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Baking coconut buttermilk and apple cakes (english recipe included) with my wife for tomorrow.

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Erm, since when is Google doing this?

celebrating birthdays?

Actually inserting "custom" doodles based on your personal data

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Erm, since when is Google doing this?

celebrating birthdays?

Actually inserting "custom" doodles based on your personal data

Are you logged into google on that browser?

No clue when that started, but frankly, not surprised one bit. FB's been doing it for nearly ever.

Most people who have a Google account have their b-day in there, so this would take 1 second worth of coding to add.

Sure, it's not rocket science. But I never noticed this before, that's the point.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Erm, since when is Google doing this?

celebrating birthdays?

Actually inserting "custom" doodles based on your personal data

What?!

There's a doodle saying "Happy birthday Thorsten". Guess what "th" in "thwr" means Never saw this before, that's why I'm asking.

OH and assuming it is.. Happy Birthday.

Thank you. Not a big fan of birthdays.

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Erm, since when is Google doing this?

celebrating birthdays?

Actually inserting "custom" doodles based on your personal data

What?!

There's a doodle saying "Happy birthday Thorsten". Guess what "th" in "thwr" means Never saw this before, that's why I'm asking.

OH and assuming it is.. Happy Birthday.

Thank you. Not a big fan of birthdays.

but you get to be the center of attention!

Hey, I'm root. How much more would you like to be in the spotlight?

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ordered half of UBNTs warehouse today. At least it feels like that.

Sounds like a big project.

Complete network refresh at a large research institute.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ordered half of UBNTs warehouse today. At least it feels like that.

Sounds like a big project.

Complete network refresh at a large research institute.

Nice. Great experience.

Definitely another great chance to learn something new. That's what I like about our profession.

Unpacked my new monitors today. Dell U2518D. I guess I might have had worser screens in the past.

But there's also another factor: I'm using a Surface Pro 2017 and its ultra high quality display makes nearly every other screen look like ... well, you think you will need glasses soon when you look at others.

Ripped out half of the two to ten meter cables in our two patch racks today. Replaced them with 0,25cm cords (patchpanel, 48 port switch, patchpanel).

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr Do you find this soothing? I do

Professional cabling, but it doesn't make sense for us. CAT 7 cables run into two patch racks and the old cabling was like... spaghetti. Ran from rack 1 (patch field) to rack 4 (switches). Just moved (or more precisely: bought new ) the switches to the first two racks. Now there are just 400 very short cables.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Lots of people say OCD but aren't referring to the medical condition. Real OCD isn't much like what people use it to mean. It's a medical term used very loosely in general practice. Much as people use schizophrenic to mean things that are very different than the actual condition.

Real OCD is a maniacal disorder.

"Zwangsstörung". We're using the term in the same fashion.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going through the end of the work day.

I think I'll go to bed in a few minutes

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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Looking for an all in one laser printer.

• Low volume (approx. 10-15k pages / yr)
• Color
• A4 (~ US Letter)
• Scan (incl. scan to fileshare)
• Fax (ya, we'll get rid of this soon never)
• Duplex scan
• Duplex print
• Two paper trays (>= 250 sheets / tray)
• Preferably no bloatware drivers

Ideas?

Looks like a showdown between Kyocera Ecosys M5526cdn and Brother MFC-L8690CDW.

Anyone using one of them?

I don't like Brother printers. At least none of the ones we've got here.
Mrs nadnerB has been looking at MFC's for our house and found Brother doesn't fair so well in the long run, hardware wise.

I despise their "Control Center" software and am not overly impressed with their hardware.

I will state that I'd take one over a Fuji-Xerox.

From what Mrs nadnerB and I have seen in the lower spec space, the Kyocera would be the better of the two.

Brother's have lasted us at work far longer than Xerox and HP printers, both printer and MFC.

As with everything, your mileage may vary.

Hehe, yep. Anyway, I was about to place an order until I saw where the Kyocera stores its toner cartridges: on the right side. Now guess where the right side of the printer will be placed - next to a wall.

Will order an HP 477dn instead. A little plus: You can adjust the display position, so you could use it without getting up from your chair. The printer itself will be placed on a desk.

Well, it's the printer that my boss and his secretary share. The old one (some HP Color LaserJet 20xx) lasted for nearly 10 years and tens of thousands of pages. Just want to do our secretary a favor because right now she has three devices on her desk: Printer, scanner and a fax machine. I think a good MFC will serve her well.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.

A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.

Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.

Hehe, that's what I thought too. Wasn't it Epson who threw a pro ink printer on the market with 1.5 liter ink bags?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.

A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.

Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.

Of course I'm talking dot matrix... why would you use anything else?

That was my first printer.

My dad used a 9 dot matrix printer approx. 3 decades ago to print his application. Glued fine embossed paper to the endless paper and printed using... erm, Symphony? Star Writer? Good old times.

Good content works best, IMHO. Crossposting links may help, but what Google really likes is good content.

@kelly said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Is there a way to incorporate an article/blog portion in addition to the discussion threads? It seems difficult to find things here overall, and there is some very good information that is harder to locate/sift through since it isn't distilled down to a how-to/article.

That's a major problem here. We had some very good discussions in the past, but sometimes it just seems that information vanishes into void. NodeBB features a great search function and content tagging, but that's only half of what could be needed.

What about a big "Community best practices" project. We could start to work out best practices based on repetitive topics, for example. How to create users? How to I setup XYZ. How to enable AD Recycle Bin... There's so much that could be collected.

@wirestyle22 said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@thwr said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@wirestyle22 said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@thwr said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@kelly said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Is there a way to incorporate an article/blog portion in addition to the discussion threads? It seems difficult to find things here overall, and there is some very good information that is harder to locate/sift through since it isn't distilled down to a how-to/article.

That's a major problem here. We had some very good discussions in the past, but sometimes it just seems that information vanishes into void. NodeBB features a great search function and content tagging, but that's only half of what could be needed.

What about a big "Community best practices" project. We could start to work out best practices based on repetitive topics, for example. How to create users? How to I setup XYZ. How to enable AD Recycle Bin... There's so much that could be collected.

Community Knowledgebase?

Maybe not just a knowledgebase but everything the average SMB admin could need.

We could tag a bunch of threads something specific for that and work on it collectively

I think the threads are great - for discussions. But what if we compile what we talked about into small how to's and best practices?

@scottalanmiller said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Of course, you mention SEO and instantly spam bots appear.

Mission accomplished