You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better? Yes. Everything's going to be fine.
Friday, April 05
Tradesman Hours
Me: Yes, next Friday is fine. I'll be working from home all day.
Them: Great, we've scheduled you for 6:49 AM.
Me: ...
Also, Google Hangouts is still garbage. Crystal is good but there's no Jetbrains IDE for it, just a third-party plugin without much support. Virtualisation and containerisation are festering piles of garbage. And after it looked like we swerved at the last moment and headed for Brave New World, it turns out that 1984 is well and truly back on the cards.
Orwell wasn't a prophet, he just paid attention.
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Saturday, March 09
Mundania and Trivia
So I blew out my back, apparently during the strenuous exercise of washing the dishes. I can't currently sit at my desk at all, so I'm giving kneeling a try. Not looking promising so far.
Daily News Stuff will likely appear in abridged form for a few days...
The money from that domain sale didn't last long. Two notebooks, an external disk drive (those 8TB LaCie drives are really cheap now), a new ADSL/VDSL modem/router (since my router is old and my model is older), a bunch of cables (USB-C cables are bloody expensive) and other minor bits, and that new desk chair I'd been promising myself.
And I think a week's worth of groceries got paid along the way because the money was sitting in my PayPal account at the time.
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Anyone want to buy idiotpedia.com? No, I think I let that one lapse. Never mind.
Status Update
NBN: We'll get back to you in a year. Maybe.
Domain sale: Unpaid.Paid. Spent.
Laptop: Out of stock.In stock.Out of stock. ETA Wednesday.
Shiny wonderful all-singing server: Obtained! Currently testing RAID-6 RAID-10 RAID-5 RAIDZ. Currently configuring for production with LXD 3.4 and RAIDZ1.
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Monday, July 16
Freezing
Literally. Zero degrees C overnight in my part of Sydney, and -3 in the western suburbs. Not something that would fret those who live in temperate climes, but Sydney is subtropical; it hardly ever actually freezes here.
Brrrr.
Update: Official low at the closest government weather station was 1.4C last night, and a rather brisk -4C out in Richmond.
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Huh, I thought you got snow there.
Wait...do you have heat?
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Monday, July 16 2018 04:09 AM (3bBAK)
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We sometimes get snow in the Blue Mountains that border Sydney to the west, but basically never in the city itself. (As in, yeah, it happened on one day in 1836 sort of thing.)
I don't have central heating; no-one does. Air conditioning, yes, that's basic life support. I do have a couple of little electric heaters, one of which is busy keeping my toes from falling off this morning.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, July 16 2018 10:24 AM (PiXy!)
At my day job we've done our San Francisco and New York launch events (and both went very well), and that just leaves London this week. This is the first weekend in a month when I haven't had to work.
I was doing something about a new social network, as I recall.
....
Nope, gone now. Well I'm sure if it was important I'll remember it.
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Wednesday, January 31
Where Has Pixy Been This Past Month?
One, busy working on stuff at my day job.
Two, busy working on taking on Facebook, Google, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Slack, and Reddit.
