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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Windows Email Server Options
« Last post by 40hz on December 06, 2014, 07:50 PM »
Anything I do in my home lab "for fun", is just one more thing I can get paid well to do for other people.
-Stoic Joker (December 06, 2014, 03:33 PM)

Sorry. When you said "home office" in your OP I though you were referring to your employer's home office. Not your own.

I've been dealing with the corporate world way too long. :-\

As long as the end result is acceptable to my standards. So it's not really a case of devaluing my time to $2/hr.. :)

It's also a case of getting the most bang out of limited buck resources. Right now the bike is far better for my health than a snazzy piece of kit. Because 9 times out of 4 it's IT that is stressing me out ... And the bike that lets me de-stress/relax. You see life gets incredibly simple at speeds in excess of 100mph, and the entire universe turns into a pin prick as the dance begins. This is why it keeps being said that one only feels truly alive when on the razor's edge and I know this to be true...having been there many times. It's a visceral, tactile, beautifully violent dance with an incredibly powerful machine that you must know intimately to survive.

You misunderstand what I was saying - or, more likely,  I didn't express myself very well. My point was killing yourself for an employer by taking on a science fair project whne an acceptable solution already existed and was obtainable for a very small price makes no sense (to me) unless you put scant value on your time. I then qualified it by saying unless it's something you're actually interested in personally - in which case I fully agree that you can't put a price on time invested.

You have your Harley love affaire. I have my music jones. At the core they're really not any different. And time is no object when it comes to things like that.

Or maybe more correctly, the time invested is the object? ;) 8) :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Windows Email Server Options
« Last post by 40hz on December 06, 2014, 02:41 PM »
^Works for me. If you value your time at $2/hr. I too take that approach with the stuff I'm actually interested in. ;D

And being the "employee of the week" in IT is no longer one of them. :P My job is just something I do - and which I'm pretty damn good at. :P

Spend money on something with licensing limitations?
-Stoic Joker (December 06, 2014, 02:08 PM)

Sometimes it's necessary. Or more practical. Or more expedient depending on the use case and the business environment in question.

When it is, it's time to deliver - not the time to take on a science faire project. But I'm thinking as a business owner here. Your situation may well be different. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox update download trap
« Last post by 40hz on December 06, 2014, 12:34 PM »
I can't believe they still haven't fixed this
-MilesAhead (December 06, 2014, 12:05 PM)

I think it's more one of those "it's not a bug - it's a feature" deals. :-\

I have an ongoing fistfight trying to keep it from updating. >:(
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Living Room / Re: Talents and talent shows
« Last post by 40hz on December 06, 2014, 11:17 AM »
^Dubai? Awesome! I wish her all success. (I won't say "luck" because I believe we make our own luck. And from what I saw previously, luck has nothing to do with her performances.) :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Windows Email Server Options
« Last post by 40hz on December 06, 2014, 11:13 AM »
I've been running an IIS web server since 1999 when Win2k came out. I've never had a problem with it. Like anything else, if it's set up properly it's perfectly secure...and if set up improperly,
-Stoic Joker (December 06, 2014, 10:48 AM)

Fair enuff. Next time I have a client that insists, I'll subcontract that part out to you. :Thmbsup:

Regarding spam...did you ever consider parking an Untangle Gateway in front of your e-mail? Not exactly tech-y to just buy something, but it's a quick and reliable fix if you're on a tight schedule. And if you don't feel like playing with the community version, $540 will get you the whole shebang with full support for 10 devices. To add the full (as opposed to the free) spam blocker to the community edition only costs $108.

I'm a big fan of Untangle. (Not affiliated - just for the record.)
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Living Room / Re: The Old City
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 02:53 PM »
@SB -  wouldn't something like Old City be great with something like an Oculus Rift headset? Too bad OC's probably well beyond the budget and/or capabilities of most indy game shops. Some of the best work seems to be coming from that quarter.
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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi project: wireless file server
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 02:39 PM »
Huh? $100 for a device that does what exactly?

-Deozaan (December 05, 2014, 01:35 PM)

@Deo - No offense taken. We're all friends here. :Thmbsup:

I'm not quite sure what you're looking at. :huh:

I was pointing to the 2TB NAS device at $349 which can be enabled for wifi by plugging in a $17 USB N-adapter which they've tested and certified to work with it. It has the software built-in. And works with smartphones out of the box.

It can also be made to directly transfer files or sync with any other Transporter drive anywhere in the world.

More about it here
The 2TB Transporter Private Cloud from Connected Data is a network attached storage drive designed to directly communicate with other Transporter drives regardless of location. You no longer need to send files via email or through a cloud based service - instead you can simply sync and transfer data to friends and family through the Transporter drives.

