@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline

/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?

People who control all their IoT devices from their phones need someone to blame for their personal shortcomings. God forbid they take 20 seconds to manually feed their pets.

@Joel then they need to lay off the crack. Unless everyone gathers 'round the rack to work, you will need miles of cabling for each workstation. Show them desk mounting, then show them VDI. Both will accomplish a degree of aesthetic improvement in terms of visible cabling and equipment.

I kinda want to give him a few dollars to fight the good fight. What a brilliant use of technical skills.

Whether or not it's "swearing" is in the eye of the fucking beholder...

@johnhooks and I would gladly take home the ones who weren't creeped out...

C is pretty easy to learn... only takes 3 fingers...

Woo! I won a $50 Steam card from SW... should have it next week. Now what should I buy?

I was expecting a pic of some mashed up avocados on top of a server.... disappointed.

@wirestyle22 said:

What profession would you guys have been in the 1950's? Typewriter repairmen?

I would have been a certified badazz mafacka... just like now.

A database is the plastic feet under my desktop PC, right?

@scottalanmiller said:

Now they are restricting us from normal posts...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1515335-need-help-with-vlans

They show this only AFTER your write up a full, detailed, technical response.

If you disparage apple, that T-Rex will jump out of the screen and smite you... ask me how I know.

I worked at a crappy call center in Tampa, FL (ca. 1998-99).... that alone should make you shudder. There were stacks of machines, both servers and desktops running server OSes, all stacked on top of each other (many turned sideways), much higher than my head. In fact, 2 stacks were higher than I can reach on my toes. these ran the whole infrastructure, all the PBX stuff as well as an expansive voice recording system (we were in the verification biz, so all call got recorded every day). The physical danger of these stacks was apparent, but they remained in that configuration until long after I left. How we made all that work was a mystery to me at the time (I was strictly break-fix and in house audio guru). Looking back, I'm not sure I would have wasted a match to burn that place to the ground.

(Side note on the miserliness of the owner - our data disposal routine was to microwave a stack of DVD-Rs every day. In the break room microwave that everyone used. Not sure how the EPA never got called... oh, wait... it was in Florida.)

@MattSpeller finally! something a Prius is good for! (I am fervently anti-smugmobile, but equally pro-Tesla).

If you go the Dell route, order the minimum RAM and HDD options and add on your own SSD and memory upgrades. Much cheaper.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

http://hackaday.com/2016/05/05/screw-drive-tractor-is-about-to-conquer-canada/

what in the actual hell is this

They're actually quite old. Used a lot for snow too.

I wonder why that is better for snow then a track.

Hollow screws float, tracks sink to the chassis

That makes sense. A sealed screw would double as a flotation device.

Also because "Screw Tractor" would be a great band name!

@art_of_shred said in Thoughts on a Ubiquiti/Cisco comparo?:

This is just a project. What's the line? "Not my circus, not my monkeys"?

I think it goes "not my circus, not my Sonicwall".

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Gathering recipes because there is a good chance I'll be cooking some farm raised rabbit on Saturday... if anyone has a brilliant rabbit recipe, please lay it on me!

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/111578/herb-and-beer-braised-rabbit/?internalSource=rotd&referringId=16356&referringContentType=recipe hub

The first picture doesnt do it justice. Check out the others.

So much yes.... And I make some ridiculously good Brussels sprouts, too....

I'd definitely try it. I don't get to eat Rabbit a lot.

I have some friends who raise them on a small farm in N GA. And my neighbors and I decided we are going to hunt them this winter.

Going to hunt your friends? Like... The Most Dangerous Game?

Shhhhh.... be vewy, vewy quiet.... we're hunting hippies!

Make a big EMP gun. One blast, all macbooks are done. Then replace with better hardware.

@MattSpeller said in Benevolent Dictatorship - A vote for Speller is a vote for a brighter future:

@RojoLoco said in [Benevolent Dictatorship - A vote for Speller is a vote for a brighter future]

Is the paddlin' for thinking that votes count for anything (like here in the US)?

Merely for thinking anyone else might acquire power in my benevolent dictatorship.

Never too early to stamp out opposition

Well, no one else in Canuckistan is as qualified as you, oh great and benevolent leader....

...I love the leader!!!

Pretty sure Gartner is the absolute worst choice possible, they are quite the opposite of "vendor neutral".