Which is why I store semi-personal stuff on my work notebook in a TC volume. It ain't perfect, but it keeps the IT regulars out, and the one time I had to decrypt it for a legal issue, I did it for the company lawyer only, let him see the contents. It was determined that it was not pertinent to the discovery (Corp Vs Corp lawsuit) and that's all there was to it. -nB
I told my dog I was boss by pissing on it. (only half in jest). I did piss where he was allowed to, thus he was quicker to learn that marking the yard was ok, marking the house? not so much.
A good house dog will protect you when you're home, but likely retreat in the face of an intruder when no family is home. This is based on my experience where when I was horsing around with one of my friends and my friend got the better hand my dog bit him in the thigh (not too hard, but did break the skin) and held him till I "got away". Some years later when our house was broken into that same dog bolted and started barking like mad, but away from the intruder. The barks did alert neighbors, who chased the robber off, so big stuff was left behind, just money and jewelry was missing.
my brother's neighbor on one side has a Great Dane, and on the other there is a Saint Bernard. Both would lick you to death, the Bernard may also crush you... Neither will bite AFAICT, they are so friendly. My kids have taken pony rides on the Bernard.
True. We use deadbolts, and to deter the break glass, reach in approach, we have security glass mounted behind the door glass and screwed into the door. Use hurricane glass* for the regular windows. Doesn't look like a jail, but is quite secure. Finding hurricane glass in California was impossible though, so we had to special order it.
Doors are screwed into the studs, not just the door jamb.
-nB * for those not in the know: The glass is a laminate product that can stop a 90 MPH 2x4. I think that is sufficient to also stop a perp with a brick.
because HTML is broken. There is two spaces after the preceding period but you can not see them.Now you can because I used tags. (no you can't because/. is broken and does not render the tag properly...)
you have the option of setting it to zero and paying quarterly. That's what I've started doing to California since my last refund was several months late. -nB
I long for the days of that back. I work in high tech manuf... my group used to use excel and it sucked. This is after we used a *thin* webUI to enter test results. it wasn't shiney enough, so we migrated to HP's "Quality Center" but the server was at a different campus and it sucked. Then we moved to Clear Quest, also located on a different campus and DC. I'd rather be shot in the head. If you can get access to a TS on the same network as the CQ server, then life is good. If, however, you have to use the windows client... God help you, there are roughly 90 transactions for each test update, takes ~45 to 120 seconds per update depending on network congestion. Updating ~100 tests positively ruins your day. -nB
A cell phone contract will establish history in the US as well. Any contractual obligation over time whether pre or post paid (I.e. phone Vs. Car loan) will show up on your credit history. So does renting an apartment, paying facilities (gas, electric, cable, phone, etc.)
FWIW,
We have a potential wanderer. I hope that doesn't end up happening, but when we built the cottage for her we enclosed the front door *behind* the fence line, rather than in front. Padlock the garage doors and change the locks on the gates, presto, secure compound for our wanderer, should it come to that. As it is right now, she is just very forgetful. As long as she stays on her routine everything is fine (it's just like some of us geeks typing in our login. Couldn't tell you what it is, but if you put a keyboard in front of me I can type it).
This is most noticeable when she is doing part of her daily routine and the great grand kids interrupt her. Whatever it was either is left undone at whatever state it was, or is done over from the beginning. -nB
we are currently taking care of grandma. Built a cottage for her. Now my wife's dad is moving in with us for an undetermined length of time. While it is the right thing for us to do for our family, it is neither ideal or a walk in the park. We are hoping to find a house very local (within a block or two) for dad, so he can have his own space (and we can have ours), yet still be close enough to provide care. -nB
FWIW I've invested in a gelatin light source filter for E-4/E-6 slides. Allows me to add blue to the image in roughly == proportion to the magenta. Helps a lot.
I use a coolscan V-ED so no help on the scanner, sorry. If the images are purple (are you sure it's purple and not magenta?) but the slide looks fine to your eye then yes, you need to calibrate your scanner. If the slides also have that color hue, then they are not K14, they are E4 or E6 and you will need to correct the images themselves.
The way I would do this is to use a batch process that is "good enough" for the average slide (Imagemagick and perl come to mind) find a set of corrections and if you really want to put in some smarts...
As to scanning, I batch scan everything at a nominal resolution of about 1200dpi and then preview all the images briefly. The ones I want to keep at a higher quality get re-scanned at 4800dpi.
The whole lot gets run through the filter for white balance if they were E4 or E6 slides.
I've jettisoned CD and DVD archiving for space concerns. HDDs are vastly more dense storage. I still can't keep them all on all the time and maintain a full off-site backup, but for the important stuff, I do. The rest is stored in a chest of drawers in bin boxes.
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Which is why I store semi-personal stuff on my work notebook in a TC volume. It ain't perfect, but it keeps the IT regulars out, and the one time I had to decrypt it for a legal issue, I did it for the company lawyer only, let him see the contents. It was determined that it was not pertinent to the discovery (Corp Vs Corp lawsuit) and that's all there was to it.
-nB
then they will see ********** as that's all I see when I type in my pwd.
If it's my keyring pwd then its:
***** x 10(damn junk char filter)
-nB
I told my dog I was boss by pissing on it.
(only half in jest).
I did piss where he was allowed to, thus he was quicker to learn that marking the yard was ok, marking the house? not so much.
