@scottalanmiller no SW swag???

So, the short answer to what you've previously done, is... nothing? lol

@scottalanmiller said:

Does it make a mess? If the water flows correctly, it would only splash when you have your hands in it and that doesn't seem like it would be too bad.

Really depends on how much the water pressure is regulated. If it's not within a very narrow range, it's gonna splatter all over the place.

Absolutely!

Yeah, I understood the question. I was simply basking in the humor of the detailed explanation that, in reality, equaled "I did nothing at all" but made it sound like an action plan. I'm not really confident that there is a better plan, so I don't want to weigh in on that just yet.

No, I ALWAYS use a trackball. I have preferred them since high school, lol.

I do plan on getting a whole-house generator at some point. Of course, I've been "planning on it" for about 10 years now. It will probably happen for real in the next 2-3 years. Maybe sooner, if Eaton has them for the prices I saw yesterday...

@Carnival-Boy said:

Well, "do nothing" is my default plan for everything in life

Then hats off to you for making it sound impressive and making it look like effort was involved. That should be enough to throw management off the scent.

I loved them in school (CAD), and went to the trackball exclusively when I developed tendonitis in my elbows. If I use a mouse more than a few minutes, my fingers and thumb begin to go numb. No trouble at all with a trackball. I don't like the one with the ball in the thumb position. The big one in the center does much better for me.

@scottalanmiller Two weeks with no power? I think that only happened once... Ice Storm of '91; and that was fairly epic.

I'm really looking for help with something that seems like it should be almost plug and play. So far, I am much less than impressed with the user experience here. While all the bells and whistles look great, that's not much use when it won't connect to my simple network. What am I missing here? Someone please help, before it becomes a rather expensive Frisbee and ends up stuck in the grill of a passing truck!

I need to get more sleep. I had to re-read that. Thought it said "sticky poop" the first couple times I looked at it.

I miss the days when all you had to do was reset the time on the microwave and VCR.

How can more real estate be a bad thing? And monitors are so inexpensive these days. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I use a pair of 27" monitors for my main set up and a pair of 23" for my secondary office (upstairs). I tend to make one screen be the home base for whatever app I am focused on and the 2nd screen is the one I use to bounce around to whatever secondary things I am working with (you know, like youtube, craigslist, facebook :P)

@dafyre said:

There you go... a screenshot of my desk.

This was the perfect setup for a recursive image, and yet you missed it.

@Nic said:

There are old electricians and there are bold electricians...

Kinda like mushroom-pickers.

It could be an entire series! Kinda like the ___ for dummies books.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@art_of_shred said:

Yeah, I had nothing to do with any of these things. When I buy her stuff, she knows it/

Yeah cause you want your brownie points of course haha.

Duh! lol

@coliver said:

@art_of_shred said:

@dafyre Was that a 3-prong 220 plug? Trying to understand why the ground would be live.

I have a 208v appliance (screw auger) that is ground over the neutral line. I did a ton of research when setting it up and apparently it is pretty common.

Yes, neutral and ground do go to the same place, anyway. The difference is at what point they get there. Your typical "ground" that you're used to is to protect you in the event that a live wire on the device accidentally makes contact with something on it that you could touch. If it's grounded better than you are, you don't get zapped. The neutral line is there to create a sink for electron flow for the actual power. Lots of 220 appliances used to use those 3-prong plugs, which is L1, L2, N/G. Most modern setups have 4 prongs: L1, L2, N, G. All neutral lines go to ground in the end. If you're getting zapped, the shell of the appliance is becoming live and is itself not properly grounded, or maybe the shared N/G is being tied to the chassis. When you touch something well-grounded, while touching something with its chassis grounded to a shared N/G, you become well grounded... and get zapped.

Clean install = You know what you're getting.
In-place upgrade:
Best case = You save a relatively insignificant amount of time, up front. Nothing ever goes wrong as a result of the upgrade vs. fresh install.
Most probable outcome = You save a little time up front, but later on down the road there is at least a credible chance that something will go awry and cost you more than your saved time to correct, that probably was a direct result of choosing the upgrade route.

In the end, the best you can ever do is hope to end up saving that little time during the upgrade. The highest likelihood is that you lose, in the end, to some unknown degree. I'd take the surer path and do the clean install... just sayin'.