@Carnival-Boy said in How I Picture Managers Taking Away Facebook for "Productivity":
That's how I picture Americans - if there's something you don't like, shoot it.
As an American I find this offensive.... Now hold still and stand in front of that tree.... 
Not sure if I have posted this before around here, just wanted to put my two cents in. I did a little over a year of fat free vegan, and I lost 80 lbs. but I started having some health issues from not watching my micro nutrients. I quit that diet. I decided after a couple years that I still wasn't where I wanted to be, so I have tried a new diet and my wife and I love it. It is The Wilfe Diet from Able James. I do well with strict rules and structure around weight loss, so it works for me. It is basically paleo with less restrictions, a focus on quality food, and intermittent fasting. I have lost another 20 lbs between this a just watching what I eat then about 6 weeks ago changing over to this diet and loosing another 10-15lbs. My new fitness addition is putting Olympic Gymnastic rings and a ceiling mounted pull up bar in my garage and giving up the gym membership to work out at home. I work out there 3 days a week doing the Reddit Bodyweight Fitness RR, then yoga 2-3 days a week on my off days, and walk 1-2 miles a day on my lunch break playing Pokemon Go! So far so good, and I am by far in the best shape of my life.
Feel free to hit me up if you are interested in trying out any of this stuff, I would love to help someone else get in shape.
I am having a blast. There were 50 people in a local park all running around talking with each other and interacting. Smaller kids were playing, parents were catching pokemon. I overheard one guy say "I have brought my daughter up here to play every night." I have never seen this on a Monday Night in my life.
@scottalanmiller said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:
@irj said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:
...still falling....
Panic has triggered at this point.
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Tomorrow is my birthday, so I am celebrating Saturday. I plan on riding bikes with my wife, filling a growler with craft beer, and secretly drink it out of water bottles while riding around town. Beer + Bikes + day drinking is the best Saturday possible.
I see where he is coming from. Asking a question on this forum can be intimidating. For me personally I love it, I like being proven wrong, I like going to head to head. I have never won a debate with @scottalanmiller, and I like that, I learn from it. From what I have gathered in life a vast majority of people don't like this feeling, and take it personally.
30 year old me would love for 15 year old me to have taken this opportunity. 15 year old me would probably be too busy working on cars and playing in a band to take time out of his day for this kinda thing. This would be a killer opertunity for some lucky kid.
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
Another angle...
I think we can fix that...
I can relate. I remember thinking @scottalanmiller was this untouchable IT rock star from the SW community. Then in 2011 when I went to my first Spiceworld, and Scott was there. I went up to him like a fan girl, and ended up hanging out and having a beer. It made me realize that the people I look up too on the online community for advice and guidance were just real people who were smart, but worked their tail off and focused on life long learning. It made me reevaluate myself and how I viewed my role in IT and start focusing on those same principals so I could be on that level. I am now triple the computer professional I was, and still learning. That being said, I still keep the old Niagara Business card as an IT collector's item.
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I am religious, and these bill boards bug the hell out of me. They are threatening and accomplish absolutely no purpose.
I am a Christian. I can definitely imagine they bug folks who are athiests or non-Christians as well. But for me, they are reminders of what my purpose is on this earth.
(Aside from exorcising computers).
That's great it's reminding you of your purpose, but should that be done by threatening (real or perceived) the people you are trying to reach.
If your family was in a burning building, and you were the only one aware of the fire, what methods of warning them would you consider "too extreme"? Whether or not you agree with these people's views, understand the urgency, whether perceived or real.
Who hold on... you're comparing our lives to a burning building? That seems extreme!
Unless you think you're making it out of here alive, this life will consume you and you will die. If you (as the people who are bringing you these "threatening" messages) believe in such things as heaven and hell, well, not going to hell might be like getting saved from a fire.
So, if my family is in a burning building, I should get a billboard on the interstate and tell them about it? These billboards are a waste of time and an eye sore. I can't imagine anyone reading that and changing anything about themselves.
I think the idea is that every single life is precious. If your message reaches one single person, what is the value of that? If life is priceless, that's a lot of value.
