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Headline: In the future the most effective IT staff will have empathy as well as technical skills
How to save your job from the intelligent robots | Computerworld[^]
Everywhere you go people are "just doing my job. I can't help it that you're having trouble."
Well, if that's how you feel about it: Bring on the robots!
They can't help either, but at least I know it's only because they haven't been programmed to yet. 
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Open VMS[^]
If my memory serves, at least one regular poster here is a VMS afficionado, so thought I'd post this for them.
Is time starting to go in reverse in computing? They'll be bringing back punched cards next 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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No,no - punched cards were in use with CDC Cyber I think,
but not in VAX VMS, it were rather big wheels with
magnetic tapes ... 
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Exactly, punch cards would be another step behind VMS.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I would resemble that "aficionado" remark. What an amazing OS. I support a customer now that runs an ANCIENT VMS application for their manufacturing system. The system was migrated to a VAX virtual machine years ago. It just sits in the corner and runs. The only time there are issues is when the corporate IT folks start elephanting around with the network and confuse Windows Server 2008.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Grammar Nazi Alert[^].
(And before the pedants among you point it out, I am aware that of the difference between grammar and spelling - note also that hte illustration in the article shows a spelling, rather than a grammar, mistake - unsure if that was intentional).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ok, tried to email you privately - where did I go wrong?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You didn't, I did, you corrected it.
(Was intended as a joke).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: VSI also reconfirmed plans to offer OpenVMS on x86-based servers.
That's to what I'm looking forward. 
I've had my Integrity server for only a few months now and it is running: HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Operating System, Version V8.4
My AlphaServers and MicroVAX are running a couple flavors of OpenVMS 7.
modified 13-Apr-16 9:57am.
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A 1917 astronomical glass plate from the Cargenie Observatory’s collection is offering the oldest evidence for a planet orbiting another star—besting the first confirmed exoplanet detection by more than 70 years. If you create evidence for an exoplanet, but didn't know it, does it still make a sound?
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Abnormalities such as red shift and absorption lines were caused when man sinned, creation fallen and the angel of light was confined to earth. Thus the light speed slowed down cause huge dispersin and red shift. Various absorption lines are the holes in light due to sins.
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I'm afraid that's suffering from Poe's Law (wikipedia)[^].
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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DNFTT!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The headline is overstating things a bit. This is evidence for a former exoplanet; the 'pollution' of white dwarfs the article is talking about is caused by planetary type debris falling on the surface of a WD.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We’ve come across a way to run entire Linux graphical applications in Windows 10 by launching them through Bash. They do know there's an easier way to run Linux GUI apps, right? (hint: it's the Year of it)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: (hint: it's the Year of it)
The Year of Linux on Windows? 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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So, they're running a crap ui on a crap ui?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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what about a little Windows bashing 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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That's no use. It needs to run on Windows 7 to gain widespread popularity! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In the braindamaged naming/functional conventions of X Windows, an XServer is the user facing part of a *nix GUI not the backend. At work I use a different Xserver application[^] to remote into the Alphabox managing an embedded system that runs a rack of *mumble*mumble*.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Linux has GUI apps? Dang, I better sudo apt-get upgrade!
Marc
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Nearly 50 percent of Node.js developers surveyed using container technology, strong growth emerges in cloud, front end, mobile and devices It also (shockingly) found that 96% of Node developers use JavaScript/Node.js for development
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It also (shockingly) found that 96% of Node developers use JavaScript/Node.js for development
Scary
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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