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  What Are You Doing Right Now
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  Poorly packed box of graphic novels. Umm, I think I need to purge.
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  Random Thread - Anything Goes
  time waster cat pics • • scottalanmiller  

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  What Are You Watching Now
  time waster • • scottalanmiller  

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  @black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now: Zombie Tidal Wave Official Trailer | SYFY WIRE Youtube Video Cheesy ass movie but it’s some mindless entertainment right there.
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  What did you have for lunch or dinner today?
  time waster cooking • • thwr  

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  Making some veggie burgers for Liesl and me.
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  Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis
  spiceworks ziff-davis • • Nic  

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  @scottalanmiller Thanks for all your considerate words and careful thoughts about this. I'm very appreciative of this thread, and particularly this post of yours, SAM. I wasn't (yet) kicked of SW, but have always found it an extremely odd place with many demonstrating being either very new to IT, or painfully constrained in their thinking based on knowing only what they know (due to their given opportunities thus far, in terms of exposure and "experience"), and often confusing any calls to review their established and limited (sometimes, not always) and/or ingrained assumptions about a problem and how to best approach it, with personal criticism. Which is also commonplace for people new to IT or particularly defensive about their knowledge of IT (and the manifold topics and considerations that "IT" encompasses). I was also sad to see you go/be forced out of SW, but theres much history there that I wasn't part to, nor care to be. While I already was definitely aware of MangoLassi long ago, when I saw that dbeato had joined here and/or become more active, I was happy to see it, and made a point of checking in here more often. Very interesting to get some of your behind-the-scenes perspectives, SAM. All of this certainly gives great pause in terms of what will happen now or eventually with SW and anything we post there.
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  Non-IT News Thread
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  Sudan just got a step closer to full democracy. Big obstacles remain The Transitional Military Council's Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, and opposition demonstrator Ahmed Al-Rabee, raise hands after signing the historic agreement. After almost nine months of violence and wrangling, Sudan came a step closer to a civilian government on Saturday when opposition leaders and military generals signed a power-sharing agreement in the capital, Khartoum. The choice of a fearsome commander on the signing table, and the absence of women who played a crucial role in the protest movement, show that obstacles still remain in Sudan's path to full democracy. The agreement follows protests that toppled 75-year-old dictator Omar al-Bashir, ending his 30-year rule over the northeastern African country.
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  If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!
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  @bstilts6301 welcome! Seems like many new faces starting to pop in. Or perhaps... old faces
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  How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur
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  @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @scottalanmiller said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @scottalanmiller said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: It was really frustrating setting Imgur up, because you didn't get a sign in like a normal app when we did it (this is 2014.) Crazy confusing to use, because you registered and got the API info, but no account to use. Looks like you have to register at some point. And there seems to be a header when imgur API's are accessed and that how they know which account it is that is posting the image. If you can check what that is, you'll know your client id. From https://api.imgur.com/: Register an Application (IMPORTANT) Each client must register their application and receive the client_id and client_secret. For public read-only and anonymous resources, such as getting image info, looking up user comments, etc. all you need to do is send an authorization header with your client_id in your requests. This also works if you'd like to upload images anonymously (without the image being tied to an account), or if you'd like to create an anonymous album. This lets us know which application is accessing the API. Authorization: Client-ID YOUR_CLIENT_ID Yes, you register. But during the registration process, at least in 2014, there was no "account login" involved. No username or password. There was registration and the API / secret. But can we use that to log in? No, doesn't look like you can use that to login. It actually looks like you can't remove images using the API either - if they have been uploaded anonymously with your client_id. You need the deletehash value from each upload mentioned earlier in this thread and it look like nodebb imgur plugin doesn't save that info. So no dice. I think @JaredBusch has another setup. He tied the application to his imgur user account - by getting the client id/secret for the webapp from imgur while being logged in. So when images are posted to imgur using the client id Jared got, they will automatically belong to his user account. How do you get a client if and secret without an account? I used My twitter log in to make the imgur account forever ago. Long before I made the api creds. I would never do it that way in today’s world.
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  Happy Birthday Thread
  birthday • • scottalanmiller  

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  @JaredBusch said in Happy Birthday Thread: @Dashrender said in Happy Birthday Thread: @nadnerB said in Happy Birthday Thread: Happy birthday @JaredBusch . May you throw many bottles of fireball in a fire Don't say that, he'd do it. Totally I can attest to that he hates it with his guts
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  Time for a mobile phone upgrade
  mobilephones cell phones water closet for fun • • WrCombs  

