@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I am drinking some delicious golden milk
Um.... I'm worried by that name.
@valentina You're going have to enlighten us as to this golden milk you speak of.
Sanity check. Does this make sense? We are changing from e1000e virtual nics to vmxnet3 nics to go from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps in throughput.
Chasing down network gremlins after a network outage between us and our datacenter.
@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
For anyone familiar with Nashville...
Even for those that aren't familiar with Nashville, this is funny.
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I feel the ~not getting home til 12:30, not falling asleep until 1:30 am Getting up at 8:00 am and getting to work at 9:00 am ~ today .
(apparently I wasn't expected to be in until 12:00 N - So when i walked in at 9:00 my boss was both surprised and concerned..)
Oof... If that was the case, I'd go to my office, turn out the lights and sleep for another 3 hours...with bosses blessing of course.
FTFY
@wrx7m I don't know for sure, but I would be willing to bet that they can get a lot more battery time out of that 20 hours just by putting on ChromeOS.
@mlnews What OS? Hoping for ChromeOS, but from the pictures, it is looking like another Win10 box. Doesn't say anything in the description, from what I scanned.
@scottalanmiller Yup, I've heard about the Great Whovian Depression, which resulted in the reboot. My only complaint is that, if they want to keep viewers interest into the show, then they are going have to close the gap between seasons. Doctor Who can be a HUGE many maker for BBC, but they have to close that gap.
@scottalanmiller True, but I'm talking about being a doctor for the entire season. There was also a time with David Tennant when Donna was a pseudo-doctor because some of the doctor's regeneration energy left the hand and healed Donna, then went and saved the doctor from the daleks. But, again, just a special.
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Doctor Who wraps a solid season with its first female Time Lord
New showrunner Chris Chibnall made some bold choices to set his Doctor apart.
Ratings-wise, Whittaker's incarnation has been a smashing success. Nearly 11 million people worldwide watched the premiere episode ("The Woman Who Fell to Earth"), the largest audience for the series since 2013's Christmas special, "The Time of the Doctor," marked the transition from Matt Smith's 11th Doctor to Peter Capaldi's 12th. The new series as a whole averaged more than 8 million viewers per episode. And the reviews have been almost universally positive.
They have all been original, but I cannot say that they have been spectacular. There are many things that definitely sets this doctor apart from the others:
Obviously the first reason is that this is a female doctor on screen. There have been references to previous iterations being a female doctor, but this is the first time that the doctor, as a whole character, has been a female.
No consistent story thread followed throughout any of the episodes the entire season, except for the loss of a spouse/grandmother shared by 2 companions that more or less ties episodes 1,2, and the last one together.
No old villains ever appeared in these episodes. No daleks, no cybermen, no weeping angels (those still scare me), no intelligence, and no Master.
But I think they missed a big opportunity with a villain opportunity in the Rosa Parks episode. That could have been a great series (no spoilers).
According to my wife (who is the official whovian of the family) is hearing rumors that, if the current showrunner (Chibnall) and doctor (Whitaker) stay, it could be 2020 before we get another series, besides the New Years special. We've already waited ALL of 2017 and half of 2018 to forget Capaldi and the travesty he did as a doctor. Its beginning to become unfair to the whovian fans to wait another year for another season. We barely got 10 episodes out of this one (while American shows usually gets about 20 episodes a season). </rant>
EDIT: Forgot to add to the rant that some of the episodes were basic bashing on America on a political view, such as where the spiders occupied the hotel <not giving any spoilers, go watch it to see what I'm talking about>.
@scottalanmiller So...what does that mean in American terms? PM getting impeached?
Appreciating the need for transformation, Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners teamed up to buy out public shareholders and take the company private in 2013. Away from the challenging gaze of the public markets, Dell & Co. transformed the company via acquisition and investment. Five years later, it appears Dell and Silver Lake feel the company is in much better shape and ready for the spotlight once again.
I actually caught wind of this from @dbeato on Twitter. Credit goes to him too
@scottalanmiller When I bought the 20 Chromebooks for work, Linux was available to turn on and a reboot, but it was still in beta.
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Does it mean full on browser the Android / Google app store and download/install anything you can get on Android easily through there?
That is exactly what they are claiming. Anything in the Google Play store is up for grabs and running on the Chromebook.
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Searching for Christmas presents for the kids. Looking at some kind of Android tablet or Chromebook (has to be able to run Android apps) that will last for a couple of years at least. Considering this one.
I LOVE my Asus Chromebook. If it ran Android apps too, I'd be in heaven.
That's one of the reasons why I'm considering ASUS, along with Dell, HP, and Samsung. You like yours so much. Plus, I had a mobo of theirs back in the early '00s and ran great for its time.
Not a fan of acer for chromebooks?
The past few Acer's that family members and I have had have seemed of lesser quality in comparison to the standards (Dell, HP, Samsung). Not as cheap as 3rd party knock-offs or eMachines, but not as good as the standards.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Searching for Christmas presents for the kids. Looking at some kind of Android tablet or Chromebook (has to be able to run Android apps) that will last for a couple of years at least. Considering this one.
I LOVE my Asus Chromebook. If it ran Android apps too, I'd be in heaven.
That's one of the reasons why I'm considering ASUS, along with Dell, HP, and Samsung. You like yours so much. Plus, I had a mobo of theirs back in the early '00s and ran great for its time.
The one I linked claims to be able to run Android apps. Another factor of looking at this one.
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad you need to get the one with the stylus so they have something to poke their eye out with.
Just wait. Your time is coming...
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Searching for Christmas presents for the kids. Looking at some kind of Android tablet or Chromebook (has to be able to run Android apps) that will last for a couple of years at least. Considering this one.
I'd use it.
What are your thoughts on it? Tough enough for 5 & 8 year old kids?
Searching for Christmas presents for the kids. Looking at some kind of Android tablet or Chromebook (has to be able to run Android apps) that will last for a couple of years at least. Considering this one.
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Elf on the Shelf is totally fucking stupid.
Agreed, It seems to me to sort of send the message you should only be good if you're being watched.
Yup, like all of the made up santa stuff, it's elfing creepy.
Could be worse. Could be Chucky on the Shelf.
