thefingerer

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   by thefingerer 5y ago

   usually my local MICROCENTER has them in the locked glass cabinet, I peer in and I notice the price. "$99?!? Guess they better keep them locked up, then!" You can buy an entire used Core i7 personal computer for $99.
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   by thefingerer 5y ago

   I may the only greybeard arund here who remembers (and has the screenshots to prove it), used to be from 2005--2008 when you would open a message in Gmail, all of the sponsored ads would show up over on the right-hand-side of your email mes
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   by thefingerer 5y ago

   I was a great UNIX/IRIX/Linux sysadmin. Fantastic. Until I got to a corporation with a structure so large that I wasn't even allowed near the VMware vSphere or the physical hardware itself ((servers locked in the basement))
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   by thefingerer 5y ago

   Yes: avoid OCULUS headsets and Facebook accounts, for precisely this reason. Trust me: HALF LIFE ALYX ain't worth Zuckerberg getting his fingernails on the inside of your scalp.
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   by thefingerer 5y ago

   So, Les wrote UNIX finger?!? I clearly remember writing 'kiddie scripts' with lists of every computer in the entire school: finger @w20-575-1 finger @w20-575-2 etc. just to see who was logged on everywhere. Even though there w