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  Time for a mobile phone upgrade
  water closet mobilephones cell phones for fun • • WrCombs  

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  @Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: SO- I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR .. Even with this thing out there? https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-6-Edition-30/ That looks awesome. Seen a price yet? Just the pricing here in Sweden, https://eshop.asus.com/sv-SE/zenfone-6-edition-30-12-512-gb-matte-black.html 8,300 SEK (roughly $850), which right now, buying in USD is a sweet deal because 1 USD = 9.8 SEK which is the highest I've seen it ever Tempting, but still expensive. I think I'd do it if it did 5g. But it doesn't seem to. Why do you care about 5G? Aren't you moving back to the US? who has 5G here - really has it? Because That is a phone I would want to keep for like 3 years, and San Diego is the kind of place 5g will actually be a thing relatively soon. Considering your options then.. I'd wait at least 1 years before buying a phone. That's probably a good idea.
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  SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX
  spiceworld spiceworld 2020 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX: @Dashrender said in SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX: I bought my ticket.. though won't know if I'm approved to go until a month or so before. You never do. nope.. sad way things are around there. Hell she's going to a convention for our EHR in 2 weeks, and only booked airfare last week.. but has known she was going for 4 months.
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  IT Kitchen & Grill
  it kitchen and grill recipe • • thwr  

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  Guinness Stout Chocolate Cake (This can be made with nearly any kind of stout) FOR THE CAKE: Butter for pan 1 cup Guinness stout 10 tablespoons (1 stick plus 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa 2 cups superfine sugar ¾ cup sour cream 2 large eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 ½ teaspoons baking soda FOR THE TOPPING: 1 ¼ cups confectioners' sugar 8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature ½ cup heavy cream Email Grocery List PREPARATION Step 1 For the cake: heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line with parchment paper. In a large saucepan, combine Guinness and butter. Place over medium-low heat until butter melts, then remove from heat. Add cocoa and superfine sugar, and whisk to blend. Step 2 In a small bowl, combine sour cream, eggs and vanilla; mix well. Add to Guinness mixture. Add flour and baking soda, and whisk again until smooth. Pour into buttered pan, and bake until risen and firm, 45 minutes to one hour. Place pan on a wire rack and cool completely in pan. Step 3 For the topping: Using a food processor or by hand, mix confectioners' sugar to break up lumps. Add cream cheese and blend until smooth. Add heavy cream, and mix until smooth and spreadable. Step 4 Remove cake from pan and place on a platter or cake stand. Ice top of cake only, so that it resembles a frothy pint of Guinness. Edit: The last 3 times we made this, we used the vanilla toffee stout pictured below. Even better than regular Guinness.
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  Mangolassi Right Now
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  @scottalanmiller said in Mangolassi Right Now: @JaredBusch said in Mangolassi Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in Mangolassi Right Now: Having a good time here. No time to be posting, though. Yup. So much so, that I did not see this thread until I was at home. Exactly. It's intense. Like camping in the forest... In tents
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  I love flying. Nothing bothers me while in the air.
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  My closest to any of theses is Juneau Alaska. Didn't make the list, but before their JAWS system to measure wind shear off the mountains, it was a difficult landing to say the least. It used to require a 180 degree turn during last stages of descnet.
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  The Death of Sysadmin
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  Other Agile methodologies, at least in their earlier incarnations, didn't pay much attention to CI. CI is great, but people were trying to figure out what it was and how to do it in 1999. Shops talking about (not doing, just talking about) CI were in the top .1% back then. It was an era of huge software engineering progress and change. Loads of ideas came up and some became major, like CI, and some died off and are forgotten, like PP.
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  Traumatizing Muppets
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  @scottalanmiller said in Traumatizing Muppets: Don't remember that one. But all puppets seem morbid to me. Hell yeah! Youtube Video
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  Enterprise IT community
  community enterprise it pro • • EddieJennings  

