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If you are using IE 7 or IE8 try IE7 Pro - I'm not sure about the security implications though
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I still miss the VAX.
Well, not quite true. One day a call came in, "such and such a system is broken, send someone to fix it" (this being in the days before you could expect to fix anything remotely).
Guy whose project it was was on holiday, so I asked around the office for anyone who knew any VAX assembler.
Answer came there none. So I, who had never used a VAX before, let along written assembler for it, found myself on the plane the next morning - being the boss I couldn't really delegate it to someone else who didn't know what they were doing either, could I. I turned up at the customer's office, in Edinburgh, in August, and got the secretary to try to find me a bed for the night whilst I started looking at the problem.
No chance of anywhere to sleep, obviously, not with the festival on, so clearly I had to fix the problem the same day.
Erm ... I succeeded. It turned out I needed to write one line of code, which I managed to get done well before the last plane of the day left. The most expensive one line anyone has ever paid me to write!
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Still using VAX. And Alpha.
My first go at a computer was the DEC 11/780 as well as a PDP 11-series (PDP 11-44?). I've been a faithful to the OpenVMS/VMS operating system since 1986 and still use it on a daily basis to this day. (As a Systems Manager/Systems Engineer)
Nothing like a good, and secure, operating system!
My first go at a computer was the DEC 11/780 as well as a PDP 11-series (PDP 11-44?). I've been a faithful to the OpenVMS/VMS operating system since 1986 and still use it on a daily basis to this day. (As a Systems Manager/Systems Engineer)
Nothing like a good, and secure, operating system!