Random Thoughts II

[MadMax]

Protip:

If you're selling a Mikrotik router, running a Reset Configuration is not enough to clear the device. Your backups and other important stored files such as encryption keys will still be left behind on the router and can copied/recovered/restored/passwords extracted.

[MadMax]

Also, based on another true story today ...

If you're a medical practice sending a fax, always include a header page stating that confidential information is following and provide the standard instructions should you not be the intended recipient to phone a provided number and advise them that you are destroying it.

Then before you send said fax, triple check the fax number you're sending it to, better yet have the correct number programmed into the machine as a contact.

[Cyberbob]

Hey, I definitely deal with Mikrotik routers. Any further info on that issue that I can pass over to people more technically inclined?

[MadMax]

It's not really a bug that needs fixing. That's just how they work, more a feature. Similar to resetting the configuration of any other device that has storage - it's not going to format the drives.

Case in point - by default, running a config reset will save a back up of the device so you can restore from it

[DrTiTus]

Scored my sister's Tool ticket because her baby boy is being clingy and she doesn't want to subject someone else to his crying and screaming, or just let him cry and scream. No parenting advice from me, I'll go!

[Lightspeed]

These guys remind of when I was a kid, my friends and I would come up with stories for adventures. Like hiding from invaders and searching for treasure.

It was definitely fun. I guess at some point we wanted to do something more grounded in reality.

[Lightspeed]

Fixed link.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

These guys remind of when I was a kid, my friends and I would come up with stories for adventures. Like hiding from invaders and searching for treasure.

It was definitely fun. I guess at some point we wanted to do something more grounded in reality.

Racist white boomers gonna racist white boomer

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

These guys remind of when I was a kid, my friends and I would come up with stories for adventures. Like hiding from invaders and searching for treasure.

It was definitely fun. I guess at some point we wanted to do something more grounded in reality.

this description is perfect.

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by Ab

640.81

Nearly at 1k. Reckon Musk is getting that bonus.

[Ab]

Closed at 917 and change. Jesus.

In other randomness, following up on the "what are you getting yourself for Xmas 2017" thread

Originally Posted by Ab

Yeah man, I'm getting a couple of Mvmt watches for myself.

I didn't. I slowly got turned off the social-media-marketing frenzy that MVMT seemed to represent, and a few "they're literally $5 mass-produced chinese watches with massive markup" reviews decided me.

I was going to cave to peer pressure and just get an Apple watch like just about everyone else I know, but I wanted to ease back in to wearing a watch slowly so I got a couple of inexpensive quartz Timexes just to get used to it again. I hadn't worn a watch since I was about 15 years old. Last year I had a minimalist dress watch for suity worky days and a beater field watch for everything else.

I recently picked up a simple old-fashioned Seiko 5 automatic, other than my granddad's stopwatch the first mechanical timepiece I've ever had. Watch nerds assure me that going from quartz to mechanical is a significant step, but nerds gonna nerd. I couldn't resist the model though: the model is S NZG.



Confession - buying watches seems kinda addictive.

Oh yeah, another thing. I've found that having a watch on my wrist significantly reduces the frequency with which I need to look at my phone. Which is a good thing.

[StN]

I recently (well, 5 months ago) went the Apple watch way. Bloody shop assistant neglected to mention that in just 2 days the new version would be released, but aside from that, and the stoopid upsell Gorilla glass protector (which didn't fit, so they dropped back to vinyl, of which I will enforce the lifetime warranty I paid for on the glass version) I have no complain of product.

I was always late to the Apple party. But this thing, paired with a set of bathroom scales that hit the phone with BlueTooth, and I dropped and maintained 15kgs off in about 3 months.

Stopping drinking for 100 days was a kick start, but I did that wrong. A mate did Dry July, so I did Dry August, and kept going for a bit more until Show week. I started drinking jugs of Orange, RedBull and Tabasco instead of beer. Went for the 3 month check, and got some bloods done, and the nurse said I was pre-diabetic. So I took drastic measures and on her advice dropped all carbs, and went onto jugs of diet tonic, sparkling water and Tabasco. I'm pretty sure I was this >< close to getting a note from the doctor saying I should drink beer.

Anyway, Fat Stoolie has gone, and the watch tells me to walk three times a day, averaging about 60-70kms a week. Went back to the quack and mentioned how the scary nurse had prompted me into action, and he said I was always knocking on pre-diabetic but he hadn't bothered about it as other issues were more pressing. Thinking about it, that day I tried to be funny when the receptionist asked for my ethnicity, and I said "I live on an island in the South Pacific called 'South' so put down Pacific Islander" may have backfired.

So yeah, I dropped the Titanium Citizen chonk monster in favour of a handy remote that displays inbound SMS, eMail, Heartrate, excercise progress, local temp as well as date/time and haven't looked back.

