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@TAHIN said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

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@scottalanmiller said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

@Breffni-Potter said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

I'm on a huge foodie change at the moment.

The biggest change I've made is, getting up earlier, having a substantial breakfast and I already feel way better have 3 weeks of that, more awake/energetic during the day, more productive.

I'm the opposite. Breakfast makes me tired all day. And hungry too, so much more hungry when I eat breakfast.

Breakfast kickstarts metabolism, no matter what it is, so the hunger is natural. Sugary breakfast makes me instantly tired and hungry, but fiber, protein, and carbs will carry me through lunch. Breakfast should be a good 400 calories to really count.

Someone needs to hack that metabolism-thingy. Or maybe remove it from the repo.

@Dashrender said in 10" HDMI 1080P displays:

Honestly I have no idea in the TV space.

When you hook up a 1366 x 768 monitor to a PC, the video card knows the resolution of the monitor and attempts to us only that.

I don't know if TVs work the same way or not. I want to make sure that my new TV will be displaying at it's best resolution possible, even if a lower res one is attached to the second output.

TVs and monitors store their possibile resolutions in a small IC and your PC will query this (keyword is EDID).

Anyway, most modern TVs and monitors support some form of upscaling, thus they are calculating the rest of the picture. If your screen doesn't support that, you can:

• Place an upscaling device in front (Denon AV receivers for example are doing a good job here). Something else (just an example): http://www.amazon.com/Panlong-PL-SH2H-Converter-Upscaler-Consoles/dp/B00D86UYBS
• Upscale the content on the video source. Relatively easy with a PC, hard with something like an old video cam.

You could even DIY, but that requires some knowledge. What is the exact use case / purpose? Digital (HDMI) or analog source?

@wirestyle22 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@thwr said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@wirestyle22 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@dafyre I'm just an AI anyway guys. This is what your tax dollars bought. I know, disappointed.

what's the I in AI? Just kidding

Illiterate

That's ok. But we are getting a bit off-topic here.

@BBigford said in New KVM recommendation:

@scottalanmiller said in New KVM recommendation:

We moved to OOB systems (ILO, DRAC, IPMI) as our KVMoIP solution around 2002 and never looked back. Best KVM systems ever.

[...] our new Mac Mini server (hold your fire!) [...]

Damn...
Youtube Video

@Son-of-Jor-El said in Yahoo! Sold to Verizon:

@thwr said in Yahoo! Sold to Verizon:

... and Marissa Mayer wants to stay.

She may be the best part of Yahoo.

In case Verizon wants to fire a few people? Just asking... But I guess the best part of yahoo is their investment portfolio in the Asian market.

Right now: Building a system to stream the desktop from Raspberry Pi2 #1 to Pi2 #2 for a fair using VNC. Pi #2 will be attached to some large screen while Pi #1 does some presentation on the official Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen. There will be a little distance (a few meters) between both.

Why no HDMI wireless repeater? You can render to both (DSI and HDMI) just fine, but not on X on a Pi AFAIK. There's just a single framebuffer [1, 2, 3, 4]. That's why I had to fetch a stream from the desktop Transfer via VNC over Ad-Hoc-Wifi or CAT 6a.

As far as I understood, Jared's initial statement was a bit misleading. He works for 42 hours and can split that in any way he likes, which is ok. I've worked both ways and both have their pros and cons. I don't care much for the exact model, time card or fixed salary.

If someone wants me on standby 24/7, he would have to open his wallet. Very wide.

@scottalanmiller said in Can't cancel auto renew on godaddy domain:

@Jason said in Can't cancel auto renew on godaddy domain:

@thwr said in Can't cancel auto renew on godaddy domain:

@Jason So that guy saw your post here?

Yeah, sadly they can't post here. Godaddy employees apparently aren't allowed too.

That's a crappy policy. Having no voice for customer service is problematic.

Yeah, but it seems like ML is getting a name

@DustinB3403 said in PowerShell is now open source:

I wouldn't say interesting so much as, what's taken them so long to do it?

It's a management code base for the purposes of maintaining servers, this should've been OS'd at it's inception.

But to be honest, PowerShell is a very mighty system. Every (good) cmdlet will give you some object-oriented output which can be piped to another cmdlet. (Ba)sh on the other hand is working with plain stdin/stdout/stderr, so basically strings. For example, there's no need for awk in PowerShell at all.

@Dashrender What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@thwr said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

I'm just curious: How would an ideal candidate for NTG look like?

Early 20s. Bikini model. I mean if we are looking for ideal.

Ok, well, I have at least some awesome stories to tell in this direction.

@scottalanmiller said in New KVM recommendation:

@dafyre said in New KVM recommendation:

@scottalanmiller said in New KVM recommendation:

@BBigford said in New KVM recommendation:

@scottalanmiller said in New KVM recommendation:

Most of our servers all have iLO, iDRAC. I haven't used IPMI... Some of our older servers don't have the built in tools.

Have you considered adding them? Buying external KVM is no different than adding them in. We used to add in used cards for like $20.

Addin cards for what? iDRAC / iLO? I thought you had to buy some kind of software licenses for those?

You didn't have to when you bought them as external cards.

These cards are often externally or battery powered embedded controllers that let you power on your hardware for example.

@Dashrender said in Indian Authorities Arrest Seventy and Question Over Six Hundred in IRS Scam Bust:

Damn.

"We had a mole go in to the call centres to verify. The best part is that they were actually recording all their calls. We have recovered 851 hard disks on which the calls were recorded, so we’re going through those now," Singh told The Guardian.

Awesome - I wonder who paid them to do that?

Better ask another question: Who wrote precise instructions to do so.

@Dashrender said in 10" HDMI 1080P displays:

But the ability to force this type of change seems unlikely on AV equipment. So I'm wondering, does the AV equipment know what the receiving display is capable of outputting, or does it not care and just output whatever it's set to?

Both ends negotiate about protocols, codecs, resolution and so on. After this "handshaking" the sender will choose the best that was offered by the receiver. A good sender may allow you to choose a mode from a list. I'm not a Yammi fanboy, so I can't help with your receiver.

https://www.videopro.com.au/t-hdmi-demystified.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott, I think most of the people here now at least have an idea where your initial question comes form.

This indeed sounds good great awesome, but you also clearly mentioned the downsides factors like the on-call and no-vacations thing, something that is hard to come by when you first encounter this as an employee. But I guess that NTG members don't see themselves as employees, but more like a family from what I've been reading here. Especially the "longevity" is something that seems to be uncommon in the US, at least in IT.

Congrats man, wish you and your family all the best.

@travisdh1 said in More bad news for Rochester, NY:

https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-to-Close-5-Call-Centers-Impacting-3200-Employees-138099

Verizon closing down a number of call centers... as if their customer service wasn't already terrible enough. One of the call centers is apparently in Rochester, NY. You're job market just got even worse

They will probably open a new one. In Romania. Or even worse, in Egypt. Seen that before

Just got two "magnetic charging cables" from Amazon Marketplace, both DoA. Great, thanks...

@dafyre said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

@guyinpv said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

As a person with no real computer repair skills, all of that study was a huge foundation for me. It's not the A+ test or cert that teaches anything, it's how much study and experience you get/need to pass it in the first place. I actually failed the hardware part of the test at first due to all the friggin nonsense trivia questions.

Why the {self moderated} {censored} {bleeping} {honk} do I need to know the L2 Cache on an 8088 CPU? Pentiums had been out 4 years at that point, and the P2s were just hitting the market when I took my test.

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You had to learn history in school, so why not in IT?
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