mrbill

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by mrbill 8y ago
Halliburton had 34.* and 134.132.* as of 2015 when I last worked there, but I looked a few months ago and they've sold off some of that /8 to Amazon and others.... A lot of places with /8s are fixing their wasteful allocatio
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by mrbill 8y ago
Sup, Chris? I hated having to use the InterNIC template when I was handling domain regs back at that place we were both involved with.
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by mrbill 8y ago
Mattresses (Casper), office chairs (Steelcase LEAP), keyboards (something with Cherry MX Brown switches). I spend the majority of my life using these bits so I buy quality.
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by mrbill 8y ago
My current mattress is a $900 kingsize Casper. It replaced a 10-year-old Tempurpedic that cost around $4K. The Casper is a better mattress in EVERY WAY so far (had it since 2015).
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by mrbill 8y ago
I had to provide a picture of the death certificate and a link to an obit (IIRC, it's been nine years).
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by mrbill 8y ago
And "memorialization" just makes it so that the account can't post, log in, etc - but other people can still post to that account's "wall" - "we miss you" messages, etc.
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by mrbill 8y ago
Nope. You have to specifically request that an account be "memorialized", otherwise it stays there just like they've not logged in. I had to do it with my wife's when she passed away.
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by mrbill 8y ago
I started out with BASIC on a TI-99/4A. In comparison, MS-BASIC/GW-BASIC was positively luxurious . I spent so many hours with the yellow-cover copy of Ahl's "BASIC COMPUTER GAMES": https://www.atariarc
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by mrbill 8y ago
The very first "real UNIX box" I owned was a PC7300/3B1. Got it working with the built-in 1200 baud modem and everything. Eventually replaced it with a Sun 3/50, but I have fond memories of the 3B1 (and there are great
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by mrbill 8y ago
Nothing new at all, they've been doing this for 20+ years. Interesting to see the Halliburton mention though, I worked there in IT for 12 years and there was an embedded Oracle install in most of our major software products.
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by mrbill 8y ago
A lot of the IP is tied up in probate and the guy who owns the rights to most of it died a couple of years ago. There's an emulator and ways to run it on a 64-bit *nix system if you know where to look.. There's a lot of effort &qu
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by mrbill 8y ago
I bought a used copy at great expense a few years ago.. only for it to show up on the Internet Archive as an ebook a few months later.
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by mrbill 8y ago
A friend of mine worked for a company in College Station, TX. They still had a few Symbolics boxes around, wouldn't get rid of them because the owner had paid so much for them new.. but they were, yeah, being used as stands for the co
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by mrbill 8y ago
In Texas, of course our WM's head covering is a cowboy hat :D
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by mrbill 8y ago
That's pretty much how it's done here - if you freeze up during the "official" presentation you'll get helped and prompted and so forth. The Certificates I refer to are completely separate from proficiency - they&#x
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by mrbill 8y ago
Correct. The question is "do you believe in a higher power y/n?" not "give us details on what you think of said higher power". In ceremony/ritual we refer generally to "The Grand Architect of the Universe
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by mrbill 8y ago
nope, you have to pay $12 to continue having Red. :(
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by mrbill 8y ago
My last girlfriend's father had been a Mason, and she was heavily involved in the Order of the Eastern Star for a while. It was nice to not have to explain what I did when I went to Lodge, and so forth.. and when she attended our (pub
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by mrbill 8y ago
A bunch of us eventually got tired of EFNet politics and started a tiny server network of our own that's run for almost .. 16 years now? Running /lusers shows 22 users on the network across 3 servers, with 5 total channels. Over
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by mrbill 8y ago
One of the reasons I joined was that my grandfather (not by blood, but he married my grandmother after my real gramps passed) was a fine outstanding man, a 32nd degree Mason, and well regarded in his community. He provided for my college e
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by mrbill 8y ago
As one of my mentors said, "It's not about you knowing the proficiency 100% when you pass, it's about knowing it 100% when you're teaching it to others." I wasn't 100% when I turned mine in, but they passed me
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by mrbill 8y ago
Contact a local Lodge, explain the situation, and usually you can get a "letter in good standing" from your original Lodge (or Grand Lodge), "demit" (officially leave) your original Lodge, then apply for membership at yo
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by mrbill 8y ago
Not any that are going to be recognized as "regular" and adhere to the "Landmarks" of Freemasonry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_Landmarks You'll find "clandestine" lodges (th
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by mrbill 8y ago
Check out this bit on "Operative" vs "Speculative" Masonry, it addresses your question pretty well: http://www.masonicdictionary.com/operativev.html
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by mrbill 8y ago
Trending downwards, just like any social fraternity (OddFellows, etc). People are more interested in going online these days than having to attend actual meetings and so forth. The Masons' peak membership was in the 1950s.
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by mrbill 8y ago
I rather like this Hale and Pace bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBnzp4OkDD4
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by mrbill 8y ago
We have plenty of Catholic members. The Masons didn't exclude Catholics, the Pope banned membership in Masonry by Catholics because he considered the organization a threat to his authority. That ban is pretty much ignored nowdays. h
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by mrbill 8y ago
I've never heard that! But then I've only experienced Texas Masonry. Here, we tell you to come on down and hang out on our unofficial "study nights", where we sit around, have pizza, and guys go off in small groups to
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by mrbill 8y ago
FYI - a Stated Meeting at a Masonic Lodge is basically Robert's Rules of Order, with a little more pomp and circumstance and fancy titles and "jeweled collars" (felt and chromed pot metal) for the officer positions. Being a
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by mrbill 8y ago
I've heard a story about an older lady who was confused and needed work done on her porch.. she contacted the local Masonic lodge for help.. and in a few days, a bunch of the guys showed up at her house and rebuilt her porch for her.

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