NeoThermic wrote:For someone who's supposed to be in Sparks, NV, you're doing a good job of actually existing in Phoenix, AZ...
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Heh.
xander
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Xandor wrote:Neither of these (two?) guys post from Phoenix.
Correct.
Xandor wrote:At least one of them should have their "blue dots" remove from the Uplink board.
Why? Is there any justification to remove their blue dots? Not that I can see.
Xandor wrote:I could start a poll. Whatcha think?
I wouldn't.
Xandor wrote:Some Americans are not very uhh, diplomatic.
Uh, right? Did you have a point with that post?
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Xandor wrote:Neither of these (two?) guys post from Phoenix.
I should hope not
Xandor wrote:At least one of them should have their "blue dots" remove from the Uplink board.
I vote xander.
Xandor wrote:I could start a poll. Whatcha think?
Everybody hates polls
Xandor wrote:Some Americans are not very uhh, diplomatic.
I'm British, you nationalistic bastard.
Sorry, I thought you were a sock puppet. Nationality for socks?
For a blog thread, there sure are a lotta flames around here.
I thought that the "b" in blog stood for "biographic". See what I get for thinking?
Today, as my post count slowly nears triple digits, I felt that I should post some IRL content.
. You should too, especially you quad digit nerds.
I am originally from southern California and have gigged for a few great tech companies.
Notably, Western Digital Corporation. After a year as an engineering lab gopher, they sucked me
in to their M.I.S. department as an on-call PC complaint rep. and general office automation guru.
I've put my hands on literally hundreds of keyboards there. Cubical Planet with a twist.
All the engineers would share secrets with me. At the time, IBM DOS 3.1 was new!
Compaq Computer Corp. owned the Phoenix BIOS and had not yet finished litigation with IBM.
I have been thanked again and again for helping create a nine byte REBOOT.COM file.
"AA55" was forbidden to speak of. As a multiplatform note, I credit Introversion
with finally informing me how that "stutter" (doubling) of byte code came about.
It is a Motorola vs. Intel corporate war truce from about the mid-seventies.
The Motorola (phone monopoly) CPUs read bytes in sequential order, like I count.
The Intel (weird rebellious offshoot) CPUs read bytes in sequential pairs, with each pair reversed!
This truce is a wasteful patch on the first four bytes of code (every first four) to ID who owns that code.
OWN ership. Thus, "A5" means IBM. The original IBM-Intel 8080 PC model number is 5050.
And the stuttering never stopped. Microsoft seems to have advanced "recursion" to new heights too.
Didja notice that on login, CTRL-ALT-DEL must be used *twice* to get to Administrator logon?
Today, WDC have the FASTEST desktop HDDs available.
You'll be stretching to best a pair of 10K rpm SATA Raptors in RAID zero, I know, I've measured them.
Nuff product placements. I consider myself an A+ technician, but I don't trust the certification
program enough to go out and list myself anywhere. /Cue nightmare-flashback of pager bleeping. . .
Next notable would be a small software house (now defunct, I think) called Systems & Software Inc.
I was tasked with a single line BBS for customer support and communications. Oh, and phone rep.
and product installation scripting, and release version archiving and VAX-VMS daily tape backups, and, and, &, &.
Introversion must be just like that company was. Growth issues. We moved offices once from Costa Mesa to Irvine.
I always respected those folks. The first-ever 80386 CPU emulator was theirs.
They retailed toolsets for _system_ software development. When Intel was discovering or inventing the PCI bus,
a very fast system was 33Mhz with VESA support for VGA games. Leisure Suit Larry from Sierra Online was great in those days.
[Go to the casino's bar and watch stand-up comedy, in mature-rated text.]
I have never forgiven Sierra Online for that secret copy-protect scheme.
I crashed our whole internal NTFS network when a non-MS mkdir.exe command executed. . .
Well, okay only ten systems needed a restart, but I was embarrassed.
Actually, my tape backups saved their bacon at least once, so I was forgiven.
I left California for Washington state in 1990.
There's just too much population and stimulation in that environment.
In Bremerton (west of Seattle) my wife and I shivered in the winter snow, and fed the local raccoon gangs (those lil' thieves).
While there, I worked for the U.S. General Services Agency, aka US Navy's Pacific Seventh Fleet.
I was on an engineering station where design and fab of undersea warfare weapons was the purpose.
Four guys and I increased their e-mail users from 214 to 475 in less than two years.
I won't talk about Windows 3.1 network clients under DOS 5 because I still live in the U.S.
and our No Such Agency seems to be everywhere lately. Think I've said too much already.
