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  1. Re:Or, just don't get married. on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    I don't have to kill the cow to get the milk.

    [John]

  2. Re:Bigger question on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a configuration option when you newfs a file system. Man newfs or mkfs.

    [John]

  3. Monitoring Sucks on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 1

    The problem is the monitoring group is reluctant to make "custom" changes due to the size of the environment. OS and hardware level alerts are a pretty minor part of the overall monitoring environment in terms of the number of configuration changes required. With mirroring and system/geographic redundancy, we can wait until the morning status reports to identify systems before they get to critical.

    [John]

  4. Re:Human nature on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 1

    Yea, I got a troll mod for a 'man cave' comment. I read it and yea, I was being snarky so it was justified :)

    [John]

  5. Re:This is good on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    This was on Canyon just past the legal center and coming around the curve towards Broadway. There were no obvious signs and no indication of a police officer. I was tagged at 5 over and since I ride a motorcycle, I am very cautious, proactive, and aware of my surroundings. It is four lane with an island and I was in the left lane. I was next to an SUV and had scooted ahead of it briefly to be out of blind spots and visible to other turning traffic, and then slowed back down to the posted speed (35 I think, maybe 30). The camera took the pic from the right side so maybe he was parked in the Library parking lot.

    And yea, there is a sign upon entering Boulder. As I recall, it's fairly small and under or grouped with several other signs as you come around the curve and the road splits into 4 lanes.

    I honestly don't ride fast in town (ticket proving otherwise of course) and am generally very cautious and moderate in my riding. In 128,000 miles on my bike, I've only been pulled over twice. 57 in a 55 down in Arizona (warning) and passing on a double yellow near County Line and 7 by a Boulder County Sheriff (verbal warning).

    [John]

  6. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    287 in northern Colorado has stop lights and a 60 or 65mph limit depending on your location with stop lights (one has a reduce to 55 in the area of the light at Rt 52).

    [John]

  7. Re:This is good on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether they're identified. In Boulder Colorado, I was nabbed by a speed camera. I know the area where I generated the infraction and there was no notice, no sign, no nothing other than a letter a few weeks later.

    [John]

  8. Re:It's always been a myth on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend is a gamer; video type. She's done some casual social gaming but since we started dating last year, she's gotten into more complicated resource type games and role playing (she's playing an Indian in the Deadlands Reloaded game I referee).

    So still 50/50 but with 6 data points :)

    [John]

  9. Re:More feminist FUD on How Women Became Gamers Through D&D · · Score: 1

    Depends on the game I guess. I avoid the mindless Tetris and Candy Crush things but play Carmageddon, Risk, Ticket to Ride, and Small World on my Tablet and Phone. I have Doom and Wolfenstein 3D on the phone but the update to the iPhone 5 broke the controls :(

    [John]

  10. Re:German illegal? on How English Beat German As the Language of Science · · Score: 2

    Voyage of the Damned when almost 1,000 Jews were turned away from the US in 1939.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    [John]

  11. Re:Or, just don't get married. on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hey, why buy the cow when the milk is free?"

    (Yea I heard that from her relatives fairly often)

    [John]

  12. Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Ah, so just keep on doing what I'm doing now. Perfect, thanks.

    [John]

  13. Re:WHY are men trying to scare women away from gam on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    It's not the same guys. Don't attribute the bad behavior of a few sociopaths with the majority of guys who still enjoy the company of women. What's that hashtag? #notallmen

    [John]

  14. Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's the difference. I ignore trolls and will even leave a thread on a forum once it starts getting too weird. Are women escalating by responding, being too defensive? It's not hard to spin up some folks. Just mention any MRA type of comment and some women will step up and respond. Depending on how far you want to troll women, you can really get them going. It can work for me too. Posting inaccurate information will likely get a response from my trying to correct it. That's the thread weirdness I mentioned above. At a certain point, sometimes quickly, it'll get too trollish/weird and I'll ignore it and back off/out.

    [John]

  15. Re:Anonymity == being a schmuck for a good number. on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    How do you propose to fight back?

    [John]

  16. Re:What was automated? on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    I didn't know Aspergers was a synonym for "I just don't care". There's a difference between "meh" and "difficulty interacting socially".

    [John]

  17. Re: Mint on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    The problem is we have a mixed environment of Solaris, HP-UX, and even Tru64. Red Hat is newer. So we needed to use a Linux that worked with the existing infrastructure. Our software already worked with the main two we were using and even had a client for Tru64. When investigating possible Linux platforms we wanted OpenBSD first (I know, not linux but the Unix team is a fan) but no support. But of course we had to check the compatibilities of each of the agents we were using at the time. All worked with RHEL. That limits our choices quite a bit. :) Now it's momentum. We have 1,100 systems of which about half are RHEL and some CentOS. Even if the agents started being compatible across the board, we don't have the manpower to start support an even more diverse environment.

    [John]

  18. Re:If they are automating tech support, then good. on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    Relax, you have 5 more clones.

    [John5]

  19. Re:What was automated? on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    It's the constant conversation actually. "Did you see that [some sports thing] Sunday?! Go [sports team]!" or "Looks like it might snow, good for skiing, snowboarding, etc" or even "Happy Holidays!".

    There needs to be a "no talking" aisle.

    Oh wait, there is one. It's called 'Self Checkout'.

    [John]

  20. Re:What was automated? on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    Yea that too. Nothing like finding the canned goods packed in with the hotdog buns. The Wal*Mart folks actually do a much better job at bagging than the grocer weirdly enough.

    [John]

  21. Re:What was automated? on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    I think it's more of a bulkiness limit for me. More than 4 or 5 bags will have me looking at the checkouts. And yea, if there's a line at the self checkout that's 2 or 3 people per register deep, I'll go through a checkout even if it's longer.

    I don't go to Lowes. It's targeted to women shoppers with the store layout, more visual displays, and big box department store feel vs the warehouse DIY feel of Home Depot. Plus I'm not a fan of the "man playground" at the front of the Lowes. Makes me feel like I'm being dropped off by the wife while she shops.

    [John]

  22. Re:What was automated? on Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated · · Score: 1

    Meh. I don't mind the self-checkout lines. The fewer people I have to talk to, the better. Walk in, get what I want, scan and pay, walk out.

    [John]

  23. Re: Mint on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    Because infrastructure tools including some backup and monitoring agents only work with RHEL. I don't mind using different distros for my desktops (my right one is Ubuntu, left is Slackware, home is RHEL for cert study, coworker uses Mint) but when it's a server, I have to go with what's supported by various vendors and at the minimum, all support RHEL.

    With that said, some third party application vendors use different distros for their application. A recent one had their product working only on SUSE. When we said we couldn't support it from an infrastructure management point of view, the vendor said their next version will work with RHEL. I guess they are seeing what we do. If I can't manage the environment (1,100+ servers), I don't want your product.

    And to the developers, I personally don't care what your favorite distro is. When it comes into production, it must fit into the environment. We provide a standard supported distro. If you can't be arsed to check with us first, don't be surprised when we kick back your product pointing you to the standards document, and force you to ensure it works on RHEL.

    [John]

  24. Re:Unicomp on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made · · Score: 1

    The odd part is when I use squshy keyboards, I seem to make more spelling errors. I like my Model Ms and get folks commenting on them when I have a snazzy computer setup and a keyboard from 1989 :)

    [John]

  25. Re:Unicomp on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Mine have been working for over 20 years without apparently degrading.

    [John]