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Oh, OK, yeah - I generally don't preorder stuff months in advance or whatever. This one already had good reviews, and the developer had made several games that I enjoyed already. Hell, half the time I buy used, but this one looked good enough, and I want the Mad Max franchise to benefit, basically. T1g4h posted:I just got the Shovel Face, Furnace, and I got the Ripper, but not far enough along yet to start swapping stuff. Only just got to Jeet's fortress last night. Did get an enemy car stored there, though. NOW I MUST COLLECT THEM ALL!
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Dang you guys were bored over the long weekend. From like a hundred pages back: some texas redneck posted:I used to live fairly close to CTC (across town). Wish I'd known about it when I lived in Denton, I'd pay just to be able to walk around the place and check out the cars (and take a camera). The gently caress? Are they not aware of the fact that every phone made since, oh, the '90s has a camera built in? Enourmo posted:well step one is to add a water separator Unless it's a later model - GM put in water separators and 1/2" head bolts on the later units. Not sure where the division is, so research. Then add a turbo - there used to be a Banks kit for them, back in the day, and woke them up quite a bit. Still an '80s diesel though. Friar Zucchini posted:Not just any diesel... a gasoline engine retrofitted to run on diesel! that's more or less correct, I think? I would say "with predictable results" but it was actually much worse even than that, so the American car-buying public thought of that particular legendary piece of poo poo when they thought of "diesel" and the American diesel passenger car was effectively dead for a few decades after, and even now you have trucks, German stuff, and as of very recently the Chevrolet Cruze and that is absolutely it. Pretty much. It's based on the gas Olds V8, but the block was significantly beefed up in the bottom end. It's still enough like the gas V8 that it can be used as a basis for a extreme duty small block Olds gas build. Heads bolt on, distributor replaces the injection pump. I think there might be some minor changes that have to be made. You're dead right on how the GM/Olds diesel affected public opinion though. It was dismal initially, and lackluster when they fixed it. CommieGIR posted:Yeah, they are actually completely different blocks, it was actually a rumor that they were based on gas motors. The issue was that they used their vast knowledge of gas motors in designing the head bolts and the fuel system....which didn't help being a diesel. yes and no. Completely different insofar that the bottom end was redesigned to be more beefy, but the basic block is an Olds small-block V8. Gas heads bolt on, oil pan, cam, timing parts, water pump, crank, pistons from the gas engine all fit the diesel block. Olds racers use the diesel block for high-horsepower small-block builds. T1g4h posted:Finished Mad Max tonight! I'm basically chewing on the side stuff as I go, to make the story stuff easier. Doing maybe 40/60 story/optional, depending on my mood. The game caters to my mild ADD/OCD. I want to do all the things, but get distracted often. mafoose posted:Awesome, thanks for the info! Most of the places I've come across are eerily quiet now. You know what I'd love? Canadian seat belts. Especially since the drivers one gets stuck halfway on the track. Canadian ones are unmotorized, right, and that's why you love them? They are on the RX-7s. Supposedly the motorized ones have a lifetime warranty from Mazda. I just replaced the motorized bastards in my '90 RX-7 with early FC static belts (and trim. And headliner.) leica posted:I had to google what a scotch egg was, looks.......interesting. They are pretty tasty, but, yeah, they are far from healthy. I don't hink I could eat more than one a day. They have them at the local Ren Faire every year. Scotch Egg and a nice honey mead = a lovely lunch. Nodoze posted:talk about poverty interior You think that's a poverty interior? You must be young. Vinyl bench, column-shift, no gauges except speedo and fuel - THAT'S a poverty interior. The Immortan skull-wheel emblem with a wave toupee hairdo makes this. Kid chat: my daughter is almost 14, and I have no idea if I'm doing anything right. It doesn't help that she's borderline Aspergers, and I have no clue how to relate to her. Still works out OK - we go see animated movies together, and stuff. She's not interested in most of the stuff I am, so I try to pay attention when she does show interest, and spend some time doing that. Part of it is I'm a goon, and have no idea how to relate to a girl, too. What's really fun is dealing with a kid that inherited her mother's genes and, shall we say, bloomed really early. Kid's 14 and already has D-cups. Having to teach her to fend off the creeps (AKA, all teenage boys...)
