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spog posted:Come over to my place to borrow a storage medium and you'll get a disappointing sexual experience.
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Obsolete because in 2018, Internet backbone routers are wireless, right?
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Jan 15, 2018 18:56
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I thought that was BNC and not HD-SDI. My bad.
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Jan 15, 2018 18:57
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So beautiful...
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Jan 15, 2018 20:15
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Probably from a datacenter which replaces the entire rack when the time is due. Thats why it is so fine, and purple.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:18
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Our datacenter rack doors have chrome racing stripes. It's so tacky. That purple monstrosity is beautiful though. Look at all those neatly printed labels.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:21
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I don't like the zip ties though. Velcro is the way to go.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:25
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That's art really.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:26
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Jan 15, 2018 20:27
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Love working with cat6. Used to pull runs of cat5e from individual boxes, then we found a supplier that let you pre-order combined runs of cat6 at specified lengths, so you can measure your runs, order and then drag the run out and be done with 8 cables in the time it used to take you to do one. Now if only you could have also pre-label the cabel.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:47
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"Hey there, lowly IT tech. It turns out the cable plugged into port 173 has a break somewhere along its run, so you're going to need to swap in a new one. Make sure not to disconnect anything else while you're working. I've already filled in that the job will take only a few minutes, I mean you're just swapping a cable, right? Oh, and make sure to leave everything looking nice and neat when you're done, we sometimes parade C-level people through here to show off our nice shiny infrastructure."
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Still beats wireless. I'm trying to add an AP in client mode to my network, in order to hook up a micro PC with no wireless option, in a room with no wire pulled. "Oh, your router's wifi is on a DFS 5GHz channel? Nope, can't use those." "You want to use an SRD 5GHz channel instead? Nope, the router doesn't support those." So I can only use the lowest 4 channels, which are already well-saturated in my building. And then, when everything seemed to be OK on the wireless side, the PC hooked up to the AP can ping the router just fine, but it can't actually access the internet. No logs of any kind available on the router not on the AP. I hate consumer bullshit plastic hardware. If I can't make this BS junk work, I'll pull CAT6 myself, out of sheer spite. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 22:47 on Jan 15, 2018 |
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Jan 15, 2018 22:10
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Light Gun Man posted:Did he try to plug his Atari tapes into it? Dragonstomper is legit as gently caress, and absolutely bonkers for an Atari 2600 game from 1982.
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Humphreys posted:I used to take photos of my highscores to submit to Nintendo magazines. A film camera, then post them in. Kids these days with their live stream world record attempts. There sure were a lot of people in those days who had the initials "rear end"
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Measly Twerp posted:Love working with cat6. Used to pull runs of cat5e from individual boxes, then we found a supplier that let you pre-order combined runs of cat6 at specified lengths, so you can measure your runs, order and then drag the run out and be done with 8 cables in the time it used to take you to do one. What? You want to pull 8 cables down a run? Go out and buy 8 one thousand foot spools of whatever cable, number the boxes, stick a label on the ends of the cable corresponding to the box number they come from, pull them all wherever, update the labels to the actual location number the cable ended up at, pull some slack, cut the cable free of the box and punch it down. Repeat.
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EoRaptor posted:What? You want to pull 8 cables down a run? Go out and buy 8 one thousand foot spools of whatever cable, number the boxes, stick a label on the ends of the cable corresponding to the box number they come from, pull them all wherever, update the labels to the actual location number the cable ended up at, pull some slack, cut the cable free of the box and punch it down. Repeat. Yes. I'm intimately familiar with running cable. You can only fit so many tools and boxes of cable in the back of a van. We'd do a first fix visit to the site and install string to pull cable through any underground/out of reach places while they are still exposed. Then we'd plan what runs we need: Got several rooms with 4 outlets inside? Then it's simple, order cable bundles of 4 of the lengths required (including slack). Pretty much any combination you need can be ordered. Once the orders arrive, we'd take the runs and pull them through the pre-arranged paths, pulling multiple cables from one box instead of a multiple cables from multiple boxes. You can mark each bundled pull however you want so that you know where it comes from when it gets to its destination. Once that is done, you then unbundle the wall outlet end of the run and thread it through and down to where the outlets will be installed. And finally for the second fix one of us would be in the server room/whatever and the other would be at the other end and we'd put heatshrink on the cable for later labeling before terminating it. Once the cable is terminated we'd test each of the cables in the run and permenantly label it. This saved a lot of time and frustration as the thicker bundled cables would not kink or get stuck, and we wouldn't have to carry multiple boxes of cable half way across a building site and then to every room as you do a run.
