* Posts by stvangel

4 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Sep 2020

Happy birthday, Microsoft Money: Here's a cashpoint calamity for Windows and .NET

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Was in the industry. In the old days many ATMs used OS/2 1.3 well into the 2000's. That thing was rock solid. You could beat it with an Ugly Stick and it would stay up. Got a little long in the tooth and they upgraded most to all these fancy ones with their newfangled features. And wobbly legs.

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

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Long ago used to fly passengers in hot air balloons,. We had a weight limit of 200 lbs per person. Can't think of a single person every paying the over-weight premium and we didn't even have a scale to check. Wasn't critical because the balloon wasn't going to fall out of the sky, but I used to put a glove over the instruments so I couldn't read the temperature with some on board.

Sierra Nevada Corporation resurrects plans for crewed Dream Chaser spaceplane

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Not quite sure what the point of an inflatable habitat is. It's a big chunk of air. It's not like it has any machinery, instruments, or such in it. I guess you could mount harnesses or such to the outside to sleep against. Not even sure how well windows would be an option.

Mate, it's the '90s. You don't need to be reachable every minute of every hour. Your operating system can't cope

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Those were the days...

In my software company way back then, I was one of the two partners. I made it a point that all machines had SCSI. Real ones like Adaptec and not the "SCSI" cards that came as a strange card bundled with a drive with documentation written in Mandarin. Forget getting those to work with anything else. IDE drives at the time were a joke. You got what you pay for. This was the days of 2x CD ROM burners and there were rules. You wanted to burn one, you disabled your screen saver, started the burn and walked away. Lunch was a good option as it was only a 2x and you had nothing else to do. Back then if you had any interruption you invariably made a coaster and had to start from the beginning. Windows wasn't very forgiving. Same days when doing a print job might make your computer unresponsive for a minute or so.