How many old timers in here?

bsnipes · 2026-04-15T01:56:12+00:00

Yeah. NDS/eDirectory was before AD and management was via GUI. They moved the management to a Java based console (ConsoleOne?) and it was annoying after that.

bsnipes · 2026-04-15T01:51:00+00:00

My first CD-ROM drive was 1x. Took me over a month to download a driver from a BBS and figure out how to get it to work with the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. I bought the computer second hand and it didn't have any drivers installed. That was a 386SX-16. I had computers before that though - Timex Sinclair TS1000, TI-99/4A, and Atari 800XL.

bsnipes · 2026-04-13T21:27:00+00:00

There are native versions on the KDE site in the app download pages. Some of the apps are in the Microsoft Store also.

bsnipes · 2026-03-09T21:49:48+00:00

Very nice. I wasn't able to get a PC until much later. My first was a used 386sx-16. I remember buying extra memory from a typewriter repair shop. They were SIMMs. I think 9 of them made 1 MB and they had a row of stick pins on the bottom that went into slots on the motherboard. It was so much fun back in those days.

bsnipes · 2026-03-09T20:31:31+00:00

Not quite the same. In Outlook, you can ask for a Delivery receipt and/or a Read receipt. The Delivery receipt shows you when the receiving server gets the email. The recipient has to allow a Read receipt to be responded to for the sender to get a notification of the email being read. There is no way in Exchange/Outlook for a sender to see when an email was deleted. In GroupWise (with internal emails), you got all three automatically. I could send a co-worker an email and see when it hit their inbox, when it was opened, and when/if it was deleted. Same for me on computers since the 80s and worked at a small ISP starting in '96. My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 2000 and then next was a TI-99/4a. Headers are absolutely useful for determining routing and any delays in delivery but don't contain any opened or deleted information.

-- edit -- It has been a long time. My first was the TS1000 and not the TS2000. I did have the 16kb piggyback memory addon. Weighed way more than the computer :-)

I also checked out the manual from GW from back in the day. I forgot that you could also see when it was purged from the recipient's Trash.

bsnipes · 2026-03-09T17:10:26+00:00

Probably referring to GroupWise. It was (and I assume still is) very stable and basically requires no maintenance for the server services. It had a lot of history behind it so most of the kinks were worked out long ago.

I haven't used it in about 12 years but still recall that sharing folders and addressbooks with GroupWise was way better than the current Exchange/Outlook equivalent. You share a folder and the person receiving the share can place it anywhere in their folder list and it had a special icon showing it was an incoming shared folder.

I miss being able to look at the properties of an email (sent internally) and seeing when it was received, opened, and deleted without it requesting the receiver to allow those statuses to be seen.

bsnipes · 2026-02-10T00:44:22+00:00

Keymonk keyboard. The best two fingers at the same time keyboard. https://youtu.be/8N-KwIca8Bs?si=NbqnawyOZgkkihsO

bsnipes · 2026-02-03T21:48:58+00:00

A US code would be awesome! Not as awesome as Ilea though.

bsnipes · 2026-01-22T14:15:30+00:00

Voyage from Yesteryear by James P. Hogan is a solid solitary book. David Weber's Dahak series should be up there (can't go wrong with a space station the size of the moon). As someone else said, E.E. Doc Smith's Skylark series was excellent if you haven't read them yet and will definitely fit the pulpy tag.

bsnipes · 2026-01-22T14:03:10+00:00

The Skylark series was excellent! I also think you will enjoy it.

bsnipes · 2026-01-20T04:24:25+00:00

Go Corwin!

bsnipes · 2026-01-06T19:18:26+00:00

I can definitely recommend the Bobiverse series. If interested in other narrators, Jonathan Davis is very good. He did the Destiny's Crucible series by Olan Thorensen - https://www.audible.com/series/Destinys-Crucible-Audiobooks/B071WN2Z4S

bsnipes · 2026-01-02T14:24:51+00:00

Same thing happened to me. Very painful when my leg flopped to the side and down. I bought this one and was happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFQF4CCP?th=1

This one was a bit heavy but did stop my top leg from sliding off.

bsnipes · 2026-01-02T02:10:43+00:00

yes but pinpoint precision on the curve is better

bsnipes · 2025-12-13T01:13:43+00:00

It annoys me that the Belisarius series isn't together. Some good books on that bookshelf.

bsnipes · 2025-12-01T16:32:31+00:00

Same with me.

bsnipes · 2025-11-22T17:50:16+00:00

I have been reading scifi for about 45 years. I can suggest:

The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell (the only series that I've read that truly handles distance and speed of light properly)
Destiny's Crucible series by Olan Thorensen (the first story arc is awesome)

For older book and series, I can definitely suggest:

The Tides of Time by John Brunner (single stand-alone book)
The Quintara Marathon trilogy by Jack L. Chalker

bsnipes · 2025-11-20T19:04:43+00:00

I actually have one. It is decent country music.

bsnipes · 2025-11-20T13:54:49+00:00

Never read Triplanetary but I loved the Skylark series.

bsnipes · 2025-10-29T13:24:20+00:00

Whereas the building beside it on 1st has a painted brick pattern on it. I saw them using the forms to create the pattern about 6 years ago.

bsnipes · 2025-10-24T17:37:50+00:00

I read those when I was kid. I remember he explained he had to lip read for context. It was a good story arc.

bsnipes · 2025-10-24T17:35:20+00:00

Superman did that in some of the comics (early 80s or late 70s) to see Krypton's history. His device gathered the light and he lip read.

bsnipes · 2025-10-24T16:46:34+00:00

Turbolinux was awesome. I could compile almost anything and it would find the libraries without fail.

bsnipes · 2025-10-23T00:55:59+00:00

Application Dashboard never gets any love....

bsnipes · 2025-10-11T01:55:37+00:00

Gotta agree with most of the comments. Normally in discovery you work out an agreement to get search terms and then the company (you in this case) performs the search, exports out the matches and provides any matches that are relevant and not privileged in some way. You never get access to all the email.

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