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meatpimp posted:Old ones use thermal, most recent use plain paper. Thermal is as out of date as the rest of the A+ curriculum (neverminding the nonsense the instructor is spewing from that twitter feed). poo poo, I did my A+ in 2001 and I thought it was badly out of date even then. I can't even imagine how bad it is now.
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Rhyno posted:Well god drat it. The girlfriend is thinking she wants to leave her job altogether so out goes the chance of getting the free rent back. This also means we'll probably have to move again. Honestly if I got free rent at a nice place in a decent neighbourhood I would never leave
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Tusen Takk posted:Honestly if I got free rent at a nice place in a decent neighbourhood I would never leave With her dad dying she's not wanting to deal with stress right now. Kind of frustrating because any job is going to be stressful with a dying parent in the mix.
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What would be a good way to learn how to drive a manual? I was poking around for work at a service department and they said it'd be great if I could learn, I figured I'd just rent something with a stick and drive around but all anyone seems to have are autos. No one I know has a manual car and none of the driving schools around me have manuals either. If this purple  https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/5170552571.html was a bit closer I'd be tempted to buy it and drive it off a bridge when I'm done
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Rhyno posted:With her dad dying she's not wanting to deal with stress right now. Kind of frustrating because any job is going to be stressful with a dying parent in the mix. See if she can go on a sabbatical or stress leave.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:See if she can go on a sabbatical or stress leave. Or does she see a doctor? Look in to FMLA.
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Xy Hapu posted:What would be a good way to learn how to drive a manual? I was poking around for work at a service department and they said it'd be great if I could learn, I figured I'd just rent something with a stick and drive around but all anyone seems to have are autos. No one I know has a manual car and none of the driving schools around me have manuals either. Buy a manual car on a Friday and by Monday you'll be good to go.
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quote:I've not seen a fax machine use thermal paper since the late 90's. They're all laser/inkjet printed now. meatpimp posted:Old ones use thermal, most recent use plain paper. Correction. MOST use plain paper, some are still on sale that use thermal. I know, I installed one a week ago and we have others that use thermal. In a lovely manufacturing enviroment that eats ink and most laser printers alive, thermal and impact still rules.
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Somebody please buy this: http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/rds/cto/5144377244.html I would do it myself but I don't have the money, skills, or ability to find unicorn parts to do it myself. MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:See if she can go on a sabbatical or stress leave. They're already badly understaffed right now, she already demoted herself. iwentdoodie posted:Or does she see a doctor? Look in to FMLA. Already on meds. It's just disappointing, this rent free stretch spoiled me . I was pretty much allowed to blow my cash on anything and now I have to adult again.
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keykey posted:A friend of mine is sitting through an A+ cert class right now since his work paid for him to do it since they want all their techs A+ certified. He has been writing nuggets of wisdom all week that the instructor is giving the class. I'm pretty sure his instructor wrote the screenplay for hackers. Enjoy: https://twitter.com/aplusblowhard I sat through an A+ class. The instructor swore up and down that a surge protector wasn't working properly unless the light on it was flickering.  (also he said some poo poo similar to that... such nuggets as "never leave anything with a lithium ion battery charging unattended unless you want your house to burn down"... so I guess I can never charge my cellphone or laptop again?) Xy Hapu posted:What would be a good way to learn how to drive a manual? I was poking around for work at a service department and they said it'd be great if I could learn, I figured I'd just rent something with a stick and drive around but all anyone seems to have are autos. No one I know has a manual car and none of the driving schools around me have manuals either. Beaten by Lightbulb Out, but I literally taught myself by buying a beater.... and having to figure out how to get it home. Within a few hours I had most of it down, and was able to leave a stop smoothly within a couple of days, though I still stalled occasionally leaving a stop for a few weeks (I was pretty conservative with the throttle while launching, since I knew how expensive a new clutch was, and knew a reman starter was a lot cheaper). CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Sooo much stupid right there. However gotta ask why the fax machine one is there - fax machines used to in the majority and still do use thermal paper in some models. Please find the model # for a fax machine made in the past 15-20 years that uses thermal paper. I haven't seen thermal paper for anything except point of sale and barcode equipment on the shelf anywhere in ages. (though today's A+ still asks about fax machines  )I actually do have a fax machine that's about 20 years old, but it uses plain paper, and a funky transfer film. Can't find cartridges for it anymore, but we've managed to rewind the current cartridge multiple times. I haven't plugged it in in several years though; it's slightly more of a PITA to fax using a PC, but scanning to the PC then using a  fax/modem to handle it results in poo poo that's actually readable.What's funny is I had to show several coworkers how to use a fax machine at one job I had. Nobody except for the GM had ever used a fax machine... or a landline. That really made me feel ancient. Another job I had (10 years ago!) had some forms that had to be filled out with a typewriter now and then, and the majority of people who worked there had no idea how to use one. Enourmo posted:Is it kosher to drive my car with the MAF unplugged a couple miles to the parts store? It dies with the sensor plugged in when I touch the throttle, and the CEL is on. It'll run and drive, but like Lloyd said, it'll be running in open loop, so it'll be running on the rich side. It might decide to go into limp, but it'll run. I wouldn't drive it regularly like that, but a few miles? I don't see any cause for concern as long as you know the rev limiter might now be 3000 instead of 6500, so don't try to fly past a big truck in the fast lane or antyhing. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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iOS 9 has a few nifty features and doesn't seem to ruin my iPhone 5. I wonder if any weird Bluetooth bugs are fixed.
