HamsterRage

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[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago

I worked for a small insurance company owned by a slightly larger organization. That organization had a class B address space. They gave us 4 class C's from that class B, or about 1000 addresses in the 1990's for a company with 50 employees.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Or, perhaps 12 hours and 16 minutes after it gave out?

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's basically a big hole in the ground, with some bits of ancient columns scattered about. The Temple of Artemis is a bit of bog with a couple of columns standing up - they have been restored.

The wife and I have visited 5 of the 7 Wonders sites. The statue of Zeus is in our future at some point. I'm told that all there is is a replica in the middle of a roundabout.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, sadly, will never be a place we go. For one, nobody knows where it precisely is. For another, it's in Iraq, and we're not going anywhere where you need a flak jacket and a security team just to look for an Ancient Wonder that isn't there any more.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ard the brewery there is top notch, too.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy..."

Is this an Onion article???

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, but there is probably a German word for exactly that.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Religion. Ruins. Everything...Every. Time.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I'm not so sure. The rest of the world is working as fast as it can to extracate itself from any depedence on the US. Here in Canada, we are actively finding new markets for our products and so is the rest of the world.

By the time that the US does implode, nobody will care, and hardly anyone outside the US will notice.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is, of course, a perfect example of D-K in action. This dude is writing his own email server, FFS, and he characterizes himself as, "at least somewhat knowledgeable".

I've read a bunch of the old RFC's for email services years ago, when you needed some of that info in order to do interesting things with sendmail. I figure that might have put me in the top 20% of programmers/admins/techies back in the day. But to actually consider writing an email server - no way. That's a different level of "at least somewhat knowledgeable" .

 

A friend of mine has come up with a new on-line word game that seems to me to be pretty fun. I'll give the you the description from the announcement he sent out a few days ago:


You start with a set of 7 letters. Make a word, ideally using some letters more than once. That’s how you score big: for example, COFFEE is worth 8 points, TEAMMATE is 12, but DONUT is just 5.

The letters you play will be replaced with new ones from today’s predetermined sequence, until it runs out. Here is a short video.

Your goal is to squeeze the highest score you can out of today’s challenge. You can also play it again, making different choices, to beat your earlier score.

It’s free, fresh every day, and just enough of a mental workout to leave you smiling (or muttering about that one word you should have seen).


I know, from the discussions that we've had as he was developing it, that he has spent a huge amount of time working on the algorithms to ensure that the letter sets that loaded up each day have a maximum amount of playability.

The game runs in two modes: one with a short list of 30 letters, and one with the "regular' list of 60 letters. Personally, I find the shorter game a good fit for my attention span. If you didn't pick up on it from the description, the letter lists are updated each day, so you get two games a day, one short and one long.

I think it's worth a try.

https://letteragegame.com/

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

The question implies that the OP wants to create one giant filesystem with all of their data on it. This has its own issues, especially if it is in /home. For one, as someone else pointed out, it's fairly difficult to run your system without /home mounted, and that makes it difficult to resize. Sure, you can set up an admin account with it's home in the /root filesystem and then log into that - but that seems to be a lot of work in itself.

If it was me, I'd set up mount points for file systems that make sense. Maybe /data/Photos, or /data/Music, or data/AppData, or whatever. As much as possible, I'd just point whatever software I was using to those new directories to find the data. If that isn't feasible, for whatever reason, then a symbolic link from /home/Photos to /data/Photos will work seamlessly in most cases.

As far as I'm concerned, after administering enterprise systems using Unix going as far back as the early 90's, symbolic links are a key tool in managing disk space that you shouldn't just dismiss because it's "an unnecessary layer of complexity". Having smaller, purpose designed, file systems allows you to manage them better. Sticking everything into /home is probably not the right answer for anyone.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Resizing partitons is often not necessary. Use a symbolic link to relocate a subdirectory to another file system. For 99% of use cases this is indistinguishable from expanding the partition.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

In all truth, I've probably seen more sphinxes than foxes. There are literally hundreds of them in Egypt, although they are quite small compared to the one near the pyramids in Giza. They also find their way into museums around the world.

I've only seen one or two foxes, in the wild. A few more in zoos, I suppose.

 

For some reason, the wife decided to pull out all of the amigurumi critters that she's made since she started doing this at the beginning of the year.

So, here you go, the group shot:

 

She said that the pattern was awful and that she had fudge all kinds of stuff to make it work. The hat needed to be completely redesigned.

 

I'm beginning to think that this sub will never be ready. What's the hold-up????

 

The wife has started to make these amigurumi creatures. Here's her latest two.

She uses worsted weight wool (she tells me) which generally results in bigger creatures.

 

I wanted one of these back in 1980 when I was 16. I remember that they were $1,200, but they might as well have been $1,200,000 as far as I was concerned.

Many years later I had the $$$ to buy one, and this one is a beauty. Koa, with Bill Lawrence pickups.

Look at all the knobs and switches!!!

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