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I dont know a lot about their setup, just that it's a completely different business type with different needs, and a night and day difference between staff levels. She is a manager with probably 20 or 30 staff in her department. My department consists of me :). Its hard for us to relate because there is not a lot of common ground.

@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:

@donahue said in My first computer:

@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:

Example...

In the era IBM made the PC and soon thereafter Compaq made a PC-compatible. Using x86 that wasn't PC compatible was common and easy at the time (hard now.) And if you had an 8086, that meant it couldn't be a PC or PC-compatible as no one made that. If you had an 8088 it was likely PC or PC-compatible, but not for certain.

But PC always meant IBM's PC line, and PC-compatible always meant PC architecture that wasn't made by IBM. Not longer after that, they were all called PC as it was PC architecture either way.

But if you use PC to mean something else, it would be super confusing because you'd be talking about machines that had nothing alike between them. Because an 8086 machine couldn't run PC software.

I still remember the phrase "IBM compatible". I never knew what it meant at the time, I always associated that with DOS and Windows as a kid.

LOL, yeah definitely doesn't mean that. That would have been "Microsoft compatible", if we were going by companies.

IBM compatible was always a misnomer, as would be Microsoft compatible. Since when DOS came about, Microsoft's main product was actually XENIX UNIX, so being compatible with Microsoft would be more towards Linux, than DOS.

IBM always had many products and they were in no way compatible with each other. Today, nothing that people traditionally associate with IBM is compatible with anything IBM makes. IBM compatible today means more than it ever did, as IBM today uses a single platform family, the Power family.

Yeah, my mom has been in IT for probably the last 35ish years, she is essentially the IT manager for a regional retail store (probably about 150-200 stores) here in the NW. Now that I do this, its kind of weird trying to talk shop to her because most of her hands on experience is from at least 20 years ago. One of the last conversations we had, I was trying to explain some of the benefits of virtualization to her as she said they basically didn't have anything virtualized and they had several hundred physical servers. She deals a lot more with things like VISA processing that I didn't understand, but from my perspective we jumped straight to virtualization with our first server. She was the one always telling me "IBM compatible", but it comes from the early 90's.

they wont be browsing the web for quite a while i think.

@dafyre Roblox is not free on Fire OS, but its only like $2 or $3

their favorite thing is to just ask alexa to play random songs for like 10 seconds before the have her switch to a different song. They love asking her jokes too.

@dafyre The kid versions of Fire tablets have an app called "freetime". its great and includes a TON of free content. But he knew the passcode to the parent user account and just downloaded the game from the app store. I've recently changed that code.

I feel like this is such a different world from when I was a kid, my kids have no trouble what so ever absorbing tech that is around them. But its funny trying to explain things like what the internet is, or what files on a computer mean. They have virtually no frame of reference, especially about the differences between different types of systems like android vs windows vs iOS.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

My kids moved from Minecraft to Roblox.

My oldest son downloaded that on his tablet (he's 8 ) without asking, which charged it back to our amazon account. I Still havent let him play that because I always approve what they play. I sometimes wish my parents would have been more strict about what they let me play as a kid. Anyways, we mostly do it as a family activity together, I've got my desktop at home and my kids all have Fire tablets.

@scottalanmiller said in My first computer:

Example...

In the era IBM made the PC and soon thereafter Compaq made a PC-compatible. Using x86 that wasn't PC compatible was common and easy at the time (hard now.) And if you had an 8086, that meant it couldn't be a PC or PC-compatible as no one made that. If you had an 8088 it was likely PC or PC-compatible, but not for certain.

But PC always meant IBM's PC line, and PC-compatible always meant PC architecture that wasn't made by IBM. Not longer after that, they were all called PC as it was PC architecture either way.

But if you use PC to mean something else, it would be super confusing because you'd be talking about machines that had nothing alike between them. Because an 8086 machine couldn't run PC software.

I still remember the phrase "IBM compatible". I never knew what it meant at the time, I always associated that with DOS and Windows as a kid.

I think we got our first computer in the house in the early 90's. I have no idea what they would have been, probably some sort of whitebox special. But I remember that we had two, one had one of those green on black monitors and DOS only, and then we got one with a color monitor and windows 3.1. I still remember having to press 7 to boot into windows or press 5 to play commander keen.

My first computer I built/owned personally had AMD K6-2 500mhz processor and like 128mb of RAM. This would have been late 90's. I remember thinking at the time that there was no way I would ever fill up the huge 20GB hard drive. Of course, we then tried to find everything we could on Napster anyways. It's funny how much has changed only in the last 20 years for me. I cant imagine some of you more 'seasoned' guys seeing it all from the beginning.

I've recently started playing Cities Skylines. I also play minecraft with my kids from time to time.
http://www.tantalus.com.au/images/games/cities_skylines/CitiesHero_3.jpg

I just bought a "new" car. It's an 08 with 160k miles. I tend to buy cars when they are around 10 years old and then just pay cash.

@momurda said in Internet in the 2000s:

Are you all stoners or something? That is the only time i hear the word is in reference to smelly weed; in general it refers to a musty smell.

nope.

My wife says dank probably once a week, it's one of her favorite words for some reason. I guess that just the way with millennials.

@scottalanmiller said in Looking at New Virtual Host Servers (ESXi):

@wrx7m said in Looking at New Virtual Host Servers (ESXi):

Should I stick with 2 CPUs? We currently have 4 cores per CPU and 2 CPUs per server. I would be looking at increasing the core count, too. I don't think adding pCPUs would benefit me.

...That's way more performance per thread (just because these are two generations newer machines) and double the threads and reducing the CPU to CPU overhead...

Are you talking about if the workload has to shift from one pCPU to the other one as some kind of bottle neck? If so, I've never thought of it this way but it would be an interesting point.

@dustinb3403 not really. She really likes really over cooked hot dogs.

Is there any cost for bringing a guest? I would love to bring the wife. I doubt she would be interested in the tech, just a vacation.

Perhaps this is a SAP thing. My RDS VM that supports about 25 users uses either 0% or 0.1% CPU, and about 175mb of ram. I am using this to publish our ERP client as an app to my users, and they are only accessing that app, not a full RDS desktop.

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/weekend-morning-awesomeness-36-photos-34-23.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600

sounds like my wife. she likes to cook those things for like 3 minutes. I always make fun of her calling them shriveled hot dogs.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png

love xkcd

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I am probably the only one who listens to worship music 100% of the time? Maybe it helps that this is all I play too. I lead worship at my church in my spare time.

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