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  @notverypunny said in Enterprise IT community: Don't know if we qualify as enterprise, but communities like this help get an external perspective regardless of the size of the organization. The challenge I find in larger orgs is the inertia involved in anything IT. Almost in the literal sense as far as trying to get something started but also in trying to halt / redirect a project that's heading for a bad outcome. In an actual enterprise, I would suspect that only the management team of IT could have much real impact on a project going a bad direction. And again, it's getting those in management to have buy-in before anything would change.
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  Bed Bugs
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  I almost popped in here to ban/delete this. But, I read the thread... In some humor- maybe I should have deleted all the cleaning service threads- That’s a joke son-
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  The Patch Tuesday
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  @RojoLoco said in The Patch Tuesday: https://www.saudereggs.com/blog/how-to-make-a-cocktail-with-egg-white/ Now I want a Pisco sour. Clover Club looks good, too.
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  Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?
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  @notverypunny said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: @IRJ said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: @Pete-S said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: @notverypunny said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: So, all kidding aside (about me becoming the boring thing) is there something that I'm overlooking or missing out on or have computers and OSs in general gotten really boring over the last few years? I used to recall getting interested in new features, a new distribution or a DE's latest release not so many years ago. Now it seems that things are more or less the same across the board... a boring game of IT theme and variation. Anyone else seeing the same thing(s) out there? It's your age (as in experience). And the fact that the technology is becoming relatively mature. It's natural to not feel enthusiasm when you see something similar for the 15th or 30th time. If some completely new mind-boggling technology showed up, you'd probably feel like a kid again! He should go play in the clouds Ouff, cloud..... being forced to play there but not exactly enthusiastic about the whole idea.... damn I'm starting to sound (and feel) like an old curmudgeon Cloud DevOps is pretty damn cool. You can spin up complex and secure environments in automated fashion that IT people only dreamed about 15 years ago. Cloud Infrastructure and Autoscaling is definitely interesting as well. You think differently about deploying servers and can easily restore things in a disaster. Cloud DR is awesome.You could potentially have your entire infrastructure in warm storage that you can deploy very quickly, and only pay storage costs. Cloud Security is all whitelist only and is very granular. Cloud is much more secure than on-prem in most cases
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  Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis
  spiceworks ziff-davis • • Nic  

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  Or if you just want something simple, quick, and free: https://bestpractical.com/
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  New York City In Winter???
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  The bad winter months are really Jan and Feb.. and into March.
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  zip and . rar files?
  zip winrar rar • • WrCombs  

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  @Dashrender said in zip and . rar files?: @JaredBusch said in zip and . rar files?: @notverypunny said in zip and . rar files?: The advantage that I remember rar having was that it could split and then recombine an archive at the appropriate size for floppy disks. Seems foolish now but in the era of dial-up and 1.44 MB 3.5" diskettes it was a killer feature that winzip (also a paid software once upon a time, not always built into windoze) didn't have. Correct, that was the huge benefit to rar over zip in the 90’s. You are also correct that native zip support in windows is relatively recent. If by recent you mean Windows XP... LOL, yeah, 18 years ago at this point
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  AirDropping is the latest horrifying subway trend
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  Back on the news. Man accused of sending obscene image to stranger on subway in Japan via AirDrop FUKUOKA -- A man who allegedly sent a nude female image to a stranger on a subway train via Apple's "AirDrop" file-sharing service is accused of violating a prefectural ordinance, police said on Aug. 20.
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  Looking at Ideas for a Grassless Backyard
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  @DustinB3403 I've thought about gravelling the whole thing. Paving doesn't work, we have so much heave.
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  How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur
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  @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @scottalanmiller said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @scottalanmiller said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: It was really frustrating setting Imgur up, because you didn't get a sign in like a normal app when we did it (this is 2014.) Crazy confusing to use, because you registered and got the API info, but no account to use. Looks like you have to register at some point. And there seems to be a header when imgur API's are accessed and that how they know which account it is that is posting the image. If you can check what that is, you'll know your client id. From https://api.imgur.com/: Register an Application (IMPORTANT) Each client must register their application and receive the client_id and client_secret. For public read-only and anonymous resources, such as getting image info, looking up user comments, etc. all you need to do is send an authorization header with your client_id in your requests. This also works if you'd like to upload images anonymously (without the image being tied to an account), or if you'd like to create an anonymous album. This lets us know which application is accessing the API. Authorization: Client-ID YOUR_CLIENT_ID Yes, you register. But during the registration process, at least in 2014, there was no "account login" involved. No username or password. There was registration and the API / secret. But can we use that to log in? No, doesn't look like you can use that to login. It actually looks like you can't remove images using the API either - if they have been uploaded anonymously with your client_id. You need the deletehash value from each upload mentioned earlier in this thread and it look like nodebb imgur plugin doesn't save that info. So no dice. I think @JaredBusch has another setup. He tied the application to his imgur user account - by getting the client id/secret for the webapp from imgur while being logged in. So when images are posted to imgur using the client id Jared got, they will automatically belong to his user account. How do you get a client if and secret without an account? I used My twitter log in to make the imgur account forever ago. Long before I made the api creds. I would never do it that way in today’s world.
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  BMW Oslo Marathon 2019
  fitness • • Joy  

