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Talamakara

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  1. I have a very old very heavy Steel not aluminum 6 foot tall Server cabinet in my garage. I bought it 8 years ago with the intention of putting file and other servers in it for my home. Suffice it to say it ended up never leaving the garage and never made it to the basement. Well before winter comes and it's still warm I want to Soda blast it and then prime and paint it. Actually following through with stripping it clean and painting isn't a concern. What i'm curious about is if anyone else has fallen down the rabbit hole on a project like this?
  2. I disagree with certs trumping degrees. Yes certs are good, but nothing will compete with a full blown degree. Think of it this way. The degree is the cake, the certs are the icing that makes it look good to eat, but without the cake no one will eat just the icing.
  3. With many years in the IT industry and dealing with "technicians" I've had to do the job for or even throw off site, I 100% agree with this statement.
  4. My honest opinion. Go back to school and get a degree in business. I have a bachelors of science in computer information systems, have worked for little companies, transport companies, and hell even did a stint at IBM. (That was a shit show) Right now working in IT for any company is dead end career, and yes I am including jobs like IT security which some say is "booming" right now, but there are three reasons IT today is a dead end career in my opinion. 1) If you are not working for a major cloud provider like Amazon, Google or Microsoft, you will end up fixing desktops and nothing more even if you have a dozen security certs, because all the major corporations are moving to cloud systems to try and save them money and responsibilities to infrastructure. Cloud infrastructures (public/semi/private) are going to destroy what we as support are worth as a whole. Until the storm comes and crashes the cloud systems, this won't change. (anyone catch my storm joke? I know it's hard to broadcast lol) 2) The money just isn't there. The corporations are blind to our real worth. If they were to find themselves without anyone to keep their email running for one week, maybe that would change, but as it sits we as IT are seen as a cost center, not a revenue generator. It's a completely ignorant way to look at it, but thats how companies see it, and they see us as easily replaceable in comparison to the people who "make the money", not really know just how shit some of the IT "technicians" really are and with cloud technologies coming in hard and fast, we will be paid even less. Yet we are still the assholes that take the 1am phone calls cause the user has locked their account or the building has turned off the water and we have to rush in at 1am and save the servers from turning into melting slag. (yes i know they would shut down first, but i've seen weirder things) but that don't matter to those in charge after the crisis has past. 3) Rights and Respect. Skipping off the money issue, most of said "revenue generators" are currently at the point where they believe they have a right to a computer, and that you are there to facilitate that right. Once they have their computer you are not even a human being anymore, you are to disappear. We have had people "revenue generators" throw stuff at IT staff cause they were busy helping someone else and didn't immediately answer an email, when we complained, it was brushed off cause the guy was on a "big deal and stressed" like that makes it ok, he eventually did get reprimanded but he didn't care or change. If the industry is to survive we need to re-align people to the fact that having a computer is not a right but a privilege and the IT staff are not just "cost centers" but actual valued members of the team as a whole. That includes salaries and other gratuities the same as "revenue generators" esp if we have to put up with them. Long and short of it, get out of IT now, I think we will all be unemployed in 10 or so years anyway.
  5. Sorry been a busy weekend so haven't been able to reply. I want to thank people like @wanderingfool2 @Blademaster91 and @TexasBulldog74 for some well thought out replies, replies I want to answer in equally deserving thought. In the mean time I really only have three thoughts to throw out till i have time to formulate my thoughts. 1) If gas powered vehicles could be brought up to 80+% would they be better than electric, and why in over a 100 years of having gas engines haven't they become more efficient. 2) What do you think it will take for EVs to be able to make it through a -30c + windchill without losing 50% (+/-) of their charge? We had a cold snap here and i had a couple different owners around so I asked. They said average range in summer is 450 again plus or minus when we had a cold snap they were down roughly 200KMs sorry no i don't know the tesla models. 3) If propane can freeze that means hydrogen can as well. This would put HV in worse shape than EV dealing with the cold.
  6. @LinusTech In your latest episode of the WAN show, you spend some saying how much you like your electric vehicles. I ask this question as a legit curiosity, not in an attempt to troll or be an a$$. With the batteries in hybrid and electric cars requiring rare earth materials such as lithium ion, copper and of course petroleum for the plastics; is the amount of destruction we are doing to the earth to get these materials worth it? Do you feel that going to EV or even Hybrids will end up doing less damage to the earth than the petroleum industry, esp when the oil and gas sector is done with an oil sands projects they can reclaim the land?
