09:30 – I took the weekend off. We went down to Winston Saturday and hauled up a bunch more stuff. Frances and Al hauled a pickup load up for us, and stayed overnight. We had Frances’s birthday party up here.
After they left yesterday afternoon, I started doing laundry. The dryer died. It and the washer are 15 years old, and the washer is also getting rickety, so we decided just to buy new ones. The problem is that we’re very tightly constrained for space. We’re going to head into town today and visit Blevins, which is the local equivalent of Lowes/Home Depot. We may buy a stackable set, rather than a traditional side-by-side set. As Barbara said, we can just do more, smaller loads.
Flashlights!
http://gizmodo.com/a-matchbook-full-of-tiny-disposable-flashlights-is-a-br-1764725748
“We may buy a stackable set, rather than a traditional side-by-side set. As Barbara said, we can just do more, smaller loads.”
We’ll be looking into that soon, too; our twin set is nearing decrepitude, like your northern correspondent (oh wait–I’m already there!) and it’s probably better for us to do more frequent, smaller loads. We also gotta figure out how to get hot water to the washer, some problem with pressure upstairs; the shower and sink are fine, though.
One assumes now that the Chez Thompson IT infrastructure is all good?
No, I haven’t gotten my desktop system up yet.
Flashlights!
I have got to get some of those.
As long as there are reconditioned appliances, I’ll not have to buy anything with an internet connection.
My washer knows nothing about my dirty underwear, which is as it should be. Can you even buy one nowadays that’s not chock-full of IOT hardware?
Go ahead and buy a whole buncha IOT appliances and devices; then practice hacking them so they don’t connect to the outer net; try out via a Kali Linux laptop. Take a cheap online course or two in how to do that.
Overcast and windy today, with intermittent sleet and rain and freezing rain possibly changing to snow later tonight, whatevuh. Beaudacious chick at the cleaner’s told me she heard we might get a Nor’easter this coming Sunday and we both wondered how the weather liars could see that coming six days away. Over to you, Mr. Chuck.
Meanwhile I got two contractor kidz still working on the living room ceiling downstairs; in other prep activity this past week I got the section of attic flooring done where I’ll be setting up the workshop and ham shack; also put up some rickety recycled paneling there. While schlepping various boxes around, I found some more radio and firearms gear and gimcracks and gizmos that I can play with soon. Including three QRP kits for 20, 40 and 8o meters. And a forward vertical grip that I could attach to an AR or shotgun; I may try that out to see if it’s a help, but otherwise not make it permanent. Along with various slings and tools. Plus new BX-25 trigger kits for the Ruger 10-22’s. And some rails of various sizes that I forgot what I was gonna use them on.
Ordered up some more shelving and a new RaspberryPI 3 kit. Need to make a Costco run this week assuming we get paid again.
Hi Bob,
If your dryer is electric, and your house is old enough to have fuses, check them, since there are two; one for each leg of the 220 feed, and sometimes one will blow.
Our dryer is over 15 years old and is doing fine for our family of six. Frigidaire sells a kit to replace the wearables; idler pulley, belt and drum bearings. I put one in a few years ago. I probably won’t replace the dryer until the timer goes, which is the expensive part…
Didn’t do much prepping this week. Had a client get jammed up with internet access problems, partly windows, partly att. Straightened that out, without figuring any root causes. Hate that.
Been working with my salvaged IP cameras. Ordered and received a really cheap NVR to go with them, having some config issues. We’ll see if I can work thru them.
HEB had T bone steaks on sale, $3.40/pound so I stocked up. One of the advantages of prepping lifestyle is taking advantage of deals like this when they come up. I bought about 15 pounds, vac sealed and froze them.
Other plans were pushed back by family stuff, work stuff, and the poison ivy treatment. Big item on my list today is to decontaminate my truck so I can use it. I REALLY don’t want to re-infest myself with the oil. Ever surface you touch in the truck is fabric covered. Nice for comfort, less nice for sanitation. Possibly something to consider….
nick
oh, stocked WAY up on antihistimines….
