What Are You Doing Right Now
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Copied from my blog but the insight on kids' bedtimes and how things were in the 1980s when I was growing up felt like worth sharing here:
We actually got the kids off to bed just after ten thirty tonight! We have, for over a week now, had a bedtime alarm. First an alarm goes off to let them know that it is about forty five minutes before time for bed. Then another alarm goes off when it is actually bed time. This has been working great. Before they would stay up way too late and be caught off guard when suddenly it was time to head to bed and be upset that they had not done something that they had been pushing off like eating or watching a video.
Thinking back to when I was their ages, we always had very obvious prime time television that put us into a standard groove. When I was Luciana's age, it was seven o'clock, once the news was over, for younger viewing. When I was Liesl's age the shows ran from eight until ten five nights a week. That prime time slot made it super easy to have a set schedule in the evening. Get everything done by eight, sit down and it was Who's the Boss, Growing Pains, Alf, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Family Ties, Cheers, Taxi or whatever. Two hours, most nights, and you knew each half hour clearly until the night was over and it was time to go to bed. Or get ready for bed or whatever. It gave the evening some perspective. With video games and YouTube and Netflix they do not have that at all now. So the alarms help, in a small way, to provide that. Looking at it from that perspective makes it make a lot of sense to me.
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Installing Webroot at a client and upgrading one of the Windows 10 machines to release 1511. Not sure why it failed to do it itself.
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Just watched an episode of "Keeping Up Appearances" with my wife. Off to bed now.
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Only one in the batcave (IT Office) today.
- Appropriate speakers
-- Check - Increase volume
-- Check - Locate playlist
-- Check - Initiate playlist
-- Check - Adjust EQ
-- Check
- Appropriate speakers
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Cold, damp morning around here. Had a bit of rain. Was going to try to get the car jumped today but don't want to take the kids out to see ruins on a day like this. So sitting tight until tomorrow.
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Just learned about this thread on Reddit about getting from zero to Linux Admin with a home lab. Pretty good resource:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/2s924h/how_did_you_get_your_start/cnnw1ma
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just learned about this thread on Reddit about getting from zero to Linux Admin with a home lab. Pretty good resource:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/2s924h/how_did_you_get_your_start/cnnw1ma
That's one reason why I ran KVM for a while. You don't get any hand holding.
That's a ton of VMs for someone who's "just good with computers.". I don't think I have enough to run that at home
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That is definitely a good sized environment.
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I've missed everyone while being busy with work, holidays, you name it. What have I missed?
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Down to about 350 PMs left to sort through. Man that is time consuming. But that's over a thousand knocked out, already.
Surprised how many people have nuked accounts that I had conversations with (e.g. were not bots or 1PWers) have deleted their accounts, both end users and vendors.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Down to about 350 PMs left to sort through. Man that is time consuming. But that's over a thousand knocked out, already.
Surprised how many people have nuked accounts that I had conversations with (e.g. were not bots or 1PWers) have deleted their accounts, both end users and vendors.
Something is up. I haven't figured out what it is exactly yet I don't think.
The thing I think that started pushing people away was the Spiceworks people posting for companies. It just doesn't work in the community they've built. I have a feeling it's more than just that tho.
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@travisdh1 said:
The thing I think that started pushing people away was the Spiceworks people posting for companies. It just doesn't work in the community they've built. I have a feeling it's more than just that tho.
Honestly it could be nothing more than fatigue. The community is old now, nearly a decade. Much of the "shiny new" has worn off and that excitement of having a social community for IT isn't as unique or exciting like it used to be. Apparently, although I've never used it, even Facebook and LinkedIn are chipping away at their traditional market.
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@scottalanmiller I'd say that's actually what Google+ is. Linkedin and Facebook may be what every talks about, but more tech happens on G+, at least from the bits and piece I observe.
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I just can't get into LinkedIn - the whole concept is just foreign to me. I guess in a way it seems like a bending of SpiceWorks community and a job hunting site. meh!
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller I'd say that's actually what Google+ is. Linkedin and Facebook may be what every talks about, but more tech happens on G+, at least from the bits and piece I observe.
isn't that dead?
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@Dashrender said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller I'd say that's actually what Google+ is. Linkedin and Facebook may be what every talks about, but more tech happens on G+, at least from the bits and piece I observe.
isn't that dead?
Well, Google(Alphabet?) seems to be ignoring it currently. I'd be upset if they killed it, even if I'm one of the few that would be.
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@Dashrender said:
I just can't get into LinkedIn - the whole concept is just foreign to me. I guess in a way it seems like a bending of SpiceWorks community and a job hunting site. meh!
I never use it, the platform is quite difficult to use.
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@Dashrender said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller I'd say that's actually what Google+ is. Linkedin and Facebook may be what every talks about, but more tech happens on G+, at least from the bits and piece I observe.
isn't that dead?
Probably isn't a good metric, but Google+ has 415 million users, 3rd quarter for 2015 Twitter has 307 million.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller I'd say that's actually what Google+ is. Linkedin and Facebook may be what every talks about, but more tech happens on G+, at least from the bits and piece I observe.
isn't that dead?
Probably isn't a good metric, but Google+ has 415 million users, 3rd quarter for 2015 Twitter has 307 million.
Anyone with a Gmail account has a Google+ account though, Twitter doesn't have that kind of integration.
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Yeah, I am sure that they count me in that number even though I don't use it.
