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  • Reply To: Follow Wheaton's Law

    JRuss wrote:

    What's that one saying? A great way to understand someone's character is to see how they treat people who can do nothing for them...?

    I was never very good a...

  • Reply To: Follow Wheaton's Law

    Steve, you got me on that one.  Wheaton (College) is my alma mater, many years ago for my undergrad degree.  I just had to see what law Wheaton had some...

  • Reply To: The Computing Revolution

    Eric M Russell wrote:

    skeleton567 wrote:

    From my admittedly aging perspective, I think sometimes the best 'revolution' is to go back and rethink and simplify things and make sure we are doing this the...

  • Reply To: The Ultimate Home Office

    richardm-1037631 wrote:

    Rick, what NAS are you using.  I've been reviewing them lately and haven't been able to make a definitive decision.

    I decided on a D-Link DNS-343, thought it was a...

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  • Reply To: The Computing Revolution

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    I think I did that recently with my lawn mower. Rather than try and rig something on the 18 year old deck, I just ordered a new part. Partly...

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  • Reply To: The Ultimate Home Office

    Of course I did hide a few piles of paper before the picture...

  • Reply To: The Computing Revolution

    From my admittedly aging perspective, I think sometimes the best 'revolution' is to go back and rethink and simplify things and make sure we are doing this the best, most...

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  • Reply To: The Ultimate Home Office

    HomeOfficeLeftHomeOfficeRight

    This is my home office shared with my wife who owned a graphic design studio.  The modular furniture been used in three different homes...

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  • Reply To: Adapting Privacy

    Sure, like I'm going to PAY someone on the promise to keep my data secure?  I may be old and possibly even a bit senile, but I ain't THAT stupid...

  • Reply To: Changing Computer Retail

    Latkinson, I still have a Gateway 9-bay tower 386 in my basement.  Always thought it would make a great server case,  could have my own 'cloud' with today's drive sizes.

  • Reply To: Changing Computer Retail

    I used to get both Byte and Computer Shopper too.  And the Computer World news.  And yes, Mad Magazine too.  Had many of them saved, but several relocations fixed that.

    Those...

  • Reply To: Changing Computer Retail

    After my first PC purchased in the early 90's (386DX-25 with 4MB of memory and a 105MB hard drive), I built all my personal desktops.  I don't think I...

  • Reply To: Changing Computer Retail

    I think the main issue with the lack of live retail shopping is the lack of much detail on the configuration of much of the hardware.  When looking at hardware...

  • Reply To: Changing Computer Retail

    I was in my fourth developer position, all IBM mainframe use, when the Apple 2+ was released.  My wife and I purchased one and took a class in Apple Basic...

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  • Reply To: Moving away from an RDBMS

    Well, my career progressed from card decks (80 column, then 96 column) and MICR sort machines, then flat files that we had to write sort utilities to reorder, through indexed...

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