“John Kasich Goes All In For Amnesty: Illegals ‘Made In The Image Of The Lord’”
http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2016/03/14/john-kasich-goes-all-in-for-amnesty-illegals-made-in-the-image-of-the-lord/
What a tool! So when they steal, commit violence and murder, is that in the name of the Lord?
We really like our LG top loader clothes washer with the glass lid that we got at the end of 2014. It is fairly large though. I posted a review on Amazon but I bought it at Lowes.
http://www.amazon.com/LG-WT5680HWATurboWash-White-Steam-Washer/dp/B00EE85HWK/
Here is my review: “I can tell that I am easily entertained. We got the new clothes washer today, an LG WT5680HWA top loader, from Lowes. It has a glass lid and you can see everything going on inside. It is like a TV with only one channel. Mesmerizing!”
“And it is blessedly quiet! The old whirlpool cabrio washer water valves were screaming like a banshee. And the tub bottom bearing was going out and seemingly causing the entire house to vibrate in sympathy. All in all, not worth fixing in my opinion.”
“The delivery guy told my wife that people are swapping their front loaders for top loaders due to the constant mildew problems with the front loaders.”
“The LG does require the new HE detergent and prefers liquid. So I bought two gallons jugs of Cheer HE liquid over at HEB for $8 each tonight. “
We bought a Whirlpool washer and dryer at the local Blevins. They came out to install it about half an hour after we arrived home. It leaked when I started to run a washer load, but they came back and fixed that. I no longer have the time, patience, or physical condition to work on stuff like that. With a 15-year old washer/dryer, something else was likely to fail anyway. The price at Blevins was competitive. The house is only nine years old.
I hate our front loading HE washer. Wife insisted we buy new, matched set, and it sucks. Takes up to 3 hours to do a sanitary wash cycle, doesn’t get clothes clean without the extra rinse, which adds time, and has the other front loader problems. The dryer is pretty good, but I have to use the additional 20 minute cycle to really get stuff dry with most heavy loads. The advantage of the front loader is stacking of full size units.
Most people who go from an old top loader to a new front load HE regret it, based on talking with friends, our own experience, and online comments.
Too much emphasis on saving water and energy, not enough emphasis on getting clothes clean. Which is a fundamental problem in my book.
nick
“So when they steal, commit violence and murder, is that in the name of the Lord?”
Boy, way to harsh on the poor guy, gee whiz, Mr. Lynn! We must have charity, reach out, they do it from LOVE, baby!
Reading up on the Jebster; he’s always been a huge fan, YOOOOOOGE! of unlimited infinite immigration and Mrs. Jebster is one of them immigrants and pushes it hard. As for Kasich, the libturd RINOs love him here in VT and also the Dem libturds who feel that he’s “grown” and should be ready for Dem primetime in the near future.
We note, however, do we not, that none of these fuckers ever takes in any immigrants to their own households and neighborhoods, and you can bet Mrs. Merkel doesn’t have any living in hers, either. Other than servants, of course, for whom the rich don’t bother to pay SS taxes or insurance.
Taki reporting from his Athens hometown sez the Syrian refugees seem to be mostly normal families, but the musloids from the other countries mainly tend to be surly, nasty, arrogant and hostile young males. OFD wonders which krew will show up in Vermont eventually; I don’t have a huge problem with any Syrian Christian FAMILIES who arrive and make an effort to fucking fit in; for the others I’ll be practicing for 300-yard street melon shots.
Taki reporting from his Athens hometown sez the Syrian refugees seem to be mostly normal families
RINOs and libturds never get it. The US is a welfare state. Most of the illegals and others are good people, I just don’t want to pay for every fucking thing they need. If they can’t make it on their own, go back to the shithole you came from. We don’t secure our borders, so cut off the freebies. You have to earn it.
I saw “10 Cloverfield Lane” last night and loved it. John Goodman is excellent as the crazed prepper (bearded OFD type). Most of the movie takes place in Goodman’s bunker, but the ending is crazy. Recommended for you movie goers.