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  @Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: How can the best option involve wasting time to potentially drive for days to buy a cell phone for less than the gas it costs to get it? Well a flight can be like $50. You normally combine purchases. Need some medicine, for example, it only takes a small prescription to pay for a flight down, a few nights there, time on the beach, etc. Unfortunately in the real world, not everyone is a quick $50 flight to Mexico or even further down. I'd say most. And most may not want to also buy their prescriptions there either. I'd say while it could be the best option for you to get all of your cell phones from Mexico, it's not for most. Exactly - a flight to anywhere in TX for me costs $350 to start. Hey same.. weird it's like we live within 50 miles of each other or something. . I'll be in Mexico this weekend - what ya need? He needs a Huawei P30
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  BMW Oslo Marathon 2019
  fitness • • Joy  

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  @scottalanmiller said in BMW Oslo Marathon 2019: @Joy said in BMW Oslo Marathon 2019: @scottalanmiller just update my timeline post Very soon! will post my drunk picture soon
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  Fitness and Weightloss
  fitness weight diet weightloss • • JaredBusch  

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  Alright. You've all inspired me to quit the "hold steady" phase and make another move downward......:)
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  My Weekend Linux Misadventure
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  @IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure: @Dashrender said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure: But Scott had examples where some Wall St firm was doing wacky (but acceptable) stuff and showed that the OS had bad code.. but they refused to fix it because the Wall St company was using LTS, not the latest version. So there was no 3rd party problem here, there was an OS problem in that case. How many times does the opposite exist? Where LTS is the only thing supported? From a Linux POV - I have no clue.
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  ProtonDB: Look Up Windows Game Testing on Linux from Valve's Proton
  linux windows gaming steam valve proton protondb • • scottalanmiller  

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  I went to MicroCenter tonight and was looking at laptops. I had a salesperson ask what I was looking for. I got a strange look when I said I wanted W10 Home cause it would get wiped anyway. I don't think she thought I was serious.
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  Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
  gaming • • DustinB3403  

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  @scottalanmiller Man thinking about RTS games has got me thinking about Empire Earth...Whew that has to be the toughest RTS ever! Tough, but once you finish a level on the campaign (or if you EVER beat the AI even on the easiest difficulty on a skirmish), you feel AMAZING!
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  Any Camera People Here?
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  @RojoLoco said in Any Camera People Here?: @PhlipElder sweet flower pic! I spent most of a year taking flower pics at my parents house. Totally basic camera though. Thanks. Unfortunately, a camera kit is out of the question for us right now thus the pursuit of a lens kit for my iPhone X which takes half decent pics ... just a crappy camera app that is nowhere near as good as the Microsoft one was. My wife's birthday presents for the last three years has been garden roses along with two rose gardens one two years ago and one this year. I love roses. My mother had an amazing rose garden when I was growing up and I have lasting memories of them.
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  What are you listening to? What would you recommend?
  music recommendations favorites listening to • • thanksajdotcom  

