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For my smaller clients, I have been migrating them to Synology Directory Services (LDAP/DNS/SAMBA)... I import AD, switch the DNS on the workstations, good to go.

Test it out, if curious - Pretty straight-forward. And a heck of a lot more economical.

Yes! This! I'm in!

I traded 5 hours of IT labor for a Bally Sea Ray table (1971). Tuning it up was interesting (electro-mechanicals use many solenoids and relays) and the end result was a blast...

Now I have a client who is asking to hire me to get their old table back in shape.

Would recommend!

Browne wrote a number of books I found helpful, such as How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World.

http://harrybrowne.org/

(corrected title)

For those interested, a fairly comprehensive book on backyard metalcasting from scrap (from the ground up) is David Gingery's Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/build-your-own-metal-working-s...

Starting with green sand, scrap metal, charcoal, and a pot, pour parts to build a lathe, and so on.

It looks like he has put out quite a few "how to" books: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/david-j-gingery/381968/

And we are still building fires in the wood burning stove to keep warm in Northern California. Mid-July.

I use metaphors like this when talking about programming: Any system of systems complex enough can easily be anthropomorphized...

But they both come back to basics: What is the overall model of how it should work? What are the symptoms? What do we know about the possible underlying causes of those symptoms? How do we design a test to see if the hypothesis is right? When we run the test, do we get confirmation, denial, or something else entirely? Did the test properly test the right thing?

And so on...

And at some point, is it worth fixing?

As all things in this world, school has changed. I bailed out of high school with a GED because I was skipping so many classes, I was going to fail. I went into college for a short while (Architect), but the lure of employment and the wages that came with it were stronger.

After working a few jobs in Silicon Valley, I built an IT business in Santa Cruz, CA and have now ran it for about 30 years. I took any job that I found something in it I wanted to learn. I wrote database software, installed wiring, servers, eventually telephone systems, security cameras...

Now I work part time in a very rural part of coastal Northern California. I have signed up for and completed quite a few remote education-type courses, I study whatever subject interests me.

So my poor schooling, going from an almost straight-A to almost flunking out entirely had little impact, and now I school myself to my desire.

Do what you want to do, and just go for it. And forget what other people tell you, that is them, you are you :)

University of Reason and No Agenda Social for online. The rest in the real world, playing music with others, putting on musical concerts of other musicians, garden club, permaculture club. Helping neighbors with their property projects, them helping me with mine.

Two words for a recent real life example of decisions that can be made by governments about electronic bank accounts: Canadian Truckers.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Whose turn will it be next?

Instead of force, maybe voluntary? Publish/promote a set of standard measurements for consumers, then let consumers drive the manufacturers. "The Market" will follow the consumer if the consumer is strongly inclined about its desires - I think we have seen this play out in other consumer electronics niches...

When I was a teen, I wanted an alligator on my shirt, and not too long after I started seeing simulacra shirts... Enough of a demand for more than one entity to mimic it...

I not only run one of these in my office, but am also converting smaller business clients to this platform. It is able to do quite a few services on its own (in addition to the Microsoft AD structure I have been nursing along for over 30 years to make sure I grok most of my MS-based clients' needs).

The only caveat is it is not a good development platform for me with regards to Python - Their file structure, update process, etc. tends to break any development environments I set up. I still roll out a vm or dedicated box for dev work.

Overall, rather pleased with their products, simple, easy NAS with many possible services to hang on it. OpenVPN and either static IP or DDNS means I can access it from any Internet connection over IPSEC.

Worth looking at, in my opinion.

p.s. Also have one running Postfix/Dovecot for a small business client, works fairly well, although I do have to keep an eye on those services after power outages and updates, they tend to require "repairs" in Synology's vernacular.

I use a Cross with their refillable ink cartridge. Couple of bottles of a beautiful dark-blue (blue-black) hue of ink from Japan. And when traveling, I converted a medicine losenge tin (think similar to Altoids) to hold a possible spent refillable ink cartridge without it getting too messy - The bottles of ink do not travel well, potentially creating quite the mess. Instead, once it runs out (dozens of pages of notes later) I switch to disposable cartridges of blue-black ink.

And I keep a .9 mechanical pencil handy, just in case I am really prolific and supply stores are not easily found :)

For me, powering up my vitamin D3 consumption eliminated most of the symptoms of SAD. I now cruise around 4000 IUs per day or so. Based on my reading, taking too much results in a return of the symptoms, and I have not reached that level, and feel no need to go higher.

