At my job we finished phasing out the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems from the network last year, the few Windows 8 tablets we have in test are Windows 8.1, and everything else is up-to-date with the latest patches. While the rest of the world burned, it was a quiet Friday as everyone took off for the weekend..
When a used car breaks down faster than you can fix it,
you're better off junking it than sinking more money into it. With the Pontiac Grand Prix, the alternator went out after replacing the fuel regulator, ignition switch and other stuff over a five-year period. Also, this was my father's old car. The car died six weeks after he died from throat cancer. I took it as a sign of karma and let the car go.
And then you'd fix it or die - depression is a way for humans to make major life changes.
Depression is a huge waste of time. You only die if you stop moving.
So yes, you do care what people think.
Not when it comes to cars.
[...] you can call them asshats [...]
I call people asshats because they're typically Anonymous Cowards who are anonymous and cowards (funny how those two go hand-in-hand), and who go out of their way to insult me. For example, I don't know how to fix a car beyond routine maintenance and I pay a mechanic for repairs. Why is it necessary to call me a "moron" and "dumb ass" repeatedly? Not everyone has the ability, the tools and the time to fix their own cars. I do have cash, so I pay a mechanic.
I suspect we will have a repeat of last night when I got a dozen negative comments from asshats in Ann Arbor, the one who uses https://nl.hideproxy.me/ when visiting my websites, and a few others who have nothing better to do late at night. As I told another asshat this morning, I never read such sorry butthurt in my life.
Can't help but notice you conspicuously didn't mention how long you continued driving the car after the idiot lights first came on.
After the head gasket blew and the piston broke, it was dead in the street. Workers from a nearby restaurant pushed the car out of traffic into a parking lot and I waited for a tow truck. My mechanic told me the bad news the next morning. I had it towed home to make arrangements with Pick-N-Pull. A week later it got towed to spare parts heavan.
Easier to do major repairs on, if you're into that.
When I explained to a coworker what happened to my Taurus, he told me that his Taurus had a blown head gasket but he replaced the entire engine for $200 used. Not something I would do personally. But that's $1,300 less than what my mechanic would charge for a head gasket replacement.
Now if you wren't a dumbass moron that actually knew something about car's you could have made money off that $1500 dollar car.
A vehicle to me is something that takes me from Point A to Point B. If it stops working, I get rid of it. Simple as that.
It's not an extension of manhood.
Your article link to a pickup truck on steroids clearly shows that you have a need to compensate for something.
You sound like a real moron that doesn't know how to maintain a car.
If I did my own repairs, I would be a moron.
Total cost for brakes and tires when you aren't a stupid dumbass like you. $596
Your estimate is a bit off. I got Michelin Defender tires that go for $128 each. A thingamabob between the steering wheel and axle that needed replacement (I don't remember what). And, oh yeah, labor.
You seem to have a knack for picking mediocre vehicles.
I pay $1,500 in cash for a car and the liability insurance is only $300 per year. If the car keels over in five years, I'm not going to cry about it.
I'm fortunate that my last car died just before I got my current job, as I have a doorstep-to-doorstep commute on public transit. I haven't bothered to get a replacement car in the last three years.
I liked that car. It was less problematic than my previous car, a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix that used to belong to my late father. Took me three years to find all the fixes that my father didn't tell me about and have my mechanic fixed them. Car lasted another two years before the alternator died. My mechanic refused to work on that one as it was a waste of money. Pick-N-Pull paid $250 for that one too.
The good news is the driver should be alerted to this problem by a instrument cluster warning light.
The last time all the lights appeared on the dashboard of my 1999 Ford Taurus the head gasket had blown and a piston broke inside engine. My mechanic refused to work on it as it was a waste of money. That was six months after I spent $1,500 on tires and brakes. Pick-N-Pull bought it for $250.
I had fond memories of the AMD Athlon 64 processor when it first came out. After owning a half-dozen Socket 7 processors and just as many motherboards, this one kicked ass and I had it for a long time. I didn't upgrade to a 64-bit version of Windows until Vista came out and I built a new system, jumping from dual- to quad- to eight-core in ten years.
[...] it was only patient rooms that still had analog.
My employment contracts prohibited me from being in an occupied patient room, which had the mobile workstations that connected to the wireless network. Never paid attention to the phones inside the patient rooms. I don't know if they were analog or VOIP.
The phones used in patient rooms had to be discarded after ever discharge because of fears of contamination, meaning that it was incredibly expensive to have a rotation of phones coming and going. This made it difficult to transition away from the old analog phone system that was in use.
Interesting. The few hospitals I've worked in for IT Support had VOIP phones that most workstations plugged into. We discarded old keyboards like the plague since studies have shown that they are dirtier than toilets and a hospital environment was probably a lot worse.
Sounds like the General VLAN got hit. Critical medical systems should be on a separate and restricted VLAN. I'm a bit surprised that VOIP phones weren't isolated from this.
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Hex editor? That worked back in the DOS days.
At my job we finished phasing out the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems from the network last year, the few Windows 8 tablets we have in test are Windows 8.1, and everything else is up-to-date with the latest patches. While the rest of the world burned, it was a quiet Friday as everyone took off for the weekend..
The alternator? Really?
When a used car breaks down faster than you can fix it, you're better off junking it than sinking more money into it. With the Pontiac Grand Prix, the alternator went out after replacing the fuel regulator, ignition switch and other stuff over a five-year period. Also, this was my father's old car. The car died six weeks after he died from throat cancer. I took it as a sign of karma and let the car go.
And then you'd fix it or die - depression is a way for humans to make major life changes.
Depression is a huge waste of time. You only die if you stop moving.
So yes, you do care what people think.
Not when it comes to cars.
