few others with Visible being the one that I found to be the most difficult to
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by mdip 5y ago
> For one, their map isn't restricted to areas that have paved roads or are otherwise regularly occupied by people, unlike the cellmapper map. So the question becomes which is more useful for determining whether or not a giv
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by mdip 5y ago
I worked for a gentleman[0] who, while not a programmer by trade[1], he was an old Unix guy and a Linux early-adopter. All of that to say that when he'd made a recommendation for me to explore this or that technology, I generally list
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by mdip 5y ago
In the history of my career, I've watched the evolution of agile as either a direct or indirect participant. My first experience with it was at a large telecom where I worked on a team that operated using agile development practices
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by mdip 5y ago
Sometimes when I read these things, I wonder if I've just gotten really lucky and selected positions at places with well-adjusted, mature, talented software developers? This is in no way representative of any of my experiences bot
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by mdip 5y ago
Thanks for the link -- you solved a nagging mystery for me[0]. In the '90s, I worked for a tech guy from Texas who referred to the clippers that we used to cut the ends of zip ties off as dikes . Of course, being a teenager, the term

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