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  @scottalanmiller said in BMW Oslo Marathon 2019: @Joy said in BMW Oslo Marathon 2019: @scottalanmiller just update my timeline post Very soon! will post my drunk picture soon
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  My Weekend Linux Misadventure
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  @IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure: @Dashrender said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure: But Scott had examples where some Wall St firm was doing wacky (but acceptable) stuff and showed that the OS had bad code.. but they refused to fix it because the Wall St company was using LTS, not the latest version. So there was no 3rd party problem here, there was an OS problem in that case. How many times does the opposite exist? Where LTS is the only thing supported? From a Linux POV - I have no clue.
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  ProtonDB: Look Up Windows Game Testing on Linux from Valve's Proton
  linux windows gaming steam valve proton protondb • • scottalanmiller  

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  I went to MicroCenter tonight and was looking at laptops. I had a salesperson ask what I was looking for. I got a strange look when I said I wanted W10 Home cause it would get wiped anyway. I don't think she thought I was serious.
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  Any Camera People Here?
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  @RojoLoco said in Any Camera People Here?: @PhlipElder sweet flower pic! I spent most of a year taking flower pics at my parents house. Totally basic camera though. Thanks. Unfortunately, a camera kit is out of the question for us right now thus the pursuit of a lens kit for my iPhone X which takes half decent pics ... just a crappy camera app that is nowhere near as good as the Microsoft one was. My wife's birthday presents for the last three years has been garden roses along with two rose gardens one two years ago and one this year. I love roses. My mother had an amazing rose garden when I was growing up and I have lasting memories of them.
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  Equifax claims process is now open
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  @marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open: @Dashrender said in Equifax claims process is now open: @marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open: I'm getting the cash. 10 years of credit monitoring is worthless, same with their insurance. It won't prevent identity or credit card theft. And their reaction time is piss poor, you'd get a notice 1-3 months later of someone opens new account in your name, and by that time crook will probably charge thousands. Credit freeze is the only option and they don't offer that. Discover bank offers credit monitoring for free to anyone: https://csp.discover.com/free-credit-score/index.html Who doesn't offer Credit Freeze? All three of the credit agencies offer credit freezes now - for free. It was a law passed a shortish while ago. I managed to freeze Experian and Equifax 2 years ago.. but had issue getting into Transunion... well, in that time, it's become free and all three have made it much easier (though still not brain dead easy) to freeze unfreeze your credit). As of this morning I have all three frozen. What I meant was they didn't list that as an option in settlement, instead they offered some useless services. If you don't know about credit freeze in first place, you won't get it. And even if you do, you have to do all the work, and you have to contact all 4 credit bureaus. You're absolutely right - and as Scott will undoubtly say/agree with - of course they won't do that, that is counter to their business, against their shareholders, etc.
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  Color Question
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  @BRRABill said in Color Question: Yes, I just talked to another friend who is a designer. He said that basically the PMS color is "out of gamut" (the ! in the software) and the software does as good a job as it can to color match it. That is why it is different, and it technically correct, or as correct as it can be. The hex values are also apparently "web safe" colors. Not sure why they picked those, as I don't think it is applicable anymore, but what the heck. Man ... learned a lot of graphics today! Change the web safe colors to the closest instead. Web safe was way, way back in the days (about 20 years ago) when you had 8-bit color graphics adapters and you had to use a palette to spread those colors over the entire color spectrum. Heck, that was so long ago this was a trip down memory lane for me...
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  No Facebook - 30 Days. Go