It has become amazing to me what I know, that probably, I'm not supposed to know.
. I have a hack theory:
The only reason warrant-less trunk-level wiretapping has even become known,
is that because NSA security systems have been breached. It's only a theory.
I think it's been public knowledge for a while now that the NSA monitors our non-domestic TCP.
And witch hunting used to be Ssooo popular, has it fallen out of fashion? *joke*
'bout ten years ago, I must have had Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and my wife
had us both move back down here into the land of the BIG SKY. Arizona.
I recovered pretty quick and have spent eight pleasurable years working PCs (and teachers) in an elementary school.
Steve Wozniak is my hero. Educating children is the ultimate social engineering challenge. Very rewarding.
I had to develop a tactic to protect my passwords. The kids carefully watch every time I type. I started
using "*" and "/" and "-" in the adult passwords. Then, my physical fingering position on the keyboard can be
different, eight ways. Just look at your keyboard. Those syntax characters are in redundant places.
And the shifted astrix adds/subtracts the total click count. More than once after a login, I've heard a child mutter
"Darn, he's changed his password..." behind my back. :-) Brat hackers! The teachers seem defenseless too.
The children call me their "computer teacher" even though I have no teaching credentials nor formal training.
Every time I go shopping at WalMart, some small child waves and yells "Hi, Mr. Marshall!"
When I began work at the school, they had 280 students for 500 square miles. Now it's 1000 students.
The county wage for non-certificated (WTF?) employees is pretty low, much lower than teachers,
but Arizona is thrashing around with corruption problems of it's own.
Bush should consider selling it back to Mexico at a profit. *joke*
My rural area is Sonoran Desert so summers include three months of over-night low temps above 85F.
We may have two weeks straight, all above 95F. In September it feels lovely to be in rain at 85F.
Highs usually reach a solid month's worth above 110F. Prolly three months above 105F.
Global warming? We've got your [$#@^&* deleted] global warming right here.
So, the weather is pretty hostile. It's just that Seattle ain't got any high noon sun, ever, and Arizona always does.
(It usually starts early, around nine am.) I keep an oven thermometer on the dash of my car. 140F is common.
That's beef rare! Imagine your kippers!
My wife, has acquired twenty horses and our ranch includes 35 fenced-in acres.
(A 40 acre square is one-quarter mile on a side.) My avatar on this board is a poor photo, sorry. From a K&B Jam Cam.
The next cheapest digital camera was called a "Barbie Cam". I have to remember that child-resistant products
are preferred when tech-widget shopping. From left to right, my '87 Pontiac Fiero, '50 Ford 8N Tractor,
and the '97 pre-fab house (where the A/C is). We put this house there. Before us was nuthin' but lizards and scorpions.
Did you know that scorpions fluoresce under U.V.? I didn't believe it until I found and collected a dead one.
Pale green! After a month dead, the glow decays and shifts toward blue.
I made a video of a live one under blacklight, but I'm pretty sure that WinXP Pro lost it for me.
Pinnacle Systems Studio 8 wasn't ready for my *multi-admin skills. I found this out the hard way about NTFS
and it's messed-up attributes/permissions system. Then on top they have the nerve to use their own MetaTCP protocol
so the NT-Authority user can "remote-help" me. Sorry, I'm helpless.
My auto-updates is shut down on a perm basis. They just keep bringing back messengers to compete with AIM or IRC or, or,
XP Home doesn't even have a local admin. I'm baffeled. (pronounced 'baf-el-led)
There's better info available from Prentice Hall Samba docs than MS Press!
That's because Steve Ballmer sells training courses towards C.S.E. ratings.
Or, maybe its the Redmond-Brussels war?
Strength in Diversity vs. Unity of Purpose
The struggle continues. You just can't avoid flames anywhere. Everybody has em.
I just refuse to choose sides in these wars. I'm gonna be toast. Anybody wanna buy a dead scorpion?
*Note: That should read "multi-admin non-skills".
For a blog thread, there sure are a lotta flames around here.
I thought that the "b" in blog stood for "biographic". See what I get for thinking?
Today, as my post count slowly nears triple digits, I felt that I should post some IRL content.
. You should too, especially you quad digit nerds.
I am originally from southern California and have gigged for a few great tech companies.
Notably, Western Digital Corporation. After a year as an engineering lab gopher, they sucked me
in to their M.I.S. department as an on-call PC complaint rep. and general office automation guru.
I've put my hands on literally hundreds of keyboards there. Cubical Planet with a twist.
