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    • gjacobseG
      gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller Whoops.. were you able to get it charged and started?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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        @gjacobse said:

        @scottalanmiller Whoops.. were you able to get it charged and started?

        Nope, it's Sunday. Nothing to be done for now.

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        • gjacobseG
          gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller
          Manual or automatic? Though in a small island town such as you are in, I don't advise push starting (if manual).

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            It's Europe, they effectively don't even have automatics here.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              I've never push started. And my hill goes right onto main street blindly. It would be bad.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said:

                I've never push started. And my hill goes right onto main street blindly. It would be bad.

                I had a vehicle that always had to be push started because the starter went out. I became very good at it as well as making sure to find enough of an incline to park on.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  I'm near an incline now, but a super narrow one. Not a place that you even want to drive normally. It's only a few inches on either side to the stone walls. It's crazy. Would not try it without the car running.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    Kids are playing video games, wife is reading. I'm just waiting for the kids to head off to bed in half an hour.

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                    • gjacobseG
                      gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      Kids are playing video games, wife is reading. I'm just waiting for the kids to head off to bed in half an hour.

                      What's the matter - they hogging the Steam system?

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Yup, if the wife and kids are awake, they are on Steam.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          Copied from my blog but the insight on kids' bedtimes and how things were in the 1980s when I was growing up felt like worth sharing here:

                          We actually got the kids off to bed just after ten thirty tonight! We have, for over a week now, had a bedtime alarm. First an alarm goes off to let them know that it is about forty five minutes before time for bed. Then another alarm goes off when it is actually bed time. This has been working great. Before they would stay up way too late and be caught off guard when suddenly it was time to head to bed and be upset that they had not done something that they had been pushing off like eating or watching a video.

                          Thinking back to when I was their ages, we always had very obvious prime time television that put us into a standard groove. When I was Luciana's age, it was seven o'clock, once the news was over, for younger viewing. When I was Liesl's age the shows ran from eight until ten five nights a week. That prime time slot made it super easy to have a set schedule in the evening. Get everything done by eight, sit down and it was Who's the Boss, Growing Pains, Alf, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Family Ties, Cheers, Taxi or whatever. Two hours, most nights, and you knew each half hour clearly until the night was over and it was time to go to bed. Or get ready for bed or whatever. It gave the evening some perspective. With video games and YouTube and Netflix they do not have that at all now. So the alarms help, in a small way, to provide that. Looking at it from that perspective makes it make a lot of sense to me.

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                          • JaredBuschJ
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                            Installing Webroot at a client and upgrading one of the Windows 10 machines to release 1511. Not sure why it failed to do it itself.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Just watched an episode of "Keeping Up Appearances" with my wife. Off to bed now.

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                              • nadnerBN
                                nadnerB
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                                Only one in the batcave (IT Office) today.

                                • Appropriate speakers
                                  -- Check
                                • Increase volume
                                  -- Check
                                • Locate playlist
                                  -- Check
                                • Initiate playlist
                                  -- Check
                                • Adjust EQ
                                  -- Check
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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Cold, damp morning around here. Had a bit of rain. Was going to try to get the car jumped today but don't want to take the kids out to see ruins on a day like this. So sitting tight until tomorrow.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Just learned about this thread on Reddit about getting from zero to Linux Admin with a home lab. Pretty good resource:

                                    https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/2s924h/how_did_you_get_your_start/cnnw1ma

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                                    • stacksofplatesS
                                      stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      Just learned about this thread on Reddit about getting from zero to Linux Admin with a home lab. Pretty good resource:

                                      https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/2s924h/how_did_you_get_your_start/cnnw1ma

                                      That's one reason why I ran KVM for a while. You don't get any hand holding.

                                      That's a ton of VMs for someone who's "just good with computers.". I don't think I have enough to run that at home

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        That is definitely a good sized environment.

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                                        • StrongBadS
                                          StrongBad
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                                          I've missed everyone while being busy with work, holidays, you name it. What have I missed?

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            Down to about 350 PMs left to sort through. Man that is time consuming. But that's over a thousand knocked out, already.

                                            Surprised how many people have nuked accounts that I had conversations with (e.g. were not bots or 1PWers) have deleted their accounts, both end users and vendors.

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