@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

Swastica: It was clearly not an attempt to mislead and they gave a new definition. While they might not have been insanely explicit in the re-use of it, there was no need to do so as there was no possibility of confusion as the two uses were so ridiculously different. It's safe to assume that no one ever thought that people would see the political symbol and think that it was the religious use of it. It was clear from the use that they were making a new use, no attempt to deceive (in that one particular case.)

Says who? What authority do you have other than your own personal opinion? Unless you have the minutes from the meeting in which it was adopted, you have conjecture and nothing more.

Just finished packing the van for our trip to LA. I don't foresee the load shifting at all. That would require a slight bending of the laws of physics. The good news is that I was able to jam a futon mattress in on top of everything else, so we'll have a nice makeshift bed to stretch out when not at the wheel on the return drive.

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:

What this comes down to appears to be this: We know now what the term means in the industry and has always meant and now it comes down to some people care about honesty and some think that the truth is flexible. If siding with honesty is elitist, its the greatest compliment.

Realistically, it means "a computer case shaped like a pizza box", which can apply to a number of products. It happened to first be used to describe the Sparcstation and a few others, but I see no reference that explicitly claims anything other than shaped like a pizza box and generally accepted to be anything resembling that, such as a 1 or 2U server of varying configurations and depths. It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.

I think I would just find people who are really good at killing zombies. Then you eradicate the threat and have a constant "fresh" food supply. Yeah, I'd be a zombie farmer...

Excellent points, and something you would hope more companies would take into consideration before investing in "black box" solutions.

Hot water tank died... making a trip to Home Depot for a new one and then I know what I'll be doing this afternoon.

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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

My daughter being goofy with Snapchat.

Inigo Montoya??? Or is that Luciana?

@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

@art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

What desktop environment is this machine using?

I don't understand the question

Debian is the OS. But the question here about sleep mode and logging in automatically are about the desktop environment that is running on top of Debian. Each desktop environment can be pretty unique so we have to know that to know where settings for it might be. For example in the Windows world... DOS 8 was the OS and Windows 98 was the desktop environment. As you can imagine, the majority of settings were part of the desktop environment, not the OS.

I was able to find the suspend setting under Main Menu>System Tools>Administration>System Settings. I can't figure out the "login w/o password" part.

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

@art_of_shred said in Weekend Plans:

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

@art_of_shred said in Weekend Plans:

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

@thwr said in Weekend Plans:

@RojoLoco said in Weekend Plans:

@thwr said in Weekend Plans:

Weekend plans... Meeting a friend and his family on Friday at some party, birthday BBQ with friends on Saturday, BBQ at my parents place. Another carnivore weekend, so much for trying to not eat meat. BTW: The party on friday probably includes a BBQ...

Why would you try to not eat meat??? Are you some kind of hippie or something?

Me? A hippie? No, we just had so much meat in the past. And really, BBQ on three days in a row is a bit hard

Haha... that's basically what our family reunion is. Three days of meat, alcohol, cards, and lawn games.

Room for any more family members?

Probably? It was the beginning of this month, I missed it for obvious reasons, but I'm sure if you guys want to come pick hops in the fall there would be room for you.

You didn't say anything about manual labor...

That's the family thing. Work hard, drink hard.

Meh. I just wanted to cash in on BBQ and yard games.

@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

@art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

Did it work?

Not confirmed yet, but I'll post when I know.

Thanks

From what I can tell, yes it worked. That's both the no sleep and no login password required.

@scottalanmiller said in Keeping It Classy Houston:

@IRJ said in Keeping It Classy Houston:

@scottalanmiller said in Keeping It Classy Houston:

Yup. STD Go might be the hottest new game in Texas. Gotta catch them all indeed.

Your antenna looks like mine. Lock your keys in your car? lol

That was a rental.

I think he was just going that fast.

@ChrisL said in Data centers and retrofitting:

@Dashrender said in Data centers and retrofitting:

How do you propose getting a Level 3 or 4 DC from a retrofit?

Well, at least from a power redundancy standpoint, I'd assume most large malls or factories are already outfitted with backup systems, so it'd be easy to utilize or upgrade the existing stuff they got there. Physical security might be a different story.

If it used to be a mall, there are likely unemployed mall cops on the job market...

@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:

@art_of_shred said in Weekend Plans:

Gearing up for MangoCon... I'm going to be the pack-mule for the whole week. Good thing the conference is only about 45 minutes from our house; I think I will be making multiple trips back and forth with supplies and people. Park the Camaro. It's the soccer-mom van for me this week.

I've been playing chauffeur all week already!

With no car?

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

@Minion-Queen said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

I have had 6 new people reach out to me on skype this week (including international people). Not one person had a hard time reaching me or having a with calling me.

But you had conference calls fail last week where Skype wouldn't even add everyone to the call. So call it what you like, but you are affected by it. And it is impossible for it to be me, Skype is centrally controlled and the Skype system cannot add the messages. So the issue is Skype. It's not a user issue, this we know beyond a shadow of a doubt. If you log into the website as me, your account doesn't work to me. That is no more an issue with me than it is with you.

Only you were unable to be added to the call. Only you see an odd avatar for her account. Only you, only you, only you... I guess Skype must be broken.

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@scottalanmiller said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

@art_of_shred said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

Logged in. Fixed in 5 seconds. Tested functionality to confirm success. Left. NO idea what was keeping that from happening when you tried to do it, but it gave me no issues.

Only thing I can think of is that Microsoft switched my account this morning, so this might be a new one. Only change that has been made in a very long time, maybe two years since MQ took over managing my account.

Yeah, it "magically" worked for me suddenly because MS made a change this morning...

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So yeah... there was some water on my kitchen floor, turns out it was leaking out of my now very warm refrigerator. I'm fairly sure that next will be me getting struck by lightning (even though it's sunny out). FML.

Did you turn it off and turn it on again?

Got pulled away for an emergency. I'll check it out and report back. Thanks!

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So yeah... there was some water on my kitchen floor, turns out it was leaking out of my now very warm refrigerator. I'm fairly sure that next will be me getting struck by lightning (even though it's sunny out). FML.

Did you turn it off and turn it on again?

I kicked the shit out of it and cursed it severely, is that the same thing?

Hands on, eh?

Feet.

Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that.