All the engineers would share secrets with me. At the time, IBM DOS 3.1 was new!
Compaq Computer Corp. owned the Phoenix BIOS and had not yet finished litigation with IBM.
I have been thanked again and again for helping create a nine byte REBOOT.COM file.
"AA55" was forbidden to speak of. As a multiplatform note, I credit Introversion
with finally informing me how that "stutter" (doubling) of byte code came about.
It is a Motorola vs. Intel corporate war truce from about the mid-seventies.
The Motorola (phone monopoly) CPUs read bytes in sequential order, like I count.
The Intel (weird rebellious offshoot) CPUs read bytes in sequential pairs, with each pair reversed!
This truce is a wasteful patch on the first four bytes of code (every first four) to ID who owns that code.
OWN ership. Thus, "A5" means IBM. The original IBM-Intel 8080 PC model number is 5050.
And the stuttering never stopped. Microsoft seems to have advanced "recursion" to new heights too.
Didja notice that on login, CTRL-ALT-DEL must be used *twice* to get to Administrator logon?
Today, WDC have the FASTEST desktop HDDs available.
You'll be stretching to best a pair of 10K rpm SATA Raptors in RAID zero, I know, I've measured them.
Nuff product placements. I consider myself an A+ technician, but I don't trust the certification
program enough to go out and list myself anywhere. /Cue nightmare-flashback of pager bleeping. . .
Next notable would be a small software house (now defunct, I think) called Systems & Software Inc.
I was tasked with a single line BBS for customer support and communications. Oh, and phone rep.
and product installation scripting, and release version archiving and VAX-VMS daily tape backups, and, and, &, &.
Introversion must be just like that company was. Growth issues. We moved offices once from Costa Mesa to Irvine.
I always respected those folks. The first-ever 80386 CPU emulator was theirs.
They retailed toolsets for _system_ software development. When Intel was discovering or inventing the PCI bus,
a very fast system was 33Mhz with VESA support for VGA games. Leisure Suit Larry from Sierra Online was great in those days.
[Go to the casino's bar and watch stand-up comedy, in mature-rated text.]
I have never forgiven Sierra Online for that secret copy-protect scheme.
I crashed our whole internal NTFS network when a non-MS mkdir.exe command executed. . .
Well, okay only ten systems needed a restart, but I was embarrassed.
Actually, my tape backups saved their bacon at least once, so I was forgiven.
I left California for Washington state in 1990.
There's just too much population and stimulation in that environment.
In Bremerton (west of Seattle) my wife and I shivered in the winter snow, and fed the local raccoon gangs (those lil' thieves).
While there, I worked for the U.S. General Services Agency, aka US Navy's Pacific Seventh Fleet.
I was on an engineering station where design and fab of undersea warfare weapons was the purpose.
Four guys and I increased their e-mail users from 214 to 475 in less than two years.
I won't talk about Windows 3.1 network clients under DOS 5 because I still live in the U.S.
and our No Such Agency seems to be everywhere lately. Think I've said too much already.
It has become amazing to me what I know, that probably, I'm not supposed to know.
. I have a hack theory:
The only reason warrant-less trunk-level wiretapping has even become known,
is that because NSA security systems have been breached. It's only a theory.
I think it's been public knowledge for a while now that the NSA monitors our non-domestic TCP.
And witch hunting used to be Ssooo popular, has it fallen out of fashion? *joke*
'bout ten years ago, I must have had Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and my wife
had us both move back down here into the land of the BIG SKY. Arizona.
I recovered pretty quick and have spent eight pleasurable years working PCs (and teachers) in an elementary school.
Steve Wozniak is my hero. Educating children is the ultimate social engineering challenge. Very rewarding.
I had to develop a tactic to protect my passwords. The kids carefully watch every time I type. I started
using "*" and "/" and "-" in the adult passwords. Then, my physical fingering position on the keyboard can be
different, eight ways. Just look at your keyboard. Those syntax characters are in redundant places.
And the shifted astrix adds/subtracts the total click count. More than once after a login, I've heard a child mutter
"Darn, he's changed his password..." behind my back. :-) Brat hackers! The teachers seem defenseless too.
The children call me their "computer teacher" even though I have no teaching credentials nor formal training.
Every time I go shopping at WalMart, some small child waves and yells "Hi, Mr. Marshall!"
When I began work at the school, they had 280 students for 500 square miles. Now it's 1000 students.
The county wage for non-certificated (WTF?) employees is pretty low, much lower than teachers,
but Arizona is thrashing around with corruption problems of it's own.
