Sorry, you're misunderstanding. I read 5 main stream "papers" somewhat regularly (WashPost, NYTimes, DenverPost, BBC World News, LATimes) and pop in to NPR, Politico, and CNN now and then. I occasionally pop into other sites through redirection. I don't listen to talk radio at all or watch TV (or listen to the radio at all actually).
These all appear to be Main Steam Media and are biased (as everything is of course which is why I do follow the different sites listed).
I'm not adverse to checking out other sites for news but if MSM isn't the right place to catch the news, what is? What sites do you read or follow?
I'm not sure how helpful this is. I subscribe to and read several news sites to try and get information from different angles. When I find these sites all provide similar information, I see no reason not to believe them. But if all news sites are liberally biased then what?
Yep, me too. I used them originally for access to my home system. When I migrated to an external hosted site, I kept them. Time to hunt for a different solution.
Where do you get your unbiased news? I'm honestly curious and have been posting the same question in various places as quite a lot of people, including Trump, complain that main stream media and fact checking sites have a liberal bias.
Worse are the folks who use Facebook for "headline news + summary" and don't even read the articles or follow up to fact check, just forward it. It's worse than back in the 90's when all my relatives would forward these chain emails with "coke will dissolve a steak over night!!!11!!1!!" spam. I'd send them to Snopes but eventually they'd just stop sending me the crap. Can't do that now because Snopes, factcheck.org, and other such sites are Liberal Shills (tm).
I was a Senior System Administrator for quite some time here (almost 8 years) but 2 years back, the organization moved to 'Plan, Build, Run' where I was slotted into the 'Build' team. As a result Administrator was switched out for Engineer. I'm not on call any more, don't work admin tickets, and basically provide next level support to the Run folks. The server build aspect of my previous title followed me to the Build team and now I pretty much attend meetings (20 hours worth most weeks), review and fix shitty documentation from the Software Engineers, and build servers.
At least in Colorado back in 2008 a law was enacted to make it illegal to discipline employees who discuss pay. It's still not something that's casually discussed but it's actually illegal to take action against an employee for doing it.
Yea, I dropped it after a few years back in 2011, but 2 years back the company brought in all new management from CEO down quite a bit and new boss was a real pain in the ass. I toughed it out and he's gone and yea, I get a crap-ton of recruiter spam for both sides. I managed Windows NT way way back in the mid 90's and I still get recruiter garbage for admining Windows systems even though I've managed Unix systems since 97.
Jeeze guys, the point isn't what the company calls me, it's that Linkedin either doesn't recognize the title which isn't surprising in that I've had quite a few odd titles over the years, but that it doesn't provide suggestions or a drop down select list of acceptable titles. It just says "wrong, guess again..."
I tried the Linkin one last night and since it didn't have a drop down menu for the job title, I entered in mine only to be told it was not a valid title. I tried a few different permutations and none were accepted.
Sr Systems Engineer Senior Systems Engineer Systems Engineer
A quick read of the Times (first hit on this), the woman providing the question was a member of the DNC on leave from CNN and it's about a debate back in March against other Democratic candidates not the most recent one between Trump and Hillary. And since we only have the leaks from Hillary's guy, I don't know that the woman didn't present it or other questions to Bernie or the others in the debate.
Yea, I looked over moving my personal physical server over to an AWS instance and the cost of AWS for an equivalent system was double what I'm paying for a physical system.
What I'd really need to do is take what I have on this system and start reviewing the costs of putting the bits in various services on the 'net. It's possible I can have it cost less by splitting up what I do but it would certainly complicate managing the environment.
Yea, I get that when I "dock" my MBP and want to use the wireless keyboard when it's paired to the iPad. I generally just disable bluetooth on the iPad to break the pairing and then it pairs with the MBP.
That doesn't parse with the rest of what you said. I'm no xenophobe. I do know that it costs less to live in Manila than it does to live in Denver. Based on the chart, a _lot_ less. So $20,000 goes a lot farther in Manila than it does in Denver. If I lived in Manila, I could get by on $20,000. In Denver that's not going to happen.