Wow, “10 Cloverfield Lane” got a 90 / 85 on the tomato meter:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10_cloverfield_lane/
I am a big John Goodman fan. Old “Rosanne” episodes still make me laugh. So does “King Ralph”. And he was a great drug dealer for Denzel Washington in “Flight”.
About 40 people have sent in resumes for my job. Only two are even remotely qualified and even they fall short in some categories. Both of these people I know and worked with before. I told them about the job because I knew them. The others are mostly losers, lots of fancy words, but nothing substantial.
My retirement will probably be delayed until about July 20. If I work one day in August I am covered by the group health for the entire month. Plan now is to physically leave on or about July 20 and use up my vacation to get me one day into August. I have met my maximum out of pocket for the year and getting as much out of the insurance company is becoming a priority. Anything I have done at this point is zero cost to me.
“Matinee” is a fun movie with a movie in the movie. MANT! Half man, half ant. 🙂
Good plan, Mr. Ray. Outstanding, in fact.
“John Goodman is excellent as the crazed prepper (bearded OFD type).”
Might have to watch it, then, see if he’s a brutha from anutha mutha or sumthin. Like Shrub and Larry.
“The idea that Donald Trump creates chaos and violence and public unrest is a case of sick, massive projection on the part of leftist interlopers who have been conditioned for a few generations to believe they can publicly defecate on everything they hate and not expect even one soft puff of blowback, lest they file discrimination lawsuits and hate-crime charges. And they justify their behavior just like every True Believer lemming in history does—because they’re fighting the “good fight” and the ends justify the means.”
Projection. That’s the word I was looking for. They accuse us of the very same crimes they themselves commit. With evident impunity.
“Therefore, when the inevitable blowback comes, they shouldn’t cry—but they will. And it will be music to my ears.”
+1,000,000
http://takimag.com/article/no_safe_space_for_the_wicked_jim_goad/print#axzz42sx9k3CZ
And another great phrase I learned recently: “elite deviancy,” wherein the political/social/economic elites routinely/commonly engage in behavior that would get any of the rest of us ostracized, imprisoned or executed, because they innately believe themselves to be above the common laws and restraints of an ordered society. This explains the Klinton, Bush, Kennedy, and Roosevelt crime families, among many others of the fabled One Percent.
“Too much emphasis on saving water and energy, not enough emphasis on getting clothes clean. Which is a fundamental problem in my book.”
As I think Chuck mentions, front loaders are the norm here. There’s no problem with them getting clothes clean, but the energy efficient cycles do seem to take forever. Same for the dishwasher. I supposed they rely on more soaking, and hence less scrubbing time? Dunno, but it does require a change in habits. You can’t just push load after load of laundry through.
Which leads to me driving my wife nuts. I will start out with golden intentions, put a load of laundry in – but 1-1/2 hours later I am off somewhere else, doing something else, and completely forget. So a day or two later, my wife wants to do some laundry… You see where this doesn’t end well.
“Most of the illegals and others are good people, I just don’t want to pay for every fucking thing they need.”
Crudely put, but essentially true. The German news interviewed a woman refugee, now stuck in front of one of the newly erected border fences. She said, roughly “They told us Germany was accepting all immigrants, so we came. Now we’re stuck here, it’s not fair, you have to let us in”.
Well, Merkel did screw up with her early statements, thinking she spoke for the whole country. To drive the point home, this weekend, her party was trounced in three regional elections. In Baden-Württemberg, her party lost their leading position for the first time since 1953. Might be a message there.
Anyhow, what is it about this attitude? Why does anyone have to let her in? Collectively, as a society, they screwed up their country. Why should we let them into ours? I like the analogy of the neighbor who totally trashes his house, and then knocks on your door and says “man, you’ve got to let me crash in your living room; nobody can live in my house anymore”. Um, well…no.
Crudely put…
Mr. SteveF and Mr. OFD trained me well.
What you need is an alarm watch, though that would require you to remember to set the alarm on your watch. How about something like an Apple Watch, which can receive IOT signals from your IOT washer and drier. It could vibrate when the laundry’s done. In fact, you could make one that gave a little shock, and you could call it Zap-bit. Though come to think of it, zap-bits sounds like a BDSM cock ring. Not that Vibrate-bits is much better. Tell you what, I’ll take care of the engineering, you take care of the name.