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kastein posted:sounds like time to dust off the resume to me. Maybe. Turns out the meeting was to inform folks they'd be laid off. About half of the folks not invited, myself included, were informed they'd be transferred to another division, which apparently wasn't really impacted by the restructuring. The remaining few folks will be staying on the team, but the specifics of how that'll work hasn't been made clear yet. Pretty much the entire team decided to gently caress off around 2:30pm and went to commiserate at a local brewery instead.
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Rhyno posted:They're already badly understaffed right now, she already demoted herself. If she's already on meds that's even better. SERIOUSLY have her look into FMLA. It will allow her to miss days when needed, and have no blow back. Its one of those god drat commie socialist programs that no one ever thinks about, and it's a giant loving help when someone has mental issues.
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iwentdoodie posted:If she's already on meds that's even better. SERIOUSLY have her look into FMLA. It will allow her to miss days when needed, and have no blow back. I think she's really just become unhappy with the company. She could walk into almost any leasing office and get a job with no effort. She won rookie of the year in her industry and has gotten numerous promotions already.
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some texas redneck posted:It'll run and drive, but like Lloyd said, it'll be running in open loop, so it'll be running on the rich side. It might decide to go into limp, but it'll run. I ended up taking backroads to the place, you're right about the revs, though I don't know if it was a hard cutoff or just turbo boost loving with it (the stock fuel map is already wonky so I can imagine no-MAF mode not being particularly robust). Had codes for the MAF and fuel pressure regulator after replacing a battery. I don't have time for further diag because of classwork, so to the shop it went. They'll get to it tomorrow.
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iwentdoodie posted:If she's already on meds that's even better. SERIOUSLY have her look into FMLA. It will allow her to miss days when needed, and have no blow back. As long as the company has at least 50 employees, and she's been with them at least a year in full time status. IIRC FMLA doesn't apply to small (below 50 employees) employers. And depending how the place is set up (IIRC she's in property management at a townhouse community?), the company will be set up in such a way that each property is a separate LLC. FMLA has saved my rear end more than once (especially when I went to rehab - GM of the store I worked in at the time demoted me and cut my pay over it, but a short letter to HR got that fixed .... and got me bitched out by the GM), but a lot of companies take full advantage of every loophole in it.
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^^FMLA kept my wife in a job when she was younger, and recently was the only way my father in law didn't lose his job over a legit health issue because he was too god fanned embarrassed to speak to HR beforehand. He tried going back to work 12 hours after having surgery to remove a kidney stone.Rhyno posted:I think she's really just become unhappy with the company. She could walk into almost any leasing office and get a job with no effort. She won rookie of the year in her industry and has gotten numerous promotions already. And the stress of a new job plus a dying parent could throw her off the deep end. It's just an idea, I give you poo poo but just trying to help. iwentdoodie fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Enourmo posted:I ended up taking backroads to the place, you're right about the revs, though I don't know if it was a hard cutoff or just turbo boost loving with it (the stock fuel map is already wonky so I can imagine no-MAF mode not being particularly robust). If it felt like a hard cut, it was a hard cut. Boost cut would result in it surging at some RPMs, then falling on its face at higher RPMs, but wouldn't feel like running into a rev limiter. It'd feel more like a fuel pump that was dying (so intermittent full power, then "where's the power?" then more power, etc). I know my Altima went into limp with the MAF unplugged; the Saturn doesn't, but it's extremely slow to respond to throttle input with the MAF unplugged (with it plugged in, it's typical GM DBW + GM hilariously heavy flywheel lag, which is hilarious by itself).
