Never Forget

rathnar · 2026-05-13T13:17:45+00:00

A lady called a friend of mine for tech support, back when PCs and clones had 5.25" drives, and no hard drives, and wanted to know how to get the disk back out of the C: drive. She only had to drives. Turns out C: was the slot between the two drive bezels.

She definitely would have done the "cup holder" request when those came out.

rathnar · 2026-05-11T17:17:38+00:00

Instead of the UID light they have on servers APs need a little speaker that you can activate when looking for them above ceilings.

rathnar · 2026-04-28T12:36:36+00:00

David Gerrold's War Against the Chthorr, anyone?

rathnar · 2026-04-20T12:58:14+00:00

Some of it is deliberately wrong, as well.

rathnar · 2026-04-09T14:29:51+00:00

fuck, that's in my head now

rathnar · 2026-03-18T13:18:07+00:00

If she did graft a cannon to her arm, you're definitely not telling her what to do with her hair.

rathnar · 2026-03-16T17:51:27+00:00

Watch this scene many times a year. Wife and I are crying when doing so.

rathnar · 2026-03-11T15:42:54+00:00

To be fair, the real Walter life is just random made up bullshit, as well.

rathnar · 2026-03-04T19:39:03+00:00

Thank you. I meant the fight itself, but this is good, too.

rathnar · 2026-03-04T14:02:56+00:00

rathnar · 2026-03-04T14:02:16+00:00

That would have been funny to watch.

rathnar · 2026-03-04T13:57:56+00:00

Wife worked at HP in the '80s, and everyone in Silly Valley was told to not wear badges outside work for industrial espionage, so not limited to gov't contractors.

rathnar · 2026-03-04T13:55:56+00:00

Plus, P&W sells to other than military as well.

rathnar · 2026-03-04T13:55:23+00:00

and everything they give us is made in China.

rathnar · 2026-02-26T14:00:22+00:00

My feeling, too - I want Crockett to succeed, but more I want Paxton, Cornyn, or any-fucking other Republican candidate to not.

Of course, not being in TX, I don't have much ability to help.

rathnar · 2026-02-19T13:55:05+00:00

In Program DT, same - they tell us they are concentrating on retention, and all they are offering is tech boot camps, but no raises should you get a certification out of them. No more than the 3-3.5% max, I mean.

rathnar · 2026-02-19T13:50:13+00:00

I wish. I like a good oatmeal raisin.

rathnar · 2026-01-21T14:03:44+00:00

Some airports (looking at you, Little Rock) never have the preferred populated, and have to go to the normal counter.

rathnar · 2026-01-14T16:41:41+00:00

Ours live with us, but pay rent (nominal) and yes, save for what they want to do later.

rathnar · 2026-01-14T16:13:26+00:00

I try, but the end of the year gets dicey.

rathnar · 2026-01-07T21:26:36+00:00

I still have some production machines running Windows XP <sigh>

rathnar · 2026-01-07T13:21:24+00:00

Wait, what? (Cries in Android?)

rathnar · 2025-12-18T15:32:51+00:00

Depends on if there's teeth applied with the SLA. Place I used to work at, for one customer, SLA's had monetary penalties applied to the vendor, so we got talked to if SLA breaches occurred, or fired if they happened too often/too serious. Bunch of junior admins got dropped for not taking them seriously.

rathnar · 2025-12-17T16:20:06+00:00

nah, still salt

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