But I'm not sure where you got the idea that I or the guys where I work are "xenophobes".
Yea, the software dev manager here was complaining because he needed a new programmer for a project. I jokingly said I could code and he replied that I wouldn't take $20,000 a year but he could contract someone in the Philippines for $20,000 a year. I make quite a bit more than $20,000 but the cost of living is also a lot higher than in Manila.
Indices Difference Consumer Prices in Denver, CO are 88.95% higher than in Manila Consumer Prices Including Rent in Denver, CO are 127.23% higher than in Manila Rent Prices in Denver, CO are 243.15% higher than in Manila Restaurant Prices in Denver, CO are 198.53% higher than in Manila Groceries Prices in Denver, CO are 97.02% higher than in Manila Local Purchasing Power in Denver, CO is 175.43% higher than in Manila
This was new hardware and I'd held back in buying a Sound Blaster because many folks say the on board audio is actually good enough for most things. My gaming isn't high end craziness with a need for super sound determination. Rocksmith, Carmageddon, and Doom are the extent, at least for the moment. I certainly won't be getting others until this gets sorted.
Too many problems with the upgrade on my Windows 7 system and as I built (and upgraded a couple of times) it in 2008, I went ahead and built a new system.
Computer Case: Thermaltake LEVEL 10 GT, White Power Supply: EVGA Supernova 850 watt G2 80 Plus Gold Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII Hero CPU: Intel 4 Core i7-6700K CPU Cooler: Corsair H90 (Hydro 90; Water based cooler) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC2666 (4x8G: 32GB) Video: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G (2x) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO (500GB SSD) (Boot disk) Storage: Seagate 2TB Internal Desktop Hard Drive- 3.5" Form Factor, SATA III 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache (x2) Monitor: Wasabi Mango UHD430 Real 4K HDMI 2.0 SE 43 LG AH-IPS Panel UHD 3840×2160 Displayport 1.2 43-Inch 10Bit Monitor Monitor: Acer G235H (2x) Keyboard: IBM Model M (1986) Mouse: Logitech Wireless Trackball M570 WebCam: Logitech WebCam Pro 9000 Speakers: Logitech X-540 OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Blu-Ray: LG Black Blu-ray Disc Drive SATA Model UH12NS30
The main issue is the sound buzzes if something plays that is running in shared space such as YouTube, iTunes, or the Windows Video Player. The buzzing coincides with the system pausing as if the issue is taking full control of the system. In games that take over control of the sound, no buzzing.
I checked out the 'net and tried pretty much everything suggested with no success. But everything seemed to point to the Realtec on board sound. My old system had a Soundblaster X-Fi which had problems with the Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7. Realtec points to the motherboard vendor for drivers and the Republic of Gamers folks seem to keep the system updated pretty often.
I'll also note that the 5.1 sound system doesn't work either. Just two speakers function regardless of the setting.
Finally I sprung for a SoundBlaster X card. I installed it and the drivers and voices sound muted but music is clear. Then I updated to the drivers from last week and it reversed. Voices are clear but music is muted. I even disabled the Realtec on board sound at the BIOS. No change.
Eventually I simply disabled the SoundBlaster card, enabled the Realtec, and at least games work.
With the Windows Anniversary download that just was installed, now there's buzzing and the pause in games which now kills the experience.
I'm going to poke at the drivers a bit more and then maybe roll back and maybe roll all the way back to Windows 7 on the new system.
The current discussion is a password change for our DMZ servers every 30 days. The mid zone servers are currently every 60 days. And corporate accounts are set to 90 days.
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Thanks for the input, Comrade.
Sorry, you're misunderstanding. I read 5 main stream "papers" somewhat regularly (WashPost, NYTimes, DenverPost, BBC World News, LATimes) and pop in to NPR, Politico, and CNN now and then. I occasionally pop into other sites through redirection. I don't listen to talk radio at all or watch TV (or listen to the radio at all actually).
