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hihifellow posted:My latest car is a 2013 Golf TDI and I love the hell out of the thing. My commute is all of 12 miles back and forth so I only have to hit the gas station about once a month. Plus burying my foot in the go faster pedal in 2nd or 3rd is a hoot. I have a 2013 Jetta TDI and love it as well. For about 4 years, I was commuting about 65mi each way to/from work. Most of those were in my old Acura 3.2TL Type-S. I was able to get about 30MPG on that under the right circumstances (No heavy traffic, no A/C etc.) With the new car, I was able to get as high as 52MPG under the same circumstances. Now, I live about 8mi away and, like you, only have to fill up about once a month. 2 weekends ago, I went to visit at my old place and even though I was speeding (about 80MPH) and had the A/C on the entire time, I was still able to hit about 45.3MPG for the trip. The Fender audio system isn't half bad for a stock 'premium' system. Although the drat door panel pockets (where you would store maps) tend to rattle when I listen to loud music. Someone mentioned something about a Wagon and sacrificing either mileage or aesthetics. Jetta Sportwagen TDI. Great mileage and (IMO) looks pretty drat slick.
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I go to the gym at least 5 days a week. We have a gym on campus which is primarily for Physical Therapy patients, but we also have a "Sports Performance Institute" to train athletes. I gave up drinking alcohol and soda a while back as well. I've done a few Warrior Dashes and a Tough Mudder. Some of us here at work are currently trying to get a small team for this years Warrior Dash (NorCal). It was a lot of fun last year when I was able to talk a couple of people into participating. Hoping it'll be all the better this year. Holy poo poo, DT. There's no way in hell I'd get up @ 4:30AM to go to the gym. As it is, I can barely manage to get my rear end up at 8AM. Even then, I'm pretty worthless until I've had some coffee (lots of it).
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Aug 20, 2014 01:33
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Docjowles posted:I've used this boot disk with great success in the past. I've never tried it personally on Windows 8+ but their website claims it still works. It doesn't "crack" the password but it lets you blank it out so you can log in and set a new one, which should be good enough. Seconding this. Although, here again, I've never used it on Win8 or above. Win 7 and below, it's never let me down.
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Aug 21, 2014 19:53
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Did £80 per week suddenly become a lot? Because that seems like a shockingly low amount to spend on food. $131. a week on food is shockingly low?
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Sep 4, 2014 17:25
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CLAM DOWN posted:In some places in the world, yes. Right, but we're talking about the cost in the U.K. I'm going by another poster that said: BigPaddy posted:I used to live in London and then Oxford after graduating University and then moved to Boston 2 years ago. When I did some comparison of my costs in the UK and then in the US it wasn't too far apart. In the UK you will pay more tax but that also includes what you would be paying the US for Health Insurance. So, if food is cheaper in the U.K. than the U.S. then yes, I'm quite surprised that he's spending that much per week on food when quite a few of us in the U.S. are able to get by on less. I'm in the California Bay Area, which has a pretty high cost of living and pay less than that. Anyway, to get this back on track: I don't think this new director is going to last very long. He's only been here maybe 2 months and he's already on his second vacation. We've been hearing complaints that he's not very communicative and he's already told my co-worker that he's already getting burned out. I've only been here about 4, soon to be 5 years and we've been through 4 directors (5 if you count my co-worker being the interim). This is ridiculous.
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Sep 4, 2014 18:10
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Are smart watches actually a thing people want / care about? To me they seem like the dumbest things in the world. I can see it if I was in a position where I had to monitor the various health attributes they do, but that can't be a huge market. This is exactly the reason I want one. That and (if it's possible) loading it up with music so that I can work out and listen to music without having my big-rear end phone with me. air- posted:Except that new watch requires having an iPhone TWBalls fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Sep 9, 2014 |
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Sep 9, 2014 19:44
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awesomebrah posted:Starting Monday I am going to be doing desktop support for a hospital for at least 2 months (Will most likely be extended.) Agreed with the others advice of joining a gym. They may even have an option where you can use the PT gym during certain hours. Ours does. It's a drat good way to burn off stress (and calories).
