Wine. Building my new desk for my home office. Some more wine. Target Practice with new ammo and new gun.

We are switching out our old switches for the Ubiquiti Unifi 48 Port 500 W POE switches. Installing a 10 GB backbone throughout the office.

I honestly don't watch anything hardly anymore other than youtube, which will consist mostly of my gun channels I like to watch, going to the shooting range is a hobby of mine. I will watch Doctor Who, Star Trek (any Star Trek), and a couple other things. But usually, it is just before I go to bed. I have a hard time turning my brain off at night so I need to focus on something that is familiar, like Star Trek. So I really don't consider myself watching Star Trek as much as falling asleep to the comfort of Star Trek. I have seen them all so many times that I don't honestly have to watch it to see it. I just hear it while my eyes are shut and I can imagine it perfectly. Which allows me to disengage my brain and fall asleep.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler that sucks, hope it's nothing too serious.

I will be honest I think it is just more of the same that I have had in my lower back. Which means if I can give it time it can get better. My lower back doesn't nearly bother me like it used to. However, my body took abuse when I was a prison guard. Being 6'5" tall you tend to get called into the harry situations more. Been thrown down steps, onto the ground, etc. One of the reasons I got out of the gig. Just didn't think it was all that healthy plus the pay was crap. I really liked it though. I felt like when I did my job I could potentially have a huge impact on someone but at $27,000 a year gross, sorry I just can't afford that.

That's just sad. Paying that little, how much were the other guards bringing in from bribes? Cause frankly, that's jack **** even where I live!

Sorry for this rant but damn this was good to get off my chest. The kicker was I was making $27,000 a year and paying 773 a month in child support, that is 9,276.00 which means I really pulled in 17,724.00 gross but taxed like it is 27,000. So that is why I went to school for IT. I had to get a better paying job. I don't mind paying child support for my kids, they are my kids and I love them, I just wish I knew that it was being used correctly for them. Even today I can't get my ex-wife to confirm if she has health insurance on the kids so I go ahead and carry them at my work just in case something would happen to the kids. I can't be left in a lurch like that if she doesn't have health insurance on them, even though by court order she has to provide health insurance for them, I always fought to be the one to provide health insurance for them because she could never keep a job, I have always held a job with insurance since I was working full time(which has been 22 years, and I am only 41). She didn't want that because it then is deducted from the amount of child support I have to pay her. She had a job at the time when we renegotiated our arrangement and she has another child by a different man, so the court ruled in her favor because when she covered her youngest she can also cover my two children but the problem is she can't keep a damn job. Then if she goes on Medicaid, they then come after me because I have a job that can provide insurance for my kids. I then have to put my kids on my insurance and pay back Medicaid. Because of insurance, child support, damn high taxes that I have to pay the idiot state of Illinois (to which I will move from as soon as my wife's youngest child graduates from High School her divorce agreement won't allow her to move out of state) I still pull in less than 40% of my gross income into my banking account. Then my kids still come to me and ask me to buy them their school clothes and supplies because their mom won't buy them decent clothes. She will literally go to yard sales in town to find them clothes. How would you like to go to school in clothes bought from yard sales that other people in your school wore? They are in a small rural town so it would be obvious where their clothes came from. High School is hard enough without being teased about where your clothes came from. It is not like my kids wanted expensive clothing either. My daughter just asks me to take her to Walmart for "new" clothes for school. So when I say I worked my ass off to climb out of a financial hell hole I really do mean it. There were times in my life that I didn't honestly have food for myself to eat (I always made sure my kids had food when they were with me) and went to bed hungry because I literally had $0.00 in my bank account and the food I had was for the kids for the weekend. Yet no food banks would help me because I had a full-time job and I was "single", almost every agency I tried to get help from just suggested I don't pay my child support. Child support often times can get set so high that it literally forces the person to do nothing but work and it almost forces them out of the child/ children's lives. There is a divorce industry in our courts that literally thrives off of misery, it needs to be reformed.

Watch Demolition Man last night. One of my favorites.

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

Cheesy broccoli squash

Can you share that recipe?

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Watched UHF this weekend. He drives a Nash Metropolitan from the late 50s in it. It is a cool little car. Wife and I are planning on getting a 5th Wheel RV that has a garage to tow a small vehicle, aka a Toy Hauler, in so you don't have to drive around a huge truck when you are on vacation. So we are also talking about what to get to go in the toy hauler and have on vacation. We are now seriously considering getting a restored Nash Metropolitan. Which can be had for not that much money.

