The Systems Programmer at This Site Who Is Messing With My Software.....

[Campbell]

...............is a fool. Keep it up. That knock you hear at your door will be a federal investigator.

 

[Iceweasel]

Those sneaky Wepubwicans!

 

[NightFox]

...............is a fool. Keep it up. That knock you hear at your door will be a federal investigator.

Don't worry Campbell, your pornography collection is safe, competent hackers have far more lucrative targets to occupy their time.

 

[Campbell]

Those sneaky Wepubwicans!

Actually they're AssHoles!! I was a Republican for thirty years. I voted for Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon three times....even Ronald Reagan in 1980. When I saw his plan to slash tax rates for his rich buddies, continue to spend like a drunk sailor and quadruple the national debt I went twenty years and didn't even vote. I've only voted Democrat in three national elections but if I live to 100 I'll never vote for another goddam Republican. They don't even resemble old time Republicans.

..............................................Total U S Debt................................................

Figures Easily Verified....Taken From the Bureau of the Debt

US: $18,775,084,981,440 - Debt as of December 2015?

09/30/2014 $17,824,071,380,733.82

09/30/2013 $16,738,183,526,697.32

09/30/2012 $16,066,241,407,385.89

09/30/2011 $14,790,340,328,557.15

09/30/2010 $13,561,623,030,891.79

09/30/2009 $11,909,829,003,511.75(80% Of All Debt Across 232 Years Borrowed By Reagan And Bushes)

09/30/2008 $10,024,724,896,912.49(Times Square Debt Clock Modified To Accommodate Tens of Trillions)

09/30/2007 $9,007,653,372,262.48

09/30/2006 $8,506,973,899,215.23

09/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50

09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32

09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62(Second Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)

09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16

09/30/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06(First Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)

09/30/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86(Administration And Congress Arguing About How To Use Surplus)

09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43(First Surplus Generated...On Track To Pay Off Debt By 2012)

09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62

09/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34

09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73

09/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39

09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32 (Bill Clinton Raised Taxes On The Rich early 1993)

09/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38 ( Debt Quadrupled By Reagan/Bush41)

09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66

09/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03

09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25

09/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32

09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16

09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00

09/30/1986 $2,125,302,616,658.42

09/30/1985 $1,823,103,000,000.00

09/30/1984 $1,572,266,000,000.00

09/30/1983 $1,377,210,000,000.00

09/30/1982 $1,142,034,000,000.00(Total Debt Passes $1 Trillion)(Reagan Slashed Tax Rates To Pre Depression Levels)

09/30/1981 $997,855,000,000.00

 

[Iceweasel]

His computer went into full auto again. Somebody help the man!

 

[Campbell]

His computer went into full auto again. Somebody help the man!

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

 

[NightFox]

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

In other words, root cause = ID 10 T user error.

 

[Campbell]

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

In other words, root cause = ID 10 T user error.

In your dreams. I purchased an Atari 800 with 32K of memory and optioned the 12K expansion board and gave it to my son for his 15th b'day in 1980. The first PC I owned was an IBM PC Jr. circa 1984. From there I purchased my first full blown PC....a Gateway in the early 1990's. I've worn out at least six systems since then. Oh....I should mention that I was operations supervisor in one of the largest IBM mainframe computing centers in the eastern United States for 25 years and had from 20 to 41 technical employees reporting to me. My wife and I have a small Wi Fi network(WLAN) here in our home with 3 PC's plus extras. Go somewhere and growl at someone who might pay attention to you.....PROFESSOR

Oh....I should mention that my son has worked for half a dozen high end computer companies and is presently in charge of software architecture for a small company based in Atlanta. That Atari has paid off in many ways.

 

[NightFox]

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

In other words, root cause = ID 10 T user error.

In your dreams. I purchased an Atari 800 with 32K of memory and optioned the 12K expansion board and gave it to my son for his 15th b'day in 1980. The first PC I owned was an IBM PC Jr. circa 1984. From there I purchased my first full blown PC....a Gateway in the early 1990's. I've worn out at least six systems since then. Oh....I should mention that I was operations supervisor in one of the largest IBM mainframe computing centers in the eastern United States for 25 years and had from 20 to 41 technical employees reporting to me. Go somewhere and growl at someone who might pay attention to you.....NUMBNUTS!

Uh-huh, you're a real technical genius; which explains why you tried to blame "The Systems Programmer at This Site" for fuckin' your PC up......

