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YouTube FTMFW, as usual.
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I'm looking to buy a new 1 TB SSD (non-NVME, as I have one aleady). Go with Samsung and call it a day? Or are there better options out there? I'm seeing around $100 for a 1TB, which is sweet. I paid $150 for the 250gb I'm replacing 6 years ago.
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Yes: https://www.newegg.com/samsung-860-evo- ... 6820147673Source of the post Go with Samsung and call it a day?
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Brilliant.
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Nerds.
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When I was in Afghanistan I administered a chat program that ran on XMPP. That protocol required six handshakes to establish and maintain a connection. It was a poor choice for a network that had the amount of latency we were experiencing.
IRC was better.
IRC was better.
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We'll be switching from TCP to UDP in Citrix in the next month or so.
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I'm starting to lose the good fight against SaaS. I was using MS Office Pro 2016 at home but my company stopped using it and so its Home Use Program license expired on me, knocking at least three of my machines off of Office. I replaced that key with a license I got from law school but that's going to expire in the next few months I believe.
Couple that with my starting a business that needs some productivity software and I'm starting to see the monthly/yearly charges add up.
MS Office 2019 - I can buy this for like $400 for a single license or sign up for the family plan for like $100 a year for O365.
Adobe Acrobat - Seems to charge for little modules, I haven't looked into it specifically. Can you still just buy it without a sub? Even at work we're running a fully optioned version of DC.
Quickbooks Essentials - I think I'm boned here at $40/mo. This is the minimum level that works with my practice management software (which will eventually have its own monthly fee).
This is mostly rambling on my part; just wondering if there were any clear cut winners in any of these schemes. No, I don't want to use Google Docs for this. I'm just an old person upset that you can't just buy software anymore.
Couple that with my starting a business that needs some productivity software and I'm starting to see the monthly/yearly charges add up.
MS Office 2019 - I can buy this for like $400 for a single license or sign up for the family plan for like $100 a year for O365.
Adobe Acrobat - Seems to charge for little modules, I haven't looked into it specifically. Can you still just buy it without a sub? Even at work we're running a fully optioned version of DC.
Quickbooks Essentials - I think I'm boned here at $40/mo. This is the minimum level that works with my practice management software (which will eventually have its own monthly fee).
This is mostly rambling on my part; just wondering if there were any clear cut winners in any of these schemes. No, I don't want to use Google Docs for this. I'm just an old person upset that you can't just buy software anymore.
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I would not go with Office 2019, personally. It has performance issues, despite being damn near the same as Office 2016. If you want an Office 2016 MAK license, I’d be more than happy to hook you up with one, compliments of a former employer. O365 is great and all, but I’m not a fan of any SaaS stuff for home stuff. Unfortunately, that’s the direction everyone is headed. I buy the bullet and bought Quicken subscriptions on eBay last year, so at least I got them cheap, but I’d have preferred a single charge and free upgrades.
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Libre Office.
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Libre Office.
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I haven't used it seriously in a while, but I used OpenOffice all through law school and for quite a while thereafter, and I still use the Libre Office fork occasionally for home word-processing tasks. Works quite well. I also switched from Quicken to GnuCash years ago as my financial-tracking software, and it works great. Pretty sure GnuCash is available for Windows, although I run it on Linux.
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I’ve checked it out, but very much prefer Quicken.
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I haven't used it seriously in a while, but I used OpenOffice all through law school and for quite a while thereafter, and I still use the Libre Office fork occasionally for home word-processing tasks. Works quite well. I also switched from Quicken to GnuCash years ago as my financial-tracking software, and it works great. Pretty sure GnuCash is available for Windows, although I run it on Linux.
I enjoy working for a firm that buys my at-work resources.
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I am getting Clio Grow/Manage for free for a while, but it needs Quicken Essentials or greater to interface with.
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So I unwittingly stumbled into like a Product Owner or whatever for a while...and that role has continued to grow into basically adjudicating when IT tickets get done...
So this week I became a user in our IT ticketing system and I have a copy of them all coming to me...
I know there's some IT folks here, but Jesus H. ****...how pathetic are you losers that are submitting these tickets?!?!
"Can you chew my juice for me, mommy?" "Can you type my password in for me, my fingies are sticky"
I basically read 80% of them like...
I knew it would be bad, but man alive...you can't figure anything out on your own...?
So this week I became a user in our IT ticketing system and I have a copy of them all coming to me...
I know there's some IT folks here, but Jesus H. ****...how pathetic are you losers that are submitting these tickets?!?!
"Can you chew my juice for me, mommy?" "Can you type my password in for me, my fingies are sticky"
I basically read 80% of them like...
I knew it would be bad, but man alive...you can't figure anything out on your own...?
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Let's see some examples of the requests coming in.
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Yeah...I maneuvered myself out of ticketed work earlier this year. Do not miss it.
Tryturningitoffandbackonagain.itcrowd.
Tryturningitoffandbackonagain.itcrowd.
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You're good at finding stuff, NTP66. Ever seen an installer for 'Acrobat Reader 2020'? I can find the update msi's but can't locate the base installer.
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First off, Adobe is ridiculous for how they handle this. Download the installer first. It's actually a self-extracting executable. Open PS/command prompt and browse to the directory you downloaded it to. Run the following (include the quotes, and change the folder path to wherever you want them extracted to):You're good at finding stuff, NTP66. Ever seen an installer for 'Acrobat Reader 2020'? I can find the update msi's but can't locate the base installer.
AcroRdrDC2001320064_en_US.exe -sfx_o"c:\FolderNameHere" -sfx_ne
It'll extract the base MSI installer, along with the latest patch.
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Oh, man, that brings back memories. I used to have to strip their executables for the patch management program I ran. I'd run the executable, it would extract everything, then I'd go to the designated folders and grab the msi's before accepting the EULA. Completely forgot all about that.
Let me play with this, thanks.
Let me play with this, thanks.
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From everything I can see that's not what I'm looking for. I was seeking Acrobat Reader 2020. They probably refer to it as "Classic" rather than DC, which is their "Continuous" line.
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Blah, that's embarrassing. I found it in the release notes page. I didn't scroll all the way down to the first release. What I needed is here:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrob ... 020classic
(AcroRdr20202000130002_MUI.exe)
Thanks for looking, sorry to have sent you on an errant errand.
https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrob ... 020classic
(AcroRdr20202000130002_MUI.exe)
Thanks for looking, sorry to have sent you on an errant errand.
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I honestly had no idea that reader 2020 was an actual version - totally thought you meant DC, since that is actually build 2020, lol. **** Adobe.
I would actually love to get rid of Adobe entirely at work, but there’s zero chance people will accept using Edge Chromium to open them.
I would actually love to get rid of Adobe entirely at work, but there’s zero chance people will accept using Edge Chromium to open them.
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The new Edge is pretty good actually.
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