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  What Are You Doing Right Now
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  had someone who's like a brother to me get Married Yesterday. back to On call for me this weekend
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  Random Thread - Anything Goes
  time waster cat pics • • scottalanmiller  

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  What Are You Watching Now
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  Sangria with White Rum, Red or White Wine, Grapefruit Soda, Mango Juice, Apple, Grapes and Orange. Saying Hello to @scottalanmiller Youtube Video
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  Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
  gaming • • DustinB3403  

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  Among Us My daughter Ciana is playing too.
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  Non-IT News Thread
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  Ginsburg in statement before her death said she wished not to be replaced until next president is sworn in The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said days before her death that her "most fervent wish" was that she not be replaced on the high court until a new president is sworn into the White House.
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  The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It
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  @scottalanmiller said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It: Anyone used Jellyfin? I had never heard about it, so I added it to my Plex server. It's actually not bad as far as an interface goes. However, the metadata it pulled for my movie collection is horrendous. I turned that part off, lol.
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  Happy Birthday Thread
  birthday • • scottalanmiller  

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  Feliz Cumpleaños @valentina
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  DuoLingo Challenge
  duolingo • • scottalanmiller  

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  Dark mode just released.
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  What Are You Drinking
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  Celebrating
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  What does your desk look like?
  time waster • • BMarie  

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  @scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?: @gjacobse said in What does your desk look like?: I’m pretty certain with the rPi4, you can used conventional SSD and even M.2 drives over the mSD. SSD yes, M2 no. Rock Pi and Pine64 Pro have the M2 interface as their killer feature. Ah - Thank you for the correction.
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  What did you have for lunch or dinner today?
  time waster cooking • • thwr  

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  Paul made tuna mac salad.
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  Looking for a single music app!
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  @black3dynamite said in Looking for a single music app!: I haven’t used foobar2000 for awhile but it might be worth checking out. yep, it works for concatenating the files quite well. just fiddling around with it now.
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  Need an intervention:
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  @dafyre said in Need an intervention:: @jmoore said in Need an intervention:: @popester said in Need an intervention:: Am I the only person that has ADD so bad that you start a million projects and never finish any of them? If you have overcome something like this, what was the secret?............................ SQUIRREL!!!!! We don't ever overcome it. We just search for tools to better list it(documentation) so we can always see how much we will never finish I'm convinced that I was put on this world to accomplish certain number of things... Right now, I'm so far behind, I could live to be 300. haha well said
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  GPD mini PC arrives
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  @IRJ said in GPD mini PC arrives: How did you end up liking this system? I liked it well enough- until there was issues with the battery. Which caused all sorts of issues. I ended up selling it on eBay and taking a bath on it. Great idea, just not as well implemented.
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  Weekend Plans
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  @Grey said in Weekend Plans: @scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans: Trying to stay cool, it's hotter than the AC can handle this weekend. We had a big drop in temp here and my feet are freezing. We have one coming. Fingers crossed that it gets here soon.
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  Texas Hurricanes
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  Stay Safe Everyone!
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  I can't even
  wtf i cant even that is not how that works • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch said in I can't even: @scottalanmiller said in I can't even: Customer upset that we allow callers to not record a voice mail when we ask for one. They actually expect us to use technology to force people to leave messages. Did oyu ask them how you are supposed to make the person not hang up? Yeah.... like..... I guess they've never used a phone before? It's more than not hanging up it's ALSO forcing them to talk!
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  Vendor troubles..
  wrcombs firewalls • • WrCombs  

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  @scottalanmiller said in Vendor troubles..: @WrCombs said in Vendor troubles..: @Pete-S said in Vendor troubles..: BTW, on windows telnet is not enabled/installed by default. Hey I knew that one! lol I ran into that in the past, I just didn't know what telnet was used for. Sort of... everything, lol. well, I see that now, I watched the video then did my own research for it.
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  Happy Birthday Dominica!
  birthday dominica • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Nic said in Happy Birthday Dominica!: Longest birthday thread evar - happy birthday @Dominica ! Longest necro maybe..
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  What are you listening to? What would you recommend?
  music recommendations favorites listening to • • thanksajdotcom  