And don’t worry. I’m sure no one will hack into your IOT washing machine and send excessive “done” messages to zap your bits.
Oh, fuck that. You’re a fucking adult. Take responsibility for your own fucking words and actions.
and
Two-word response in both cases. The second one is “you”.
Brad is right. The retard scumbag neighbor is exactly analogous to the “refugees”. Three words in the prescription, the latter two of which are “them all”.
(I’m being uncharacteristically discrete here because Brad is apparently a delicate, sensitive flower and he might wilt in the face of crude language.)
Had a strange incident today regarding my work site. We send emails to certain members with a link to download the magazine. Once the parameters are validated the screen with the download links is displayed. You click on an image or a link to download the magazine. You cannot save the URL as the code determines that you are direct linking and blocks the link. Works well relying on some HTTP header information and some URL parameters.
But had a user today complain that the link from the links page did not work. Gave the message about not being able to direct link. Odd because he is the only one in about 3.5 years of having installed the code. I tried the link and everything worked as coded.
So I suspected his browser. Asked him what browser and version he was using. He replied he was “Running Firefox 10 on OS/2 with Intel chips”. That is 35 versions ago and OS/2 is just ancient. I informed him that we do not support browsers and operating systems that old. He complained that we were being short sighted.
So it was obviously his browser. His signature line indicated he was a consultant specializing in C## applications and apparently sits on some standards board for the C language. How can someone who claims to be an expert on C, and sit on a board, be that far behind in technology? Sort of boggles the mind.
Anyway, he is adamant that we fix the problem. I am adamant that such is not going to happen. It is time he got rid of his rotary dial cell phone and move into the real world.
On the plus side I guess there are no real security risks associated with OS/2 because probably all the bad guys have never heard of it. Coding a malicious worm for one person I guess is just not practical.
“Mr. SteveF and Mr. OFD trained me well.”
Sure, buddy. Least we could do, you being a former Army flyboy and all. Bring you down to earth a bit.
“…sounds like a BDSM cock ring.”
Oh my. Don’t these people also get into zapping each other anyway with electric toyz or sumthin? Maybe they need to spend some time on a cattle ranch. Interesting idea, though; I bet if you put it together there are online retailers who would sell it like hotcakes. All those dumbkopf husbands, jumping and twitching all over the place as their wives remind them about an endless list of chit they would otherwise forget.
“Three words in the prescription, the latter two of which are “them all”.”
Ordinarily one might not understand why it is that all these Western countries ARE taking in zillions of musloid and other immigrants from various shit-hole failed states, but then one remembers, aha! If the rulers of a country wanted to see it overrun by barbarian invaders and criminals to exacerbate existing ethnic, racial and social tensions, how would they go about it differently?
“I am adamant that such is not going to happen. It is time he got rid of his rotary dial cell phone and move into the real world.”
Jeez, what a dick! High and mighty now that we’re retiring, are we? LOL.
[snip] It is time he got rid of his rotary dial … [snip]
This brings back fond memories. My mother didn’t get touch tone dialing at home until Ma Bell dropped the $1 / month surcharge.
BTW, Happy Pi Day!
I would celebrate with some cherry pie but nobody in the office brought any.
The German news interviewed a woman refugee, now stuck in front of one of the newly erected border fences. She said, roughly “They told us Germany was accepting all immigrants, so we came. Now we’re stuck here, it’s not fair, you have to let us in”.
Cool, the start of the muslim refugee camps in Europe. Just like Israel and Jordan. Hope that works out for y’all.
-blink- OK, I’m afraid you’ll have to turn in your Southerner card for misspelling “y’all”.
-blink- OK, I’m afraid you’ll have to turn in your Southerner card for misspelling “y’all”.
Dude, if you are depending on me for spelling correctness then ya’ll XXXX y’all XXXX you all are in bad shape.
I drive the C++ language lawyer on my staff off the cliff at times.
Jeez, what a dick!
