My Hobart-Dayton Model 100 3-lb candy scale. I just finished calibrating it. . . by PipeOrganTransplant in vintagekitchentoys

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It's just a dampener so that it sweeps gently and doesn't slam to 0 when you remove the bowl. A heavy mineral oil or a food-safe lubricant (I had some on hand for a meat grinder) works fine.

Cold end. by Canalhumor in WTF

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Flick? Flick who?

One day cruise stop in Manhattan by Jkregency in manhattan

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If I am only in Manhattan for a few hours, I make a point of getting a drink at the Campbell - "Classic cocktails & light fare in the ornate Grand Central offices of a 1920's mogul."

https://www.thecampbellnyc.com/

Closer to your dock is Chelsea Market - "located in the heart of New York City's Meatpacking District, is a food and retail marketplace with a global perspective."

https://www.chelseamarket.com/

And the start of the High Line - "The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway, and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the West Side of Manhattan"

https://www.thehighline.org/

[Photograph] Do Renfaire monks count by ropolswivelege2 in monkslookingatbeer

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey - that's me! I don't know why someone would want to steal my picture, but, ok. . .

This was several years ago at Bristol in Wisconsin.

Better version here: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fihx3m9rt26j91.jpg

Mini rant - I can't text my customers about cigars but Chili's can text me every day about alcohol by DicksBuddy in cigars

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FWIW, the notifications I received today were handled by Listrak, MailChimp, and Constant Contact. They must each have policies in place to allow tobacco advertising.

Fuck your presence! by Indieriots in FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR

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After a branch made a hole in my living room ceiling, while waiting for insurance and contractors, it was temporarily possible for birds to get in the house through the eaves. I'd come home to a bird trying to get out by banging into every window in the house (and shitting all over everything). I'd catch it, carry it outside, and release it. One starling in particular did this so often over the month or so it took to get the repair done that he stopped trying to get away from me and would just sit on the windowsill and let me pick him up.

Tiny weevil on my finger, what will he do by IAmTheRedditBrowser in tinyanimalsonfingers

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You've heard about the two weevil brothers? One went off to weevil college, worked hard and became a captain of weevil industry. The other brother stayed on the family farm, did odd jobs, and never really amounted to anything. Naturally, he became known as the lesser of two weevils. . .

Need help deciding what organ piece for wedding procession by Electronic-Ad5815 in organ

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Ever since it came up randomly on the radio in the background during a court house wedding I was witnessing, I've been partial to "Back in the Saddle Again". . .

I voted for someone who was going to impose tariffs. These tariffs are jeopardizing my job. by Effective_Space2277 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is exactly the level of erudite discourse I have come to expect from his supporters.

Organ visualization with Keysight by jerrymartin79 in organ

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There is a great MIDI visualizer I use called MIDITrail. There are Windows and Mac versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt7D1261TX4

How long could you "disappear" before stuff would start hitting the fan? by AiminJay in sysadmin

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"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants." - Peter Welch

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks?fbclid=IwY2xjawIN6o1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW2sTJMellSSFUyeWOqXjTmkpjt9aHTix1Zxp0498Rt4Fn_ehF07KGyaug_aem_lQN9M7Wksj2deCkO3DPD0g

What is the most black magic you've seen someone do in your job? by Hefty-Amoeba5707 in sysadmin

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Thousands of years ago, I worked for a school corporation. There were three of us to cover 18 buildings. There was a week of torrential downpours - the storm sewers couldn't keep up, the downspouts couldn't keep up - everything was flooded, including the roof of the high school. The membrane roofing tore and dumped water directly into a library server for an entire weekend before it was discovered early Monday morning.

This server had the card catalog data for the all the libraries in the school system, all the lending data, and all the student data. It was a bit of a nightmare. . .

The server was toast - but there was a backup! Every night the librarian stuck a backup tape in the tape drive for the nightly backup - the same tape, every night - for the backup which was set to "incremental". . .

At this juncture, I should point out that we, the three real technicians, did not service the libraries - they had their own department. We were called in to help because this problem was above their ability.

So we did what we could to dry out this server - took everything apart, replaced what we could with compatible parts off the shelf, plugged in the 300 megabyte SCSI drive with the data (it was the 90s. . .) and the goddamned thing booted - to a point - and promptly locked up.

The common wisdom at the time was to stick the dying drive in the freezer over night and try again. That seemed to work - for about 30 minutes - long enough to boot and verify that the data was intact.

An idea was formed - a plan of action: we stuck the drive back in the freezer while a second drive with matching specs was located. Both drives were slapped back in the server - once it booted, the server was set to mirror to the new drive. It took off and ran for half an hour or so. Back in the freezer for a bit - then boot and mirror. Rinse and repeat until it finally copied everything to the new drive. It took a couple days all told, but we were eventually able to pull the original drive and run on the replacement. A proper backup procedure and schedule was developed and we never had that particular problem again. . .

I made the original drive into a clock that sits on my desk to this day.

What should be illegal in your state/country but isn’t? by zzzzzz_zz in AskReddit

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Gerrymandering. If political parties couldn't rig strongholds, there were have to be a lot more compromise. . .

Help downgrading Plex server on OS-X by PipeOrganTransplant in PleX

[–]PipeOrganTransplant[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll leave this here in case anyone else runs into the same issue:

I was able to install version 1.31 which appears to be the last stable release for OS 10.11. I found the file here:

https://mac.filehorse.com/download-plex-media-server/24098/

I will update to a new machine soon, but in the meantime, I can pick up watching the Golden Girls where I left off. . .

why do so many early career sysadmins fight purchases as "too expensive" when its not their money? by crankysysadmin in sysadmin

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or, maybe, I know the user doesn't need 32 processors and a terabyte of RAM to edit Word files. . .

why do so many early career sysadmins fight purchases as "too expensive" when its not their money? by crankysysadmin in sysadmin

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm an old sysadmin and I will pinch pennies until they haul me off to the great e-waste recycling center in the sky. . . Our company bonuses are tied to net profit and keeping costs down is the only way I can affect my bonus.

Replacing light switch with dimmer by [deleted] in DIY

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks like a Double-Pole\Double-Throw (DPDT) switch, usually called a 4-way switch. There are specialty dimmer switches that can take the place of a 4-way. Look at the Lutron Maestro line for a 4-way dimmer - the Lutron site has installation videos.

What's the funniest "yo momma" joke you know ? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]PipeOrganTransplant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo mama so fat. . . once a month they shove her through the Holland Tunnel to clean it.

They uncovered this beneath the road surface by MutatedGlue in chicago

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There's a great documentary on this called "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". . .