These all appear to be Main Steam Media and are biased (as everything is of course which is why I do follow the different sites listed).
I'm not adverse to checking out other sites for news but if MSM isn't the right place to catch the news, what is? What sites do you read or follow?
[John]
I'm not sure how helpful this is. I subscribe to and read several news sites to try and get information from different angles. When I find these sites all provide similar information, I see no reason not to believe them. But if all news sites are liberally biased then what?
[John]
Yep, me too. I used them originally for access to my home system. When I migrated to an external hosted site, I kept them. Time to hunt for a different solution.
[John]
Where do you get your unbiased news? I'm honestly curious and have been posting the same question in various places as quite a lot of people, including Trump, complain that main stream media and fact checking sites have a liberal bias.
[John]
If every news organization publishes fake news, how do you make sure you're getting accurate unbiased news?
[John]
Worse are the folks who use Facebook for "headline news + summary" and don't even read the articles or follow up to fact check, just forward it. It's worse than back in the 90's when all my relatives would forward these chain emails with "coke will dissolve a steak over night!!!11!!1!!" spam. I'd send them to Snopes but eventually they'd just stop sending me the crap. Can't do that now because Snopes, factcheck.org, and other such sites are Liberal Shills (tm).
[John]
Wait, that's what Trump said he was going to do. Now I'm puzzled. Are we expecting him to lie about what he wanted to do in the first 100 days?
[John]
I was a Senior System Administrator for quite some time here (almost 8 years) but 2 years back, the organization moved to 'Plan, Build, Run' where I was slotted into the 'Build' team. As a result Administrator was switched out for Engineer. I'm not on call any more, don't work admin tickets, and basically provide next level support to the Run folks. The server build aspect of my previous title followed me to the Build team and now I pretty much attend meetings (20 hours worth most weeks), review and fix shitty documentation from the Software Engineers, and build servers.
[John]
At least in Colorado back in 2008 a law was enacted to make it illegal to discipline employees who discuss pay. It's still not something that's casually discussed but it's actually illegal to take action against an employee for doing it.
[John]
Yea, I dropped it after a few years back in 2011, but 2 years back the company brought in all new management from CEO down quite a bit and new boss was a real pain in the ass. I toughed it out and he's gone and yea, I get a crap-ton of recruiter spam for both sides. I managed Windows NT way way back in the mid 90's and I still get recruiter garbage for admining Windows systems even though I've managed Unix systems since 97.
[John]
Jeeze guys, the point isn't what the company calls me, it's that Linkedin either doesn't recognize the title which isn't surprising in that I've had quite a few odd titles over the years, but that it doesn't provide suggestions or a drop down select list of acceptable titles. It just says "wrong, guess again..."
[John]
I tried the Linkin one last night and since it didn't have a drop down menu for the job title, I entered in mine only to be told it was not a valid title. I tried a few different permutations and none were accepted.
Sr Systems Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
So much for that.
[John]
A quick read of the Times (first hit on this), the woman providing the question was a member of the DNC on leave from CNN and it's about a debate back in March against other Democratic candidates not the most recent one between Trump and Hillary. And since we only have the leaks from Hillary's guy, I don't know that the woman didn't present it or other questions to Bernie or the others in the debate.
[John]
Heck, he may have just failed to pay his ISP for this month.
[John]
Yea, I looked over moving my personal physical server over to an AWS instance and the cost of AWS for an equivalent system was double what I'm paying for a physical system.
What I'd really need to do is take what I have on this system and start reviewing the costs of putting the bits in various services on the 'net. It's possible I can have it cost less by splitting up what I do but it would certainly complicate managing the environment.
[John]
Yea, I get that when I "dock" my MBP and want to use the wireless keyboard when it's paired to the iPad. I generally just disable bluetooth on the iPad to break the pairing and then it pairs with the MBP.
[John]
"Xenophobes"?
That doesn't parse with the rest of what you said. I'm no xenophobe. I do know that it costs less to live in Manila than it does to live in Denver. Based on the chart, a _lot_ less. So $20,000 goes a lot farther in Manila than it does in Denver. If I lived in Manila, I could get by on $20,000. In Denver that's not going to happen.
