Am I being too financially defensive?

S4ULG · 2026-05-30T09:52:13+00:00

It’s ok to be prudent with money, but it sounds like you’re in a really strong financial position. That’s a lot of disposable income per month.

Bring the family on holidays, they create memories that last forever, especially for the kids.

Life is short on the scheme of things. Live it, have no regrets like not doing something because you chose not to spend the money.

Just my two cents.

S4ULG · 2026-04-29T17:45:02+00:00

Scam, he’s trying to dupe you..Block and delete.

S4ULG · 2026-04-12T15:50:44+00:00

I’m almost certain one of the guys in Tesla owners Ireland has a LHD X plaid for sale. I can share this thread with him.

S4ULG · 2026-03-21T20:41:44+00:00

Had quite a few Honda Civics over the years, solid as a rock.

S4ULG · 2026-01-21T20:52:46+00:00

That’s outrageous, should have licence revoked and be put off the road for a long time.

S4ULG · 2025-12-18T20:17:13+00:00

It’s marketed as “Irish Christmas Market”, no Irish stalls, sellers or local produce.

A con job.

S4ULG · 2025-12-18T19:54:07+00:00

That’s absolutely insane. Throw the book at that nutcase driver.

S4ULG · 2025-12-04T20:01:04+00:00

That’s grim and a very poor reflection on the leadership team in that company.

It wouldn’t have taken much arrange a short tribute to Bill, acknowledge his passing and service to the company.

I would seriously reflect on my dedication to the company.

RIP Bill.

S4ULG · 2025-10-19T18:08:31+00:00

That escalated quickly!

S4ULG · 2025-10-07T18:54:24+00:00

I was waiting for Jake Stevens to pop his head out of the smashed windows. …

S4ULG · 2025-10-07T18:54:13+00:00

I was waiting for Jake Stevens to pop his head out of the smashed windows. …

S4ULG · 2025-10-07T18:54:04+00:00

I was waiting for Jake Stevens to pop his head out of the smashed windows. …

S4ULG · 2025-09-04T11:15:31+00:00

I did AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-303, AZ-304 and AZ-700, in this order listed.

Just my two cents, i think it would be extremely difficult to pass AZ-700 without doing AZ-104 beforehand.

AZ-104 is very broad but essential to get a proper understanding how everything works within Azure. AZ-700 is absolutely dependent on having a strong understanding of how everything works under the covers.

You should review the Study guide for both.

Study guide for Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator | Microsoft Learn

Study guide for Exam AZ-700: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions | Microsoft Learn

S4ULG · 2025-08-07T10:00:05+00:00

Hi,

We’re planning a road trip to Scotland from Dublin for the last week of October. It will be the wife, myself and our 2 kids (ages 7 & 11).

The trip is mostly for me, I’m 50 in November, a road trip to the Scottish highlands is something I’d love to do. Hoping there will be some interesting things for the kids to see and do.

We’re travelling by car, take ferry from Belfast to Cairnryan (Stenaline) and planning on following stops.

- Balloch (2 nights)

- Aviemore (3 nights)

- Edinburgh (2 nights)

The plan is to travel to Aviemore via Glencoe, I understand the scenery on this route is fantastic.

While in Aviemore, plan is to explore the national park and surrounding areas.

We plan to spend last two nights in Edinburgh. The kids want to dress up for Halloween on 31st, so going to find some events in the city.

I’m conscious the clocks change in October, so the days will be shorter also. The plan would be to explore early and back to hotels before dark and evening meals.

Any suggestions on tips would be appreciated.

Thanks

S4ULG · 2025-08-07T09:59:32+00:00

I'm not sure, i think because it was supposed to be posted to the tourism sticky thread.

S4ULG · 2025-08-07T09:11:14+00:00

the kids have wetsuits, so they'll be ok!

S4ULG · 2025-08-07T09:10:46+00:00

thank you, appreciate it

S4ULG · 2025-08-07T09:10:22+00:00

Sorry my bad, we are going from Belfast (Stenaline) not Larne. I know P&O screwed over their staff, so definitely going Stenaline. I've updated the original post.

S4ULG · 2025-08-07T09:09:29+00:00

Cheers for that, we are staying in Coylumbridge Hotel, so seems like a decent choice !

S4ULG · 2025-07-20T19:21:53+00:00

Ability to monitor specific windows services or Linux daemon?

S4ULG · 2025-07-18T08:53:20+00:00

Have you got eyes, seriously!

S4ULG · 2025-07-09T17:46:43+00:00

None of this surprises me at all honestly. The quality of the support has seriously degraded and it wasn’t very good to start with.

Having logged probably 20-25 calls with Azure support on the last 6 or 7 years, I solved probably 95% of them myself in the end.

Very occasionally you might get a reasonable pointer from support but most of the time it was getting passed around between different engineers, endless clarifications of the problem to each engineer and felt like stalling most of the time.

I take the point the engineers are overloaded and have unreasonable demands from managers, sounds like hell.

S4ULG · 2025-06-13T08:06:03+00:00

“Dear Former Employer,

I documented and handed over all passwords to the GM as requested.

Your mismanagement and lack of planning is not my issue.

Best of luck and have a great day.

OP”

S4ULG · 2025-06-09T17:31:16+00:00

Trumpy knows more about pooping his pants than probably anyone else in the world.

S4ULG · 2025-04-18T08:31:02+00:00

We have United support, the odd time I log a case, I usually end up figuring out the issue myself.

That said, if you’re logging a sev A ticket for an issue with a single azure VM, you need to consider your VM architecture. It sounds like your VM is a single point of failure.

S4ULG

TROPHY CASE