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So, we're doing a Disaster Recovery exercise here at work, or rather, at a Business Continuancy Center. Started at 8 AM local. It's now 5:30 PM. Nothing has been restored, and there's no domain for my workstations to connect to (I'm the desktop workstation guy on hand.) I've just got paid to pretty much surf the web all day. I did remote back to the office and work a few tickets, but that's about it. I'll be back tomorrow to see if I have anything to connect to, and then I have Thursday and Friday off for my birthday, after being off Labor Day. I like how this week is shaping up. Already got a bunch of freebie coupons from the various restaurant rewards clubs, so Th-F are going to be low-cost eat out days. On the down side (not really, I don't mind), I'm going to be 46. I don't really feel 46. Wasn't I in high school just a few years ago? I keep wondering when I will feel like a responsible adult. This despite the fact that I'm a homeowner of 14 years, have a 13-almost-14 year-old daughter, and have managed to be the only child in my family not to move back home after leaving (they had good reason, and it was brief for both of them, but I can lord that detail over them). I guess I'm not doing too badly.
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some texas redneck posted:Wellllll it was kind of a DSLR. I did wind up getting some artsy shots while I was there. Yeah, but I mean saying "no cameras" is just silly, given that almost literally every phone is a camera. Not a fantastic one, granted, but plenty good for taking pictures of whatever they are paranoid about you taking pictures of. Seriously, what does a fracking wrecking yard have to not take pictures of? quote:Honda/Acura also had a lifetime seat belt warranty around that time, but the dealers always try to get out of it by saying it's just on the belt (even though the warranty states it covers the entire power mechanism). Usually takes a call to Honda US to get it taken care of. Mazda's not much different, from what I hear. quote:Soooo would you call the disaster recovery exercise a disaster? Not yet. The purpose of an exercise is to find out what will go wrong BEFORE the actual disaster, so if they capture and fix the problems, it's a success. IF they do that. That said, the domain was up today, I just had to track down a network guy to get all the IP info to give the machines a static IP and DNS server, etc. My part is basically don. I got a free lunch both days, and my afternoon should be quiet. I don't get why the other guys don't volunteer to go. CommieGIR posted:Ahahahahaha, I love when this poo poo happens and there's no actual contingencies in place. Seat Safety Switch posted:That's why it's Disaster Recovery, not Everything's Fine Do Nothing. This, basically, only Disaster Recovery EXERCISE. As in, practice, then figure out how to do better, in theory. A real disaster recovery would be... interesting. A lot more pressure, and more hands-on-deck.
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literally a fish posted:I did the thing You've got the car way too far forward, particularly for a nose-heavy Scooby.Scootch it back so that the weight of the car is centered on the trailer's axles (I'd say about with the rear edge of the front tire at the front edge of the trailer's fenders), and that will reduce the tongue weight, making the truck a lot happier (and a lot less squirrelly. You're drat near picking the front wheels up off the ground there.) Negromancer posted:Welcome to the tech industry. I am about to start a job that the only offices are in San Francisco and Moscow, but I will be living/working in Seattle. One of my old bosses lived in Spain, Denmark and Columbia while we were working for a Seattle based company. Its pretty awesome and terrible depending on whats happening at work. The downside of being able to work anywhere is that a lot of jobs will expect you to work anywhere/anytime. The downside of being able to work anywhere is that your job will be outsourced to anywhere cheaper.
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CommieGIR posted:Some basic disaster preparedness could have been put in place, backup domain controllers, etc. You don't have to simulate a full on nothing works disaster to test disaster recovery. This is an exercise for "a meteor fell on the IS building and/or all of Dallas Ft. Worth is under 6' of water", i.e. total failure of the (single, only) IT facility. Network failures and power outages are tested monthly or so, as I recall. I'm Workstation, so I don't get to play with those. We're nationwide, but not really a very large company. About 15K employees. Galler posted:Losing a domain controller counts as a disaster recovery situation where you work? Wow. I sometimes forget the difference in scale between various organizations. We have hundreds of domain controllers so losing one is barely even worth reporting. Our regional data centers are high availability between themselves so losing one isn't even that bad. We have to lose two data centers in the same region to start the DR process. Yeah, we've got just the one. We've pretty much just gotten big enough for the company to really take IT seriously. It's tough for a 100+ year old retail company to take this new-fangled electronic stuff seriously.
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literally a fish posted:It was significantly further back initially, which was much better, then during the drive back elected to move itself forward after my co-driver's lovely knots at the rear came loose. The bumper ran into the winch box Knots?! Oh, hell no. Ratcheting straps made for the job, son. Or chains with tensioners. Nothing else, ever. And now you know why.
