Posts by Rudy

Terminal trickery, or how to improve a novel immeasurably

Re: Black magic

VMS's DCL command line had a built-in utility to remove older versions of files: PURGE/KEEP=n, where n was the number of previous versions you wanted to retain. If I recall correctly, that is: it was a looong time ago!

UK bus and rail giant FirstGroup looks to replace decade-old Cyborg system in £8m HR and payroll contract

Re: Gulp!

Same here! I still get flashbacks to P2EDIT.EXE, P4CALC.EXE (and its evil sibling, O4CALC.EXE) and P5PRINT.EXE!

All on a VAX 11/750.

For every disastrous rebrand, there is an IT person trying to steer away from the precipice

A former Wanger here too. For the launch of Wang Cares, Wang Ireland took delivery of a brochure and some baseball caps, to be sent to all customers during the launch week. I still have my "Wang Cares" cap somewhere.

And the title of the launch week? Why, "Wang Cares Awareness Week", of course!

'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'

Reminds me of Dory Previn "Twenty Mile Zone::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35PTBEw8F8

EMC/Dell deal respectfully caps the minicomputer age

Another connection

Joe Tucci also headed up Wang, after Fred Wang's glorious reign.

Steve Jobs, MS Office, Israel, and a basic feature Microsoft took 13 years to install

Finally!

Even bigger news: this version of Outlook actually works on El Capitan!

Email reply-all cat-nado drenches Cisco inboxes with pics, memes

Many years ago, I caused one of these storms!

I was working at the time for the Irish branch (small) of an extremely large US company (tens of thousands of employees). The boss of the Irish branch asked me to send all the Irish employees a notification that he was leaving the company.

I, being an idiot, sent it to everyone in the US parent company too.

I was still getting replies when I left two years later.

CRINGE

No Santa, no Irish boozers and no regrets: life in Qatar

That's interesting - I wasn't aware of that. I'm looking forward to seeing how that works!

Windows 8.1 update 'screenshots' leak: Metro apps popped into classic desktop taskbar

Closing Windows Store apps

The easiest way (in my arthritic experience) to close a Windows Store app is the old-school ALT+F4.

Apple to ditch Intel – report

Re: There are no 'killer' Windows applications any more

Oh God. We use Virtual Box extensively here in the Sands of Araby. There's no decent Arabic WP package for the Mac (Word for Mac doesn't support Arabic script properly) so we've no choice but to use Office for Windows on VB.

Squirrelled away: seeds survive 30,000-year winter

That's some squirrel

What kind of a squirrel can bury his nuts 38 meters underground??

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

And what about the successor to LSL? Passionate Patty in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals. Great title but I never got to finish it.

Ireland gives Google traditional pogue mahone greeting

Dun Laoghaire is near Ballinteer Drive?

It is in its arse.

German electropulse energy drill bitchslaps lasers

New RUM??

We have a new Register Unit of Measure - Cars per Fingernail. Top stuff, chaps!