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Yesterday, I hosed up. I managed to drop the screen on an iMac I was replacing the hard drive in. For those that don't know, to replace a hard drive in any of Apple's iMacs since 2012, you have to use a tool to separate double-sided tape, and remove the display. (https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+EMC+2546+Hard+Drive+Replacement/15796) Whilst removing the leftover old adhesive from the display, due to tiredness (because I'm an idiot and can't get to bed at a decent hour), I wasn't paying close enough attention to how close to the tables edge I was resting the display, and it slipped off and hit the floor and table leg. There's an exposed edge of the glass when it's not installed, so:      Amazingly, it still works. Tape is to keep little shards of glass from going everywhere, and to hold the display on, since I'm not going to waste a $20 mounting kit. Guess this will be my test/lab box now. bonus reflections of my office/lab. Please don't doxx. edit: yes, that's a 2004-ish vintage iMac G5 and a Mac Classic reflected in the third picture, and yes, they both work great.
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Darchangel posted:Yesterday, I hosed up. drat, RIP ive done that before and it sucks
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You probably need to think about recapping that Classic pretty soon, and remove the internal battery if you haven't already. I'm already seeing like Quadra-grade machines that have burst their original batteries and it makes a helluva mess. The Classic shouldn't need a PROM battery to boot. Also if you didn't know you can do Command-Option-X-O to boot off the internal ROM copy of System 6.x which is the only Mac that can do it.
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Jan 17, 2017 16:40
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CommieGIR posted:My motivation is science and my family and space adding to this, wheelies. oh and tacos.
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Jan 17, 2017 18:06
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That imac looks like my iphone except not as bad. You can straight up see internals on my phone, you can watch the weight on the vibration motor spin when the phone rings. 
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Jan 17, 2017 18:12
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the spyder posted:Random question of the day: What keeps you motivated? Good question. I have had a wildly productive and successful ~5 years or so which are pin pointed by relatively bigger goals and steps that my wife and I have corroborated together which includes:
Regarding the financial aspects of these goals my wife and I have made the decision to never finance a thing outside of our primary home mortgage which is moderate compared to our income so these have been saved for prior to purchase. My motivating factor has really been to be a good provider for my family and be able to give them the kind of life I want. That trickles down into all other aspects of my life. It makes me more motivated at work to do well and to innovate. I also have not been too reserved in pointing it out but I am religiously involved and active and that does give me a greater sense of purpose for me and my family. That might not be popular to say or be but it is part of my core beliefs and values and I sincerely believe the doctrines and principles and do my best to live them out and that over arches everything. "No success in life can compensate for failure in the home."
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the spyder posted:Random question of the day: What keeps you motivated? I have mostly cut video games out of my life and it's helped a lot with this sort of malaise. My recommendation would be to volunteer with a local org. Most places have an SPCA/pound, or a soup kitchen or something. Any kind of nonprofit doing work you believe is important. It's a couple hours a week and it can yield huuuge dividends in terms of mood. I volunteer occasionally with the local bicycle advocacy org, and another that does food prep for homebound folks. Exercise and music are also good universal sources of goals. Or hell, building that cabin sounds awesome. Just make sure you're actually looking for something satisfying, and not just standing there waiting for it to show up.
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Jan 17, 2017 18:52
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the spyder posted:Random question of the day: What keeps you motivated? Depends. Some days I have little to no motivation, other days I am on a loving mission. People say I get a lot done and I'm just "gently caress if you even knew how much time I spend faffing about and screwing off..." A LOT of concurrent projects keeps me going mostly I guess, if I get tired of one thing, I can always say gently caress it and ignore it for 3 years while I screw around with the other stuff. Right now #1 priority is finishing the master bedroom in my house and getting the heating system put together so we can stop blowing 3-500 bucks a month running spaceheaters to keep the place above 45 degrees.
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Jan 17, 2017 18:58
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At this point it's mostly spite for the motherfuckers who spent so much time tearing me down as a kid. Yes I'm immature, don't look at me like that, I know myself.
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What's kicking my rear end into gear is the simple idea that I just want to have benefits again. PTO, holiday pay, guaranteed hours, and shift differentials are so much more important than I had thought that they would be. The comfort of being able to take a day off without worrying about money is so loving important when you're sick. Plus, I'm probably going to lose my current insurance, and preexisting conditions will make getting proper coverage a lot harder than it should be I need to be ready to get a real job with real benefits by the time that the ACA gets completely gutted, otherwise it will be too expensive to get the meds that allow me to work, or even see my psych, and that will be the end of things for a while
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Jan 17, 2017 19:56
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OMGVBFLOL posted:I have mostly cut video games out of my life and it's helped a lot with this sort of malaise. This x 1000. Cutting down greatly on video games has helped a ton. Also, to deal with winter blues, I made a horrible financial decision and bought a new snowmobile. 130 horsepower flying through the snow leaves a giant poo poo-eating grin on ones face. The paying for it part hurt, but goddamnit, I broke out of my rut, got a new job, am making almost 30% more than I was 6 months ago, and I've wanted a decent snowmobile for years. Its so much fun.