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Geeze, I take a break for a few days and you guys post all up in here.mafoose posted:Got a link or anything that says this? All I can find is something saying 25 years, which is up in 2 months... No, I don't. It very well may be 25 years. Brigdh posted:In the US market, the S4 FCs had static belts, the S5s had the motorized ones. The S4 belts are a straight swap into a S5 chassis. You should be able to find the S4 belts at a local junkyard. Also get the A-pillar trim, the B-pillar trim 9upper and lower), and the headliner. And you will need to use a spot-weld drill to remove a bunch of welded on mounting tabs for the Series 5 trim. Been there, done that, still looking for a burgundy sunroof S4 headliner. quote:As far as the warranty, its for the life of the vehicle. See the official letter linked here: http://fc3spro.com/TECH/PROBLEMS/INT/sbelt.htm Well, there ya go. some texas redneck posted:I'd still consider that a fail, personally. Disaster or not, there should be something handling DHCP. Having to run around to every workstation in an actual disaster event to manually enter IPs and DNS is just a lot of extra work, adds another layer for human error, and hinders productivity (even more than the disaster itself, if the site is close enough that your staff can show up within an hour or two). Yeah, I don't know what the gently caress I was thinking there - we definitely have multiple DCs. One for every facility, at the very least, and multiples at the IS location. I assume that they do failover testing for the production DCs more often. And yeah, cold site, restore from scratch. I'm thinking that DHCP was left out simply because there were only going to be 20 end-user devices connected at most, so it wasn't in scope for this test. We're basically just working on the back-end recovery, and enough PCs for end-user testing of said back end. Keep in mind I'm just a desktop guy, so I don't have a deep involvement in anything beyond the PC on that desk, there. Powershift posted:god drat, the mad max game is janky as poo poo and slow as balls. it's like the creators have never played a video game or seen the movie. Really? Seems to work fine on the XBone. Stutters occasionally from something going on in the background, but not very often. I'm enjoying the gameplay. Powershift posted:Yeah but all the on foot stuff is slow as hell and it keeps forcing you to get out of the car, and climbing ladders only works half the time and there's more bullshit talking in the first 5 minutes of the game than there is in the entire movie. I don't mind the out-of-car combat/quest stuff. Ladders work fine on XBone, can't speak for PC or whatever. Agree on the cut to the "do stuff" animations. It also resets the camera, so you have to look around before moving, since your usually not looking where you were. that, and some glitches here and there with respect to pick-up item/action labels. Sometimes some weirdness with collision detection where poo poo will just go shooting off at high speed in a random direction, but most games seem to have that now and then. e: what in the gently caress happened in here on Thursday? Darchangel fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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I don't mean to sound like an rear end in a top hat; every company needs to test their disaster recovery plans regularly, and it sounds like you found some flaws with the plans your employer has in a practice run, instead of the real thing, which is good.
One domain controller for 15k employees? No backup controller?
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Still playing catchup.Tusen Takk posted:Dont post in FYAD I shouldn't admin that I think I know who that character is, should I? Adiabatic posted:My sister is up to at least $50k for a wedding with 150 people. Her dress alone was $8k I think. It's this weekend, and everyone's super stressed out and I'm just eating popcorn from the sidelines. But it's worth it - it a once-in-a-lifetime thing! (because you'll be paying it off the rest of your life and won't be able to afford anything else...) Rhyno posted:Nope. Born and bread in a hillbilly town in Indiana. Oh, well South Africa is a step up then. Elmnt80 posted:Help, the people at the table next to me are bitching about basic algebra, converting metric and chemistry classes in high schools. I can't think of a day (that I do something other than sit around in my boxers) where I don't wind up using something related to at least one of those things. :| No poo poo. I use most of the stuff I learned about in school, maybe not every day, but often enough. I suppose I don't use Calculus and Diff. Eq. too much, but that's because I failed to finish my engineering degree. Most of the math and science comes in handy fo the stuff I work and play with. But I'm a nerd, so whatever. Geoj posted:Yeah, we figured it was just for family of the bride & groom, but then when we went to dinner at the restaurant across the parking lot from the hotel and ran into his parents, sister & family it all clicked. Wow. Just... wow. I'd have sent a copy of that back to the groom, myself. What a winner he picked. some texas redneck posted:When a $35 consumer-grade router can handle DHCP for 20 devices (we have about that many in the house), and an enterprise DC can't, you have issues. I'm not a network guy, and not involved in that part of the system or test, so I really can't comment. I also don't hold a very high opinion of our network team, either, but that's beside the point (maybe.) some texas redneck posted:I've never dated anyone - male or female (and I've had more girlfriends than the average gay guy [3]) - that wouldn't wear sneakers. It was a parody of the text in the article, but yeah, people that wear dress shirts and nice, expensive shoes all the time are too uptight for me. Gotta wear sneaks or work boots sometime... unless you're down to get your fancy clothes diirty while working on stuff or doing yardwork. mariooncrack posted:I think he tried to sell the car. I'm pretty sure someone find the link to his reddit thread and he stopped posting on it too. i love the fact that the highest upvoted comment is Kastein. I kind of wish someone with a little skill and motivation would get hold of that Z31, though, it's not hopeless, and looks pretty good. edit: MustardFacial posted:You guys mailed him tools?!? How do I get in on this free tool scam? This is brilliant! Wish I'd have thought of it. Um... I have a little rust on my Cutlass. Can someone mail me a MIG welder? And some sheet steel, maybe? Oh, it won't shift out of first, so maybe a 200-4R, or a 5-speed conversion, too, please. Thanks! Darchangel fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Geirskogul posted:I switched to a UniFi AP, connected to whatever flavor of gigabit router with DD-WRT installed with the stock WiFi radio disabled. Haven't had any issues, and disabling the onboard WiFi on the router greatly reduces heat and increases stability. The UniFi AP is rock-loving-solid and has an excellent range, too. I think I'm going to get one of those myself. heard good things from here and elsewhere. I also like that you can park it wherever there's an Ethernet jack, thanks to the POE.
