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It is claimed Ernest Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story that could make people cry for a bet. The wager was ten dollars, which Hemingway won with the following: 

Juicers is actually good, you guys.

really saucy WoW stuff 

dreading the day where i post some really raunchy stuff in GChat on accident.

Administration: Find a non-critical server not coming back online after a patch night. Report issue to team responsible for that server to have them fix it in the morning.

: Connect to the server's ILO card, flip it back on, only to find that it's booting via PXE when it should be booting via HDD0. Fix the boot order, and tell the team responsible that you fixed the problem yourself.

do not try to design a scalie in fursona designer '98, you need to install the herpetology expansion pack or upgrade to fursona designer 2001

I used to play Transformice a lot. Game was the shit

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Gaming: Competitive OW player
: Competitive Transformice player

Gaming: Playing a custom Worms: Armageddon map.
: Playing a custom Worms: Armageddon map that's a board game.

People find it weird that I like tenkeyless keyboards.

"But what if you need to type numbers in???"

*shrug*

presently going to be used for Windows backups. then i'll probably build a test volume and muck around with things like OwnCloud or maybe streaming media.

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And don't worry, I'm not gonna run a Mastodon instance off of this...

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My parts are out for delivery and I have time to kill so I decided to start while I was ahead
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on the flip side, i do kind of want to learn about the fresh hell that is storage, especially since it goes hand-in-hand with virtualization these days...even though i work for a company that is primarily pushing customers towards Azure (MS Gold Partner, after all... :v)

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*realizes he isn't doing anything with his NUC that he bought two years ago*

me: huh, let's set up a FreeNAS server I can use for my PC backups. Maybe I'll use it as a dry run for a home NAS build.

*FreeNAS needs 8gb to run properly, home backups are gonna require 1TB of data to retain a month's worth of data*

*one 1 TB 2.5 HDD, one 8 GB stick of 1.35v DDR3 RAM, one external USB 3 DVD R/W reader, and $160 later*

Me: ...oops.

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