@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Been really angry the last few days. No reason for it either.
I despise being a stupid jumped up poorly evolved monkey some days.
Time to go out and get into a bar fight to because then eh?
Some times you gotta beat the shit out of someone to brighten your day.
Ahhh fond memories from my youth. Can't afford to break my hands again though, they're already creaky and arthritic.
Yeah they're spendy but for an expected 10yr+ service life... meh?
Plus, extra reasons to run 10gbit through the building is a win in my book
Just hoping someone had tried them already and could relate just how far up to 11 they go
@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@MattSpeller I don't know who she is, but I'd watch a few movies with her in them.
lol you're about to be really really happy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/
She's gorgeous and an excellent actor.
@PhlipElder said in 2-in-1 laptop for a C-Level:
@Dashrender said in 2-in-1 laptop for a C-Level:
@magicmarker said in 2-in-1 laptop for a C-Level:
What about when the C-level is working from home. They are used to connecting their notebooks to docking stations that have dual monitor setups. Is there a particular model that is better suited for this?
I just did my first foray into docking stations. I picked up HP Elitebook 850 and HPs thunderbolt dock. We've only had one working for one day so far (deployed on Friday - but no real use yet)... That said - on my test bench, it setup super easy and worked without issue.
I've had other docks in the past that were a HUGE PITA, but that was 10+ years ago.
Also, 6 months ago for the boss - I setup a SP6 with MS docking station, other than some user error (because it went home and I didn't plug it all in for them) it's been working OK.
We've had so much grief with the Dell Thunderbolt TB16 unit it's not funny. BSODs galore especially on the cr*ppy Realtek NIC driver built-in to the dock.
Firmware updates have been hit and miss.
All of them have been deployed with Precision 7530 series and later laptops with a fresh Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit.
We was disappointed when we were told that we'd be ordering them instead of a proper dock. Our disappointment was warranted.
Proper docks were one of the best things about the Dell laptops. KACHUNK! Done. Firmly, securely connected.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There will always be those who don't want to sit around and play Xbox all day long. Some people (I'm thinking Scott as an example here) who nearly always have to be doing something. Sure, there will be tons of people doing nothing, but why should they be enslaved to work, if our technology can do it for them and take care of nearly everything else too?
You're trying to apply technology to a social issue. We could have completely automated farms and housing construction and we'd still have the same problems.
One of my favourite series of books deals with some of these themes
@Dashrender if you don't like to talk about speeds and feeds, you do not have to participate. For the rest of us though....
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Basic income would indeed be an improvement in many ways. I believe/hope it should/will come with a shift in our culture towards a more open and enlightened society. Unfortunately change takes a long time. We are a stubborn species.
And vengeful. A lot of the people who work will want the people who choose not to not to get anything. That's the problem. You have to accept that the workers take care of the non-workers. But because working is purely optional, hopefully that fixes a lot.
How do we move towards this though? Many countries (especially the ones I care about most, Canada/USA) have trashed their education systems. I would begin there and build that back as a foundational block of society.
It's a big project and it makes me want to run for office.
Matt Speller 2016. It's not too late to announce yourself independant
Being born in Canada might make it too late for him, though.
There were so many claims that President Obama wasn't born in this country. I think Matt could get away with it. What would @MattSpeller 's slogan be?
"Vote @MattSpeller 2016.... or he'll knock the cigrits outta ya. Friggin rights, bud!
Ironically one of my first acts of office would be to ban tobacco cultivation. As a consumer of it I would suffer right along with everyone else.
I would hope other types of cultivation would be decriminalized as a trade-off...
Aye with the same rules as booze. Same cultivation rules as tobacco however, no corporate or private production for sale. You want it, grow it, but it will be a cottage industry at most.
@dafyre said in Benevolent Dictatorship - A vote for Speller is a vote for a brighter future:
@MattSpeller said in Benevolent Dictatorship - A vote for Speller is a vote for a brighter future:
@RojoLoco said in Benevolent Dictatorship - A vote for Speller is a vote for a brighter future:
Valar Dohaeris, eh?
Aye
Translation for those of us who are multilingually imparied, Oh Great one?
Game of thrones version of:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I'm doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who will do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferable FOSS?
I've always wanted to get something like this going but for a webcam on a robotic arm (with a laser pointer - remote cat entertainment toy). I was going to make it super simple with an RPi webserver and simple buttons to control servos (click left = move servo motor #steps on X axis)
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I will be doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who needs to do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferably FOSS?
I'd use a Pi for the front-end web server and Arduinos to actually control the things. That way the front end can have time to do things like reboot if it needs it, and you don't loose control over every thing. I know people have done this sort of thing, but I don't know how much code is available to get the Pi and Arduino(s) talking.
Aye, or PIC's, because I'm old school like that (and own way too many that are not being used)
I'm some combination of tired and stressed out to where I'm trying super hard to suppress my inner INTJ tendencies. It's not going well.
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said
Just ordered some classic Western NY subs for dinner!!
What is that exactly, and how does it differ from the rest of the US, specifically the Eastern US?
Hey man don't you be criticizing his dirty water dog w/ all the condiments. If he wants to call it fancy, thats ok.
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Any recommendations for a VGA KVM Switch for home?
How many ports? I've used two port IOGear ones that worked a treat and were pretty cheap. Green and grey plastic jobby with all the cables integrated.
@brianlittlejohn said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1675213-poll-do-you-have-a-good-work-life-balance
So SW believes that there is nothing shorter than 40-50 hours of work per week. I realize that Americans tend to be skewed on these things, but this seems really extreme.
Just another example of how they want a specific answer in their polls so design the polls without the possibility of honest answers in many cases.
I work 40... no more... if I do, the next week I take comp time.
40? 37.5 is where it's at in America's hat
That was truly excellent, I leave one for you in return
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This garbage just popped into a user's outlook heheheh
Uh?
Check that date heheh
Wasn't sure what was going on...
Makes two of us!
User was moving a crap ton of folders around in outlook and went to get a coffee. Comes to me all sad with crashed outlook and once I get her into webmail this is the garbage we find lol
User has been instructed not to move anything unless using webmail (omfg the bandwidth wasted... sobs quietly)
Hopefully nothing became corrupted or lost.
PFffffwwahahahahahahahah
I 100% guarantee you that a whole bunch of junk got lost. Question is will she notice? 
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This garbage just popped into a user's outlook heheheh
Uh?
Check that date heheh
Wasn't sure what was going on...
Makes two of us!
User was moving a crap ton of folders around in outlook and went to get a coffee. Comes to me all sad with crashed outlook and once I get her into webmail this is the garbage we find lol
User has been instructed not to move anything unless using webmail (omfg the bandwidth wasted... sobs quietly)
Hopefully nothing became corrupted or lost.
PFffffwwahahahahahahahah
I 100% guarantee you that a whole bunch of junk got lost. Question is will she notice?
Not if they were from the 80's!
Maybe she has been waiting on those!
I have some of the best users on the whole planet but no one is that patient lol
