Bored is the word. Need something to tinker with. Everything I've got works or is missing parts I can't get hold of at the moment.
Know what you mean. Got bugger all stock and got roped into painting the house.
29C here today and it was horrible so went for a drive (Aircon ) to get stuff I needed for the farm instead then the youngest turned up after work with a 6 pack so he, mum and I cleaned them up !
Just past 11pm and getting a second wind when I should be instead.
Yeah, now that I've declared the INTEL MB/XEON a lost cause, I'm in the same boat. Currently building controller chargers into a drawer of a small cabinet for the XBOX & PS3... and won't even be able to road test it for another week since the boi got grounded for lying.
Thank mansaxel, bd, horse, Cerebus and the others for the DNS discussion. I really enjoying it, sorry for the others who were annoyed by that.
Temped to open a new thread just about that in the "Computing" section, this is so much value it can't be stay hidden in the TEA, or yes it must stay here
At least for me, there was no annoyance at all; I find it interesting as well, having schooled as a NetAdmin with an interest in Computer Forensics. That schooling may be 20 years out of date, but still interesting.
To me, ANY
progressive discussion of the nuts & volts of how our personal confusers work is
for sure relevant and not at all OT.
My comment about
"And Now for Something Completely On Topic..." was me poking fun at me... being as
the ol' tinkerdwagon does have a penchant for dragging the discussion most tangential. I don't think many were annoyed by it at all, but I do think many, and I'm one who wonders why everyone needs this level of secrecy, it's almost as if there was some deep dark military secretive plot your all involved in. I can't for a single second believe that anyone is involved in anything even sightly illegal, therefore have nothing to hide, just curious as to the reasons people seem to knocking themselves out, and costing themselves extra expense, doing what is already freely available.
It's more a matter of principle.
Your ISP has no right to create profiles of its users based on their browsing history and sell those profiles to Tom, Dick and Harry.
Even more importantly, your government has absolutely no right to treat everyone as a criminal and hoover up everything one does on the Internet and store it until it becomes useful to them.
I don't disagree with the points raised, but it still seems extreme. What happens when you go outside any and come under the surveillance of the CCTV networks in towns and around areas such as local shops? They have the same kind of potential for misuse surely?
That old "If you're not doing anything wrong you should have nothing to hide" line is nothing more than minionspeak designed to put you on the defensive when you're discussing the core rights to privacy and those outlined in the 5th Amendment.
It is directly contrary to the core principle of "Innocent til Proven Guilty." FUCK THAT HARRY HIGH SCHOOL BULLSHIT.
You are a citizen, you have the right to a certain level of privacy. PERIOD. Government agencies & Corporate entities given special privilege under the provision that they will not work against the good of the people at large
do NOT have that right. PERIOD. And
they certainly do NOT have the right to violate that core Right to Privacy just to sell you fucking shampoo. There's no excuse for just blindly giving them a self-generating cross-indexed list of EVERYTHING you do or say on the intardNet. Take SOME precautions,
take SOME responsibility for your privacy; the above entities are all about taking that away for fun & profit.
Nobody else is going to do it for you.mnem