A good house dog will protect you when you're home, but likely retreat in the face of an intruder when no family is home. This is based on my experience where when I was horsing around with one of my friends and my friend got the better hand my dog bit him in the thigh (not too hard, but did break the skin) and held him till I "got away". Some years later when our house was broken into that same dog bolted and started barking like mad, but away from the intruder. The barks did alert neighbors, who chased the robber off, so big stuff was left behind, just money and jewelry was missing.
-nB
my brother's neighbor on one side has a Great Dane, and on the other there is a Saint Bernard. Both would lick you to death, the Bernard may also crush you... Neither will bite AFAICT, they are so friendly. My kids have taken pony rides on the Bernard.
True.
We use deadbolts, and to deter the break glass, reach in approach, we have security glass mounted behind the door glass and screwed into the door. Use hurricane glass* for the regular windows.
Doesn't look like a jail, but is quite secure. Finding hurricane glass in California was impossible though, so we had to special order it.
Doors are screwed into the studs, not just the door jamb.
-nB
* for those not in the know: The glass is a laminate product that can stop a 90 MPH 2x4. I think that is sufficient to also stop a perp with a brick.
+5 to intelligence, retard's favor.
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My dad got flagged for a pool. It was a blue tarp.
Responded as such and all was well.
-nB
True.
You can also set them substantially low, but not be short by more than $1K/qtr and you will be OK.
-nB
Actually,
A bit of anarchy would likely be healthy for the US about now.
Might get to re-build a saner government from the ashes...
you have the option of setting it to zero and paying quarterly.
That's what I've started doing to California since my last refund was several months late.
-nB
I long for the days of that back.
I work in high tech manuf...
my group used to use excel and it sucked.
This is after we used a *thin* webUI to enter test results. it wasn't shiney enough, so we migrated to HP's "Quality Center" but the server was at a different campus and it sucked. Then we moved to Clear Quest, also located on a different campus and DC.
I'd rather be shot in the head.
If you can get access to a TS on the same network as the CQ server, then life is good.
If, however, you have to use the windows client...
God help you, there are roughly 90 transactions for each test update, takes ~45 to 120 seconds per update depending on network congestion. Updating ~100 tests positively ruins your day.
-nB
A cell phone contract will establish history in the US as well.
Any contractual obligation over time whether pre or post paid (I.e. phone Vs. Car loan) will show up on your credit history. So does renting an apartment, paying facilities (gas, electric, cable, phone, etc.)
you are also a corner case...
It's also expensive as shit...
That said, it still may be worth it (and even a deactivated phone can call 911 on the US cell network).
-nB
FWIW,
We have a potential wanderer. I hope that doesn't end up happening, but when we built the cottage for her we enclosed the front door *behind* the fence line, rather than in front.
Padlock the garage doors and change the locks on the gates, presto, secure compound for our wanderer, should it come to that.
As it is right now, she is just very forgetful. As long as she stays on her routine everything is fine (it's just like some of us geeks typing in our login. Couldn't tell you what it is, but if you put a keyboard in front of me I can type it).
This is most noticeable when she is doing part of her daily routine and the great grand kids interrupt her. Whatever it was either is left undone at whatever state it was, or is done over from the beginning.
-nB
we are currently taking care of grandma. Built a cottage for her. Now my wife's dad is moving in with us for an undetermined length of time.
While it is the right thing for us to do for our family, it is neither ideal or a walk in the park.
We are hoping to find a house very local (within a block or two) for dad, so he can have his own space (and we can have ours), yet still be close enough to provide care.
-nB
I thought you were kidding so I went and looked:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Rocketfish%26%23153%3B+-+4'+Toslink+Optical+Cable/7832223.p?id=1142297086861&skuId=7832223
Damn...
FWIW I've invested in a gelatin light source filter for E-4/E-6 slides. Allows me to add blue to the image in roughly == proportion to the magenta. Helps a lot.
yes.
Because if the pictures are crap what was the point of paying to develop it?
I use a coolscan V-ED so no help on the scanner, sorry.
If the images are purple (are you sure it's purple and not magenta?) but the slide looks fine to your eye then yes, you need to calibrate your scanner.
If the slides also have that color hue, then they are not K14, they are E4 or E6 and you will need to correct the images themselves.
The way I would do this is to use a batch process that is "good enough" for the average slide (Imagemagick and perl come to mind) find a set of corrections and if you really want to put in some smarts...
As to scanning, I batch scan everything at a nominal resolution of about 1200dpi and then preview all the images briefly. The ones I want to keep at a higher quality get re-scanned at 4800dpi.
The whole lot gets run through the filter for white balance if they were E4 or E6 slides.
I'll bet you $1K (1000 or 1024, your choice) that those E-6 slides have already started turning magenta.
I save the RAW formats and a low res JPG.
Conveniently this is stored in a container file called TIFF.
TIFF can container most RAW formats, maintaining the RAW data with a fiarly simple (and loss-less) transform.
I've jettisoned CD and DVD archiving for space concerns.
HDDs are vastly more dense storage.
I still can't keep them all on all the time and maintain a full off-site backup, but for the important stuff, I do. The rest is stored in a chest of drawers in bin boxes.
HDD HDAs are not sealed.
There is a vent to allow equalization of pressure.