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Sep 10, 2014 07:43
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stubblyhead posted:Sorry to rehash the headset chat, but can anyone recommend a bluetooth headset with microphone? I've used a wired Logitech headset in the past that works well enough, but the wires consistently wear out at the plug end in pretty short order, and I've never been able to find an adapter that will let me use the microphone on my phone as well as the speakers. LG has something called the Tone Pro which uses that goofy horsecollar thing, but it seems to be well reviewed. Both ears is a must since I'd like to use it for regular old headphones as well. I bought some Jaybird Bluebuds X as I wanted some that I could work out with and not worry about them dying. I've only used them to talk with a couple of times and they seem to work okay, but they're not too great if you're in a noisy environment like they gym or a server room. Also, they did end up dying but I had the replacement plan from BestBuy, so I was able to get them replaced easily. I'm hoping it was just a fluke.
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Sep 22, 2014 22:37
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Ever get busy, not check the threads for a while, then get overwhelmed by being several thousand pages behind? Yeah that's me. I'm catching myself back up, and while doing that realized it's November. Did we want to do another goon thumbdrive thing this year? Wow, haven't seen you around for a while. I'd be interested in buying a couple if someone is going to do this. I think I killed mine on accident during a Warrior Dash. I had my car key (which has the flash drive attached) in a plastic bag, but the bag punctured and both the key and flash drive were quite muddy.
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Nov 12, 2014 23:02
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Join the LinkedIn goon group and you'll no longer have to wonder.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:39
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To be fair, they are still morons for not nuking that poo poo and creating a more reasonable size. We have a few here that were like that and I've ended up having to resize them so that we could get them patched not poo poo the bed every time new patches are released.
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Jan 13, 2015 18:58
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This seems like the most appropriate of the IT threads to ask this. It seems that the Radiology director is getting a bit overwhelmed with doing his normal day to day stuff as well as being the 'PACS Admin'. I feel like my current position is pretty much a dead end, so I'm quite interested in this possible upcoming position and he knows that I'm quite capable as a PC/Server and sometimes network tech. However, I don't know much about PACS. So, I know there's more than a few other fellow healthcare IT folks here. Whats the best way to start learning PACS? More specifically, McKesson PACS (Recently upgraded to v. 12). I'm definitely going to be searching around on this when I get home, but I thought I'd ask here as well.
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Jan 14, 2015 23:42
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Richard Noggin posted:McKesson will have training. PACS as a concept is fairly straightforward, but each vendor does things differently. You could always talk to the dude and see if he can offload some of the more basic admin functions to you, and learn as you go. Yeah, I'll definitely talk to him and let him know I'm interested in the position. The other hurdle I just found out about is that he's also wanting the PACS admin to be a Rad tech as well. Here again, I certainly wouldn't mind learning that but, again that's going to take some time to learn.
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Jan 14, 2015 23:56
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mattfl posted:I was a PACS/RIS admin for a few years. Learn HL7/DICOM inside/outside and you'll be golden quote:The PACS software itself is pretty straight forward. Interfacing with the various scanners that send to the PACS is something you hopefully have external vendor support for because every single modality is different. Your PACS servers are basically just big file servers, I've used both RedHat and Windows servers and nothing to complicated about them. Mostly you'll be dealing with doctors telling you loading 1000's of images is to slow and to make it load faster and no matter what you do it will never load fast enough for them, ever.
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Jan 15, 2015 19:12
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TerryLennox posted:Ah, the old Dell "we have no money for pay raises or hiring...eh, this 3 billion dollars we used to buy 3 companies? This company is here to make money not raise your salary!" spiel. This, along with the poo poo I just bitched about in the 'poo poo that pisses you off' thread are the reasons I'm going to dust off the resume and start looking to 
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Jan 16, 2015 05:17
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Thanks Ants posted:
I'm pretty sure I recall someone mentioning in one of these threads that their server room was like that. I want to say it was the guy whose boss was obsessed with buying refurbed poo poo from Tigerdirect. Could be wrong though.
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Jan 17, 2015 03:21
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Tab8715 posted:Are you guys running cabling? It's really something that should be left to Fixed. If posts in previous threads are anything to go by, many electricians do a lovely job of data cabling (lovely cable splices, poor punchdowns etc.)