While there is a need for more than one Transporter Drive to take advantage of the specific file sharing capabilities, you can still utilize this drive as a NAS (network attached storage) drive. As a result, you can safely store your data within this drive and access that data from nearly any computer or mobile device as long as that device has Internet access and meets any criteria setup by the device administrator.

Each Transporter Drive supports a single 2.5" SATA II or SATA III hard drive with a thickness of 7 mm, 9.5 mm, 12.5 mm, or 15 mm and a capacity of at least 160GB. Connecting your Transporter Drive to the Internet is simple via the integrated Gigabit Ethernet port.

Once connected, you can manage your device through the connected data management website with browser support for Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. Accessing files within the drive can be accomplished through a connected data Mac, Windows, or Apple iOS application, and optional local access via CIFS / SMB connection.


There's certainly nothing there you couldn't put together for yourself. But for a "plug it in and go" network storage solution, it's competitively priced.

Hope that clarifies. :)
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Living Room / Re: The Old City
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 12:49 PM »
Did. I'm impressed. I definitely enjoy these interactive story environments. I don't even care how much or little "game" is in them although a logical and germane puzzle is always a treat. That's sometimes a problem since many of these things just throw in an odd but totally unrelated puzzle you have to solve before you're allowed to resume the story. Dear Esther and the Myst Series had a few of those.

Anyway, thx for sharing! :)
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Living Room / Re: The Old City
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 12:26 PM »
Looks really interesting. Unfortunately I can't run the trailer for some reason. It refuses to load in FF and crashes completely in Chrome. And this is on an i5 machine with 8Gb of RAM and no other applications running. Doesn't give me the warm fuzzies. Hopefully it's just a server-side time-out issue due to volume. I had to go over and watch it on YouTube.

It reminds me a little bit of Kentucky Route Zero which I recently purchased. Slowly poking my way through that. I'll try to do a review on it once I finish. :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 09:14 AM »
^I'm really not sure what I think of Orianthi as a guitarist overall. Probably because she's a dead-ringer for my little sister (back when she was in her teens) in this one. ;D  But in the above (early?) video, Ms. Orianthi does it well. :Thmbsup:
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Linuxbrew: A Fork of Homebrew for Linux
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 08:18 AM »
Definitely gonna take a good close look at that. Thx  for the heads-up. :)
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 08:10 AM »
Sandman Slim: A Novel by Richard Kadrey.

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First book in a series. Quite funny - in a real bad-attitude way. Not my usual thing. But sometimes we can all use a break from the heavy metaphysics we get for our daily fare. If you're a fan of John Butcher's Dresden Files you'll feel right at home here. It's an enjoyable straight-ahead action story with some surprises and great characters. Some of the best 'snappy' dialog I've read in a long time too. Recommended. :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Target/K-mart remove GTA V from shelves - new petition to ban Super Mario Bros
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 07:46 AM »
If they don't want to have to be bothered with watching the kids...perhaps they shouldn't be squirting them out.
-Stoic Joker (December 05, 2014, 06:47 AM)

Um...I think they were pranking with that petition. ;)

That said, I agree. 8)
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Living Room / Re: Target/K-mart remove GTA V from shelves - new petition to ban Super Mario Bros
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 05:39 AM »
It is somewhat ironic that the complaint motivating it was made by three people who were offended because of the violence they experienced in real life while engaged in what is also considered by many to be an immoral and/or criminal activity.

"Isn't life strange?" as the Moody Blues song put it. :huh:

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DC Gamer Club / Re: A couple games to giveaway: Insurgency (Steam) and Witcher 2 (gog)
« Last post by 40hz on December 05, 2014, 05:22 AM »
mwb1100 makes a good point here. And the final decision should always be that of the person making the offer. My concern was more about how to avoid possibly embarrassing a first time visitor. I've posted in a few forums where I didn't appreciate the way I was treated because there was an unwritten "rule" or "understanding" I had inadvertently transgressed on my first visit. It's not a fun experience.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: A couple games to giveaway: Insurgency (Steam) and Witcher 2 (gog)
« Last post by 40hz on December 04, 2014, 08:51 PM »
so that it doesn't come up on google searches.
-wraith808 (December 04, 2014, 08:33 PM)

Even better! :Thmbsup:
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DC Gamer Club / Re: A couple games to giveaway: Insurgency (Steam) and Witcher 2 (gog)
« Last post by 40hz on December 04, 2014, 08:24 PM »
@Wraith et al - I was wondering if it might be a good idea if the DC gamers could come up with (and possibly vote?) on some standard boilerplate that could just be pasted into these sorts of offers? Maybe something like "This offer is open to active Donation Coder members who have been registered for at least three months and have made at least five posts" - or something like that.