BTW did you do all this before or after your career building nukes at Oakridge ? Do you have to work at being so dishonest or does it just come naturally to you?

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -- Mark Twain

 

[Campbell]

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

In other words, root cause = ID 10 T user error.

In your dreams. I purchased an Atari 800 with 32K of memory and optioned the 12K expansion board and gave it to my son for his 15th b'day in 1980. The first PC I owned was an IBM PC Jr. circa 1984. From there I purchased my first full blown PC....a Gateway in the early 1990's. I've worn out at least six systems since then. Oh....I should mention that I was operations supervisor in one of the largest IBM mainframe computing centers in the eastern United States for 25 years and had from 20 to 41 technical employees reporting to me. Go somewhere and growl at someone who might pay attention to you.....NUMBNUTS!

Uh-huh, you're a real technical genius; which explains why you tried to blame "The Systems Programmer at This Site" for fuckin' your PC up......

BTW did you do all this before or after your career building nukes at Oakridge ? Do you have to work at being so dishonest or does it just come naturally to you?

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -- Mark Twain

Dishonest my ass!! My career began in 1952 when I hired in with the prime contracting company Union Carbide at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant(ORGDP) and attended a 27 month long school before becoming a process operator in the cascade. While I was in that capacity I went away for military service and after I returned I rehired in the mainframe computing center and was trained there. I was an operator there from 1961 till 1968 when I was promoted to operations supervisor. I retired in 1993 after 25 years in that capacity and with exactly 41 years company service....Oct. 1, 1952 till Sept. 30, 1993. I've been retired for 22 years and I'll see if I can attach a picture of my dock......also a picture of my boat and my german shepherd:

 

[Campbell]

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

In other words, root cause = ID 10 T user error.

In your dreams. I purchased an Atari 800 with 32K of memory and optioned the 12K expansion board and gave it to my son for his 15th b'day in 1980. The first PC I owned was an IBM PC Jr. circa 1984. From there I purchased my first full blown PC....a Gateway in the early 1990's. I've worn out at least six systems since then. Oh....I should mention that I was operations supervisor in one of the largest IBM mainframe computing centers in the eastern United States for 25 years and had from 20 to 41 technical employees reporting to me. Go somewhere and growl at someone who might pay attention to you.....NUMBNUTS!

Uh-huh, you're a real technical genius; which explains why you tried to blame "The Systems Programmer at This Site" for fuckin' your PC up......

BTW did you do all this before or after your career building nukes at Oakridge ? Do you have to work at being so dishonest or does it just come naturally to you?

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything" -- Mark Twain

I was hired by Union Carbide Corporation Oct. 1, 1952 to be trained as a process operator at the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant(ORGDP) There were 83 others hired at the same time for the same type position. The course lasted 27 months and we were trained in the operation techniques and requirements in fourteen areas of the plant. We even worked a shift rotation(28 days) in the air plant, the water plant(sanitary) and the water cooling facilities(process.)


A typical shift rotation consisted of five days of classroom instruction and the other twenty three days operating in the area assigned to us for that period. The concept was designed by Roland Murphy who at the successful completion of our training was promoted to head of education for all of Carbide’s divisions of which there were nine at that time. He relocated to UC’s corporate office in NY and I lost touch with him after that.


We were trained in the flows of gas, pressure control, cascade flow, operating temperatures, barrier material, electric power consumption, water tower cooling, Freon cooling systems which were massive for the bigger cells, preparing a cell for required maintenance, cold traps, Hydrogen Flouride(HF) storage, purge and evacuation stations, tops purge, side purge, feed room techniques, product withdrawal, electric and pneumatic instrumentation, handling of fluorine and chlorine triflouride(CLF3) cylinders, leak testing, the process seal, barrier tube manufacturing, control room operation, power distribution etc. We took a turn in each important aspect of a process stage, of which there were 4400 stretched out across a two mile long run of buildings.


The plants were the original(K-25), plus K-27, K-29, K-31 and K-33. K-33 contained the largest equipment housed in the third largest steel structure in the world at that time falling behind the Eifel Tower and the Empire State building. K-33 went on stream in mid 1954 and it’s dimensions were awesome. The single building was 81 ft. high, covered more than 32 acres, had two floors and a partial basement. It’s part of the gaseous diffusion cascade consisted of the main feed facility which fed the low grade uranium, 640 separation stages each one made up of a converter the size of a small house which contained 4000 individual barrier tubes(tube bundle), an axial compressor and a 2000HP GE or Westinghouse electric motor...later upgraded to 3500HP. The motors were each mounted on a 3ft high slab of concrete and were the size of a compact car. The connecting pipes made of monel steel were one each 60" diameter, 24" diameter and 18" diameter. There was so much top grade steel in the facility that in the 1990's when they first began to demolish the plants they regulated the amount of steel they released at any one time in order to lessen the effects on the world market.


