Comments on: How Do You Say “Boondoggle” in Hindi

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:33:30 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with DOS for a stand-alone system, but when you get things in from other people you can’t read the disks or the files.

The good people are all leaving for the real world, and we are left with the dross.

By: andante

andante — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:35:28 +0000

“still using DOS”

Hey, I’m an old DOS appreciator. But then, I’m not a hot-shot, super-anti-Islamofascist terra fighter like our Homeland Security heroes.

My last buddy working at the FBI took early retirement last year, mainly out of disgust with the outmoded systems and demands from Above.

He wasn’t alone, that’s for certain. After having dozens of old classmates & friends working under the current “Homeland Security” umbrella in various departments, I now know exactly ONE still toiling on. And he’s counting the days until he can take his pension and run.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:38:57 +0000

The majority of the offices with computers, and not all have them, were still using DOS, that’s how bad it is. They need to at least get current hardware out there so people can learn how to use it, even if it isn’t networked. They are just pathetic.

My small department was already producing reports on Apple IIs in the late 1970s because it saved a lot of time, given the “boilerplate” nature of most legal documents.

CSI is science fiction, not a police show.

By: andante

andante — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:24:23 +0000

Does the FBI even HAVE computers capable of word processing yet? Last I heard, they were woefully out of date and maybe using something involving spark plugs or possibly the Univac.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:58:04 +0000

The FBI has been the source of some of the worst IT projects ever conceived. They should should try to set up a secure WAN, before anything else. At least implement word processing.

By: fallenmonk

fallenmonk — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:52:30 +0000

Some contractor is going to make a lot of money and it will be for naught as you say. I don’t want to mention that the resulting “half-product” will also be illegal by the time they try and start loading it.