Agreed on all counts … that said, his first “I’m not going to resign” speach got resounding applause, so I’m sure he had a lot of behind-the-scenes support to stay as long as he did.
Hopefully whoever gets his job will be both better and able to cut out more of the rot.
(I live in Spain, I’ve been royally pissed off at how the players have been treated)
Competitions should go over to crazy golf, it’d be more fun to watch then, not use water, and use less space too … imagine how crazy pro-level crazy golf courses could be!
The best way to clear a blocked road is to drive a police car into the obstruction?
Here it usually involves workers dismantling and taking stuff away.
Same thing with The Guardian, where their feminist opinion pieces were written by an actively transphobic woman for a long time after it was considered not-cool.
I dunno, I live in a little Catalan village that has suffered a bit from “España Vaciada”, life here is good and both me and my other half have integrated pretty well … but the house next to us has been bought by a German who rents it out on Airbnb and TBH it’s rather shit.
I’m fully on board with “tourists go home”. If we get more holiday let’s in the village we’re thinking of moving more inland.
That’s a very philosophically positive way of thinking about it!
Yeah, I use a VME setup at work for data capture and it’s serviceable and reliable (reliable enough to still be working off a coax network cable, lol).
The one I had at home had a 60K-based motherboard with some custom roms and a load of serial ports … I never managed to get it to do anything useful, unfortunately
Yeah, BeOS looked, for about 5 minutes, like it might be the future!
And then it wasn’t :-(
lol, I never had anything like that at home (though I did end up with a 68K based VME system at one point). That AIX server was outgoing tech for SMEs even then, and I never worked for anywhere big enough to have anything Unix-y on it after that :-/
Still, it used to be cool how much oddly mixed hardware there used to be, whereas now there’s a slick VM solution for any size of business.
Oh fantastic! I was one of those young whipper-snappers with the technology of the future for OS installations - floppy disks. I can’t remember what sort of tape was being used during my “learning the value of backups the hard way” experience above, but they were chonky and took about 8 hours to parse each full one so I could pop home and eat between feeding them into the machine.
It all worked like a charm though, no lost data or anything :-)
I want to say my exposure was 5.something? On a PPC server used for a production management database. I liked SMIT from what I can remember (the documentation was good), but everything went well silky smooth once I managed to track down bash for it and basically automated half my job with basic scripts, lol
Also fun fact, I once took the server offline by tripping over a SCSI 3 cable to the raid array (while sorting out the bird’s nest of a comms room) and it took me 3 days to restore everything from backup.
That was my first steady IT job.
Yeah, the first time I saw CDE was doing AIX for PPC admin and I thought it was nice so went and got the student edition of Solaris for something like €7.50, lol
IIRC at the time CDE for Linux was available for about €50, which was a lot of money back then!
Unfortunately I had approximately zero apps for Solaris, so apart from playing with the OS I got no actual use out of it.
Nobody in here talking about BeOS, QDos, Geos (like windows for the C64!), AIX, or OS2 Warp? For shame!
QNX fucking rocked, I wish it had been useable as a day-to-day system. If I had to pick one it would be that sighs wistfully
Do you mean Workbench, or AmigaOS?
I do like the aesthetics of Workbench 3.9, the pixel art for the icons is very cute :-)
Yeah, that’s what I’m using too, mostly because I don’t want to spend time fiddling with computers these days
I still have a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere, I liked it because it had a nice window manager before Linux and I hold onto the disk out of nostalgia
In Spain it’s a way of life. If I’m 10 minutes late for something I just call it Spanish On Time.
I’m gonna be straight with you, apart from the music the Rocky films were not the peak of cinema. I’m sorry, but it had to be said.
I’m not a bigot, but in my opinion the sliding scale between jam and marmalade is so fine that it’s not worth distinguishing between them, it should be a spectrum of preserves.
Thanks for adding some context, I missed out on that!
As for Vox, they’ll keep defending him because they always look for the worst possible opinion to have and then jump on that … because unfortunately there’s enough people out there with the same shitty views who will then want to vote for them even harder.
I’m crossing all my fingers for a not-PP government.