The supply voltage to each of the 640 stages in K-33 was 4480AC and during normal cascade operation would float around 600-800 amps per stage. On down surges which were infrequent I’ve seen all the stages in a cell pinned at 1000 amps. When the single plant was completed and on stream it used more electric power than the city of Chicago. When all the gaseous diffusion plants were completed and on stream, Oak Ridge, Portsmouth, Savannah River, Paducah etc. combined they consumed 10% of all the generated power in the United States.
I worked as a process operator in the three axial plants, K-29, K-31 and K-33 for ten years minus the time I served in the military then transferred to the computer center.
I’ve always told my children that I’m one of the luckiest people in the world. I only completed HS and the 27 months I was being trained by Union Carbide was truly where my education came from. I did complete a course in electronics during the mid 60?s but that was mostly because of my interest in ham radio, licensed in 1959.

When I reported for my first day in the data processing center at K-25 around the first of February, 1961 the K-1007 building had just been completed and the personnel were in the process of relocating from their offices inside the restricted area and the installation of a new state-of-the-art IBM 7090 systems was under way. This was the first IBM transistor machine replacing the IBM 704 which was a system using all vacuum tubes. The 704 was located inside the restricted area and required a room about 100ft. X 60ft. to house all the racks of diode vacuum tubes. As you might imagine the heat generated by all those tubes required a massive amount of cooling. The memory of that computer was made up of series of cores. An individual magnetic core was about the size of a pinhead and was shaped like a doughnut with a hole in the center. In a 704, thousands of cores were strung on a complex of wires in such a fashion that several wires passed through the center of each core. In the old days memory was called core. The 704's total RAM was about 8000 7 bit characters. There was a drum for online storage and magnetic tapes and punched cards were used for input and output. The early magnetic tapes were such that after characters were recorded on them one could take some small iron filings mixed with a solvent and actually develop the tape and read the BCD characters which were recorded on it.....about 150 characters per inch of tape.

The new IBM 7090 cost about $2,000,000 plus site prep and was a step above the 704 because of the transistor technology but would still run programs coded for the 704 using a compatibility feature which could be turned off and on before processing a job. All jobs were processed individually and required the entire system during execution. The memory in the 7090 was 32,768 words(262,144 digits or characters) and was submerged in a bath of oil for cooling. The IBM technicians kept a 55 gallon barrel of light weight motor oil and it was scheduled to be changed every six months.

As one might expect the 7090 was soon saturated and ran 24/7 keeping the work caught up. After about a year operations could not complete the demand so we began to buy time on the 12-8 shift at the Lockheed plant and shuttle work to and from Marietta, GA each day in an attempt of keep up with the work. I personally went to sleep around Cleveland, TN after working all night down there and put a permanent wave along the right side of a 62 Plymouth(government car) when I eased out of the road into a guard rail. That'll wake your sleepy ass up

We added a second 7090, $2.5 million and began to catch up again. Meanwhile IBM had introduced the first 360 systems and we broke into that generation with a model 40. We used it to process input and output for the two 7090's. Prior to that we had used all 1401's of which we finally had four in the center. The IBM 1401 had a 4000 character memory....4K

In the mid 60's we purchased an IBM 360, 2050...memory size, 512 KB. Very shortly after that we added a 360 model 65 which was a very obvious giant step forward. With the 50/65 we were able to run a support program live and do printing and card reading, punching input/output simultaneously with the processing of regular compilations or job executions. We continued to add online disk drives which used a 20 platter disk which weighed about 15 pounds but could be changed by an operator when preparing for job execution. Through all this we continued to operate one of the old 7090's because several of the production programs had not been totally converted to the new systems.

In the late 1960's the government purchased eight state-of-the-art 360/195's. The government qualified for a discount for purchasing that many systems so they cost $8.5 million each. The 195 was one of the biggest, fastest computers known to man at that time. NOAA got two of them and the others went to other centers similar to ours and the national labs out west. The 195 had a "massive" one megabyte of RAM and used a feature called pipe lining instructions which was a look ahead feature which gained about 1/3 speed in actual job execution.

