Best posts made by Nic

I wonder if the non-profit world might be a good place to connect with other shoe-string IT folks. I know techsoup has some forums, although I don't know how active they are.

The reason there are trolls online is ingroup/outgroup. Our brains are wired to love and respect people we know, and to treat people in other tribes as non-human so we can fight them, kill them, and then go back to our lives without feeling bad about it.

One of the factors that induces this is de-anonymization - typically you'd see that in war with soldiers, uniforms, etc. as a way to make everyone faceless. Online this happens by default. Unless you know someone, you are prone to not see them as a human online.

I don't know of a solution to this problem, other than filtering, moderating or only interacting with people you have a pre-existing relationship with.

Yeah it is, and I think it looks much better having the products on the home loading page. Much clearer immediately what one is looking at.

Yeah, although I'm hoping we won't have to wait that long. If we can solve it with technology and online reputation somehow, that would help. Not that I want to do away with free anonymous speech, but you can stay away from those places if you can't handle them.

I'm wondering if the information age will reduce the advantage of being a sociopath, when it's easier for stuff to follow you around. Just like how all the dirty cops are being exposed now with video.

I feel old now - I remember the launch

Our work just switched over - now the Lync app is Skype for Business

Congratudolences

That reminds me of my drive from Houston to Austin in the middle of the night to make my Spiceworks interview. I was on a road that was 75 daytime/65 nightime. I figured I could get away with going 70. But no, I had a state trouper pull me over. He did just give me a warning though.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Nic said:

Our work just switched over - now the Lync app is Skype for Business

And now no one can chat, I am guessing.

Actually it was pretty seamless. The only minor issue was some people not appearing online the first day, but since then we've had no issues. Our IT folks at Webroot are pretty good so we rarely get badly treated (except for that one time I had to reseat some new RAM

It was a pretty empty road - I think the guy was just trying to stay awake and meet his quota

I will after Rob sends me his script

Here's how my wife and I do it:

1. Social Media Accounts - separate, although we usually have each other's passwords to stuff just in case we need it for anything (and because we trust each other

2. Apple store - one account, since it saves on having to purchase apps multiple times.

3. Online shopping - we usually share one account, although there's minimal overlap on where we shop, mostly Amazon. We do have separate wishlists though.

Finances - one bank account, but we use envelope budgeting and put money into individual spending sub-accounts, so that we have money that we can each spend without checking in with each other. Major purchases we decide on together.

If there's any disagreements on what you guys come up with then there is usually an underlying issue that is driving it, so don't stop with the surface issue. Perhaps one of you has been burned in the past, or has a family history that is relevant.

This book series helped me out a lot:
http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Vol-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633469

He goes through how the protocols work in practices on various distros, and it really helped me understand how it all works on a deeper level.

That reminds me of a funny story. I never had an Amiga, but friend of mine did. His sister was writing a paper and had spent all weekend on it without saving at all. Of course the computer froze up. They called me over and I was able to escape to shell prompt. I wrote a little script to page through the entire memory searching for English words so that we could find her writing and copy it down. After running for 12 hours it found where the paper was located and I was able to see the text. I wrote up another little script to print out that section of memory to the printer. Unfortunately the printer driver wasn't loaded in memory by default. It went to the drive to grab the printer driver - and guess what section of memory it loaded it into? Yep, right where the paper was. In retrospect I should have had her write it down by hand.

so glad it was them and not us

Well this was in the early days of computers. But yeah, save early, save often

I've seen them in person and they are tinier than they look in online pictures. Not sure about anything else in terms of build quality or power, but they look to be the smallest gaming machines out there, and they claim to be modular so you can swap in a new graphics card when you need to upgrade.

This was in Australia, so we didn't have Growing Pains

Origin PC (the guys who founded Alienware) has some small form factor ones: http://www.originpc.com/gaming/desktops/chronos/

I hate having to put in a code to unlock my phone. The fingerprint scanner is great though - works well, fast, easy to use.

How has this not been mentioned yet?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004JLMUJ0