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by mrbill 11y ago
I had the wake-word on mine set to "Amazon" and then made the mistake of watching an online training video for AWS.... Had to stop it and change the wake word back to "Alexa".
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by mrbill 11y ago
Every Zappos article I've read has the vibe of "YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING HERE OR WE WILL PAY YOU TO LEAVE. OR ELSE."
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by mrbill 11y ago
Surely I can't be the only person who remembers the old HP/Apollo PA/RISC workstations that had external framebuffers/GPUs that "stacked" with the main system chassis and had their own interface cables, power s
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by mrbill 11y ago
Probably also a lot of people who have been with the company for decades and expected to retire from there as well.
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by mrbill 11y ago
I learned to not have the wake word be "Amazon" when I was watching online training for AWS. The Echo went nuts until I finally paused everything and changed the wake word back to "Alexa".
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by mrbill 11y ago
This, a sort of "extender", is what I've been wishing for since the original Echo came out. Ordering tonight (since I can't do it from work).
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by mrbill 11y ago
For someone who knows next to nothing about trading, but has read "Flash Boys", any other recommended books on the topic?
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by mrbill 11y ago
That's one of the reasons I like fiddling around with the Hercules emulator - exposure to a system that's completely and totally alien compared to what I have used for years and do for a living.
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by mrbill 11y ago
Ordered! Cheaper (and faster) to have it shipped from the UK than from a US seller! Strangely enough, one of the RPi2s I bought last week was DOA (wouldn't boot off a card that worked on an identical Pi2; red/green LEDs just stay
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by mrbill 11y ago
For sure there's still software written for the IBM 360/370 mainframe series in production, just running either natively or in emulation on a newer zSeries 'frame. "Mainframe" doesn't necessarily mean "old
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by mrbill 11y ago
From elsewhere, I've read that it's the same 1G of RAM, but the CPU is now a quad-core 1.2Ghz arm64.
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by mrbill 11y ago
Hrm, as of last year, doesn't look like it: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/28/faas-air-traffic-control-u...
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by mrbill 11y ago
Wonder if the FAA has ever gotten their upgrades fully done.. From 23 years ago: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/1993-04-25/flying-in-pla...
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by mrbill 11y ago
Are the BTLE and WiFi the only changes? Still same CPU and RAM as the 2?
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by mrbill 11y ago
Dunno if I want to be called "famous". Tried my best to do what i could for the Sun / hardware rescue communities, but I'm still a relative nobody in the grand scheme of things. What's really weird is being called
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by mrbill 11y ago
This is the first time I've ever been accused of being a pirate! There's a first time for everything I guess. To be perfectly honest: I vaguely recall source of an older Solaris version being passed around the user/hobbyist
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by mrbill 11y ago
Those early ISP days both sucked and were fun in their own special way. Trumpet Winsock for Win3.x users! Getting OS/2 online and older Macs! Trash-talking in the local Usenet groups!
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by mrbill 11y ago
What? That's a bit libelous, I'd appreciate an explanation. If it happened at ioNET after September '96, I wasn't involved. All of Texas.Net's systems ran legit copies of Solaris; a large amount of them were brand
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by mrbill 11y ago
And my first day on the job was April 19, 1995. Talk about a hell of a first day... We pretty much switched into full "get news about the bombing online in some form or fashion, however possible" mode for about 48 hours. This was
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by mrbill 11y ago
Just curious - which one? I started out teaching "Welcome to the Internet" classes once a week, and then was the first tech support guy at ioNet / Internet Oklahoma. Worked my way up to assistant sysadmin before I moved to Au
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by mrbill 11y ago
Never write these kinds of letters unless you're sure the first response isn't going to be "You're only tech support. Good luck finding a new job." In fact, it's never a good idea to write these kinds of thing
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by mrbill 11y ago
I hope he got lots of money AND a Tesla vehicle.
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by mrbill 11y ago
Aha. Found this via a search: For navigating Android Home — Search + Enter Back — Search + Backspace Recent apps — Alt + Tab (same as it ever was) Missing symbols Brackets — Use three dots + o for left bracket [, three dots + p for right b
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by mrbill 11y ago
That's my main gripe about that keyboard - no ESC key. You could do CTRL-[, but I don't see the [ available on there either (at least obviously). One of my main reasons for a keyboard on an Android tablet is to be able to access r
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by mrbill 11y ago
I was working a REALLY long shift at work about a year ago (datacenter move). Came back to my desk from the DC at about 3am and for a few minutes, thought my system or monitor was broken because everything was dark dark shades of orange. T
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by mrbill 11y ago
I still have a problem with my big and tall shirts - I have to hang-dry them to keep them from shrinking vertically when run through the dryer (due to my body type). This backs up what I've complained about for years :)
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by mrbill 11y ago
Out of 12 bulbs, I've had three of the CREE LED bulbs from Home Depot fail in a "disco strobe" mode in less than six months :(
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by mrbill 11y ago
YArchive is one of my favorite high-signal low-noise sites; so much that I run a mirror of it.
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by mrbill 11y ago
I played the heck out of that game on my Amiga in the late 80s/early 90s.
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by mrbill 11y ago
Twitter was originally SMS-based and 140 characters fit in a normal SMS message.

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