I remember the early days of Amazon in the late 1990s. I just typed in Amazon.com and it was rather primitive with just books. Most folks did not use a search engine, since they were new and mostly useless. The general idea of just guessing a web address worked for most things.

Amazon for a little over 2 years now. It’s an interesting place for sure....

The early search engines you had to submit your site for review.

Had a long conversation once with a college in Germany I think. They had either been hacked or had students appropriating equipment there. There was some "inappropriate" activity on our public IP connection where I worked at the time and eventually traced it back to them. Talked to their IT guys and they said it couldn't be them. Sent them the logs of what I found. All I got back was "Oh, let us get back to you". The activity stopped right away so I assume they either fixed the firewall or found the culprits.

Here, we used to have a Cisco 5505 when I started almost a decade ago. It didn't last long here. It wasn't bad, it just couldn't handle all the traffic without falling apart. Imagine a parking lot after the big game. Now it is much better.

Sid, it is interesting the career paths you have taken. From a Pharmacy tech to working at Amazon. It is cool you keep re-defining your career. I guess that is not at all uncommon.
I understand I am weird, uh, no. Make that special :) I have worked in the photo industry only all my life. Besides some mowing laws as a kid, since getting a car and that allowed me to have a regular job, I have been working in the photo industry since the early 1970s. Only photography. The days of Silver halide are gone for me, but it is still a photograph that generates my business income.

Thinking about it, I actually shot some jobs for money when I was 14 so for almost all my life, I have been a photographer.

I did commercial flooring and IT. Some days I miss the flooring stuff, but then I think of all the boneheads we had to deal with and I don't miss it any longer.

Morning all. Yep Sid is typical of the new job force. Glen and I are dino's.

Our first network at the Photolab I worked at was all Ethernet over coax BNC and 10 Mbit/s speed. We were just a 10 computer network, and most of that was in my office. The boss had a computer in his office and he had the only laser printer. So I had to walk to the other side of the building, make sure he was not printing checks or using it, get his OK, and walk back to print something. I had the expensive dye sublimation color printer and and a 50 inch color inkjet, and a 80 grand film recorder in my office.

the most expensive thing in my cubicle right now is me. Used to have some software and spendy hardware but then we got bought out.

Most of our expensive hardware is at my partners house. I just have two tower computers, and a Microsoft Surface laptop. And my flying stuff, like the Bose aviation headset and a few expensive software packages. My partner has the other 8 computers and the RAIDs, and a ton more expensive software on some dedicated computers. All the computers except the 4 laptops we have are systems I built from a pile of component parts. We don't have one name brand of computer. 100% all generic, built to spec and no bloatware.

The company provided laptop I have would be better suited to keeping the Porsche from rolling out of the driveway.

The laptop I have is a Microsoft Surface Pro I think. It is a i7 7660U 2.5 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. I wish it was offered with more RAM, but it does fine. It will cold boot in 15 seconds. It is 95% used as the camera driver for the aerial cameras. I use it for my trips as well. My business partner has one identical to it, a Dell laptop, and a laptop that only Andre the Giant could fit on his lap and only if he had asbestos jeans. It is a Huge Alienware 17 with two high end video cards, 4 SSD drives, and 32 GB of RAM. It is nice to use for the dog and pony shows to display the software we can give a client that will have their project loaded and they can view the data in 3D and zoom, and rotate, and measure.

Sounds like exactly what I need for CAD.

Am a glutton for punishment.

Worked for the same company since was 14 except for the 2 winter's I went to college out of town. Started full time in 1980, 39 years in May. Would be 45 years of service if I got to count part-time like my nephews. Have done lots of different jobs, lawn care, electronics assembly, machinist, draftsman, graphic arts, engineering, IT. Was responsible for bringing in desktop computers, and networking versus 5250 twinax terminals. First network was Appletalk in my department to share printer and file server for graphic arts. Before eithernet was even available the whole company was networked with Appletalk, even the PCs.

Our biggest machine is a 128 gig ram, 8 hard drives, i7 with two Nvidia 1080 video cards. My partner uses it as his main workstation. He has two curved 30 inch monitors. It can run 8 monitors is we wanted.

Sounds like a great monster for 3D CAD

David, I don't usually push Samsung monitors or TVs, but this one would be the cats knees or bee's meow or whatever the saying is. Stack them if you need more space!

https://static.bhphoto.com/images/mu...IMG_835365.jpg

that would be sweet!!!!!

I should share that it is 32:9 up to 49".

I looked it up. Not within my budget right now. Also not something I do anymore that we were bought out.

Before the buy out we went to @XI computers for hardware. Fast, light and not very expensive. They all got taken away and replaced with Dell boat anchors. We tried to offer to buy them for personal use but were told no. We are betting someone in corp IT got a really good xmas gift.

When I got my 2nd 27in monitor was looking at maybe one wide screen monitor instead. It was only about $300 more. At that time 2-27in monitors was was about 10in wider screen space than one widescreen. My 2-27s are 46in or 5120x1440 wide screen space. The widescreens also didn't have cameras, mics, or speakers. Both my 27's do. Use external speakers anyway though so would have had to get a camera.