Comments on: Friday musings http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:27:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: HomefrontSix http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/comment-page-1/#comment-5013 HomefrontSix Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:31:37 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/#comment-5013 Lex ~ re: "Wish you knew how hard it was to leave that alone " I was talking about the COMPUTER...sheesh! ;) - hfs Lex ~ re: “Wish you knew how hard it was to leave that alone ”

I was talking about the COMPUTER…sheesh! ;)

- hfs

]]> By: sid http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/comment-page-1/#comment-4981 sid Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:49:00 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/#comment-4981 re: Admirals Revolt. No better a guy to make flag than D.V. Gallery... Need more like him today. re: Admirals Revolt.

No better a guy to make flag than D.V. Gallery…

Need more like him today.

]]> By: steveH http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/comment-page-1/#comment-4979 steveH Sun, 16 Apr 2006 03:59:29 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/#comment-4979 Lex, if the MacBook thing doesn't turn out, I'd be willing to sacrifice, you know, to help out. Well, I'd pay shipping, at least. Driving down to pick it up from your doorstep might be a bit much. Probably. Maybe. Just trying to be helpful. Before you set yourself to a future of rebooting to switch between operating systems, I have one word of advice for you: Virtualization. As in, running multiple operating systems at the same time. Having done both, it's a lot more convenient than rebooting. Take a look at a company called Parallels who just released a beta of their virtualization application, and it supports a lot more than just XP, not that that's a bad thing, of course. http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/ Like BootCamp, it's in beta. I have no connection with either product, but I'm keeping an eye peeled in both directions. (Ouch. Makes me sound like a chameleon.) Have fun. Lex, if the MacBook thing doesn’t turn out, I’d be willing to sacrifice, you know, to help out. Well, I’d pay shipping, at least. Driving down to pick it up from your doorstep might be a bit much. Probably. Maybe. Just trying to be helpful.

Before you set yourself to a future of rebooting to switch between operating systems, I have one word of advice for you: Virtualization. As in, running multiple operating systems at the same time. Having done both, it’s a lot more convenient than rebooting.

Take a look at a company called Parallels who just released a beta of their virtualization application, and it supports a lot more than just XP, not that that’s a bad thing, of course. http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

Like BootCamp, it’s in beta. I have no connection with either product, but I’m keeping an eye peeled in both directions. (Ouch. Makes me sound like a chameleon.)

Have fun.

]]> By: Oyster http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/comment-page-1/#comment-4977 Oyster Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:31:49 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/#comment-4977 For what it's worth, here's a theory that I think explains at least some of the motivation behind the "get Rummy" crowd. If you think back to late summer 2001, SECDEF was getting it from all sides. Entrenched powers that be in the Pentagon were pushing back hard and of course, the unbelievably biased and lazy journos were onboard. Me? I think, absent 911, that Secretary Rumsfeld would have been a dot before year's end, which would have meant that he wouldn't have lasted a year in the job. 911 changed all that of course. I think that what we're seeing now is a reattack. I actually heard one flag officer say on CNN Friday night that he's speaking out because of Rumsfeld's "arrogance." Astoundingly immature and disappointing in anyone, let alone a flag officer. But then, Wesley Clark became a Democrat because the President didn't return his calls. Colossal egos don't always make for quality leaders. Nice post Lex. For what it’s worth, here’s a theory that I think explains at least some of the motivation behind the “get Rummy” crowd. If you think back to late summer 2001, SECDEF was getting it from all sides. Entrenched powers that be in the Pentagon were pushing back hard and of course, the unbelievably biased and lazy journos were onboard. Me? I think, absent 911, that Secretary Rumsfeld would have been a dot before year’s end, which would have meant that he wouldn’t have lasted a year in the job. 911 changed all that of course. I think that what we’re seeing now is a reattack. I actually heard one flag officer say on CNN Friday night that he’s speaking out because of Rumsfeld’s “arrogance.” Astoundingly immature and disappointing in anyone, let alone a flag officer. But then, Wesley Clark became a Democrat because the President didn’t return his calls. Colossal egos don’t always make for quality leaders. Nice post Lex.

