Posts by jake

Re: "They looked for the password on the CD . . ."

David 123, take it from a Yank: POETS day is well known here.

Re: I am not a Number.

I am localhost!

Re: So... what's the big point for slack?

My daughter made her own IT Barbie ...

Re: Who f***ing cares?

ONLY option? Puh-lease. There are always other options for employer. Including oneself.

Re: National security

The fine folks in Arizona finally realized that London Bridge wasn't a money maker? Took 'em long enough.

Re: Warning

Having spent a good deal of my life, teenage -> early thirties playing my bass and going to gigs either as a participant or an observer I have no idea how my hearing has managed to survive unscathed.

During my teens you could usually find me close enough to the stage for my pre-punk long hair to be pushed around by the bass bins[0]. By the time I was 25ish, I was usually a trifle further back ... but thirty-odd years on I still like my music live & loud as often as possible.

I think it was Flugennock who once opined that it was the clean sound mixing of our generation that protected our hearing. I'm inclined to agree. Today's kids don't even seem to know the difference between the acoustics of an indoor and an outdoor venue ...

[0] Kind of an early version of sub-woofers, for you youngsters in the audience.

Re: FTP, rats and cockroaches

You honestly think that using somebody else's email address, and advocating other folks also use that address, when filling out random online forms is OK? Really? If you're all that certain that it's a good idea, why not post your own email address so we can all use it?

What do you mean, you're not going to do that? Hypocrite.

(Same offer & resulting epithet for my "thumbs down" and your "thumbs up" (but otherwise silently and cowardly anonymous) voters.)

Re: Playing with fire, Dabbsy?

Ever know an AppleFan who didn't fully internalize Cupertino marketing?

Re: Strange.

I work from home, and live in a barn. Everything is SFW here.

Re: How about some balance?

No, not better. What do you mean by "White Folk"?

And what the fuck does "Muslim isn't a race but the majority of Muslims are not Caucasians." mean in this context?

Re: Casinos don't need to do maths

People, people, people ... You're missing something. Casinos and bookies aren't gambling, so my comment wasn't directed at them.

I prefer ...

... ossification of the intellect.

Re: The North, we've heard of it...

The beer is better, too.

Re: Because It's Not Google

But gopher isn't the search engine any more than the WWW is a search engine. In gopher-space, Veronica is the search engine, with a little help from jughead and/or jugtail..

Wide Area Information Search (WAIS) is arguably more useful than gopher+veronica& the jugs, and indeed is often used as a supplement to them. Note that's current tense.

Re: Interesting principles behind this

Mike, get back to me when the animal can make the point you just made for itself. Until then, you're babbling about what-ifs piled upon what-ifs. "Turtles all the way down" isn't a valid argument.

Re: So being a dumbshit ...

Re-read mine, Lefty. Did I disagree with you?

Re: I haven't trusted Symantec since 2007

I haven't trusted Symantec ever.