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Instead of weeping and moaning about my lovely IT career, I've decided that in order to have more money and not be miserable, I need to learn JavaScript, so that's what I'm doing. I'm going to code myself out of poverty, damnit. Getting up for the gym in the morning is becoming something of a necessity. I go on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, and on days where I don't go, I feel lethargic and lazy and unmotivated to do nearly anything. To keep a stick over me about it, I've made this FLC thread with goals and stuff. OMGVBFLOL posted:I have mostly cut video games out of my life and it's helped a lot with this sort of malaise.
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Jan 17, 2017 20:08
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scuz posted:Instead of weeping and moaning about my lovely IT career, I've decided that in order to have more money and not be miserable, I need to learn JavaScript, so that's what I'm doing. I'm going to code myself out of poverty, damnit. Make sure you throw a bit of Angular, jQuery, Node and Bootstrap in with that JS and you will be able to find a decent dev job. Some people might look down on JS but it is used everywhere on the internet and in cloud applications which is where the wind is blowing right now.
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BigPaddy posted:Make sure you throw a bit of Angular, jQuery, Node and Bootstrap in with that JS and you will be able to find a decent dev job. Some people might look down on JS but it is used everywhere on the internet and in cloud applications which is where the wind is blowing right now. 
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In addition to playing less computer games I will recommend doing anything you can to not check your facebook as much as you do. Most people only post good things: marriage/kid stuff, pictures with friends, good news and it can make you feel like you aren't doing anything worthwhile. I deactivated my account, but they let you keep FB messenger separate so I still have that in case anyone wants to contact me (they dont).
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Check out https://screeps.com/ as well if you want to learn js. My motivation in life is avoiding having to do javascript and having my minions do it instead.
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How about reading a good book op?
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any AI austin tx goons? i think we're finally taking our first vacation in 3 years and Austin/COTA ticks all the boxes for us. IMSA weathertech series should be entertaining
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fridge corn posted:How about reading a good book op? what book would you recommend for a juvenile rage ape such as myself?
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I recommend How to put corn on your ignore list
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Cage posted:Most people only post good things: marriage/kid stuff, pictures with friends, good news and it can make you feel like you aren't doing anything worthwhile. A million times yes. The sum of your life's experiences will never equal the combined experiences of your friends.
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BraveUlysses posted:I recommend How to put corn on your ignore list why would he do this? corn has recommended way better books than you have.
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Adiabatic posted:why would he do this? corn has recommended way better books than you have. You haven't tried my suggested book 
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BraveUlysses posted:You haven't tried my suggested book im good. seems rather trivial and juvenile
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Ether Frenzy posted:Check out https://screeps.com/ as well if you want to learn js.
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Enourmo posted:what book would you recommend for a juvenile rage ape such as myself? About Face by David Hackworth is probably the best book I know of, but I mostly read war memoirs and bizarrely specific scientific literature
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Enourmo posted:what book would you recommend for a juvenile rage ape such as myself? Godel, Escher, Bach is awesome. so is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, if you're looking for something quicker. They both go into the way we think (especially the enginerds in this chat) and both gave some really cool insight.
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34C at 4:30am when I left the house this morning. After 44C daytime. 34 loving C?????? That's just hosed up. We're now at the point where Australians switch from snide "You think your lovely country is hot?" to "For fucks sake, this is ridiculous" 37C already and climbing too.
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Enourmo posted:what book would you recommend for a juvenile rage ape such as myself? my suggestion for this month is The Sellout by Paul Beatty. It's witty, insightful, and humourous and maybe just a little shocking
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the spyder posted:Random question of the day: What keeps you motivated? To be a better person tomorrow than I am today. And it's pretty broad statement to make. Be a better father. Better friend. Better boss. Better pilot. Hell a better ex husband. Make my bed better than I did the previous day. Take pride in the most meaningless task. To not dread anything but look forward to the challenge of the difficulty, the dullness, the simplicity of it. I look for improvements in small ways...almost unnoticeably small things. But I know that all those little small things I try and do better add up to doing bigger things being better. Try and do every task as best as I can. To not have a fear of failure. I don't care if anyone else notices, only that I do. Drink less, eat better. Smoke less, run or bike more. Try and get better at sweeping a loving floor. Dress better, shave more often, better posture. To have pride in everything I do or am but not arrogant about it. Tony Robbins is apparently my spirit animal.
