Posts by Stewart McKenna

Re: responsibility

I once lost some personal data despite having 3 different backup tools.

1) the Corporate desktop backup didn't backup my local Exchange folder because it in a different directory to the corporate standard due to an OS upgrade.

2) the TSM backup to the mainframe apparently stopped working because whomever was paying

the IBM license fee decided to stop and the admin cancelled all the backups without notifying me.

3) My Linux network backup failed because the building maintenance guys did a power/generator test and the Linux backup server did not boot

Moral: You can't have too many backups.

Re: What I don't understand...

Turn it around. A Congress that won't make any sensible restrictions on gun purchases does not

care on iota about your rights of privacy..

Re: This is all too familiar.

yep and as I tell my wife. Change your password - DO NOT tell your password to the KIDS!

argh....

Re: Starting figures are well out

The real irony is that States in the US where unionizing is basically undermined and the laws that

enforce it are called 'Right to Work' States and 'Right to Work; laws....

Re: Try to find a niche, why not a "workstation tablet"?

Should be possible. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on an old Dell 620 and my 20 year old daughter is happily

using it to access Facebook and whatever she does via a browser. She does it all as 'guest' too...

I'm thinking of replacing my wife's laptop OS with Ubuntu too

Re: it begins with 'C' and ends in 'sucker'...

Not true. Back when there was a Word 2.0, you got 'whores' if you mis-spelt 'whereas'...

Also, I used to get 'God Damn' for Goodman....

Re: "Stealing Ideas"?

Yes, I liked the Sony Slate. I advised it for my wife.

Haven't seen it or played with it. my son got hold of it.

didn't know there were 'robustness' issues. he's hard on thing.

It's probably in pieces.

Re: Oh god

So how does the Desktop Support guy in BRIC do that for the US Executive's new toy?

(There won't be any US Grunts left).

This is just an underhand way to dip into the employees wallett.

First they came for the pens and paper, then they came for the internet access, then the phone....

We're all salve workers for the Corporate Nazis....

Re: HP killed HP/UX itself....

Which HP-UX are you talking about. ? Clearly not 11.x, and not even 9.04..

This is just plain wrong. HP always had 'SAM'. while not a spiffy as SMIT, if was quite

adequate for dumb monkeys to manage HP-UX systems.

Sewage treatment also comes to mind.

When they say 'water' does it mean pure H2O or what?

Close

your're close. Having a Degree tells the prospective employer that you are capable

of learing on your own . And it doesn't matter what subject.

Carly Fiorina of late memory had a degree in Medieval History for gawds sake

(but she sure new how to destroy HP and the shareholders).

Anyway, I used to work for a compnay called EDS who was vry successful in hiring

'liberal arts' graduates and teaching them Cobol/PL-1/IMS/DB2 etc and did very well.

Not so well in the new reality of Java/C++ etc...

The post below reminds my of myself.

I was a Mathematics graduate and really, really thick. for a long time before

started to understand DP....

First Cobol program I tried to use a tape drive for an indexed file.....