My advisor Clem Heusch once took me hiking from France to Switzerland, right by an unoccupied border post.
Its construction suggested it was built either by Napoleon or by the Swiss to defend itself from him. It was just big enough that one soldier with his Nutcracker Suite hat could stand in it.
I never ever enable automatic updates however Firefox updated itself through my Earthlink dialup. So that's why The Tubes have been slow to drain lately.
I did not realize until quite a long time after the invisible install, and only then because a very subtly UI element appeared. I was overcome with rage:
I download all updates by hand then neatly archive them on a server:
TenFourFox is a build for Tiger and PowerPC. I use it on my Mom's G4 iMac,mwhich is mint condition. Mom doesn't see the point of buying a new Mac, and frankly I agree with her.
I downloaded all her patches at Starbucks until Apple stopped issuing them. Now I have multiple offsite backups of thousands of installers and patches for many different platforms - even BeOS DR8!
My most-serious gripe with Firefox's unwanted, uh, "upgrade" is that I required for solid hours of struggle to figure out where the UI for a business-critical Add-On was.
It turns out that Mozilla "deprecated" what I regard as the "status bar". Silly Wabbit! Usability Testing is for kids!
It's actually called the Add-On Bar. Once I manger to turn that fact up under some cobblestone, I quickly found a thread in which many, many Add-Onmusers also desperately struggled but a Mozilla employee set them straight. Much like AT&T with the cell signal they eliminated from my neighborhood one fine July night in 2010:
We Don't Care.
We Don't Have To.
We're The Phone Company.
When I was with Sony Ericsson in 2010 our CEO broadcast an email to all hands to point out that he had just fired two employees over their conflicts of interest.
I commenced my boycott of Nestle products the very same day their head honcho asserted that water is not a human right. There are many other good reason not to purchase Nestle's wares it's just that that single statement drove home my understanding that Nestle employers and stockholders are notorious criminals.
My boycott is difficult not just because I enjoy many Nestle products but because it is not always easy to determine what products Nestle actually makes. I have learned to read product labels very very carefully.
Many fine foods and beverages that were once prepared by other, independent businesses that are now Nestle subsidiaries. Even if Nestle does not own the manufacture it distributes their products.
Just for grins, read the ingredients from a few Nestle foods soldin the United States, fly to Geneva then read the ingredients of their Swiss products. One of the greatest scams in all of human history resulted in American children drinking nonfat milk.
Here in Vancouver I drink "Swiss Chocolate Milk", made in the United States b Alpenrose with whole milk.
For a parent to feed their children nonfat
milk is child abuse.
You heard that one soundbite and didn't even look at the context.
From this article (http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/24/nestle-chairman-time-to-turn-...):
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"Water is a human right. I fully agree with that," Brabeck-Letmathe said, noting that the around 30 liters a day needed for basic living should be provided without charge to those who can't afford it. But that amount is only accounts for around 1.5 percent of the fresh water destroyed daily, he said.
He's more concerned about the other 98.5 percent. "I don't think it's a human right to fill up a swimming pool. I don't think it's a human right to wash cars. I don't think it's a human right to water a golf course," he said.
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Than you for pointing out my error; sometimes, what one reads on Facebook may not really be true.
However that does not imply that I should stop Boycotting Nestle products. There are many other good reasons that I will explain but not just now as I am posting from my iPad.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. The production manager at Alpenrose dairy was contacted about the ingredients in Alpenrose Swiss Chocolate milk and the main ingredients are: Fresh wholesome Milk, Cream, Sugar and Cocoa.
I remain puzzled that the Statute of Limitations for many civil offenses such as medical malpractice is four years, while offenses such as workplace discrimination for reasons of age or disability is just five months.
The Equal Opportunity Commission and US Department of Justice are quite vigorous at pressing Americans with Disabilities Act complaints. They just about always win.
But despite that I commonly have standing to file an ADA complaint, because my most-pressing concern when I am denied work over my mental illness is that I find some other job, I always let the timeout expire.
I intend to look into who backed the five month statute - who introduced it to the legislation, who supported it in committee, and who contributed their campaign funding.
I once found a mask error - a design flaw - in an embedded chip, but I was unable to work around it. I had to tell my client, a primary defense contractor that they selected the wrong part and would have to redesign their boards then respin their prototypes.
All three of Octel's servers would become unresponsive for no apparent reason. Sometimes they crashed after a while but sometimes they would come back up after a while.
Late one night when no one else was there I ran "top" only to puzzle over that a bunch of identical command lines were consuming all the CPU:
login -p Mkkuow....
I don't remember the exact username but this Mkkuow guy was trying to log into all the terminals on each box.
I dont clearly recall how I figured this out but it was the result of capacitive coupling - parasitic capacitance - between the transmit and receive rs232 wires. The OS would transmit "SunOS login:" then get garbage on the receive line. Then it would prompt for the password a few times, eventually to give up and transmit the login prompt again.
The actual username I saw is easy to figure out by graphing the ASCII voltage levels then considering how capacitance works.
The solution was to replace all the cables with a lower capacitance cable. Because that required all new connectors as well as my time to install them my manager Karen Coates required some convincing but in the end the new cable stopped the hangs.
Its construction suggested it was built either by Napoleon or by the Swiss to defend itself from him. It was just big enough that one soldier with his Nutcracker Suite hat could stand in it.