Posts by jake

Re: Alternatively.....

I breed & show Whippets & Greyhounds ... supposedly amongst the most "keyed up" dogs around. None of mine are "shivery", because they know that I am in control of the situation, always. A couple get quite intense at shows, though ... Those three are multiple BIS.

Our pack saves the excitement for coursing, flyball, agility and ground-squirreling :-)

Re: Alternatively.....

When dogs are "shivering from nerves", their owners need to be slapped.

Some of us are pack leaders. The rest shouldn't own dogs.

Re: Rather have just a GPS tracker for my four legged friend

Thank you for making my point, Dave.

Please, find a new home for your "four legged friend" that you obviously have no interest in maintaining an actual friendship with.

Re: B-but

Not only that, but my incense refuses to smolder, and my crystals are getting ready to have a pout! My guru says that maybe a rub-down with her magic stones will help ... it's a steal at only US$100 per half hour.

But wait! If you order NOW ...

mmmmmmm ... bacon!

And of course chocolate, the other vegetable.

As a side note, ever try apple-smoked streaky bacon, crisp-fried & dipped in dark (~85%+) chocolate? Throw in a largish mug of freshly roasted coffee and you have the meal of the Gawd/esse/s ...

Re: Perception.

Do what I do. Ignore up/down votes. They are even more meaningless than pseudo-Olympic medals.

Re: It would be nice if comments had numbers...

"The badges are dandy,"

Nope. Useless waste of CPU and bandwidth.

"and giving gold/silver folks the ability to edit posts will be interesting!"

No. Absolutely not. Posts are written by induhvidual commentards, and should not be re-written by pseudo-Olympic medal winners.

"However, I would like to propose that comments receive a number, in order that they were posted... so that when commenters refer to another's comment, we all don't go blind looking to track down the greyscale name marking the comment in question. A nice big number on each comment would be most helpful to keep track of the comment-recomment flow."

That number already exists. Why ElReg doesn't do exactly what you propose is beyond me.

Re: AmanfromMars badge - I like

Speaking of "newbies", Drew ... That's amfM. Capitalization is important. Computers are literal ...

@Phil O'Sophical (was: Re: Badges?)

I don't need or want a stinking badge. Just another excuse to game the system.

In reply to "Martin Budden"...

For gawd/ess's sake, no! Can you imagine the damage the cats would do?

@DougS & Richard 12 (was: Re: Broadcast only while in the air)

You two are talking about proprietary networks, not "TheInternet[tm]"[1].

A couple examples from the USofA ... Boeing's internal network was vastly larger than the fledgling "Internet" until roughly 1986; IBM's internal network was larger than the fledgling "Internet" until roughly 1989. Ford's internal network was larger until roughly 1991.

Don't play the nationality-card. Play the tech-card, or you look silly in a forum like this.

[1] Whatever that means these days ...

Re: Xenix: 1970s.

Xenix was actually licensed by Microsoft from AT&T in 1979. From what I remember it was the standard PDP11 Version 7 Unix. SCO ported it to the IBM PC's 8086/8088 in roughly 1983. Most of us yawned ... although looking back, it was a pretty good hack by SCO! (Not today's iteration of SCO, for those of you who weren't born yet.) Various other companies ported it to various other CPUs and architectures ... I seem to remember a version of

Xenix ported by somebody to Apple's Lisa, can anyone back me up on that? I have just the box I'd like to put a copy on ...

No, I don't have a running instance of SCO's variation. Nor do I want one. 'nough said.

Not quite true, Thad.

MS bought the license to re-sell access to MaBell's UNIX[TM] source, renamed as Xenix, in late 1979, true. But it didn't actually get offered to the market until mid 1980 ... and then only as source-code. Microsoft never actually sold Xenix to the general public.

In short, Xenix was UNIX[tm], as ported by various third parties, with MS as the middle-man.

Microsoft has never really understood un*x. Hiring Cutler didn't help any ...

@Thorne

They are only loud when ridden by knuckleheads. My bike is pretty quiet. But then the knucklehead is under the tank where it belongs, not in the saddle.

Next time you hear a very loud street bike, listen for popping noises out the back. It's a sure sign that the idiot at the controls pulled the baffles or added aftermarket pipes & didn't re-jet the carbs or re-tune the fuel injection. Just snicker at 'em, with the insider knowledge that they are probably destroying their valves ;-)

Re: "is Apple thinking of making iPod docks for hogs?"

No, it's "hog" for the bike. Short for "Harley Owner's Group".

Mildly Irritated, from Stovepipe Wells

Gawd/ess, what a palaver ...

A couple things:

1) From email: No, I'm not the "Anonymous Coward" in this thread. Nice trolling dude/tte :-)

2) My daughter is the Senior Member of the Technical Staff for a Fortune 50. Girls can do anything that boys can in the working world, and vice versa. Trying to separate them stifles both.

3) "grok" is part of working English vernacular. Deal with it.

4) I use a GUI where appropriate. But I, me, personally, find the command line far faster & more functional than the "tools" listed in the original article. If you think that my finding the command line to be faster, easier method than said listed tools somehow makes me feel "elite" ... well, all I can think is that you are misinformed and/or ignorant of the reality of the situation, or you have a severe inferiority complex.

5) It's not "special lingo", it's English that is evolving as Humanity invents new shit. Or would you rather we stagnate? Because that's where you sound like you are coming from, "Anonymous Coward". (And before you say it, I wrote a new bit of code to do a new (command line/scripted) operation in my brewery this morning. Onwards & upwards, but no "aps" required. Or wanted.)

@Nuke (was: Re: @Jake - @Andus (was: Dead trees?))

In 1974ish, I witnessed a student programmer dump the complete overnight first-build of BSD 1.0 over the observation deck of Berkeley's Campanile. Looked like snow. (Today, I'd call it "Beta build 0.96", and the kiddies would look at me like suddenly re-sprouted my late-70s blue & orange mohawk).

He didn't know we had the output of the run split to both cards & tape (was "tee" available back then? Or did we use more complex scripting? I can't remember, to much water under the old bridge ... and I can't be arsed to look). ANYwho ... we didn't actually lose anything from the rather spendy overnight run.

Reason for his protest? He didn't like the changes BSD 1.0 made in the UTSS 5/6 code, as he was working on what would become UTSS 7 ... Long & short, he was expelled from the school. But Berkeley being Berkeley, he wasn't expelled for attempting to fuck up several other Grad student's projects. Rather, he was expelled for littering.

There is a reason Arlo wrote the song, you know. And we'll all sing it, when it comes around again on the guitar. But I didn't come here to talk about that ... I grew up in a very funny time in (mostly) the Bay Area. And I think I'm a better man for it ;-)

@gizmo23 (was: Re: A couple minor bugs to report.)

My boards didn't come populated back then. I couldn't afford pre-assembled stuff. Take a sheet of fiber-glass, coated on both sides with a thin layer of copper. Lay out the traces, then using a Dremel drill out the holes for the leads. Carefully patch any traces wrecked by drilling (if needed). Boil board on stove to remove excess copper. Get yelled at by Mum for messing up the kitchen (I don't know why she got mad, I always cleaned up after myself). Start soldering in components ...

@TheOtherHobbes (was: Re: In parallel..)

You can say the same thing about transportation :-)

@Lewis Mettler (was: Re: the one I used from 1972 on)

I have a nearly-restored IBM 1401, dated 1963. It's technically a "small business system", not a personal computer, but it only had a single user/operator, so if you squint it could be considered a PC ...