rachelbythebay

Rackspace, Indymedia, 2004. Ancient precedent by now.

Ah, see, should've given 'em to us! Big rectangular state, you know, #3 machine owner at the time. We didn't charge overhead, probably because it never occurred to us to do it.

People brought machines, we gave 'em quota. Easy enough.

So glad to not be doing that any more.

Maaaaaaybe ID 10150136890464739. Maybe.

If only there was something that broadcast the availability of services including the port they're on...

I wish I had taken a picture of that shirt before it had been run through the wash a few times. It used to look a whole lot better!

But yeah, that video was epic, and it was spot-on, too. A company that has no idea how to deal with people is going to suck at making tools _for_ people.

Yes please. People trying to discuss those topics on here makes me come back less. It’s probably the worst part of the site for me overall.

Happened on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2007. No Teslas involved, naturally, but people sometimes do honorable things to stop an otherwise runaway vehicle.

> Beatty took bold and immediate action. He drove his Ford F-350 Super Duty utility truck in front of the Jeep and allowed it to essentially crash into the back of his vehicle so it would latch on, according to bridge officials. He then "slowly and safely" guided the Jeep across the bridge's southbound lanes and brought it to rest in a safe area, away from the flow of traffic.

edit: This was pre-divider, so a runaway vehicle on the GGB could have made quite a mess by crossing into oncoming traffic.

No, I’m the one missing something. It tends to make people assume I don’t know what’s up technically.

Based on your experiences, I am going to assume you are not in the same situation. You will likely have better results for an otherwise identical request.

Have a good day.

Ah! You are in fact correct. It's so long ago, I screwed up the term for it. ExpressCard it is.

In the words of everyone who's ever done a small fix, "reload".

I may never understand why some places are all about assigning titles and roles in this kind of thing. You need one, maybe two, plus a whole whack of technical skills from everyone else.

Also, conference calls are death.

I see someone linked my post earlier (thanks!) but hey, I thought of a few more based on your request.

3583: BASIC bytes free on an unexpanded VIC-20. 38911: same idea for a C-64.

Those were both prominent numbers since they showed up on the screen right when you turned it on and sat there until you got cranking on something else.

In the earliest days Java was this thing that showed up in your browser and caused it to just wedge hard (blocking the UI, even) until things got started any time someone decided to embed an applet in a page. Since some people were using it to do all kinds of stupid things (animated fire, anyone?), you could run into it at any point with no warning.

It was ugly. It had terrible looking widgets that were out of place on Windows, Macs, AND Unix boxes - quite a feat at that.

One (dumb) thing JavaScript had going for it was that at least initially, you had to have it on to get CSS action on pages in Netscape. If you turned off JS, then you lost CSS too and things probably looked pretty ugly.

I want to say that some browsers forced you to keep JS on in order to parse a proxy.pac and those of us in corporate/educational environments with filtering proxies had to deal with that, too. Add it to the CSS issue and now you have multiple reasons to leave it on and try working with it. By way of comparison, you could get by with Java disabled.

I still ran with both off in the bad old days and took the lumps, but I'm just cranky that way. I still run with JS off by default.

Note: across multiple machines.

I suspect a lot of these extra steps are not contributing positively to the product. If two solid people could get the same result and there are two dozen people on something, where is all of that extra effort going?

We don’t talk too much about this.