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by sparcpile 5y ago
Venture Capital firms love to use throw debt at an asset so that they can have a cash windfall. The result is that the assets can never pay off the debt and end up declaring bankruptcy. See K-Mart, Sears, Toys R' Us, and anything that
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by sparcpile 6y ago
A good location for ambient music is the Hearts of Space service. https://v4.hos.com/home https://v4.hos.com/about/a-brief-profile-of-space-and-ambien...
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by sparcpile 7y ago
The article was behind a paywall, but in the past few years, the show has been getting away from staple goods to make it more difficult for contestants to win. The Perfect Bid ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFKZtZop7A ) w
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by sparcpile 9y ago
LL Bean is in the news because they have stopped the lifetime return policy to due to abuse. It shot up in recent years from people returning well-worn items, 2nd hand purchases or "rentals." They now only accept returns going bac
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by sparcpile 9y ago
Yes. It's upgrade licenses only. but as with all MS OS media, they can be installed on blank machines.
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by sparcpile 9y ago
For my home PCs, I purchased the MS Action Pack subscription so that I could install Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB and not get ads and Cortana. With it and ClassicShell, it serves me nicely. I prefer my FreeBSD box running Motif as my daily dr
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by sparcpile 9y ago
The comment was put there by Dennis Ritchie to state that the context switching code was hard to understand. It depended on the hardware of the PDP-11. He wrote that comment to indicate that it was complex, buggy, and that they didn't
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by sparcpile 9y ago
The AIX installp format is my favorite package manager. It was fairly easy to debug it until it hit the ODM. The only time when AIX utility debugging got weird was when multibos went off the rails. I started using ksh on AIX and it has bee
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by sparcpile 9y ago
A dot-com back in the last 90s that a friend of mine ran with a Sun E10K proposed selling the hot air to a pizza restaurant that was next door. The restaurant ended up declining because air was too dirty and could not be for cooking.
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by sparcpile 9y ago
Mr. Bill has been running the sunhelp.org website and ran the Sun Managers distribution list for years. He's quite into the old Bell System.
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by sparcpile 9y ago
Both XM and Sirius before they merged had a big following among truckers. Even after the merger, they still have shows and channels tailored to them. The big reason was that could listen to the same channels across the country.
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by sparcpile 10y ago
The Oxford Latin Course is a good standard college-level introduction. There is also Lingua Latina if you want to go full immersion.