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Living Room / Re: Badly explain your occupation
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 20, 2017, 07:49 AM »
I negotiate truces between unhappy people, and the "cruel" machines that hurt their feelings. Sadly I frequently have to side with the machines during these negotiations, because many of the people are stupid.
-Stoic Joker (September 20, 2017, 07:12 AM)

Technician!
-4wd (September 20, 2017, 07:34 AM)

Worse actually, Admin ... So I have to field lunacy from both the floor and the brass. At this point I really am slowly turning into the BOFH from The Register's long running story series. Because around here the brass doesn't quite seem to grasp the idea that you don't always get the best work out of people when you scream at them. You see while I am notoriously (stoic...) soft spoken, and am therefore disinclined towards shouting matches ... I am also rather disinclined towards losing...and everything has a cost... :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: CCleaner contained malware for one month
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 20, 2017, 07:21 AM »
It would be interesting to know that if they still distributed the Slim build of CCleaner, (the one without the PUP inclusion), whether this would have happened with it.
-4wd (September 19, 2017, 08:08 PM)

From what I've read, probably yes. This was a sophisticated supply chain hack (of Piriform and Avast servers) that repackaged the update with a valid digital signature. So unless the slim was a no install 'portable' version...it could have also easily been exploited.
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Living Room / Re: Badly explain your occupation
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 20, 2017, 07:12 AM »
I negotiate truces between unhappy people, and the "cruel" machines that hurt their feelings. Sadly I frequently have to side with the machines during these negotiations, because many of the people are stupid.
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Living Room / Re: irma-geadon
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 15, 2017, 12:29 PM »
Hay Miles glad you made it! I had a thread started looking for you before the storm hit ... But I like the title of yours better..
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Living Room / Re: Irma's Coming...
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 12, 2017, 02:31 PM »
Ummm... what?  I just can't even...

https://www.cnbc.com...-hurricane-irma.html
-wraith808 (September 11, 2017, 03:28 PM)

Yeah, I heard about that one from my brother who'd seen it on FaceBook.. Freakin' people man ... Damn.

On a side note, the power is back on. Seems it decided to make me a liar and go out about 10 minutes after my previous post about it still being on..
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Living Room / Re: Irma's Coming...
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 11, 2017, 06:56 AM »
Still have some wind on the back side and the pool is full of branches, but we're here ... and the lights are still on.

Top 20' of a pine tree came out next to the house and buried onto the ground about 2' it only missed the roof by about 3 feet or it may have come through
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Living Room / Re: Printer printing fuzzy
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 10, 2017, 02:38 PM »
The most practical cure for a fuzzy ink jet printer these days is:
  • Unplug the inkjet printer
  • Place fingers under each side of the printer
  • Lift printer about 3 inches off the table
  • Rotate 180 degrees and carry the printer to the nearest trash can
  • Release printer into trashcan
  • Go online and order replacement printer

Inkjet printers are so cheap -- with the cost being mainly due to ink, that when an inkjet printer starts acting up, unless it is some serious pro-quality printer, your best bet is to buy a new printer and not waste ink on your old one.
-mouser (September 10, 2017, 01:49 PM)

ROFL - Yepper, that would be the simplest solution. Like most stuff these days they're straight-up disposable. Given that the print sample given showed ghosting even after a realignment has been attempted ... Hell yeah - cut your losses and toss it.
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Living Room / Re: Irma's Coming...
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 10, 2017, 12:55 PM »
I'm northern edge of central Florida, and the winds are already picking up quite a bit here with Irma still 200 miles south. Trees are creaking and cracking, and branches are already starting to fly.
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Living Room / Irma's Coming...
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 08, 2017, 05:05 PM »
Has anyone heard from Miles Ahead lately?? Us Florida folk are about to get hammered like a - storm-of-the-century - tent peg.

goes_eusa_1070_100[2].jpg
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Living Room / Re: 60 years. Am I now ALLOWED to be grumpy?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 08, 2017, 05:01 PM »
"60". Hm... there is something about this number. Am I now allowed to be grumpy?
-Curt (September 08, 2017, 12:39 PM)
If you have to ask...then no. Grumpy is something that you lay claim to all on your own. If you're still waiting to get permission to be grumpy you're just not ready for it yet. You have to first stop worrying about other people thinking it "ok"...  :D

I've been "grumpy" since I turned 50 a few years back ... But I've always been ahead of the curve in all the wrong places..  ;)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2017, 01:11 PM »
Just as she suggested years back that Freud had effectively castrated women, she saw "transgender" men now openly culturally appropriating womanhood, by dressing up like women and castrating themselves, and she was apparently having none of it, since that, of itself doesn't earn men the "right" to pretend or make like they are women, or make like that they have anything in common with women, having never experienced first-hand what it's like to grow up and develop as a woman - i.e., it is cultural sophistry to invent such a biological/genetic impossibility.
-IainB (September 05, 2017, 07:34 AM)