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  @PhlipElder said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @PhlipElder said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @dafyre said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @WLS-ITGuy said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: I use Facebook as a way to keep in touch with family and friends who don’t live close to me. I use FB Messenger to talk to my wife throughout the work day. If I wasn’t in IT I doubt I’d have a phone with internet. I’d prefer to be disconnected from the world. I’d rather be on my boat fishing all day. I was doing that (family and stuff), but honestly, it seems like if people don't move to something else to talk to, not a big deal. 15 years ago, before Facebook - what did you use to keep in contact with your family? I don't know about you - buy my answer was - oh yeah - nothing. We didn't stay in contact and we didn't feel like we were missing anything - otherwise we would have found a way to stay in contact. 15 Years ago? Ha... We were using Skype and IRC. Edit: The old man still runs his own IRC server for like 5 friends. ICU? MSN Messenger? AIM? Heh, there are some vague memories in there of those in the latter part of the 1990s early 2000s. Most of my family didn't have internet until the mid to late 2000's. Even then, didn't use it much until smartphones and tablets. Chat is something my family has never used. by family I mean -my mom/dad/brothers. The biggest way we still communicate is either SMS or a phone call. I've been online since the mid 90's. SMS seems to be one of the better ones. I've been texting my brothers-in-law back and forth quite a bit over the last few years. We've become quite good friends. I tend a mail list for family members with regular postings of pictures and events that are happening in our family life such as home school and extra curricular stuff. They generate a fair amount of e-mail exchanges and a few phone calls here and there. Effort. Just like a garden family takes effort. FB is much too much like, "I can feel really good about myself keeping family in touch" without ever reaching out to them to talk to them ... to show interest in their lives. [/SOAPBOX] It can, that's for sure - but email is a horrible way to have a conversation. Just like these forums aren't what I consider great for conversation. That's because they aren't meant for short super fast exchanges. A conversation (i.e. talking) is a group going back and forth at a good clip. While that sometimes happens here, the problem with forums is that it's so difficult to keep up at times. In the time I made this post, it's possible 5 people have posted... I go to read those 5 posts, and another 30 posts are up and I've forgotten what I wanted to add about the first 5 posts, etc. The short quick replies like you see in FB comments definitely seems more engaging for actual conversation - than that flame wars still don't break out all the time all over the place.
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  Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2
  travel • • scottalanmiller  

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  Trip is done, time to head for home. See everyone from the US (or from the airport, probably.)
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  Ontario, Toronto roommate opportunity
  canada roommate • • Emad R  

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  @Emad-R : There's a market for that too...
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  Remote Sudo Escalation
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  @IRJ said in Remote Sudo Escalation: The vendor is telling me I should be able to run .sh file directly from samba share on client server2. So ssh should not need to be part of equation. Otherwise having the share would be pointless. Sounds like the vendor needs some basic IT support themselves.
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  Blue light glasses
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  I've them . 5 years now. My eyes don't bleed anymore and so I spend way more time in front of a screen
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  Test
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  @IRJ said in Test: From mangolass.it , hey look we have a Or just a second domain name...
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  Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?
  domain name domain name registration • • wrx7m  

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  @JaredBusch said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @Curtis said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: I was saying bad faith in the other direction, attempting to start a business under the same name as a domain name that was already in use. He clearly states it's for a brand, not a company. Same thing, though. Attempting to start a new brand that is already in use. Purchased and parked is not in use. It is “available for the right price.” Is no one reading what I wrote? I specified everything that people have said in my original statement.