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Jan 16, 2018 09:37
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I was familiar with Tiny XP, a stripped down WinXP back in the day. Just a random video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlv37hkavYo Is there a similar version for Win10? Looking for the most lightweight version that is current if I can for a project.
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Jan 16, 2018 12:47
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If you can make do without most of the GUI like Start Menu and Explorer, there's always Windows Server Core. However, it still has all of the bits for a full installation in WinSxS, so you can run Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Remove afterwards for all of the features you don't need.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:14
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This is a loving treasure trove. Almost as good as the Heavy Metal Parking Lot documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2BlyvN6EeI
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Jan 16, 2018 21:32
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loving lol at the fat mall cop 9 minutes in just flat out saying people come to the mall to avoid black people
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:loving lol at the fat mall cop 9 minutes in just flat out saying people come to the mall to avoid black people  "to avoid certain, ahem...racial backgrounds" *Sensible chuckle
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Phanatic posted:This is a loving treasure trove. Almost as good as the Heavy Metal Parking Lot documentary. That convention at the beginning makes me feel like I'm back at the ICE Conference a few months ago in New Orleans. The fashions are different (not as many people in full suits and nobody in those cocktail-style dresses), but otherwise it looks almost identical today.
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Jan 17, 2018 03:49
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Dead malls! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOlffr73fuM
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Christ, going to the Mills has always been an experience in weird feelings. It's like an airport at 3 AM - Clearly designed for people, but with only a handful actually present and nobody wants to be. The only reason I ever go near there these days is either the theater or there's a Sonic nearby that's the closest one to my house.
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hirvox posted:If you can make do without most of the GUI like Start Menu and Explorer, there's always Windows Server Core. However, it still has all of the bits for a full installation in WinSxS, so you can run Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Remove afterwards for all of the features you don't need. Thanks, I will look into that! Just wouldn't mind screwing around with Win10 on a 64GB SSD I have on a slower processor.
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One of my favorite things to do when I'm out on the road for work is look at different local malls (and seeing how dead they are). It's always amazing how one will stay open even if it only has about 4 stores in it.
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I live a couple towns over from the highest-grossing retail zip code in the country (Paramus, NJ) and even there one of the flagship been-around-forever malls is slowly dying. Of course, the 4 other megamalls within a 15-minute drive are all thriving and expanding at insane rates. IIRC one of them is built on swampland and sinks like an inch into the ground every year. One of the really big ones was fun in high school - since they had a couple of Fridays/Buffalo Wild Wings type places serving booze til 2, and midnight showings of movies, they literally never locked the entrance/exit doors on the 4th floor. You could go in late at night and just gently caress around - throwing super balls down 5-story elevator shafts, skateboarding on tile floors, free drinks from the food court soda machines 
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These videos are pretty good, but I wish he would drop the "creative" bits and just show the mall.
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I'm pretty sure the "Disaster of Pittsburgh" is their entire secondary. e: also the decision to onside kick with 2:18 and three timeouts left. also the decision to run a fake spike instead of just taking the field goal a few weeks prior. TinTower has a new favorite as of 16:43 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Jan 17, 2018 16:37
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So I guess Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie was a documentary huh
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Most big malls I have been to in big cities have been dead or dieing for a while. But I just got back from Yucatan Mexico and went to a mall there. It was like the 90's. All the store fronts were open, people everywhere. They still had new cars parked in side the mall with contest forms to win them. It was incredible. I felt like I was in my teens again.
