On 7/16/2023 10:23 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 7/16/2023 10:14 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> Cohort Scheduling and Staged Computation
>
> I found the link from microsofts site:
>
> https://i.ibb.co/M66dFD1/image.png

Way back in 2001. Wow...

On 7/14/2023 12:22 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 7/14/2023 4:17 AM, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
>> Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>> Interesting. Never heard of it but given they'd already had a high
>>> powered 16
>>> bit machine in the Amiga for 5 years it seems utterly pointless and I
>>> can see
>>> why it was canned.
>>
>> Exactly. Commodore's shaky business moves also included
>> this weird device:
>>
>>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV
>>
>> I guess it is basically Amiga hardware that is supposed
>> to be a gaming console. Again, some Commodore collectors
>> want to buy them, but I don't think CDTV was at all
>> successful when it was released.
>>
>>> Unfortunately a lot of tech companies have great
>>> engineers but bad management. See Sun Microsystems
>>> for further examples.
>>
>> Yes, I remember very well when Oracle acquired Sun. Some
>> notable UNIX innovations are Sun's achievements.
>> Everybody knows NFS and ZFS.
>
> Fwiw, I won a brand new sunfire t2000 with my entry into Sun's
> coolthreads project. Right after that, iirc, Oracle acquired Sun.

Iirc, it was around 8000 dollars back then.

>
>
>>
>> We used to have some SPARC Solaris servers, but in the
>> end Red Hat Enterprise Linux won. I suppose Solaris
>> is still being developed by Oracle, but some people
>> have said it is now much slower than Linux.
>
>
>

Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fwiw, I won a brand new sunfire t2000 with my entry into Sun's
>> coolthreads project. Right after that, iirc, Oracle acquired Sun.
>
> Iirc, it was around 8000 dollars back then.

That was a big prize. Congratulations.

br,
KK

Am 17.07.2023 um 07:14 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:

> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/getqueuedcompletionstatusex-func
> Iirc, this was not available on nt 4...

Windows got has sth. like io_uring recently.

On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:27:51 -0700
"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 7/15/2023 7:59 AM, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:32:35 +0200
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>> Most people in computer stores are clueless. They have very little idea
>>> of what they are selling, and get scared when there is something
>>> unfamiliar to them. Their job is to persuade customers to pay for
>>
>> The "Geniuses" title for the caffeine overdosed failed actors in Apple stores
>
>> always makes me smile. When my wife took her malfunctioning iPad down to one
>> recently to get it fixed she asked what was wrong with it after he'd checked
>it
>> out. His answer (and this is true, I'm not exaggerting): "Its broken madam".
>>
>> Truly a savant.
>>
>> The repair consisted of giving her a new one which you might thing is great
>> but she lost all the pictures and videos on hers that weren't backed up.
>>
>
>The "Geniuses":
>
>https://youtu.be/rgtNuOpE0uA

Cheers for that, made me laugh :)

But they are typical Apple, a triumph of image over ability, just like most
of Apples products which are no better than the competition, just twice the
price for the same functionality (and I speak as a Mac owner but I just wanted
a *nix whereby the mainstream consumer apps just worked unlike Linux where
the OSS guys try their best but often its not enough).

On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 18:17:37 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>On 15/07/2023 16:59, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:32:35 +0200
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>> Most people in computer stores are clueless. They have very little idea
>>> of what they are selling, and get scared when there is something
>>> unfamiliar to them. Their job is to persuade customers to pay for
>>
>> The "Geniuses" title for the caffeine overdosed failed actors in Apple stores
>
>> always makes me smile. When my wife took her malfunctioning iPad down to one
>> recently to get it fixed she asked what was wrong with it after he'd checked
>it
>> out. His answer (and this is true, I'm not exaggerting): "Its broken madam".
>>
>> Truly a savant.
>>
>> The repair consisted of giving her a new one which you might thing is great
>> but she lost all the pictures and videos on hers that weren't backed up.
>>
>
>My son was once in an argument with a salesguy in a computer shop while
>looking for a new laptop. He didn't need a very powerful one, but
>wanted more RAM than the cheap ones had - and was therefore wanted one
>where he could easily upgrade the RAM. The sales guy kept telling him
>he didn't need more RAM, and said "I've been selling laptops for nearly
>a decade - you'd think I'd know more than the customer!" My son
>replied, "Yes, you'd think that" - and left the shop.

