What Are You Doing Right Now
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been a semi-productive day... been to the vet, put fuel in the truck, connected and cut the case for the 5s1p 18650 battery rebuild of a Black and Decker 18v tool pack.
Now try to sort down some of these notes from the last week or eight. I like my technology,.. but pen and paper is still so much faster for fast notes.
Working on the NAS some too.. Got to re-set some shares and such... sigh and it's only mid afternoon Saturday.
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Wow... condensed sixteen pages down - wow... i keep the shredder busy some days.
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Waiting on Comcast technician.
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Working on a contact/org editor for sodium and watching the LCS playoffs.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on Comcast technician.
Between 8 and you missed them.
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@gjacobse Ha! I've been home all day. I've received three robocalls trying to get me to cancel the appointment.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Ha! I've been home all day. I've received three robocalls trying to get me to cancel the appointment.
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Person arrived within the window. Watched him check the signal at various places, all of which were fine (even though at that moment my cable modem was failing to find an upstream channel). Probably time for a new cable modem.
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Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
Asus C201. Absolutely love it. $179 on Amazon, comes in colour chocies, keyboard is really good, touchpad is good, screen is good, weight and size are perfect, battery does 13 hours. It's a quad core, 4GB unit which puts it in the most powerful of Chromebooks categories without going to the crazy units.
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Finally got a bit of sleep. Feeling a bit better today.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
Asus C201. Absolutely love it. $179 on Amazon, comes in colour chocies, keyboard is really good, touchpad is good, screen is good, weight and size are perfect, battery does 13 hours. It's a quad core, 4GB unit which puts it in the most powerful of Chromebooks categories without going to the crazy units.
I was checking those out after your recommendation. I would like to put a Linux distro in it. Do you know if Fedora runs well on this device?
Also, what "apps" do you use for SSH and RDP?
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
Asus C201. Absolutely love it. $179 on Amazon, comes in colour chocies, keyboard is really good, touchpad is good, screen is good, weight and size are perfect, battery does 13 hours. It's a quad core, 4GB unit which puts it in the most powerful of Chromebooks categories without going to the crazy units.
I was checking those out after your recommendation. I would like to put a Linux distro in it. Do you know if Fedora runs well on this device?
Also, what "apps" do you use for SSH and RDP?
No, I keep it as a Chromebook. I don't RDP so that's not an issue. I use Termius for SSH.
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@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
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Coffee and trolls with the Son and Girlfriend! good start to sunday so far
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
I was really trying to think of some, but I can't come up with any. We do use 365 for Excel and Word online. Does that work offline? I'll have to try that.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
I was really trying to think of some, but I can't come up with any. We do use 365 for Excel and Word online. Does that work offline? I'll have to try that.
Office 365 is just licensing. The online Office editors might or might not work offline, I've never tried. Google's online editor tools work offline.