But I'm not sure where you got the idea that I or the guys where I work are "xenophobes".
[John]
Yea, the software dev manager here was complaining because he needed a new programmer for a project. I jokingly said I could code and he replied that I wouldn't take $20,000 a year but he could contract someone in the Philippines for $20,000 a year. I make quite a bit more than $20,000 but the cost of living is also a lot higher than in Manila.
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-...
Indices Difference
Consumer Prices in Denver, CO are 88.95% higher than in Manila
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Denver, CO are 127.23% higher than in Manila
Rent Prices in Denver, CO are 243.15% higher than in Manila
Restaurant Prices in Denver, CO are 198.53% higher than in Manila
Groceries Prices in Denver, CO are 97.02% higher than in Manila
Local Purchasing Power in Denver, CO is 175.43% higher than in Manila
[John]
Thought maybe it was the Wireless Mouse but removing it and plugging in my USB mouse didn't fix the problem.
[John]
It only seems to be an option for the Network interface but I've disabled it an the 'Wake on LAN' setting. We'll see...
[John]
This was new hardware and I'd held back in buying a Sound Blaster because many folks say the on board audio is actually good enough for most things. My gaming isn't high end craziness with a need for super sound determination. Rocksmith, Carmageddon, and Doom are the extent, at least for the moment. I certainly won't be getting others until this gets sorted.
[John]
Too many problems with the upgrade on my Windows 7 system and as I built (and upgraded a couple of times) it in 2008, I went ahead and built a new system.
Computer Case: Thermaltake LEVEL 10 GT, White
Power Supply: EVGA Supernova 850 watt G2 80 Plus Gold
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII Hero
CPU: Intel 4 Core i7-6700K
CPU Cooler: Corsair H90 (Hydro 90; Water based cooler)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC2666 (4x8G: 32GB)
Video: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G (2x)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO (500GB SSD) (Boot disk)
Storage: Seagate 2TB Internal Desktop Hard Drive- 3.5" Form Factor, SATA III 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache (x2)
Monitor: Wasabi Mango UHD430 Real 4K HDMI 2.0 SE 43 LG AH-IPS Panel UHD 3840×2160 Displayport 1.2 43-Inch 10Bit Monitor
Monitor: Acer G235H (2x)
Keyboard: IBM Model M (1986)
Mouse: Logitech Wireless Trackball M570
WebCam: Logitech WebCam Pro 9000
Speakers: Logitech X-540
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Blu-Ray: LG Black Blu-ray Disc Drive SATA Model UH12NS30
The main issue is the sound buzzes if something plays that is running in shared space such as YouTube, iTunes, or the Windows Video Player. The buzzing coincides with the system pausing as if the issue is taking full control of the system. In games that take over control of the sound, no buzzing.
I checked out the 'net and tried pretty much everything suggested with no success. But everything seemed to point to the Realtec on board sound. My old system had a Soundblaster X-Fi which had problems with the Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7. Realtec points to the motherboard vendor for drivers and the Republic of Gamers folks seem to keep the system updated pretty often.
I'll also note that the 5.1 sound system doesn't work either. Just two speakers function regardless of the setting.
Finally I sprung for a SoundBlaster X card. I installed it and the drivers and voices sound muted but music is clear. Then I updated to the drivers from last week and it reversed. Voices are clear but music is muted. I even disabled the Realtec on board sound at the BIOS. No change.
Eventually I simply disabled the SoundBlaster card, enabled the Realtec, and at least games work.
With the Windows Anniversary download that just was installed, now there's buzzing and the pause in games which now kills the experience.
I'm going to poke at the drivers a bit more and then maybe roll back and maybe roll all the way back to Windows 7 on the new system.
[John]
The current discussion is a password change for our DMZ servers every 30 days. The mid zone servers are currently every 60 days. And corporate accounts are set to 90 days.
[John]
Unless you're on a motorcycle :D
[John]