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*drool*
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The one that's less disgruntled.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Computers.png[^] Looks a lot neater than some server racks I've seen (the cabling is extremely unobtrusive and tidy) -- but I'd have put the keyboard and monitor higher up; I prefer working in a chair, rather than lying on the floor.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'd have put the keyboard and monitor higher up; I prefer working in a chair
They're at that height.
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Server support is an upgrade to the standard OS package. (No clue if free or not.)
What they don't have is anything that looks like real server hardware for the end user. The old, now discontinued, tower mac pro had an option for rack mount rails; and a few years before then they sold an actual rack mountable server. Now, afaik the closest you can get is a 3rd party tray that will hold a pair of minis in a 2U slot. Suitable for hosting a corporate app store; but little else.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: CPUs are maxed at 100%, disk I/O is fully saturated.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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They're so bad they don't want anyone to hear their music (yet they still want to release something, anything)?
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Ummmmm... Why? Because it's all about (everything except) the music, man!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: Cycles Per Instruction is now out on cassette tape + digital.
What's that!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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What killed music, apparently.[^]
(I assumed it was Simon Cowell, but I was wrong...)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Last week, the wife's all-in-one started freezing, eventually failing to boot. It could still boot to safe mode, so I could save all the pictures, documents, favorites, etc. After several days of trying to save it, including going back to the only restore point that was available, (just 10 days prior to the failure) uninstalling updates, trying countless time to figure out which service(s) were the culprit. The system event logs were a mess, with lots of errors where multiple services were failing. I couldn't even get it to a state (due to pending updates) where I could run system file checker. There was only one thing left to do...restore it back to factory settings...Win8.0 and all the crapware you get with a new HP, or any OEM. (Norton, MS Office Trial, shopping apps, games, etc.)
I had thought about just installing the Win 10 CP, but realized who would be paying for it next year.
There's a lot of other things I'd rather be doing today, but herself is getting impatient having gone a week without it. She still has a laptop, but prefers to work on this one. I figure it should only take a few hours to get the updates done, then I can start moving her files back over.
It all went relatively well, except for the upgrade to 8.1 which kept telling me that I had to install updates, even after I had manually installed all the updates available and restarted several times. It seems to have it's own schedule for when it actually installs things which is when I finally saw the 'update and restart' option. All in all, it probably took about 4 hours. The only thing left to do is add back the online account.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 16-Mar-15 17:43pm.
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I too am in charge of maintaining machines for a few family members, so I can share your pain!
I hope you don't have an intermittent hardware issue? I have never even worked on an all-in-one. I suppose you can replace the system's drive on these machines?
Best of luck! We still have a few hours of daylight left on the east coast!
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Thanks! It appears you'd have to disassemble the chassis to get to the drive. The fact that it has been running non-stop for the last couple of days since I restored it seems to be proof that the hardware is OK...which is why I just let it idle disconnected for that long before spending the time to teardown/rebuild it. One thing is for sure, I need to pay better attention to the restore points this time around, and make sure they are getting created when important updates happen.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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OK, but also check out what I said about Acronis here:
Clickety[^]
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Was messing around with TOR browser. It looks like a modified Firefox browser. It seems to drop the user somewhere on or near India or Sri Lanka, I have not found it yet to drop you anywhere else (random?... hmmmm). Anyway there seem to be quite a few sites here in the US that do country blocks. I thought country blocks were poor security, but there are quite of few sites doing country blocks. Facebook, Disqus just to name a couple, caveat:(depending on country of origin that an account was created).
My premise is (and I could be incorrect)
* More US locals are using TOR.
* If more people are using a TOR browser why block access, especially for comment sites like Disqus? Chances are user is from US even though they may get dropped off in India.
* If country blocks are allegedly poor security why do it? My observation is that it is effective for the casual user, I don't know yet if you can fake ip address when your dropped off at the end of the TOR network.
* If country blocks ARE EFFECTIVE, contrary to the BS you hear from network security talking heads, why are they still saying country blocks are not effective?
* India and Sri Lanka are not loved for external out of country access, it seems to be a favorite drop off point for the TOR browser.
Rage against the narrative.
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Please kindly check if it is Pakistan, because here... Everything is blocked!
We can't use YouTube, we can't use any of our blog services that we can use to spread our voice, we can't do anything at all... So, I thought you might be in premises of Pakistan (as per your descriptions). I guess, politicians (mainly the ministers in the telecommunication authorities) believe that cutting down the resources would help them in keeping their nocturnal events going on...
See what they did, they tried to stop us... Instead, they actually helped us to praise the power of a VPN, power of social media and it helped us see what reality is... Everyone around is corrupt and wants to keep nation in dark.
Sorry for going off-track and not talking about TOR at all -- I have never used it.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I grew up in a society where everything was censored, both for political and religious fanaticism. I know what it feels like and I feel for you!
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I am NOT saying Sri Lanka and India are blocking, I am saying the opposite, they are conduits or drop off points if you are using a TOR browser to obscure point of origin.
The TOR browser facilitates accesses that your country is trying to block by obscuring point of origin and even the ports that are traditionally used for https. No VPN is necessary.
My premise is the TOR browser is being used here in the states to get around a perceived increasingly spying government. That being the case, instead of blocking TOR it should be embraced as more of the people using TOR are US locals and the ads being displayed may be local to them even though the access may appear to come form some place like Sri Lanka.
Click.[^]
...on the other hand, TOR is a NRL USA invention just as the internet was a DARPA invention, take your chances as to who is doing what to who.
Rage against the narrative.
modified 15-Mar-15 13:22pm.
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So I decided to move my free WordPress account to my own domain.
Luckily WordPress has an export/import functionality. Wow, biggest piece of crap ever.
It exports alright, but just my posts, tags, etc. I get everything in an XML that I can import on my new site.
So here's the problem. Everything else is gone (styles, stats, etc.).
That sucks, but I can actually live with that (but why not just export that too?).
What bugs me more is that my posts could be found under freeaccount.wordpress.com/yyyy/MM/dd/mypost/, but on my new site it changed that to mydomain.com/first_category_of_post/mypost/.
I upload all my blogs to CodeProject, so that's the category it finds first...
It seems I'll be spending a couple of hours getting everything back to how it was. And then some months to get my stats back.
Why does this have to be so hard...?
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At least you what to do on Sundays...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I had enough to do as it was... Homework, book review, birthday of my niece, but I still decided to move my WordPress (had to do it sometime). "Move your WordPress" they said, "It will be easy" they said...
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'They' lied to you...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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