Damn straight. Hard enough to make something work on IE, Firefox, and Chrome current versions. HTML standards suck.
However, what is amazing is how robust HTML really is. I have a piece of software that validates the HTML and tells me where errors are located. Since all the HTML is dynamically generated it is easy to mismatch tags, miss tags, and otherwise make the code wonky. My prior method was to see if the result looked OK on the page.
Over time the code has suffered from rot, thus causing missing tags, tags out of order, table cells mismatched counts on the rows, bad CSS, a lot of stuff that was just flat out wrong. Yet the HTML seemed to display OK. I have now gone through the hundreds of pages and made all the pages HTML 5 compliant. Has taken the better part of a year (not dedicated time of course). I think I have all them done and now only validate new pages or changes to existing pages. I still get stuff wrong.
High and mighty now that we’re retiring, are we?
Nope, just turning a lot of that crap over to my replacement. Right now I just spinning my wheels, biding my time.
So it was obviously his browser. His signature line indicated he was a consultant specializing in C## applications and apparently sits on some standards board for the C language. How can someone who claims to be an expert on C, and sit on a board, be that far behind in technology? Sort of boggles the mind.
He may support ATMs running OS/2. Most of the ATMs have been upgraded to embedded Windows XP but, not all.
C## is a new one on me. I have written a little C# and a lot of C++. And a boatload of F77.
I wonder if he is running OS/2 or eComStation.
http://www.ecomstation.com/
C## is a new one on me.
I probably mistyped.
I wonder if he is running OS/2 or eComStation.
I have no idea. Just know his browser is old, old, old.
He may support ATMs running OS/2
I doubt it. Tagline in his email indicated consultant so I doubt he supports ATM’s. Because he is part of the editorial board for the magazine, we have to send him PDF’s in some really old version. So not only is his OS, his browser, his PDF reader is also old. He might be also.
he makes personal choices but expects YOU to accommodate HIM. Not just old, but entitled and selfish too.
I wonder what your click thru rate is? I used to get a newsletter direct to my email, and i read it every month. Some time ago they changed to sending the email with a link to something online. I haven’t clicked thru and won’t.
nick
Tonight’s dinner is chicken pot pie followed by apple pie with choice of ice cream, heavy whipped cream, or both.
BTW fellas, IYRC I am an old submarine sailor. Anything I have ever read on here is tame.
Oh wait, I had pizza pie for lunch! Sweet!
https://modpizza.com/
and
http://www.piday.org/
We have a Whirlpool Duet frontload washer/dryer and like it quite a bit. The clothes get clean, the dryer works well.
We also have a Kenmore Pro dishwasher that has an energy efficient cycle that takes quite a while, but is whisper quiet and the dishes get clean. We tend to load and set to run at 4 AM, so the time is no problem.
“Anything I have ever read on here is tame.”
Sorry to bore you. We’ll try to kick it up a notch, lol. I’ve been a bad influence on both wives with my cursing, thanks to decades of working mostly around guys in macho occupations and pursuits. My bad.
Oh, are we doing FaceCrack food selfie stuff now here? I just had a boring old turkey-cheese-lettuce-tomato sammich and some Ben & Jerry’s Commie ice cream (Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch).
Commie scum instigators in Chicago; haven’t we seen this movie before?
http://freedomoutpost.com/you-deserve-your-own-hell-twitter-erupts-after-domestic-terrorist-bill-ayers-tweets-out-picture-of-his-dining-room-alter/
OFD’s semi-nightly shotgun blast continues:
http://www.vdare.com/articles/americas-four-political-parties-two-of-them-hopeless-hispandering-hitler-hysterics?content=think%20this%20four-party
It’s not just that Hitler is the Devil Incarnate Forever, it’s that the much worse commie dictators don’t even seem to have ever existed! For all the mention they ever get in the MSM or high skool and college “history” courses. In terms of mass murder and genocide, Hitler was a piker, barely tripling Pol Pot’s measly numbers.
