What Are You Doing Right Now
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 @marcinozga said: Getting ready to head home. Somehow I convinced my wife to rebuild our home storage/media server. That's going to be interesting watching her gut the old one and build a new one. At least your significant other will touch a computer system for things other than surfing the internet. Mine always comes to me. Not that I mind, but come on. 
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 @DustinB3403 said: @marcinozga said: Getting ready to head home. Somehow I convinced my wife to rebuild our home storage/media server. That's going to be interesting watching her gut the old one and build a new one. At least your significant other will touch a computer system for things other than surfing the internet. Mine always comes to me. Not that I mind, but come on. I actually go to mine for a lot because she does Windows support and I don't. 
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 Our house is a pretty good mix. I do windows support, @art_of_shred does networking and some hardware @Mike-Ralston does hardware and PBX. 
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 But I would love if I NEVER had to work on any of my own stuff and someone else just did it for me. I do not enjoy doing IT, unlike most of you guys. I learned cause I am good at it not cause I like it . 
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 I just tore the crotch of my pants open, right below the zipper Wondering how I can remain seated and find a stapler inconspicuously 
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 @MattSpeller said: I just tore the crotch of my pants open, right below the zipper Wondering how I can remain seated and find a stapler inconspicuously Sounds like "time to go home" to me! 
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 @Minion-Queen said: But I would love if I NEVER had to work on any of my own stuff and someone else just did it for me. I do not enjoy doing IT, unlike most of you guys. I learned cause I am good at it not cause I like it . I'm not sure why I like it so much... But I love to tinker with stuff... I don't mind working on my stuff as long as it is something I want to do IE: Switch to Linux... and not because I got hit by a hardware failure, etc. Tomorrow, I'm going to and help one of my wife's friends with her dryer... I know enough about electronics to be dangerous thanks to my grampa and Pops, lol... I may be going to pick up a desktop computer as well... One that will be come the first XenServer at my house if it has more than 2GB of ram, lol... Or I may cannibalize it for parts... not sure what to do yet. 
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 Went to make a DO Droplet to do some work for @Minion-Queen and DO is under maintenance right now and we aren't able to make new droplets. Argh. 
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 @MattSpeller said: @dafyre Yeah, I sat and drank a liter of my hooch while working on the board layout for the worlds most expensive USB Battery bank Edit: from looking at it this morning I actually did pretty well USB Battery Bank... Curious... I looked around for a 12v battery a bit today. Want something light enough to carry with my radio.  It will run on 8 AA batteries, but not the greatest. I do have a decent supply of 18650 batteries. just need to make a decent case. 
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 @dafyre said: @MattSpeller Yea... Drinking a bit of hooch will do that to ya... I've never knowingly consumed alcohol... so a liter of anything would have me rolling on the floor and barking like a dog... Or trying to ride the nearest floor buffer. Hey - Riding a floor buffer is something you just do.. Drunk or not! 
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 Digital Ocean maintenance is done. 
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 So they sell pre-made Rum and Cokes here in the grocery store in cans... Cuba Libre. Going to get some soon. 
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 @gjacobse said: USB Battery Bank... Curious... I looked around for a 12v battery a bit today. Want something light enough to carry with my radio.  It will run on 8 AA batteries, but not the greatest. I do have a decent supply of 18650 batteries. just need to make a decent case. My design will support 5v 5a (2x USB at full 2a draw each with spare) and a 12v output @ 5a All this is from 4 quad parallel packs of 18650's (4x 3.7v packs of 4 batteries) It's going to be gloriously overbuilt and well protected & filtered. The chinese "built to the lowest dollar one hung low fire hazards" are not to my taste. 
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 @gjacobse I bought one of these one hung low things and I was horrified at the construction, let alone the insane voltage spikes and drop outs. It's 12v output is filthier than a lady of the night on east hastings in Vancouver http://www.ebay.ca/itm/171436707495?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT 
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 Working on an Elastix 4 install onto CentOS 7 on Digital Ocean. Fingers crossed that this actually works. 
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 If this ends up working, this will finally make our CentOS count on DO higher than our Ubuntu count.  
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 Why does no IaaS cloud platform offer OpenSuse? Argh. Pisses me off. 
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 @MattSpeller said: @gjacobse said: USB Battery Bank... Curious... I looked around for a 12v battery a bit today. Want something light enough to carry with my radio.  It will run on 8 AA batteries, but not the greatest. I do have a decent supply of 18650 batteries. just need to make a decent case. My design will support 5v 5a (2x USB at full 2a draw each with spare) and a 12v output @ 5a All this is from 4 quad parallel packs of 18650's (4x 3.7v packs of 4 batteries) It's going to be gloriously overbuilt and well protected & filtered. The chinese "built to the lowest dollar one hung low fire hazards" are not to my taste. We should talk... I'd be happy to help test. and I have plenty of usable 18650s 
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 @gjacobse what kind of amperage / run time are you after? I hope to have a prototype built this fall 





