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Old Jun 21, 2020 | 9:09 pm
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Originally Posted by DYKWIA
I've been trying to get all my old emails from my company account to somewhere where I can store and search them after I leave the company later this week.
You may want to check with your companies lawyers before you try too hard, if you haven't already. Keeping copies of those email is likely against policy and could potentially get you sued - especially if you happen to be going to work for another company that could in any way be considered a competitor...
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Old Jun 22, 2020 | 1:24 am
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Originally Posted by mike_la_jolla
Update - I think you're working too hard. All you need is an email client that allows you to store all emails locally.
The issue is that I have multiple computers & tablets, so I need some sort of online access.

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Did you try MailSteward? I have all my personal email going back to 2006 in there.
You know what? That actually came up on my search. I discounted it because it said "multiple mail accounts from Apple Mail or Postbox". I assumed (wrongly) that only Apple Mail or Postbox were supported.I should have read the details more closely.
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Old Jun 22, 2020 | 1:50 am
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Originally Posted by mike_la_jolla
Whats the picture? West end of Catalina looking south?
more than likely as it is the standard background for the Mac OS Catalina
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Old Jun 22, 2020 | 8:54 am
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more than likely as it is the standard background for the Mac OS Catalina
Yeah. The standard Catalina wallpaper. I've been too lazy to switch it.
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Old Jun 23, 2020 | 5:54 am
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Originally Posted by LordHamster

My old 34 inch wide-screen died, so I decided to improve the work from home setup as I'm not traveling @ the moment. New Dell 49 inch


Also, I decided to do some more experimentation into running dual sims on my Pixel 4XL. I'm running FI and Verison's Visible service side-by side and it has been great thus far.
Is that the U4919DW? What do you think of it? I'm considering it as well.
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Old Jun 23, 2020 | 7:15 am
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Originally Posted by HDQDD
Is that the U4919DW? What do you think of it? I'm considering it as well.
Yes it is! Good eye.

I use it w/ my 2015 MacBook pro (with discrete) graphics card) as well as a crappy HP x360 I use on occasion. So far I love it!! Some words of warning:
  • It's Yuge!! Make sure you have the desk space.
  • It ain't a gaming monitor. It doesn't have the high-refresh rate gamers want. OK for me as I'm using it for work, where it is FANTASTIC.
  • Some Macs with built in intel graphics don't support full resolution on it (at least not easily).
  • It will make you incapable of working on your regular laptop screen ever again. I'm so spoiled now.
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Old Jun 23, 2020 | 1:07 pm
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Originally Posted by LordHamster
I use it w/ my 2015 MacBook pro (with discreet graphics card) ...
Good for you. I certainly wouldn't want my graphics card blabbing about what goes on in my office.
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Old Jun 24, 2020 | 11:43 am
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I've got two Dell P4317 monitors... also makes it hard to work on a single small screen ever again.
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Old Jun 24, 2020 | 1:22 pm
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Originally Posted by BigLar
Good for you. I certainly wouldn't want my graphics card blabbing about what goes on in my office.
haha ok. You got me.
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Old Jun 24, 2020 | 2:42 pm
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Ham radio is techie stuff, right? I spent most of the past few months (when I wasn't working from home for my day job as a software developer) finally getting an HOA-sanctioned home station set up. Before now, I never thought to bother to do so because antennas aren't really a thing HOAs in general like, so I would typically travel elsewhere to operate.

Anyway, I got a magnetic loop antenna onto my 2 story building's flat roof (with a ~5ft mast holding it horizontally above the roof). This is a lot smaller of an antenna than people usually use for HF (< 30 MHz), but it performs reasonably well. The downside is that I have to retune it using an indoor control box every time I change frequencies on the radio, but I don't typically move around much when operating anyway.

I also did a fair bit of soldering and Arduino programming for an interface between a handheld RF amplifier and my portable radio. It basically communicates serially with the radio and generates voltages that the amplifier recognizes depending on what frequency the radio is on (which then cause the correct low pass filter to be switched inline).

As for computer stuff, I managed to get Let's Encrypt to automatically perform DNS validation of one of the VMs I manage for some people I know (required for wildcard certificates). I'm also thinking that I want to finally replace the last Ethernet switch that I need to replace to have the entire condo's LAN 10 gigabit capable. For that, I may try the Mikrotik CRS309-1G-8S+IN with the needed 1/10GBaseT modules as my CRS312-4C+8XG-RM has performed well since I got it.

Longer term (if there's another lockdown, which is very possible at this point), I'm thinking I may want to finally build a replacement for the FreeNAS server that we have here, with newer/more hardware/drives and using RAIDZ2 instead of what's effectively RAID10. And try to silence it altogether if at all possible, too.
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Old Jun 24, 2020 | 5:09 pm
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OK, I'm curious - why do you need a 10gig LAN?
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Old Jun 24, 2020 | 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
OK, I'm curious - why do you need a 10gig LAN?
More of a "would be nice" sort of deal for transfers to/from the NAS. It'll probably make my Time Machine restore significantly faster once I get my MacBook Pro back from the repair people, too (SSD failed).
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Old Jun 24, 2020 | 11:18 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
OK, I'm curious - why do you need a 10gig LAN?
LOL, I'm surprised someone didn't say "Because I do".

Seriously though, I thought everyone had a 10gig LAN. 😂
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Old Jun 25, 2020 | 4:22 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
OK, I'm curious - why do you need a 10gig LAN?
Something, something, "...too rich or too thin" updated to include " or too fast."

I run a 1 gig LAN in my office. Not even sure where I would get 10 gig hardware.

ETA: I know it's out there. I read an article in the last year or so that stated the LAN in use at one (or more) of the alphabet agencies was 96 gig. Now we know why Garcia (Criminal Minds} is able to pull all that stuff up so quickly.
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Old Jun 25, 2020 | 10:19 pm
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
OK, I'm curious - why do you need a 10gig LAN?
Correct answer should be: to take full advantage of the already-installed 10 Gbit fibre internet connection, of course...

(Im still on 11ac, does whats needed...)

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