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In the beginning I was on call at all hours. Later as a partner in some business, lots of hours but it paid off. Then back to corporate work and no free lunch for them. Finally on my own I decided if I would take the gig.

"Never tell me the odds." While I've been all over the map from hardware to actual software what I found is that no one process or ring could rule them all. Always evolving, changing to meet the needs of the day. This did tend to upset those that thought there …

The one thing I would have done differently? Get on board with the 401K program. There was no presentation back then and the company would match dollar for dollar which is unheard of today. Years later I did join but missed that boat.

The system we installed was about 1K USD in 2000. 200 bucks in pipe, fan unit, wire and conduit. 800 bucks for labor. Near Boston, MA these units were in most homes and came to be because as we made the homes more airtight, unwanted gases would build up. The …

Someone wrote "AI is what you use when there is no brain."

## Actually I'm seeing a morph to DISMAL MAGIC! My son who taught A.I. classes is now working as a programmer and the next hire was nothing about programming. They call themselves a programmer but have taken no programming or related classes in any computer related field. All they do …

What's your goal? We know that your goal is not the same as Google so if you're OK with AEO and having GOOG pillage and plunder your content without anyone visiting your site, then AEO is for you.

Wait, isn't that your company? 

For me that's a script with three lines. Echo something. do something sleep 60 goto top This is psuedo code so you need to craft it for the shell you use.

I'll ask why this was posted without even a question mark. The history of UNIX is easy to find and OS WARS are quite boring. Tell more, get more.

I would NOT do this. The A9 wasn't on the list of phones according to Samsung that had this feature. But hey, try https://www.ebay.com/itm/272284482999 and for the keyboard and mouse go get BLUETOOTH models. I've seen folk do this and they feel upset it doesn't turn the phone into anything …

For laughs, see AI/ML get it all wrong at https://imgur.com/gallery/XiWSgjR > Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024 There …

While Green Software is good to see here, how are you going to be Cybersecure in 2025 USA with DOGE breaking into all the US agencies? Even with locked doors and more, nothing seems to be secure against DOGE.

I can't speak of where the company is today but a few years ago we self hosted because we were a bunch of engineers. Today you find folk that can't write any code and need A.I. or support from beginning to end. I truly don't know how folk get by …

Your post reminds me of another question. Which is: > How do you get to Carnegie Hall? The answer to that is the same as getting better at web sites. Practice, practice, practice. There are folk that ask such questions but fib about the question in a vain attempt at …

Depends on which country. Here in the US our regime is engaged in the biggest crime operation we've ever seen. While the US has seen corruption at many levels this time it's at the top with MONEY LAUNDERING via crypto currency and more. For the big companies to succeed they …

Given the cost of the gear in question I would never use a PSU that isn't listed for use with the Juniper switch in question. But hey, your hardware to smoke!

Interesting site. I made many trips overseas to find out why the company products were experiencing early failures. Nearly all the hardware failures were tracked back to [Counterfeit electronic components](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_electronic_components). Does your company warrant the components and pay for the damage caused?

Small world. I recently add 3D printers to the lab. We have the Bambu Labs and a Creality so far and an Anycubic arriving soon. What I have found is that web based 3D CAD is c.r.a.p. If you want 3D models, use the usual free 3D CAD that is …

I have to ask about that WEIRD behavior at your website. I went there, scrolled down a bit then pressed the END key which usually takes me to the end of the page. The page went to the end and then scrolled back. Just weird. Maybe you are getting a …

Set hours when the line is attended. It's that simple.

First I want to know a few things. 1. No Crypto. Not going near money laundering schemes. 2. Full DEI hires only. No M a g a BS. 3. No one in the company mentioned in the Epstein Files. 4. DEFINE FULL STACK. This isn't iHop or is it. 5. …

I'm seeing a lot of sites are ending up looking like the following. 

Given how all the cloud and techbros have sold us out in the USA, the only barely secure platform here is when your service is not in the USA. As to crypto, that's just another name for money laundering in the USA. Our regime leaders are ENRICHING themselves and our …

First there is no such software since you will find variations across the world. Canada's tax system means you can't use almost any accounting software from the USA. Searching for such is country specific and what your company's CFO and others research and select. You'll discover that what you may …

As we see it in the USA, none. The current administration is working hard to obliterate old documents and to avoid creation of new paper or electronic trails. So the best practice in Sweden would be something else than what we see here.

Maybe Barron Trump in Mar-a-lago knows?

You omitted the drive type. You also fell for the "best" trap. 1. HDD or hard drives with a zero or any fill are nearly impossible to recover data from. Even the FBI labs can't do that. There were some studies on recovery using million dollar labs in the NSA …

Given that's your web build/edit method, look up how to's on W3Schools. Example: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images_background.asp Once you learn that and you move beyond HTML, use CSS for this. Example: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_background-image.php

No to the turn off the firewall question. Time to remove Avast and go native with Defender.

I looked and see they've veered into video piracy now. Mind you this varies with each country but the titles they showed, pirates. We (USA) should talk given how we are now pirates on the open seas.

It's a mess. "As of early 2025, the new Trump administration is expected to re-evaluate recent, stricter HIPAA rules, including potential actions on reproductive health data protections implemented in 2024." Just this week, the USA has removed almost all pollution and climate rules. Loosened rules about nuclear worker safety and …

Fine EXCEPT they appear to have pushed a "reset your password" button. Clear that site's cookies and try again.

What you need to know. THERE ARE NO SECRETS IF YOU USE THE CURRENT A.I. SYSTEMS THAT YOU DON'T HOST. Techbro's have sold out. All it takes is an ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANT and the US REGIME gains access. No reason to not tell everyone what is going on!

So far yes. AI is now creating content, AI also reads same content, humans don't read or write any of this but will rebuild nuclear power plants to run the compute farms. Yes, yes, the plan is working!

Over a decade ago I stopped making Interactive Product Demos. I found that a few of the apps I supplied were sent to the field and then the company tried to fix them. It was weird. I went back to static screens or simple wireframes for the demo stages.

This just in. Turns out you can turn off a lot of the AI search results with: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 You can research this further to see if it helps move you to your goals.

For the USA you find out you have to call back next year. In the VA system, you wait in a very long line. May you reside in a nicer country.

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Thanks for the check in. We all care and were a little worried. Feel better.

Grizzly -> Adams

The Epson MX-80 or was it RX-80 was about 500USD in 1985. Adjusting for inflation this would be about $1,500 today. What price did you find too high?

Vscode runs on Apple, Linux and Windows. Now if this is on Windows and you want some .html file to open in your choice of browser you'll have to set the associations. Here's the google for you: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=associate+html+files+with+browser&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 I could clean up that link but hey, it works.

This varies with each company. Sometimes it's done on purpose. Ask why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006? There is no industry standard here. But I will share that when I did such work I accepted whatever SOP the company wanted.

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Seems to be the wrong answer. Trusting AI with business decisions sounds like someone that's planning for failure.

Wait for the Processor Intel Core Ultra series 4?

I see Series 1 and 2 in laptops. You'll have to wait for this next gen to arrive. Can you share why you wanted this? Some think they should get the latest, then fall into a never ending "Series 3 is out", "Oh wait, I should wait for Series 4!" …

New 3D printer and it jammed in a few days. Here's the thing. I can't expect help here so I went to Reddit. A link was the answer there and here's the stray bit of filament that found its way into the extruder head. I imagine average folk would at …