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Tide posted:To be a better person tomorrow than I am today. That's a much healthier sounding Tide than we've seen in a while... welcome back!
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Seminal Flu posted:That's a much healthier sounding Tide than we've seen in a while... welcome back! Thank you sir!
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scuz posted:If your minions make $70k/year, sign me up. Range is $70-95k depending on experience really, the more javascript you know the higher you start. However there's a hitch - The higher you start the more likely you are to get your job outsourced if you're only a javascript jockey - that stuff is very easy to get from offshore resources since understanding of english is not required for it to still function. Learn other stuff and keep your education constant.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:34C at 4:30am when I left the house this morning. After 44C daytime. 17 degrees down in the most liveable city in this racist shithole of a nation 
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Moving dis convo to the chat thread to avoid making GBS threads up amc eagle chat: Yeah good idea on the move. Cindy's still hot, especially given her age, she's gotta be pushing 50 (if not over). Chris Ryan "left on his own terms", and does voiceover work now, along with English dubs for anime for FUNimation (which is based here). I can't find the Observer article about his departure, but IIRC he was just sick of radio. Jagger got fired from the Edge last year too, and decided to call it quits with radio entirely - he's a stay at home dad for now. Clear Channel/iHeart isn't exactly known for its good decisions, so who knows if we'll ever see The Edge come back. There's only 4 other adult contemporary stations here, after all, and iHeart owns the majority of FM stations here.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Range is $70-95k depending on experience really, the more javascript you know the higher you start. However there's a hitch - The higher you start the more likely you are to get your job outsourced if you're only a javascript jockey - that stuff is very easy to get from offshore resources since understanding of english is not required for it to still function. Learn other stuff and keep your education constant. 
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You Am I posted:17 degrees down in the most liveable city in this racist shithole of a nation You have a strange definition of "livable"
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funny Star Wars parody posted:drat, RIP Definitely makes you feel like an idiot. Seat Safety Switch posted:You probably need to think about recapping that Classic pretty soon, and remove the internal battery if you haven't already. I'm already seeing like Quadra-grade machines that have burst their original batteries and it makes a helluva mess. The Classic shouldn't need a PROM battery to boot. I did not know that, and will have to try it. It has a weird issue at the moment where the click mapping in the menu bar is out of whack, like the menus respond 1/4 inch to the left, which makes the Apple Menu inaccessible. Desktop icons and such are fine. It's just the menu bar. I only have a mouse here - need to bring a keyboard from my classic at home, and my old system disks. Speaking of Macs, I had a phone interview with a recruiter for a possible job yesterday. Not likely to be considered because, while I have tons of Mac experience, they're recruiting for a smaller company where the few IT guys do ALL the IT - VOIP phone, iOS, Macs, Linux servers, etc. I've been in a corporate environment for 16 years, silo'd all to hell. I'd actually prefer the varied experience of the job that was being recruited for, which is why I responded. What really got me, though were the three questions that the recruiter was given to ask. One was three different ways to bind a Mac to AD - OK, I know those, but rarely use any of them, because my AD binding is baked into a setup script I push to the Mac after imaging. The second was an Outlook issue - well, we use Lotus/IBM Notes where I am, so I've basically never used Outlook. Third question - you can log in to your Mac after running setup after imaging, what do you do? Now, my answer was correct, depending on OS version and what was actually wrong (boot to Recovery or OS installer and use Password Recovery tool.) Their answer was the nerdiest nuts and bolts version possible (boot to Single User mode, and basically delete the file that tells the Mac not to run the first-start setup.) I've never needed to do this. I don't think I've booted to Single User Mode more than once, just to see what it was. My imaging process obviates the need to go through the OS setup. More to the point, all three of them were easily Google-able, if I'd felt like cheating. I don't sacrifice mental storage space to stuff I don't use often - that's what Google, and my own Notes from last time that happened are for. Ah, well. Turns out the company is a sub-prime auto financing company anyway.
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scuz posted:My programming/coding pals have mentioned similar things, so I plan on leveraging my experience as a sysadmin and my Supreme Customer Service Abilities to make me the total package. Planning on doing a lot with Angular and jQuery, too. Oh, and I have friends who work for dev houses like nuts which are all in the metro area where I live so That's why I've been sticking to Macs. They seem to confuse Indians for some reason. I still try to keep my fingers a little in the Windows world so I know what's going on there, though. Speaking both Mac and Windows comes in handy from time to time.
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