What Are You Doing Right Now
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Found it quite entertaining that the Western Digital rep that argues with me about RAID turns out to not even have an passing familiarity with RAID 1: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1863505-raid-10-usable-space
Nothing wrong with not knowing your RAID basics, but this is someone whose been pretty violently opposed to the RAID knowledge discussed and collected in the community. Obviously he's never actually read any of it because we talk about these things constantly, provide references for them and, quite frankly, this is entry level knowledge that both CompTIA and Microsoft have required for decades in their entry level exams and is just the most basic stuff to know about mirrored RAID. Even if you didn't know RAID at all, just knowing most servers or RAID implementations would expose this regardless. Not knowing it for a storage vendor's rep (who argues with people trying to defend his position on RAID options) is.... ridiculous.
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Had my first welding experience and built a stand for an old grill body to use as a fire pit. My first welds aren't pretty,.. but they are solid and will hold.
Rather impressed that I only burned a hole in one spot,.. and was able to (with guidance) fill it back in.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had my first welding experience and built a stand for an old grill body to use as a fire pit. My first welds aren't pretty,.. but they are solid and will hold.
Rather impressed that I only burned a hole in one spot,.. and was able to (with guidance) fill it back in.
That's cool. I've done welding and brazing but I totally suck at both. What material did you weld and what kind of welding did you do?
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Interesting side not, NTG's founder funded much of the startup through his twenties as a diesel tank welder!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had my first welding experience and built a stand for an old grill body to use as a fire pit. My first welds aren't pretty,.. but they are solid and will hold.
Rather impressed that I only burned a hole in one spot,.. and was able to (with guidance) fill it back in.
That's cool. I've done welding and brazing but I totally suck at both. What material did you weld and what kind of welding did you do?
Not sure the steel content,.. but some retired heavy duty shelving units - and gasless MIG. He also as a stick welder, but this was faster and simpler. It was commented of all the students my Father in law has had, those were some of the best first welds he has seen. He taught AG Mechanics for years, so he knows a bit about all welding..
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@gjacobse Very nice. I've done a few kinds of welds including MIG, TIG and OA open flame in educational settings and lots of spot industrially.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Very nice. I've done a few kinds of welds including MIG, TIG and OA open flame in educational settings and lots of spot industrially.
It was something I serious regret not having done while my Grand Father was alive. He was a machinist, owned a Well and Septic business, and built / rebuilt much of his own equipment. From Backhoe to Bulldozer. So much life and technical experience he had for having 'not finishing the 6th grade'.
If I can recall one of the stories he told his, he was part of the machine shop in WWII that worked on the manufacture of little pineapples. There was a machining issue which no one else seemed to be able to figure out,,... after a few days, he had it solved...
sigh
I do get the chance to learn from my Father in Law.
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Painting doors.
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Hanging ot with the wife. Might get to go out tonight (with her.)
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Cooling off from mowing
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Kitchen ceiling painted, bedroom and bathroom doors painted an rehung. lawn cut. beer purchased.
About to light a fire for S'mores. With Hershey's chocolate.
Then paint the kitchen walls while the kids watch a movie later.
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Playing some Project1999.
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Reading the fact checking from tonight's debate.
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It's like watching children argue.
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I tend to laugh at the fact that afterward the various news organizations provide analysis of the debate. In my opinion, if someone watched it, they'll get a good idea of what happened.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
About to light a fire for S'mores. With Hershey's chocolate.
Are they paying good money for advertising? Hershey's is only ok at best.
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stuff.................best way to descript it tbh.......
i'm doing stuff
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Last night's debate was boring, and nothing useful or swaying was said.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Last night's debate was boring, and nothing useful or swaying was said.
Debate? Can't wait for November 9, no matter what happens at this point.