Hm... So...kind of like the difference between playing a doctor on TV, and actually going through medical school to become a doctor. Yeah, I'm good with that.
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Living Room / Re: Non IT Project Website
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 26, 2017, 04:03 PM »
Site updated -(hint)- Alice wins her first drag race.
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Living Room / Re: Non IT Project Website
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 25, 2017, 02:33 PM »
By the way, A bit of OT though, where do you source your Harley parts? I myself get them from 4WheelOnline. They do sell more affordable parts and even accessories. Check their Harley section on their website.
-colder69 (August 23, 2017, 09:41 PM)

Multiple locations depending on part, availability, and how close to new it needs to be. Sources for all item(s) used on the Alice project are listed on the page top left of each "Shopping List" table.

eBay has been surprisingly good to me on a lot of both new and used (frequently high dollar) items. Next most popular is a toss-up between JP Cycles, and a local shop that's been in business for 40+ years ... flat, knuckle, pan, shovel, block, TC...yep they've probably got it.

(Spoiler-> Alice is back on the road now ... I'll hopefully get the site updated soon - brother's in town - It's been a wild week.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 16, 2017, 03:46 PM »
From pleated-jeans.com:
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-mouser (August 14, 2017, 11:33 AM)

Now That is Funny!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Intelligent Time Zone display (online or local)
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 11, 2017, 03:46 PM »
but I use a windows phone :-( lol
-tomos (June 08, 2017, 03:21 AM)

Holy shit! There are two of us!

-Stoic Joker (August 11, 2017, 02:54 PM)

With that kind of support, it's a wonder that they drew back on it. There's money to be made!
-wraith808 (August 11, 2017, 03:26 PM)

You mock me ... But I want another..
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General Software Discussion / Re: Intelligent Time Zone display (online or local)
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 11, 2017, 02:54 PM »
but I use a windows phone :-( lol
-tomos (June 08, 2017, 03:21 AM)

Holy shit! There are two of us!
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Living Room / Re: Non IT Project Website
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 11, 2017, 02:20 PM »
^ okay, so you weren't ripped off ;D (I didnt honestly think that would have been the case)
thanks for the background  :up:
-tomos (August 11, 2017, 12:16 PM)

Tis truly my pleasure. There's tons more, but I'm at work/rushing a bit ... Hence the dangling /quote tag above..


In the photo of both together, I'd prefer the look of Alice, but that's probably mainly down to the lights and handlebars. (But the other bike has a lot of character too, and they look great together.)
-tomos (August 11, 2017, 12:16 PM)

Yes, Alice's retro classic vs. Nightmares "The 80's" look...that's why I decided not to bother with trying to track a (just like nightmares, original) replacement fairing for her. I'm kinda digging the classic look too.

A close look at that picture will show the (subtle to the untrained eye) difference in Alice's much newer and larger late model front brakes. Alice will stop on a dime...Nightmare won't.

I should probably try to get a pic of (Trixie too) all 3 of the girls together one of these days.


I'm learning some lingo here as well e.g. bagger, Shovelhead enginew.
May as well give your link while I'm at it
http://www.stoicjoke...ce/Chronicle_pg2.php
-tomos (August 11, 2017, 12:16 PM)

Truly glad you're enjoying the story, but be careful you don't get sucked in to far end up wanting one. I went out for a beer with one of our company's IT clients Monday night for the sole purpose of discussing how best they could pickup a bagger (like Alice..). Because they had seen Alice when I showed up there on a service call, and heard her tail.
Me, my brother, the client ... She's quite the little siren it appears.. ;)
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Living Room / Re: Non IT Project Website
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 11, 2017, 11:49 AM »
I forgot to mention Chapter 2 is now done, and I'm working on chapter 3.
-Stoic Joker (August 10, 2017, 03:55 PM)

hope this not an awkward question:
how come your brother got a good functioning 1985 bike for 3,500 and yours, 1981, cost 3,000 and required a lot of work?
-tomos (August 11, 2017, 07:57 AM)

LOL Yes! ...But it's a good kind of awkward... :D


Is it the year, or are there other differences I'm missing?
-tomos (August 11, 2017, 07:57 AM)

Yes to both. My 81 has the older Shovelhead style engine, and is one of the first few years for that style of frame. So they weren't real popular back then...and became almost instantly rare because people were either cutting up, scrapping, or just not buying them. Me... I had an 82 FLT back in the day that I just loved...but had to sell to keep a business running ($$$). About a year later I got the 87 which I then road for almost 20 years, but it was the (like my brother's) newer Evolution (a.k.a. Evo) engine.

