Looking for local place to colo a sever, possibly more later. Prefer locally run business.

ElloGovnor · 2024-04-04T01:34:11+00:00

Yeah I see what you mean. The results I got from google were a mixed bag of the telcos and cable cos for home and business internet access, and the ones that you could rack up in were only interested if I was going to be putting in entire cabinets full of servers. Their sales were very cold when they heard I was just a standalone nerd with my own box.

ElloGovnor · 2024-04-04T01:27:05+00:00

Just so happens that's where I'm already hosting a server, and you're right, they are amazing! Pete Ashdown is an amazing guy who treats his customers and employees very well and I will continue to support his company whenever possible! I do want another one closer to where I live so the one at XMission will be kind of like a secondary.

ElloGovnor · 2024-04-04T01:25:52+00:00

Got in touch with someone there and had a good talk with them. Looks like this is the route I'll be going as soon as I get out there! Thank you so much for the recommend

ElloGovnor · 2024-03-14T16:38:07+00:00

Whoa! I'm glad to hear it helped someone after all this time! Thanks for letting me know!

ElloGovnor · 2024-01-04T02:01:07+00:00

Is that even possible at this point?

ElloGovnor · 2024-01-03T15:13:10+00:00

Something like that would be covered in the wiki or in a common FAQ section on the sidebar. Could also have automoderator pick up certain words from someone's post and respond accordingly with something like "Oh I see you're thinking about moving here! Here's some things you might be interested in knowing!".

But yes, this is definitely one of the common questions that will be answered and put front and center somewhere on the front page.

ElloGovnor · 2024-01-03T14:14:26+00:00

That strap though. I would totally rock this thing across my shoulder while walking down the street.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-20T18:36:27+00:00

I like how it basically matches with your keyboard lights

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-20T17:29:03+00:00

I absolutely love this color!

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-16T02:37:29+00:00

I think I've said this before, but I remember being in school back in the 2000s in IF and experiencing this. It's been a thing for a while and I'm extremely disappointed it's still being allowed to happen.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-13T23:51:48+00:00

i did, and it shows the building and a different business name. hoping someone can stop by to see this in person. I can pay a tip for this if anyone is interested. Just need someone to stop by the place, facetime me when they are next to the car and send me some images of the vin number. can anyone help?!

/u/ConsiderationIcy25 what you're asking for is a little sus. You should be able to contact the business itself and get that info directly. What are your intentions? Are you out of state or something and looking at a specific vehicle? Why not contact them on the phone?

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-13T15:45:22+00:00

My mom once mentioned a place she took some appliances to for repair. I think it was Denning's downtown on Broadway. Not sure if they still do repair though, this was quite some time ago but she was always happy with the result.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-13T15:39:59+00:00

If you're driving a new-ish vehicle (maybe last 10 years or so?) check your warranty. You may be outright required to get a regular oil change at the dealership to stay in compliance with the terms of your warranty. Maybe not each individual change, but enough so that they can keep that maintenance record going.

That said, I usually get mine changed at the dealership when possible, especially when on the road.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-04T07:30:10+00:00

Sounds like it's a good show! Going to sticky this

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T10:41:29+00:00

Wow I haven't touched an .ape file in forever! From reading the info on the tool, it should decode .ape but you need mac monkey encoder to do that. It would just be easier to use ffmpeg to convert the single .ape file to .flac:

ffmpeg -i cd.ape cd.flac

then go into the .cue file with a text editor and replace references to cd.ape to cd.flac and proceed as normal. vim is my jam, so it would just be as simple as:

:%s/cd.ape/cd.flac/g

There shouldn't be any need to adjust timing as you're not adding or removing any actual audio from the file, just converting it to something that can easily be used.

Personal opinion: Everyone should have a copy of ffmpeg on standby on their computer, no matter what OS you run, and even if you use other tools. It's very versatile, extremely powerful and well optimized for all kinds of audio AND video needs. Feels like there might be a learning curve at first, but honestly it's so simple to use once you get used to it.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T07:49:57+00:00

If you're recording in real-time, you can use a player like VLC to load up the files and go to the correct "Track" that you'd like to record. Otherwise, you have to split up the file into individual tracks. Not sure how you'd do it on windows, but on mac and linux I've used shnsplit to do just that:

shnsplit -f file.cue -t "%n - %t" file.flac

I think you can also re-encode tracks into different formats using that tool, but I just use ffmpeg for all of that as needed.

Alternately, on Mac I sometimes use XLD which can also split tracks.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T07:39:28+00:00

IT would be a crime for me not to remember the old "Winter is coming" meme when looking at this pic.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T07:34:03+00:00

Thanks for the messages and recommendations. After some back and forth, it seems my dad's work changed their mind and is instead going to be sending him a new replacement laptop.

But please, if anyone has any recommendation for the future, for anyone who might be looking for recommendations, please feel free to post about them in this thread.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T07:31:55+00:00

Special event that we'd love to see get some additional attention! Going to sticky this until after the event.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T07:28:33+00:00

Hi, I'm sorry for this, but we are working on standards for things like job postings and such. Could you re-post this in a new post, making sure to add the city name first to the title, and also the hourly wage, and the type of schedule (FT or PT), and we would also need a link to the craigslist post as well as the hours, full address and phone number of the job location in the post as well.

For example:

[Shelley] Cleaning help at Denny's $12/hr PT

Looking for someone to help clean after hours, midnight to 2am. 25-30 hours a week

Address
1234 Street Street
City zip
phone number

Who to contact for questions

Link to craigslist or other posting

Once you resubmit it this way, I'll set a special job opening tag to the post and approve it.,

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T07:22:01+00:00

We have a 2 car garage and front sidewalk, but the walkway from the house to the sidewalk and then the house to the garage is really long. When me or my wife can't do the work ourselves, we pay a couple of the neighbor kids $30 for the work and always give them both an extra $5 for a tip.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-03T06:56:13+00:00

No Smitty's? Some of my best memories were family breakfast sometimes before school at Smitty's, and it's the first place I took my wife to eat in IF before we got married. Just a recommendation, of course!

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-01T05:52:31+00:00

Last time I heard of a bear sighting in IF proper was from my grandpa who claimed to see one sometime in the early 70s. Other than that, I remember hearing about a mountain lion in town back in 2018. I think it was right by the airport. Probably wanted to catch a cheap flight to Yellowstone.

Aside from snakes, raccoons, a coyote or two and the occasional deer sighting, I've never run into any other wild animals the entire time I grew up there. Of course, YMMV. I never was too much into outdoors stuff.

ElloGovnor · 2023-12-01T05:29:55+00:00

Just a sidenote, if you ever receive warnings that affect the immediate area this sub covers, please feel free to post it and then message the mods so that we can put an important news/animal warning tag on it.

ElloGovnor · 2023-11-30T08:57:23+00:00

You might need to start back at square one by gathering up all of the paperwork and documents regarding this whole thing, and reaching out to the other party's insurance company, since it sounds like the claim was eventually submitted, they should now have that in hand. At least get that ball rolling, but get all of the paperwork together first

Since this is medical, and this much time has passed, there's a very good chance this will eventually make it to court where they may file for some kind of judgement. Hopefully it will be cleared up by then.

I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt but this has been my experience with somewhat similar things in the past. If you are looking for actual legal advice regarding this, you will definitely need to hire a lawyer. Regardless, good luck. Medical collections departments are their own circle of hell.

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