If the the belief is that strong about life being important, Why not take the money that was spent on a eye sore billboard that could reach one person, and feed the hungry in your community for one day, buy kids a few coats, and a couple sleeping bags for a homeless man. Instead of blasting their opinion on deaf ears while people are driving.
I stumbled across this little gem on gem last week. NSFW language warning. http://www.wfplsiu.com/
Preston Lacy from Jackass is from my home town and comes back here all the time. I run into him at local bars. Super nice guy, but being the 1 celebrity in town, We try to leave him alone and not make stupid jokes while the guy is just trying to go out for a beer in peace.
I have been with a company for 3+ years now. Before this job I had constantly made up job titles from DB Manager, to Network Admin, to Systems Admin, when in reality I was an IT generalist with a CIS degree running a 1-2 man operation for a company with less than 500 employees. Now I am at a new job and my role is basically a Manufacturing Systems Integrator/ .Net Developer, but my job title is a made up title specific to this company ending in Technician and it doesn't reflect what I really do day to day. I have started pushing to upper management that I would like an industry standard job title, because I don't feel that my title respects the work I do. I am getting push back. I just wanted to open a discussion on if this is just ego, and title doesn't matter, or does it? Is is fair that I want to be called a developer or integrator, because it is what I do. It is hard to determine if I am being compensated fairly when my title is made up, but does that matter? What say you all?
@penguinwrangler As far as weight-loss goes you will typically get better results with weight-loss with strength training than cardio. When you do cardio, you burn more calories than sitting. When you lift weights you burn more calories, then your body will spend more calories rebuilding muscle the next day, then that new muscle now takes more calories to move, so you burn more in your day to day life. I am not saying you don't need cardio, but if your goal is weight loss at least consider doing a mix. I lift 3 days a week and ride my bike 6 miles round trip to and from work for my cardio. I started about where you were and I have slowly worked from 300lbs about 8 years ago down to 185, then back up to 200, and on a cut now to get to the 170's. Weight training is what took me from 220 to 185 and made a huge difference for me.
Also, you can not exercise off a bad diet. an 30min on the treadmill barely breaks even for a single bottle of soda.
We left LMI in 2013 or 2014 (can't remember) because we were in the same boat. They more than doubled the price, and said take or leave it. So we left for other options.
This thread was great. Not often on the internet you hear great advice, and somone willing to listen to it.
This should be a lesson in filtering what you post online in a public setting, not a reason to lock away certian parts of a site so you can post what you want. If you have a private question, use a private message. If you have a public question, change the names of people and businesses. If you want to rant and use real names, prepare for a valueable life lesson. This is about the only community on the internet I do post in reguallry, simply because the quality of the people, and information.
1997 Jeep Wrangler with 173,000 miles... my Daily Driver
2008 Honda Civic for the Wife
1972 Chevy El Camino Getting ready for a restore after a tornado ate it
Start with something like https://www.codecademy.com just to get your feet wet and understand what coding is.
I have had college level PC hardware and OS classes at 2 Universities, and that is the clearest, best explanation of CPU's I have ever read. Well done.
@MattSpeller I just can't do the Cammel back thing. I have a Drink Tank and a Trek Transport. I can easily pack lunch and beer for 2. Honestly, if I had more free time and better access to camping sites, I could pack a tent, a grill, and a few chairs too, but I digress.
Touch is gross IMHO. I don't understand why you would spend money on a High Def screen... then fingerprint the hell out of it trying to use it.
There have been a few posts around recently about what people are eating and cooking and recipes, so I wanted to share the service that our family uses. I used to work 8-5 while my wife worked afternoon/nights in television. I would come home from work and cook, and I got pretty good at it after 10 years or so. When we had our first child she became a stay at home, which meant she would be taking over cooking. She was an OK cook, but making a couple weekend meals isn't the same as cooking 6-7 nights a week for a family. Also, our biggest problem is we could never decide what we wanted, or what sounded good. We would also go buy groceries, and use less then half of each ingredient before it went bad.
