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by tbyehl 12y ago
I've been cursing Shuji Nakamura since about 2005. Suddenly every gizmo had a blue LED brighter than the sun. Took me months to realize that all that blue light was wreaking havoc on my sleep cycle.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Manufacturers do not abuse the Malfunction Indicator Lamp. Its _legislated_ purpose is to alert the driver to issues which could compromise the emissions control systems of a vehicle. A loose gas cap causes a pressure leak in the EVAP syste
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by tbyehl 12y ago
As part of the MSDN Ultimate benefit you also get $150/month of Azure credits. You also get the Linux rate on Windows VMs, and for dev / test purposes you can run any MSDN software at no additional charge. http://azure.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Point being that it's easy to write a script that works fine on v3/4 but fails when run on v2, without doing something incredibly obvious like using cmdlets or modules that didn't ship with v2. Here is a by-no-means-comprehen
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by tbyehl 12y ago
| You have that guarantee starting with Windows 7. Version is one thing; some nice things are available only in v3+, but v2 is very usable already. I love me some Powershell. Wrote my first non-trivial PS script in early 2010 that was a maj
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by tbyehl 12y ago
The vCLI is kinda terrible. It's Perl so it will run anywhere but installers are only available for Linux and Windows. The core vCLI tools -- esxcfg- , vicfg- , vmware-cmd -- are geared for Host and vCenter interactions. For Guest crea
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by tbyehl 12y ago
vCLI (Windows, Linux, & Linux appliance) and PowerCLI (Windows Powershell) are both quite extensive.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
PRI interfaces with hardware or software DSPs are the "new" banks of modems.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Between the Foreign Tax Credit and the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion... You'd need a fair amount of US income or very low taxes in your new home country to generate a US tax burden. But. You still have to file. http://www.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
There's always an exception somewhere. At a previous job the IT department wouldn't buy Macs for anyone. Except themselves. They took a little too much joy in swapping my Mac for a Dell when I left IT...
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Some weird IBM flavor of RHEL 6.5 is what they gave me. On hardware that is near top-of-the-line and thus poorly supported. I bought a docking station and it was an ordeal just to get it to recognize a monitor attached to the dock. And it c
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Funny. I just started @ IBM. Can't run Windows because I have privileged access to systems. Can't BYOD because same. Can't hackintosh because licensing. And officially they don't buy Macs.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Outlook is really great at (Exchange) email. I just started at a place with Notes. In the 18 years since the last time I'd had to suffer with Notes for email, I cannot identify a single improvement.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Is it evidence? Sounds like they're using it to locate people who are already wanted by law enforcement, not to gather evidence of a crime. What's the recourse there?
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by tbyehl 12y ago
I've built a few systems for deploying Windows... and the last thing that every one of them did before writing a new partition table and laying down an image was to check for existing partitions and require manual intervention if any w
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Most likely to be private equity. IBM got SoftLayer after GI Partners rolled them up with a couple of other acquisitions.
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by tbyehl 12y ago
Verio was a player. The largest by some measures. Then they exercised an option to force NTT to buy them out when the tech stock market tanked and have barely been heard from since. * I was in the first wave of NTT/Verio lay-offs.
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by tbyehl 13y ago
What really makes sales taxes fun in the US is that they are variable in many states. If I go to my local Walmart at the start of the school year, some items I pick up may be tax-free because they are considered school supplies and there&#x
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by tbyehl 13y ago
Put up a Kickstarter and I'm in for a grand.
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by tbyehl 13y ago
I've been in call centers that attempted to screen for storage devices via metal detectors and x-ray machines, but that's certainly not the norm for data centers. I know of customers of my former employer who would not provide sys
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by tbyehl 13y ago
> As I've said before: I want to live in a world where ms buys xamarin, open sources or provides the software for nearly free I want to live in a world where Mono implements the full .NET Framework and I can run PowerShell scripts o
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by tbyehl 13y ago
Being next to one of the main tourist attractions of the city has probably helped. All of those damned pigeons...
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by tbyehl 13y ago
The SSAE 16 SOC 2 attestation would address physical access controls. At my last job with a hosting company, as an Engineer with substantial infrastructure in my local DC, I was not allowed entry without signing in and being issued a tempor
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by tbyehl 13y ago
I got a full refund on a $100-ish purchase last year that took too long to show up (I think they issued it on the 7th day and the package showed up the next day).
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by tbyehl 13y ago
> You need to be physically out of the USA for 330/365 days in a 12 month period (not a calendar year--this is stupidly overly complicated and tricky) That it how you capture partial years. I moved abroad in November of one year, st
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by tbyehl 13y ago
US banks have FDIC insurance to protect depositors against insolvency.
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by tbyehl 13y ago
Or as an open standard. There are Chinese companies selling Android decks on eBay that fit into nearly every odd-sized car stereo opening out there, complete with plug-and-play wiring harnesses and steering-wheel control integration. Otherw
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by tbyehl 13y ago
What it's going to do is decrease the resale value of off-lease HP server hardware, which will lead to higher leasing costs, which will push businesses to buy elsewhere...
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by tbyehl 13y ago
I use the Send to Kindle app to put the cracked books back on my Kindles.
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by tbyehl 13y ago
> Spinning hard drives fail too. Why hasn't this been a problem with the cache on spinning disks? Are they typically only buffering reads?

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