absGeekNZ

joined 1 year ago
[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

I was invited to a thanks giving dinner one year.... The marshmallow on sweet potatoes thing is truly weird, pumpkin pie was ok, the rest was quite nice.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago

Delay it until January, kill two birds with one stone.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 months ago

Long past, but for old files especially, old .doc files it is great as a backup.

It lives in a VM that never has access to the internet, it almost never gets started up.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have office 2007 on a winxp VM, I haven't had to use it in a few years, but it is there as a back up

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago
[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This but realistic.

Swap the order of the cutlery draw, put the spoons where the knives are supposed to be. Be the chaos in the world that you want to see.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No human should be running w11.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Automation engineer here: alarm management is a hugely important part of making a plant operable.

It is also a project that is never done, you must always review alarms that come in and see if they are providing useful information and what the operators are supposed to do with said information.

If the operators are not supposed to do anything with the information, then what is the point of having the alarm?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 17 points 2 months ago

Yep, downloaded XP over 33.6k modem, but I'm in NZ so 33.6 was more advertising than reality, it took weeks.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 months ago

Hell my home server, running on low end Xeon hardware had uptime numbers around 3 years....then there was a power cut. Next down day was another power cut a year or so later. Total around 8 years running with 5 outages, all but one due to power loss (other was Ubuntu 16.04 - 18.04 upgrade).

Just updated to Ubuntu server 20.04 so uptime is only 7 days at this point.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I read "manslaughter" in the NZ sense and was like WTF, how is this not murder.

Here manslaughter is a much lesser charge.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I understand, but to solve the drive death issue, there are existing solutions which are easy and free.

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