Everyone has their own, unique body, best to be cautious and aware, if one experiments. Keep a journal or check in with a close confidant. This is generally less expensive in time and money than seeing my general practitioner.

Also, I live in the PNW of the United States, so those are the amounts of sunshine I work with.

Salmon are also the mainstay protein for the Yurok tribe. No salmon, no tribe, was their recent statement on the matter.

Edit: Sorry, wrong tribal name, it's the Yurok here at the mouth of the Klamath.

Don't use twitter. So not jumping ship, mostly avoided it in the first place. Too much politics in the way it is run, for my taste. Been using Mastodon for the last year or two, once NA fired one up. ITM!

Exactly. Sales is solving other people's problems, which we find out about by asking a key question or three, and then listening. IF we have a good fit, we see if the other person is even interested in resolving the problem. THEN we explore the possible value to them, which will assist in price negotiations.

Gladwell biased his measurement to experts in their field, did he not? 20 hours can be enough in many things to get started, 150 hours decent enough to begin to command income from those efforts, and if it is pleasurable to you and provides value to others, the road goes up from there in a positive feedback loop.

That has been my experience. Consider giving it a go!

Edit: I wish to add the paraphrased concept: Don't let perfectionism be the enemy of done/accomplished... Another lesson I am working on :)

Ah, but 8" floppies made better frisbees - personal experience :)

I used to work in the disk duplication industry, both at a copier (DisCopyLabs) and then later at the robot manufacturer, Mountain Computer, which was eventually bought by Nakamichi and combined with Trace, our competitor.

We used to be able to sail those suckers over the building on Wyatt Drive to the San Thomas Expressway... Next person to work on roof equipment probably had a curious experience, many discs that did not make it all the way likely scattered all over the roof.

Our property business (side hustle) provides nice places for people to live, where they do not have to worry about the larger maintenance and upkeep that comes with all property, not to mention the financing arrangements now required due to how our economy has (d)evolved.

I see it kind of like a what friend of mine, who was a pretty decent software engineer, said about going out on his own, rather than working for others (I am an entrepreneurial-type thinker, have run my own businesses for the last 30+ years, although not completed them in a buy-out process, just use them for cash flow).

Paraphrased: He didn't want the work of the overhead of running a business, he just wanted to work on software, then do other things in his life.

It is up to each person in life to do what they do as ethically as they think best for them, and up to each of us to choose whether we care to interact with others or not, with others' values/ethics in mind. And in that way, we get to benefit from others' expertise in areas we may not be as proficient.

Software can do great good, and it can do great harm. It is us humans that make the difference. Same with providing housing or commercial space. It is yet another tool, judge for yourself how that tool is being wielded by each practitioner.

after I get done with a bicycle rise (I do push while I ride, like pulling on my cleats/toe clips, not just pushing - And I rarely coast) so a shower is usually recommended for me after (to give anyone a sense of my exertion).

And during the last part of the ride and the time thereafter, ideas frequently start flowing, I see solutions to problems that now appear obvious, where before I felt stymied.

And that is what I hope to get out of journaling...

ymmv, of course :)

This clicks for me. I have numerous barely started journals, along with varying levels of guilt about not writing every day, and a lack of feeling anything is coming out of the process.

I am now inspired to open one back up...

I love it: "Author will like to apologize for bad english in docs. A rand() function putting articles (the, a, an) will probably be more accurate."

I may start using that for my code doc as well...

I did not really think I was the only one who gets frustrated, but wow - My rants are not quite that inventive/descriptive...

Still available: https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/sharpening/files-...

Calibre, for me - And then choice books to read. Finished quite a few in the last 6 months, topics ranging from Linux internals, to philosophy, to financial management, to health...

I choose to invest my electronic time in learning more skills or relationships in why something seems to be the way it is.

Recent kick has been practicing the Roman Trivium, then I will tackle the Quadrivium.

And I use an Amazon Fire that my wife bought for me, permanently in airplane mode, as well as night-time (easier on the eyes). I transfer content via USB.

YMMV.

pretty slick. extra bump for pen used for tool housing... pen-testing :)

Surprisingly, a quick physical workout can help my mental state, and assist me with energy to push through blocking situations.

I am referring to the client having a dynamic IP connection with their ISP - The client's IP address may change for their email server. So DDNS service providers (i.e. ChangeIP, etc.) handle DNS for those - An application locally installed for the client (Synology offers one for their NAS devices, for example) polls the public IP every few minutes (or some frequency), then reaches out to the DDNS provider with any updates, that provider in turn updates DNS so the rest of the world "sees" the email server at the new address.