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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.
  14. I've been driving in that winter since i got my learners permit. I don't think you understand what i mean by winter.
  15. moving liquid doesn't freeze, and neither does oil. And if all you think you need is a coat to be warm, you've never seen real cold.
  16. "Why not just build a solar and wind farm" - because they don't produce enough electricity to do any good. the last solar farm in the us that just shut down was making 110megawatt a day, Las Vegas a relatively small city uses 8000 megawatts a day, 110 isn't even a rounding error. My suggestion about getting the gov't to put solar panels on peoples homes as a state sponsored project would be a better way to go about it i would think.
  17. look at the people we elect as leader. That really answers your statement.
  18. It will never happen. The words bomb and Chernobyl will be why the masses will never let it happen.
  19. " And stop city planning to only have cars, it's stupid when a bus can carry like 50 people and a train 500 saving a lot of energy." - This is meant as an honest question. What is winter like where you live? "Winter where I live"
  20. "Do you need 23 panels?" - You made me go digging through my emails, i have to update my posts. Here was the math they quoted me in 2018 and it was 34 panels then. annual Kwh usage of 12000 (1000Kwh *12 months) the estimators were using 255 W panels in their calculations. 255 W Panel with Microinverter * 3.75 Peak daylight Hours = 956.25 Wh per panel = 0.95625 Kwh 1000 Kwh per month / 30 days = 33.333 Kwh a day 33.333 Kwh/day / 0.95625 Kwh = 34 Panels Estimated Rooftop Cost : $18,207 Yes the newer panels are a little more, so the math will change. I'm not sure how much more 500 watt panels would cost. i need to look up the more recent numbers for exact if i were to do it now. But i'm still not willing.
  21. "A lot of jobs will need to be reallocated" - That is way easier said than done. You can't walk into a coal plant and tell a guy who has been doing job A for 25 years that his industry is dead. You will end up with millions who are unemployed and in a situation where no one will hire them. My MIL is a great example. she was 60 when she was laid off, she ended up as a cashier at walmart because no one would hire her because as soon as they had her trained she'd be retiring, or so thats what they said to her. So now you do that with millions in every sector of the employment systems that are related to oil and gas and you have millions unemployed. Even if the government does reeducation and reallocated these people will still eventually want to retire and you have just knocked that back from 65 to 80 or 85. "We are talking about the fate of the planet here" - Yes we are, but like everything else in this life saving the world has to take a back step to feeding and protecting ones family. No clue if you have kids, but as a parent i do want to help keep the earth alive for them, but keeping the lights on and food on the table will always take priority to everything else. Anyone who argues against that, isn't a parent. IPCC - I have seen some of the science coming out of groups like the IPCC and the United Nations. I'm sorry but I have less faith in what they call "sound science" when so many of their groups are paid off by the people asking for the reports and those people are just uneducated politicians. Download a book called "the green fraud" and after reading that we can talk about the "science" coming out of governing bodies. "Only drastic actions will have a decent chance at slowing or halting it." - There have been people saying this since the 1970's and low and behold 50 years later, we are still here. 18 times the earth was supposed to die in the last 50 years and now we got little girls like gretta who are hypocrites beyond their knowledge or willingness to admit saying the same thing. Gretta crossed the ocean in 15 million dollar boat made of fiber glass, with her dual diesel engine crew behind her on another expensive boat. Only to scream at people that they had destroyed her childhood. In reality that 15 million dollars could have been spent in a million other ways supposedly helping the environment. The fiber glass boat itself is a byproduct of the oil and gas industry and of course the second boat for her crew having two diesel engines. So forgive me if i don't believe the cries of the alarmists. "start switching to alternative less polluting forms of energy generation" - I agree, I would love to switch to solar, but as i've said what we are creating right now is more destructive as a whole than the oil and gas industry. You have to think of it this way. The cleanest source of power that we have on this planet right now is nuclear, but the masses will never let it evolve to be a long term energy source because all people can think about when someone says nuclear is "bomb, chernoble, not in my back yard" so no matter how safe it is, nuclear will never happen. Wind isn't any better at this point because even if you do something like recycle old cars to create the fan blades you still have to store the generated power and that comes back to batteries, the same lithium ion batteries solar uses which again, back to digging large holes in the earth. The solar panels themselves are made with lead and cadmium. Lead is both a rare earth material and toxic, so if a panel breaks or dies now you've got toxic materials sitting in the earth as we have no recycling technologies for solar panels. "Solar Panel Toxic Trash - Wired" "Oil however, when used to burn as a fossil fuel" - the amount of CO2 being generated in Canada is very low. I have seen the numbers in years past and it's China and India that are the top two producers of CO2 emissions. In reality if we could get those two followed by the US to bring their numbers down, that would fall well below the "saving the earth" range everyone is talking about. But in the mean time we need to keep the lights on, we also need to keep the economy going. If we have no money, we can't afford to keep the lights on, if we can't keep the lights on we aren't spending money on ways to stop using fossil fuels. This is the reality of the entire scenario. If you can't keep your country alive today, then tomorrow isn't even something to consider. "but they are still better than what we are doing now" - No they aren't. You can't destroy the earth to save it. "There's no magic bullet yet, and it's certainly a choice between lesser evils, but those 20 something panels you mention would be capable of providing my yearly electricity budget give or take." - I agree there is no magic bullet. But if we were smart we could use the system we have in place now to build for the future. My house isn't that big, those 34 panels would put me at net 0 per month. If 23 panels would provide you electricity for a year, you are quite literally living in a shed in the woods and using a wood burning fireplace to heat your 100 square foot of space. Hell you wouldn't even have enough energy to charge your laptop to finish reading this. "Even taking a load off during the day would already help reducing the need for e.g. coal-fired power plants" - I read an article on all the failed solar panel farms that different countries have tried to create over the years. "Solar companies disappearing" This was one of the last in the US and it was only producing 110MW i'm guessing per day. Las Vegas which is a small but active city uses 8000 megawatts per day. This means solar farms really don't do the trick. However and you will have to forgive me the math as I no longer remember the numbers. Lets play devils advocate here and say the solar panel weren't toxic and we could make large numbers of them. And lets say we take Las Vegas and the power companies rent the roof space on peoples homes. The power companies and the government could have some sort of deal on costs, but in the mean time all the panels on peoples homes would help feed back into the grid. I did look the numbers up at one point but I don't remember them now. But lets say even if you don't bring each house to net 0, a person's home normally uses less power during the day, so there would still be energy being put into the grid. This would be a win for the earth, a win for home owners as they would get their power bills lowered, and a win for the government as they wouldn't have power issues. "it's in our best interest to move to other options such as nuclear and wind/solar/hydro where available" - You are right but as with the las vegas example the use of solar panels isn't even a drop in the bucket as to what las vegas uses on a daily basis.
  22. haha, That's your attempt at growing this conversation into something meaningful? Had you actually read what I stated, you may have actually learned that I like the idea of renewables. I would love to put solar on my house, but i'm not paying 18k for 23 panels (if i could fit 23 panels) on my house. Not only is that a waste of money right now, I believe building out solar anything is extremely hard on the environment. But i don't think you have the interest to understand that.
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