It also vibrates when the doorbell detects movement, including a certain Bengal that likes to sit on the window sill next to it, so there's that.

[Cyberbob]

Today I learned that I'm an Islander. A North Islander, but still.

[StN]

We all live in the shadows of those that call Stewart home...

[Ab]

Good on you Stoolie, keep it up. 15kg in 3 months is nice work.

Yes, that Citizen is chonky.

[Nothing]

Weee, so I haven't posted here in a long time. But, since I am, anyone here still/ever play any Quake, or any other similar games? Just curious. How 'bout that Doom Eternal being just around the corner, eh?

Edit: also, Diabotical!

[Nothing]

Also, another thought, apologies if this has already been posted but, Si, you made it into the national library:

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/32385724

[Ab]

Format:
Web site.
Irregular

Harsh/true

[Lightspeed]

[StN]

No mention of Homo Erectus' cousin? Shame.

[BoyWonder]

Love the quote of the moment that has been preserved for posterity:

Quote of the Moment
Scandalous: It amazes me how these guys get caught. Why don't they just slip some rohypnol into the goat's beer?

[Ab]

sigh, remember these days

https://preview.redd.it/5c116y3xbph41.jpg

[Lightspeed]

Fixed link.

And yes.

[Cyberbob]

RIP Gamespy, and The All-Seeing Eye, and the aggregate game server browsers that came before them.

[Ab]

They were good times, those times. Being able to jump on a server and recognise the nicks of half the people there, every night. And knowing their playing styles and being able to support them if they were on my team and knowing how to counter them if they were on the other team.

[Waldo]

Originally Posted by Ab

They were good times, those times. Being able to jump on a server and recognise the nicks of half the people there, every night. And knowing their playing styles and being able to support them if they were on my team and knowing how to counter them if they were on the other team.

This is the reason i cant be assed playing FPS anymore, I want to jump on the same server(s) and play the same pool of people. Minecraft it is

[pxpx]

The FPS that has the closest (but still quite far removed) experience to the old days is BF4 - has a fairly active NZ/AUS playerbase, and a server browser too. People tend to stick to the same servers, so you end up with a similar experience. But it's BF4 so the size of the teams detracts from that personal connection we used to get.

[pxpx]

Addition to the above.. CS:GO Competitive is pretty good; granted you are still matchmaking, but if you're playing at a consistent time of day / day(s) of week then you tend to come across the same players fairly regularly.

But then with matchmaking you don't necessarily get to play with the aforementioned (in the link) 'titans' unless they are smurfing.

[MadMax]

I fucking love cinnamon which I made the mistake of telling the guys at work as they promptly had me doing the cinnamon challenge: eating a teaspoon worth of the spice

Aside from a red face from the mild heat I disappointed them with the lack of expected result.

[Cyberbob]

Try it with cocoa too.

[MadMax]

Haha I did that once as a kid.

With the cinnamon at least, some tips on doing this:
Remain calm and focused - as soon as you cough or open your mouth to laugh it’s all over.
Put the spoon into your mouth carefully then smother it with your tongue and swamp it with saliva. Your mouth goes dry but keep adding saliva.
Eventually you’ll get a small blob moist enough to swallow, do so carefully.
Collect a bit more with your tongue, put into another moist ball and swallow
There will be a bit left in your mouth but the show is pretty much over at that point.

[Nich]

Cinnamon challenge is a gateway to chewing dishwasher tablets

[pxpx]

alternatively, don't be such a sperg and cough up an epic cloud of red dust delighting your colleagues and everyone has a good time, lets go to the pub for a drink!

[Lightspeed]

Hahah. This one is my all time favourite. Guy wrecks himself.

[[fe]]

Someone prompted ‘do you remember your icq number’ and the number 1860846 popped into my head and I have no idea if it’s correct or not. So... no.

[[fe]]

Also can remember the first landline # growing up but not my first mob # pos phone that was.

[pxpx]

lols, just logged in to icq.com, somehow remembered my number, and it's sent a password reset to my old hotmail (which I still have access to). Good times.

[Lightspeed]

I remember my second ICQ number. A year or so ago out of curiosity I tried to log in with it, to find it had been hacked. But I was able to reset the password and log in. I lost my original >100k number.

I still remember my five digit phone number from childhood.

[Ab]

My first icq no was 796581, but I lost the account with an easily-guessed password. Second no was 91276606 and I logged into it yesterday - the contacts list was a bit of a timewarp. Clicked “delete account” and the account deletion process requires one to enter a mobile number for “verification” - lol, fuck off.

[pxpx]

They seem to be owned by Mail.Ru now, so if that isn't a giant red flag...