Needless to say parts for the Shovelhead era FLT's are a bitch to find. So my objective was just to find a Shovelhead FLT in as complete a condition as I could find ...(body parts, locks, instruments, etc.) And deal with the other crap later. But had also already planned to do most of the modifications anyway because of advances made in the various (braking, suspension, etc.) technologies.

My brother OTOH was just looking for a good deal on a bagger because he had already fallen in love with mine..  :D

...And then there the whole just being lucky(er) part, as both bikes were purchased as-is, and came home in a truck. So while Alice's odometer only showed 14k miles ... It was an aftermarket item that made it impossible to know exactly what her mileage/history really was. And then there's the fact that she had apparently been previously been owned by a two fisted, whisky drunk, alcoholic, orangutan that should not have been allowed to have hand tools.[/quote]
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Living Room / Re: Non IT Project Website
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 10, 2017, 03:55 PM »
I forgot to mention Chapter 2 is now done, and I'm working on chapter 3.
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Living Room / Re: Your Anonymous Data Isn't Anonymous, and the Web of (Broken) Trust
« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 04, 2017, 07:21 AM »
I really wish I could say that I'm shocked ... But I'm not. This is just the prophetic horror story of old (that everyone blew off) coming to the surface in reality's light of day. There are no "private thoughts" on the internet, because the instant you type them into any interface ... Some asshole somewhere, has them instantly logged, cataloged, and packaged for sale to the highest bidder.

Data Mining + Greed = Reckless Endangerment.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: DC member wraith808 agrees to join spammer-killing squad
« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 19, 2017, 03:37 PM »
I will don my cape,...
-wraith808 (July 19, 2017, 08:27 AM)

Pics or it didn't happen.. :)
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Coding Snacks / Re: Connect by command
« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 19, 2017, 03:34 PM »
"disconfiguration"? LOL ...I like that one...think I'll start using it. :D

But seriously, it sounds like the network profile is corrupt. Have you tried deleting the profile and then letting the system recreate a new one? It should save the key correctly then.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 14, 2017, 11:16 AM »
Researcher Claims Samsung's Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs!
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Living Room / Re: GoDaddy Blocking Access to Website
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 28, 2017, 02:15 PM »
Update: Spoke to an incredibly nice young lady for about an hour that unfortunately didn't have a clue what the problem was, but was quite enthusiastic about setting about finding an answer. <- and I do mean that sincerely - She never touched "the flow chart" once!)

She went back and forth several times with their other internal staff who insisted that it wasn't possible ... But they did try finding "things to check" ... and finally "Assured" us that our companies IP Address was not being blocked by anything on their end ... Which is bullshit.

As a final proof of concept demonstration I added a rule in our edge router that forced all of the outbound web request traffic coming from my internal workstation only to one of our other public IP addresses (we have 16 total).

And surprise surprise the site loads just fine ... For. Me. Only... Everything else in the building still behind the old IP address is unable to access the site ... Because it has been -(bloody obviously)- blacklisted by something somewhere on their end.

Unfortunately by this point I was already off the phone - and so am back to being sunk - unless I get a callback from them after Emailing her the results of the aforementioned test.

*Sigh*
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Living Room / Re: GoDaddy Blocking Access to Website
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 28, 2017, 06:27 AM »
Sometimes the blacklisting tools are just there to temporarily block an ip for a few minutes -- you might just want to check it again in a bit.
-mouser (June 27, 2017, 07:00 PM)

That was my initial hope as well, but... This went down late Monday morning, and it still blocking us.

This is why I keep telling people I suck at optimism.. :D



I'd say quit trying to figure it out, and contact them.
-wraith808 (June 27, 2017, 05:04 PM)

That's on tomorrow's to-do list. But it's compounded by the fact I'll be calling on behalf of the client, and will possible need to engineer my way past GD support identity verification ... Assuming they have any.

So I was hoping there was an alternate (configuration based) option that I could get at more easily ... Since I have CP access to the account.

Normally I'm quite good at the SE type stuff, but lately the office environment has turned into a constantly toxic epic shit-storm. So I - like most of the staff - spend most of my days stressed to the max because the owner has turned into the vitriolic red queen from Alice in Wonderland prowling the office looking for something/anything to scream at or about. *Shrug* It's really just too fucking hard to think straight in that type of atmosphere. But I'd like to get this client's project done before I completely shutdown and start focusing on looking for another job.

(Assuming you've seen the commercial) PW: Ihatemyjob1  :D
-Stoic Joker (June 27, 2017, 05:48 PM)

Sounds pretty bad.  Sorry I couldn't be more help; when I had a similar problem, one time it was the firewall on the server, so they had to correct it, and the other time it was the firewall in the company.  Have you checked that?
-wraith808 (June 27, 2017, 07:12 PM)

That pretty much was my Tuesday - vetting all our internal systems to ensure we weren't our own problem ... And we ain't.

*Shrug*  :) Fuck.
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