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  Also, chicha is the cure for what ails you.... Youtube Video
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  What Are You Drinking
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  Equifax claims process is now open
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  @marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open: @Dashrender said in Equifax claims process is now open: @marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open: I'm getting the cash. 10 years of credit monitoring is worthless, same with their insurance. It won't prevent identity or credit card theft. And their reaction time is piss poor, you'd get a notice 1-3 months later of someone opens new account in your name, and by that time crook will probably charge thousands. Credit freeze is the only option and they don't offer that. Discover bank offers credit monitoring for free to anyone: https://csp.discover.com/free-credit-score/index.html Who doesn't offer Credit Freeze? All three of the credit agencies offer credit freezes now - for free. It was a law passed a shortish while ago. I managed to freeze Experian and Equifax 2 years ago.. but had issue getting into Transunion... well, in that time, it's become free and all three have made it much easier (though still not brain dead easy) to freeze unfreeze your credit). As of this morning I have all three frozen. What I meant was they didn't list that as an option in settlement, instead they offered some useless services. If you don't know about credit freeze in first place, you won't get it. And even if you do, you have to do all the work, and you have to contact all 4 credit bureaus. You're absolutely right - and as Scott will undoubtly say/agree with - of course they won't do that, that is counter to their business, against their shareholders, etc.
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  Color Question
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  @BRRABill said in Color Question: Yes, I just talked to another friend who is a designer. He said that basically the PMS color is "out of gamut" (the ! in the software) and the software does as good a job as it can to color match it. That is why it is different, and it technically correct, or as correct as it can be. The hex values are also apparently "web safe" colors. Not sure why they picked those, as I don't think it is applicable anymore, but what the heck. Man ... learned a lot of graphics today! Change the web safe colors to the closest instead. Web safe was way, way back in the days (about 20 years ago) when you had 8-bit color graphics adapters and you had to use a palette to spread those colors over the entire color spectrum. Heck, that was so long ago this was a trip down memory lane for me...
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  No Facebook - 30 Days. Go
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  @PhlipElder said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @PhlipElder said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @dafyre said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @WLS-ITGuy said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: I use Facebook as a way to keep in touch with family and friends who don’t live close to me. I use FB Messenger to talk to my wife throughout the work day. If I wasn’t in IT I doubt I’d have a phone with internet. I’d prefer to be disconnected from the world. I’d rather be on my boat fishing all day. I was doing that (family and stuff), but honestly, it seems like if people don't move to something else to talk to, not a big deal. 15 years ago, before Facebook - what did you use to keep in contact with your family? I don't know about you - buy my answer was - oh yeah - nothing. We didn't stay in contact and we didn't feel like we were missing anything - otherwise we would have found a way to stay in contact. 15 Years ago? Ha... We were using Skype and IRC. Edit: The old man still runs his own IRC server for like 5 friends. ICU? MSN Messenger? AIM? Heh, there are some vague memories in there of those in the latter part of the 1990s early 2000s. Most of my family didn't have internet until the mid to late 2000's. Even then, didn't use it much until smartphones and tablets. Chat is something my family has never used. by family I mean -my mom/dad/brothers. The biggest way we still communicate is either SMS or a phone call. I've been online since the mid 90's. SMS seems to be one of the better ones. I've been texting my brothers-in-law back and forth quite a bit over the last few years. We've become quite good friends. I tend a mail list for family members with regular postings of pictures and events that are happening in our family life such as home school and extra curricular stuff. They generate a fair amount of e-mail exchanges and a few phone calls here and there. Effort. Just like a garden family takes effort. FB is much too much like, "I can feel really good about myself keeping family in touch" without ever reaching out to them to talk to them ... to show interest in their lives. [/SOAPBOX] It can, that's for sure - but email is a horrible way to have a conversation. Just like these forums aren't what I consider great for conversation. That's because they aren't meant for short super fast exchanges. A conversation (i.e. talking) is a group going back and forth at a good clip. While that sometimes happens here, the problem with forums is that it's so difficult to keep up at times. In the time I made this post, it's possible 5 people have posted... I go to read those 5 posts, and another 30 posts are up and I've forgotten what I wanted to add about the first 5 posts, etc. The short quick replies like you see in FB comments definitely seems more engaging for actual conversation - than that flame wars still don't break out all the time all over the place.
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  Weekend Plans
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  Tomorrow AM going to the local hamfest see if I can pawn off any of my stuff. Then friends annual BBQ picnic but it is supposed to be over 90 F with the humidity. Sunday have to upgrade the church's computers and new wifi install.
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  I can't even
  wtf i cant even that is not how that works • • JaredBusch  

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  @pmoncho browsers refuse. Because the domains are misused.
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  Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2
  travel • • scottalanmiller  

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  Trip is done, time to head for home. See everyone from the US (or from the airport, probably.)
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  Ontario, Toronto roommate opportunity
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  @Emad-R : There's a market for that too...
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  Remote Sudo Escalation
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  @IRJ said in Remote Sudo Escalation: The vendor is telling me I should be able to run .sh file directly from samba share on client server2. So ssh should not need to be part of equation. Otherwise having the share would be pointless. Sounds like the vendor needs some basic IT support themselves.
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  GPD mini PC arrives
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  @gjacobse said in GPD mini PC arrives: Sitting next to ‘big brother’ on Field Day. Creative use of a cardboard box.
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  Blue light glasses
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  I've them . 5 years now. My eyes don't bleed anymore and so I spend way more time in front of a screen
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  Test
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  @IRJ said in Test: From mangolass.it , hey look we have a Or just a second domain name...
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  Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?
  domain name domain name registration • • wrx7m  

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  @JaredBusch said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @Curtis said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: I was saying bad faith in the other direction, attempting to start a business under the same name as a domain name that was already in use. He clearly states it's for a brand, not a company. Same thing, though. Attempting to start a new brand that is already in use. Purchased and parked is not in use. It is “available for the right price.” Is no one reading what I wrote? I specified everything that people have said in my original statement.