Dammit you beat me to it. Dammmmmmit!

Yeah, so it’s either MS-DOS based systems or UNIX based. If it’s not a windows machine its 99% likely its UNIX based. This would lead you to think the vast majority of computing things are windows as it’s the most popular OS, however you need to consider ALL computers. Not just Laptops/PCs.

Think phones, tablets, smart watches, cars, “smart” anything’s, TVs, rockets, servers, anything running Linux, basically anything running a computer chip which is….a lot of shit now.

That being said, even windows has been in the last few year implementing more and more of the UNIX/POSIX type shit for developers.

Nope. Very much real and almost sold out!

Unless you visit during a Giants/Jets game, just park across the train station on the other side. Its a 5 minute walk in the tunnel and you dont have to deal with the clusterfuck parking garage

To expand on this. You can work with the museum to create the loan terms.

They’ve always actually been labeled NJ though. I’m talking about all the things NY stole from us. NJ nets too they also took.

There is a drop box as well. You can simply drop it in and they send you a receipt after a few days.

I think it’s $5 for the first 3.5 hours after the free 30 minutes. If you are there for the attractions you can validate your parking ticket so you are not charged if you’re staying longer.

Correct!

I had the internet from 1989 as well. All green screen stuff with commands. No real "websites" either. No one wanted to use it. It wasn't "user friendly." It was a "joke" at the time.

Then about 1993 when the WWW hit everyone wanted it. It was not for just "computer nerds" anymore. It sold like hotcakes!

Done all that as I am just finishing up a down to stud reno and my gas usage is still up ~30% from last year, same period. December of this year compared to January of last year when the temps were similar.

In comparison, in 2021 and 2022 after the insulation air sealing was just done, my usage was down. This year the thermostat is lower than ever

The issue is if someone gets them and uses them. Once you hand them in, they are marked as surrendered in the database.

Omg my dad worked for bell / nortel during that time period and told me about the cisco systems team! I remember being the only kid in school with internet at home (what was before 56k, 14kbps?) in like 1991 but it was just ‘message boards’ and was not interesting to any regular people.

Small hands, that was his problem

Small hands, that was his problem

You want NJ to be the next Kentucky? Also, stop acting like NJ state taxes take 70% of your pay. Get more angry at shit like the 295/42/76 project that's taken 20 years and millions of dollars. Most of the progress has happened in the last 2 years, and they STILL fucked it up and it has a collapsed section that they won't fix for another 20 years because "we need to have engineers survey it"

Bingo!

> Essentially all servers run in unix, mac os is unix, and Android phones are unix.

Not quite. MacOS is a certified UNIX system, but Android is Linux which is a UNIX derivative clone. At this point, in sheer numbers there are more Linux servers than there are UNIX ones.

Linux was built to be a UNIX clone by Linus Torvolds and a host of open-source developers, and has no direct links to UNIX, which was developed originally by AT&T. Linux is a fully open-source OS, while UNIX is a mix (BSD is partially open-source, but as far as I know none of the others are).

Edit: Okay, this isn't a debatable point. Only systems certified by The Open Group are UNIX. Others can be similar to UNIX, or clones of UNIX, but they are not UNIX. Linux has never been certified as UNIX, and even if they requested certification they would not pass the requirements because while Linux is very similar to UNIX, it doesn't meet the benchmark requirements. Downvoting me doesn't change reality.

Hi!

Nailed it!

Uncle June

Careful now. Lots of the unemployed that you're propping up mindlessly scroll reddit up voting the Democrats talking points to get their dopamine fix.

Notice how it's early in the morning so you got all the working folks behind you right now. Right around 10am when the losers start waking up, you'll be getting mobbed with hateful comments.

Who did you use for your energy audit? I know PSEG has a program. Any recommendations?

Yup, NJN did a whole documentary after the 1984 Bell System breakup, explaining that they'd chose to move from NYC to NJ simply because there was plenty of space for use in all sorts of areas --- they had some field in Chester for testing phone poles and lines outdoors, a Western Electric facility in Springfield near Union (now the HQ of Bed, Bath and Beyond for however long they last)...

how are you gonna forget the new jersey devils? :(

Fun fact...what Al Gore said about his role in the internet is largely correct. The actual quote that people turned into "I invented the internet" was:

> "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system".

This is true. He was the first major politician to publicly recognize the potential of a large interlinked network, and he pushed hard for the expansion of ARPANET and public access to it. Would we have the internet today without him? Probably, but arguably it would be a number of years behind where it is and might not look like it does now since the drivers very well might have been the large "walled-garden" systems like CompuServe and America Online rather than public infrastructure. Without the expansion of ARPANET into the Internet, there would have been no common infrastructure for the World Wide Web.

Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP which makes him one of the actual original "inventors" of the internet, wrote a piece defending Gore on this topic. This part gets pretty much to the point:

> "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.

>No one person or even small group of persons exclusively "invented" the Internet. It is the result of many years of ongoing collaboration among people in government and the university community. But as the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time."

Basically, right-wing radio took a significant accomplishment that Gore made and turned it into an insult. It kind of reminds me of the McDonald's "too hot coffee" lawsuit in that way.