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by mrbill 9y ago
Public-facing email/web/etc server (that replaced my colo box), everything else is behind a NAT "router" that also uses one of the static IPs. I do some minor web hosting for friends, etc. I started out with their 27&#x
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As a lifelong sysadmin and former ISP person, I would have never thought that I would be impressed with Comcast. However, after I lost a sweet free colo deal (company I used to work for, got sold) a few years ago, I decided to move my main
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I hate duplicate-named projects. Thought for a moment this was about someone discussing upgrading their text-based mail client.
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A friend mentioned that in the high-dollar government lab he works in, they use a blast shield and a mirror in these applications. Mirror is a lot cheaper to replace than some of their lenses.
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Two common factors in a lot of these stories are "IBM GS" and "Oracle"...
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Charlie Stross was once a sysadmin/programmer. Larry Correia was an accountant (and a gun store owner).
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I ran it on a MIPS Magnum R4000 for a while. I forget the name of the compatibility feature, but you could run 16-bit x86 Windows apps (may have been 32bit, it's been 20 years) with only a slight performance hit.
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I grew up in a law enforcement family. Stuff like this MIGHT get you out of a speeding ticket at best - depending on just how fast you were going, your attitude, and the mood of the officer that stopped you. Serious offenses meant you were
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I remember getting the "ACTUAL SIZE" brochure in '89 for the Cube.. Owned a number of slabs (black and white and color) over the years, used one as my primary work machine for about a year.. but never acquired a Cube until 20
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UnixWorld was another. https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/blast-from-the-past-1993...
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I miss "Sys Admin". It and LJ were two of my favorite magazines.
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I had this exact surgery (robot-assisted laproscopic complete nephrectomy) back on September 22nd. In my case, once the doc got in there, the tumor+kidney was too big and they had to cut a normal open incision to get it out. So, I ended u
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I swear I read about this in Schlosser's "Command and Control" a couple of years ago.. maybe not. https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Ill...
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Google Fi phones will accept any SIM card, they're not locked down at all. However, the Google Fi service will only work properly with designated phones. If you stick a Fi SIM in a non-Fi unlocked phone, you only get T-Mobile servi
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by mrbill 9y ago
I bought the non-LS Pixel, the 2015 model. Great machine, felt very well built, etc.. but I had no use for the touchscreen, and eventually sold the system to a friend while it still had some resale value left. My normal Chromebook workflow
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I have a T420s, and after maxing it out RAM/HD-wise, managed to get one of the adapter boards so I could put a FHD IPS screen (the same model you mention) in it. One of the reasons the guy stopped selling the adapter boards was the hug
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This is not any different from the Paypal Debit card that Paypal (owner of Venmo) offers, no? BTW, Paypal now offers almost-instant transfers to a debit card account for a 25c fee (I think it was). I did one of these over the weekend and i
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by mrbill 9y ago
In 1985, it was the ARPAnet (research) and MILnet (military/government). It was funded by the US Government, and was not the open "Internet" we enjoy today, which consists of thousands of privately-owned interconnected netwo
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There were times when he could be a real jerk: "How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET" http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.html However, I enjoyed his writings, both SF and h
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The "old" Sun recognized and encouraged the hobbyist community - that if people played with older gear at home, they were more likely to recommend/spec it at work... Solaris and patches/updates, software suites (LDAP ser
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People started moving away from Solaris/SPARC in droves as soon as Oracle acquired Sun. An example: the "old" Sun gave me a loaded T1000 system to run SUNHELP.ORG on. The "New" Sun wouldn't even give me Solar
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Not if you're on a Comcast Business plan with static IPs; you're limited to what they'll give you, even though people have shown that their static IP-setup works with customer provided gear.
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My Mavica took some of the best pictures in terms of quality, even though it was only 640x480.
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Wow, I thought TP had died out ages ago. I used it for a while before switching to Wordpress.
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The DEC system handbooks, which they gave out for free, were incredibly thorough and informative. Here's a link to the PDP-11 ones on Bitsavers: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/handbooks
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By going to https://alexa.amazon.com , "music, video and books", tunein, picking the Dot I wanted to play through, and then I searched for KGOU (Oklahoma City NPR), I was able to play that station. You might be able to
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> You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. "Alexa, play NPR" also works. It will use the ZIP code from your Amazon account and play the local NPR affiliate from either TuneIn
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Yes, I read it in the mid-80s and loved it, and own multiple copies. Steven Levy's _Hackers_ is a similarly good book. I found out years later that one of the moderators on a discussion site I frequent is Tom West's daughter, and
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Depth of information, organization, etc. I wish there were more books like these covering other platforms - like one about DEC's minicomputers, another covering Cray, etc. Plus they're nice and thick, without a third of it being
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That 28-lane part (BW8/I10 intersection and around it) is just 2-3 miles from my house.. fortunately my commute doesn't go anywhere near it (in the other direction, actually). I do have to deal with the 59/610 interchange, wh

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