After the first year we needed to upgrade the 195 system to 2 megabytes of RAM and went out for bids. The company who won the bid sent a team of five technicians and they kept the system all weekend, Friday 4:00PM till Monday about noon adding the 1 MB of memory. The cost....$1,200,000. The team worked in their sock feet because they had learned that if they stepped on a circuit board they normally wouldn't crush it as opposed to stepping on one with shoes on almost always did. Some of the critical boards were worth as much as $20,000 each. Believe it or not when we added the 195 we were still operating one of the 7090's. Finally about 1972 our dept announced that effective a certain date the 7090 would no longer be available. So help me the next morning after that announced date came up some programs were laying on a setup table to be run. Our department head personally picked them up and took them back to those who submitted them and chewed their ass out

One of the biggest additions to our center as we continued to upgrade our IBM systems was in 1985 when we installed Oak Ridge's first super computer...the Cray XMP/24. We met with the Cray management and technical staff the first time about 14 months before the system became operational. The computer came at a cost of $8 million but required $2.5 million for site prep. We had to convert two offices to a refrigeration room and another office and what had been the K-1007 canteen to an electrical and motor generator room. It required a 14KVA electrical load center and two 250hp motor/generator sets. The MG's converted 60 cycle power to 120 cycle to smooth the input to the DC power supplies. The power and cooling for that system was unusual to say the least. Memory size...2 million 64-bit words (16 MB) of main memory in 16 banks. The memory circuit boards cost $100,000 each. Six years after we completed the installation of the Cray we paid a contractor $1000 to haul it away to a metals company because there were some gold, silver etc. in the circuit boards which with a proper reclamation process was worth something.

At our center's peak we had 41 technical employees operating 24/7, we had numerous IBM, HP, DEC systems and an unbelievable amount of telecommunications equipment. We also had plotters, laser printers, microfische film processors, etc.

The official DOE inventory showed that we had $66 million of equipment installed on 18,000 sq. ft. of floating floor space and were at that time the main computing center for the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion plant, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the nuclear weapons plant at Y-12 which also had the world's largest nuclear materials storage facility in the world. Our annual power bill to the TVA was over half a million dollars and the center required 350 tons of refrigeration.

Just before I retired in 1993 I walked through the center among the five or six main systems with about 70 disk storage units dedicated to them and added up all the disk storage space. It totaled 11.7 gigabytes. Now my Canon digital camera has one chip with more storage than that. I have backup for all my user files from three PC's on flash drives. I keep all of them on a keychain. Who Da Thunk It?

The K-1007 Computing center for all plants paid TVA over $500,000 per year for power and 350 tons of refrigeration was required to cool it.

Check out my dock:

and my dog:

 

[Indeependent]

What did the Systems Programmer mess up?

 

[Stephanie]

PUT DOWN THE COMPUTER. get out take a walk, smell the roses.

 

[Campbell]

PUT DOWN THE COMPUTER. get out take a walk, smell the roses.

LMAO!!! It's snowing today. Are you shitting me?

I'm an old man.....I don't like to walk or drive a car on anything slick.

 

[Iceweasel]

His computer went into full auto again. Somebody help the man!

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

It's futile Campy. You picked up the Wepubwicans Are Ebil virus. The only known cure for the WAE scourge is to download a Linux distro with kernel 3.19 or higher, save as a iso image, burn to a DVD or usb drive and install to your hard drive using a ext4 partition.

 

[Stephanie]

His computer went into full auto again. Somebody help the man!

Hey Assweasel.....STFU!! As far as my PC.....I did a system restore from a manual checkpoint I made over a week ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.....'course I wasn't the foreman on that job.

It's futile Campy. You picked up the Wepubwicans Are Ebil virus. The only known cure for the WAE scourge is to download a Linux distro with kernel 3.19 or higher, save as a iso image, burn to a DVD or usb drive and install to your hard drive using a ext4 partition.

lol, oh damn.

 

[NightFox]

What did the Systems Programmer mess up?

Apparently the nefarious "Systems Programmer" blew a few vacuum tubes in Campbell's brain causing him to slip into a delusional state whereby he believes that others are interested in his highly dramatized and self contradicting life story.

 

[Iceweasel]

Apparently the nefarious "Systems Programmer" blew a few vacuum tubes in Campbell's brain causing him to slip into a delusional state whereby he believes that others are interested in his highly dramatized and self contradicting life story.

I honestly thought his computer had diarrhea.