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by mrbill 10y ago
"modern" is misspelled "mordern" in at least two places.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Am I the only person who doesn't want a "convertible" with a touchscreen? If I want a tablet, I have a tablet. For laptop work, I have a laptop. I had the 2015 Chromebook Pixel and loved it, but never used the touchscreen (
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by mrbill 10y ago
She's on retirement income, $65/month is barely justifiable. Fortunately for her needs, 2-3Mbps is adequate.
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by mrbill 10y ago
My mother lives out in the boonies of rural Oklahoma, and until about five years ago, had to make-do with 28.8 (on a good day) dialup. She now has up-to-3Mbps/1Mbps via a WiMax antenna on the roof, pointed at another antenna on the wat
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by mrbill 10y ago
My condolences. I know there's not much I could say that would help. Hang in there.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I posted this to Reddit a few years ago and still get messages about it every few days. "June 16, 2009: my wife suddenly passed away at home, at the age of 34. I was the one who found her, and she'd been gone for at least an hour
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by mrbill 10y ago
This. I had no choice but to keep going, even if it was just for my cats.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Lost my wife seven years ago suddenly at the age of 34 [1]. My first relationship after her passing was with someone who herself had become widowed a couple of years before. We'd started out as friends, but ended up dating for about
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by mrbill 10y ago
One of my favorite sites, I got his permission years ago to keep a mirror.
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by mrbill 10y ago
- A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression Will most likely end up being the best nonfiction book I've read all year. Fiction: - Limbus, Inc. - Book III (I liked I and II better tho) - Sleeping Giants (Themis Files) -
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by mrbill 10y ago
Playing music, weather, shopping lists...
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by mrbill 10y ago
I had occasional brain zaps when first on Lexapro (the first SSRI I ever took) but it wasn't bad.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Not quite.. I ordered a second Echo Dot for my mom last Thursday (the 15th). It was originally scheduled to ship on the 30th, but shipped early on the 19th and she got it today. She's not very technically oriented (iPad is about as com
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by mrbill 10y ago
Even tapering off Cymbalta and tapering on to a different med at the same time.. Worst sickness of my life. Felt like death flu. Uncontrollable vomiting, diarrhea, chills, shivering, fever. I spent 4 days between bed and bathroom. Then sud
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by mrbill 10y ago
Memory usage isn't a concern; all of my boxes have at least 16G if not more. What made me move away from FF (especially on OSX/x86) is being able to sit there and watch it redraw its own window decorations/"chrome&quot
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by mrbill 10y ago
I'm a diehard Chrome convert for years now and won't go back to Firefox...
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by mrbill 10y ago
What keeps me from moving to another note software is the right-click "save this web page to evernote" extension that I've come to rely on (for online purchase receipts, bill paying, etc).
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by mrbill 10y ago
If you've only got one AP, or a small number of them, you don't even need the Java-based management controller. Ubiquiti now has an iOS/Android app that can be used to do basic setup of the APs, and once they're configur
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by mrbill 10y ago
Love my Edgerouters and UAP access points. Currently running an ERX and a UAP-AC-LR.
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by mrbill 10y ago
FYI, there's also an iOS/Android app that you can use for one-off simple setup of their APs now. I used it when setting up my UAP-AC-LR. Years ago, I got fed up with the Java-based controller as well, and reflashed my UAP-LR at t
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by mrbill 10y ago
They USED to do something similar. When the G5 iMacs had problems with bad capacitors on the motherboards, Apple would send you the replacement midplane with swap instructions, along with a box to return the old one in. I took pictures of t
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by mrbill 10y ago
I have a Steelcase LEAP, at least ten years old, that was acquired when a local company went out of business. The v1s had a design flaw where eventually a weld would break and the piece of metal that adjusted the front edge of the seat wou
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by mrbill 10y ago
A friend of a friend sold his company and used some of the proceeds to collect various nerdy things. One of which was a successor to the original Arpanet IMPs. I got to see it sitting on a pallet in a warehouse (with other cool stuff) in 2
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by mrbill 10y ago
> You can't make that mistake in production. They were right to fail you. When I took the RHCE exam, someone made an extremely simple mistake similar to this that led to the machine (a VM) being unusable. They knew exactly what they
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by mrbill 10y ago
I'm currently using a Ubiquiti Edgerouter X (previously an ERLite) for routing/NAT and a UAP-AC-LR for WiFi (along with an OnHub in bridge mode, for AB testing). Previously, I used a UAP-LR reflashed with "normal" OpenWR
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by mrbill 10y ago
This is welcome and refreshing.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Makes me wonder what would have happened if IBM had been the suitor instead of Oracle, as I saw rumored.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I did a lot of computer consulting/fix-it work in high school (late 80s/early 90s), and one of my biggest clients was a guy who was the region's "Diamond" / biggest Amway distributor. The first time I showed up
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by mrbill 10y ago
Oracle totally and freely threw away every bit of goodwill that Sun had fostered over the years, when they bought the company. Chunked it in the dumpster out back, didn't care. The "old" Sun: Encouraged hobbyist use of hardw
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by mrbill 10y ago
Sun/Solaris/SPARC and running sunhelp.org was a major part of my life for over a decade. This is sad to see, but the acquisition of Sun by Oracle pretty much started the downhill slide.

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