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Well at all times it was sluggish as hell, and actually died if I turned the A/C on at idle, so it's whatever. I'm just pissed at how quickly this escalated. I've needed a jump once a few weeks ago, then 2 Monday night. Had to get a jump yesterday morning, car idled fine but now suddenly would die with any throttle at all. Then on the next crank attempt it not only wouldn't turn over, but sucked the voltage down low enough to reset my radio. Checked the resting voltage when I got home, 11.7 V. Replaced the battery and now it starts fine and the alternator voltage looks fine, but now this fuel/MAF/whatever root cause issue is persisting even with good power. God I loving hate cars.
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Yep. I realize it's a 12yo car by now but it's still annoying when actual driveability issues crop up.
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Xy Hapu posted:What would be a good way to learn how to drive a manual? I was poking around for work at a service department and they said it'd be great if I could learn, I figured I'd just rent something with a stick and drive around but all anyone seems to have are autos. No one I know has a manual car and none of the driving schools around me have manuals either. Sadly, you're probably going to have to buy one. I think you'll have the basics down in a weekend and it'll probably be about a month until you feel confident about it. I haven't found any rental places in the states that let you rent one and I don't think driving schools have them around either. fjelltorsk, has your wife thought about Boston? It's a big medical town. I know someone is going to mock me but Cleveland is starting to become a big medical town too or at least that's what everyone makes me think. The suburbs are nice and some of the schools don't suck. One of the biggest draws for it though is the low cost of living. I know someone will probably post these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM at least we're not Detroit
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iwentdoodie posted:And the stress of a new job plus a dying parent could throw her off the deep end. No it's cool, I do appreciate it. Hopefully on Oct 6th we'll find out that her dad is responding positively to the treatment.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:I love riding bicycles, but this is why I hate bicyclists What was he doing, other than properly riding in marked bike lanes? (edit: caught your edit, still doesn't change that he had the right of way)
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Brother Fax 515 is available for you right now. And yes you most certainly can get bigger and more industrial ones, usually from China and India - if you walk into a factory or workshop or even a lawyer's office, they are most certainly still about and still on sale... and even still desireable over the poo poo that passes for fax machines that will get gunked up and stop working fast in dirty and hostile environments. There's not much out there anymore that are built indestructible like a HP 4L printer is or some of our Canon faxes that are basically now black after years of poo poo flying everywhere close to it.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Brother Fax 515 is available for you right now. Not available in the US. Doesn't count.
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meatpimp posted:What was he doing, other than properly riding in marked bike lanes? Hauling rear end in places where it's not safe to haul rear end, and you could tell he wasn't paying great attention to what was around him. Sure he was in a bike lane, sure nothing was his *fault*, but he's still a jackass. Sore subject for me, I see people riding like that all over and you can tell when they fly around they aren't looking*, it's only by luck that motorists don't hit them. I'm constantly scared shitless of hitting some dumbfuck biker who isn't looking. Plus, I am pretty sure he was about to run that red light that that so conveniently cut away. *I see people with no mirrors, and no head movement at all, cut across many lanes of traffic on busy roads during rush hour, among other sins. Drives me batty.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:See if she can go on a sabbatical or stress leave.  what country do you think this is?
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meatpimp posted:Not available in the US. Doesn't count. Thank you. It's a 16 year old model on top of that. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Brother Fax 515 is available for you right now. The majority of fax machines I see today are usually laser printers with a modem and LCD built in. We still have a fax at work - it spends most of its time printing fax advertisements (seriously, who the gently caress still pays for those?!? I'd boycott the companies advertising via fax, simply for trying to cost my company money with their advertising, since toner and ink add up in a hurry), and once or twice a day it'll get an actual work-related fax. Oh, it also functions as the 8x11 printer for the store, but it jams on more than half the prints/faxes it tries to deal with. Every store in the franchise has the same model, and all of them are pieces of poo poo. (also Brother models - combination scan/fax/print units - supposedly they're replacing them company-wide "soon")
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Brother Fax 515 is available for you right now. Can anything kill a Laserjet 4?