IME you find Dunning-Kruger in full effect with the sales staff in large
computer stores. Seems to me that because they can parrot all the acroynms
they think they know what they're talking about and understand computers.
Sadly its usually not the case.

Am 17.07.2023 um 17:30 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 18:17:37 +0200
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>> On 15/07/2023 16:59, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 13:32:35 +0200
>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>>> Most people in computer stores are clueless. They have very little idea
>>>> of what they are selling, and get scared when there is something
>>>> unfamiliar to them. Their job is to persuade customers to pay for
>>>
>>> The "Geniuses" title for the caffeine overdosed failed actors in Apple stores
>>
>>> always makes me smile. When my wife took her malfunctioning iPad down to one
>>> recently to get it fixed she asked what was wrong with it after he'd checked
>> it
>>> out. His answer (and this is true, I'm not exaggerting): "Its broken madam".
>>>
>>> Truly a savant.
>>>
>>> The repair consisted of giving her a new one which you might thing is great
>>> but she lost all the pictures and videos on hers that weren't backed up.
>>>
>>
>> My son was once in an argument with a salesguy in a computer shop while
>> looking for a new laptop. He didn't need a very powerful one, but
>> wanted more RAM than the cheap ones had - and was therefore wanted one
>> where he could easily upgrade the RAM. The sales guy kept telling him
>> he didn't need more RAM, and said "I've been selling laptops for nearly
>> a decade - you'd think I'd know more than the customer!" My son
>> replied, "Yes, you'd think that" - and left the shop.
>
> IME you find Dunning-Kruger in full effect with the sales staff in large
> computer stores. Seems to me that because they can parrot all the acroynms
> they think they know what they're talking about and understand computers.
> Sadly its usually not the case.

It's poor to compare with computer-store staff if you're really in IT.
I guess you don't.

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:08:47 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wrote:
>Am 17.07.2023 um 17:30 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:
>> IME you find Dunning-Kruger in full effect with the sales staff in large
>> computer stores. Seems to me that because they can parrot all the acroynms
>> they think they know what they're talking about and understand computers.
>> Sadly its usually not the case.
>
>It's poor to compare with computer-store staff if you're really in IT.

They try and pretend they know what they're talking about to customers in order
to fool them to sell them expensive kit. They're just paid grifters.

>I guess you don't.

Guess I don't what?

Am 17.07.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:08:47 +0200
> Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Am 17.07.2023 um 17:30 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:
>>> IME you find Dunning-Kruger in full effect with the sales staff in large
>>> computer stores. Seems to me that because they can parrot all the acroynms
>>> they think they know what they're talking about and understand computers.
>>> Sadly its usually not the case.
>>
>> It's poor to compare with computer-store staff if you're really in IT.
>
> They try and pretend they know what they're talking about to customers in
> order to fool them to sell them expensive kit. They're just paid grifters.

Well, if you're above being deceived by them then that's no problem.

>> I guess you don't.

> Guess I don't what?

IT is just your private desire.

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:36:40 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wrote:
>Am 17.07.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:
>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:08:47 +0200
>> Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Am 17.07.2023 um 17:30 schrieb Muttley@dastardlyhq.com:
>>>> IME you find Dunning-Kruger in full effect with the sales staff in large
>>>> computer stores. Seems to me that because they can parrot all the acroynms
>>>> they think they know what they're talking about and understand computers.
>>>> Sadly its usually not the case.
>>>
>>> It's poor to compare with computer-store staff if you're really in IT.
>>
>> They try and pretend they know what they're talking about to customers in
>> order to fool them to sell them expensive kit. They're just paid grifters.
>
>Well, if you're above being deceived by them then that's no problem.
>
>>> I guess you don't.
>
>> Guess I don't what?
>
>IT is just your private desire.

Try using chatgpt for your responses in future, it would make more sense
than the 90s irc bot you seem to be using.

On 7/17/2023 12:53 AM, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
> Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Fwiw, I won a brand new sunfire t2000 with my entry into Sun's
>>> coolthreads project. Right after that, iirc, Oracle acquired Sun.
>>
>> Iirc, it was around 8000 dollars back then.
>
> That was a big prize. Congratulations.

It got delivered to my house when I was tired, stayed up late
programming the night before. I heard a knock at the door, and there it
was... my server!
wow.. cool times. cool threads! ;^)