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  1. alavaz

    Losing your Job

    I'm not sure what scheduling out the vacation would do. They have to pay it out whether you take it or not. I'd see if the new gig is open to letting you start sooner though just in case. It's never happened to me, but I know plenty of people who've had tension between them and the boss and got...
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    Building a server for all your needs.

    I have a server that is just my old gaming rig. I run Windows 2008r2 on it and the main services it does are domain controller, windows updates and plex. Well and of course file services. The DC setup was mostly to experiment, but I will admit that being able to use the same account for every...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I don't see why loot generation wouldn't just be a collection of functions (methods if you're oop) that get run to define said properties of the item. It's probably correct to assume that the token is just a bool that says can this person try to generate loot. I don't see how it would be all...
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    Losing your Job

    I know Gin has higher alcohol (generally) than vodka. But for some reason I can drink lots of vodka and just get normal drunk, but like 2-3 gins get me white girl trashed. Why is that?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You work on that shit or is this just a big pile of guesses and speculation?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well there's something I haven't seen in a while...
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    If you want good access points, Ubiquity enterprise equipment is solid. I also hear good things about the orbi.
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    You can always get a cheap older server and put a couple 4 port NICs in it then install pfsense.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Most hard drugs will clear out in 24-72 hours. Definitely stay off the weed though until you get a job. Id also call up some staffing agencies. Id assume NY has plenty of tech work and even though temp positions might be kinda shitty you can always keep looking while you work.
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    IP Video Cameras

    I recently bought a few of these cheapo video cameras that I could throw in my baby's bedroom and the kids' playroom in order to keep an eye on them. Amazon.com : YI Home Camera Wireless IP Security Surveillance System (US Edition) White : Camera & Photo They work through a smart phone...
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    <Fires of Heaven> WoW Guild - [Horde] [Hyjal-US]

    I was falling asleep on the guldan attempts. I kept thinking "don't stand by tanks, don't stand by tanks..." Noodle yells "get away from tanks," I wake up to see I'm by tanks... FUCK! I think we'll be able to get him next week no problem.
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    Men's Fashion

    that's the other thing. Untucked button ups with jeans need to be somewhat short to look right. As a short person this means alterations (generally) and I aint gots the time fo dat.
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    Kodi and addons

    I tried out pretty much all of the free ones. Exodus is the only one worth a shit. The live tv ones all go down after a month or two then you gotta hunt for a new one. It's easier to use Exodus and watch stuff after it airs.
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    Men's Fashion

    All I think of when I see short sleeve button ups is either bowling or a burger king manager. I wear polo's to work because I have to, but given the choice I'd wear a polo over a short sleeve button up any day.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    yeah are u even mythic bro?
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    Losing your Job

    I used to work for Nintendo and the game tester guys were just as bad at hygiene as they were stereotyped to be. After lunch you could smell that bathroom halfway throughout the building.
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    Nu Metal

    I didn't think Kittie was nu-metal? I always considered them whorecore along with bands like the butcher babies and in this moment: edit: I listened to Brackish and now I get why Kittie was nu-metal.
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    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

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    John Smedley hired by Amazon to produce MMOs

    Brad will soon be smelling lots of cocaine.
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    Biggest guilty pleasures

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    Punk Music

    The best punk bass player is by far matt from opivy /rancid: maxwell murder solo is legendary: Fat Mike is probably my second favorite bassist: Other good bass intro shits: 88 Fingers Louie: Go Away Choking Victim - 500 Channels Monster Squad - Fire The Faith say what you will...
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    Losing your Job

    You get severance right? Use your last two weeks for 80 hours of job hunting.
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    How much income is enough?

    He means he wants to go gold hunting.
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    Nu Metal

    One of the first entries is 311. Aren't they like shitty whiteboy reggae/rap music? I wouldn't even RATM metal. They set out to emulate 90's underground sample heavy hip hop with live instruments and I thought Tom Morello nailed it pretty well with the screeches and scratching and shit. I also...
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    The Metal Thread

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    Nu Metal

    Spineshank dude actually went on to form a metal-core (did I get the subgenre right?) band: Nu metal goodness:
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    Smartphones

    I use the google hangouts. I have too many relatives and shit on Facebook that I try to avoid talking to.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've been entertaining the red hat certs, but I'm hoping my company will send me to the boot camp. The only problem is that they already think I'm the resident Linux genius (their all windows dudes) so I think they'd wonder why I wanted training.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Sec+ is relatively hard. Over a 20k question bank and it's all an exercise in "How does comptia want me to answer this." When I took it I got nailed on 802.1x and wireless security (rogue access point, etc.) as a huge amount of my questions. The sim part of it though (5-6 sims I think), which...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Take Windows Nano Server for a spin. I've got them set up as hyper-v hosts right now. They'd be even better as container hosts.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've got an MCSE, VCP and some advanced EMC storage certs that no one ever gives much of a shit about but that ITIL foundation cert I was forced to get a couple of years ago every hiring manager comments on and loves o_O.
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    Hip-Hop/Rap thread

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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Windows 2016 Nano server is pretty slick. I have to build a lot of offline environments on portable PCs and this is the first time I haven't bought a VMWare license for the hypervisor.
  34. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    A lot of peoples "points" around here tend to be "You are stupid for being ok with that in your life since I would not be ok with that in my life." My wife doesn't really cook. She will figure it out if I'm not around to cook and make sure the kids are fed. Works for me. I'd also be happy too...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've worked in government for the last 9 years and they've all been "agile" shops. I have no idea how it works at an actual software company, but in the gov it just means you deploy changes more often than quarterly and have "scrums" every day.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm sure gaming with kids is cool when they are like 8+. My son is 5 and only wants to play minecraft. But when we play, he doesn't actually play, he just fucks around and kills me (but gets pissed if I hit him back), jumps around doing stupid shit while constantly telling me to "watch!" and...
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    Computer Issues

    A couple of things that may or may not be applicable: 1. Windows Key + S, type mouse and click Mouse settings. Go to pointers and if "Enable pointer shadow" is checked, turn it off. 2. Windows Key + S, type sound and click Sound. Right click your headphones > properties > Enancements then...
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    I just got DirecTV now. If anyone is using it on a FireTV or Fire Stick, you have to change the audio settings and turn Dolby off or almost all of your channels will play nothing but loud clicking. Prior to finding that shit out, I was about to just cancel it. I have 300mbps internet and it...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I inherited as/400's at two different jobs. If you've only ever worked in the nix/windows space, it's hard to wrap your head around at first. It is amazingly documented though and you can hit F1 on any command and see it's usage. I'd guess that the 50 year old women were probably mainframe/mini...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Well, if you want an actual IDE, then I guess eclipse is probably the de-facto free standard. If you (or your company) have some money to blow - JetBrains makes good products. Me - I like to use a text editor and the command line and/or a local web server. XAMPP is free and awesome for...