a2tech

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by a2tech 7y ago
After fighting with Box for a bit today I'm really happy that Dropbox still exists.
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by a2tech 7y ago
Those aren't designed to stop the hillside from sliding. They're there to stop erosion and crumbling at the edge. If those hillsides want to move, those walls will not hold them back.
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by a2tech 7y ago
Just be careful if you're putting fill behind the wall--like all retaining walls these aren't really designed to 'hold back' anything. Their strength comes in compression, not lateral loads. At a bare minimum make sure y
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by a2tech 7y ago
I’ve been witnessing a masterclass in this at work lately. One of the faculty I work with has a habit of jumping in on people when they’re talking. One of our new faculty simple refuses to spot when the other person jumps in—-just simply ke
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by a2tech 7y ago
If you like SES you should check out Email Octopus. It hooks up to SES and gives you a nice GUI for putting the messages together. We moved a good sized client over to them and their marketing people wanted a GUI and it filled the niche nic
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by a2tech 7y ago
More than likely the SCADA systems themselves were fine, but the PCs for managing those systems were AD joined and people couldn't login to actually run the management software. Its very common in custom hardware setups to have a stand
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by a2tech 7y ago
Most of these places have their backups on directory joined machines with storage that is badly configured. Backup systems should never be joined to the domain specifically for this reason--but it makes configuration harder so most places s
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by a2tech 7y ago
Is it really? I've just assumed all along that it won't be during my life time (outside of small scale demonstrations and special plastics). I think most recycling (outside of obviously simple wins like aluminum and steel cans) is
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by a2tech 7y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a backup client that handles millions of tiny files? I'm using rsnapshot right now, which works but backing up to an NFS share is incredibly slow (most of the time is spent in iterating over the fi
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by a2tech 7y ago
Sounds like the best thing he could do for his son is give him the first month's rent on an apartment and kick him out. He won't like it, but isn't being a parent about making the hard decisions?
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by a2tech 7y ago
You can not rely on one company. Let me repeat that. You. Can. Not. Rely. On. One. Company. If you are you’re negligent and you deserve what you get. You need your backups to be good and to be with a second provider. This is NOT rocket scie
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by a2tech 7y ago
I’m glad it’s for a museum and not Larry Ellison’s personal Japanese village.
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by a2tech 7y ago
In the AvE comments there's a lot of people claiming that this is NOT a common practice--because its incredibly dangerous. It just takes a gust of wind when those pins are out to cause massive damage.
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by a2tech 7y ago
Watch this video for a good breakdown of what people think happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cexN2-T6dxY&feature=youtu.be he has a followup video with additional pictures sent in from the scene that seems to cor
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by a2tech 7y ago
Wow, Megatokyo. Thats a blast from the past. Next you'll bring up BBspot!
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by a2tech 7y ago
Thats exactly the boat I'm in--my grandmothers write me notes and cards and they use beautiful old style cursive. It just looks like squiggles to me--I hand the letters over to my wife and she reads them to me.
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by a2tech 8y ago
Also the generators were originally situated in a raised location but had been moved to the ground level after their installation. If the generators had not been moved they would have functioned through the tsunami.
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by a2tech 8y ago
Is this a surprise? I stayed at places in Vancouver and Seattle 2 years ago that had prominent signs in the lobby straight up stating the building did not allow Airbnb and the hosts had instructions about ‘community guidelines’ that were re
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by a2tech 8y ago
And the address his DMV records are tied to is a crap box his LLC owns somewhere he doesn't live.
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by a2tech 8y ago
I wonder what his book would look like if published today. Would he still find big problems with the smoking studies?
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by a2tech 8y ago
I also don't take photographs when we're traveling. Unless I see my wife looking particularly charming or the mood strikes me, I just wander around and look at things. What I've found is that since EVERYTHING is photographed
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by a2tech 8y ago
I suspect they’re selling rebadged clevo laptops like almost everyone
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by a2tech 8y ago
I applaud his work ethic, but can you imagine how many people it takes to support this work style? Programmers building custom interfaces, around the clock monitoring people for his streaming whims (mentioned in the article), system admin&#
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by a2tech 8y ago
Interesting tidbit from the article—apparently flightradar24 doesn’t show business jets or military planes.
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by a2tech 8y ago
We moved over to SES a long time ago. Mandrill was basically the cheapest game in town, but their terrible service coupled with Mailchimp essentially abandoning the platform after their acquisition made us jump ship. I feel bad for anyone s
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by a2tech 8y ago
Do you happen to have a link to the Alibaba supplier you bought from?
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by a2tech 8y ago
Consulting is a weird place. Just recently I had a customer decide they wanted to hire me full time (I’ve been consulting with one of their internal divisions for awhile, and the company wanted to make me available to everyone) and they bal
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by a2tech 8y ago
A lot. But most tug captains work for someone that owns the boat and over time might buy into the boat ownership or buy their own. You can still make a big salary while running someone else’s boat though.
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by a2tech 8y ago
In Ann Arbor we have a range outside of town that lets you shoot out to 600 yards.
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by a2tech 8y ago
This article is useless. It says nothing, has no information on what or how the breach happened, and is basically security word salad with a heaping of 'these people are idiots'.

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