Cooksmarts is a paid recipe service that is amazing. It is less than $10 bucks a month, and they put out 4 new recipes a week that are seasonal, with nutrition facts, from scratch cooking, and delicious. They also provide videos to learn how to prepare food. If you are busy, they have weekend prep that lets you prepare as much as you can before the week so on weeknights you throw everything together. Lastly they have ideas for how to use left overs and what can be frozen, etc.
The way it works is they send you 4 recipes a week, you select that week, or any archive week, and how many people will be eating each night. They show a groceries list and you check off what you already have in your kitchen. Then the site emails you a list by department what you need to get at the grocery store. The food is delicious, for example next week is International week so we are having Thai noodles with muscles, Mexican torta sandwiches, a French Nicoise salad, and Jamaican pork burgers with pineapple salsa.
I am not paid to endorse this company, I just absolutely love it. We have subscribed for about a year, eat better, lost a ton of weight, cut our grocery bill, my wife learned how to cook, and we no longer argue about what is for dinner, we just debate if we want the current week, or try something from the archives.
Is it happening on every user, or just one user? Is it happening with Excel open on a blank sheet, or is there a specific sheet that is causing the crash? If it is a specific sheet, does it include VBA?
@RojoLoco said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:
@thwr said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:
@s.hackleman said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:
@thwr said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:
There are lots of cool projects out there. What about some more pyrotechnics?
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hada weird anti Apple vibegoing the last couple days..FTFY. They do have some good products, but they are way overpriced. More like a status symbol, if you know what I mean.
I second that. No reason to buy an overpriced item just because that's what the "cool kids" like.
In the last 2 years i have drank the Kool-aid. I don't fan girl, it is nice just being able to buy a technology, and it just works.
I disabled all notifications on my phone trimmed about 60% of my Friend list.. now I don't mind it as much.
@scottalanmiller said in Website to Database Security:
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@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:
@scottalanmiller said in Website to Database Security:
@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:
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@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:
The other department says this is a security risk, and is requiring passthrough security. This means that every user would be added to a AD group with rights to the website and databases.
Well no. I'm not sure where passthrough security is coming from to begin with, maybe some more clarity there. But I'm not seeing it.
The users would need to be in an AD group with access to the website, yes. But none of them would have ANY access to the database, of course. Only the application would have access to the database. So something is wrong with that description compared to how you described it above.
I know, but no I described it right. That is what I am fighting. I am in the process of making my case for sanity.
So the other department doesn't know how applications or databases work? Just ignore them then, you won't be able to convince them without teaching them way too much to be worth it.
I wish I could, but in this case I have to get them on board. I wish I had a better response than office politics, but I know you understand how silly it can be sometimes.
I'd go to management and discuss the security risks of "random, non-technical input" and list this process as "social engineering endangering the company at an endemic management level." This is a reckless process that someone (maybe the CEO) should know about.
That is the case I am building, just checking my own sanity, and looking for information that is easy to digest.
In short non technical middle management making rules and enforcing them down on technical people.
But how did they get that power and why is the security head not stepping in to fix a problem? Why are their managers not protecting the company from them?
Next time I see you in person, I'll buy you a beer, and we can break it all down.
@scottalanmiller I sat down when this was first posted and watched the whole thing. I know the future is heading in this direction, I guess it didn't sit in until witnessing it first hand and seeing how real a threat like this can be.
My last post on here was picking your self up by the boots when an opportunity was missed. You guys couldn't have been more right. In the following weeks the School district that I had applied at has taken out a 8 million dollar loan to cover the rest of the expenses in opening their new building and people are working around the clock to make deadlines. It seems like a disaster. I have since applied and accepted a job for a construction products manufacture here is town. I will be going in as a System Integration Specialist and C# developer working on everything from factory automation programming to network design and infrastructure. It is a sweet job, better work/life balance and great benefits. Thanks for the supporting words, it was all a blessing in disguise.
I didn't get to watch it either, however I just made this jump. I left my job of 8 years with a little pep talk from SAM. I have never been happier, and a complete reboot and turning my world upside down has been awesome so far. Thanks again Scott.
