Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

Easy for me to say. I’m not chasing that tone. But if I were, I’d do what I could, bite the bullet, and buy the correct bass. And he was an early Hartke guy. That had something to do with his sound. YMMV.

I may do that eventually. Right now I'm looking at this as a Thunderbird project, just because.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

In my recent experience, a corporate VPN inhibits workflow, causes lost productivity, and leads to calls for help to be able access documents needed to do a proper job. Of course those calls are handled by offshore vendors. That’s why I am so done with working.

A properly configured, quality corporate VPN is only a minor pain. I'm sorry yours sucks. Outsourcing IT to offshore vendors is typically cost-based, and often a bad idea. IMO.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Ha. Hadn't heard this one in a while.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

No. But I’ll look for them. Thanks Geoff.

Moi, aussie! (sic)

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I don't buy any extra 'services'(BritBox, etc.), but the local PBS station has been running "Brokenwood Mysteries" which is enjoyable, plus I can almost always find an episode of "Death in Paradise".
[remind me to never visit Sainte Marie. Oh... Wait... I don't fly; don't have a passport; and it's a fictional island. NVM]

We got BritBox because there were certain things Sharon wanted to watch available nowhere else. We bought a year's sub and are working our way through all sorts of things. After the year is up we'll switch to another service (likely Disney) and consume everything htere we care about (MCU! MCU!)

 

[BklynKen]

A lot of us here used to use various *nix clients with a Unix mailserver, but as IT functionality got mandated merges, we had to switch to the corporate MS server. Not too long after, for "security reasons", we all got moved to some form of Outlook (I use OWA in my browser). After several years, I'm pretty used to it, but it's still maybe 75% as good for my purposes as the better Linux clients. At best.

I still use mutt to read root mail.

 

[Stealth57]

A lot of us here used to use various *nix clients with a Unix mailserver, but as IT functionality got mandated merges, we had to switch to the corporate MS server. Not too long after, for "security reasons", we all got moved to some form of Outlook (I use OWA in my browser). After several years, I'm pretty used to it, but it's still maybe 75% as good for my purposes as the better Linux clients. At best.

We have never used Outlook. It was the target of early malware. We used Eudora and then Thunderbird. Figured the more obscure and fewer users, the less likely anyone would bother.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

When a kid we would take extra models we weren't crazy about and stuff them with fireworks.
They came apart faster than they went together. Go figure. Kind of like real life.

Fireworks and/or homemade gunpowder! I wish I had some of those back.

 

[Stealth57]

Fireworks and/or homemade gunpowder! I wish I had some of those back.

Bottle rockets in an iron pipe with a wooden handle taped on. Ah, surprised we all aren't blind.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Are you sure your logic gates are correct for those IC chips in your sim software?











No, I don't know what I'm looking at--other than a great bass player and even better dude. Beyond that, I'm lost.

It's an AI's attempt to reduce the Grateful dead's Wall of Sound amplifiers to a single, CLASS Q 28kW chip. It's also working on a single, 27/15/8/3 quadaxial speaker assembly capable of producing the same 127db on stage from that amp (not shown).

 

[MCF]

A properly configured, quality corporate VPN is only a minor pain. I'm sorry yours sucks. Outsourcing IT to offshore vendors is typically cost-based, and often a bad idea. IMO.

When I worked there before, they were off-shoring to Ireland. Now only IT management is there. Everyone else is in India.

 

[MCF]

It's an AI's attempt to reduce the Grateful dead's Wall of Sound amplifiers to a single, CLASS Q 28kW chip. It's also working on a single, 27/15/8/3 quadaxial speaker assembly capable of producing the same 127db on stage from that amp (not shown).

I’ll take your word for it.

 

[MCF]

We got BritBox because there were certain things Sharon wanted to watch available nowhere else. We bought a year's sub and are working our way through all sorts of things. After the year is up we'll switch to another service (likely Disney) and consume everything htere we care about (MCU! MCU!)

Acorn is pretty good for foreign stuff.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Used to take 35 minutes to load Pong onto a TRS -80 from an audio cassette recorder lmao...

I still have my Sinclair ZX-80 (81?) somewhere. Not so the finnicky cassette recorder I used with it.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Who’s got that kind of time?!?!?.

However, one of the thing I have to do often is loading firmware updates to my control panels (Bosch). That is an hour long process. I try to schedule it so I have my lunch with me. Get the update started, have my lunch, taking a walk and return. This is not remote, it is with a direct USB connection from laptop to control panel.

That's nuts. People make firmware updates too difficult and/or too slow.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have to be on a corporate VPN most of the time. It works, and my browser thinks I'm in Mexico or SoCal so I get interesting search results.

I've started using a VPN on my phone just because, and it's certainly broadened the global scope of my ads. One would think I lived in NYC this week. For a while I was apparently out of the country and getting ads I couldn't even read.

 

[MCF]

When a kid we would take extra models we weren't crazy about and stuff them with fireworks.
They came apart faster than they went together. Go figure. Kind of like real life.

We had a kid in the neighborhood blow up GI Joes.

Yep. You guessed it. He became a judge.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was a CPM machine user early on (Kaypro) and then we got a windows 3.1 machine (Compaq). We went to 95 and then the horrible ME. I built a XP machine and dinked around with music files and video editing. Then I lost interest. The tech got more complicated and it seemed like everything I learned was obsolete the next day. So I went back to bass playing. I’m much happier with that.

I mainly avoided CP/M. I did use a Cromemco for a while, which had CDOS (CP/M somewhat evolved). Later I used MP/M (a multi-user version of CP/M with enhancements). But I got away from those as quickly as possible.
I tried several versions of MS OSes, but every one found a way to royally p*ss me off PDQ.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Did my Masters thesis using an Osborne Executive One running CPM. It had very powerful statistical analysis program that was originally designed for a mainframe. Unfortunately, they were the classic example of marketing obsoleting the entire company. They announced the Executive Two long before it was available. Retailers stopped buying the One and revenue went to bankrupt...now their corporate name is a verb.

I remember them. They had a lot of promise.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

White Bird......

I still want to hear y'all play "White Bird" with you on a white Bird.