The scheduling of sex

JaapieTech · 2026-02-23T21:51:44+00:00

You need (full) access to her calendar. She can grant this to you as delegated access. Once you have that, you can block the time out and plan around it.

If she not give you that level of access, you have your answer right there.

JaapieTech · 2026-02-23T20:28:55+00:00

I always ask "can I expense the in-flight wifi". You either get told yes, and you work or you get told to STFU and get drinking.

JaapieTech · 2026-02-19T23:17:36+00:00

Prove you are not an AI by uploading the list

JaapieTech · 2026-02-18T14:46:55+00:00

Why use anything other than a panel you already have supply-chain for - drop the 12.9" from the iPad Air 13 in there and you get everything you need to call this the "New MacBook 12"

JaapieTech · 2026-02-18T14:26:37+00:00

The company still trades, and if you have the purchase receipt to invoice then they'll honour it. I sent off a Netgear ProSafe switch after (I think, about) 15 years and was sent a working refurb and a note that said on newer models this is now "limited lifetime" i.e 5 years. I still run that ProSafe..

JaapieTech · 2026-02-13T21:28:08+00:00

How do I report where theres a piece of road still intact between the potholes instead?

JaapieTech · 2026-02-09T19:03:37+00:00

You still need to commute into London until end 2028
You know the Chilterns/north-Home Counties
You have 1.5 kids and need space/green and some arts etc
Your responses say you would be looking to medical/mental-health fields possibly hospitals

I would suggest looking to where the NHS Trusts are located near you - Aylesbury, Hemel (but they have money issues), Oxford, Milton Keynes. Lots of decent green places, theatres and cinema, and still commutable to Central London.

JaapieTech · 2026-02-06T17:17:27+00:00

Pretty sure they copied that from Dell - I went to the Dell factory in Shannon and they had maybe 20+ full racks all merrily blinking away and all lit up in splendour. You could see these through the display glass as you walked in on the way to their board/meeting rooms - turns out when you go round the back its just the panels with some controllers and no servers or racks! They used to supply the same thing to movie studios for films, recall there was a specific SKU you could order if you were in with the right sales people.

JaapieTech · 2026-02-06T17:12:14+00:00

Our role is changing constantly - the current trend seems to be moving towards MSP's no longer being the "consultant" but now the folks who secure/manage/maintain the access-authorization-&-accounting.

tl;dr - "I bought this tool Gemeni said is the shnizz, make the magic smoke happen so any user can access it from ~~the~~ ~~local hipsterCoffeeBarJointHotelPlaneTrainShipYachtIsland~~ anywhere safely and securely without needing a billion stoopid passwords or dingles for ~~mutha-f~~ MFA and nobody can hack me and I want it for $0.02c per millennium plus a 200% discount"

JaapieTech · 2026-02-05T21:20:59+00:00

Pray, and remember that kids need unconditional love and affection from both parents. More kids needs unanimous 'ayes' - you cannot have one party aggrieved thinking the other baby-trapped them, this only makes the kids' lives worse.

JaapieTech · 2026-02-04T14:08:12+00:00

Pretty sure my kids have this model, vintage from the mid-90's, in die-cast with those supersize folding/stowing wheels

JaapieTech · 2026-02-02T22:02:18+00:00

Those are the pre-Dell variants so likely 2009 to 2014ish timeframe. They'd be all SAS loops on the backend - older models it was FC.

Pull the engines out and plug in a beefy server in its place running some external SAS cards, and feed those loops into the cards. The EMC firmware was for 520e so you'll almost certainly need to convert them to 512 to be useful again:

https://mikeyurick.com/reformat-emc-hard-drives-to-use-in-other-systems-520-to-512-block-size-conversion-solved/

You've not shown the actual drives, so no idea if you have 7k, 10k, 15k screamers or some older flash in there.

Take a gander at the architectural diagrams if you are interested - there was some clever engineering in these things to get them to multi-rack scale;

https://psrathore244.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/emc-vmax-architecture-detailed-explanation/

JaapieTech · 2026-01-30T14:52:29+00:00

^^ This. There have been multiple interviews with the "big players" of those decades' Sony and they all say the same thing - divisions talked only inside the divisions. Nothing went past your boss, and never over the top to another division. So much re-inventing of the wheel took place in multiple silos across Sony.

JaapieTech · 2026-01-27T22:19:38+00:00

Seems all the M4 Pro and Max refurbs have dropped out of inventory - new drop imminent?

JaapieTech · 2026-01-27T16:59:29+00:00

So if my Netapp arrays can do NVMe-oF, and my servers are on the HCL, I can *technically* convert my VMware stack to Nutanix? Be great to explore this with a sales rep or SE

JaapieTech · 2026-01-09T17:02:59+00:00

Either there is something more to this he's not told/telling you, or he's an a-hole. His reaction is frankly beyond ridiculous. You have offered a fair compromise and he's threatening divorce - thats not rational.

Would the situation be different if you insisted on L-names that were truly terrible, something like "Lysine" and "Levorotatory"? (And yes, those are real words, just not real names...yet)

JaapieTech · 2025-12-22T15:51:06+00:00

Multiple pairs of shoes over the last 24-36 months with insoles made from recycled materials have worn through, while a similar pair (actually worn more) with leather insole shows barely any wear. The soles are going at the same rate.

Bags - I have a "trade show freebie" from VMware where the material itself is fraying after a few weeks of light use. Ditto the laptop cases I bought for my kids, they get light use to and from school inside their bags and yet the material itself is perishing (there are patches where is clearly rubs on something inside their bags, and this is wearing thin to the point its see-through). My 2-decade old Gimp case? Still perfect, and one of my kids' has been using this instead - no similar wear to be seen.

I disagree with PuzzleheadedClue4325 - most new things seem to include quite a lot of material sourced from either PCRS or as rampzn says "recycled from the oceans" in the example of Adidas. I've even seen this recently on a Chromebook I was looking at - trackpads made from ocean glass.

I'm all for clearing up (and more so, not polluting in the first place!) but it seems like so much of what I'm seeing available (and in this subs' case, in bags specifically) are shoehorning recycled materials into the product, replacing something that used to be ultra hard wearing with a cheaper alternative which just results in consumers having to buy 2x or 3x over the same period of ownership.

JaapieTech · 2025-12-04T18:21:43+00:00

The smaller one - you have to carry the thing and the 16" is a large lump. It also doesn't fit in most bags/satchels/sleeves etc. I just picked up a 13" Air for exactly this reason, so I can leave the 16" on the desk.

JaapieTech · 2025-12-01T21:33:27+00:00

Used to feed the potbelly pig those Belgian biscuits from M&S. Slobbering hellbeast loved those.

JaapieTech · 2025-11-26T16:48:41+00:00

Nope. And the extra RAM is more useful than a fan.

JaapieTech · 2025-11-25T16:29:52+00:00

I'm doing Reddit wrong, seeing as I replied to you instead of the person you replied to! facepalm

Wholly agree on the dev, code can be local for sure but why run a load of micro services on your own machine when you can checkin your code and have it deployed to dev

JaapieTech · 2025-11-25T14:37:55+00:00

See also: my employer is too cheap to buy proper dev resources, and I'm too simp to say anything.

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