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I know when I did work for Unitrends that any split domain caused real havoc when trying to back up any on-premise Exchange. I can't recall the details, so I'm kind of curious about this, too.

@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:

I farted and had to evacuate my office.

Had to be bad if you had to leave your own office.

@JaredBusch said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I think we're just going to do pizza tonight. We're both exhausted.

That is tonights meal for us because I have the oven wired up now.

Then why pizza? Is it wired wrong?

@JaredBusch said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@art_of_shred said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@JaredBusch said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I think we're just going to do pizza tonight. We're both exhausted.

That is tonights meal for us because I have the oven wired up now.

Then why pizza? Is it wired wrong?

I guess, if we're calling frozen pizza "pizza" nowadays.

@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:

Saw the World's Largest Rocking Chair this weekend.

Red Rocker? I thought maybe Sammy was there. Oh well.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering how to test a SAS drive... one of my servers is showing 1 drive as "missing". We will be buying a new drive (or 2), but I'd love to be able to determine if it's actually the drive or some kind of cabling or backplane issue.

SAS? They don't make USB to SAS cables like they do USB to SATA. I've got an external dock here I drop drives into, if they show up in the system, the drive requires more troubleshooting.

My external dock is SATA. I guess I'll move drives around to see if it might be the drive slot. I've never seen a controller report a drive as missing when it was physically present. Usually says bad, failed, etc.

Good idea. Start troubleshooting at the physical level.

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

Home alone for the weekend. Going to finish running the piping for the oil tank and catch up on some video game time.

Heating with oil? I thought that had al but gone away.

@travisdh1 said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@travisdh1 said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@travisdh1 said in Open Source Farming Machine:

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@scottalanmiller said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

Especially on a small scale, that's pretty cool.

Yes, for a "farm" it is totally useless. But for a home garden this is so perfect. It's the right size for a home garden and it handles mixed plants as easily as doing all the same one so perfect for the variety that single families need. An amazing opportunity around growing your own food. It would work really well for people who want fresh veggies for their own consumption. It's an automated system that matches how they farm in Romania, everyone with a tiny plot of their own.

$3k is such a steep hurdle to care for such a small garden. You would almost never recoup your food cost. I'd like to see something like this for about a third of the price. I understand that probably isn't feasible right now in terms of cost and technology, but it would be hard to see any monetary gain at $3k.

Yeah. Like I said before, we'll see this sort of system put on a truck or tractor arrangement of some sort. Add on the auto driving things they have on the newest tractors, and you've got an automated system that can tend to hundreds/thousands of acres without the current need for keeping entire fields being the same crop. Don't even need a driver, just a manager/mechanic.

You would need a separate mechanism for harvesting large quantities, though.

Not all that difficult to do. Most types of crops have some sort of automated harvesting mechanism available (weather it's currently in use over super cheap human labor or not.)

We're talking about mixed stuff, not a field of one plant type.

I realize that A harvesting bot isn't that difficult to do compared to a planting/watering bot.

True, but I highly doubt it could be nearly efficient enough for large-scale farming. A bot that can adapt to harvesting multiple crops and still keep up with a combine taking down a single crop? I don't see that as feasible.

For the insane scale farms generally operating today, sure. For the small (400-800 acres of crops) farms it'd be ideal.

I still don't think the numbers would come even close, but it's all hypothetical anyway. We'll have to find out the long way.

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

@art_of_shred said in Weekend Plans:

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

@art_of_shred said in Weekend Plans:

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

@art_of_shred said in Weekend Plans:

@coliver said in Weekend Plans:

@JaredBusch said in Weekend Plans:

@coliver If I was to build a house, it would have radiant heat in the floors. I would power it with natural gas since it would take too much electric if I tried to use solar. Maybe an electric heater from solar only with gas backup.

Yep, radiant will be what we put in. No question there. Our electric up here is pretty expensive and solar isn't as effective as other parts of the country. Although with modern solar cells you can get pretty decent savings if you're piping it back into the grid.

Every time I've looked into solar, the ongoing maintenance was enough to all but cancel out the "savings", so I never went that direction.

Really? What kind of solar were you looking at? My uncle just put a 4 solar panels in his backyard. Break even date I think was 5-6 years out. The installation included ongoing maintenance.

Including the replacement of a lead-acid battery array every few years?

Nope, he's wired directly to the grid and just spins the meter back.

Ok, so he's converting from DC to AC and simply connecting to the grid. At any given time he could be using his current solar output against his draw. If he uses more (by the month) he pays. If not, does he get a credit? Depends on the arrangement with the local provider.

Utilities in NY are required to pay you for the energy you produce. He used to have 300$ bills. He's averaged 16$ the past 5 months.

