September 20, 20187 yr Greetings, all. Lurker for years, finally decided to join so I could ask the occasional question. Rather than yak on about myself [Boring!], allow me to talk about "stuff" instead. And since this is a Tech Forum, here are two lists of things, mostly [but not all] Tech-related, that are either personal likes or dislikes. You can probably tell more about me from these lists than anything else... ;begin wacky list Stuff I Like: NT 5 AutoCAD before 2010 Western Electric Vern Buerg's "List" EditPad DOS Tektronix UltraEdit32 Bell System Practices HP RPN Calculators Wordstar Professional 4.0 DEC Open Wire Air-Gapping and Physical Security Cannabis The PSTN on a real SDH Backbone [RIP] Personal Responsibility Dark green or amber text on a truly black background Wireshark European TV Phreaking/Hacking Truth Stuff I Don't Like: Windows 10 Social Media Subscription Software Marketing clowns who expect a Pavlovian response to the word "Cloud" Fools AutoCAD after 2010 BIOS Buggery Hype [Don't believe it!] Crowds, and the Madness thereof The Internet [It had its Day] Games HTML, Scripts, Beacons, etc. in email Browser Software that allows Fingerprinting The Tyranny of Sunk Costs People who use Title Case Text way too much in Foolish Lists like this one ;end list The owners of this forum are probably reading this list right now and thinking "Oh no, is THIS the demographic we are attracting now? This guy is a dinosaur!!!" Fear not, I'm sure that I am just an aberration. Jim ================================================== Please refrain from drinking the Kool-Aid.
September 21, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, Tripredacus said: We are wondering why blockchain is not in the list of stuff you don't like. That would be a good thing, but since among the "likes" there are BOTH "NT 5" AND "HP RPN Calculators", this small omission is not a problem to join the club. Anecdata, only a few weeks ago I have (by a rather large margin) outsped a young engineer (my HP 28C vs. his smartphone calculator). The good news being that I am still fast enough, the bad ones being that I bought the HP calculator some five years before the engineer was born and I wasn't even a kid anymore at the time. Welcome, jimfromPA . jaclaz Edited September 21, 20187 yr by jaclaz
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