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The fontawesome CDN is running fine, so everyone point at @IRJ and laugh.

It's the fuzz! Ditch the topic!

@scottalanmiller said:

Basically

He's reached a uniform state of entropy, not many can say that.

I used to have a really complicated bashrc and bash_profile file, now I jsut don't gaive a damn. sanme reason i didn't spell check this.

@thanksajdotcom said:

Maybe it was a new minion trying to suck up? @g.jacobse

Or just paying tribute to the queen, we all gotta hold on to our land somehow, I'm afraid of a peasant uprising myself.

People sure like voting down my posts without explaining why they disagree, great way to not stick by your convictions. If you disagree, say something, don't be a wuss.

I can shake the hell out of a vending machine.

I tried to find the Simpsons clip of Homer beating the hell out of a vending machine and screaming, but I couldn't, so settle for this:

Youtube Video

I can't believe you people, Microsoft works hard for that money and... lol I can't even finish this sentence.

Goldfish will grow infinitely and get as large as their environment will allow. They don't need to be mutants. The concept of "normal size" for a gold fish is based completely upon our perception of them in a fish bowl or aquarium.

Having said that, I'm pretty sure that's a higoi or ogon koi fish anyway, and they're normally that big.

I have a thing for fish.

@mlnews said:

First world employment problems

This isn't a news post, get back to work!

creates script to post 320 new topics

The photograph of Dracula's nephew, i.e. you, is in a different container, you cannot remove that space without rewriting the HTML.

Right now you have:

• div with class single-entry-details that has your photo
• header with class single-entry header with the date, etc
• div with class single-entry-content with the content you're having trouble with

You've got two containers above what you wish to align, you cannot align text outside of a block element like that, especially two of them.

In other words remove the container with the photo, which I highly recommend. If you wish to have your photo on the page, you should put it on the menu on the right, not within the content of the page. Page content should only have applicable information, and this post seems to be about 7zip, not about AJ. Context is important for SEO.

Otherwise your photo needs to be in that last div I mentioned, and the simplest thing to do would be to add align="left" attribute to it. So...

<div class="single-entry-content">
   <img src="....." align="left">
...

But all of the messing with margins, padding, using negative numbers, etc will never, ever, ever collapse the text properly since they're in different containers/block level elements, so I hope you didn't waste time with that, I see people do that all the time.

@thanksajdotcom said:

I complain about a lot of things, sure. However I also have made many comments about how much I enjoy working there, how much I care about my job, some of the great people I work with, and so on. I don't deal well with people who are lazy or apathetic at the store, because that job is very personal to me. It's the reason I'm good at my job and why people come back to see ME and ONLY me. So yes, I complain. But it's because I'm frustrated by things that I can't fix, and I'm the kind of person who likes to fix things.

Management, HR, etc never see the complements, 10,000 complements mean nothing compared to 1 complaint, and they can take any complaint and make it into a bigger deal than you think. You have to remember that other people cannot understand/read your own feelings about things. Also consider if someone important saw any one of your bad comments, none of your good ones, by the time you tried to explain it to the person firing you, it'll be too late.

I paid for and received the MCSA, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP, most of the CompTIA ones which "matter", among many others, none of which have really proved useful to me at all, some were redundant to others -- a lot you actually have to get every year or at least renew them, I haven't done that in at least a decade.

The one thing I did get out of it was that studying for them, while I did know the material very well already, it helped fill in some gaps here in there. I recommend people study for them even if they aren't going to actually get them since you can learn a lot.

As an employer, I don't pay people more if they have certs, it's based on experience alone, but that's just me.

@thanksajdotcom said:

Oh I know that. Thankfully I know none of those people will ever see this. Even if the word Staples is triggered in corporate's monitoring of the online usage of it, there are pretty much no links to their site from this site and no one at corporate cares about what I have to say. We have a hard enough time getting them to address REAL issues that are brought up by someone like the GM.

You're using security through obscurity. I've been told twice before by my own employees that they didn't think anyone would see what they wrote either. People find things, usually by accident, and it gets reported, and you have your photograph with what I assume is probably your real initials, it wouldn't be hard for someone to figure this out.

@scottalanmiller said:

I definitely recommend certs, just getting them strategically and making sure to get lots of value out of them as an educational process and not relying on them purely as a career growth item.

Agreed, the problem I think comes from a lot of people think the absolute inverse of that and see more value in college or certs than experience.

My point is, the USSR went on without Stalin and a single Staples store can go on without you.

Here is some semi-useless advice which won't answer your questions.

Company A, Company B, etc is hard to follow. In examples you should replace them with real words, like:

Company A -> Aquotronics
Company B -> Bluebolt
Company C -> Crashcourse

It's like with maths problems where people use Person A and Person B instead of Arthur and Bethany or something.

It makes it hard to keep it all in memory and think about it, at least for people like me (dyslexics) when the names are all almost identical except for 1 letter.

Now to actually respond to what you said, in addition to all said above, several years ago we merged with another company, and several years before that another... well we acquired them but hey, I'm trying to help, let's not get into semantics.

In both cases we had setup domain trusts and moved mailboxes over, and gave the users multiple email addresses (outgoing / default / primary being the primary company) when they were acquired users. This way they'd still get email going to their old email address(es). What objects we couldn't move we simply recreated.

The general approach in both cases was that we get everyone working in both environments, i.e. the environments are working together (in both cases a VPN was setup to make this easy) and move similar users in blocks. So all receptionists switched over after we moved phone logging software over, and HR, and technical people, and so on.

It took about a week. The first time we ran into some problems, primarily because at the time it was more difficult to move things cross forest, and the last time it was a lot easier.

The biggest thing was getting remote users switched during their off time so that when they came in they'd be ready to go, just connecting to a different server. Some users (receptionists) were confused by this the first time, so we made sure to make it clear the second time around.

You're correct in thinking of doing it in such a way as to make the biggest disruptions happen last, however you also have to think of it in terms of what is needed to be done hierarchically, that is to say, if some software requires the users all users be moved first and subsequently they can't go back (maybe it stores things in AD, for example) then you have plan that out as well.

It's not a great, direct answer, but I hope it provided some insight since I've been down this road before.

@scottalanmiller You know I can't quit you

Something I never talk about, but based on above I feel I should note I give away most of my money beyond the amount I think is necessary for the financial future of my family, and that's my extended family too. I also have bought property and so forth for other people and groups. This is why I do hate other millionaires, they go well beyond what they could ever possibly spend, and yet horde it.

I understand the idea of wanting more, because I still even want more money, because to me it's a way to measure success, but I don't need all of it. So, I give it to other people who, despite how hard they work, won't ever, ever, ever have even a decent income. I don't lie to myself and say "well if these Bosniak orphans work hard enough they'll be able to..." It's possible, but the odds are so against them, and most other people, I couldn't live with myself otherwise and that may be because I also grew up in poverty.

So what I'm saying is, I'm not Sting or someone like that. I think this may be the first I've even written about doing this online maybe. Certainly, I'm not going to hold others to a standard I don't live up to myself.

I think the American mindset @scottalanmiller mentioned above is a huge problem when it comes not to people helping others, I think Americans are just as generous as anyone else, but rather when it comes to helping themselves or doing what may benefit them as well as others.

Edit: Clarification, though I linked to the Islamic principles involving those two concepts, I don't limit to Islamic organisations. I also don't donate to anything which doesn't actively help people. In other words, donating to a ballet and calling it charity is silly, especially if it's an already wealthy ballet. I mostly contribute to healthcare and helping bombed out families back home.