So much beauty in the universe, thinking about it too much... it's dusty in here alright?!

This launch woke us up on Saturday morning. I had no idea there was a launch. It scared the crap out of us at first lol.

Other than the whole airspeed vs ground speed sound barrier thing - a fast flight is always nice!

@Minion-Queen said:

Not really sure there isn't a ton yet. I do know that it works with IOS. So in theory I should be able to add things that and from that I can import easily into Exchange.

It has an app for iOS. I'm not sure if that qualifies as "works with iOS." My understanding is that it adds appointments to its own app, not to iOS or Android. Hopefully they expand that feature.

Once 3D printing is cheap enough, it is really going to change a lot of things. Amazon will primarily deliver plastic and metal printer cartridges instead of finished products much of the time.

@Nic said:

All the major populations are on the coastline. There's not much inland other than mining towns and the tourist industry at Alice Springs.

Not that much different than the US. More extreme, but same idea. Just think of the Great Lakes as a coastline and it mostly lines up. If you consider the Mississippi a coast too (it basically is) then it really turns into that.

@thanksaj said:

@nadnerB said:

I've heard that lead delivered at high velocity fixes this.

I take it you're not a cat fan?

Correct.
I'll leave it at that, this is not the thread for more details. 🙂

I must say that this does not make me want to fly on United if I can help it!

Hello to all!
Back to work now..
Happy New year again 🙂

@Martin9700 "Which seems odd if you're trying to do automation and NOT spend tons of money. So many things you can do with PowerShell! We have 2 dedicated servers at my work that ALL they do is run PowerShell scripts (maybe 1 old VBS)!"

Not really. Group Policy handles almost all the automation I need. Windows is a wrapper for some legacy applications, that's about it. I don't need Windows to do much except "not crash".

99.95% of my "automation" is done on Linux systems. The overwhelming majority of that automation is pulling various kinds of information from various systems, translating, then injecting. For example, pulling an HTML report from one server, stripping out the useful information and then translating that to XML, which we then inject via API into another system.

I do virtually all of that work with PHP and shell scripts. All the rest of the automation I require is VMware-based, and most of htat is handled by actual applications (like Veeam).

For me at least, Windows is a legacy platform. It's something I'm forced to use, not something I choose to use. When and where there is a specific need to mount up a Windows application, I will. Outside of that, everything I run goes on Linux. The licensing is just easier.

Well I live in Houston, would suck to rent a car here for where I live.

Yeah, worked from 10PM-7AM straight, tossed and turned for an hour before I got a call to work at 8AM, and I've been working since...

Ha ha, little does he know that people actually called! Not a good scammer.

The girls setup in the living room to try and catch Santa.

They got 5 minutes into Rise of the Guardians.

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@IRJ said:

That's nuts

👍 bonus upvote for your clever pun 😄

@Dashrender Makes me hungry for that sweet sweet advertising money. If only I was at all telegenic or entertaining.

@Nic said:

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AWESOMESAUCE!

That book is hilarious.

@scottalanmiller said:

In general, I am not a fan of NASA's involvement in space exploration for the past few decades. They pushed us too far too fast and it cost way too much and delivered way too little. Way past time for them to step aside and let private companies do it where it makes sense. Not where politicians demand that it goes.

While, I am not a huge NASA fan, I also have no problem with them. The problem is that NASA was not allowed to be. They had to do what they were told by people that had not clue.