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Re:OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distrib... on Thursday September 19, 2024 @03:47PM (#41595641)

I've heard good things about Uptime Kuma.

Re:Steve Albini has died on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:33PM (#40301460)

Very sad news. I've been blasting "Rid of Me" the past few weeks, one of these records that just makes me want to crank up the volume.

Re:New York Times Tech Workers to Strike This Afternoon on Monday October 30, 2023 @01:13PM (#38072392)

Oh dear, I hope this won't affect Wordle.

Re:Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:09PM (#37756153)

There was an announcement that Intergraph would port Windows NT to SPARC: http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/sun-info/sunflash/1993/Jul/55.11-Sun...

Guess it never went anywhere.

Re:I’ll Never Be an Astronaut on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:51PM (#37112267)

What a great write up. Hope that Shaun will have his surgery soon.

I underwent mitral valve surgery this summer due to mitral insufficiency. Fortunately the surgeon was able to repair my heart valve using a Physioring. This means that I will not need life long warfarin treatment, only 3 months post surgery (which is soon up).

When I woke up after the surgery my first thought was "I can no longer feel my heart beat". Before due to the insufficiency my heart worked hard and I could mostly feel every heart beat even at rest.

Now that its been a few months I'm feeling so much better than before the surgery - like I've been given my life and a future back.

Without the surgery I would have developed heart failure and died in a few years time. Now I have good odds at making it to retirement age and hopefully even more. Certainly a humbling thought.