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Jan 20, 2015 22:56
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Zero VGS posted:I bust my rear end to save a few grand buying phones and PCs and these guys can basically negate all I do, because I create a huge budget surplus so the CFO wants to go on a spree now. Don't do this. It goes unappreciated and certainly won't be spent wisely. We saved a huge chunk of money on a number of things a few years ago and got jack poo poo for it.
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Jan 21, 2015 00:49
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Zero VGS posted:Eh, I itemized the million dollars of savings I pulled off in 5 years at my last company and it got me this job for double the salary. That's kind of my point. The company that you saved that million dollars for, what did they give you? Probably a pat on the back and an 'atta boy'. My co-worker saved this place a ton of money by fixing a lot of wasteful spending on cell phones and switching from a terrible printer repair company that over charged and under delivered. I'm sure once he finally jumps ship he too will be able to double what he makes, but for now all he's gotten is an 'atta boy'. Like I said, you do something good like that and it goes unappreciated (we haven't gotten a raise in 2 years) but they sure are quick to poo poo all over you when they think you've dropped the ball (more often than not we don't, poo poo happens because they don't want to pay to fix stuff properly and we're thrown under the bus).
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Jan 21, 2015 03:11
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That would have been better if it had printers instead of laptops.
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Jan 27, 2015 01:20
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Docjowles posted:There's an SA IT Mentoring Group although it gets like one post per week. It's hidden/private so you have to request membership, not sure who that goes to.
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Jan 31, 2015 01:16
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Yeah, I go into the server room with coffee all the time. Of course, unlike some goons (Keyboard megathread) I'm capable of computing without spilling poo poo all over the place.
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adorai posted:Do you set it on top of a server in a rack? When I was typing, yes. I haven't done it since a previous director (that was, what, 2 directors ago? we've had quite a few, so I've lost count) freaked out about it.
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Che Delilas posted:A simple google search on the name brings up nothing but scam reports. They charged her money to clean up "viruses" that weren't there. Sadly, I recently posted something similar to this on FB because multiple people on the C-level exec team ended up with infections from email poo poo. The CFO has a bunch of files that look like they may be cryptolocker related. Even lovely McAfee found over 1600 infected files. I scanned it with Nod32 afterward and still found infected files. She won't give up her drat laptop. My boss is already aware and has spoken to her, so if anything happens, it's on her. Still though, the amount of people that fall for this poo poo is just staggering.
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Feb 7, 2015 01:18
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psydude posted:Lost it at 'A "butt Aware" application means making your application fault tolerant, multi-tenant, and able to elastically expand and contract with demand.' Once (implausible) uptime requirements and (more importantly) immediate critical response become high-priority items, ~my butt~ shits the bed.
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Feb 20, 2015 20:17
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I can't do hard alcohol. I'm more of a beer guy (Yes, I've started drinking again. For now anyway). My brother got me hooked on Altamont Beer Works. Great beer and local. Plus they occasionally have a local BBQ place come by.
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Mar 11, 2015 02:02
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Dick Trauma posted:I know there are a few other oldsters on here so I wanted to talk a little about age in I.T. Uh, aren't you only in your 40's? That's not old. I've met plenty of IT folks in their 50's & 60's (not that, that's all that old either), though they're usually directors or higher by then. Also, I'm only 35 and am well aware of who Carol Burnett is. That's classic stuff that everyone should know.  Disingenuous? I don't think so. That first person thinking you're younger than you are, I'd take that as a compliment. The second person, well, people speak without thinking. That awful band was all over the radio, so you'd have to be the drat uni-bomber to have not heard them. Yes, I think age is less important than you think, even in tech.
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Mar 25, 2015 19:04
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Alder posted:Also, didn't someone say how improved smartphone are compared to now vs back then because of their durability/design? However, I'd lost count of how many cracked smartphone screens I've seen on the subway. I have no idea myself as I tend to take care of my fancy tech crap (yeah, cases too).
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Mar 26, 2015 00:29
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I thought he meant $70 per hour to do what he does - my mood has never changed so quickly in my life. Thanks to HR leaving paperwork right out in the open, I know of at least one nurse that makes a bit more than this. Makes me want to start taking nursing classes.
