What is in your cup? - Page 1369

VydorScope · 07-08-2012, 08:22 AM

oh... coffee in me mug while I put the final touches on my lesson for today.

CRussel · 07-08-2012, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VydorScope

Heck I used to get paid to do that... till the bottom of the hardware market fell off and people could by desktop systems for the price of a cup of Starbucks! But now a days, I am more like you, I buy laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Upgradeablity sacrificed for portability. I guess it just matters what characteristics you place highest.

It's funny, I have enough computing power here to manage a major international company, but most of it sits idling away. I've got two servers and more desktops than I can count, plus three different laptops in regular use. But 90% of my time is spent on the smallest of the three laptops, a 14" HP hooked up to two external monitors. That's my main workstation, joined to the corporate domain. I've been trying to get around to consolidating the servers onto a single one, since I'm NOT doing a new book this year, but somehow I can't seem to find the time/energy to do all the reconfiguration that would entail. It was on my list of things to do while I was on vacation, but somehow, time is slipping away. Ah, well. I am enjoying the vacation, and that's more important.

Peet's Anniversary Breakfast Blend tea, along with eggs from my chickens and some homemade southern style breakfast sausage.

VydorScope · 07-08-2012, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRussel

It's funny, I have enough computing power here to manage a major international company, but most of it sits idling away. I've got two servers and more desktops than I can count, plus three different laptops in regular use. But 90% of my time is spent on the smallest of the three laptops, a 14" HP hooked up to two external monitors. That's my main workstation, joined to the corporate domain. I've been trying to get around to consolidating the servers onto a single one, since I'm NOT doing a new book this year, but somehow I can't seem to find the time/energy to do all the reconfiguration that would entail. It was on my list of things to do while I was on vacation, but somehow, time is slipping away. Ah, well. I am enjoying the vacation, and that's more important.

Peet's Anniversary Breakfast Blend tea, along with eggs from my chickens and some homemade southern style breakfast sausage.

I did that consolidation already. Moving around the country so much forced that hand. All I have at home any more is my tablet, an my aged desktop that will be replaced by a laptop when money is ready. My servers are all in the Amazon cloud now, and at work I use a laptop as my primary machine.

Oh and my nook, and my wife's nook, and my wife's laptop... not counting the roku or xbox of course... or the... well yeah, I am completely consolidated

ProfCrash · 07-08-2012, 04:13 PM

I have my pc in the basement that I barely use now that I have my iPad.

Stitchawl · 07-08-2012, 09:23 PM

When Sunny gets blue, her eyes get gray and cloudy
Then the rain begins to fall
Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, love is gone so what can matter?
No sweet lovin' man comes to call

When Sunny gets blue, she breathes a sigh of sadness
Like the wind that stirs the trees
Wind that sets the leaves to swayin'
Like some violins are playin'
Weird and haunting melodies

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bXA...eature=related )

Good morning, everyone! The start of a new week, a new adventure, another new experience, and best of all, new things to learn! First, we need a solid foundation to build upon, so it's Taylors of Harrogate's "Yorkshire" tea, muesli with yogurt and fruit, and a glass of peach juice!

Quote:

Originally Posted by VydorScope

Heck I used to get paid to do that... till the bottom of the hardware market fell off and people could by desktop systems for the price of a cup of Starbucks!

I just paid less than $300 for a 3-terabyte external drive. In 1984 I paid $350 for (the largest size available then) hard drive... 20-M... and that was more than big enough for all my programs and file storage. Today I have more than 9 terabytes of storage and wonder if I should pick up more... Back-ups... Lots of Back-ups... I will not lose any more information... Lots of back-ups...

VydorScope · 07-08-2012, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I just paid less than $300 for a 3-terabyte external drive. In 1984 I paid $350 for (the largest size available then) hard drive... 20-M... and that was more than big enough for all my programs and file storage. Today I have more than 9 terabytes of storage and wonder if I should pick up more... Back-ups... Lots of Back-ups... I will not lose any more information... Lots of back-ups...

There was a time when I was working at Office Depot we were selling COMPLETE Windows Desktop systems for $99. Late 90's this was. You can not buy a decent CPU for that price, never mind build anything... sure those systems sucked quality wise, but it still destroyed the market as far as price went. Today the market is a little better...sorta. LOL OK not really.

Stitchawl · 07-08-2012, 10:48 PM

On my first visit to Kuala Lumpur, (I think it was around '91) I discovered a small store in a shopping mall that was selling pirated software. One of the earliest shops for that sort of thing. The walls were covered with hundreds of software titles... You'd pick the titles you wanted, and the shop keeper would then copy the program onto as many diskettes as needed while you waited. By early 2000, you could find entire shopping malls in Bankgok filled ONLY with stores that were selling pirated CD's, each with hundreds of small programs on them, or single program CDs. When you picked what you wanted, the shop keeper would run out the back of the shop to a parked car, take the CD's from the trunk (in case the police raided his store) and come back. Then he'd look up the CD's label and print that out on his printer, slip it into a jewel case, and put the CD inside. These days, it's hardware as well as software. Fake Sony Walkmen, fake DVD movie players, even pirated hard drives, pirated keyboards, pirated CPUs...
One place was selling hard drives that were actually memory sticks inside hard drive cases, with their bios set to read as large drives!!!

