What Are You Doing Right Now
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And the issue I have most with this is the way this is stated.
interest free 12 month loan for a new laptopSo if he fails to pay this back in 12 months is there a fee or rate hike?
Payroll deductions, I pay a percentage of the total amount. if I get a new job, they will take the remainder of what I owe out of my last check.
So you are beholden to the company and they are in fact making withholdings against your paycheck so they can get paid first.
This is loan-shark 101. I get paid first, screw you needing food, rent money or literally anything else.
Call it what you will - many companies offer this. If you aren't good enough in your fiances to the point where you're going to starve - well, that's really on you.
in this case you're trading the 'flexibility' of not paying the loan for getting an interest free loan.
As much as it may be interest free it isn't without a cost.
The supposed freedom to be able to skip paying if you find yourself needing some extra cash?
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my Black Pearl plants has started to ripen the chillies... one so far, this season looks like I will get a good harvest.
My Trinidad Scorpion has a couple of flowers, so they might be ready by April but my Habanero probably won't have anything this season as I had to trim it (growing up too fast) to promote strengthening of the main stem (lost 4 -6 flowers) but next year will be grand!If you give them a bit of phosphorus heavy fertilizer, they will be much more likely to set more flowers. Look for something labeled "bloom booster" or whatever... As long as the middle number is the highest in the N-P-K ratio.
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fighting a wordpress plugin
grrrr
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Heading to vet to pick up cat. He didn’t have to lose any teeth
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@murpheous said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
fighting a wordpress plugin
grrrr
Remove it
Or just remove the entire thing. I got so sick of how utterly crappy WordPress was that I started charging 4x (I usually charge about $110 per hour normally) my rate just for WordPress, slowly my WordPress requests began falling off and I've never been happier. Until recently where I made it clear I was accepting no new projects at all since I'm working on some other big things, I still got the occasional WP request even at such a massive rate. What a huge turd, but made some OK money, but the headaches, my god the headaches.
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@tonyshowoff it's awful. One huge hack.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo nadner and his green thumb lol
Definitely not a green thumb. Plants have to have a purpose for me to care for them.
My top three reasons for putting effort into plants- Provides shade
- Produces stuff to eat
- Mrs nadnerB doesn't want it to die
I don't care if it looks pretty, if it doesn't meet the criteria listed above... it's on its own.
With just a balcony to work with I am reduced to "edible or GTFO"
I grow some mean Jalapenos for a Canadian which makes me giggle every time I think about it
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my Black Pearl plants has started to ripen the chillies... one so far, this season looks like I will get a good harvest.
My Trinidad Scorpion has a couple of flowers, so they might be ready by April but my Habanero probably won't have anything this season as I had to trim it (growing up too fast) to promote strengthening of the main stem (lost 4 -6 flowers) but next year will be grand!If you give them a bit of phosphorus heavy fertilizer, they will be much more likely to set more flowers. Look for something labeled "bloom booster" or whatever... As long as the middle number is the highest in the N-P-K ratio.
^ this guy plants
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So windows updates strike again.
I ran this :
Open regedit.exeHKeyLocalMachine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\
Add 32-bit DWORD Value: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy with a value of 1
Terminals started connecting as soon as we add that DWORD
and site started working properly as soon as it was saved.
So the windows 7 machine got an update? cause we know the Windows XP machines weren't getting any.
Yes, For some reason it was installing a monthly roll up - causing communication issues.
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Just shipped the PC i got from amazon back -
And just got back to the office from on site calls in Lincoln. -
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just shipped the PC i got from amazon back -
And just got back to the office from on site calls in Lincoln.Did you swing by your uncles yet? Or are you going to purchase something?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just shipped the PC i got from amazon back -
And just got back to the office from on site calls in Lincoln.Did you swing by your uncles yet? Or are you going to purchase something?
Hey @Dashrender Sunday when you and The mrs drop off those clothes for my son could you bring one of those Retired laptops?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just shipped the PC i got from amazon back -
And just got back to the office from on site calls in Lincoln.Did you swing by your uncles yet? Or are you going to purchase something?
Hey @Dashrender Sunday when you and The mrs drop off those clothes for my son could you bring one of those Retired laptops?
Or a few
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just shipped the PC i got from amazon back -
And just got back to the office from on site calls in Lincoln.Did you swing by your uncles yet? Or are you going to purchase something?
Hey @Dashrender Sunday when you and The mrs drop off those clothes for my son could you bring one of those Retired laptops?
Or a few
Sure ^^ what he said.
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an idea that came up - Use the one (s) Dash brings for work- only.
and go get me a chrome book for personal use or a barebones laptop and put Fedora or Ubuntu on to it.@scottalanmiller @DustinB3403 what do you think of that?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
an idea that came up - Use the one (s) Dash brings for work- only.
and go get me a chrome book for personal use or a barebones laptop and put Fedora or Ubuntu on to it.@scottalanmiller @DustinB3403 what do you think of that?
Sure, but why not just get 2 laptops from @Dashrender and setup one for work only and the other for personal stuff?
Which then leads into the conversation of "It really sucks to have to lug two laptops around".
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
an idea that came up - Use the one (s) Dash brings for work- only.
and go get me a chrome book for personal use or a barebones laptop and put Fedora or Ubuntu on to it.@scottalanmiller @DustinB3403 what do you think of that?
Sure, but why not just get 2 laptops from @Dashrender and setup one for work only and the other for personal stuff?
Which then leads into the conversation of "It really sucks to have to lug two laptops around".
I wouldn't be lugging 2 around - One for personal when im not on call, and one for work for when I am.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
an idea that came up - Use the one (s) Dash brings for work- only.
and go get me a chrome book for personal use or a barebones laptop and put Fedora or Ubuntu on to it.@scottalanmiller @DustinB3403 what do you think of that?
Sure, but why not just get 2 laptops from @Dashrender and setup one for work only and the other for personal stuff?
Which then leads into the conversation of "It really sucks to have to lug two laptops around".
I wouldn't be lugging 2 around - One for personal when im not on call, and one for work for when I am.
But you'd still have to maintain the equipment, which would be comparable to lugging two of them around.
Just get one, setup a VM on it for your work. And leave the VM off when you aren't on call.
During your on call time are you expected to sit there watching monitors for issues or do you wait for a customer call?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
an idea that came up - Use the one (s) Dash brings for work- only.
and go get me a chrome book for personal use or a barebones laptop and put Fedora or Ubuntu on to it.@scottalanmiller @DustinB3403 what do you think of that?
Sure, but why not just get 2 laptops from @Dashrender and setup one for work only and the other for personal stuff?
Which then leads into the conversation of "It really sucks to have to lug two laptops around".
I wouldn't be lugging 2 around - One for personal when im not on call, and one for work for when I am.
But you'd still have to maintain the equipment, which would be comparable to lugging two of them around.
Just get one, setup a VM on it for your work. And leave the VM off when you aren't on call.
During your on call time are you expected to sit there watching monitors for issues or do you wait for a customer call?
Customer Calls - We dont watch sites unless absolutely necessary.
