@jaredbusch would you have like to have been selected?

I was requested to attend for jury service once when younger. Turned up with long hair and a Jimmi Hendrix shoulder bag. Didn't get selected, wonder why?

monday morning. spent the weekend with my dear old mum. getting old really sucks.

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

sitting at a desk, downloading w1021h2-x64 iso ... again. I gotta get organised.

I stumbled across these a couple of months ago.

uupdump.net
AveYou - GitHub

Magnificent, thanks. Now all I gotta do is try to remember I know about these!

Bloody memory, I can't remem . . . . . . . what am I doing?

saw this in the latest Veeam email thing.

"And finally, something to make you smile: of all the things they say "buried in the fine print" about, paragraph 42.10 of the AWS Service Terms wins hands down!"

def worth reading.

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Just sent payment for the remaining balance for the wedding venue

When's the funeral are you getting hitched?

Ha! February 19th

still plenty of time to take a fast boat to cuba then a jet to switzerland.

was it groucho marx that said "marriage is a fine institution, but who wants to live in an institution"?

31 years in and counting .... where did the time go?

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This is fantastic.... random jewel discovered on Bandcamp:

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/

not my cup of tea really. I'll wait for them to release Vista.

did you see the album covers? They look like 8" floppy covers.

@scotth I started off on this crazy journey as an electronics tech, spent everyday using a cro of some description.

i can remember one time, i really wanted to work in the r&d area of this company where I worked, they were looking for a junior tech/engineer & I really wanted the position.

I got the spot and I still remember day 1. They sat a huge Techtronix cro on my bench, this thing had more buttons and knobs that anything. I reckon it took me 10 minutes to find the on/off switch.

must be look at old stuff week?

pulled out my old CRO on Saturday, hadn't turned it on for close to 20 years...

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth I started off on this crazy journey as an electronics tech, spent everyday using a cro of some description.

i can remember one time, i really wanted to work in the r&d area of this company where I worked, they were looking for a junior tech/engineer & I really wanted the position.

I got the spot and I still remember day 1. They sat a huge Techtronix cro on my bench, this thing had more buttons and knobs that anything. I reckon it took me 10 minutes to find the on/off switch.

It is so 'Star Trek'. I can imagine how intimidating it would have been. The more switches and buttons, the better.

I was extremely fortunate in my young life to be hired as a corporate flight attendant. I was cabin crew on an executive airliner -- BAC 1-11 401AK.

I was permitted to help with maintenance, preflight, attend training. The boys would teach me how the systems worked on the airplane. And yes, I have sat in the right seat during flight.

I quit college and landed this job through sheer luck. Although college would have benefitted me orders of magnitude more than this job.

I can honestly say that I don't regret the opportunity. I was 19 and would sit in the jump seat during any/all operations of flight. I lost that job when I was 27. An entirely other lifetime ago. Dare I say that I'm 62 now?

Major geek moments!

Awesome stories! But... Maybe I should get off your lawn now?

Hahahahaha. No stay there, I'll bring the mower over & you can be useful.

had a great weekend.

went down to the city on Friday afternoon. got there about 8:30pm, met our son at the pub and had a great night meeting with his friends, drinking beer and listening to some alt country band outta nashville.

saturday was a free day and ended the day by over eating on thai food and rolling home.

sunday went and saw Rockwiz live and got to meet the presenters back stage.

now back at work.

binged the Matrix movies over the last 3 days. they left the last one wide open for 5th film.
still reckon the original is the best.

how things change.

years ago I was a contractor for the state police force. one saturday morning we were scheduled to upgrade the chief commissioners desktop pc.

there we were, (had to have 2 of us for on site for security reasons), working away, I was sitting in the chief's seat doing what had to be done, next thing, the door swings open and 2 protective security guys bust in, hands on holstered pistols, "what are you guys doing here" ....

this morning I helped a 7 y.o with log in issues with ABC reading eggs.

hello. dropping back in to say hello.
been really busy, then went away on hols for 8 weeks.

nice weather today, looks like we'll be having some sunshine for the next 3-4 days which is welcome.

I'm not getting board emails, dunno why?

@travisdh1 that's a good idea.

I know it's a shipt topic, but ....

I can remember the trouble my mum had when dad passed away & there's been a few folks who are friends of friends who have died suddenly, just makes you think....

already planning my annual holiday.
cape york heads the list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_Peninsula

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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sitting in a slightly darkened room starting tuesday.
milder than it should be. 'they' say it's going to be a warmer winter than usual with less rain.

had the 2 yearly pay review last week. got an extra buck twenty an hour, so that's an extra 0.60 per hour extra for the past 2 years.

i was earning more in the 90s. anyone else in that bag?

Not now, but that was me between 2014-2022.

yeah, it sucks. too late for me to do anything about that unfortunately, i got other plans for my life now, which is good, less IT, more life.

coffee number 2 on a reasonably sunny sunday morning.

went down the beach yesterday, lovely. still water, large waves for this beach gently rolling in evenly, very few folks around.

tidying up an overlooked AD

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Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.

Not sure how I feel about it.

I liked it when I did it. And then regretted it when the instability and hardware problems came, and the lack of vendor protection. It's weird the things you don't think about in iOS are often the killer features. From an interface and usability standpoint, I liked the Android better.

The whole vendor support thing really irks me, as some vendors support for their phones varies by model.
Luckily(?) I'm got the use of a Pixel phone and updates are good (just got Android 14 today!).

Even Pixel update support sucks monkey ****. They're great at getting updates out for supported devices, but devices are only supported for 3 years from the first day the device was sold in retail. For those of us that don't update phones regularly, that still blows. Apple has Google beat hands down in this area.

I say this while my personal phone is still a Pixel 3a XL. It works fine, but I've been growing more concerned over lack of updates for a while now. While I know I should upgrade, it's working great still.

Root it and install a custom rom? I've done that when I've managed to keep a phone beyond it's usual updates.

I've been looking, but haven't decided on a rom yet.

i've always had android, since smartphones began. just can't make myself get an iphone. now i no longer care, purchasing is based on cost. recently had to get, didn't want to, had to get, a new phone. hard to go past a samsung with more features in it than an iphone for only $AU350.00.

not saying android is better than iOS, I don't care, but I am saying that spending $350 is way better than over $1000.

Go you good thing.

I just cannot stand that saying.