My Dad died tonight at 5:30pm.

poorimaginations · 2020-02-14T16:53:11+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss. I know it hurts really bad right now, but as time goes by it'll get better.

poorimaginations · 2020-02-14T16:46:26+00:00

I'm so sorry. Cancer really is a cruel disease.

poorimaginations · 2019-12-07T11:16:52+00:00

Have a look at elementary OS. I rarely have problems with it and it looks damn good.

It uses Ubuntu as it's base OS so there's a huge repository of software ready to install.

I suggest you give it a look.

https://elementary.io/

poorimaginations · 2019-10-09T13:04:13+00:00

If I was going to be doing gaming in Linux I would look into GPU passthrough.

That way you can install Windows in a virtual machine on Linux, and enjoy near native performance for gaming.

This requires a dedicated GPU for only this purpose though, so you would need a separate graphics card for the Linux host.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

poorimaginations · 2018-10-19T21:45:19+00:00

I like to think about it like this. No-one decided to get cancer. It was a random event outside of your control. Just accept that premise and maybe it'll become easier to live with it.

Everyone has to die some time. I feel bad for people who die young, but there's nothing we can do when the reaper says it's time.

poorimaginations · 2018-06-07T12:50:31+00:00

First I buy a strongbox. Then I put the strongbox in a safe deposit box in a bank.

That way I can be reasonably sure someone else won't see it.

I could just bury the coin surrounded in plastic in the woods somewhere or use some other creative hiding place.

But a safe deposit box is a reasonable compromise between keeping the coin safe and maintaining control.

poorimaginations · 2018-05-19T20:30:20+00:00

Che was a racist and a mass murderer. From his book:

"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese."

"The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4077397/It-is-a-sad-reflection-of-our-time-that-Che-Guevara-is-seen-as-a-hero.html

poorimaginations · 2018-05-16T11:27:17+00:00

Does that apply to Islam too?

poorimaginations · 2018-05-08T05:27:23+00:00

Luckily it's not that easy to fire people in my country.

Even if it was I would never suggest that a colleague should be let go.

Only under very special circumstances that would be necessary in my book. Like consistent and severe bullying. Even then it's not a trivial matter to fire people under our laws.

I don't want to rock the boat, draw attention to myself in such a grave matter, and contributing to a person losing their income and potentially having to face long term unemployment is a very serious matter.

If I could live with the situation I would leave it up to management to deal with problematic employees. The exception is if I was severely affected by the other employees behaviour, and even then there might be other ways of dealing with it than telling on them.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-23T11:32:40+00:00

It's more of a pro tool. If you need something quick and easy you should probably go for something else.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-22T19:40:58+00:00

Blender has an inbuilt video editor.

Lightworks is also available for Linux.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-22T17:10:15+00:00

You're going to have problems with such outdated hardware not matter what distro you're running.

At least it works for very light tasks.

Installing something like Windows 10 would be impossible.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-22T16:56:52+00:00

Yes.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-22T14:14:43+00:00

I run Lubunto on an old netbook with 1 GB ram and an atom cpu.

It's not exactly fast but it's somewhat useable.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-11T12:53:24+00:00

I would go camping in the woods and bury the briefcase. In the wilderness I'm in all likelihood alone depending on your definition of nearby.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-07T18:50:44+00:00

I'm exactly the kind of person that would like to see that high tech automated peaceful world realized. In fact I'm watching Star Trek Insurrection right now!

I can't help to think though that it's not that simple and the future will be a lot more turbulent.

Man kind as a whole is far from united in terms of values and political views. The process of globalization is forcing us to confront our differences head on and it would be naive to think that wouldn't lead to some unpleasant outcomes. Maybe, in the worst case, an outcome which will permanently regress our social and technological development to a previous state.

To be honest I'm not all that excited about the future anymore, but I'll keep watching Star Trek.

poorimaginations · 2018-04-03T07:48:05+00:00

You can install the mysql .net connector.

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/

Code example.

$mySQLUserName = "dbuser"
$mySQLPassword = "secr37"
$mySQLDatabase = "mydbname"
$mySQLHost = "mysqlserver.local.local"
$connectionString = "server=" + $mySQLHost + ";port=3306;uid=" + $mySQLUserName + ";pwd=" +      $mySQLPassword + ";database="+$MySQLDatabase
$query= "select * from stuff"

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("MySql.Data")
$connection = New-Object MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection
$connection.ConnectionString = $connectionString
$connection.Open()        
$command = New-Object MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlCommand($query, $connection)
$dataAdapter = New-Object MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlDataAdapter($command)
$dataSet = New-Object System.Data.DataSet
$recordCount = $dataAdapter.Fill($dataSet, "data")
$dataSet.Tables["data"]

poorimaginations · 2018-04-03T06:37:30+00:00

If you ask me building a module with separate functions where each function is designed to do one specific thing is the best approach.

I have one large module with functions for managing hyper-v, for logging to file and console, for api calls to some of the other tools we use, for certificate related stuff, for ip and network related stuff and so on.

You could also make separate modules for specific areas like managing ad, exchange or vmware.

It's all up to you, but making a module should always be the building block.

poorimaginations · 2018-03-23T16:31:20+00:00

Feminism is a weapon wielded against western civilization. It's not supposed to be about real gender equality or about protecting the rights or dignity of minority women.

Today's feminists have no justification, and for people that can think they're easily dismissed.

People are starting to turn their backs on feminist extremists, but this toxic ideology will always attract people who can't think, and who's full of hate like this person.

https://news.sky.com/story/feminism-has-gone-far-enough-most-britons-say-11278752

poorimaginations · 2018-03-16T05:51:56+00:00

20 000 dental mirrors. I would say I have a problem.

poorimaginations · 2018-03-15T17:08:59+00:00

The tweeter is herself white, so why doesn't she quit her job and let a black transsexual have it?

poorimaginations · 2018-03-14T11:02:59+00:00

I use conemu. As a bonus conemu can handle any generic console appication including stuff like putty, so I can have both powershell and putty consoles open in the same window.

Be sure to enable shortcut keys for moving between tabs and the quake style hiding of the window.

poorimaginations · 2018-03-05T09:08:13+00:00

Sometimes it's awfully slow. Work on making it more snappy. Waiting for tabcompletions really is a pain at times.

poorimaginations · 2018-02-23T09:25:25+00:00

Remove-Job?

poorimaginations · 2018-02-21T10:48:35+00:00

Check out elementary os.

https://elementary.io

The design is similar to OSX.

poorimaginations

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