@MattSpeller - Dude,.. Like what the heck... this smacks of your doing!!!!

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@guyinpv said in What's good for a workstation these days?:

I should have mentioned, they are general office.
Web apps
QuickBooks
Handful of background programs (AV, backup, cloud sync tools etc)
Office
watching media

Kill it,... Kill it with fire!

@ChrisL said in Samsung is disabling Note 7's in the U.S through software updates:

@Dashrender said in Samsung is disabling Note 7's in the U.S through software updates:

We had a rather involved thread on friday about this, but I can't find it... the tags are weak old man.

Yeah, I'm just seeing it now. Apparently I didn't scroll down far enough before deciding to post.

It happens to us all @ChrisL

@Minion-Queen said:

@Doughnut said:

Yea that was made for a white BG. If you need it on any other color, I would be more than happy to help.

I didn't realize so many people changed their view... We might have to do that

I'm no graphics designer.. but when I was using GIMP to do some work you could create layers...

Could you create it with a no back ground? so it picks up the current theme back ground?

While I know there is a site that has premade cables,.. I'm looking for sound 'tough' colored cable about 25-50' in length.

Any one have any experience with 'tough' cable?

@scottalanmiller said:

Ended up going to the ER. For those wondering....

Greek ER... wait time hard to figure out because we spent more time helping them spell our names than anything. There was no actual wait whatsoever, so much faster than a US ER.

Total cost, without insurance, including ER visit, two trips to the microbiology lab and lab work, and a follow up in paediatrics afterwards: $7

Not $700 like you'd expect as an American. Just $7.

That . Is. Unreal,....

After speaking with support this morning. Plan is to stop the SC service, rename the DB and start the service to allow the system to rebuild it.

@scottalanmiller said:

We just did a quick update from NodeBB 0.9.3 to 0.9.4.

Seems to have broken images...

@MattSpeller said in Replacement External Hard drive Adapter:

@gjacobse said in Replacement External Hard drive Adapter:

@MattSpeller said in Replacement External Hard drive Adapter:

@gjacobse said in Replacement External Hard drive Adapter:

@MattSpeller said in Replacement External Hard drive Adapter:

@gjacobse I like the proper docks better but hell yes - we have.... a half dozen?! of them in the office. Useful. Very useful.

What model,.. I'd go with a dock

Specifically we use these to great success:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392052

note: no IDE

I still have some IDE (PATA) drives of both 2.5 and 3.5"

I'd just simplify your setup by throwing the IDE drives directly into a fire!

Oh fine... I guess I should throw away the Floppy drive and 300 1.44MB Floppies I have too.

@RojoLoco said:

So we just got our new AT&T (yuck) 300/300 fiber circuit installed... and the dumbass tech wrote out the wireless password incorrectly for me. He very distinctly put upper and lower case letters (all were actually lower case), plus his 'q' looked like a 'g', the 'S' looked like a '5', etc. Had to go remove the modem from the wall to get the correct info from it. All sorted now, but jeez...

If not to much trouble,.. go photograph it. Get that and the MAC address.

@momurda said in SIP "Ringer" / external speaker:

Take the phone apart, find teh leads for the speaker, remove them or solder some on if the speaker is on the board. Drill a hole so the leads can come out of it.
Hook those leads up to an airhorn or foghorn. Every time the phone rings you will wake the dead.
edit: youll need to power the airhorn/foghorn obviously

Air horn

Foghorn

@scottalanmiller said:

Pretty basic but not sure what else I would have expected to have seen. Neat little addition and it does encourage, in a small way, not hijacking other threads.

Because we never hijack threads with random images of cats or cat videos.

Yes you will need the Controller Software, which runs on Linux or Windows. I have mine currently running in a LInux VM which I don't always have running.

Just finished off what was left of a bottle of Irish Whiskey... hummmm... good thing I think I have another to start on. if not,.. DANG IT!

@dafyre said in Linux and Windows argument:

Why is it asking for iTunes if all you need to do is charge it?

That kind sir is any excellent question, and one I can not answer. However - there it was...

@MattSpeller said:

My coworker and I are causing my boss to question her sanity. Coworker is rattling on about Dick Pound and drugs, I'm getting caught on the firewall for pornography.... Is it time to go home yet? lol

"www.cutecatgifs.com" profile="default" action=blocked reqtype=referral url="/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/boop.gif" sentbyte=381 rcvdbyte=1460 direction=outgoing msg="URL belongs to a denied category in policy" method=domain cat=14 catdesc="Pornography" crscore=35 crlevel=high

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/08/maria-sharapova-drug-test-wada-dick-pound

I was readying that AS you changed it... dang it. Missed it by that ( [ ] ) much.

Honestly,.. working with @MattSpeller would be enough to question a persons sanity period.

I wouldn't do a 100% replacement. If you have 100 machines,.. maybe a 10 or 15% rolling cycle. Replacing only 10-12 machines each year.

Just returned from 12 hours of down time; ie: no iPad, no desktop, no TV. Did have cellular coverage,.. but didn't use it

Felt good to unplug - now if I could just move my office out there and still not have to work....Guess that isn't going to work real well ..

@DustinB3403 said in Sitting Standing desk:

@gjacobse yeah... adjustable desk cost a fortune!

This is the model just assembled at NTG HQ:

https://www.autonomous.ai/smartdesk-sit-to-stand-height-adjustable-standing-desk