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by mmcgaha 6y ago
I have never understood how we can point to video that has gone through an unknown converter into a television screen recorded by an unknown camera and say definitively what the expected result will be. I feel like the timing on multiple de
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
In the late 90s we bought two laserjet 8000 printers that were still in use when I left the company in 2014. Outside of the regular service schedule they never required maintenance.
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
The Python standard library is amazing. A few weeks ago, I wrote a program that provides a SMTP relay, mail storage, and web UI for managing email sequencing. The only dependency that it pulled in was pywin32 so it could run as a windows se
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
This was ten or more years ago, so I cannot speak for their current practices, but I hosted a domain on a godaddy VPS, and they hijacked the robots.txt file to exclude the site from getting indexed. Another issue that I remember was that th
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
Back in the 90s, I had a serial cable under the carpet from my computer to my couch. My computer would access the internet over PPP and my laptop would PPP over to my computer. Then I would launch netscape and browse the web from the comfor
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
I hate to sound like a salty old IT guy, but here we go. It is not the fault of Excel that people are using it wrong. They have the ability to import the data as text but they skip that step all together. If the user does not say up front w
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
I feel that the whole misinformation thing is overblown too. Like you, I do not have a facebook account, so maybe our s/n ratio is better than most. I used to get a lot of chain emails that had misleading or exaggerated information. I
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
I do not know about absolutely loving Edge, but I just setup a new work computer and am using edge exclusively. I cannot promise that this is forever, but it is working for me right now.
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by mmcgaha 6y ago
defunding police pensions is a bit much.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
What caused so many people to start using "master class" in this way? Usage appears to be on the rise too: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
Pentaho Data Integration is an ETL tool that I have been using it for the last 11 years or so. The main use is for loading a data warehouse. I also use it for exception reporting and dumping some analytic data to excel. https://c
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
Serious? Good luck with that because in 30 years the 25 year old know-it-alls will be saying the same thing about your generation. The cycle never ends.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
set reason [expr $feels + $weird]
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
The disk distributed with that book was linux universe. For me, it was the first easy to use linux distribution.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
On the island where live, the local fishermen had a below normal haul and the co-op was not paying well per pound, so 2019 was already a bad year. I also understand that many of the fishermen have extended themselves for larger boats and mo
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I hate sl. I always alias it and I will purge it from any system that I am in charge of. It is not fun nor cute and I do not want to waste my time watching it.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
Although I wake up for work every day and live the early bird schedule, I am a night owl. Every so often my body will reject the schedule and I wake up between midnight and 1:00AM. Of course I am sleepy by sunrise but I have to push through
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I cannot remember the years, but IE ran on linux at some point in the 90s.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I don't now what goes into the day-to-day maintenance at sdf.org, but they are able to provide public access to a NetBSD system without any major security breaches. The lore there is that before the switch from Linux to NetBSD security
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I couldn't agree more; In the 90s, my main internet usage was lurking various news groups. Everything that I wanted was on usenet. I could get answers to programming questions, tech support, source code, software, quality images, and p
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I get that a list of tables and fields is not great documentation by itself, but QAD also provides ERD diagrams, implementation guides, user guides, administrative guides, and other documents. The overall quality of their documentation is o
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
To give you an idea about the real scope of what is behind an ERP system, here is a link to the database definitions behind QAD's MFG/Pro: https://documentlibrary.qad.com/documents/2370665/2368142/Da
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I had one too. My favorite part was how smoothly the disk ejected. The biggest problem that I had was not getting it to work in Slackware. It was probably my inexperience and lack of knowledge though.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
Warnings of impending problems serve a real purpose even if they miss the mark. We absolutely want folks thinking about environmental responsibility, and the consequences of their choices. Unfortunately, some of the more doom and gloom pred
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I get the concept of appreciating people for what they are, but I don't know what to do with this knowledge. Maybe I can apply it to an eccentric neighbor, but how would I apply it to an unproductive employee, lying partner, or self-de
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
Create a separate "Power Users" configuration program. Everyone loves being a power user.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
My grand mother was born in 1894 and was tenth of eleven children. She spent here early years on a farm helping with her younger brother. She attended school until the 4th grade. At 11-years-old, she was working full time in a cotton mill.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I know that the net calories consumed/burned is what determines my weight, but the benefit of a low carb diet (only speaking for me) is that I am not hungry. I lost 50 pounds in the first six months and have been at the same weight fo
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
I am a little older than you, so my cheat sheets were on paper. There was definitely something about miniaturizing notes that reinforced learning. I made dozens of cheat sheets but never had to use one.
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by mmcgaha 7y ago
When I read about email being too hard, I hear about configuration headaches, deliverability, and spam, but the real reason that I outsource email is because of security. The horrible history of MTA security drives me into a very conservati

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