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Apr 2, 2015 21:19
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NippleFloss posted:$70 an hour is very doable in IT and doesn't require cleaning up poo poo (actual, non-metaphorical poo poo) or decades or seniority. I wouldn't be doing it to do nursing duties. I'd be getting into Clinical Inforaticist position. Basically a liason between Doctors/Nurses and EMR. I'd likely have to be teaching them how to use the software, open tickets to the vendor, stuff like that. From what I can tell of our current CI, the majority of their job is telling the users "That's not my job, call I.T.!".
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Apr 2, 2015 21:34
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Holy poo poo. I'm old enough to have used dial-up modems plenty, but that is the biggest one I've ever seen. That was a pretty common size for U.S. Robotics. I think I had an older Hayes that was bigger than that.
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Apr 7, 2015 20:18
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Docjowles posted:Guys, guys. Let's chill out, rerail and discuss something more on-topic. PYF thing you drink to forget: I'm a beer guy, so:  My go to is Hella Hoppy. When it's available, Scarcity is awesome.
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I used to work at the hospital just down the street from Netflix. I lived in Santa Clara and preferred it over San Jose. I was renting, but it seemed like Santa Clara was less expensive and they were on Silicon Valley Power rather than PG&E (SVP had lower power rates). And, if you like coffee, head over to Chromatic Coffee off of Stevens Creek Blvd.
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May 14, 2015 18:01
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mayodreams posted:I appreciate the pro tip! I've been trying to do a lot of research to better understand the area. From what I've heard, traffic/commute is the biggest issue with distance to and from work. I didn't find it to be too bad for the bay area. I lived close to Lawrence Expressway, so it was just a matter of hopping on Lawrence and heading down to Pollard/Knowles. https://goo.gl/maps/tN3do
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May 14, 2015 18:46
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Zero VGS posted:The top admins even went in and tried to fix permissions and AD hierarchy and other stuff, to the point of mailing out an AD server to me that I was supposed to install in our server room and have no way to log in into.
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Jun 17, 2015 02:11
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I just used the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit, so that it would copy over all the permissions/shares. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10268
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Aug 20, 2015 20:26
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Docjowles posted:At our data center at my last job, every year these giant wild turkeys* would come to roost and lay eggs in the planters out front. Some poor bastard had to go out and place a big sign that said "DO NOT APPROACH. THEY WILL gently caress YOU UP" nearby. It was kinda cool. Thankfully this was in Denver, and not more rural CO, cause yeah. Those things would have been shot in a hot minute elsewhere. We have big-rear end turkeys that roam the hospital grounds every so often. Kinda cool, but a bit of a hazard when they decide to dart in front of you when you're driving. I occasionally see rabbits and deer as well. Almost hit a doe when I was descending the hill. Glad I stopped in time, 'cause after she scampered off to the side, I saw a fawn standing there waiting for her.
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Aug 28, 2015 18:21
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Dick Trauma posted:And now I have to ask what a micro-aggression is. Do we have a new standard of measurement for anger? How many pico-aggs to the ma? Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression_theory
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Sep 26, 2015 00:39
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AlternateAccount posted:Then they got bought by CompUSSR and we were put under the management of a guy whose only experience was managing Taco Bells. I didn't last a month, that place definitely felt like the money laundering front it was purported to be. Haha! I worked at a CompUSA in Modesto. A few months after I quit and relocated to the Bay Area, I stopped by to pick up some parts for my parents system. I spoke to some of my former co-workers who said most of the managers were fired for stealing. This was back in early 2000's, so it was mostly PDA's, since those were the hot item at the time. I think the store maybe lasted another year before it was closed.
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I think my worst commute was back in '08/'09. I'd been out of work for quite a while and at that point was pretty desperate for work, so I took a job where I was having to do I.S. work for a container company (at the time, it was known as Smurfit-Stone). Modesto, California to Salinas, California. Google estimates about 2hrs each way, but with traffic, it was more like 2.5 - 3 hrs. Their other plants I had to occasionally visit were in Milpitas and Fresno. Not a good time.
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