@harry-lui said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

I have a HP Prolant DL380G6 server at home. It's been power off for a year, so I guess my "Home Lab" went to sleep.

lol funny there!

@dashrender said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@jimmy9008 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@jimmy9008 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

Why spend valuable free time with family learning something that you will possibly never ever use. Learn something when its needed and save wasted time learning something that's never needed.

Because it is fun, and it is what causes us to move forward in our professions.

Its not as fun as spending time with family. We all have our own needs from life - personally time with loved ones is top priority over learning things I may never use.

I agree here. Spending time with family is a top priority, but so is investing in yourself. I tend to bounce around with my free time (time to myself). Sometimes I'm tinkering in my home lab and other times, I'm not.

I don't see one as taking away from the other. I know for certain that my investments in learning is what has given me so much family time.

Oh, I agree, but I tend to do my learning and such after spending time with my family. Some folks see it as an either/or.

But why do they see it that way? What makes them perceive it as taking time away, rather than, for example, giving time to?

According to some people's perspectives, they see giving time to learning as taking away time for leisure.

Right, but WHY?

This is pretty obvious - because learning isn't their form of leisure.

I think that there is the point, that is the kind of people Scott is looking for.

@penguinwrangler said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dashrender said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@jimmy9008 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@jimmy9008 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

Why spend valuable free time with family learning something that you will possibly never ever use. Learn something when its needed and save wasted time learning something that's never needed.

Because it is fun, and it is what causes us to move forward in our professions.

Its not as fun as spending time with family. We all have our own needs from life - personally time with loved ones is top priority over learning things I may never use.

I agree here. Spending time with family is a top priority, but so is investing in yourself. I tend to bounce around with my free time (time to myself). Sometimes I'm tinkering in my home lab and other times, I'm not.

I don't see one as taking away from the other. I know for certain that my investments in learning is what has given me so much family time.

Oh, I agree, but I tend to do my learning and such after spending time with my family. Some folks see it as an either/or.

That is either or, your example even shows it so. First family, then learning - you have to leave the family to do the learning.

@dashrender I haven't coded since the mid 90s and that was in Ada 95. My daughter who is 14 is learning how to code with me. We want to write some Android Apps. This is quality time with my daughter. So it can be both.

Excellent point!

@jimmy9008 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

IMO, if I need to learn something for work - I learn at work/on the job.

I do this too when I can so I can certainly understand the reasoning. I use this tactic to supplement my home lab. I don't have hours to myself at home. I enjoy being with my family and put them first. I do, however, try to allocate a little time every evening to self-improvement. 30 min to an hour or something like that. I may not learn things as fast as others but I will learn things

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And the biggest featuers of Solaris / OpenIndiana like dtrace and OpenZFS were long ago ported to FreeBSD.

Ok I guess that decides it for me. I just missed my chance. i might look at the real Solaris eventually just because I want to, sad that it won't have any purpose to use it for when I do.

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@jmoore said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Anyone play Minecraft or interested in private multiplay survival server?

I think that @DustinB3403 does. @art_of_shred does.

It's been some time, but I might. Just not vanilla.

I'm hosting an up to date survival server. The spawn area isn't completed as far as a complete block shop and all that jazz, but it's a survival server. I didn't even want that stuff, but apparently nobody will play on it without.

This is my server:

http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/410106/

Is it modded or not?

Not sure what you mean by modded.

It's running SpigotMC with a few plugins to make it a bit more fun and convenient to play in multiplayer... such as WorldGuard, WorldEdit, (regions) and some others. But it's very minimal, the intention is to keep it as a plain old Survival MC server.

So it's plain vanilla MC, i'll pass.

What mods do you like?

I can always create more maps and have a warp to it.

I prefer the map / mods that are technical in nature, like Skyfactory reloaded.

There haven't been any decent mods to be released in a while.

Tell me about Skyfactory please?

You start off on a tiny bit of land that is floating in the middle of the sky (there is no ground) you have to make the ground.

You start off with a bucket of water and a bucket of lava and make everything from that.

Oh that sounds interesting. I like challenges like that. Sounds fun, thanks for the info

done at work today. heading to the gym and then home

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

Not "totally", but "for all intents and purposes."

Well darn. Is OpenIndiana worth playing around with then?

