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Note to self:
Second interview.
Do not elephant up.
Wish me luck.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Break your legs 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Good luck - I know you'll kill it! 
/ravi
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Good luck
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Good luck!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Good luck - but you'll nail it!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Second Interview, Best of luck. You have got past the hard part!
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As a Dutch saying goes: "Let them smell a poopie" 
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Good luck!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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An alternative option . . .
1 - drool - preferably, along with
2 - a little bit of foamy saliva on edges of mouth
3 - Point out that you "don't know how you'd react" if you weren't hired.
Now the interviewer can stress out for a while.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Should I mention my gun collection?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Not necessary if you bring a ball-pean hammer with you and occasionally talk to it using a pet name.
Soft words - like "Maybe later, Jessica. Maybe later"
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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This how you got your latest employment?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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After watching, I pinched myself and felt nothing. Looking outside, I saw a horseman, and knew the apocalypse was nigh. But inside had become outside, and outside inwardly the delirium flew, knowing that psychotropic substances were not limited to physical form, but had been achieved by Japanese clerics of the highest order.
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Yes but ... he is not Japanese 
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I have watched quite a few of the old, subtitled, B&W Samurai movies. So much emphasis on dignified behavior.
And then, I saw what they did to godzilla. Now this?
Was the era of dignity and honor merely a myth, or are they trying to make up for it now with behavior that would shame a roadkill?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It's been... interesting.
Friday: I finally got my media server setup, and somewhere during the process, I lost a whole 2TB worth of movies.
Saturday: I added another 3TB drive (making the box hold 14TB). I also officially ran out of SATA ports on the motherboard (four built-on, and four in an add-on card). Interesting observation #1 - drives connected directly to the motherboard show up as regular drives, but drives connected to an add-on card show up as *removable* drives. I don't know why, but that surprised me. That night, I started putting movies back on the server, starting with movies that start with numbers.
Sunday: Copied movies that start with "A". I had an epiphany in the middle of this process - I had three prepped Linux boxes in the server room sitting there not doing anything, so I installed Brasero (among other things, it copies DVDs to .ISO files) on them, and started copying files on those as well. Interesting observation #2 - the default power management scheme is to turn off the monitor after 10 minutes of no use. Depending on the KVM switch you're using, this could become a problem because the monitor might not be turned on when you switch back to the machine after the monitor has been turned off by the OS.
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Issues:
0) I don't know why, but I couldn't copy files from any of the Linux boxes to the samba shares on the file server box. I suspect it might be because I don't have samba installed on any of them, but I haven't looked at it yet.
1) The monitor sleep thing I talked about before cused me to have to do a hard reset on the file server. Well, remember that thing I talked about regarding how the drives are mounted depending on where they're connected (motherboard or add-on card)? Well, when I did a hard reset, it corrupted one of the disks where I was copying movies, and when the system was done booting from the restart, that drive wasn't automatically mounted. When I tried to mount it, I got the dreaded "superblock cannot be reached" error. To say I was heaving depressed at the thought of having to RE-COPY ALL 210 MOVIES would be an understatement. However, I found a fix (to be included in my article about migrating to Linux), and I got all the files back!
2) Brasero can't seem to create files on network shares, so I've had to shuttle the files around from the Linux boxes to the file server (Windows does not exhibit this problem). In point of fact, Brasero does not retain last-used settings at all, and that annoys the hell outa me.
I have yet to put Linux on my main desktop, or my wife's desktop, because I still have to copy movies B-Z do the file server. I'm staring at the stack of B movies wondering if I could hire a neighborhood kid to sit in the server room and copy movies for me... I already have almost 600 on the server...
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I installed samba on all of the non-server boxes, and that fixed the problem where I couldn't copy files to the server.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 21-Oct-18 19:13pm.
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800 movies and more to come,
if you spent 8 hours per day watching them that's 150 days just for the 800 on the server,
call it half a year.
OK, not criticizing, but throwing something into the air for you to think about...
Ask yourself, are you really going to watch all of those movies [again]? How many times?
throw in the ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) and peanuts, are you really going to commit to that?
(if it's for retirement where you think I'll sit on my ass and watch them all? well, if you want to live retired for more than a year 1 word: don't.)
I know it's nice to have for a rainy day, and ahead of time you never know the rainy-day movie you want to watch, and you paid for them all, and if people visit (hopefully not for a 150 day watch the lot marathon)
but really, consider just keeping a few, for others there's on-demand options.
if you have the DVD's sell them, even for a dollar each: there's your on-demand paid for, add in money saved on HDDs, power, systems, and most importantly your time converting, maintaining, backing up... (what's your hourly charge/pay rate = how much is your time worth, could/should you have been doing the gutters last weekend ....) is it really worth it?
I used to keep movies too: DVD's (used too much space), moved to HDD - took a long time, and more time backing up, moving them around every time equipment upgraded or got flakey... in the end tossed them all (DVD's earlier went to 2nd hand shop -> beer money, yeah a loss, too bad).
Nice lightweight system, I keep some music (perhaps 5GB tops, no audionutter so I'm happy with 128 bit MP4's). My entire system, including old work files and the operating system: fits in 1TB. Should I need it: Full raw backup: about 15 minutes (about the length of a relaxed cup of coffee) and fits on something smaller than a pack of fags, power consumption: [based on a 450W PSU I've never heard the fan start on (corsair)]: bugger all ......
who cares about that... Time available to do other stuff (even should I attempt a full system upgrade/rebuild): shitloads
Yeah and BTW I'm sure, you think I only need to do it once and it'll be good for years, and 2 - max 5 years later new [storage/system] tech will be around, and you'll think "are my movies safe on HDD, they are so slow, could do with a backup anyway..." and off you go again for a few weekends doing it all again - and once more did you count the number of those movies you actually watched in those 2 - 5 years?
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On the other side of the fence, The Nerd Factor! (But I have to laugh at the fact that he has spent more time setting up the system than he ever would have cumulatively spent handling disks, even if he had to go to another room to get them!  ) It is cool, though, and interesting from the technology standpoint.
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I think you miss the point - JSOP enjoys tinkering (on a rather major scale). Not happy with a muscle car he customised it into a beast, not satisfied with a home network system he has built what sounds like a large media library.
Personally I agree with you, keep some music and download video when required.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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