Surely they could set up a corporation to own the house [...]
Transferring the deed into a corporation would trigger the on call clause in the mortgage to pay off the bank immediately. A better method is to transfer the deed into a land (or grantor) trust, and then transfer the ownership interest to the corporation. However, these are asset protection strategies that my brother and his wife would never consider. Since the house is in California, they probably don't want to pay the annual $800 minimum franchise tax.
But after the second or third time a driver update broke it, you should've at that point began to decline the driver updates
I did. Ubuntu still saw that I had Nvidia video installed in the system and managed to hose the installation anyway. I don't know if this process got any better since 2010, but this was a PITA at the time I was using it.
you said it was a file server, right? You don't need the latest gfx drivers for that.
This was my only Linux box at the time. Recruiters told me I needed to Linux GUI experience on my resume. The problem with that was I prefer minimalist windows managers to open terminal and web browser windows, what recruiters really wanted was Red Hat GUI experience as specified on their requirement checklist, and all my work experience to date was command line Linux. After I switched over to FreeNAS in 2010, I stopped worrying about Linux and/or Red Hat GUI experience. The only Linux flavors I mess around with these days are Linux From Scratch at home and Fedora at work.
I used the wrong tool for the job, therefore it sucks.
Please explain what "tool" I should use to turn an old PC with a Nvidia video card into a file server underneath my desk at home?
From 1997 to 2010, I've used Linux and SAMBA. Every now and then, the installation got hosed. In the early days, it was compiling the kernel the wrong way. With Ubuntu, it was the video drive upgrade for the Nvidia card and happened so frequently that I had the installation steps memorized.
From 2010, I've used FreeNAS. A USB stick would go bad and hosed the installation from time to time. Formatting a new USB stick, installing FreeNAS and copying over the backup config file took five minutes.
Nouveau should be fine or even just the vesa driver.
I don't know if that was an option five to ten years ago.
I could say why do you even need a video card on a server, but I guess some folk prefer that to using ssh or a serial connection from a laptop
If the installation got hosed from the video update, SSH wasn't going to work. The only way to diagnose and reinstall Ubuntu was with the video plug. Keep in mind that this was an old PC underneath my desk at home.
My guess is that you were not witness to the event, but heard it from your angry sister-in-law who embellished the case to make him look even worse.
I heard the story from my brother. The motorcycle officer got lined up behind him in his side-view mirror to pull him over for speeding when the cigarette butt flew out the window. My brother is very good at getting into "fuck me" moments.
I used to use Ubuntu for my file server. Since the desktop motherboard didn't have a built-in video, I used an old Nvidia video card to configure the installation. Every time Ubuntu did an automatic upgrade of the video driver, it hosed the installation and I would have reinstall. I switched over to FreeNAS five years ago and haven't looked back. I've rebuilt my server box last year to meet the beefier hardware requirements for ZFS. Bad things will have if you run ZFS on less than adequate hardware.
And why is this woman still married to this douchebag?
They bought a house together with the down payment borrowed from her retirement account. Until the mortgage is no longer underwater and real estate prices are skyrocketing again in Silicon Valley, they can't sell the house to have money for retirement. So they're stuck with each other until circumstances changes.
Or did you mean the wife can start texting and calling him, distracting him even more than he already is?
He's not distracted when tossing a cigarette butt out the window. He's doing it on purpose because it's his goddamn right as a smoker. And he's still piss off that he can't drive down the freeway with an open can of beer between his legs.
Do you have a teen driver in your household and want to know every time they get a little overzealous with the accelerator?
My older brother, soon to be 59.5-years-old this year, needs this. When he smokes inside the truck, he's usually speeding and chucking a cigarette butt out the window on the freeway. One year he got pulled over by a motorcycle officer, who picked up the cigarette butt that landed in his lap and asked my brother if that was his cigarette butt. Thousands of dollars in fines, he still can't kick the habit.
I know many guys like my older brother working in Silicon Valley. They're always one paycheck away from going broke because they have to live the American Dream and keep up with the Joneses in the outward appearance of wealth.
People consider you poor because it takes 40% of your income to pay for some tiny studio apartment.