In 2005 I tried to find a legitimate copy of WindowsXP in Bangkok. I could not find a single shop that sold it.

Stitchawl

pdurrant · 07-09-2012, 05:19 AM

Coke Zero #1 in my cup.

aceflor · 07-09-2012, 06:19 AM

Green tea in my sparkling water.

ProfCrash · 07-09-2012, 07:41 AM

Water for me. Lucas is working on some breast milk while Dad prepares his second course of formula.

pdurrant · 07-09-2012, 07:43 AM

Coke Zero #2.

orlok · 07-09-2012, 09:15 AM

Filtered water and fresh cherries.

And thinking about doing a backup of my system - it's like a little voice is nagging me to do it, and you know what happens if you don't listen to your inner voices...

aceflor · 07-09-2012, 10:21 AM

yeah, you should backup asap (says me, who still has to do one, last one is old, old, old...)

CRussel · 07-09-2012, 01:24 PM

I've written an entire book on backup, and virtually every backup chapter in every book we've written. But do I properly backup and test my backups? yeah, exactly. But the next couple of days, I'm going to reconfigure and consolidate, which will help.

Fresh squeezed orange juice. And just brewing a pot of Peet's Anniversary Breakfast Blend tea.

VydorScope · 07-09-2012, 06:45 PM

Thankfully I do not have to worry about backups. I have Time Machine one my mac that is just awesome, and for my windows boxes I use SkyDrive and DropBox to automagicaly handle them. My servers have an rsync job that keeps a weeks worth of backups.... so basically yeah... all my backups are automagic, else they would not get done. And I have had to use them more then once...

Coffee of course.

07-08-2012, 10:48 PM	#20527
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	On my first visit to Kuala Lumpur, (I think it was around '91) I discovered a small store in a shopping mall that was selling pirated software. One of the earliest shops for that sort of thing. The walls were covered with hundreds of software titles... You'd pick the titles you wanted, and the shop keeper would then copy the program onto as many diskettes as needed while you waited. By early 2000, you could find entire shopping malls in Bankgok filled ONLY with stores that were selling pirated CD's, each with hundreds of small programs on them, or single program CDs. When you picked what you wanted, the shop keeper would run out the back of the shop to a parked car, take the CD's from the trunk (in case the police raided his store) and come back. Then he'd look up the CD's label and print that out on his printer, slip it into a jewel case, and put the CD inside. These days, it's hardware as well as software. Fake Sony Walkmen, fake DVD movie players, even pirated hard drives, pirated keyboards, pirated CPUs... One place was selling hard drives that were actually memory sticks inside hard drive cases, with their bios set to read as large drives!!! In 2005 I tried to find a legitimate copy of WindowsXP in Bangkok. I could not find a single shop that sold it. Stitchawl Last edited by Stitchawl; 07-08-2012 at 10:50 PM.

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07-08-2012, 08:22 AM	#20521
VydorScope Wizard Posts: 3,418 Karma: 35207650 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iPad	oh... coffee in me mug while I put the final touches on my lesson for today.

07-08-2012, 04:13 PM	#20524
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	I have my pc in the basement that I barely use now that I have my iPad.

07-09-2012, 05:19 AM	#20528
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,577 Karma: 318090012 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	Coke Zero #1 in my cup.

07-09-2012, 06:19 AM	#20529
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	Green tea in my sparkling water.

07-09-2012, 07:41 AM	#20530
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	Water for me. Lucas is working on some breast milk while Dad prepares his second course of formula.

07-09-2012, 07:43 AM	#20531
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,577 Karma: 318090012 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	Coke Zero #2.

07-09-2012, 09:15 AM	#20532
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Filtered water and fresh cherries. And thinking about doing a backup of my system - it's like a little voice is nagging me to do it, and you know what happens if you don't listen to your inner voices...

07-09-2012, 10:21 AM	#20533
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	yeah, you should backup asap (says me, who still has to do one, last one is old, old, old...)

07-09-2012, 01:24 PM	#20534
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,326 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	I've written an entire book on backup, and virtually every backup chapter in every book we've written. But do I properly backup and test my backups? yeah, exactly. But the next couple of days, I'm going to reconfigure and consolidate, which will help. Fresh squeezed orange juice. And just brewing a pot of Peet's Anniversary Breakfast Blend tea.

07-09-2012, 06:45 PM	#20535
VydorScope Wizard Posts: 3,418 Karma: 35207650 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iPad	Thankfully I do not have to worry about backups. I have Time Machine one my mac that is just awesome, and for my windows boxes I use SkyDrive and DropBox to automagicaly handle them. My servers have an rsync job that keeps a weeks worth of backups.... so basically yeah... all my backups are automagic, else they would not get done. And I have had to use them more then once... Coffee of course.

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