craigb

The last time I worked for a boss I got an "Activation Required on Monday morning!" I ignored the message and now I work for myself. ?

With a few Gold level eggs of course! (Who have also been given an incorrect rap!)

This is the method I use now!

I had to go onto a nuclear sub a couple of times back when I was working at a defense contractor (the subs were in the Point Loma area of San Diego). Claustrophobic AF for someone who's 6'4" tall! The guy who greats you on the gangplank (I forget what they call his position, "Man of the Boat?") gave all of us a badge and the same joke "See that green? If it goes red, you're dead!" meaning the nuclear reactor had leaked. For a brief time I was working on the flight code for the Tomahawk cruise missiles. While that may make me a bit of a rocket scientist (and a younger bitflipper! ?), I look back now at that and what I was originally supposed to do (fly F-14's; until I grew too tall), and realize how far away from my personal views those are! Definitely not a fan of indiscriminate killing! Heck, I even capture the little flying bugs that wind up in the house (I name them all Fred) and release them outdoors. The one thing I do recall about erasing drives is that before using the magnets we would write all low values (zeros), then all high values (ones) on the entire drive and do this about three times. Most people don't realize that deleting a file only removes the entry from the file access table (FAT) and the actual contents will stay there until that area of the disk gets rewritten. This is how recovery utilities (like Glary) can sometimes find recently deleted files for you (or the NSA if you've been bad!?). There's also some residual which reminds me of screen burn-in that can sometimes indicate what the original value used to be. The fun part about disassembling a drive is you can keep the VERY strong magnets that are inside! We would use them to hold things to walls that look like they're only drywall (they were strong enough to stick to the screws underneath you couldn't see!).

No kidding! That was how I met Greg (Hendershott) while trying to get my expensive Turtle Beach sound card's General MIDI to work with Cakewalk v1.0!

VNZ Nation - Lightwave

Poor guy must not have actually eaten the becan Kenny! Eating quality (no sugar, uncured) becan IN MODERATION will actually HELP your heart! Don't fall for Big Pharma's propaganda. The "low fat" diet has now been shown to be the #1 cause of heart disease! (But it makes Big Pharma tons of money.)

I can actually live for four years on that much! ?

LOL! I'm an IT guy who gravitated to a DAW back in the mid-1980's! ?

I hear that! During the Black Friday sales, I did what I posted and got a nice Samsung 43" 4k TV for only $209! This replaced two old 1600x1200 monitors that were from the 1990's... Hey, they still technically worked! Albeit with some slight doubling and the resolution restrictions... Then, last weekend, I went through a couple of old computer-related gear bins and now have one entire bin that's going to dump this week (along with a lot of other stuff). I found things I didn't know I still had including at least one item that dates back to the 1980's! Yeah, it's been awhile since I'd gone through those bins completely! ? I've got a disk toaster that I'm using to get old data off of a bunch of IDE drives and I also just hooked up three old devices (a DVD player; a CD/VHS combo; and a dual-cassette deck) so I can do the same with other old media. I can't help but laugh at how you can buy an 8TB SSD drive now for about $300 (I have two). I still remember paying $510 back in the 1980's for a 10 MB hard drive that I was sure I'd never fill!

There are options now? I guess I should upgrade my old gear...

What were you expecting? Something like this??! ?

As a guitarist, I needed to include keyboards occasionally, but those I could cheat on since my keyboard allowed me to transpose the key and just use all the white keys regardless of what key I was actually using. Much harder to do that with a guitar! ?

Man who gets run over by second car is retired!

I've got a couple of his books! Excellent and along the lines of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Damned - Alone Again Or

Parliament - We Got The Funk (Used to play this one when I was a DJ.)

With RS "everything" is...

Looks like you've got a lot of space for more racks to the left there! ?

What the heck? Is this some kind of mock thread??! ?

Well, ok, fine. Whatever. The Dub Funk Association - Pendulum Version

Too much?

60 Hz.?