Comments | tfofurn: Resource Contention: CALL, DISPLAY OR MODIFY ?

tfofurn

Resource Contention: CALL, DISPLAY OR MODIFY ?

Nov 12, 2006 19:10

One of my friends mentioned difficult parking at the mall. The parking was bad enough that she did more shopping than originally planned. As a computer science type, this sort of thing brings to mind discussions of resource contention. Would the mall make more money by having more parking? There's very little change in shopper behavior as long ( Read more... )

nostalgia, geeky, i hate computers

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wyoming November 13 2006, 01:33:28 UTC

What year was this? Early 1990s?

jpmccusker November 13 2006, 01:54:52 UTC

This was until 1996. UR was a latecomer to the world of residential ethernet. They were also terrible about providing useful email addresses. My regular undergraduate account was jc012e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu. My friend at Cornell was rpatridge@cornell.edu. For me, it was especially bad, since the account names were done this way: First Initial, Last Initial, 3 digit sequence of people with those initials, year sequence. But my initials were JM. That's because the email server was run on a version of Unix that discriminated against the Irish.

hawaiianshirts November 13 2006, 02:00:23 UTC

I'm proud of the fact that I'm one of the handful of people on campus to still have a nonsensical email address. They still gave those out up until the class of 2006.

thidwick November 13 2006, 02:04:35 UTC

No more nonsensical email addresses!? What are they using now? Not something SENSIBLE!

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thidwick November 13 2006, 01:49:00 UTC

Ohhh, the memories you've just brought back! Those black boxes...

I'm trying to remember when we got ethernet -- I guess it must have been the summer between my freshman and sophomore years -- so, summer 1997. Am I remembering correctly?

Sometimes I miss the retro nature of pine and elm and ntalk and finger. :-)

tfofurn November 13 2006, 02:04:59 UTC

Elm and pine were OK, but i've since discovered mutt. Mutt crushes both of them.

ntalk! Back when every character was sent in real time. I still use finger very, very occasionally at work.

keumgang November 13 2006, 03:48:12 UTC

Hrm. I don't remember any connection contention issues. That must have been after I left in '95. Tough thing, growing old and having stories of the bad old days...

tfofurn November 13 2006, 04:01:04 UTC

Right. You were definitely off campus before it got bad. It may only have been bad for my Senior year.

versimilitant November 15 2006, 16:00:04 UTC

Consider yourselves lucky no matter which system you had. I graduated in 1992. We had a system of small donkeys which carried our messages on cuneform tablets.

Bah. Get off my lawn!

tfofurn November 15 2006, 17:29:52 UTC

Homing donkeys?

See also: IP over Avian Carriers

hwy59 December 29 2006, 22:25:16 UTC

yay for wireless, heh. we are the lucky ones.

tfofurn December 29 2006, 23:16:57 UTC

Yeah. Wireless wasn't even a pipe dream back then.