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Tusen Takk posted:if you do the punishment is buying me a new avatar I'm don't feel like I'm near witty enough to buy anyone else an avatar. you'll get a gay Apple or something. Oh, wait, Apple already did the rainbow thing before it was a thing... Geirskogul posted:Oh god I finally clicked on the view post thing and this is amazing. MBR. You mean you weren't seeing his avatar? Mobile, I guess? And if you mean a certain lagomorph artist, yes, that's one of his characters. e: also: trap sprung - furry spotted.
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Powershift posted:The one i got has no bluetooth, only wifi, which is annoying as poo poo because as long as wifi is connected to it you got not internet. Although it is nice because it connects to my old first gen ipad. it also works well with scanXL even though manufacturer specific modules are expensive as hell. one cleared abs or TCS light pays for itself. On the internet thing, there's a way around that by manually setting gateway settings for the WiFi connection to the dongle to 0.0.0.0. Works on my iPhone.
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keykey posted:A friend of mine is sitting through an A+ cert class right now since his work paid for him to do it since they want all their techs A+ certified. He has been writing nuggets of wisdom all week that the instructor is giving the class. I'm pretty sure his instructor wrote the screenplay for hackers. Enjoy: https://twitter.com/aplusblowhard So much half-understood information, and outright lack of knowledge. He's like a cargo cult...
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Tommychu posted:I've met people that don't acknowledge the mk1's existence or lump it together with the mk2 because they look pretty similar (at least in comparison to the mk3) Wow. Even the Mk1, while technically a Celica, is significantly different forward of the doors (it's stretched to fit the 6, for anyone who doesn't know.) Enourmo posted:So the shop called back about my car, apparently pcm isn't getting signal from the maf even with a good part in place Oh, God, those things are the bane of all auto electronics installers' existence. They're temporary, whether you want them to be or not. meatpimp posted:I left my wallet in El Segundo. I rather liked El Segundo and environs. I dunno if I lucked into 2 weeks of awesome weather, or f it's like that all the time, but it was nice, compared to TX this time of year. nm posted:We'll keep enjoying our rust free 40 year old cars. Same here. Stuck at work after hours because I started PC replacement - and the mother fucker has over 100 GB of little tiny files (developer dweeb) that are going to take hours to copy, even though I've go both dives internal on thew (3 GB) SATA, and the destination drive is an SSD. The other one has almost as many files. FML. I haven't gotten out before 7 PM all week... e: at least I have access to my computer from here. Time to catch up on the forums... Darchangel fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 18, 2015 |
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Geeze, this poo poo with an Irving, TX high school having a kid, who just happens to be Islamic, arrested because he brought a DIY digital clock to school, is making me embarrassed to be a Texan. Everybody, from the teacher, to the Principal, to the cops, played this the stupidest, most Islamophobic way possible. Holy gently caress, what a poo poo-storm.
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Raluek posted:Were you not ashamed of being from texas already? At least you aren't Florida Man, I guess. Or Indiana, apparently. There's a lot I like about the state, honestly. Seems like every place has something that makes it poo poo - you just have to choose what you can tolerate. At this point, I'm thinking I'd like somewhere with first-world health care, decent roads, and a good education system. Unfortunately, looks like that's not going to be the USA. Canada's too cold and rusty, the UK is rusty and has some truly restrictive auto laws, and I don't speak anything other than English. Oz, maybe, but they've got a lot of the UK's attitude on cars vis-a-vis modifications, and probably won't let me stay anyway... Geoj posted:How long have you been living there? If its more than a month you really shouldn't be surprised. Somehow, I have a seemingly bottomless capability to be surprised at how truly stupid people can be. It's like a sort of weird eternal optimism, where I keep thinking maybe this time they won't be complete morons, or batshit insane, but nope, and I'm somehow surprised again. I know I shouldn't be. After 46 years, you'd think it would have been beaten out of me, but nope.