That way it wouldn't be sprung on some unsuspecting newcomer after the fact. :)
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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi project: wireless file server
« Last post by 40hz on December 04, 2014, 08:16 PM »
I suppose there's this too. Plug a the officially recommended TP-LINK TL-WN823N 300Mbps Wireless Mini USB Adapter into it and you're done.

Can't say how good it is. But they seem to be geared towards enterprise with some of their product lines. So I'd guess they're worth at least looking into.
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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?
« Last post by 40hz on December 04, 2014, 07:48 PM »
^One of the truly lovely voices of the 20th century.

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              "Sandy"
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny
           1947 - 1978




Where indeed?

Vaya con Dios, Sandy...

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?
« Last post by 40hz on December 04, 2014, 03:48 PM »
I don't think a Cassandra Wilson comes along every other week.
-MilesAhead (December 03, 2014, 03:23 PM)

You have exquisite taste Miles! I'm a big fan of hers. :Thmbsup:


Dave Mckenna is a new discovery for me and has blown me away.  I have always wanted such a balance of virtuosity, accessibility, and rhythm.
-superboyac (December 02, 2014, 05:32 PM)

Really nice SB! I'm gonna have to add him to my listen list. Thx for the find! :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?
« Last post by 40hz on December 04, 2014, 03:34 PM »
Great version!  Who is Maria Muldaur??
-superboyac (December 04, 2014, 02:44 PM)

I hope so. She wrote the bloody thing! ;D

Maria Muldaur is the bluesy vocalist (and little heartthrob) from the 70s that had the big hit Midnight at the Oasis.

This is her (on the left) with another (even more talented) vocalist from the same era you may also not recognize: ;)

mmlr.jpg and sitting between a couple of famous ladies>>> shot.jpg

For those too young to know
(1) Maria Muldaur and Linda Ronstadt. (2) Bonnie Raitt, Maria Muldaur, Linda Ronstadt


 :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?
« Last post by 40hz on December 04, 2014, 11:28 AM »
Not sure if I'm making sense...
-wraith808 (December 03, 2014, 10:27 PM)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who sometimes feels that way when it comes to discussing something related to music. ;D :Thmbsup:

Funny how what's so clear in the head falls apart when you try to put it into words when it comes to music. A hundred things really need to be said simultaneously. And there's very little that doesn't need to be qualified and re-qualified. And half the time, the exact opposite is equally true.

That's what you get for "dancing about architecture" I guess. ;) 8)

FWIW my guitarist GF tends to start quietly singing this song any time I start getting too analytical or esoteric. (Think she's trying to tell me something?  :huh:)
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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?
« Last post by 40hz on December 03, 2014, 03:11 PM »
but they can be developed.
-wraith808 (December 03, 2014, 02:47 PM)

If they're there to begin with. That is something, unlike a musical instrument, that can't be bought. Some vocal abilities can't even be developed. It's there or it's not. And no amount of hard work or sincere effort will get it for you.

I sing too. I'm not bad. Three years with a university chorale that ran the gamut from Gregorian chant to Cole Porter taught me a lot about performance and various vocal technique. It made me a vastly better singer than I was before. But I would never consider myself a vocalist first and foremost.

I suspect (no proof to offer on this btw) that probably something like 70% of all people could be taught to sing adequately, with a higher percentage of them being women rather than men. But that's not the same thing as considering them 'singers', any more than being able to accompany yourself on a guitar in a workmanlike manner automatically earns you the title of 'guitarist.'

There's that difference between talent and skill; and craft and art. Difficult, if not impossible, to define. But oh so obvious to almost anyone when they encounter it.

That's what I mean by a gift. Superb singers are gifted rather than merely talented.

(Does any of the above even make sense, I wonder? ;D )
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General Software Discussion / Re: Mischief 2.0: very promising drawing software ($25 !!)
« Last post by 40hz on December 03, 2014, 01:12 PM »
Looks interesting. Now if I can just remember what I did with my Wacom pad, I might give it a spin - assuming it works with a 5-year old drawing tablet

Oops! Scratch that. I just remembered, I already gave it away. :-[
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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?
« Last post by 40hz on December 03, 2014, 01:01 PM »
If you you have a vocalist anywhere near the ability of Ann Wilson in your band, she will always be your primary focus,  and don't ever forget how lucky you are to have her.
-Vurbal (December 03, 2014, 12:40 PM)

Agree 100%

To be a good guitarist takes some talent, some education, and a devotion to mastering some techniques.

Pure unvarnished vocal talent, however, is a gift from the gods. Be respectful. 8)
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