I was thinking about doing Gluster Storage for my three KVM Hosts and keep my KVM VMs there. So if I made a virtual machine for the Gluster that used all the storage on each machine and then mounted the Gluster store in each KVM host for storage, would there be any disadvantage to that?

@scottalanmiller Need to post this at least once a month over at Spiceworks community. Tired of seeing the same questions on RAID asked all the time.

@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:

@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:

@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:

@RojoLoco said in iMac Pro:

@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:

Cannot find a purpose.

It's too pricey to be a graphic/video workstation, still lack performance vs the many multi-socket workstation/workstation, use AMD instead or Nvidia (CUDA!!!), non upgradable, non modular design with integrated display… any high-end workstation from Dell/HP/Supermicro can easily destroy it in any benchmark for a fraction of price, and with much better ROI, also.

So it's just like every other mac in that regard. Useless unless you buy into the "coolness".

I disagree. The macbook family (in baseline config) were and maybe are still great unix machines to work with. I had Dell XPS and other cool laptops, but with my macbook I had ZERO and I mean ZERO issue in six years. Still run like a charm.

Ok, Dell precision workstation maybe are even better and with great Linux support, but… guess what? They aren't that portable. The whole current XPS line is plagued with coil whine and other issues. The Thinkpad X1 is pricey and it's Lenovo… and maybe is the better alternatives. The mac just works, in my experience. I'm not a fanboy at all (apart about Linux :D), but I recognize good products when I use it… for years, without an hiccup.

I agree fully. I'm not a fanboy in the least, but I got a good deal on a 2012 MBP, and have been using it for the past 2 years without any issues. Used all day, like 6 days a week, thrown in and out of bags, taken to dirty work areas, etc. No issues at all. However, the first thing I did when I got it was maxed the memory and put in an SSD. I don't see myself needing to upgrade for quite some time. I feel like the "older" MBPs (2011-2012ish era) were the last "IT pro friendly" ones. The things are just tanks.

When it comes time to need a new one, will I get a newer model MPB? Probably not, unless I get a slamming deal.

If they were cheap(ish) they'd be generally great buys. Pop some Linux on there and you have a great option. But the prices are crazy. It's priced like a premium but it's only a mediocre system.

Exactly my point. I can't justify the cost when you can get better specs 30% cheaper!

@RojoLoco I thought it was Tequila Tuesday.....

@travisdh1 That is where my thinking was going, just wanted to make sure I was on the correct page going down the right path.

I support a metal fabrication shop. They have machines that run on XP, Windows 2000 that do all sorts of metal work. Punching, bending, welding, etc. They were taking designs from a Workstation in the office then walking them to the metal working machine and using a USB drive to transfer all the different types of designs they would make. It was so old it couldn't work with Window shares on the new computers in the office. I was able to get it to work with a Samba share from a CentOS linux server though. They were very please with that.

@scottalanmiller While I think the scope of the request is a bit broad and has privacy concerns for other people not related to those arrested. I do not believe that there is an issue with the government trying to see if the people that were arrested did go to that website and did plan. It changes what charges and what sentencing can be rendered so it is pertinent to the case. I believe it should be a more narrow request than what it was.

It would be my belief that the fair use doctrine could be pushed in this case. However, I am not a lawyer.

For lunch today I am having a traditional St. Louis food: Pork Steak. This one was slowed cooked on the grill and I choose no sauce for this one. Sometimes I put sauce or a rub on it but today I didn't feel like it. Here is the link for what a Pork Steak is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_steak

@scottalanmiller I suggest giving it a spin. It has a very active community. I have never posted anything in their forums and not received an answer within a 24 hour period.

@dashrender I work next door to Busch Stadium and when there is a Cardinal game going on I can't get reception very well. It is better than what it used to be but it is still spotty.

@rojoloco said in Copying Content from other sources:

@penguinwrangler said in Copying Content from other sources:

Quoted from: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.

Golly, that sure sounds like the way we were "using" content from [the site that shall not be named]. I'd go so far as to say I believe everything on ML qualifies as "fair use" under that definition.

That is true, but Mangolassi.it would most likely have to prove that in court. Which I don't think it is worth it. That site is junk anyway.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4319436/Singularity-create-super-humans-Google-expert-claims.html

"Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. This might sound like science fiction, but Google's Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil has made 147 predictions since the 1990s and has an 86 per cent success rate. Kurzweil says when we live in a cybernetic society we will have computers in our brains and machines will be smarter than human beings. "

More and more I am being convinced that we are to become the Borg homeworld. Also more and more I want to go off grid and move to a remote part of Alaska.