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Comment What's the bottleneck? (Score 1) 158

I see a variety of suggestions of getting another PC, but if your physically at the machine usage and other peoples' won't overlap, just get more memory and a second hard drive. Run VMs stored on that second drive - odds are good that you're not really CPU-bound these days unless there's some serious gaming going on.

Comment Story is unclear - e.g. 1 gun or two? (Score 1) 1431

I've seen at least one report that indicated that the person shot got up, threw popcorn at the shooter, then pulled a gun himself at which time he was shot.

Until there's more details out there, to my viewpoint in the upper Midwest this is more a "Jerry Springer Show" scenario going too far and less a "killed him for texting" situation.

Comment Re:Or, stay low tech ... (Score 1) 133

Did you go to the actual site that I named? Both the "1. Shop" link at the top and the "3-packs (picture) only 9.95" at the top right go straight to their shop page.....

Their shop page is perhaps a little wordy, but mostly because they actually do come out with new "editions" several times a year and part of their business is selling subscriptions to those.

Comment Re:KDE Kolab (Score 1) 133

Depending on your number of users, it may be VERY IMPORTANT to increase the number of file descriptors available to the LDAP server. I believe it defaults to 1024, but the server actually uses somewhere around 1500 for intra-process IPv6 connections with ~80 users. If you find errors in your logs about "too many fds open" this is almost certainly your problem.

Instructions for doing these increases are available online, there are several locations that need to be modified.

I haven't dug into whether I have something misconfigured that's causing this IPv6 socket usage, so if you read this and say "that idiot!" please share any more-appropriate fixes.

Comment Re:Or, stay low tech ... (Score 1) 133

Needs vary hugely, so you may have to find your own.

For small notebooks, Field Notes (fieldnotesbrand.com) is the nice trendy option these days and offers some options including dot grid layouts as well as lined and graph paper. They also do special editions regularly, and are made in the USA.

For multiple sizes (including small) there are the standard Moleskine products including both their books and their "cahiers" which are basically the same thing Field Notes has. The nice thing there is that they have larger-size books, the downsides for me are that they're made in China, they're expensive(-ish, same as Field Notes), and that on the cahiers the pocket is simply a glued flap in the back which just hasn't held up for me. Their hard- and soft-cover book formats are more sturdy and the pocket is completely different.

Not as common in the US but slightly available are the Whitelines products (whitelines.se). The ones I have are a few years old and are all based on the international paper sizes (up to A4). These are printed in light grey with white lines, and in practice will probably work out much like a light dot grid.

Beyond that, there's a whole world of notebook enthusiasts that would be happy to discuss this with you ad nauseam, and of course there's a whole world of lab notebooks - maybe check out your local university bookstore to see what's available in those.

Comment Check Engine Lights (Score 1) 526

In general, a solidly-on check engine light is a non-urgent item, usually emissions related. The first thing to do when you get one is make sure your gas cap is tight.

A flashing check engine light indicates a more serious problem, and you may or may not need to stop driving. The thing that'll really mess you up is loss of oil, but there's a separate oil light for that - if it comes on, STOP THE ENGINE.

Comment Crashplan really is your solution (Score 1) 285

You can use the free version, which only backs up once every 24 hours (but you can trigger manual backups). It'll tell you via several methods if it's failed to back up for more than a day or two, but I don't believe it'll keep trying until the destination happens to be online - if it can't back up at its 24-hour window, it'll fail.

What you probably want is their Crashplan+ 10GB plan (~33/year in the US), even if you never use the 10GB of online storage. By getting the paid plan you also get the features of better encryption and more frequent backups. On the paid version they also also enable having multiple backup sets, so you can back up some files to the online storage (e.g. "Documents") while backing up "everything" to another computer. The "perpetual" licenses ended back in 2010 and mostly predated the online cloud backup options.

If you're not going to have direct network access between the computers (e.g. shared wifi), you'll also probably want to do the initial backup with both on the same network, then separate them. Crashplan's ID-based backup system should handle that change with no problems.

Comment MFC-7860DW instead of 7460DN (major differences) (Score 1) 381

I'm going to recommend jumping one level up (street price there shouldn't be much difference), especially if you're going to be doing ANY faxing - the 7860 has built-in PCL & PS emulation and has a 33.6kbps fax modem vs the 14.4 in the 7460. The 7460 is a GDI printer with everything being done in the driver instead.

The PCL & PS emulation basically mean that no matter what you can use it in some way with just about any system - it may not be perfect, but anything can print with those.

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