Posted about this before - they make the best shit. I will try not to buy luggage from anyone else as long as they are in business. I've had my shoulder bag for 10 years, and the laptop/talmid for several with absolutley zero problems.
I've worked in bike shops for years(and hang out at them 4 fun now), and always in a university town, so I am definitely an expert in this area.
Don't lock a nice bike up on campus - period.
Don't ride your nice bike to class, the bar, etc. If you have a really nice bike and you lock it up at the dorms overnight - you WILL lose it. I know - talk to these people all the time.
Build up a functional but ugly bike to ride around. Make it something that looks geeky. Thieves will avoid it. They won't touch it if it's the bike equivalent of black glasses with a band-aid holding them together. Laugh if you want to, but you can be riding a comfortable sweet bike and not fear its theft. I have a different point of view since I can score bike shit for cheap, but I always ride a bike most folks would consider squirrely if I'm not keeping it inside. Thieves will usually take flash over class/comfort.
If you ride for pleasure/exercise, and have a nice bike, you shouldn't consider leaving it exposed - and never loan it out.
Try not to allow room for prying if you are using a U-lock.
Leave a lock at your usual destination if you think you will be too lazy to carry one with you.
Cheap cables are easily breached. Hell - ANY lock can be defeated if it's in a dimly lit place for a long enough period. If someone wants your bike, they WILL get it if it's left outside.
In what situation would a Raid-0 drive failure be recoverable? Raid-0 isn't the only possible configuration. Why the hell would you bother with raid-0 over then network, anyway? I bought one of these for a client that required push-button simplicity and data redundancy. Although expensive and a little slow on writes, this thing does the job well.
JANDD Computer Adaptable Pack (CAP) This also clips into their backpacks/briefcases. I've got this setup for work and I love it. The bags are of very high quality(had one for 12 years now - near daily use) and are functional as hell.
..and I'm finally back in an office. I never realized how much I enjoyed having to go in to the office until I didn't have to for 2 years.
However, working from home is pretty sweet, too. You just have to make a point of enjoying things a normal office worker can't. For example: Get up late/early. Don't bathe unless you or your spouse can't stand your stench. Take 2 hour breaks to go mess around - or run errands while everyone is working(really makes me feel better).
As far as human interaction, I didn't have much problem with that. I just went to the local coffee shop or hung out with my slacker friends when I could. My big issue was the lack of fellow tech folks to learn from/chat with. Maybe online forums can help with this. When I do it again, I will make it a point to go to user group meetings, volunteer someplace, or get involved with some other activity I normally wouldn't be into just for the interaction component.
Otherwise, your setup is sweet.
crap_on_you
My point was really that if you can consider yourself a member of any group, you become susceptible to the dangers of their groupthink - even if your similar beliefs were arrived at independently.
Libertarian/Democrat/Republican, etc. are all crappy and ultimately unimportant labels. If you can't consider yourself some mixture of all 3 + more then you are already a victim of groupthink. People feel some need to rely on belonging to a particular political party and voting that way when all are both good and evil depending on the particular situation and/or point of reference.
Ultimately it's much better to just think for yourself.
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Totally crap_on_you.
Posted about this before - they make the best shit. I will try not to buy luggage from anyone else as long as they are in business. I've had my shoulder bag for 10 years, and the laptop/talmid for several with absolutley zero problems.
I've worked in bike shops for years(and hang out at them 4 fun now), and always in a university town, so I am definitely an expert in this area.
Don't lock a nice bike up on campus - period.
Don't ride your nice bike to class, the bar, etc. If you have a really nice bike and you lock it up at the dorms overnight - you WILL lose it. I know - talk to these people all the time.
Build up a functional but ugly bike to ride around. Make it something that looks geeky. Thieves will avoid it. They won't touch it if it's the bike equivalent of black glasses with a band-aid holding them together. Laugh if you want to, but you can be riding a comfortable sweet bike and not fear its theft. I have a different point of view since I can score bike shit for cheap, but I always ride a bike most folks would consider squirrely if I'm not keeping it inside. Thieves will usually take flash over class/comfort.
If you ride for pleasure/exercise, and have a nice bike, you shouldn't consider leaving it exposed - and never loan it out.
Try not to allow room for prying if you are using a U-lock.
Leave a lock at your usual destination if you think you will be too lazy to carry one with you.
Cheap cables are easily breached. Hell - ANY lock can be defeated if it's in a dimly lit place for a long enough period. If someone wants your bike, they WILL get it if it's left outside.
In what situation would a Raid-0 drive failure be recoverable? Raid-0 isn't the only possible configuration. Why the hell would you bother with raid-0 over then network, anyway?
I bought one of these for a client that required push-button simplicity and data redundancy. Although expensive and a little slow on writes, this thing does the job well.
crap_on_you
JANDD Computer Adaptable Pack (CAP)
This also clips into their backpacks/briefcases.
I've got this setup for work and I love it. The bags are of very high quality(had one for 12 years now - near daily use) and are functional as hell.
Crap on you.
..and I'm finally back in an office. I never realized how much I enjoyed having to go in to the office until I didn't have to for 2 years.
However, working from home is pretty sweet, too. You just have to make a point of enjoying things a normal office worker can't. For example: Get up late/early. Don't bathe unless you or your spouse can't stand your stench. Take 2 hour breaks to go mess around - or run errands while everyone is working(really makes me feel better).
As far as human interaction, I didn't have much problem with that. I just went to the local coffee shop or hung out with my slacker friends when I could. My big issue was the lack of fellow tech folks to learn from/chat with. Maybe online forums can help with this. When I do it again, I will make it a point to go to user group meetings, volunteer someplace, or get involved with some other activity I normally wouldn't be into just for the interaction component.
Otherwise, your setup is sweet.
crap_on_you
My point was really that if you can consider yourself a member of any group, you become susceptible to the dangers of their groupthink - even if your similar beliefs were arrived at independently.
Libertarian/Democrat/Republican, etc. are all crappy and ultimately unimportant labels. If you can't consider yourself some mixture of all 3 + more then you are already a victim of groupthink. People feel some need to rely on belonging to a particular political party and voting that way when all are both good and evil depending on the particular situation and/or point of reference.
Ultimately it's much better to just think for yourself.
Both liberals and conservatives are groupthinkers unlike us intelligent libertarians
To think, along with a group, that groupthink is unintelligent is still groupthink, I think.
Crap_On_You