What Are You Doing Right Now
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
thwr - that's some scary shit! I'm glad it turned out OK - and that it sounds almost like a daily occurrence - glad it turns out OK more often than not.
One might think so but actually we are so used to "blocked roads / public transport routes due to a bomb" that no one really cares. The only real problem is that no one of the former allied forces actually knows how many bombs they dropped on us. Like SAM mentioned before we are still finding some potentially deadly "leftovers" more than 70 years after the end of WW2.
BTW: That's why you need to have your piece of land inspected when you want to build a house here in Hamburg - there could be a bomb beneath.
How would knowing how many were dropped be helpful? You don't know how many didn't explode. I suppose if you did know, then once you reached that number you could stop checking - but, yeah that would never happen.
Well, say it was a known fact that 50,000 bombs were dropped. The bombs had a failure rate of x%, then you can figure out approximately how many are still playing hide and boom.
But this is not a real number. Say it was 5%, would you really expect that after you find 2500 bombs that's it? you just stop worrying about it?
I would hope not - because who knows it might have really been 5.1% or 10%.
JB beat me to it - I think we (JB and I) agree that knowing this number really isn't helpful. I suppose if the reported failure rate is 5%, and you find 10,000 bombs, well after that I guess you could become less concerned, but would you really become less concerned? I don't think I would.
Approximately, I did say approximately
having a rough idea would surely be better than not knowing, would it not?Really, I don't think it would be helpful at all. Having a number implies the ability to lower your guard, something I don't think you can ever do, at least until the tech exist to do scans that we believe to be 100% accurate for bombs.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nothing like starting the weekend with a migraine.. Ugh,.. But oh well.
Off to pick up a replacement battery for a UPS and other errands,.. Then who knows.
Uh, that sucks. Get well soon.
I've got the same problem sometimes. It's good to know what exactly causes a migraine. I'm able to avoid it mostly since I know what it is.
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Second time this week my computer has had a BSOD.
Good thing the hard drive is sitting right here... just have to get the Kernel put on a USB drive to get started.....
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Second time this week my computer has had a BSOD.
Good thing the hard drive is sitting right here... just have to get the Kernel put on a USB drive to get started.....
Surface?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Second time this week my computer has had a BSOD.
Good thing the hard drive is sitting right here... just have to get the Kernel put on a USB drive to get started.....
Surface?
LOL - No. The Desktop that @Mike-Ralston built. Got it booted, but now running into what I think was the same issue you had with Linux Mint,.. the UEFI boot...
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No action today at work. Came in at 12:30, powered everything down (Everything!) gave it 45 minutes to nap. All is back up and reading five-9's. I haven't done that in over a year.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Second time this week my computer has had a BSOD.
Good thing the hard drive is sitting right here... just have to get the Kernel put on a USB drive to get started.....
Surface?
LOL - No. The Desktop that @Mike-Ralston built. Got it booted, but now running into what I think was the same issue you had with Linux Mint,.. the UEFI boot...
My issues were purely around drivers for a very specific gaming laptop.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Second time this week my computer has had a BSOD.
Good thing the hard drive is sitting right here... just have to get the Kernel put on a USB drive to get started.....
Surface?
LOL - No. The Desktop that @Mike-Ralston built. Got it booted, but now running into what I think was the same issue you had with Linux Mint,.. the UEFI boot...
My issues were purely around drivers for a very specific gaming laptop.
Thanks
Per your suggestion, I used the LVM defaults on the partitioning,.. and we are installed and updating.
Now to go get the ASUS A88XM-e Drivers to get my monitors squared and start customizing this build. -
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nothing like starting the weekend with a migraine.. Ugh,.. But oh well.
Off to pick up a replacement battery for a UPS and other errands,.. Then who knows.
Uh, that sucks. Get well soon.
I've got the same problem sometimes. It's good to know what exactly causes a migraine. I'm able to avoid it mostly since I know what it is.
Nice to be able to say that no more headache... 6 ibuprofen (3 at 6am 3 and noon) and a Arby's Jamoca shake...
Now my headache what did I just create for myself in moving to a Linux based system when some of what I hoped to do is 'Windows' limited....
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What OS are you actually running?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What OS are you actually running?
Installed Linux Mint 18.1
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Desktop finally back up (okay it has only been a little over 24 hours).
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nothing like starting the weekend with a migraine.. Ugh,.. But oh well.
Off to pick up a replacement battery for a UPS and other errands,.. Then who knows.
Uh, that sucks. Get well soon.
I've got the same problem sometimes. It's good to know what exactly causes a migraine. I'm able to avoid it mostly since I know what it is.
Nice to be able to say that no more headache... 6 ibuprofen (3 at 6am 3 and noon) and a Arby's Jamoca shake...
Now my headache what did I just create for myself in moving to a Linux based system when some of what I hoped to do is 'Windows' limited....
Ibuprofen is mostly useless when you're facing a real migraine and not "just severe headache" - better check that with your doc. Formigran helped me a lot, US brand name should be Amerge (primary ingredient: Naratriptan) according to drugs.com. Damn expensive (roughly EUR 5 a pill), but a lifesaver.
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Starting the process of packing up to get ready for our trip to Sicily tomorrow.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Starting the process of packing up to get ready for our trip to Sicily tomorrow.
Nice. Any idea about your trip to Germany?
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Amazed at how little power modern equipment takes.
65" TV, sound bar with sub, and a Fire Stick.110 watts
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Amazed at how little power modern equipment takes.
65" TV, sound bar with sub, and a Fire Stick.110 watts
Things sure have changed. Imagine all of that with a 65" CRT and a big tube aplifier and a 1970s mainframe, lol.
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Had some fun with AT&T - We had not changed our service plan in more than 10 years.... We just came off the original iPhone 3gs Data plan we had.... Sigh,.. went from Unlimited Data to 6gb per month.
Our Smart phones went from $40 to 20, and the dumb phone went from $10 to $20,.. wow... all phones now at $20.. lame.
Also been looking over the NTG MS VolLic Site,.. can't seem to find Win10 to download... only Windows 7, Vista and XP options...
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had some fun with AT&T - We had not changed our service plan in more than 10 years.... We just came off the original iPhone 3gs Data plan we had.... Sigh,.. went from Unlimited Data to 6gb per month.
Our Smart phones went from $40 to 20, and the dumb phone went from $10 to $20,.. wow... all phones now at $20.. lame.
Also been looking over the NTG MS VolLic Site,.. can't seem to find Win10 to download... only Windows 7, Vista and XP options...
Perhaps NTG doesn't have any agreements that include windows 10 in them.
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There are times that I would like to find an old MainFrame... I did support for the IBM Series 1 when I worked for the State of VA in the 1990s... Man what a beast - ...
But I have no need for that, and wouldn't know what I would do with it... .so I"ll just keep my rPi, a few batteries and solar panel or two...