“Daily Mail – Police in Ostersund Sweden made the unusual move to ask women not to go out unaccompanied after dark, after reports of eight brutal attacks, some by ‘men of foreign appearance’, in just over two weeks. Police said they ‘have never seen anything like it in Ostersund’, a small town in the north of Sweden with a population of just 45,000. The cases of the sexual harassment and attempted rapes have involved groups of up to three people. Police also highlighted an additional four cases in the past two weeks, including a lone woman assaulted by three men, and a report of a group of ten-year-old girls being harassed by men in central Ostersund.”
“art-remus-ident-04.jpg Swedes look at the Islamic invasion of their ancient homeland as if it were a crime problem, a matter for the police and courts. It isn’t, not in the long run. Look for no-quarter bloody battles in Sweden’s future. Either Lars or Akmed will be left standing, not both. Which one gets less certain with every passing day, but in the early going the Islamicists have a running start, they go by the rules of a “no rules” contest while Lars dithers in confusion and good intentions. Watch Akmed continue to punch Lars out, take his stuff and pass his daughters around. Then place your bet.”
Lots more of this frivolity and hijinks at the woodpile report, kidz!
Fun prep tip:
http://weaponsman.com/?p=30343
Maps and compasses and do recons of your own AO. I’ve been doing mine up here. You find out all kinds of neat chit, like what kinda folks live on the next block, whether there’s a meth house or fundie Xtian family down the street, and which ‘hoods are tricky to navigate or get out of in a hurry. One thing I’ve discovered since being up here is the sheer number of trailer homes and double-wides, some of the ‘hoods being pretty extensive, too. And another question wife and I have had repeatedly, when noticing peoples’ houses way out in the sticks and far off from any interstates or major roads; where in hell do they WORK??
Go here and create your own AO map:
http://mytopo.com/
I have a nice big one behind me here in the office, about three by four feet and laminated. Mark where all the police stations are, hospitals, utility company sites, power stations, dams, bridges, radio stations and antennas, railroads, boat ramps, etc., etc. One must tear oneself away from the pixels and get outdoors and look at all this stuff, though. It could be critical some day.
I marked all the near by casinos, whore houses and desert tortoise locations on mine. When SHTF, go North East.
“I marked all the near by casinos, whore houses and desert tortoise locations on mine. When SHTF, go North East.”
Except for the turtles, that’s a good AO site list for ya, hombre. Casinos will have panicky customers milling around but also trained security personnel and large parking garages, not to mention being a major target for organized thieves. The cat houses could be ideal for various diversionary tactics as one heads North East. All the way to northern Vermont, NH and Maine and the Maritimes. No brothels up here, though, except for the big one down at the State House.
“Brad is apparently a delicate, sensitive flower and he might wilt in the face of crude language”
Yep, that’s me. Delicate. Never heard such language before, my ears are wilting
I ran OS/2 until Windows XP came out. XP was the first version of Windows I found to be “good enough” to use. I still thought OS/2 was a better OS, but the writing was on the wall – IBM was doing to the PC what it has done all along – abandoned its users when they were no longer pure profit centers.
I hated MS at the time. I didn’t realize that I should have hated IBM more.
Surprisingly, OS/2 is due for a reboot. Somebody is going to re-release it. I may look at it, but I’m not likely to jump back on. There’s value in being able to collaborate with others.
Old Nick wrote:
“Most people who go from an old top loader to a new front load HE regret it, based on talking with friends, our own experience, and online comments.”
Amen bro. I left my old top loader behind when I left Canberra two years ago. It was almost 29 years old and on its last legs. Because I’m CRAZY I got a front loader for the new house in Adelaide. At first I didn’t use the hot water inlet (it leaked) so it took 2h17m to do a load. When I got the leak fixed I assumed that it’d be faster, since it didn’t have to heat cold water internally. Nope, still 2h17m. I have plenty of space in the laundry so I’ll get a top loader next time.
Ray wrote:
“About 40 people have sent in resumes for my job. Only two are even remotely qualified and even they fall short in some categories.”
Heh, in the late Eighties my organisation advertised some programmer positions, second rung from the bottom, but still quite well paid.
The best application was from a lady who thought she qualified because she had experience doing keyboard data entry. That’s it.
