Posts made by PenguinWrangler

What about a bookstack site for information sharing and then something like Lastpass for password sharing?

Built me a new desk over the weekend. I have much more desktop space now. .

Thinking about doing actual leatherworking as a hobby.

@emad-r said in SBC = RK3399 is the chip to look for:

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Compared to Pi3 this chip = RK3399 paves the way for ARM desktop alternatives without any lags.

I never use RPi as a desktop.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with yet another Comcast outage.

What's really shocking is when we have a Comcast onage.

At my house at least, never had Charter Spectrum for a business connection, Charter Spectrum seldom goes out.

@jaredbusch said in SBC = RK3399 is the chip to look for:

@emad-r said in SBC = RK3399 is the chip to look for:

@jaredbusch said in SBC = RK3399 is the chip to look for:

No WiFi on the board? Useless.

Huh ? the RK3399 is the CPU SOC just like with Intel and AMD, you usually dont have WiFi inside the CHIP.

I said on the board. not the chip. No shit, there is no WiFi in the SOC.

That said, you really should not care about build in WiFi, cause you can use an WiFi USB, and find one with good chip like this:

The point of buying a board based system is to not have everything hanging off of it. If there is no WiFi and Bluetooth, just don't bother.

I have to agree with Jared on this one. Once Raspberry PI started to incorporate the WiFi onto the board it was awesome. I looked at ODROID but the issue here is the cost. I mean I can do what I need to do with a Raspberry PI at a much cheaper cost. In the right scenario, ODRIOD would be the right choice. For myself, I don't see that happening, because once you have the ODROID all setup you could step up to a much better system for not that much more money.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Back online after doing essentially nothing but driving since first thing Saturday morning.

I hate driving

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Just seen on facebook (i guess one of these click bate/fake news/spam things) an article with the headline
"Man from 2464 (or something) passes lie detector test"

My first thought is yeah, i'm no doctor or what ever but if the man is crazy enough to fully believe his fantasy everything he says is going to be true so would pass? Like people that say they've been abducted by Aliens

When I worked as a prison guard they taught us that a majority of the offenders could be classified as sociopathic. Which means they can truly believe their own lies. I was watching two offenders and they passed items between each other. I radioed and had both of them stopped and sure enough one of them had some weed on him. It was a drug deal. The one offender that passed it to him swore up and down that he never passed anything to him. He was very very convincing. I had it on tape though. It is very scary how convincing he was. If I didn't have it on tape and a clear shot of the package, I might have doubted myself as to if he actually did it.

@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:

I have never gotten a cup of coffee at work, I feared that work coffee was going to be super watery and not enough to actually taste like coffee..
WE have a Keurig in the break room.
I'm set.

We have Keurig at our office (and at my house as well) and neither are enough for me. The SO likes it so I deal with it, but pretty much just drinking murky water . . .

Gotta get the stronger stuff.

Keurig doesn't have anything "stronger". I should just go back to making cold brew. . .

I have started doing cold brew coffee. It is excellent and I love it. Especially for the summer in the heat. I just can't drink hot stuff when it is 90+ out. I order a pack of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074X7T72H/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and I just fill them with coffee and put them in a pitcher of water in my fridge for 24 hours and wam! Great cold brew coffee.

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

Updating my Hyper-V servers.

@irj said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:

I guess either way I need to setup a DCHP server.

You wouldn't have to with the way I suggested. You would just have to set static IPs for everything. Mine would just need a network in place. Is there no DHCP server where you will do this? Again, a Raspberry Pi could have a Samba Share and run DHCP pretty easily

@travisdh1 said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:

@irj Clonezilla includes a server in recent versions. I haven't used it in server mode myself yet, but that may be worth looking at.

Linux box with a samba share to upload the base image to, could easily be a raspberry pi with a larger USB drive attached, and then boot the machines to Clonzilla via an USB/CD wouldn't be that bad for the number of machines he referred to.

5 PM can't get here soon enough.

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Gentoo code on Github has "been totally pwned": https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/06/29/linux-distro-hacked-on-github-all-code-considered-compromised/.

Wow, oh wow. I know there are die-hard Gentoo people out there. I was never one of them.

Women will become the dominant gender in all fields that lead itself to get schooling after high school. Women are outpacing men in college degrees(Study here). Not saying you have to have a college degree for IT. Trust me I think it is a waste of time for IT. However, as hiring managers and HR usually have college degrees that is what they will lean towards for a position, how many of us have degrees and Certificates just to get the interview? I know I do. However, I think we need to ask why are boys less and less likely to enter college. Is it because in schools in America, the acceptable behavior is female behavior and normal boy behavior (rowdy, disorganized, inattentive especially at younger ages) is discouraged and punished. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/05/the-war-against-boys/304659/

I don't mind encouraging people to think about going into fields that they wouldn't normally go into. I would never want to think that someone would say "well I shouldn't go into that field because I am male/female". There has been a gender gap in STEM. I think it is starting to shrinking now. What is perplexing is that there isn't a push for men to go into what has been primarily female-dominated fields, for instance, nursing, teaching, social work, etc. If there is something "wrong" with STEM being dominated by men, why is it okay for fields to be dominated by women?

@rojoloco Pork Steak is from St. Louis and it is an awesome cut. Done right it is an awesome piece of meat.

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

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

For lunch Pork Steaks cooked low and slow in my crock pot along with Onions, carrots and portabella mushrooms. With my signature rub on them. My rub contains Smoked Paprika, Chipotle powder, Garlic Powder, Pink Himalayan Salt, and pepper.

I bet a rub like that would be excellent with a little finely ground espresso added to the mix.

Hmmm...... I will find out. I mainly use the rub when I smoke meat in my smoker. However, when I don't want to fuss with the smoker I will do my meat in the crockpot as it is much easier. Last night was at the grocery store and saw a package of three pork steaks on sale. Snatched them up and cooked them overnight. Now I have lunch for today and the rest of the work week.

For lunch Pork Steaks cooked low and slow in my crock pot along with Onions, carrots and portabella mushrooms. With my signature rub on them. My rub contains Smoked Paprika, Chipotle powder, Garlic Powder, Pink Himalayan Salt, and pepper.

@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@obsolesce Yes Windows 10 mobile was great, i just replaced my lumia with android and it is garbage in comparison, except for the available applications.
Im just not sure of the veracity of this article unless MS NDA is somehow preventing leaks for first time in tech history.

Yeah Win10 Mobile is my favorite... it's great. I have my Android set up to be as similar as possible to it, using all the MS app stuff for it. But yeah, aside from the "app gap", it's definitely my preference.

We just need to wait and see I guess.

I used Windows 7.5 phone through Windows 10 phone. I have to say that I like the interface far better than iPhone or Andriod. I use an android because of the App gap.