Best posts made by quicky2g

@dafyre said:

@quicky2g said:

I read somewhere that like 46% of winners spend all their money within 5 years. If you won $1.5 billion and even took home $500 million after taxes, you'd have to spend $45k every day for 30 years to blow it all. How is that even possible?

Like this...
http://myfirstclasslife.com/10-lottery-winners-blew/?singlepage=1

However... this sounds like some sound advice...

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-advice-powerball-lottery-winners-2016-1

Wow #9 gets an allowance from his parents

@travisdh1 said:

@JaredBusch said:

@quicky2g said:

This thing is looking pretty slick:

http://www.auramedia.tv/

I don't want to pay $150 for a tv tuner and DVR.

I don't need all the other features. I just need a tuner and DVR. I already have ways to stream all the things.

A usb dongle and a laptop set to never hibernate/shutdown. Your choice of software to make it work, lots of options available.

I have to find some kind of all-in-one easy to use box...the misses...enough said.

@scottalanmiller said:

NY needs to do something to reinvent themselves. They need to look to Europe and build out a serious public transportation system. NY is too deep to go to the low tax systems that Texas or Florida do to inspire growth. They and California need to go European with high taxes and huge social services to make it work. They could do it, if they are smart about it. They need a LOT of rail and they need it to really work, unlike it is today. But the I90 corridor and the ST corridor are so dense and linear that they could, even with all the open space, pull off a European style structure out there if they were smart.

NY city should just become it's own state then the rest of us in upstate NY can quit paying for their turd shaped island. Taxes are high enough already. We just need to be smarter how we use them.

@scottalanmiller said:

@quicky2g said:

Interesting that #7 says any financial adviser would tell you to take a lump sum. Every other article I'm reading says not to do that.

That's because random articles give bad advice. Basic financial sense is that the lump sum is way, way better. Financially speaking.

Until you splurge and spend it all lol. Might be better for some people to get an "allowance" from the lottery every year.

@Dashrender said:

The Cell/smartphone/internet - well those 12-13% who say they can give up those thing obviously simply don't use them at all today.

The rugged outdoorsman that lives off the land lol

@travisdh1 said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Waiting on the website..... yeah yeah I know I need about 20 more hours in every day

Where's an experimental physicist who's built a time machine? Why do I have a feeling we all feel the same way!?

Double upvote.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

That's assuming you use a managed company like Vanguard to handle your money. But your average Joe isn't going to be thinking about that right away. I personally would take the lump sum and invest most of it.

You have to assume that they won't set it on fire. If their goal is to waste it, then both options are equally bad. Only the lump has the benefit of good options. Once you assume the worst then the lump becomes better again, because you would be assume that "that's only if the person taking the long term payout doesn't take a forward loan against it at predatory rates." We can always make up ways for people to have set the money on fire... the question is which provides the most benefit and the answer always comes out to be the lump - whether the person desires to invest or desires to party, the lump enables it better in both cases.

Bigger pile of drugs and bigger bottles of booze

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

What does "giving up the Internet" mean if you separate out email and social media?

That's a great question - While I might say you could have email without the internet (yeah I know, not really, but still) but you can't give up the internet and keep social media - that would have to go too.

I think IF you can give up Internet but keep email, then you can give it up and keep social media too.

In fact, I think your logic is backwards. Email is defined by SMTP, which requires TCP/IP to work. Social media is a general concept and does not require the Internet or even computers.

Old school social media...flyer on a pole that says "Come hang out at Duff's Bar. We have live music and beer"

@MattSpeller said:

$5mil CDN (we do not pay tax on winnings)

Take out 1mil, purchase land / house / vehicles / vacation. Get it out of my system.

Invest 4mil, live comfortably on the interest (5% return gets you 200k/yr which is $100k/yr after tax. Very comfy)

$5mil - 50mil

As above, but invest 40mil.

Take 9mil and create scholarships, fully funded soup kitchens, library for kids who don't read gooder, maker spaces. That kinda thing.

Pay for all the school my 3 close friends have taken - books, tuition, all of it.

Setup scholarships for my 3 close friends kids (2 each) if they should have any. If unused it returns to the community scholarship funds.

Think I'd have to get it out of my system too. Wouldn't want to be reckless but if $5mil suddenly showed up in my bank account I'd have to do some splurging after debt was gone. Wouldn't mind a new car, truck, house and a few gadgets.

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@quicky2g said:

@anonymous said:

I have been thinking about this board:

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xmd3h

• Micro ATX
• Supports up to 64GB of RAM.
• Has RAID (I don't intent to use it)
• OnBoard Ethernet 1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps
• ONBOARD USB 3.0 HEADER(S)
• 8 SATA 6 GB/S Connectors

Why build a server without RAID?

Software RAID and XenServer work very nicely together.

That's not without RAID, though. that's still with RAID.