]]> By: Ozwitch http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/comment-page-1/#comment-4975 Ozwitch Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:55:31 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/#comment-4975 I wonder if all these generals will have the 'courage' to stand up in front of the families and friends of the troops whose lives were 'endangered' or lost by Rumsfeld's decisions, and explain to them why they didn't take a stand when it mattered. Cold comfort for these families to find out in retrospect that the generals didn't have faith in the orders they carried out, but let it happen anyway for reasons that the families will never, ever be able to fathom. As commanding officers, these senior generals would have had to tell many a parent, wife, brother or sister of the courage and commitment to duty showed by the loved one they had just lost. Perhaps they should now add a postscript: "I believe that your loved one lost his/her life unnecessarily because of the flawed order from above that was given to me to enact, but unfortunately my own courage and commitment was not up to the task of saying so at the time. However, now that I have retired, it is easier for me to come clean about it from behind the safety of my pension and other considerable benefits. We should both be grateful that although your loved one's life was lost/endangered, my career was saved so that I can now speak out against future ill-conceived and executed decisions. I am sure your loved one would be glad that their lives were lost in such an honourable cause." I wonder if all these generals will have the ‘courage’ to stand up in front of the families and friends of the troops whose lives were ‘endangered’ or lost by Rumsfeld’s decisions, and explain to them why they didn’t take a stand when it mattered.

Cold comfort for these families to find out in retrospect that the generals didn’t have faith in the orders they carried out, but let it happen anyway for reasons that the families will never, ever be able to fathom.

As commanding officers, these senior generals would have had to tell many a parent, wife, brother or sister of the courage and commitment to duty showed by the loved one they had just lost.

Perhaps they should now add a postscript: “I believe that your loved one lost his/her life unnecessarily because of the flawed order from above that was given to me to enact, but unfortunately my own courage and commitment was not up to the task of saying so at the time. However, now that I have retired, it is easier for me to come clean about it from behind the safety of my pension and other considerable benefits.
We should both be grateful that although your loved one’s life was lost/endangered, my career was saved so that I can now speak out against future ill-conceived and executed decisions. I am sure your loved one would be glad that their lives were lost in such an honourable cause.”

]]> By: Brian http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/comment-page-1/#comment-4973 Brian Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:42:23 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/04/14/friday-musings-33/#comment-4973 I agree w/ oldtom...I was disappointed/dissallusioned with Navy "leadership" after Tailhook and I left the Navy in part because of it (I also worked at NAVAIR in DC at the time - which probably soured my view of things too - sometimes seeing the sausage being made can ruin your taste for it). Anyway, what really chaps my ass (HT to oldtom for a most appropriate term) about this is that these guys were given high rank for just such occassion. When the civilian leadership starts heading over the cliff their responsibility (no, their DUTY) is not to jump off the stagecoch and say "I knew that was going to happen" safely from afar - they should resign in protest if they saw a wreck unfolding before them. Careers be damned at that point. Their pensions are safe and think of how popular they'd be on the Sunday gab-fests if they'd just resigned in protest. The impact of that move would be 10 times that which they're having now, and nobody would be able to call them out on the carpet as we are doing right now. Frankly, self-serving and spineless are how I'd describe them right now. All those chiefs and not a leader among them...how sad for the troops on the ground. Brian I agree w/ oldtom…I was disappointed/dissallusioned with Navy “leadership” after Tailhook and I left the Navy in part because of it (I also worked at NAVAIR in DC at the time – which probably soured my view of things too – sometimes seeing the sausage being made can ruin your taste for it). Anyway, what really chaps my ass (HT to oldtom for a most appropriate term) about this is that these guys were given high rank for just such occassion. When the civilian leadership starts heading over the cliff their responsibility (no, their DUTY) is not to jump off the stagecoch and say “I knew that was going to happen” safely from afar – they should resign in protest if they saw a wreck unfolding before them. Careers be damned at that point. Their pensions are safe and think of how popular they’d be on the Sunday gab-fests if they’d just resigned in protest. The impact of that move would be 10 times that which they’re having now, and nobody would be able to call them out on the carpet as we are doing right now. Frankly, self-serving and spineless are how I’d describe them right now.

All those chiefs and not a leader among them…how sad for the troops on the ground.

Brian

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