Brad wrote:
“In Baden-Württemberg, her party lost their leading position for the first time since 1953. Might be a message there.”
Yes, there’s a message there.
Nope, she *hasn’t* groked it.
Ray wrote:
So I suspected his browser. Asked him what browser and version he was using. He replied he was “Running Firefox 10 on OS/2 with Intel chips”. That is 35 versions ago and OS/2 is just ancient. I informed him that we do not support browsers and operating systems that old. He complained that we were being short sighted.
I take it from this that there’s not much chance of you supporting the browser on my CDC Cyber 180-860 running NOS/BE… 🙁
DadCooks wrote:
“BTW fellas, IYRC I am an old submarine sailor.”
SSN or SSBN?
where in hell do they WORK?
They don’t. They are on the public dole or selling drugs. If there is a family they don’t marry. That way the mother gets all kinds of public money, food, housing, daycare, utilities, cell phone, cable TV, and medical all free naturally and a massive refund from the IRS even though she paid nothing. Meanwhile the father (there may be more than one) work for cash and report none of their income.
The best application was from a lady who thought she qualified
Several of those type of applicants. Some I don’t understand as their resume indicates that they have a fairly good job working with servers and networks. No coding experience which is really critical to the position, more so than server administration (I rarely touch a server, maybe once a month). I think the boss mislabel the advertisement. Should have been “Systems Developer” rather than “Systems Administrator”. Oh well, not my problem.
I take it from this that there’s not much chance of you supporting the browser on my CDC Cyber 180-860 running NOS/BE…
As long it supports the proper HTML headers and JavaScript, sure. The question becomes do you support HTML 5 and style sheets? And can you afford the power bill for your machine?
Boggles the mind when you think about it. More power in my phone than a 30,000 SQFT building full of computers from 40 years ago consuming enough electricity to run a flux capacitor (well maybe not quite that much, but we did have 200 tons of A/C). And I basically have the world at my fingertips, such capability not even existing back then. Simply amazing.
In 1983 I told my boss it wouldn’t be long before I had a desktop computer with Vax 11-780 minicomputer power. He laughed.
@Miles_Teg – SSN or SSBN? So here is Dad’s long story short
SSN (Nuclear Electricians Mate): SSN 688, USS Los Angeles (new construction, commissioning crew, then lots of time boring holes in the water), then SSN 670, USS Finback (more boring holes in the water and a refueling). Both homeported out of Norfolk VA with the LA later moving to Hawaii, but I stayed in Norfolk to go to the Finback as the Navy would not move my spouse unless I reinlisted for another 6-years (since I wouldn’t go to Hawaii the Navy also held my advancement to Chief because they said too many Chiefs on the East Coast).
For those of you that think that SSBNs (boomers) spend a lot of time at sea, wrong. They have two crews and spend no more than 90 consecutive days at sea, usually only 60. Fast Attacks go on 6 to 12 month deployments, most of the time operating submerged. I was on one 13 month deployment with only 3-days open hatch time in a port, we often resupplied consumables at night at sea (one time we also picked-up President Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn, that “experience” is a book).
Yeah, I know that Boomers spend a lot of time in dock. The Brits had four, with only one guaranteed to be on patrol at any given time.
“BTW fellas, IYRC I am an old submarine sailor. Anything I have ever read on here is tame.”
I had to call my mom in Boot Camp (1984). Bad memories. F-bombs dropped left and right. Finally I said I was going to stop talking. 🙂
SSBN duty wasn’t bad. USS Michigan Blue 1985-1989. Known schedule, max of 89 days (No Sea-Service ribbon for you!). Lots of down time when the other crew had it. Lots of preventative maintenance because of the Trident Planned Equipment Replacement program. But hardly ever broke anything underway.
Never, Ever let a submariner know what gets to you. Ever. We don’t know how to let it go!
“Yeah, I know that Boomers spend a lot of time in dock. The Brits had four, with only one guaranteed to be on patrol at any given time.”
We spent about one month out of 4 in port. Lots of availability time.
ET1/SS 2/1985-10/1993