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Suicide Watch posted:Not the first time Germans tried to suffocate people http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ordered-to-recall-nearly-500000-vehicles-over-emissions-software.html?ref=business I'm really surprised that someone hasn't done this before, though I really expected it to be an aftermarket tuner, not a major manufacturer. I've envisioned for a number of years a black box that has an OB2 intercept connector and just tells the emissions machine what it wants to hear. Super Aggro Crag posted:Yay, got a 2nd interview tomorrow morning with the company I interviewed with last Friday. They called all my references today as well. Face is shaved, suit is clean. Ready to go. From what others have said, AI in general is better than the rest of SA... some texas redneck posted:GASCHAT There was a mounted grill in my back yard, and a gas line running down the wall from the soffit, but it's not connected in the attic. I assume it was supposed to run to the gas line where the stove and water heater connect. The line is still there - maybe I should get someone to hook that up for me again, and run a line to my propane grill. Do any mods have to be made to the grill? Orifices or something? I know propane != natural gas, necessarily. quote:So uh.. That's the way I understand it. If it's bad news, just ignore it and claim it was never delivered (not really. You should take care of the problem if there is one, but legally, you should be covered. IANAL, though.) some texas redneck posted:Thank gently caress I can honestly say no to that. Ah. Yeah, that'll make a dent in the deficit. Ferremit posted:
No poo poo. I mean, over $4 for coffee?  meatpimp posted:I cleaned my workbench today, for the first time in WAY too long. In doing so, I found some things that I had forgotten about. In my mind, there's a tremendous cargo box in the front, like a giant reverse ute. Nodoze posted:Why are you paying 4 bucks for a coffee Dammit, beaten. ilkhan posted:C&C this morning. Saw an original owner '95 300ZX TT. My former boss at work has a red '96 (I believe). He's put a little work in it. Nice wide staggered wheels and tires, nice stereo, vented front panel and some reliability mods. Brembo brakes and a nice, throaty exhaust. He says the turbos are ingesting a bit of oil, so is planning to have his mechanic pull the engine and do a reseal on everything while it's out, fix the knock sensor that's impossible to get to with the engine in, stuff like that. I like that he usually drives it to work once or twice a week.
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I don't have any assets beyond a nearly 5 year old homebuilt PC, a bed, a couch, and some clothes... bank technically still owns my car. Go uh, good luck with that I guess?
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Cakefool posted:Deal with that loving avatar. Personally, I like the cartoon boobs, but I am admittedly a child inside.
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Raluek posted:I'm imagining it having a row of those flip-up cargo doors on the other side from the original bus. Seems practical. Yes. This exactly. Tommychu posted:I had parts of 17 models from 5 different makes in my Festiva by the time I was done. Yes, they are. There's a reason my '79 RX-7 in known as FrankenRex. It's a '79 chassis, but '84 suspension and brakes, '81, then '80 engine. '84 transmission. '84 seats. '81-5 power mirrors, and I don't know what all minor parts and such. Hopefully, it will have a later model engine soon. Probably later-model doors for the power windows. Whatever else happens to fit... Raluek posted:Speaking of rat and VW, what happened to that beetle with a fake gun turret and no front brakes? I loved the articulated skeleton-arm turn indicator on that.
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blk posted:Those of you with more cars than garage space - how do you determine which cars go in the garage? Just had a...discussion with the wife about this and am curious how other people do it. My wife wants to park her car in the garage, but between the broken car on one side, and the large tools (engine crane, engine stand) and leftover furniture and stuff, that's not happened. It was worse. I built a 10x20 shed and moved a lot of stuff out there, then built custom shelves on one side. Need to get rid of the furniture, sell the broken RX-7, then build shelves I that side, and the. She might be able to park (and I may be able to work on stuff in the garage rather than the sloped-just-enough-to-be-dangerous driveway.)
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Tusen Takk posted:I have not your father's root beer in the fridge and its taking so much willpower to not drink it all now instead of by myself this weekend Tried one of those and another brand of hard root beer at a room party at the con I was at last weekend (shut up, I'm a nerd - deal with it.) Mighty tasty. I didn't even know those were a thing. I hate bitter, so more than a little hops makes most beers unpleasant. I've been aiming toward ciders lately. Now I've got another choice.
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