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I wonder if this would have gone differently if the author had originally opened business account with the local teacher's credit union. That could have really been interesting to see how the acc…

The author must have never seen a rerun of Beverly Hill Billies growing up. The bank President was constantly courting the attention of Jed Clampett and his family!

It seems to me some of this whimsical creative writing might have been for copyright protection purposes!

I remember the Turbo C++ manual being interesting and something about Frank Borland on a beach.

They are really handy for storing backup hard drives too. Short of having your own armed guards and razor wire it is good physical security for free or cheap.

It depends on the scenario. Which is why planning eventualities is so important. If I suddenly die, then my wife has knowledge and signatures on file necessary to keep going. Also a three ring binder …

A local bank near us provides a free one as long as you keep $100 min balance. So ends up being very cheap offsite backup to store important documents, a backup hard drive of most precious data, etc.

Have to plan ahead and have the keypass password in an envelope in the safe deposit box.

Not my experience at all. Been running Ubuntu LTS for work for years and updates are just about bulletproof.

Very cool! I remember meeting him about that time when he came to visit Georgia Tech. His guest lecture and the marketing around it in part helped me get interested in cryptography. I later did take a…

You don't say your religious background, but these life issues are exactly the sort many Churches (or the analogue) have resources to help with. One on ones with someone who is either a trained t…

I do not have experience with 86box. I've just used disks that I already had and loaded them into a QEMU disk image. Then I can do stuff like this: qemu-system-i386 -hda win31.img -hdd progs.qcow…

Agreed. I recently started playing with my old copy of Turbo C++ in an emulated Windows 3.1 system in QEMU. It was slick. I also have the original box and manuals that came with it though those are at…

I truly believe that modern GUIs suck to no end compared to the older ones in terms of usability, discoverability, and consistency. Windows 3.1 was way ahead of the modern UX-driven-junk-science detri…

I have thought about adding a bathroom style vent fan to the closet that houses the network gear for the house. Exhaust near the top and have a cool air intake near the floor.

Adding fans to consumer devices that don't have them but should, such as a cable modem, certainly improves its reliability in my experience!

Nick has been a prolific writer as long as I have known him. This is some great, esoteric stuff, about fans. I have used case fans in unusual applications not involving a computer but never went deepe…

I remember Encarta being darkmode in 98. Maybe some of the MSN stuff too. Even painted their own titlebars differently.

I love this. Having operated https://rietta.com for 23 years and counting. Maintaining links and pages that are no longer my focus but history would be lessoned to have them vanish. It goe…

Very cool. I own the originals and the 4th but sadly I have to admit that even though I am a reasonably accomplished developer with a couple of CS degrees I have a hard time understanding this work an…

Yeah. I am just gonna not watch the video then. I suspect many others will do so as well.

This most likely scenario is that over a decade ago, someone at Twitter copied a regex from Stack Overflow for URL validation and it has been there ever since.

Desktop is actually better for that. At least getting the laptop up to eye height with good posture. My chiropractor says they see more younger patients (30s and 40s) with degenerative disk disease in…

Wait, that game is still around!? I played it so much as a kid. I actually logged a lot in the original AOE. That is fantastic and a testament to what is lost with modern games requiring a server to b…

I sometimes regret not pursuing the FBI out of graduate school - it was a strong offer. Would have been a very different career path with its own rewards. Now even if I wanted to go that direction I&#…

Not quite the same, but when asked by a State agency what it would take for to go on full time I gave a number and was told that is more than the Governor makes. My response was well he also gets a ho…

NFS has its own issues, such as not being authenticated. SMB does support credentials and TLS for access.

Completely disagree. I have found recruiters to be nearly useless. However, my experience is through the lens of someone who created a consulting practice bit by bit and have gained a good reputation …

Should books be destroyed after the life of the author as well?

Glock ships their Glock 19 from Austria to Smyrna, Georgia, with adjustable target sights to have enough points under US import law and then an armorer changes those sights to their fixed self defense…