My older brother must be rich. He and his wife make $100,000 per year. They own a three-bedroom home with an underwater mortgage, a car and two trucks, and a closet full of $200 designer jeans. About 50% of their income goes to the mortgage and paying back the loan for the down payment from the wife's retirement account. They can't retire because they can't refinance the mortgage. If my brother stops working and takes Social Security this year, they will have to file for bankruptcy.
Nobody said you couldn't be happy and poor, but you're poor all the same.
If I'm considered to be poor even though I'm putting 20% away in savings and retirement, I guess the minimum wage workers who ride the express bus — their company provide $140 bus pass for free as part of a county-wide transit program — are screwed.
So how does management know that they are real workers?
Some idiot got caught working from home for a half-dozen companies and outsourcing his work Chinese workers. One company became suspicious when they noticed in the log files that he was logging in from China while browsing the Internet from his cubicle when he came into work.
Oh yes, like Santa Clara High School where only 31% of the students are proficient in mathematics....
That's nothing. I was diagnosed as mentally retarded from an undiagnosed hearing lost, routinely blew out the annual evaluations on the genius side (those were "statistical flukes"), and got treated like a useful idiot for eight years. I skipped high school, enrolled at the community college, and got my associate degree in four years (two years for accelerated remedial classes and two years for regular coursework).
If that's the new American Dream, I'm off to achieve something better.
The American Dream is to have it all no matter what the cost. I've chosen to ignore it by dealing with life on my own terms. Some people think I'm settling for less, other people think I'm poor. So what?
I can get all that in Sacramento, except the for the job. Housing is cheap there because the jobs and the workers disappeared after the air force base shut down in 2001. While the local government is renovating the base as a future tech development, I haven't seen it take off.
The downside (if you see it as one)...politics are a whole lot more on the conservative side than out in Silly Valley.
If I want to get into lily white politics, I'll move to the Central Valley.
People see the physical address and know we must at least be somewhat successful.
A law firm moved into a new office building with high visibility from the freeway in East Palo Alto (i.e., the ghetto of Silicon Valley). The people in East Palo Alto were proud of this development that could improve the city's reputation and fortunes. Until they discovered that the law firm listed Palo Alto (i.e., the rich city next door) on the building and in advertisements. Not sure if that ever gotten straighten out.
Depends on what commute you want - that sounds quite high, unless you're close to SF, or in one of the fancy neighborhoods.
Luxury apartments are quite popular in Silicon Valley. My apartment complex was built in the late 1960's and looked like a 1960's housing project when I moved in ten years ago. The original owner put the complex up for sale eight years ago. Since then we had four corporate owners trying to turn the complex into "luxury" apartments. This often meant a coat paint on the buildings and new landscaping. The current corporate owner is renovating the apartments to justify the higher rents.
SF is nuts, but I've never understood why anyone would want to live there.
I'm told that the clubbing scene for the young and the restless hipsters is much better in San Francisco.
I'm not saying you are living too lavish of a lifestyle, but you seem to harbor some resentment for people "wasting" money on luxuries.
There are two sides in my family, both responding to the Great Depression and World War II. One side lives a modest lifestyle, including the proverbial three-foot ball of aluminum foil saved during the war. The other side lives an luxurious lifestyle, spending every paycheck and going into debt. My father and I are quite content to live modest lifestyles, and could care less about the what the world thinks. My mother and older brother were never happy with their luxurious lifestyles, as someone else always had it much better than them.
All the while you are "wasting" money on high rents because what you desire the luxury of living in the same area you grew up in.
The alternative is move out to Sacramento or the Central Valley for cheaper housing, but spend the difference of my "high rents" on gas and time to commute from the boonies. I rather enjoy the "luxury" of picking up the express bus from my front door step, read the Wall Street Journal, and be in Palo Alto within an hour.
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Surely they could set up a corporation to own the house [...]
Transferring the deed into a corporation would trigger the on call clause in the mortgage to pay off the bank immediately. A better method is to transfer the deed into a land (or grantor) trust, and then transfer the ownership interest to the corporation. However, these are asset protection strategies that my brother and his wife would never consider. Since the house is in California, they probably don't want to pay the annual $800 minimum franchise tax.
