@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Doing a follow-up refresher course about active shooter on FEMA website. Once completed, I will be adding it to my personnel file where I work at.

Step 1) Hide in the basement.
Step 2) Call 911.
Step 3) Pray they aren't looking for you.

Actually getting out of the building (if in one) and away from the active shooter if possible is your first choice. If you have no way out then you would hide and try to barricade yourself in.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just walked about two hours to the office.

Car troubles?

I don't have a car.

I drive 45,000 to 60,000 miles a year. That boggles my mind. Of course, my children live in a rural area so I have to go get them.

Pork Katsu from the K-Bop food truck.

@coliver said in What does your desk look like?:

@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:

That's the cubicle area. My private office is just to the right. CEO's door is the one you can just barely see.

Man I really dislike cubicles. I worked in an open floor space (where the center was a work bench) three people in the room on phones was enough to drive someone crazy.

I am in an open area and I hate it.

@scottalanmiller said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:

@travisdh1 said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:

In addition to the sleep study, see if someone will let you test your blood sugar when you start feeling tired sometime. That's one of the major signs of the onset of diabetes, and is an easy self-check if you have access to a meter.

Opposite, though. With diabetes you normally get the dip without food, not from avoidinig it.

Prison Story:
I was the evening supervisor (sergeant) of the Ad-Seg house (commonly called "The Hole") had an offender declared a medical emergency because of low sugar. We got the nurse to him (very quickly as she was already doing rounds in the unit) and she checked him. His blood sugar was at 20. Wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes.

Normal blood glucose numbers

Fasting
Normal for person without diabetes: 70–99 mg/dl (3.9–5.5 mmol/L)
Official ADA recommendation for someone with diabetes: 80–130 mg/dl (4.4–7.2 mmol/L)

2 hours after meals
Normal for person without diabetes: Less than 140 mg/dl (7.8 mmol/L)
Official ADA recommendation for someone with diabetes: Less than 180 mg/dl (10.0 mmol/L)

@networknerd said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:

@penguinwrangler said in Fighting the Afternoon Energy Dip:

You might need a sleep study done. You might not be getting enough quality sleep. I have sleep Apnea I believe @scottalanmiller has it really bad like I do as well. My heart is enlarged because of it. The doctor told me that without my CPAP, if I sleep 8 hours, I am working the equivalent rest of someone with no sleep problems would feel like after maybe 2 hours of crappy sleep. If I wear my mask I will usually wake up right before my alarm feeling refreshed. Without it, I could sleep much longer, possibly with the fishes. So it isn't something to dismiss.

So before you had this done, you weren't waking up multiple times per night or anything like that and felt like you were fully asleep the entire time?

I would "wake up" during the middle of the night when I was unable to breathe but it isn't like waking up in the morning. You "wake up" enough to roll over so you can breathe, it isn't a full conscience awakening, most of the time. Your body does want to stay asleep to get rest. I had my tonsils, adenoids, and uvula removed and it is better but I still have sleep apnea. I went and got tested in my 20s. With sleep apnea, you stop breathing and it can cause sudden cardiac arrest which is what my Grandfather died from. One night it was so bad that I lost control of my bladder and I did awake gasping for air and fell out of bed. It seriously felt like someone was choking me. That is what prompted me to go see the doctor. Until that moment I really didn't think I had it that bad or even had it at all. I wish I would have known earlier. I feel so much better now as far as sleep goes. I could have used that CPAP when I was in college.

You might need a sleep study done. You might not be getting enough quality sleep. I have sleep Apnea I believe @scottalanmiller has it really bad like I do as well. My heart is enlarged because of it. The doctor told me that without my CPAP, if I sleep 8 hours, I am working the equivalent rest of someone with no sleep problems would feel like after maybe 2 hours of crappy sleep. If I wear my mask I will usually wake up right before my alarm feeling refreshed. Without it, I could sleep much longer, possibly with the fishes. So it isn't something to dismiss.

What if you don't have Hyper-V and you don't have a domain but you are getting ready to move to Hyper-V and create a domain? I do have a Linux box with KVM on it that I could put the first domain controller on temporarily and then move it to Hyper-V later, or would it be better to just configure the domain controller on one of the hyper-v hosts first then join the hosts to the domain?

@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:

@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:

@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:

@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:

Texas is really the best market, I think. Very low cost of living, no state income tax, nearly everything is cheaper than other tax free or low tax states, high legal mobility, and more local job opportunities than in most US markets, especially low cost ones. If you can get remote work and do it from Texas or Florida, you are golden.