Not IMHO. It's not a bad project, but it offers nothing of real value. If you want to use UNIX, you have Linux, BSD, and AIX today. No other UNIX has any utility.

BSD is more mature and stable of a project isn't it?

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And I say that as someone that really loves Solaris.

Yeah I used Solaris a long time ago that was in a friend's business and liked it. Wanted to get around to trying it again but just never did.

It's in the category with BeOS, TrueUNIX and such now. A neat chapter of history, but sadly gone.

I started my UNIX journey on Solaris 2.4, in 1994 on 32 bit Sparc hardware.

Very cool!

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

Not "totally", but "for all intents and purposes."

Well darn. Is OpenIndiana worth playing around with then?

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dustinb3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@tim_g said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Anyone play Minecraft or interested in private multiplay survival server?

I think that @DustinB3403 does. @art_of_shred does.

It's been some time, but I might. Just not vanilla.

I'm hosting an up to date survival server. The spawn area isn't completed as far as a complete block shop and all that jazz, but it's a survival server. I didn't even want that stuff, but apparently nobody will play on it without.

This is my server:

http://minecraft-server-list.com/server/410106/

Is it modded or not?

Not sure what you mean by modded.

It's running SpigotMC with a few plugins to make it a bit more fun and convenient to play in multiplayer... such as WorldGuard, WorldEdit, (regions) and some others. But it's very minimal, the intention is to keep it as a plain old Survival MC server.

So it's plain vanilla MC, i'll pass.

What mods do you like?

I can always create more maps and have a warp to it.

I prefer the map / mods that are technical in nature, like Skyfactory reloaded.

There haven't been any decent mods to be released in a while.

Tell me about Skyfactory please?

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller I was going to say that I thought it was dead long ago.

I think you are both right. Didn't I read that Oracle quit development on Solaris totally?

@jaredbusch said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

@wrx7m said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

@jaredbusch - I didn't think that those key features made the difference in terms of user interface and usability.

Key features? What key features? Those are fairly useless feature IMO.

Those features were popular in older devices right but not really needed in modern ones correct?

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

And I say that as someone that really loves Solaris.

Yeah I used Solaris a long time ago that was in a friend's business and liked it. Wanted to get around to trying it again but just never did.

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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/youre-gonna-need-a-case-iphone-x-fares-poorly-in-first-drop-tests/#p3

Odd.

I'm sure the phone cases and apple care + thing are far more profitable for them than building a decently resilient device.

Man the Galaxy S8+ is absolutely horrible too. I know i only paid like $100 for it, but my screen is all busted up already. Before that, it got scratched so easily too. This is the first phone I've had that the screen got scratched and the screen cracked so easily.

My phone habits have been the same as always. Never a scratch or crack before. This curved screen thing makes it so damn weak it's unreal.

I will never again get a phone with a curved screen. Maybe not even a Samsung galaxy. Now I have to deal with a cracked screen for a couple years as it costs $300 just to replace the screen. I suppose you could do just the glass, but you need specialized equipment well over the cost just to do it.

Big mistake.

I never liked Apple phones but had Samsung for a while. Eventually I got fed up with them too. I have now moved to Huawei phones. I have the 64 gb Mate9. It has been great and very reliable. Much more resilient than those 3 crap Samsung phones I had. Being chinese I don't know if I should be worried about security or not but I have not heard anything about them like I have lenovo. I have loved my Mate 9 and will buy the Mate 10 soon for my second phone.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

OpenIndiana 2017.10 has released and now has the MATE desktop.

I would like to try and get to know a modern Solaris. I am just a little late I know. Is this the best Solaris derivative or is there something else better?

Good points here. Every environment is unique. I could be wrong but i think some people try to use "best practices" reasoning because they do not know how to go about figuring out if something like this makes sense or not. its the "easy" button for them.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to get caught up on tickets, since apparently the world ended on Friday when I had to take PTO.

Urgh. That's always fun. :-S

One of the reasons I dread taking more than an occasional day off.

That's was reason when I first started my IT career at my current job. But working at a small college makes it a little easier to take time off especially when there's a holiday.

yeah looking forward to my 3.5 weeks in december/january time off for the holidays

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So someone left this next to my desk over the weekend

nice present!

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering what all my daughter’s candy is that she got out of a piñata yesterday at a classmate’s birthday party.

those look like some of the treats i have seen in my local taqueria