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The local malls around here are sort of half-popular in that people go for specific stores and ignore the rest. The food court always has lines (especially at Chick-Fil-A because people here are loving addicted to it) and there's lots of shopping at the anchor stores, especially around the holidays. Inside, Hot Topic and Spencer's always have people because those stores basically don't exist outside of malls. But the massage and acupuncture places, the skater clothing stores, and the one independent video game store that isn't Gamestop are practically abandoned.
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Jan 17, 2018 18:05
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Glazier posted:These videos are pretty good, but I wish he would drop the "creative" bits and just show the mall. but my ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ!
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:I live a couple towns over from the highest-grossing retail zip code in the country (Paramus, NJ) and even there one of the flagship been-around-forever malls is slowly dying. Paramus Park is the one that's dying, right? I swear it's just been on life support since the mid 2000's and the revamps and additions they've made are just failures, especially when one of the original anchors is a goddamned Sears.
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Living here I found out that ordering a new metal-bodied Maglite 4D cost me total of 40 EUR ordering it from the Amazon.de. The same flashlight is sold at our retail chains for ~100e. With the "modernization kit" (LED-bulb and battery+charging station backplate+cradle), in retail for ~200e. In Amazon, the bulb is 20e and the battery set 40e. With package charge of ~10e, no customs or other because ordering from one EU country to another. I can understand the retail thinking of "available right now right here" for most of the stuff like home improvement supplies but still, 200% markup. Do you really want to kill your retail chain?
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tribbledirigible posted:Paramus Park is the one that's dying, right? I swear it's just been on life support since the mid 2000's and the revamps and additions they've made are just failures, especially when one of the original anchors is a goddamned Sears. Yeah. I like it because it has a few stores that I go to frequently and it's usually pretty quiet and chill, compared to the other ones which are mobscenes. There's at least 2-3 businesses going out of business on the Sears end, and the Sears is closing too - it's getting replaced by a Stew Leonard's and a movie theater on the second floor, which could be nice. I've lived around here my entire life, too, so I remember when Garden State Plaza was big, but not the loving mammoth it is now, and Bergen Town Center is huge and full of high-end outlets; I remember when it was literally a Marshall's, a Hudson News-type store, and maybe 2-3 other stores.
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Explosionface posted:One of my favorite things to do when I'm out on the road for work is look at different local malls (and seeing how dead they are). It's always amazing how one will stay open even if it only has about 4 stores in it. Tax writeoffs, son.
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Der Kyhe posted:Living here I found out that ordering a new metal-bodied Maglite 4D cost me total of 40 EUR ordering it from the Amazon.de. The same flashlight is sold at our retail chains for ~100e. This is a similar thinking to the philosophy of whole-sale (in the United States they are stores like Costco). Do you NEED 300 rolls of toilet paper at this time? Hopefully no: but since everybody poops and the price per unit is ¢8 it makes for a sensible long term investment as you know you have TP for your bunghole for a while and wont need to frantically buy it at the store when in dire need. People don’t realize Costco doesn’t make much money on sales of goods and markup, it is actually membership fees and other services. Amazon is the same way.
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When I lived in Denver the company I worked at had taken over a dying mall and was turning it into a call center. I was obliged to conduct a "job fair" at what was left of the mall. There were a couple of stores still open, but everything else was gone. Most of the displays and furniture had been left behind and the Muzak was still playing so it was creepy. We took over an abandoned shoe store, pushing the chairs and shelving away to make room for a folding table. It was an appropriate preview for new hires as to what their work experience would be like. Also: I had to come back a few months later and on the same day the mall caught fire and there was a tornado warning so no one knew where to evacuate the staff. And the sewage system was lousy so the call center always smelled bad.
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