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Just goes to show how certain colloquialisms have spread, acmtix: I use "Milady" occasionally when addressing certain ladies in our company, mostly out of courtesy and respect for their position but also because it sounds very prestigious. One of the ladies is a fan of the annual Renaissance Festival here in Larkspur, CO…
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I think I remember you mentioning in a previous mission that you were a musician, rschroeder! I am as well, in addition to being chief NERD/GEEK in my family. My things is strings, tho: the string section (violin, viola, cello, bass) guitar, electric bass, mandolin, Oud (oh, what a fun insrument!). My new fave is the…
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Something that dawned on me after I thought, like others, that I was in the first 50 is that not everyone who completed the survey posted a "Done" or "Completed" in the thread here. Marcos told me in a PM that there were a TON of replies as soon as the question came out.
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How do you figure that every answer is technically correct, msinger? The answer is clearly there at the top of the hint and it says (and this is what it says now, so if it said something different earlier, then I take this all back) "over" a certain number, not less than or less than/equal to. Help me (and others) to…
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ebradford, I like the way your train of thought runs! I hadn't gone there but yeah, I remember that song...Mike Reno (of "Loverboy" fame) and Ann Wilson (of "Heart"), if I remember correctly. Speaking of "Footloose", every summer, SiriusXM radio has a channel called "Yacht Rock Radio", which is a whole collection of soft…
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Interesting thoughts, Rick, and I think you are spot on with your assessment of external forces and the impact they can have on a project. It reminds me of a discussion I had with a boss of mine about 10 years ago. We were talking about processes and I said that when humans are involved, processes will fail. My boss argued…
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Forgive me, Dave, was certainly not trying to go overly literal. It's just been my experience on this forum that the GEEKS get raked over the coals for the slightest misstep and while joking and fun are definitely welcome, folks can take it to the extreme (else why is there a comment below that has been hidden?). One thing…
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Amazing article, Leon, and thank you! One of the topics you mentioned, about being enslaved by robot overlords, cuts to the quick when it comes to "Workforce Of Tomorrow". Workers nowadays are finding themselves staring down the business end of a "pink slip" because companies are in an all-fired hurry to reduce headcount…
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davej, I hear you. My mother was the exact opposite, though. I work part time in the financial services arena and the position is comission only. When I started in the field back in '05, I was still working in IT but when that job went away, and I went full-time in the financial position, mom would say, "When are you…
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The only thing that I could find, akhasheni, was that on the same page you indicated, down a bit on the left side it the Cloud Asset Summary, and when you add the nodes in the Cloud Asset Summary to the nodes in All Nodes, it answers the question. What I can't figure out, to your point, is why the Cloud Assets are not…
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My favorite quote from Holmes has got to be: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth!" I don't know why but that makes total and complete sense to me...I must have a seriously warped mind! And, BTW, some excellent prizes this month! Can I 3-D print a trip to…
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Congratulations tonedepear on the win for last week!
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WHEW!!! The suspenders were killing me! Congrats, brgr618!
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I hope this answers your question, ebradford: demo, lab, or otherwise, Azure is Azure and AWS is AWS. It is merely the cloud platform on which the Virtual Machines are built and running. As opposed to a physical server sitting in a company's data center or coat closet (hey, don't judge me!). The nice thing about cloud…
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I won't do an alert on this one but the group Bowling For Soup had a OHW (One Hit Wonder) back a few years ago called "1985" and the chorus went like this: "Springsteen, Madonna, and way before Nirvana there was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV her Two kids, in high school, they tell her that she's uncool but She's…
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I hear what you're saying, stevenastem, but then you get into the whole situation of written numbers (1, 2, etc.) versus words (one, two, etc.) as was the case here. I have no issue as long as the answer field accepts either one, whether consistent or not, as "one" and "1" are cardinal references to the same the same…
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You bring up an interesting point to ponder, keenb; while it takes only a minute or two to answer the questions, when I have opened the THWACK site on my SmartPhone, I have noticed that it is not very easy to navigate. Pinch, zoom and pan all over the place is what I've found. Calling all GEEKS: marcoswithanoh,…
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I debated whether or not to comment on today's (1/16) answer and my OCD finally got the better of me. You all know that I don't pick too many nits (well, OK, I do!) but this one I just need to pick. The answer to the question can be found in the video hint supplied by felixforbes, etal., but when you pause the video to…
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It's like the old joke "Did you get the email about the email system being down?" I would imagine that, yes, there are people who think they are secure. Take my mother, for example: 85 year-old woman, grew up NOT around technology and has adapted (she has an iPhone and can acutally use it for more than phone calls!) but…
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Now I've doggone gone and done it! I've got that song ("For What It's Worth") in my head! EARWORM ALERT! "There's battle lines being drawn. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong. Young people speaking their minds. Getting so much resistance from behind." Surprising - or not - how nothing's really changed in 50 years (that…
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I've run a help desk in the past and the one thing they tell you in the "how-to-run-an-IT-help-desk" training is take care of your customer. Now, there was a wonderful discussion by adatole on the whole "customer" versus "consumer" versus "colleague" versus "client" (see The Word "Customer" is NSFW ) but all the…
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That's even better than "Will somebody PUHLEEEEEZE reboot the Internet?" If taken literally, that one really is quite hilarious.
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meyer837, I was in no way insinuating that businesses should get consumer class Internet. Far from it (unless, as you mentioned, they utilize technologies like SD-WAN/Viptela). What I was attempting to do is show the flip-flop of perceptions in the recent past that "work" should have a faster Internet connection than…
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So that explains why the youngins of today play their music so loud, whether through headphones or car speakers... it makes me cringe when I'm sitting in the stands at my grandkids' basketball games and 10+ feet away, I can clearly hear the words of the song being played in the ears of a child. If I can hear it perfectly,…
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Both my wife and I work in the financial field and I find it interesting that every year, we must go through "Anti Money Laundering" training...which is super-secret, bassackwards code for "We're going to sit you down and show you EXACTLY how to launder money!" EDIT: Just found this and I thinks it's so befitting of all of…
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Agreed...a little crass in spots. Too much this @$$ and that @$$. But, hey, that's Steve Harvey. If you don't like it, you don't have to listen to him. I'm surprised that he doesn't get more "bleeps" on Feud but I guess he has learned (or been forced) to tone it down on TV.
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And, as mentioned a moment ago, improper caffeination just caused me another red "X"! Boy, I need to go back to bed as I'm not doing myself any favors this month!
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In re: Peter Gabriel, yes, Tony did play Stick for Peter starting in the late 70's I think. In fact, my favorite song of all times (yes, the ONLY song that I would have on an iPod Mini if I was stranded on a desert island for the rest of my life) is "Games Without Frontiers". I first heard the song in the early 80's and…
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Hey, ecklerwr1, write scripts much? "goto 17:40 in the video". ;-)
