So that stuff is blacker than the blackest black, times infinity? Blacker than midnight on a moonless night?

@s.hackleman said:

I'm less than a 2 hour drive from Branson.

I'm sorry,

Hey that's really nice, thanks for sharing.

@NattNatt said:

I'm wearing these today! (casual Fridays FTW.)

Pretty much everyday in my office:
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That is a shame.

It seems odd that the calculator would be part of that system.

Putting my Trello to-do list in the sidebar is also handy.

Other nice stuff... the browser chrome color adjusts based on the average of the color palette in the site's favicon (or that's what I'm guessing based on my observations). Side bar notes are awesome. The overall UX is just really solid. It supports Chrome extensions but I haven't tested any for compatibilty yet.

@Jason yeah, sorry, didnt explain fully, the 30 day period is a grace period for outstanding people to cash cheques before the old signatory is invalid, the new guy can write cheques etc from day one.

@aaron said:

@RojoLoco Yeah, I'm not clicking that, but it seems to be some sort of credit for using eBay. I guess people still use eBay 🙂

I'm in the same boat, I've totally forgotten about eBay, well mostly.

@coliver said:

Yes, I'll be there Saturday and Sunday.

We should meet up!

@IRJ said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

@dafyre said:

@IRJ said:

He was running an illegal fishing charter (charging people money to fish)

Illegal as in against the law, or against group rules?

Yes it is illegal. Chartering a boat requires a captain's license which is not only expensive, but requires a difficult test.

So it would be legal if they did it legally? It's not chartering per se that is illegal, you are just saying that obviously these people are not captains?

Correct. Charter Fishing is a HUGE industry in Florida. It is very common to charge about $800-1000 a day to fish with 3-4 people . The price usually depends on the experience of your captain

Okay, that makes more sense. It seemed odd that chartering as a thing would be illegal. That it is rigorous makes sense.

Yeah. The laws are pretty strict because it is a safety thing. You want to make sure the captains that are taking these boats out are experienced. Things can get hairy quickly on the water and experience is very important.

Absolutely. You don't want some yahoo going all Christopher Columbus with you on his boat and sailing aimlessly for a week and landing on Cuba and telling you that you've been dropped off in Canada.

The free ones are normally limited to once per year.

I wasn't on that short of a time table, but I knew I was buying (building actually) a house. I did a credit check when ground was broken - from that day forward I made sure everything was paid ontime (OK I was a bit sloppy before that) closed a few random accounts that I had opened over the years that I hadn't used in years. By the time 9 months rolled around my score had risen enough to put me in the best lending range - my real estate person was actually shocked. She told me that she had never had someone improve their score during the process, but frequently they had made it worse.

At the time, my pre-ground breaking rate was locked at 6.875%, I saved a full point by improving my score.

Of course that's nothing on the 15 yr 2.875% I have today that I refinanced into a few years ago! Cut seven years off my loan, and actually lowered my mortgage payment by $10/month

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

This thread somehow has more posts than views lol

In a single view I posted probably 15 times.

Passionate thread then...

backs away slowly

Well, when you go to lunch and come back an hour later to 40 new posts..

I tell ya.. I love the fact that you can post while in the middle of a thread and it doesn't take you to the end of the thread anymore... it leaves you there.

This way I can read, make a response, keep reading, another response, etc.

yeah, that is a big improvement.

Voted 🙂

@Jason said:

@JaredBusch said:

@crustachio said:

@JaredBusch @wrx7m
My recent UAP-AC-PRO acquisition was a bust. Atrocious throughput compared to its predecessor. I went through all the settings per best practices. There's quite a lengthy thread on the subject over at the UBNT forums. Pretty disappointing.

Ah, I would not have seen that issue, because I have only used the UAP-AC-LITE so far. That LITE doe snot (and is not advertised to get) 1300mbps.

Sounds like the clients just don't have MIMO or enough streams to saturate it.

I'm testing with a 3x3 Thinkpad.

Now assuming you're going to mean your deductible regardless - then it might not be worth the effort of trying to get a lower rate, because ultimately you won't save any money, and now you're spending your time and effort saving the insurance company money - and if there was a value in that I'd still be for doing that, but alas, we know there isn't.

@tonyshowoff said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

@tonyshowoff said:

o actually I don't really do that much these days, but when I first started travelling I just sort of matched up with what was

What is CIS? I don't travel enough to have run into this term before.

Commonwealth of Independent States, former USSR.

Thanks.

I didn't know we, as Americans, needed an invite to visit CIS. Like Scott, it's on my long term list of places to see, but Australia and Japan are higher on the list.

Yeah and even then the initial visa is only 72 hours for you people.

Yeah, not terrible.

The mic drop is not over the send button it was over what was the send and archive button.

If you are doing all import OMG this is horribly critical email, then why the hell would you send and archive in the first place?

Of course if you were sending some horrible OMG important email, for your lively hood, I do not get why you were using personal GMail accounts.

Do they work? Well yes as @IRJ mentioned. But I still will not excuse people for this.

Made it through.

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

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@NattNatt said:

@scottalanmiller said:

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@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.

Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..

But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.

Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.

This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...

What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.

I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)

Cool. KVM is where nearly everyone new goes these days. Xen and KVM are really the only ones that make sense. VMware is way too expensive and limited, Hyper-V even Microsoft won't use for cloud (their cloud runs on Azure, which while related to Hyper-V is not actually Hyper-V.)

Yeah, I've not got experience personally with either of those yet, but then that's never been a part of my job, and it's generally stuff I taught myself when I was bored in order to progress myself, not for work purposes etc 🙂

They are the only things that we use ourselves. About thirteen years on Xen and one on KVM.

Will have to check them out and get learning then! 😄