I love Texas, the idea. Texas, geographically, bums me out. I like rain and cooler weather. How is Tennessee, economically-speaking?

Have you spent time in Dallas? I'm a rain and cooler weather person myself and we get loads of rain in Dallas. And it is not all that hot. Not all that cool, but not all that hot. Don't equate all of Texas with the hell that is Houston.

I went there once, when I was in jr. high in January and it was snowing.

I live in St. Louis area, but have been to Tennessee in the summer, it is very similar to St. Louis hot and very humid. The last full week in September in St. Louis we had 93-degree heat. In July and August we can tip over 100 then you add in the awful humidity. TN is very similar. Honeymooned there in January and it was in the 60s during the day. Which is awesome. But by no means cold or even chilly. Dropped to the lower 40s at night but I never put a jacket on and was always still in shorts.

If you want cold and snow, Omaha is a good starting point. Then go to even more cold and more snow areas from there.

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

My daughters' elementary school

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/schaumburg-hoffman-estates/community/chi-ugc-article-dooley-named-blue-ribbon-school-2017-09-28-story.html

That is awesome. Congrats to you and the other parents, the staff at the school and the students!!

@hobbit666 said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

I tried customizing those, and 16GB of RAM wasn't available.

Yeah I've noticed the customization option on all products has gone down hill a lot.

Yes, I started looking and it is like WOW this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I have to say though I haven't looked for a "powerful" machine in such a long time.

What about this? https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7AB5HF1677

@stacksofplates said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

@penguinwrangler said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

https://system76.com/laptops/galago

The fact that it has an ethernet port is a real winner in my book.

The latitudes still have an Ethernet port. It is really nice.

They sure do. It is what I am typing on right now. I just don't like the fact that some laptops are dropping the ethernet port. No ethernet on my Chromebook, that is fine. On my actual laptop please give me that ethernet port. I don't want to have to remember a USB dongle.

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

https://system76.com/laptops/galago

The fact that it has an ethernet port is a real winner in my book.

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver Are people still actively using IE? Even on servers if I required a web browser I would never use IE.

Some of our clients require that we use IE to access their billing system where we submit our invoices to them.

@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

Well, I watched the first two episodes of Star Trek Destiny - meh.

I agree, the new Klingons are horrible. Who's person in charge of alien design? I'm guessing they have a background in horror films. That all one color black face just made me think of aliens and horror movies in general.

And it horribly doesn't fit the timeline that's already been established Enterprise and TOS - i.e. in TOS, klingons had no head ridges, and in Enterprise, they explained why so many Klingons didn't have head ridges.

So I guess we have a completely new universe to look forward to. Heck this one might not even have Captain Kirk on the Enterprise.

Oh and what about cloaking? Now I can't recall if Klingons had it in Enterprise or not?

I agree. You can't say you are in the same universe as all the TV series and then ignore the cannon that they have established.

@dashrender said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@reid-cooper said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

OpenDNS is good. Or just use Google, it's not bad.

For pure DNS probably so - but the OP is claiming (and JB is refuting) that OpenDNS provides filtering for free that no one else does.

And from my own testing about 3 years ago, I agree with the OP, OpenDNS did provide a free level of filtering, but I don't recall what the limitations were.

IIRC the filtering was free for home use only.

@travisdh1 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@dave247 OpenDNS is just fine to use, like the other major DNS providers they will probably be a step up from your ISP provided service.

What they don't do is filtering of any kind unless you add a paid service on. I've started running my own DNS server now that does block known advertising IP addresses called Pi-Hole (Yes, I've seen many names that are better.)

I like Pi-hole because they tell advertisers to shut their piehole.

@nerdydad said in What Are You Watching Now:

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

The redesign was absolutely stupid because there is no reason. They just wanted to. That have publicly stated as much.

Then I hope they get rioted and mobbed by a bunch of ST:TNG Cosplay Klingons in full battle gear with their bat'leths.

chaq curl 'ej painfully unusable ghop.

I am going to a renaissance fair with my kids this weekend. Dressed as Klingon. Will complain about puny humans the whole time.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched a little over half of the first season of Ozark on Netflix. Really good so far, plus I like Jason Bateman and it's fun to try and spot locations that I recognize since it was filmed at the 2 large Corps of Engineers lakes near Atlanta.

I had to stop watching it. The Lake of the Ozarks while in the middle of Missouri is fairly well developed.
I know I go there at least once a year. When they had the whole thing about not being able to get Pistachio Ice Cream, I just laughed. There are really nice grocery stores that would have Pistachio Ice Cream.