Posts by richdin 124 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Aug 2018
One day in the 90s, I was at a demo of email @Microsoft Israel - and the person running the show sent off an email addressed to Bill G. He was unaware that the system was live... and about 15 minutes later a reply came, asking if we could repeat the query in English instead of Hebrew and he'd be delighted to reply.... No consequences to the FTE as far as I know...
Sorry if I seem dense, but the water either evaporates (and returns as rain) or gets discharged and can be cleaned and used again for agriculture or urban consumption... it is not "lost" forever.
So why not just require the proper recycling? even if it costs a little more. I don't get the "panic".
Just wondering whether this will become a tool for juries to use during their deliberations over a verdict... The presiding judge is human (to err is to be a judge), but the jury, having heard the evidence, still needs to reach a decision.
On the flip side - can 12 different LLMs debate the results?
Back in the 90s, I was attending a demo at the Israeli Microsoft branch office, and the person running the demo (who thought he was offline) send a message to billg.
About 10 minutes later a reply popped up from Bill, asking to repeat the question in English and he'd be delighted to respond. Someone went beet red, but no repercussions happened as far as we know.
Just ran Windows update on my dual boot daily driver.
GRUB is gone and I am forced to reinstall Linux as nothing I have tried to fix the problem has worked. (...and it also killed the sleep function on the Windows system).
Luckily I run Windows in VirtualBox on my LT, so the update didn't trash anything.
Warning to the wise - keep your data on a separate partition or NAS (luckily I listened to myself for a change).
Recalling a departed friend - Mendi, RIP.
Mendi had a short fuse. Multiple times he'd throw his desk phone across the room and storm out...
At one point in M's career, he was sent "on assignment" to a US site where that behavior would be frowned upon.
We had recently replaced our old analog phone system with one of the first IP phone deployments in the company.
So we packed up a few old extensions and sent them to him in a box marked "in case of emergency".
We heard that these were put to immediate use...
Thanks for bringing up the memory.
I had a customer that suffered from power outages crashing their system. After a couple of rebuilds of their DB, I convinced them that they had to buy a UPS (this is in the 80s). So they told me that they bought a UPS... until the next power outage when they called me again to repair the system. They were adamant that they bought a UPS and it must be something else.I got to their site to discover that they indeed purchased a UPS - which was plugged into itself and the server plugged into the wall socket. NEVER underestimate the problem between keyboard and chair.
Typical leftie-liberal TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) rant.
In order to access a US citizen's gear - ICE / CBP would need evidence of a crime and/or court order. Otherwise it's illegal search & seizure. Impossible to deny you entry.
If you are a foreigner, it's another story - no one said that you HAVE to be granted entry to the USA...
Having a local install doesn't help - if Microshaft decides that you HAVE TO install an update and reboot BEFORE you can do anything else on your system.
For no apparent reason, my Outlook 2021 suddenly refused to send mail nor search...
Having a delayed brainfart, I peeked at the settings and discovered that there was an update pending for Windows.
As soon as I updated, everything started working again. Surprise, surprise. Not.
I had a curious issue - I couldn't search Outlook for 48 hours (resolved by itself)
I was unable to type anything into the search field (top bar)... After typing 3-4 characters, it would eject me from the field. Other Windows search fields (file explorer et al) weren't affected.
A LONG time ago (80's) - when wireless keyboards & mice first appeared - I was called up to the army reserves... When I arrived in station, I noticed that everyone in the office were happily tapping away on their shiny brand-new wireless kit! I went berserk and started yanking away these keyboards with the resulting screams of anguish - until I saw the unit commander, a Brigadier (1 star General) with his. As I pulled it out from his hands I "politely" explained that everyone outside the fence (next to his office) could be reading everything he was typing... he was quick to comprehend and commenced yelling at everyone else while sheepishly asking me to get him a cabled keyboard so he could finish up his writing.
I discovered TR-069 by accident when the ISP had removed the WiFi password on my box. Took hours of yelling and escalations to have them restore the greyed-out option. Two weeks later they did it again. Dumped that ISP and now only use my personally owned hardware. In retrospect I guess they did me a favor.
The US election cycle has kicked into high gear heading towards November. Having a renewed pandemic break out in time to justify having everyone mail in their ballots instead of voting in-person is a repeat of 2020. My parents were Republican voters their entire lives. Ever since they passed away, they have been voting Democrat.