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  Was listening to some Final Fantasy piano pieces earlier while driving to work.
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  Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary
  google firefox chrome google chrome web browser dictionary • • scottalanmiller  

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  @scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: @jmoore said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: that's a nice french word, maybe that's why. It's a French origin, but so is resume. It's a word in English for a very long time. all true but maybe they have a cutoff somewhere before it is recognized. I am just guessing though.
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  LinkedIn Employment Bug
  linkedin • • scottalanmiller  

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  @scottalanmiller I saw some job postings from Basecamp the fitness company be linked to Basecamp the tech company. They're probably trying to autolink stuff together and royally screwing it up.
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  whoami - your title and a slogan!
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  Business Consultant and Entrepeneur I've worked in loads of different roles and industries. I find that as IT is just the infrastructure component of business, and that separating the two is nearly impossible, that over the years I've moved from being an IT generalist to a business generalist and now tackle IT from above, dealing as much with the overarching business concerns as the IT ones.
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  SOLVED What size cooler is this?
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  Standard size was 48qt for many years but that one may be 50.
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  Project 1 : PFSense Routing
  wrcombs willlearns pfsense router learning • • WrCombs  

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  @Pete-S only Cisco gear that label along with the sonic wall was more as documentation for myself.
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  My Network Journey
  wrcombs pfsense networkingfun willlearns pfsense router learning • • WrCombs  

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  @Dashrender said in My Network Journey: @gjacobse said in My Network Journey: @black3dynamite said in My Network Journey: University schools that has a surplus have some useful equipment for lab use. I’m doing that with a friend and his kid- it’s older UBNT and other gear- but it give a 10yo something to start with. What have they retired? That would be the only thing that matters on using older machine - the possibility that some newer commands aren't there. I will be upgrading my UniFi hardware. So I have two APs that I am replacing. the Controller is a VM still. I also had a project build of a Stand alone Point to Point wireless network for our Club. It's two UBNT M5 units and two EnGenius EAP9550 units One running DHCP, and the other a slave. The idea was that when we did a contest (Field Day) we could be across a 400yard area, and it would be nice to have internet / network for file sharing and such. I built it, it worked - and no one was interested in it. So - I'll be giving it all to him for his kid to learn on - tear up - etc....
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  DBAs, man
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  @scottalanmiller DBAs. There is still a prevalence of thought that they must have lots of separate drives for any number of purposes. These 'drives' all go to the same two or three luns, and some drives are in the same datastore, so.... splitting drives is just splitting hairs. It makes it easier to see database size, though a good DBA should be able to manage that without complication.
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  Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive
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  It's true, it's like we are living through the Walking Dead for real almost.
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  If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!
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  @unquietwiki said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!: @scottalanmiller (waves) Hi everyone! Hope everyone is keeping well with the virus & economy & all that jazz... Glad to have you here.
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  Collision Domain - In POS
  network+ wrcombs pos • • WrCombs  

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  @manxam said in Collision Domain - In POS: @scottalanmiller said in Collision Domain - In POS: @manxam said in Collision Domain - In POS: I can't recall ever seeing a switch "back in the day" that didn't have ASICs. There are a few newer switches that do, in fact, use CPU rather than ASICs, but they're built using MUCH faster CPUs than what are included in most -- if not all -- routers. Early days, the ASICs didn't even exist yet. It wasn't a choice, it was all that there was to use software. Then the ASICs came along and obviously dominated. But yes, it always requires throwing more hardware at it. How far back are we going here? My first experience with a switch was with Alantec/FORE ATMs (circa early 91/2). These had a RISC SCP processor to run the OS/management functions and custom ASICs for switching. After that, in the more mainstream, came Kalpana and then Cisco. To the best of my knowledge, there were no switches available prior to thicknet (first commercial ethernet). I'd love more information if you have it available. I love the history of tech. Not that far back, still 90s, but a lot of switches were all software in the middling to later 90s as the ASICs weren't broadly available. But even the very, very first ASICs were / are always based on working software prototypes. I've never seen a thicknet switch, what a freaking mess that must be.