• No Agenda Podcast

    From Wormwood@VERT/BITBRAIN to All on Thu Sep 22 00:58:34 2022
    Any listeners here?

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ Bitbrain.life BBS
  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Wormwood on Tue Sep 27 09:06:05 2022
    Re: No Agenda Podcast
    By: Wormwood to All on Thu Sep 22 2022 12:58 am

    Any listeners here?


    I think I tuned into it a couple times. I'm honestly surprised Leo Laporte didn't boot Dvorak off the TWIT Network far earlier. the guy's completely lost it.

    DaiTengu

    ... Alas! The poor Tagline. I knew it well.

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ War Ensemble BBS - The sport is war, total war - warensemble.com
  • From Wormwood@VERT/BITBRAIN to DaiTengu on Tue Sep 27 17:08:02 2022
    Re: No Agenda Podcast
    By: DaiTengu to Wormwood on Tue Sep 27 2022 09:06 am

    I think I tuned into it a couple times. I'm honestly surprised Leo Laporte didn't boot Dvorak off the TWIT Network far earlier. the guy's completely lost it.

    meh. john still seems alright. that whole twit thing just came off as jealousy imo. haven't listened to twit in a while so i'll have to check that out. i miss the old days of zdnet

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ Bitbrain.life BBS
  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Wormwood on Tue Sep 27 15:54:00 2022
    Re: No Agenda Podcast
    By: Wormwood to DaiTengu on Tue Sep 27 2022 05:08 pm

    Re: No Agenda Podcast
    By: DaiTengu to Wormwood on Tue Sep 27 2022 09:06 am

    I think I tuned into it a couple times. I'm honestly surprised Leo Lapor didn't boot Dvorak off the TWIT Network far earlier. the guy's completel lost it.

    meh. john still seems alright. that whole twit thing just came off as jealou

    I also miss zdnet and TechTV. It' sbeen ages since I listened to twit. Speaking of Dvorak, there's an episode of Computer Chronicles where has an appearance with the "new" IBM PS/2. He was there to demonstrate it's "tool free" disassembly for upgrade and service (no need for tool kits in the future. )

    He had a hell of a time pulling it apart. The clips and brackets worked real well. ZDS tried that and we had to use a fiberglass blade tool to act as a lever and shim. Other than that line, they went back to screws because clips would break, and items held together by friction or connector tension woul
    d work their way loose. Replacement parts would come with screws or zip
    ties.

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Wed Sep 28 06:57:00 2022
    Moondog wrote to Wormwood <=-

    I also miss zdnet and TechTV. It' sbeen ages since I listened to twit.

    I was just thinking back to the first dot-com boom/bust in 1999-2001. I was working at a startup in San Francisco, and MSNBC started with a base in SF
    as a tech TV channel. Interesting times.

    Speaking of Dvorak, there's an episode of Computer Chronicles where has
    an appearance with the "new" IBM PS/2. He was there to demonstrate
    it's "tool free" disassembly for upgrade and service (no need for tool kits in the future. )

    He had a hell of a time pulling it apart. The clips and brackets
    worked real well. ZDS tried that and we had to use a fiberglass blade tool to act as a lever and shim.

    That's surprising - I worked in an IBM shop in the early '90s, and all the
    old PS/2s (model 25, 50, 60 and 80) all came apart with a quarter, as long
    as you weren't removing the motherboard.






    Other than that line, they went back
    to screws because clips would break, and items held together by
    friction or connector tension woul d work their way loose. Replacement parts would come with screws or zip ties.

    ---
    Synchronet The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net

    ... Abandon desire
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.
  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Sep 28 22:13:00 2022
    Re: Re: No Agenda Podcast
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Sep 28 2022 06:57 am

    Moondog wrote to Wormwood <=-

    I also miss zdnet and TechTV. It' sbeen ages since I listened to twit.

    I was just thinking back to the first dot-com boom/bust in 1999-2001. I was working at a startup in San Francisco, and MSNBC started with a base in SF as a tech TV channel. Interesting times.

    Speaking of Dvorak, there's an episode of Computer Chronicles where has an appearance with the "new" IBM PS/2. He was there to demonstrate it's "tool free" disassembly for upgrade and service (no need for tool kits in the future. )

    He had a hell of a time pulling it apart. The clips and brackets worked real well. ZDS tried that and we had to use a fiberglass blade tool to act as a lever and shim.

    That's surprising - I worked in an IBM shop in the early '90s, and all the old PS/2s (model 25, 50, 60 and 80) all came apart with a quarter, as long as you weren't removing the motherboard.






    Other than that line, they went back
    to screws because clips would break, and items held together by friction or connector tension woul d work their way loose. Replacement parts would come with screws or zip ties.

    ---
    Synchronet The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net

    ... Abandon desire

    Gateway had a low profile desktop model that was mostly tool free, and the machine would flex and the metal chassis would get bent, causing pieces to stick in place or have riser cards pop out from their card slots. W would explain the situation to the phone service tech, and he refused to believe
    us. If it were Dell or IBM, they would've replaced the desktop with less conflict.

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net
  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Wormwood on Fri Sep 30 01:38:57 2022
    Re: No Agenda Podcast
    By: Wormwood to MRO on Thu Sep 29 2022 02:51 pm

    i tried listening to a couple of episodes of twit and its just unlistenable. its pseudo tech talk interlaced with sanctioned social and cultural commentary and constant transition to contextualized advertisement.

    There's a few podcasts on the TWIT network that are OK. This Week in Enterprise Tech is decent. Security Now is pretty OK. All About Android is occasionally decent. Same with This Week in Google, but only when they're talking about more cloud-computing enterprise-y type stuff...

    I definitely don't listen to them on a regular basis. I do have a "TWIT" thing on my Alexa flash briefing, which plays a mildly interesting selected clip from one of their podcasts over the last day or two. Usually that's enough for me.

    DaiTengu

    ... RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure!

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ War Ensemble BBS - The sport is war, total war - warensemble.com
  • From Hustler@VERT/REALITY to Wormwood on Tue Jan 10 19:50:50 2023
    Re: No Agenda Podcast
    By: Wormwood to All on Thu Sep 22 2022 12:58 am

    NOPE!

    ... "I speak to machines with the voice of Humanity..."

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ .: realitycheckbbs.org :: scientia potentia est :.