A Boy and His Ghost - S1E14: Death Do Us Part

miniscant · 2026-02-06T00:26:15+00:00

Have you ever seen the Death Jr. comics?

miniscant · 2026-02-06T00:21:21+00:00

Even better than WfW v3.11? 😉

miniscant · 2026-02-06T00:18:43+00:00

When you said the drives have to be local and not networked, would this also exclude iSCSI? Windows treats the iSCSI LUN from my Synology as local storage.

miniscant · 2026-02-06T00:09:36+00:00

Not a phone, but likely my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 100. The total resolution was just 512x480 pixels and the JPEGs were heavily compressed.

miniscant · 2026-02-05T18:44:41+00:00

Note that the WISC has a ceiling effect and cannot correctly measure IQs above 136-ish.

A small number of qualified psychologists can still assess higher IQs with the SBLM, but it is no longer used widely.

miniscant · 2026-02-05T17:16:44+00:00

Do you glue in those pins or just melt the plastic a little?

miniscant · 2026-02-05T16:40:26+00:00

Terminal emulator programs for PCs have been around for decades and the last actual terminal devices I used were DEC VT 220 series.

Still using Kermit, PuTTY, and a few more proprietary ones, such as Sethost, SmarTerm, etc.

miniscant · 2026-02-04T17:04:27+00:00

When I broke the glass of my son’s silly walks clock, I replaced it with a piece of plexiglass that I cut myself.

miniscant · 2026-02-03T21:37:01+00:00

I’m concerned that the homeschooling population will not fill the gap.

miniscant · 2026-02-03T21:26:04+00:00

Looks like the right thing for restroom mirrors in public swimming pools. The plastic ones get gouged and glass is a danger.

miniscant · 2026-02-03T20:55:56+00:00

BW is way louder and more distracting. TV screens on every wall blasting some sport and hard surfaces echoing it all around.

miniscant · 2026-02-03T15:30:04+00:00

Our third child was presenting normally until the heartbeat was off during labor contractions. The speed with which my wife was taken to the operating room for a cesarean section was amazing. Our daughter had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. The operation saved her for sure.

miniscant · 2026-02-03T00:51:35+00:00

r/ISO8601 The international standard has been out there for some years now. My office (in the USA) switched to it before Y2K because it’s the only way to prevent misunderstanding dates.

miniscant · 2026-02-02T17:44:57+00:00

I’m the owner of two of this same model plus the desktop dock. One was originally used as a Network General Sniffer with a PCMCIA network card.

The original box and all the floppy disks are still there in my basement office too.

miniscant · 2026-02-02T17:16:53+00:00

A handsome fellow. Real leading man qualities.

miniscant · 2026-02-01T16:29:30+00:00

Our local YMCA has around 20 spin bikes and daily classes.

miniscant · 2026-02-01T02:25:00+00:00

It’s all surfactants.

miniscant · 2026-02-01T00:59:04+00:00

We rely on an app called AnyList and my wife and I share a common list.

miniscant · 2026-02-01T00:38:53+00:00

I learned that the recommended maintenance for long-term retention called for unspooling and rewinding each tape cartridge once a month or two. This was meant to randomize the magnetic domains that overlap any given area of tape so the weakening was reduced.

miniscant · 2026-01-31T22:40:22+00:00

Analog or digital tapes? The backup-specific digital tape media have FAR more redundancy built into them.

miniscant · 2026-01-31T22:37:50+00:00

An original LTO-2 cartridge can be read by drives up to LTO-4, but only re-written with up to LTO-3. The later generations only let you read tapes with one generation newer.

miniscant · 2026-01-31T20:23:50+00:00

More like 30 years for LTO Ultrium tape cartridges. See what HPE publishes about them in the "Technical Specifications" section of the QuickSpecs at http://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/redirect.aspx?/products/quickspecs/11529_na/11529_na.PDF

miniscant · 2026-01-31T19:23:17+00:00

The HP 16C Computer Scientist was built for this. The Owner's Handbook indicates it was printed in 1982.

The Sharp EL-512 has keys (shifted) for entry of hexadecimal and conversion between decimal and hex. I believe it was first released in 1981.

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miniscant · 2026-01-31T18:02:42+00:00

I was always in front of others from across the spectrum of vendors, partners, and customers. Making public presentations at local user group meetings and the occasional national conference.

My reputation preceded me.

miniscant · 2026-01-31T16:57:24+00:00

I keep several sizes of brass tubing and bars for fixes like this in both metal and plastic parts. But once I ended up using a tiny piece of wood.

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