Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Better is the enemy of good part 1023: My aging PCI wifi card (some Realtek thing I bough in Maplins Southampton in 2007) was driving me nuts with its (relatively) slow speed, I'd get 2MB/s max out of it, more typically 800-1000KB/s, so I went shopping for an intel based chipset.

Streaming Titanic Honor & Glory Demo 3, come and explore the Titanic with me!
https://twitch.tv/5ulman

God help me, Powershell is really growing on me. Nurse!

Taking in the visual splendor of Dear Esther's cave sequence:
https://clips.twitch.tv/AltruisticDirtyMetalRitzMitz-BbqR8-e2gD51geKf

Dear Esther stream pt 2 twitch.tv/5ulman

The web-based GUI doesn't mention UID/GID anywhere, you have to get into the shell to get that.

I treated myself to a Synology NAS and I like it a lot so far. It's just a simple two-disk version but I wanted something with basic affordability and it was very reasonable. I use NFS because it's what I know and the approach is eerily similar to enterprise EMC stuff, in other words kinda janky, but once you get CLI access it makes more sense.

In person, this is easy to check, and in effect we have trained the users not to think for themselves.

Time and again we spend hours chasing problems that result from the users simply not doing as they're told.

One thing that changed during remote support for me is the understanding that users do not take the steps you have asked them to, even when they say they have.

Nice pinks and blues in the sky last night, from the Dairy Queen car park (yeah Ice Cream in Winter, whatever, don't judge me)

Inevitably, the too-much-time-on-their-hands brigade have come for Pepe le Pew.

I wanted to run a test VM for some concept stuff and VmWare Fusion is broken on MacOS Big Sur.

Shit like this is really infuriating, and in proprietary software - especially in MacOS - fixes take forever.

So out comes the 8yr old Linux laptop and everything works perfectly. Just a little slower but I can get shit done.

People don't like
Mazepin. I get that. The anti Russian sentiment is however disgraceful.

https://twitter.com/HaasF1Team/status/1367384401290625024?s=20

Carnegie Mellon's campus, two years ago today.