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by mrbill 12y ago
My grandmother did the same thing with bound "pads" of $2 bills for years, gave them (in a checkbook-style holder) as Christmas gifts. I don't think the serial numbers were in order, though, as she got the $2 bills from a lo
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by mrbill 12y ago
My last employer wanted to look at OpenStack as a drop-in cheaper replacement for VMWare vSphere - and unfortunately, it wasn't that simple.
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For a moment I thought this was another April Fools joke.
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Cisco actually demonstrated Ethernet over barbed wire (and other materials) back in '02. http://slashdot.org/story/02/01/03/2039218/ethernet-over-ass...
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Right now, yes. TONS of people in the industry just got laid off.
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by mrbill 12y ago
I got laid off after twelve years with a major energy services company back in January, and I'm really glad to be out of that industry now. Lower gas prices at the pump usually meant that layoffs were probably coming, 2-3 times a year.
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by mrbill 12y ago
My mother (67) told me yesterday that her iPad is the best and most favorite thing I've ever given her. She spends more time with it on the couch than on her actual PC. When the iPad 2 came out I bought her a refurb original iPad, the
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by mrbill 12y ago
For just a tiny bit more, he could move up to the Moto E/Moto G, which are a lot nicer than the BLU phones I've seen and experienced. The sub-$200 phone market is an amazing quality-for-money price point right now.
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by mrbill 12y ago
As detailed in William Gibson's '93 article "Disneyland with the Death Penalty": http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html Revisited in '12: http://www.wired.
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by mrbill 12y ago
Company I just left after 12 years had an entire /8 and a /16. One of the projects I worked on in 2014 was moving a lot of the stuff out of the /16 (which had been owned by a subsidiary that was bought almost 20 years ago)
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by mrbill 12y ago
I've got a G17, a G19, and the SR1911CMD as of yesterday - and I'm already thinking about selling the G17 to pick up an Officers-size compact Armscor/RIA 1911 to tinker with.
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by mrbill 12y ago
I actually bought my first 1911 yesterday - a Ruger SR1911 Commander. Put 60 rounds through it at the range to break it in, and my wrist was none the worse for wear. If I'd put that same amount of ammo through my Glock 17, I would hav
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by mrbill 12y ago
The most recent price list I got from David Schmidt @ Symbolics (2/23/10): "Thank you for your request for information about Symbolics and our products. Our Open Genera software for HP/Compaq/DEC Alpha workstations
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by mrbill 12y ago
Every time I've been offered options / equity in lieu of higher salary, I've taken the higher salary instead and ended up better off. Some people don't want to play the odds game and would rather just have the money to u
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by mrbill 12y ago
It seems like the majority of people who had problems with the Nest Thermostat in these comments had it hooked up to a heat pump system. Mine is a first-gen, bought the instant they were available to the public, and it's been rock-soli
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by mrbill 12y ago
Over the past week I've had no problems getting an unlock code from ATT for a GoPhone Nokia 635 bought on Black Friday for $40 (and never activated), and for a HTC One M7 bought outright from Best Buy last week for $150. It took a cou
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by mrbill 12y ago
And a video of someone demonstrating this by putting a Proprinter back together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spDYSKl3kmo
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by mrbill 12y ago
Even twenty years ago when I worked in radio (89-93), the song playlist was determined 2-3 weeks in advance. The station had software that ran on a TRS-80 and I had a printout to follow every shirt.
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by mrbill 12y ago
Ah, it WAS Sterling; "Green Days in Brunei" from the "Crystal Express" story collection. http://www.e-reading.link/chapter.php/71789/6/Sterling_-_Cry...
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by mrbill 12y ago
Re-reading this article makes me think of a scifi short story that I read a while back that I can't remember the name of. I thought it was by Bruce Sterling but apparently not. About a guy who went to (Dubai?) to reprogram some "
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by mrbill 12y ago
What I found most interesting was how long it took to come to agreements on "standard" sizes. Lots of infighting and politics.
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by mrbill 12y ago
I'll bet there were a lot of people who were upset when shipping containers were standardised too. There's a GREAT book on the subject: "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigge
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by mrbill 12y ago
Some of the locations have started to carry a bigger electronics component selection again (instead of a single pull-out file of resistors and capcitors), along with 3D printing supplies, Arduinos and related parts (retail packed from Spark
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by mrbill 12y ago
Switched to Comcast Business Class service four years ago. 50/10, 5 static IPs, clueful LOCAL techs who don't rely on a script and speak English as a first language. No caps whatsoever. I run my own web/mail servers. I nev
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by mrbill 12y ago
Maybe they are, but there are hurdles in getting them to market. Here's an example about Merck's suvorexant. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/09/the-big-sleep-2
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by mrbill 12y ago
Speaking of MeFi being awesome, pomegranate, her lady, jph, and joethedough all meta-dragged me to dinner last night for my birthday. :) Great people.
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It's kinda weird to see an article that I'm meta-mentioned in spread to the sites I read.
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by mrbill 12y ago
I've got a Debian system that I've got a couple of Debian VMs running on under qemu-kvm. I don't want Docker-style containers for specific apps; I need "full system image" virtualization - I wonder if this would be
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by mrbill 12y ago
I'm on the $60-70/month T-Mobile plan that gives me truly unlimited 4G data; no throttling. I might not use more than 2G a month most of the time, but if I need to use more, I don't have to worry (such as when I had to go out
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by mrbill 12y ago
For $20 each (for Prime members), sure, I'll buy two - I'll find a use for them somewhere even if it's giving them to friends as gifts.

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