  7. Has anyone loaded Android as an OS on a Xeon based server? I have a few ideas related to dex that i'd like to try but I want to start this without having windows as a backbone and using emulators / VMs.
  8. "Honestly guys, I just don't get the level of vitrol in this thread." I'm used to it. When i was 16 (about 26 years ago) i put flexible neon cabling into a first gen Microsoft ergo keyboard.(I wish i still had the pictures) When i told people about this, they laughed and said it would never be a thing, now you have to actually go looking for keyboards without LEDs. Maybe in another 10 years i'll be saying the same thing about Dex when everyone is raving about it then lol.
  9. We drive in this on a regular basis This was my family farm a few years ago. This kind of snow is not uncommon, and digging ourselves out is not uncommon. What makes this even more interesting was I took the picture at 9am, when i came home at 2am it was barely snowing. When i got to the city a few hours later there were buses buried in snowbanks, and the trains were down as well. You can not use public transportation even in a city as the only means of transportation. I also don't think anyone who says to use public transit has ever stood on a train platform when it's been -35 and the wind chill was pushing it down into the -40s or colder.
  10. "Literally half the land in the US is used for meat production." "space efficient foods, and it helps with carbon emissions too" 1) The city of new york uses 11,000 Megawatt hours of power per day. The largest solar plants in the US are two sites with a total combined power draw of 579 megawatt a day. (Largest US Solar Plants) The solar farm for this is 13 square kilometers or roughly 4 central parks. Just using simple math to power new york completely by solar. 11000/579 = 18.99 - meaning you would need 19 solar farms to power new york 13*19 = 247 - you would need 247 square kilometers of solar panels to power new york while the sun was up. New york covers an area of 486 square kilometers. You would need a solar farm the size of Dever Colorado to power new york during the day. That is not efficient. You also have to take in that we can't get over the Shockley Quiesser Limit yet, this means every solar panel has a max efficiency rating of 33.6%. So after making solar panels which destroy the earth to make, making lithium ion batteries which again destroys the earth to make, the use of solar panels is absolutely inefficient at this point. I think the best idea was the one where I said we start putting panels on peoples homes, for free or through some government subsidized program. This would at least allow for power to be put back into the grid and the panels are the less of the evils between panels and batteries. 2) Building panels in places like mountains and deserts where nothing can grow is one thing, but there are places like this and this where they are building solar panels right usable farm land, and they aren't twenty feet of the ground they aren't even two feet. This is a waste of farm land.Yes there are some where the panels are higher, but you still can't really grow much beneath them.(Much being relative to growing farms full of produce) 3) Please tell me you don't honestly believe cattle farms are actually damaging the environment? We've been cattle farming for over ten thousand years and even if it did, we as human being need meat to eat. So the reality is, if you kill off our food sources you kill off us. And in reality fake meat is actually far less healthy for you than real meat. Whats in fake meat and what it can do to you. Original Source And in MY Personal Opinion the beyond meat tastes like cardboard crap, a macdonalds burger tastes better and i know it's mostly junk, no one is advertising it to be a healthy alternative.
  11. oh the irony. Considering apple does nothing but control their environments, far beyond anything Google or MS does.
  12. Let me get a minute to read through your comment in it's entirety, but please do not use anything that eco-terrorist has said as any sort of evidence. David Suzuki is actually now enticing eco-terrorism
  13. "when we could just add more solar and wind right now?" - Because solar doesn't produce enough to do more than make the social justice warriors think you are doing something. Look at some of my links. They just closed the last solar farm in the US and it was producing 110 megawatts a day. Las Vegas uses 8000 megawatts a day. Until you build a solar farm like the one in india producing 2.25 gigawatts what you need to power a country becomes astronomical. Not counting the amount of land you waste, unless you plan to build them across a desert. "Lithium isn't the only type of battery technology." - Very true but it's what the world is using primarily right now and thats what we have to take into account. "They make as much energy as you build." - You never get more than 33.6% usage out of what you build. The term is called Shockley Quiezzer Limit. "Do you think rivers and streams never freeze? are you trolling? lol" - Most bodies of water even when they are frozen are only froze for so much on the top. Simple example is people who go ice fishing. The main body of the water isn't frozen. To get my open water divers license i had to take the course in lake Miniwanka in February. there were sections where yes there were layers of ice, but the body of water moved enough that it definitely wasn't frozen. So no i'm not trolling. "Oil isn't likely to freeze like water, sure, but it can thicken and change textures at low temperature," - "The most widely used system is an electric “heat trace,” which is similar to a heated power cord that runs adjacent to the pipe" They have already taken that into account.
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