Had to go to Walmart to return an item I ordered, but wasn't the item I needed. So I went to check out the bluetooth speakers in order to use it while in a guard shack for better sound quality. Found this one for $20 USD [original price $40 USD]. Just look at all the marketing on this thing. 1/4 #MountIt [new hashtag] #ClipIt #StickIt #Altec #AltecLansing #HydraMini #BlueToothSpeaker #WirelessSpeaker #WifiSpeaker #Walmart

A random link I came across reminded me that one of my FOSS projects' README file references all of the following:

Tru64
HP-UX
Debian
RedHat
SuSE
Ubuntu
FreeBSD
NetBSD
Darwin

x86
AMD64
Alpha
PA-RISC
Itanium
PowerPC

I would like to issue a decades-late "thank you" to Hewlett Packard for operating their "Test Drive" program, that allowed me to do test builds on all of those platforms I had no other access to. [1] I was sad when they discontinued it, even if it was a pretty niche thing at the time.

I must have been one of about 3 people outside of Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Microsoft who'd ever bothered to try to build software on Itanium. [2]

How many of the above phrases would elicit blank looks from newly-minted engineers and #CompSci people these days?

[1] Meaning actual useful Hewlett Packard. The practically unrelated modern HP corporation can, of course, stick their overpriced, DRMed ink and toner in their paper-jam access holes.

[2] a.k.a. "Itanic"

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