[...] you can call them asshats [...]
I call people asshats because they're typically Anonymous Cowards who are anonymous and cowards (funny how those two go hand-in-hand), and who go out of their way to insult me. For example, I don't know how to fix a car beyond routine maintenance and I pay a mechanic for repairs. Why is it necessary to call me a "moron" and "dumb ass" repeatedly? Not everyone has the ability, the tools and the time to fix their own cars. I do have cash, so I pay a mechanic.
I suspect we will have a repeat of last night when I got a dozen negative comments from asshats in Ann Arbor, the one who uses https://nl.hideproxy.me/ when visiting my websites, and a few others who have nothing better to do late at night. As I told another asshat this morning, I never read such sorry butthurt in my life.
You could afford all of that on your $50k salary in the Bay Area?
Yes. I have a budget for routine maintenance and an emergency fund for $1,000+ repair bills.
Can't help but notice you conspicuously didn't mention how long you continued driving the car after the idiot lights first came on.
After the head gasket blew and the piston broke, it was dead in the street. Workers from a nearby restaurant pushed the car out of traffic into a parking lot and I waited for a tow truck. My mechanic told me the bad news the next morning. I had it towed home to make arrangements with Pick-N-Pull. A week later it got towed to spare parts heavan.
It's called a tyrod and is simple to repair for anyone that's not a stupid moron like you
No, asshat, that's a job I pay mechanic to do.
Can't reduce your manhood any lower than to drive a beat up old ugly Honda civic or Toyota Corolla.
As a driver I'm more concern about getting from Point A to Point B. I don't care what other people think of me and/or the car.
Easier to do major repairs on, if you're into that.
When I explained to a coworker what happened to my Taurus, he told me that his Taurus had a blown head gasket but he replaced the entire engine for $200 used. Not something I would do personally. But that's $1,300 less than what my mechanic would charge for a head gasket replacement.
Now if you wren't a dumbass moron that actually knew something about car's you could have made money off that $1500 dollar car.
A vehicle to me is something that takes me from Point A to Point B. If it stops working, I get rid of it. Simple as that. It's not an extension of manhood.
Your article link to a pickup truck on steroids clearly shows that you have a need to compensate for something.
You sound like a real moron that doesn't know how to maintain a car.
If I did my own repairs, I would be a moron.
Total cost for brakes and tires when you aren't a stupid dumbass like you. $596
Your estimate is a bit off. I got Michelin Defender tires that go for $128 each. A thingamabob between the steering wheel and axle that needed replacement (I don't remember what). And, oh yeah, labor.
Unless they trip, fall onto the pile, cannot get up, nobody sees them, and they die of dehydration a couple of days later.
You joke but such situations are not unheard of.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/s-f-hospital-orderly-stepped-woman-patient-discovered-dead-report-article-1.1492552
You seem to have a knack for picking mediocre vehicles.
I pay $1,500 in cash for a car and the liability insurance is only $300 per year. If the car keels over in five years, I'm not going to cry about it.
I'm fortunate that my last car died just before I got my current job, as I have a doorstep-to-doorstep commute on public transit. I haven't bothered to get a replacement car in the last three years.
1999 Ford Taurus. Found the problem
I liked that car. It was less problematic than my previous car, a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix that used to belong to my late father. Took me three years to find all the fixes that my father didn't tell me about and have my mechanic fixed them. Car lasted another two years before the alternator died. My mechanic refused to work on that one as it was a waste of money. Pick-N-Pull paid $250 for that one too.
We in the repair trade call those "Idiot lights", because if you rely on them you're an idiot.
You mean the check engine light? Whenever that light comes on, I open the hood and the engine is always there.
The good news is the driver should be alerted to this problem by a instrument cluster warning light.
The last time all the lights appeared on the dashboard of my 1999 Ford Taurus the head gasket had blown and a piston broke inside engine. My mechanic refused to work on it as it was a waste of money. That was six months after I spent $1,500 on tires and brakes. Pick-N-Pull bought it for $250.
Caveat: I do earn my living mostly with IT security these days.
That's what I do in government IT.
I had fond memories of the AMD Athlon 64 processor when it first came out. After owning a half-dozen Socket 7 processors and just as many motherboards, this one kicked ass and I had it for a long time. I didn't upgrade to a 64-bit version of Windows until Vista came out and I built a new system, jumping from dual- to quad- to eight-core in ten years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64#Single-core_Athlon_64
Everything in a hospital is critical.
Not necessarily. No patient will die if the cardboard baler goes on the fritz for a few days and a mountain of cardboard piles up in the trash area.
Write a blog post about it, bro.
No one wants to read about your butthurt. Go buy yourself some Lady Anti Monkey Butt Powder to sooth over the pain.
[...] it was only patient rooms that still had analog.
My employment contracts prohibited me from being in an occupied patient room, which had the mobile workstations that connected to the wireless network. Never paid attention to the phones inside the patient rooms. I don't know if they were analog or VOIP.
I got finished reading the replies to my comments that you asshats left last night. I've never read such sorry butthurt in my life. Sad.
The phones used in patient rooms had to be discarded after ever discharge because of fears of contamination, meaning that it was incredibly expensive to have a rotation of phones coming and going. This made it difficult to transition away from the old analog phone system that was in use.
Interesting. The few hospitals I've worked in for IT Support had VOIP phones that most workstations plugged into. We discarded old keyboards like the plague since studies have shown that they are dirtier than toilets and a hospital environment was probably a lot worse.
Sounds like the General VLAN got hit. Critical medical systems should be on a separate and restricted VLAN. I'm a bit surprised that VOIP phones weren't isolated from this.
Sounds like a marketing intern snuck the word "embrace" in as a joke.