4x5-Guy

I'm truly saddened by this. One of my favorite artists. Loved his work all around.

Easy. "Here, hold my beer"

I'm retiring in 3 months. I'll miss the work and people, won't miss the stress and hours.

During my career, I've repaired mainframes and graphics systems. I've managed Unix systems for over 25 years. SysVr4 on NCR frames, AIX systems, Sun Systems and now a mixed environment of Linux and AIX. I think I'm reasonable good at it, at least no ones complained.

I've worked in a variety of industries, finance, food service, distribution. I've work at a PAAS startup that successfully exited. I know the business world better then when I started and can relate to business employees a lot better than I did when I was younger. I've also learned how to coax a problem out of a non IT employee, especially when they really can't describe the problem.

I've found as I got older, I mellowed a bit, I don't rush to judgement as fast, and I've learned to look at a problem and try to understand it before I try to fix it. I've also got a long history of troubleshooting to lean on when I need it. If I did something wrong or screwed up, I admitted it and apologize. If I didn't understand something, I also admitted it and asked for help. I can also use Google with the best of them. I've found out that though the joints are creaking a bit, I have no problems keeping up.

I believe that I've given fair work to whatever company I worked for, for the compensation they gave me. Consider I'm still employed in the field after so long, I have to believe it's so.

I've also learned not to put anything in writing where it can be used against me in the future. I would never post this question on such an emotional and inflammatory topic. I really hope no one knows your real id, otherwise this could bite you in the future.

I also hope you keep this someplace and read it when you are in the middle of your career. I think you will be dismayed at how callous you were.

Good luck.

Well said.

There was a completed cabinet devoted to outputs for the field engineer. All the register were displayed, as well as buttons to set them. At least on later systems, they were in a big square, and someone patched the OS to display the Burroughs, big B, logo during the systems idle time.

Not a class per se, but a former company I worked at was trying to get the technical staff working closer to the business side a little better. There were several books we were asked to read. Dale Carnegies, "How to make Friends and Influence People" was one of them, along with a few others. Since I read a lot, and they were going to let me do it on company time, I gladly did it. Then we had to discuss them with our manager on our one on ones.

It made me look at my behavior a little bit closer, but a lot of that book was BS from what I remember...

The rocket was called Orion. You would probably need more than 200 nukes for it.

Proxima Centauri is ~4 light years away, not a half of a light year.

Been there, done that, need the t-shirt...

You do realize how far Pluto is, plus ottomh there is only one moon orbiting Pluto. You wouldn't see the flash anyway.

From what I remember, paper tape was a slower input device, while cards could be read much faster. To make a change, you had to repunch the whole tape, while for cards you could just punch one card.

Plus punch cards were much nicer to write notes on, and stick in your pocket... :)

I was really saddened to hear this. I've always loved his music, and I didn't know he was ill.

He will be missed.

Sorry, I hate dark mode apps. Too much eye strain for me. Give me a terminal screen with dark grey letters against a not quite white background and I'm good. Too many books when I was younger I guess.