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by mrbill 11y ago
Born and grown up in Oklahoma, and living in Texas (Austin from '96-04, Houston for the past ten years) living somewhere without AC seems so bizarre. What if you like it cooler than the weather permits? Heck, I have central AC in my h
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by mrbill 11y ago
This. I spent a couple of weeks working from my mom's house in Oklahoma after she got out of the hospital, and being able to use Prime to order an office chair and a folding table (to use as a proper desk) to be delivered out in the b
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by mrbill 11y ago
I had a 2-week temporary gig at another place (was going perm, but I got a much better offer from the current gig at the last minute). They used Hipchat, and it was neat - my coworkers there greeted me with inline memes. Having to use a pr
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by mrbill 11y ago
I ran one of the biggest EFNet IRC hubs at Texas.Net up until we pulled the plug in '98 due to smurfing attacks. :) Since then a bunch of friends and I have run a tiny multi-server network after we all moved off the public networks. St
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by mrbill 11y ago
I wonder just how big a non-binaries feed is these days. A tiny engineering company I worked for in '98-99 had its own Usenet server with a no-bin feed going into a SPARCstation 2 (think 386-486-class x86, equivalent) and it kept up j
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by mrbill 11y ago
Neat to see where the "Pluto" mystery switch might fit in, now. http://www.wired.com/2012/09/pluto-switch/
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by mrbill 11y ago
I was 13-14, and a member of Telenet's "Net Exchange" BBS, which existed to support members of its "PC Pursuit" [1] service. I dialed in via a backdoor on one of Telenet's 800 numbers, using (at first) a 300 b
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by mrbill 11y ago
I can't seem to find easy directions for putting it on an X201; got any suggestions?
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by mrbill 11y ago
Speaking of legacy platforms, anyone know of a vi/tinyvi/etc work-alike for CP/M? I'm going to be doing some hacking on z80 assembly via Yaze, and it would be great if I could have the editor I'm used to, natively o
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by mrbill 11y ago
Reusing LCDs from iPhone 5 stock, perhaps?
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by mrbill 11y ago
I've bought my Albuterol rescue inhalers from an overseas pharmacy for years. Price of one, with insurance copay , at Walgreens: $15 Price of one (I never order just one) from overseas: $4.50
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by mrbill 11y ago
I got hit in the layoffs at Halliburton here in Houston back in January, and at no time was "don't disparage the company" ever made a condition of accepting severance. In fact, the only thing I had to sign said "I'
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by mrbill 11y ago
Bob's initials are even B.O.F.H.
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by mrbill 11y ago
I bought a Lumia 1020 a year ago (mostly to play with the 42MP camera) and it's a great piece of hardware (I'm an Android person for daily / main use). However, I upgraded to the first Win10 for Mobile preview, an d now i
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by mrbill 11y ago
> you might be willing to give up access to ... Halliburton (34.0.0.0/8) As someone who used to manage systems in 34.0.0.0/8 and 134.132.0.0/16, oh god I hope nobody does this...
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by mrbill 11y ago
So Triton is basically (simplifying) Solaris / SmartOS zones with the LX stuff installed?
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by mrbill 11y ago
May your dad have as good an aftermath as my friend has.
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by mrbill 11y ago
Just sent this link to a friend of mine who suffered from a full-bleed aneurysm a few years ago. She was lucky enough to be out in public when it happened, and got to a hospital in time for surgery (couldn't do the noninvasive method
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by mrbill 11y ago
YArchive is one of my favorite "tons of useful discussions" sites for when I want to enjoy what the Internet used to be like in usenet's heyday.
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by mrbill 11y ago
Other than O'Reilly, I think most publishers still insist on MSWord for submissions.
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by mrbill 11y ago
Intresting timing, I finished re-reading Haney's "Inside Delta Force" last night. Definitely pick it up (after reading Beckwith's "Delta Force"). "Rogue Warrior" (and "Red Cell", presented
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by mrbill 11y ago
I tried out MealSquares when they were first available. Ate three of them before I ended up throwing the rest of the package in the trash. Really unappetizing and inedible, unless they've changed the recipe since then.
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by mrbill 11y ago
When I bought my M1 Garand (a lend-lease giveback from Greece, made in February of '45) the case of ammo I bought with it is older than I am. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/sets/72157616506699264
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by mrbill 11y ago
I'm aware of that; I'm talking about how the K1 was originally supposed to be x86-compatible through microcode and then had to be implemented as an ARM chip when the licensing deal fell through. Obviously the Soviet chip doesn&#x
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by mrbill 11y ago
Wasn't the NVIDIA "Denver" Tegra K1 originally intended to be an x86-compatible chip along these lines, then when they couldn't get the licensing right, it was turned into an ARM-compatible? http://en.wikipedi
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by mrbill 11y ago
Way too many people dismiss sleep apnea. Folks, it can kill you - or cause other serious problems. In addition to narcolepsy, your general metabolism can get messed up too. I spent 4+ years not getting any REM sleep and my metabolism ST
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by mrbill 12y ago
"a class of drugs developed for osteoporosis appears effective in preventing the allergic reaction from being triggered." ... am I the only one who thought "surely someone taking this drug for osteoporosis also has asthma?
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by mrbill 12y ago
Domain registration doesn't imply website creation.
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by mrbill 12y ago
I was able to, at different times, email both Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz directly, and got personal responses from both of them. In the grand scale of things, I'm a relative nobody, just a dude who runs a web site that talked
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by mrbill 12y ago
I run a community-oriented Sun/SPARC site, since 1997 (and was invited to be part of the private prerelase testing/eval of OpenSolaris) and it's really sad what Oracle has done to the enthusiast community. The "old"

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