That's pretty cool. When I calculated it, it was more for off-grid and that was about 2010. I know battery tech has changed drastically since then, so I would bet you can get much better batteries (but likely a lot higher cost) now.

@coliver said in Really, I work in the middle of nowhere.:

Wish I could find a better picture.

We're at about the right leg of the 'A' in Albany.

If you go due south from the lights of Rochester, and due east from the "Buffalo" text, that little light blip is about 10 miles east of the NTG main office. Yup, we're right in that dark area there.

@John-Nicholson said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@Dashrender said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@Jason said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

Our company just made it against the rules to smoke even if it's legal in your state. No matter if you are doing it for recreation or medical reasons (on or off the clock)

Is that legal?

In Colorado it is. If I was going to do a masters thesis in economics it would be fun to track, if his employer has to pay more per hour for the same skill of work because of this (or if they just end up with shittier workers).

I think the general consensus is that workers that are pot-heads ARE the lower quality workers.

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@NattNatt said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Probably not suitable for kids:

Youtube Video

Probably? try absolutely not suitable.

guess you didn't hear about the Australian cinema that accidentally played the trailer for that before a showing of Finding Dory then? :')

Well, public trailers in the US have ratings too. So the swear words would have been missing in a US trailer. but yeah.

Normally the trailer shows the rating just before playing.

The trailer rating, that is. And even in rated R movies, I cannot recall ever seeing a trailer rated R.

Normally it's the "this preview is appropriate for all audiences" but then they show the actual film's rating.

@DustinB3403 said in Automatic - car tracker:

I haven't used this, but it reminds me of that car commercial with the parents saying oh hey I gave our daughter the car, oh wait she's there, and then the parents set of the alarm.

Useful sure, especially if you're afraid of your car being stolen etc. Is it worth the lost privacy though?

That's funny. "Lost privacy." Do you think they don't know where you are already? Do you have a smart phone, etc.?

@DustinB3403 said in Automatic - car tracker:

@art_of_shred but these guys don't have that, sure my cell carrier does, but these guys?

No these guys don't have my info.

I more meant the whoever the info gets sold to, that was mentioned. In the end, your personal information and whereabouts is not really that private these days. This would just be one more place they can get your information, not some new kind of breach of privacy.

@DustinB3403 said in Automatic - car tracker:

@art_of_shred true, and valid way to look at it.

I was specifically thinking more of the "who are these guys and why would I want them to have my whereabouts?"

Rather than the businesses buying the data.

Yeah, it's really a front for a ring of chop-shops that want to steal your car. Or maybe it's burglars who want to know when you're the least likely to be home so they can ransack your house.

@DustinB3403 said in Automatic - car tracker:

@art_of_shred said in Automatic - car tracker:

@DustinB3403 said in Automatic - car tracker:

@art_of_shred true, and valid way to look at it.

I was specifically thinking more of the "who are these guys and why would I want them to have my whereabouts?"

Rather than the businesses buying the data.

Yeah, it's really a front for a ring of chop-shops that want to steal your car. Or maybe it's burglars who want to know when you're the least likely to be home so they can ransack your house.

Wouldn't surprise me....

Oh hey, track your car everywhere, we even pay for the cell service, and your house is robbed, and your car missing (chopped into a billion parts)

Well, I think your car is safe. Not sure it would be worth their time to steal that thing... (sorry, couldn't help it)

@DustinB3403 said in Automatic - car tracker:

You know what I meant!

Lol Camero or 200S when I said yellow you knew what I meant


@dafyre said in Automatic - car tracker:

@travisdh1 said in Automatic - car tracker:

@Minion-Queen said in Automatic - car tracker:

Heck why do you think I "let" him get it!

Because you drive it more than he does, duh. (yes, yes, just kidding, I think )

This should probably be not far from the truth!

I think last night was the 3rd or 4th time she has driven it.

@MattSpeller said in Preparing for the storm:

@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:

I'm curious if these cruise ships (if any) would have drastically reduced pricing for the duration of the storm.

Like catch a cruise liner for 3-5 days all out at sea the entire time, they have to be out anyways, maybe make a vacation of it.

Since the businesses in the area are gonna be closed anyways..

How seasick you get is directly related to how tall a ship is. Just FYI

...and what deck level you're on, I would think. (determining the length of the inverted pendulum in the sway)

@RojoLoco said in Brunch in Austin TX:

@art_of_shred said in Brunch in Austin TX:

@scottalanmiller said in Brunch in Austin TX:

@RojoLoco said in Brunch in Austin TX:

From a quick search, Yellow Jacket Social Club seems to be a good brunch spot. It's on E 5th St, not far from my spot.

Nice name.

Would that be Max's Wine Dive?

That is across from the Hyatt. Is that the Monday morning spot?

That's where we met last year. I'm pretty sure that must be "the spot" he is referring to.