Three, poking the animals on Twitter:
Update:
Update 2:
We're back in jail,
Although I know it's crazy,
Right back in jail,
My mind becomes so hazy,
I gambled again because I feel lucky when I see
There is my tweet insulting NBC! pic.twitter.com/lXISvZw1s7
نقدم لكم
افضل شركة تنظيف بالبخار بمكة التى من خلالها يتم الحصول على افضل خدمات التنظيف
التى تلزمكم فى منازلكم من خلال تنظيف السجاد بالبخار بمكة على اعلى تقنيات
التنظيف التى تقدمها لكم شركتنا المميزة كشركة تنظيف خزانات بمكة التى تقضى على
الرواسب و الميكروبات التى تضر بصحتكم و ينتج عنها بعض الامراض الضارة على الكبير و الصغير فى جميع انحاء المملكة
العربية السعودية
نقدم لكم
افضل خدمة لصيانة ثلاجات كريازى التى من خلالها يتم القضاء على جميع الاعطال التى
تواجهكم كما نقدم لكم افضل خامات قطع الغيار من خلال توكيل كريازى فى جميع
المحافظات و الذى يسعى لتحقيق كل جديد لكم من خلال رقم صيانة كريازى المميز و الذى
له تاريخ عريق فى عمليات الصيانة على مر السنين الماضية و التى اظهرت مدى كفائه
خبرائنا فى اتمام عمليات الصيانة
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Posted by: رقم صيانة كريازى at Wednesday, July 04 2018 12:40 AM (RD2l/)
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يتواجد لدي موقع مكتبتك الكثير من الانواع المختلفة للخدمات البحثية التي يحتاج اليها الباحثين منها خدمة توفير دراسات سابقة مترجمة في العديد من المجالات العلمية المختلفة
Posted by: موقع مكتبتك at Thursday, September 13 2018 12:07 AM (oVKjl)
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يسهم موقع مكتبتك بدور هام وفعال في تعزيز المستوي العلمي والثقافي والمجتمعي عبر توفير وعرض كافة الرسائل الأكاديمية والعلمية المطلوبة للاستفاده منها خلال الدراسة والبحث
Posted by: الرسائل at Monday, October 15 2018 02:20 AM (NwsmN)
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يعتبر موقع مكتبتك من أهم المواقع الإلكترونية التي تضم مكتبة كاملة من الرسائل والدراسات التي تساعد الباحث على إتمام عمله على أكمل وجه
Posted by: الرسائل at Wednesday, October 17 2018 02:40 AM (Qbmm2)
First day in about six months when I haven't been rushing about in a total panic about something or other.
I'm on holidays until the 8th, the server migration is complete, the shopping is done, the bills are paid, and nothing is actually literally on fire right at this very moment.
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Tuesday, August 01
Tohru Arrives
Was on a global conference call for work (at least five countries represented) when the knock came at my door.
Which also happened last week when the keyboard and speakers arrived...
Anyway, plugged in, switched on, works. The included keyboard is meh, but in the US it comes with the much nicer premium keyboard that I already have.
The screen is beautiful, it's whisper quiet, and lightning fast.
Lookit all them cores!
(Kanna also arrived. Kanna is my fridge.)
So, first impressions: It's compact - quite a bit smaller than the iMac, though the screen is the same size. Setup was dead simple once I realised the keyboard had a USB widget and wasn't Bluetooth.
The screen is very nice - not quite as colourful as my iMac, and not quite as sharp, but there's not a huge gap, and it was little more than half the price.
It's fast, not astoundingly so, unless you've been using a $200 netbook lately in which case it is pretty astounding; and basically silent under normal load.
I used Cities: Skylines running at 4k resolution as a load test, and it runs very smoothly. The fan definitely picked up speed as I scrolled around, but it's a fairly pleasant low-pitched sound and not noticeable if you have the game music on. It spins back down to silent within a few seconds of exiting the game. My main worry with this system was that it would turn into a hair dryer while gaming, but it seems to cope very well.
The sound from the internal speakers - which can't be more than an inch and a half in diameter - is okay. I also ordered a set of external speakers because I was expecting the sound to be only okay, and the speakers are... Fine. Not remotely audiophile, but fine. I wouldn't recommend buying them unless they came in a package deal from Dell. Though there seems to be some audio processing going on, and they sounded substantially better when I switched the external speaker type in the menu, so maybe there's room for improvement.
What I wanted was a fast Windows machine for software development and occasional gaming that wouldn't take up much space and could be set up in ten minutes.
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"It spins back down to silent within a few seconds of exiting the game."
One thing you have to give the last several generations of Intel procs, if your thermal solution is adequate, the CPU can drop like 10C of temp in about a second, once the load comes off (my 3570K with a Hyper 212 on it will lose 20C in a couple seconds when you, for example, shut of OCCT's CPU stress test.) Ryzens aren't quite as fast, but are still pretty responsive.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 02 2017 01:43 AM (ECH2/)
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Yep, Intel have done a lot of work on that, particularly on the notebook front.
This system has one fan for both CPU and GPU, which had me a little concerned about noise levels, but it turns out to be very well engineered and quieter than my old system - even though my old system is on the floor under my desk and this one is right in front of me.
Now I just need to install about a thousand apps and transfer a squigabyte of data...
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