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meatpimp posted:Not available in the US. Doesn't count. Point still stands. quote:Thank you. It's a 16 year old model on top of that. You asked for one on sale today. I've also said exactly where they are best used. If you people are going to insist they don't exist when clearly they do and still relavent.... I dunno. Then again I might be pissed off by the below..... RIP Paul Walker posted:I love riding bicycles, but this is why I hate bicyclists You and I are about to have harsh words you are not going to like one bit. How the ever living gently caress is this in any way this cyclists fault, where if he hadn't been paying attention he would have been under a bloody huge oval office of a semi? He obeyed every single loving road rule and you still call him a jackass? Just what the ever living gently caress is wrong with you? Not a single one of those drivers were the ones paying attention and you go off about CYCLISTS?!?!?!?! gently caress YOU and the horse you rode in on This is the kind of poo poo that pisses me rightly off, blame the loving cyclist who is doing nothing wrong is all too common and utterly pathetic. CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You and I are about to have harsh words you are not going to like one bit. I specifically said it wasn't his *fault*, but that he didn't seem to be paying much attention, just hauling rear end... Which is utterly dumb when there are all those moron drivers on the road! Cyclists seem to have far too much faith that cagers aren't out to get them, and that bugs me as both a (lovely, slow) cyclist and a driver. I hope you understand what I'm saying here.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:I specifically said it wasn't his *fault*, but that he didn't seem to be paying much attention, just hauling rear end... Which is utterly dumb when there are all those moron drivers on the road! Cyclists seem to have far too much faith that cagers aren't out to get them, and that bugs me as both a (lovely, slow) cyclist and a driver. I hope you understand what I'm saying here. Yes I do and that's why I am calling you a loving moron because quite clearly he WAS paying attention - If he wasn't paying attention he would have been under a big rear end truck or on his rear end with the imprint of a Corolla's door handle in his rear end. You are straight up victim blaming. He didnt do a single bloody thing wrong and yet you just drop stupidity about "not paying attention" and "jackasses" I'm a 80km a day kind of cyclist and frankly if I had a Go-Pro I'd have plenty of footage like this. Like yesterday a Vespa rider without indicating cut straight across a bike path without indicating and wondered why I'm having a screaming fit after I juuuust manage to dodge her stupid rear end. Mate, you do not survive as a cyclist without paying attention and most cyclists who get hit simply put are doing their best to avoid said accident. Cars move much faster than you can so if some iPhone wearing idiot swerves into your lane, you better hope the Lord is looking after you.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Yes I do and that's why I am calling you a loving moron because quite clearly he WAS paying attention - If he wasn't paying attention he would have been under a big rear end truck or on his rear end with the imprint of a Corolla's door handle in his rear end. You are straight up victim blaming. He didnt do a single bloody thing wrong and yet you just drop stupidity about "not paying attention" and "jackasses" It's a compilation video, there's more than just the semi thing at the beginning. One thing that really bugged me was at 0:28... stupid car comes up, blinker on, clearly attempting to move into his lane but he keeps going at whatever pace he's going until the car moves over, then he starts screaming. Dude was not stacking the deck in his favor... I did rewatch the video several times again, and there were a couple in there that were obviously unavoidable... But, I still get annoyed by all the cyclists out here that ride like asshats with no regard for their own lives and for some reason that video really triggered it.
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^^^^^ Yes, he clearly should have predicted that car would merge into that bus stop. Also, you may note he avoiding that accident without any help from the moron in the car. I get more annoyed by the jackasses in cars who have no regard for my safety. Anything I do on a bike will almost certainly only kill me. Anything a car driver does when I am around will almost certainly only kill me while maybe giving them a small bump. Seriously, looking for a bike in the motherfukcing bike lane isn't hard and yet, no one seems to notice me and I'm not loving tiny. Every time a bike rolls a stop with no cars around people like you are up in arms, but when every loving car on the road ignores the 3 foot passing law, crickets. RIP Paul Walker posted:I specifically said it wasn't his *fault*, but that he didn't seem to be paying much attention, just hauling rear end... Which is utterly dumb when there are all those moron drivers on the road! Cyclists seem to have far too much faith that cagers aren't out to get them, and that bugs me as both a (lovely, slow) cyclist and a driver. I hope you understand what I'm saying here. What the gently caress are you talking about? In every single case there except the last one, he and no one else prevented the accident the car tried to cause. In the last one, he is moving below the speed of traffic in a clearly marked bike lane, and as you can see if you watch the video went full on brakes almost immediately. If that had been a motorcycle doing the speed limit there'd have been a dead body on the ground and a bigger dent in the car. Please get off the road before you kill someone. Seriously, if you think the cyclist had anything to do with that accident other than being present where he was supposed to be, you are clearly not up on safe driving. Go ride a bike for a week and get back to us. Sad thing is that if he had been in the lane instead of a bike lane, he might have been noticed more often and certainly merged into less often, but they'd you bitch about how cyclists are roadhogs who sould ride of the sidewalk or some other such nonsense. nm fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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