@MattSpeller said:

popcorn.jpg

The emoji extension is missing popcorn I tell ya.

@gjacobse said:

@Dashrender

KETV Meteorologist Matt Serwe says the Omaha metro should see at least 8 inches of snow -- but regardless of the final totals, he says the impact of the storm will be significant.

Please send that into the Ohio Valley....

At least you've had some snow in the Ohio Valley this year. NE Ohio is ~35 inches short of our 45 inch average. I think I'm the only one complaining tho.

@scottalanmiller said:

@lhatsynot said:

@RamblingBiped said:

@gjacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I got my SW PMs down to a fewer than 20, which means that they fit on a single page now. And all of the ones that are left are ones that I need to maintain for reference reasons (they have information in them that I don't want to lose.) Nothing more requiring follow up and now I can, I hope, keep on top of new ones as they come.

#feelingaccomplished

I had the impression that using email as a place to store important or reference information was a bad idea..

I say that,.. but I find that I still do so. There are over 4,460 emails in my Gmail account....

15,938 in my personal gmail account...

A paltry 3,328 in my work email.

I'm at 29,314 in my primary Gmail account... 137 in my work (but I just started here 2 weeks ago).

At one point I used to top 14K messages per day!

Error_not_human_parsable

I only get hundreds per day, and 95% of them either get moved or deleted.

Also, I feel like a slacker, only 3009 messages in my personal gmail inbox.

@scottalanmiller said:

Just heard from people over at Change that RackSpace has run out of nodes and cannot provision more capacity. Whoops.

A case of the sales team being too good?

@Jason said:

@travisdh1 said:

Com???? is just slow, and TWCBC is just completely unreliable. Between the two we marginally work at one location

Comcast is great as far as internet service here. You can get from 25mbps connections up to 250mbps. I had the 40meg connection at my last place. There customer service just sucks. Verizon has okay customer service but the DSL is slow and goes down a lot.

The only competition they have in the area is DSL. Neither of them offer any sort of decent speed for a reasonable price.

We used to have a WISP in the area as well, but I don't think they're still operating after the latest going out of business episode. One of the people that first started it back in the dialup days, latter his partner convinced him to sell the business to another company that it turned out was just in the business of buying local WISP. Literally all they did was buy up all the WISPs they could, and went out of business. I can't help but wonder if they were a front company for one of the big nationwide networks.

@scottalanmiller said:

And he does rotary quad copter stuff and fixed wing, too. Wide range.

He can't type, but he is watching the thread.

Well, get better soon!

@dafyre said:

@travisdh1 said:

Com???? is just slow

In my circles, we call them Comcrash.

I edited myself because they're a dirty word to me.

@RamblingBiped Even better, if a tag get's moved to the wrong place they'll cut you off for 3 days before they send someone out to fix the problem. All of the big ISP companies are guilty until proven innocent in my book now. We literally had a TWC truck at the end of the drive, and we had lost internet access just before the truck pulls away. Called up support "We don't have anyone in the area, the best we can do is send a service truck in 2 days." I've never been so hot in my life. If we wouldn't have had hotspot access we would have lost 2.5 days of shipping product. So now we've got TWCBC and Com????.

Com???? is just slow, and TWCBC is just completely unreliable. Between the two we marginally work at one location. Don't get me started on the other location that's near the end of having any DSL signal.

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

OK I was given another reason why they didn't want Facebook, at least on our office computers.

you know.. the reasoning seems so off the wall, I just can't even write it.
lol

You can't do that and not tell us haha.

OH OK..

So someone created a location inside FB about our business. We've know about it for a few years, it was created in 2012 (back when everyone used to check in everywhere). Currently the location is owned/run by Facebook, not us. But we are able to take over that location since it is our business (we haven't done it yet).

So sometime last week, a patient had a complaint, found this location and posted on the wall of that location. We had an employee who had also liked that location and became aware of the complaint while they were off the clock, but apparently in the building. This employee then told others (who were already on the clock) about it. A rukus ensued.

So now, in the hopes of keeping animosity down we want to keep people off FB on company resources to try to cut down on the drama (well, at least talk about it).

You were correct, this is as silly as Monty Python's Camelot.

@scottalanmiller said:

I don't think he has much choice, he flies and trains people on commercial drones. He uses the big boys, the ones that fly over the ocean and go computer controlled for a long distance and are used to inspect resources at sea and stuff like that. I don't think plastic props are an option on that kind of gear.

Ah, that's a whole other level than my 450mm hobbyist stuff. No wonder they can cause serious bodily harm.

@mlnews That's why you DO NOT fly with carbon fiber props around people. Ouch! (I don't know any more than what's been posted here, but it'd be a lot harder to cause that sort of damage with plastic props.) Do I need to start a drone safety thread?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

It is beautiful here today supposed to be around 45.

About seventy here. Sun is bright, windows and doors are open. This is gorgeous.

We'll be in the mid 50s today in Ohio. We've had one amazingly mild winter (so far) here.

Taking a minute to say hello on a Monday morning between reading log files. Block lists only grew by 2 over the weekend, less bad actors over the weekend than normal.

All around, looking like a much better Monday morning than normal.

I knew it was getting bad, but they're going plaid at this point. (Yes, it's a Spaceballs reference.)

@Minion-Queen said:

Why are all the peoples out and not working today? I thought it would be a quick trip to grab a couple groceries on lunch break... 2 hours later I am finally home.

It's Friday, what other excuse do we need?

@scottalanmiller said:

boot.ini? What issue would you anticipate there?

Having to boot into recovery mode and run the "Fix boot" routine. Been years since I had to manually fix a boot.ini.... course that might have as much to do with moving to Linux as Microsoft actually fixing boot sequence.

My results, another INTP

Your personality type: “The Logician” (INTP-A)
Strength of individual traits: Introverted: 88%, Intuitive: 73%, Thinking: 58%, Prospecting: 53%, Assertive: 54%.
Role: Analyst
Strategy: Confident Individualism

It's kinda scary how accurate the description is.

I've had some sort of Java installed locally for a long time, and probably a long time to come (Crashplan anyone?) Good riddance to the web browser plugins tho!

Me and a friend are off to Micro Center, getting parts to repair his computer. Geek toy store, woo!

@JaredBusch said:

@travisdh1 said:

Adding another IPv4 class B to the block list. Aliyun Computing Co., LTD, go away.

Hello, the 90's called and want their class back.

I know, I know, I'm old and it's how my brain was trained.

Adding another IPv4 class B to the block list. Aliyun Computing Co., LTD, go away.