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Now they've gold-plated our electricity grid, I probably don't need the UPS. But Sod's (Murphy's) Law says if I decommission it then we will get a series of blackouts. BR |
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12-23-2017, 12:02 PM | #78 | |
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12-23-2017, 12:30 PM | #79 |
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12-23-2017, 03:35 PM | #80 | |
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12-23-2017, 06:19 PM | #81 | |
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I use MSYS2 for some of my personal stuff and I prefer it. Mostly for not having to deal with the Cygwin installer. But preferring it and having the time to work through any issues, let alone persuading other folks to switch, they're two different things. |
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12-24-2017, 12:03 AM | #83 |
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12-24-2017, 02:40 AM | #84 | |
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Went to JB Hi-fi, asked to look at their cheapest phones, was offered a Huawei, an LG and a Nokia - all $199. I asked, why would I give you 200 bucks for one of those when I can go up the road to Officeworks and get a Moto for less than 150. The sales person tapped away on her sales gadget and after a bit of to-and-fro she eventually said she could do the Nokia in black for $160. Done I said, providing you help me get it working. As we did that I asked, so where's the doco -- what's doco she asked Half an hour later I walked out with a working phone. Given its Christmas Eve I assumed the joint would be full, but it wasn't, very un-busy. Obviously everyone is buying on-line where you can't haggle, where you can't hold a proper conversation, where you can't get the sales person to work for their shilling, or share a smile amidst some friendly banter. Don't tell me shopping online is faster. I also went to the grocers and bought cheese, salami, potato salad, kombucha, bread etc -- and a pork pie. And I got some exercise walking to the bus and back etc. BR |
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12-24-2017, 12:15 PM | #85 | |
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Now the grocery store chain we like is not as busy. We are going to change stores though because the Market Street store has better everything and is well stocked. |
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12-24-2017, 12:43 PM | #86 | |
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I do get occasional issues where a breaker blows and must be reset, but that's at best an annoyance. Most things come back up. My desktop must be restarted, but it boots from SSD and comes up quickly. The application I'm running use usually Firefox, but its current state is saved and I tend not to lose things in that case. I did have an interesting experience years back. I got home from the office, and was about to have dinner when my office called. The night shift was having trouble logging into one of my servers. I could get in just fine via SSH from home... I lived in walking distance, so I covered dinner and wandered down to have a look I found everyone sitting on their hands. Not only was the Solaris server that was the main one used down, so was the Novell server. I restarted both and my irony meter pegged off scale as I watched the big mutha UPS they were plugged into glitch and put both down again. Unplug servers from UPS, find other places to plug them in, pull UPS for repair/replacement, restart servers, do cleanup, and get everyone back on line. At 10pm I could finish interrupted dinner. Go to bed, and get awakened at 2am by a call from the night lead supervisor. She's trying to fill out nightly production reports, and having problems getting to the NT server where the forms are stored. I blink sleep out of my eyes, suggest a couple of things she can try, and say "If they don't work, leave a note on my desk. I'll send them for you in the morning." I get awakened again at 2:30am by the night supervisor. She just wants to tell me she could get to the forms and send the results, and I didn't need to worry about it. Er, leave a note on my desk? The next day was an integration meeting, because we were being acquired and merged, and were discussing how to integrate our respective IT setups. The SVP who hired me said "How are you, Dennis?" and I said "Tired!" and explained why. When I got to the 2am and 2:30am calls, his eyes got very big, and he said "Why is she calling you at that time in the morning over something that trivial?" "It's because she doesn't know it's trivial. She's trying to do her job and dot Is and cross Ts. I respect that, which is why she's still alive. She needs to be informed by her boss that stuff like that can wait till morning and she doesn't need to wake me, and yes, I've already had that conversation with him." She was later released by the company, and my "read between the lines" assumption from the announcement was "Too stupid to do the job." ______ Dennis |
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12-28-2017, 07:12 PM | #89 | |
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I live in New York City. Everything I need on a daily basis is available within a couple of blocks walk. My SO shops in Chinatown on Thursdays for things like roast port and beef neck bones for soup, and that's a convenient subway ride. Online shopping is mostly for tech gear, but I get the best of both worlds. My preferred computer retailer is in the borough of Brooklyn, and a hop, skip, and jump away by subway. I can order online, have the order picked, and go pick it up, same day, instead of order now and get it delivered sometime next week. Because I usually need this sort of thing now rather than later, that's a considerable boon. But then, I live somewhere where things are in convenient walking distance. I recognize that others may not have that advantage. ______ Dennis |
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12-28-2017, 07:25 PM | #90 | |
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Awesome typo. Are they roasting where ships come in or are they roasting wine? Both sound interesting. Can't say I've ever had roast port. I am having roast pork for dinner. |
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