But after the second or third time a driver update broke it, you should've at that point began to decline the driver updates
I did. Ubuntu still saw that I had Nvidia video installed in the system and managed to hose the installation anyway. I don't know if this process got any better since 2010, but this was a PITA at the time I was using it.
you said it was a file server, right? You don't need the latest gfx drivers for that.
This was my only Linux box at the time. Recruiters told me I needed to Linux GUI experience on my resume. The problem with that was I prefer minimalist windows managers to open terminal and web browser windows, what recruiters really wanted was Red Hat GUI experience as specified on their requirement checklist, and all my work experience to date was command line Linux. After I switched over to FreeNAS in 2010, I stopped worrying about Linux and/or Red Hat GUI experience. The only Linux flavors I mess around with these days are Linux From Scratch at home and Fedora at work.
I used the wrong tool for the job, therefore it sucks.
Please explain what "tool" I should use to turn an old PC with a Nvidia video card into a file server underneath my desk at home?
From 1997 to 2010, I've used Linux and SAMBA. Every now and then, the installation got hosed. In the early days, it was compiling the kernel the wrong way. With Ubuntu, it was the video drive upgrade for the Nvidia card and happened so frequently that I had the installation steps memorized.
From 2010, I've used FreeNAS. A USB stick would go bad and hosed the installation from time to time. Formatting a new USB stick, installing FreeNAS and copying over the backup config file took five minutes.
Nouveau should be fine or even just the vesa driver.
I don't know if that was an option five to ten years ago.
I could say why do you even need a video card on a server, but I guess some folk prefer that to using ssh or a serial connection from a laptop
If the installation got hosed from the video update, SSH wasn't going to work. The only way to diagnose and reinstall Ubuntu was with the video plug. Keep in mind that this was an old PC underneath my desk at home.
My guess is that you were not witness to the event, but heard it from your angry sister-in-law who embellished the case to make him look even worse.
I heard the story from my brother. The motorcycle officer got lined up behind him in his side-view mirror to pull him over for speeding when the cigarette butt flew out the window. My brother is very good at getting into "fuck me" moments.
I used to use Ubuntu for my file server. Since the desktop motherboard didn't have a built-in video, I used an old Nvidia video card to configure the installation. Every time Ubuntu did an automatic upgrade of the video driver, it hosed the installation and I would have reinstall. I switched over to FreeNAS five years ago and haven't looked back. I've rebuilt my server box last year to meet the beefier hardware requirements for ZFS. Bad things will have if you run ZFS on less than adequate hardware.
And why is this woman still married to this douchebag?
They bought a house together with the down payment borrowed from her retirement account. Until the mortgage is no longer underwater and real estate prices are skyrocketing again in Silicon Valley, they can't sell the house to have money for retirement. So they're stuck with each other until circumstances changes.
Wife can already do that if she's in the truck.
He doesn't smoke when she's in the truck.
Or did you mean the wife can start texting and calling him, distracting him even more than he already is?
He's not distracted when tossing a cigarette butt out the window. He's doing it on purpose because it's his goddamn right as a smoker. And he's still piss off that he can't drive down the freeway with an open can of beer between his legs.
I'm confused on how this tracking device would help your brother slow down or quit smoking.
Wife can start a nag-a-thon while he's driving.
Do you have a teen driver in your household and want to know every time they get a little overzealous with the accelerator?
My older brother, soon to be 59.5-years-old this year, needs this. When he smokes inside the truck, he's usually speeding and chucking a cigarette butt out the window on the freeway. One year he got pulled over by a motorcycle officer, who picked up the cigarette butt that landed in his lap and asked my brother if that was his cigarette butt. Thousands of dollars in fines, he still can't kick the habit.
Rather akin to a paramedic cheering whenever there's a natural disaster.
More like whack-a-mole on Ground Hog Day.
I love job security. Bring it on, Microsoft!
Clearly your brother has made himself poor too.
I know many guys like my older brother working in Silicon Valley. They're always one paycheck away from going broke because they have to live the American Dream and keep up with the Joneses in the outward appearance of wealth.
I spend about the same but generally get less than a year.
Whatever Target has on sale. I where dress slacks at work and shorts on the weekend. So my jeans don't see that much in daily wear.
People consider you poor because it takes 40% of your income to pay for some tiny studio apartment.
