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9 hours ago, DrGravitas said:

 He passed on my offer to give him the $8 the bars would've cost. (Told you he was real nice :D

What? How the hell does a few candy bars cost $8

 

20 hours ago, 6tails said:

Time to step outside and check out the meteor shower!

Last night I stopped for a while. Saw about 8 meteors, and three satellites. The satellites looked like stars moving across the sky. One of them, however, faded out, and then flared up brighter than anything in the night sky, like a spotlight from 10000 feet up... and then would disappear, flare up bright, disappear, flare up, disappear. Was probably the ISS.

 

7 hours ago, Feelwell the Rabbit said:

I took an ice water shower.

ICE WATER.

Do you know how hard it is to convince me to do that? This heat is more persuasive than a large angry man holding a baseball bat.

I do cool showers, Lukewarm, then I drop the temp slowly until I die of hypothermia... I mean cool down.

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1 minute ago, 6tails said:

Most likely a comms satellite seeing that many flashes in a brief time period. what you were seeing is called an Iridium flare, a reflection of the sun off the solar panels. The ISS doesn't really rotate a whole lot to cause many flares. You'd be lucky to see a flare roughly every 92 minutes, which is the orbital period of the ISS.

I've seen iridium flares, they usually only flare once. I've watched the ISS go across and while usually it's steady, I've seen the ISS flash before.

According to one program at least one of the things I saw was the Chinese test space station. Tiangong 1. Might have been what flashed, I've read it's a bit unstable in its orbit. The other ones look like they might have been communication satellites of some kind, there's too much stuff (especially dead stuff) going south-north.

If you want to look, it was around 5:15-5:35 EST, Detroit area. The steady ones, one went west-east about 70-80 degrees in southern sky (almost overhead), about a mag 1-2, one went south-north completely overhead, mag 3 or so, and the flashing one was west-east overhead a bit to the north, and ended up at the north-east horizon, probably peaked at -3-5 (or higher) mag.

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2 hours ago, 6tails said:

The joys of It. All I was supposed to do today was turn some screws and get stuff mounted to the rack.

Nooooooooooo. SOME COMPANIES can't follow STANDARDS. Now I'm stuck with a 1-/34 U MPLS system, and an Adtran that has brackets that push the unit another couple mm higher, so now the Dell switch won't freaking fit.

I had to take the ENTIRE RACK apart just to make everything fit neatly and look nice.

At least it looks decent, now. Some prior tech came in after my initial job and screwed all this wiring up.

 

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I have seen a similar rack setup in the room where I did the practical part of my (rather crap) computer course that turned out to be mostly web design crap rather than network things and programming (and the programming was only in VB)

I figure all those ethernet ports are fussy about what patch cable goes to which port on the other equipment.

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5 minutes ago, 6tails said:

Only when you're working on a non-DHCP network.

I should have known that, do people still decide not to use DHCP to automatically give everything a IP? Because going around remembering a load of IPs for 250 or so PCs in the company you are doing the work for sounds like a pain.

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2 minutes ago, Lopaw said:

I should have known that, do people still decide not to use DHCP to automatically give everything a IP? Because going around remembering a load of IPs for 250 or so PCs in the company you are doing the work for sounds like a pain.

Noob, what are Excel Tables for? :V

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Why can't it be winter already? If it gets too cold you throw on an extra layer.

But here recently with our summer weather we're just baking in the Sun, fucked. And if you're poor like me you just have to deal with it. Fuck Summer.

Also rest in peace Autumn, the prettiest season, courtesy of humans.

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1 minute ago, Lucius said:

Why can't it be winter already? If it gets too cold you throw on an extra layer.

But here recently with our summer weather we're just baking in the Sun, fucked. And if you're poor like me you just have to deal with it. Fuck Summer.

Also rest in peace Autumn, the prettiest season, courtesy of humans.

Fuck anything that isn't the dead of winter. Only good thing about summer are the bees.

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The plot of Jojo isn't at all what's bothering me. Just the majority of the characters and the suuuuper boring action at least what's going on right now. It's funny sometimes though. The episode with the magnet chick had me dying at some parts. She got fucking MURDERED.

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Just now, XoPachi said:

The plot of Jojo isn't at all what's bothering me. Just the majority of the characters and the suuuuper boring action at least what's going on right now. It's funny sometimes though. The episode with the magnet chick had me dying at some parts. She got fucking MURDERED.

You really should watch shit in order though, since you'd probably enjoy it more.

But hey, it's your choice.

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I just got back from Safeway, to get a few groceries, and they had all these 'Like' buttons scattered about, so you could, 'Like' various products. Ug. This is somehow a sad and disturbing sign, when people are pausing to 'like' toilet paper and trash-bags.

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3 minutes ago, 6tails said:

This is most likely a data harvesting scheme to find the most popular products so they can mark up prices.

Yep. It made me wonder, though, where will this end, in our 'like' obsessed world? Maybe National Parks can put 'like' buttons on different types of trees; zoos can have 'like' buttons by the various animals,' museums can have 'like' buttons by their various artworks and displays. Eventually everyone will be able to 'like' everything.

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4 minutes ago, Fossa-Boy said:

Yep. It made me wonder, though, where will this end, in our 'like' obsessed world? Maybe National Parks can put 'like' buttons on different types of trees; zoos can have 'like' buttons by the various animals,' museums can have 'like' buttons by their various artworks and displays. Eventually everyone will be able to 'like' everything.

Like buttons for people!

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4 hours ago, Fossa-Boy said:

I just got back from Safeway, to get a few groceries, and they had all these 'Like' buttons scattered about, so you could, 'Like' various products. Ug. This is somehow a sad and disturbing sign, when people are pausing to 'like' toilet paper and trash-bags.

Well, I do like wiping my ass.

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Just now, 6tails said:

G-code is fairly simple, depending upon the controller you're addressing. That was standardized in like the 60s.

I am not certain what controller I will be working on but I am figuring something relating to the language will crop up when I do the PLC unit of my engineering course. The machinist based unit in the first year caught out many people given most of the course is electrical engineering units with some mechanical and process engineering units included.

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