Bush should consider selling it back to Mexico at a profit. *joke*
My rural area is Sonoran Desert so summers include three months of over-night low temps above 85F.
We may have two weeks straight, all above 95F. In September it feels lovely to be in rain at 85F.
Highs usually reach a solid month's worth above 110F. Prolly three months above 105F.
Global warming? We've got your [$#@^&* deleted] global warming right here.
So, the weather is pretty hostile. It's just that Seattle ain't got any high noon sun, ever, and Arizona always does.
(It usually starts early, around nine am.) I keep an oven thermometer on the dash of my car. 140F is common.
That's beef rare! Imagine your kippers!
My wife, has acquired twenty horses and our ranch includes 35 fenced-in acres.
(A 40 acre square is one-quarter mile on a side.) My avatar on this board is a poor photo, sorry. From a K&B Jam Cam.
The next cheapest digital camera was called a "Barbie Cam". I have to remember that child-resistant products
are preferred when tech-widget shopping. From left to right, my '87 Pontiac Fiero, '50 Ford 8N Tractor,
and the '97 pre-fab house (where the A/C is). We put this house there. Before us was nuthin' but lizards and scorpions.
Did you know that scorpions fluoresce under U.V.? I didn't believe it until I found and collected a dead one.
Pale green! After a month dead, the glow decays and shifts toward blue.
I made a video of a live one under blacklight, but I'm pretty sure that WinXP Pro lost it for me.
Pinnacle Systems Studio 8 wasn't ready for my *multi-admin skills. I found this out the hard way about NTFS
and it's messed-up attributes/permissions system. Then on top they have the nerve to use their own MetaTCP protocol
so the NT-Authority user can "remote-help" me. Sorry, I'm helpless.
My auto-updates is shut down on a perm basis. They just keep bringing back messengers to compete with AIM or IRC or, or,
XP Home doesn't even have a local admin. I'm baffeled. (pronounced 'baf-el-led)
There's better info available from Prentice Hall Samba docs than MS Press!
That's because Steve Ballmer sells training courses towards C.S.E. ratings.
Or, maybe its the Redmond-Brussels war?
Strength in Diversity vs. Unity of Purpose
The struggle continues. You just can't avoid flames anywhere. Everybody has em.
I just refuse to choose sides in these wars. I'm gonna be toast. Anybody wanna buy a dead scorpion?
*Note: That should read "multi-admin non-skills".
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Nice owl. Ever see "Twin Peaks"? Great guitar theme music.
Here's some current events from my locale:
County Superintendant of Schools
Short to the point:
http://www.bloggernews.net/12355
County Superintendant of Schools
Same Local detail (older with poor spelling):
http://www.westvalleyview.com/main.asp? ... TM=41637.2
County Superintendant of Schools
Official County Release:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:oQ ... clnk&cd=11
Includes four more people from Dowling's same office. No news on latest (Jan 6th) court date. News blackout?
Trout Season in the Arizona desert:
http://www.westvalleyview.com/main.asp? ... ionID=&S=1
That funny guy playing the flute (upper left) is named Kokopelli. A native American spirit.
http://www.westvalleyview.com/index.asp?TM=8088.486
I've come to believe every word from the Uplink inside cover. Mentor is real.
Still, all things can improve.
Here's some current events from my locale:
County Superintendant of Schools
Short to the point:
http://www.bloggernews.net/12355
County Superintendant of Schools
Same Local detail (older with poor spelling):
http://www.westvalleyview.com/main.asp? ... TM=41637.2
County Superintendant of Schools
Official County Release:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:oQ ... clnk&cd=11
Includes four more people from Dowling's same office. No news on latest (Jan 6th) court date. News blackout?
Trout Season in the Arizona desert:
http://www.westvalleyview.com/main.asp? ... ionID=&S=1
That funny guy playing the flute (upper left) is named Kokopelli. A native American spirit.
http://www.westvalleyview.com/index.asp?TM=8088.486
I've come to believe every word from the Uplink inside cover. Mentor is real.
Still, all things can improve.
Last edited by ChasM on Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:54 am, edited 2 times in total.
Philosophical Content
I find myself on the edge of a canyon.
Looking down, I see only myself. (chasm)
/cue Tom Petty (Encino, CA) Free Falling
since feeling is first
...........FIRE AND ICE.............
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
---------by Robert Frost------------
And death is no parenthesis
Looking down, I see only myself. (chasm)
/cue Tom Petty (Encino, CA) Free Falling
since feeling is first
...........FIRE AND ICE.............
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
---------by Robert Frost------------
And death is no parenthesis
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