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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

An astronaut with PTSD loses her cool in first trailer for Lucy in the Sky

Director Noah Hawley's film is loosely based on 2007 case of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak.

Lucy in the Sky tells the story of married astronaut Lucy Cola (Portman), who has an affair with fellow astronaut Mark Goodwin (Jon Hamm). When he dumps her for another woman in the program, she begins to lose her grip on reality. Originally titled Pale Blue Dot, the movie is the feature-film debut for director Noah Hawley, whose TV credits include Fargo and Legion. Reese Witherspoon was initially considered for the lead role of Lucy but dropped out to shoot the second season of Big Little Lies. Portman came aboard instead, making this at least her second song-titled film alongside Jane Got a Gun.

This sounds like a terrible movie.

It's based on a "real-life" event.... kind of. The trailer didn't really make me want to go see it... just sounds like a boring fake-thriller.

I was kind of hoping they'd go with a horror/sci-fi angle.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs Nice to see someone else using Greenshot

It's pretty easy to use.
I like it a lot.

I'm a fan of ShareX. Seems to work well on Windows.

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I think we are making Irish pasties for dinner tonight, assuming we can find some ground lamb.

Oh nice.

We've gotten pretty good at hand pies. GF is good with the pastry, I make the fillings. And there are styles from 'round the globe we haven't made yet.

.....I just.... It's really hard not to see this as a euphemism.

@scottalanmiller said in What are you listening to? What would you recommend?:

Youtube Video

Kind of looks like @dbeato

Have and of the FOSS accounting packages met this need? Seems like that would be the best of both worlds.

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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak

County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.

As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.

So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...

[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]

As always, where's the money?

Interestingly enough, it would be beneficial for medical groups to push anti-vax (and maybe they are) the cost of treatment of vaccine preventable diseases is much higher then the cost of the vaccines themselves.

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak

County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.

As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.

So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...

[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]

Herd Immunity. Even if most kids are vaccinated there is a small chance the vaccinations didn't work, a child is allergic to one of the ingredients in the vaccine, or for whatever medical reason the child can't get a vaccine (which is more common then people think, although still not that common). In general herd immunity requires about a 90-95% vaccination rate (this is disease dependant polio for instance is like 80-85%), which means everyone who is able to immunize really needs to get the vaccine.

@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/

This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.

I'm glad you said this. I felt the same way when I read this.

I see it more likely that F5 will try to nuter or completely kill off Nginx to push people to their paid product.

I mean I'm glad that Nginx was able to get enough support contracts to keep themselves affloat, but this is a hugely different company who lived in closed source, closed door sales plus support.

F5’s product does not do the same thing.

They are very similar. They both can be used in a load balancer and reverse proxy implementation.

@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

You could also run out and Fork NGinx real quick like.... Just to have it on hand.

I'm sure someone will if they change the license in the newer versions.

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Just got this in my inbox
Nginx to join F5
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/

This worries me. Not that I dislike F5, but Nginx was doing so well as they were.

What are you worried about exactly?

Discontinuation of the product, refocus of resources, change of licensing.

Well you have apache has fallback for reverse proxy server.

You could also use HAProxy. Which is decent.

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Turns out it is Excel locking up when opening massive xlsx files. She already has 64 bit Office and 32GB of RAM (maxing out her laptop). I can't solve that without buying another system that supports more RAM. I suggested trying to use a smaller data set when creating these files.

Time to move to a database....

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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

I love Catan, but have never bought it. I need to do that.

Meh, I have multiple versions of Catan. It's ok, it plays well enough... but honestly we're kind of in this board game renaissance there are so many better options to spend time playing that I have a hard time dragging Catan out.

It's so popular still that getting the base game, all expansions, plus the 6 player upgrade is crazy expensive. It's a good game, but stick with base+cities and knights imo.

It's the gateway game. It's one of the first games people are introduced to, and a lot of people just stop there.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

I love Catan, but have never bought it. I need to do that.

Meh, I have multiple versions of Catan. It's ok, it plays well enough... but honestly we're kind of in this board game renaissance there are so many better options to spend time playing that I have a hard time dragging Catan out.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Making headway with my SCCM application uninstall task

It's pretty fun. Are you doing it through a script? Or using an installer?

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just sitting around looking groovy when my phone beeps at me. a work associate added me as a friend on snapchat. don't know how he found me. then I looked at snapchat and it was asking me if I wanted to add my daughters friends as friends.

snapchat account deleted and app gone.

what can i use to communicate with my geographically dispersed kids that won't try to spread my contacts across the globe?

is telegram 'safe'? never used it, don't know much about it.

Check out Riot.im too. Opensource, decentralized, chat service. I use it for some things, trying to get my family to move to it from Hangouts, and I really like it.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre I'm chaotic good.

Same.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver yeah. Thats who i would compare to

The Cylons from BSG would be the other ones. They have very similar origin stories as well.

@scottalanmiller said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

@coliver said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

@black3dynamite said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

@dbeato said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

For the Support Portal it looks as below

The first image looks like osTicket.

I'm not the only one to think that this just looks like a copy of osTicket then.

If I remember correctly, it is built on it.

That makes sense then.

@black3dynamite said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

@dbeato said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

For the Support Portal it looks as below

The first image looks like osTicket.

I'm not the only one to think that this just looks like a copy of osTicket then.