My older brother must be rich. He and his wife make $100,000 per year. They own a three-bedroom home with an underwater mortgage, a car and two trucks, and a closet full of $200 designer jeans. About 50% of their income goes to the mortgage and paying back the loan for the down payment from the wife's retirement account. They can't retire because they can't refinance the mortgage. If my brother stops working and takes Social Security this year, they will have to file for bankruptcy.
Nobody said you couldn't be happy and poor, but you're poor all the same.
If I'm considered to be poor even though I'm putting 20% away in savings and retirement, I guess the minimum wage workers who ride the express bus — their company provide $140 bus pass for free as part of a county-wide transit program — are screwed.
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So how does management know that they are real workers?
Some idiot got caught working from home for a half-dozen companies and outsourcing his work Chinese workers. One company became suspicious when they noticed in the log files that he was logging in from China while browsing the Internet from his cubicle when he came into work.
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/16/verizon-finds-developer-outsourced-his-work-to-china-so-he-could-surf-reddit-and-watch-cat-videos/
Oh yes, like Santa Clara High School where only 31% of the students are proficient in mathematics....
That's nothing. I was diagnosed as mentally retarded from an undiagnosed hearing lost, routinely blew out the annual evaluations on the genius side (those were "statistical flukes"), and got treated like a useful idiot for eight years. I skipped high school, enrolled at the community college, and got my associate degree in four years (two years for accelerated remedial classes and two years for regular coursework).
How much do you pay for your kids' school?
Public schools were free the last time I checked.
If that's the new American Dream, I'm off to achieve something better.
The American Dream is to have it all no matter what the cost. I've chosen to ignore it by dealing with life on my own terms. Some people think I'm settling for less, other people think I'm poor. So what?
How do you live without designer jeans? Don't the cool kids at the mall make fun of your?
Simple. I never have $200 for designer jeans. As for the cool kids, so what?
What if I told you that in [...]
I can get all that in Sacramento, except the for the job. Housing is cheap there because the jobs and the workers disappeared after the air force base shut down in 2001. While the local government is renovating the base as a future tech development, I haven't seen it take off.
The downside (if you see it as one)...politics are a whole lot more on the conservative side than out in Silly Valley.
If I want to get into lily white politics, I'll move to the Central Valley.
People see the physical address and know we must at least be somewhat successful.
A law firm moved into a new office building with high visibility from the freeway in East Palo Alto (i.e., the ghetto of Silicon Valley). The people in East Palo Alto were proud of this development that could improve the city's reputation and fortunes. Until they discovered that the law firm listed Palo Alto (i.e., the rich city next door) on the building and in advertisements. Not sure if that ever gotten straighten out.
Depends on what commute you want - that sounds quite high, unless you're close to SF, or in one of the fancy neighborhoods.
Luxury apartments are quite popular in Silicon Valley. My apartment complex was built in the late 1960's and looked like a 1960's housing project when I moved in ten years ago. The original owner put the complex up for sale eight years ago. Since then we had four corporate owners trying to turn the complex into "luxury" apartments. This often meant a coat paint on the buildings and new landscaping. The current corporate owner is renovating the apartments to justify the higher rents.
SF is nuts, but I've never understood why anyone would want to live there.
I'm told that the clubbing scene for the young and the restless hipsters is much better in San Francisco.
I'm not saying you are living too lavish of a lifestyle, but you seem to harbor some resentment for people "wasting" money on luxuries.
There are two sides in my family, both responding to the Great Depression and World War II. One side lives a modest lifestyle, including the proverbial three-foot ball of aluminum foil saved during the war. The other side lives an luxurious lifestyle, spending every paycheck and going into debt. My father and I are quite content to live modest lifestyles, and could care less about the what the world thinks. My mother and older brother were never happy with their luxurious lifestyles, as someone else always had it much better than them.
All the while you are "wasting" money on high rents because what you desire the luxury of living in the same area you grew up in.
The alternative is move out to Sacramento or the Central Valley for cheaper housing, but spend the difference of my "high rents" on gas and time to commute from the boonies. I rather enjoy the "luxury" of picking up the express bus from my front door step, read the Wall Street Journal, and be in Palo Alto within an hour.