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If I could up vote this 100 times I would. I love open source. But 40 years in computing (hardware to apps) has left me with questions. Like, Why could I write an entire Point of S…

I can't believe this is a thing. I showed this to my grade school teacher and she told me I was doing it WRONG. I just new it worked so I kept using it.

After 40+ years as in electronic, software developer, OS and App, Networking, SysAdmin, DBA and DevOps I see it all as a multi discipline. Knowledge in Electronics, CPU design, Com…

No man's Life, Liberty, or Property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Will Rogers

Has anyone seen a RID device? Are any available? Approved? Will this be a "LAW before the device" like CA Gun Microstamping?

Jason Scott uploaded all the video he took trailing to places making the BBS Documentary to the Internet archive. There is more there.

"checks fall of the list" issue has always been a thing. There is a term in electronics call "Muntzing". Named after Earl Muntz who, after the engineers created a thing (TV) he wou…

Funny you say that. When I was sending compressed FidoNet Trafic (Looking like encryption) to Soviet block countries I got a knock on my door from men in black suits (FBI) asking m…

If you like this document you should watch the documentary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary During this time I was the REGION 9 cordionar for Fidonet and latter …

Thanks for this. This is such an exciting field. W5TSU

Wounderful radio. w5tsu.net:8073

As a person with 40+ years experence (Yes I started with a 4004) I aggee. Change is constend and the advancement of more and more complex systems is inevitable. Most of these is go…

I have developed a term for this. EARLY ADOPTER TECH DEBT.

And if the went so busy putting as steering wheel on the skateboard they might have some time to thing about how the seatbelt fits and bumpers. Speed Kills.

Having worked for the state, I learned licensing is about protecting jobs of the license holders now protecting the public. Case in point. You need to go to school for two years to…

I have never understood for profit medicine. There is a very fine moral line between, selling a blue pill that gives someone a "fun time" and selling cocaine for the same resin? Dr…

Why does something old (C) have to be bad these days?

How we got here: Tech bobble gold rush, big tech (google/s) takes best talent, investors only want good enough (build to a price), young bro-grammers fill need, flood of millennial…

How we got here: Tech bobble gold rush, big tech (google/s) takes best talent, investors only want good enough (build to a price), young bro-grammers fill need, flood of millennial…

Location: Oklahoma City, OK, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, SALT, Linux from kernel 0.82 Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/dPQ1HV Email: Mark…

Time to through down on the IOTs.

This is what happens when management gives up and turns IT to developers. And I believe that happened when accountants took over because of Sarbanes Oxley. The accountants had no i…

Just seems like another piece of code in search of a problem and ways for things to go wrong, because someone didn't take to time to research how things work now.

yes, Knowledge is a two way street. We can learn from each other. Age bias is bad both ways. The saying "Its hard to teach old dogs new ticks" is WRONG and this articular stinks of…

Keep it up Carl. Your not the only one. I help fight Westlaw and put the Oklahoma State Constitution and Statutes online. www.oklegislature.gov / tsrs_os_oc.aspx