mrbill

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by mrbill 8y ago
I'm glad to answer any questions anybody might have, or honestly, pick up a copy of "Freemasonry for Dummies" from Amazon or a library. It's a very well written book, and I got to meet the author, Bro. Chris Hodapp, a f
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by mrbill 8y ago
Actually, in the US it's run at the state level. Each state has a "Grand Lodge", that issues charters for the local Lodges (and in some cases, owns the buildings). Each state "recognizes" other state Grand Lodges
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by mrbill 8y ago
Hi there. It's been a while :D
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by mrbill 8y ago
You just never know who might turn up from your past... 1999: I was a sysadmin at an ISP in Austin. One day we had a tour come through, people looking to see if they wanted to colo in our datacenter. In walks in the former CEO and most of
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by mrbill 8y ago
I started out in the IT industry as the sole tech support guy for an ISP in Oklahoma City in 1995. I eventually built it into a department of about 20 people answering phones and emails, then I eventually moved into sysadmin. It was great
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by mrbill 8y ago
This, and "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" are two of my favorite computer-related books. I wish other historical books were as thick and as thorough and well-written.
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by mrbill 8y ago
I had enough "klout" to get a Windows Phone (don't remember which model) for review/use.. Played with it for a week, passed it on to other family members. Great hardware, bad software... Cancelled my klout account in 2
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by mrbill 8y ago
Until one day a magnet fails and "safely land" turns into "dies screaming after impacting at terminal velocity into a city center"
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by mrbill 8y ago
I've been a career sysadmin, so having chapters authored in a couple of Solaris certification study books certainly looked good on my resume and was relevant to my experience; nobody ever told me if that helped cinch the deal when movi
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by mrbill 8y ago
I've never written an ENTIRE technical book, but I've written a number of chapters for multi-author titles (namely, Solaris certification study books). I don't remember making more than $500 from any single chapter I wrote -
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by mrbill 8y ago
I thought perhaps 400m was their max depth but Wikipedia says 350.
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by mrbill 8y ago
$399 is great, but I'm going to have to sell a bunch of stuff to pay for the Go as it is.. cancer med and oncologist visit copays suck :(
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by mrbill 8y ago
Ordered, can't wait. Will be nice to have a VR option that doesn't require burning battery or overheating my phone (OG Pixel). I built my last gaming PC to minimum-Oculus-VR specs, but never got around to buying the headset. Gl
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by mrbill 8y ago
Specifically these. Scared the crap out of me as a 13 year old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGsv0pJemTY
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by mrbill 8y ago
All i can think of... This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are
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by mrbill 8y ago
I had one of these. The concept was nice, screen was much nicer than I expected, but the keyboard was near unusable. You had to hit each key HARD, directly in the center, for keystrokes to register. Touch typing was impossible. The trackp
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by mrbill 8y ago
I'd like it.
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by mrbill 9y ago
I owned a number of color and B/W slabs through the years, but four years ago I finally got an '040 Cube, and the cable that lets me hang a modern VGA (flatpanel) monitor off the sound box. I picked up one off eBay that sorta-mat
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by mrbill 9y ago
What's next? SCO winning an appeal? Sheesh.
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by mrbill 9y ago
I don't ever see P9 getting price-competitive with x86 or ARM.
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by mrbill 9y ago
They weren't sure if x86 was going to be competitive in the long run at that point, so they were porting to all the major architectures. I even heard rumors of a SPARC port of NT 3.51 but I've never seen it in the flesh. Solaris
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by mrbill 9y ago
I ran NT4 on a MIPS Magnum R4000 for a while. It worked okay. Could run 16bit x86 Windows/DOS stuff in a weird sort of translation/emulation. All my Multias (I owned 2-3 over the years) usually ended up with RHEL on them; nobody
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by mrbill 9y ago
It took me about two years before the "fog" lifted and I started to feel again. Before I was doing anything other than going to work like an automation just to pay bills.
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by mrbill 9y ago
For the longest time (and well, still to this day) I hated coming home to an empty house. I wanted human companionship - a hug, someone to care , someone to ask how my day went. I had two cats, but they've since passed, and even befor
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by mrbill 9y ago
One thing that sucks about having a significant other die - having to keep piles of certified copies of the death cert handy, to send to various orgs / companies / etc to cancel things, shut off services, and so forth. I ran ac
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by mrbill 9y ago
When you have a divorce, separation, etc - the person is still there , still alive, around, may or may not communicate with you, etc. You can know that they're OK, even if they had to find happiness with someone else or whatever happ
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by mrbill 9y ago
I lost my wife suddenly in 2009, she was 34. Losing your significant other is something that you never get over - you live with the emptiness and the hurt, and you learn to move on and hope that the "fog" eventually lifts. It&#x27
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by mrbill 9y ago
As the other reply said - Texas. I'm in Houston. If I lived in another part of town, I could get AT&T gigabit for $100ish a month, but my house was built in '57 and my only options for Internet right now are Comcast or (slow)
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by mrbill 9y ago
50-100% more, depending on speed and features. However, Business Class typically has no metering/caps, better support, and a faster SLA for getting things fixed (depending on your area and the type of outage).
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by mrbill 9y ago
I've got their "Business Wireless Gateway", a Cisco bit that really shouldn't have the Cisco name on it.. I turned off its built-in WiFi and use a Ubiquiti UAP-AC-PRO. The BWG just functions as a modem and somewhere to

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