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Help me understand why > 1 year server certs are problematic but issuers have 20 year roots. Isn’t the issuer’s cert a bigger concern?

> was the number of the Hotel Pennsylvania

Still is!

Note to DS9 fans: this is not an essay from Salome Jens.

It’s not my usual attitude, but “during these unprecedented times” if my pay gets cut, I will surely cut my work output in proportion.

The first editor I used was pico, then nano. I joined a sysadmin team shortly after college and they said they would not install those tools on the Sun servers; I had to learn vi. I wasn't prepared to argue but I wanted to know why. They said you'll find vi on almost every system and it will work fine in almost any terminal. To me there was a lot of value in that, and once I did learn vi, I liked it for all of the other reasons folks are mentioning in this thread.

For a bit more fun with mainframe emulation if you're not already a mainframe programmer, check out MUSIC/SP on the System390 emulator [1]. You can run MUSIC/SP on Hercules also, with some limitations [2].

[1] http://www.canpub.com/teammpg/de/sim390/

[2] http://www.canpub.com/teammpg/de/sim390/hercnote.txt

Local university put as much library material online as possible and is doing check-out-by-mail.

Computer clusters that were previously on-site only were reconfigured with a Citrix-like access.

Gyms, no. Of course not. Maybe a refund of those kinds of fees is reasonable.

I've been downvoted here so I can see that my view is unpopular. I think the university, at least the one I am familiar with, is doing everything short of welcoming students to campus in order to make the best experience for the students.

Is it reasonable to say "full value under the circumstances"?

I'm trying to understand the limits of entitlement in a pandemic scenario.

I live near a large (50,000 undergrad students) state university. They have means to survive, but are losing money at an amazing rate right now. If students come at the university with lawsuits and demand refunds en masse, it will be bad for everyone -- including the students.

This situation is different, unique -- and should be treated differently than "I didn't get exactly what I paid for," especially considering what went into a best-possible-alternative workaround.

I honestly feel badly for colleges and universities that went to incredible effort to accommodate students only to have it shoved back in their faces with litigation. You know who likes remote education even less than students do? Faculty. Advisors. Administrators. Lab techs. Basically everyone. Students are getting their full value and more, while wearing their pajamas.

I used to like uswx.com but eventually it became run down and unmaintained. Today there is a tombstone page.

Jennicam

I’m not a perv; it was novel.

atdt8675309

OK

In the 90s, my modem terminal of choice was Terminate. It's still available! http://www.terminate.com

I am pleased that part of his reverse-engineering process included smashing open the package using a vice-grips as this is the kind of barbaric method I would use. I feel more connected to the article in this way.

What is your expectation for allowed password length and why?

That works! The "join" can go before or after the numeric ID. I just tried it both ways.

So: my investments remain in very bad shape, inflation skyrockets, meaning my current net worth as well as future earnings are far lower. What does this help someone in personal terms?

I can’t seem to figure it out: what is the URL pattern that leads to a web meeting rather than an app launch? I don’t want a widget. I just want to type it in myself.

A better comparison would be Adobe Connect (https://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html).

China always wants to be seen as a global influencer. Now they certainly are, to their great shame.

The point of discussion here is not to make oneself look good. Do you disagree with my statement?

This interesting essay is marred by bad grammar.

Do you want to rise in the ranks? Learn to write well. Documentation, blogs, email memos, proposals, etc.—this is the evidence of accomplished seniority.

I just discovered that ' [single quote/apostrophe] opens the selected result (from navigating up/down using j/k or arrow keys) in a new tab.

There is high value in pieces where the author uses himself as a case study in achieving something and provides a lesson for others to learn from. In this case, however, it just reads like braggadocio. What's the take-away for us?

Freeconference.com operates in questionable ethical areas, using high interconnection tariffs to fund its operations. Users are none the wiser, as it is the connecting telcos that get screwed.

3:2 display? I know it harks back to CRT specifications, but 4:3 was just right for pretty much all computing purposes other than watching wide movies. Even better? 3:4, a 90-degree rotated tall screen.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat_elevator

Sun Type 6 USB is my favorite keyboard, ever. I was thrilled to find that the keymapping to Mac OS was sane. Disappointed that the special keys on the left hand side did not produce scan codes for the Mac to recognize.

It has a soft yet firm keypress feel, one which I have never felt in any other keyboard before. And most importantly, it has Control in the right place, as a proper Unix keyboard would.

It's like sticking the program floppy into the Apple II disk drive and powering up. Or is that too simple an analogy?

See also, Fraternal Order of Police. A quick Google search returns many results of the low quality of fundraising by this organization, which is not rated by charitynavigator because it's actually not a 501(c)(3).

I did not know that Silicon Valley had that nickname even back in 1980. (About 9:30 in first video)