I always assume when someone says without RAID they mean without hardware RAID. I think that was the correct assumption in this case.

that's a really weird way to say that you want RAID.

Do you want dinner?

No

Hey, where is my food?

You said you didn't want dinner!

I meant... I didn't want a salad.

huh?

I was thinking the same - if I see no mention of RAID, or a specific request for no RAID card, I'm pretty much assuming there is no RAID. I would never assume they are using software RAID - it's just no that common in the SMB world.

And yet it is common enough that anyone mentioning building their own storage is almost assumed to be choosing ZFS specifically to do software RAID. To the extent that nearly every discussion in SW comes down to a complete assumption that you would disable hardware RAID and run software RAID instead.

In some regards, it is completely ignored in the SMB. And in certain groups in the SMB it is so common as to be blanket assumed.

Who uses ZFS? Is that really that common?

Was it the creator of ZFS that murdered someone or is that another Linux technology? Can't remember.

Wasn't that Mcafee?

I was thinking of ReiserFS.

@scottalanmiller said:

@wrx7m said:

I need a distraction from other things I am working on today and I was thinking about trying to stand up a zero tier controller in a VM. Which linux distro should I use?

CentOS, Suse Leap and Ubuntu would be my suggestions.

Wasn't too bad on Ubuntu server:

Dependencies for build

sudo apt-get install git make gcc g++ libsqlite3-dev

For API and script stuff

sudo apt-get install curl php5-cli php5-curl

Install

git clone https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne.git
cd ZeroTierOne
make ZT_ENABLE_NETWORK_CONTROLLER=1 installer
sudo ./ZeroTierOneInstaller-linux-x64-1_1_2
sudo service zerotier-one restart

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@DustinB3403 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's surprising. Every Proliant we've ever had, including DL380s, has been staggeringly loud.

~That's because whoever sold him the server took half the fans....

Ha I double checked

And.... they really did steal them?

Oh no, haha they're all there.

Maybe they're clogged with dust and don't spin anymore.

Or someone stuck a cat in your server

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

They mentioned keeping one and losing the other. They don't make sense to ask separately.

They do?

Are you saying that asking if losing the Internet includes phones? Or that losing email is because they lost the Internet?

And where did they find people with consistent ideas as to what they were answering? Most people will think that Facebook messaging is a form of email and that email is a form of social media. Maybe they are. So how does one answer?

I always wonder where they find these people too. Can't remember a time when I was ever asked for input on major survey results that come out on the internet or news. Is there like 100 people that just sit in a room all day and answer surveys???

https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160105

Ian Murdock was his name. Wife was Deb.

Deb + Ian = Debian.

Hardware commands are always great:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/gather-hardware-information-in-linux

lspci

Anything in /proc

I LOVE LOVE LOVE htop

Really liking glances.

My Ubuntu install:

sudo apt-get install python-pip build-essential python-dev
sudo pip install --upgrade glances
sudo pip install bottle

Optional for hardware sensors:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
sudo pip install PySensors

Just running "glances" at cli got me the interface. Web server worked like this:

sudo glances -w -B 10.1.1.1

Worked at http://10.1.1.1:61208

Ran a few simultaneous web server instances in the background for local network and Hamachi:

sudo glances -w -B 10.1.1.1 &
sudo glances -w -B 25.25.25.25 &

Definitely going into rc.local now.

Anyone get https working?

@Nic said:

@quicky2g said:

Maybe I should move to Colorado and work for Webroot...

http://www.webroot.com/us/en/company/careers/

https://hiring.accolo.com/jobs/Broomfield/Colorado/Network_Engineer/386572935/job.htm

Yeah we're hiring a lot of people at the moment!

If only I had family out there and a house with some equity in it lol. Just bought it 18 months ago.

@DustinB3403 said:

@Kelly said:

There aren't easy or cheap solutions, but not doing anything is worse. Maybe we should make carriers fiscally responsible for identity breaches provably caused by out of date OS versions.

How would you force the update on the phone, constant prompting, and after so many prompts it's just forced?

I'd rather suck dog farts than have my rooted Samsung phone updated automatically and go back to stock bloatware that I can't rid of.

@anonymous said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Well think about building a lab. You want a storage device, jump box and logging kind of at a minimum. That's three.

I don't have a storage device or logging yet. What do you recommend? And what do you mean by a storage device? Like for shared /home?

I do so much with syslog at home it's ridiculous. syslog-ng to MySQL database with custom written PHP front-end. Works like a charm. Have been using it for a few customers too. 0 cost to me or my company and way better than all those crappy Kiwi imitators logging to a flat text file with minimal searching. Try logging 10 ASA's to Kiwi for a week then searching for inbound/outbound connections for a single IP....not going to happen.

Same result in multiple browsers?

Would be a seriously mis-timed April fools day joke if it's the bank website.

I wish it were still called "Internet Explorer" so I can call it "Internet Exploder". Microsoft you took away all the fun.