* Posts by ausoleil

3 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2015

Silicon Valley sides with Samsung in anti-Apple patent war

ausoleil

Re: I do believe

A man named Alfred Vacheron is credited with first using the steering wheel in a Panhard et Levassor car in 1894. It was modeled after a ship's wheel, as tillers were becoming more and more ineffective, especially for the racing applications that Vacheron first used the wheel for.

Charles Stewart Rolls imported a Panhard into England and began using them on his cars the year after that.

FWIW, Mercedes does not claim the steering wheel as one of its innovations (including inventing the automobile itself.)

Kaspersky: Freemasons coded fake malware in the Bermuda Triangle

ausoleil

I guess the best person to start and run an AV company is a conspiracy theorist loon...because in modern-day computing, everyone IS out to get you: criminals and governments alike.

Sysadmins rebel over GUI-free install for Windows Server 2016

ausoleil

Re: Small business server community?

"Wtf is the small business server community? A bunch of middling ability sys admins sitting around in a pub on a friday lunchtime moaning that they can't get a job at Goldmans or Citibank?"

Having just migrated to a mid-sized business from Fortune 15 company, I plan to spend my Friday lunchtime laughing about not having to waste time on mindless bureaucracy, magazine certified CIO's or listening to rumors about the next round of layoffs thanks to management wanting to drive up the stock price a couple points by shedding a few thousand employees.

Maybe you think that it's an honor to be a fungible asset for some MegaCorp...to which I say enjoy the cubicle life, Mr. Fungible Asset.