That was the part that wowed me. I remember looking at them years ago, and thinking "huh, I can afford that."

Now they're 3x as much to start.

Ah, well. It's one of those cars that probably would have been a regretted purchase.

There is a guy on miata.net who has a 308 and has been posting about owning it. The thread is a very good read. What I have taken away is that the 308/328 can be reasonably affordable to drive and work on yourself. The problem is that the as you have seen is that they bottomed out in price sometime in the last decade and they are now increasing. I had dreamed of getting into a 328 in the $25k-$35k range, but I have since given up on ever getting that.

yeah, what Lars said. But I always try to accelerate in front cause I own cars with ALLTHEPOWER, so it's never been an issue.

By the time the cut over to the right and slammed on the brakes, you were already cut over to the left, right? What do you care how they take the off ramp. Maybe they were practicing their trailing brake turn in.

You need more boost so you can always get in front of them.

Well, I think this case is a little different. Yes, it is always the job of the merger to safely enter the highway, but in this case the guy exiting is also merging. Was he already accelerating when you merged, or was he holding a constant speed?

Often times I'll have people accelerate as I'm trying to merge in front of them. if I have the power, I pin it and out accelerate them... but usually I'll just tap the brakes and move in behind them, then get over as soon as possible so I'm not behind them for long.

Just surprised, our sys admin isn't on top of our application server running out of space on the hard drive.

Currently sitting at 132KB/109GB - When choked like this, nothing runs. No money is being made. I've cleaned it myself for only a few gigs of space twice in the past two weeks... Can only delete so many log files :dunno:

What's your take EO2K? Do I work with a bunch of slackers?

Do you guys not get alarms when space runs out?

#sudo rm -rf /

​​​​​​​That command should clear up your space issue.

Well??????

I'd imagine they do.... Not sure if they check their emails though

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...Il-Hu9SnkcUpXf

No space here, no space there, No Space ANYWHERE!

He has talked about buying a plane. I am assuming it isn't for Chicago. I also want an answer on this, as I need to know if I should start building his MKTurbo setup to have it ready when he gets to NC.

Negative. The one on the primary road has primacy.

But I'll tell you you were right if it makes you feel better, lol.

Yes. :giggle:

If it were my shit, it would be a VM in the cluster and space would be a non issue as I can resize at will. If for some reason didn't have enough space to allocate, then its time for another SAN. But hey, that's just me.

If your business critical sales and workflow applications are installed on bare metal, good luck fam :party:

https://i.imgflip.com/1nsz8h.jpg

I think we have something similar to that, don't think they're that dumb to have it on metal. Then again.. *looks around* I see why so many people are hired here.

:likecat: putting the special in specialist.

Bare metal still wins for a ton of stuff over VM. Haproxy and DB's still tend to do far better on bare metal then in VM's.

True. I've got 3 ginormous MSSQL instances and they are piiiiiiiigs when it comes to resources. Specifically I/O. But for us, this current layout is OK because of the way we do our backups. Becausewindows? :facepalm:

And before the smack talk comes out, I didn't architect any of this. We've inherited most of our structure as a result as coming from racks upon racks of 1U pizza box installs and its going to take years to get away from that mindset.

We need to prepare our collective virtual anus as someone in management has decided its time to take all our sales stuff off the iSeries AS/400. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is coming in the next year, and its probably going to be installed on Windows based systems... :hahano:

You need to talk to your management and figure out when you are going to move to AWS. Azure, or Google cloud. We are a mix of hosted in a datacenter and AWS at my job. There are a ton of things we are finding that we can do in AWS that we could not even dream about doing with a datacenter. Also changing to thinking about infrastructure as code instead of hardware is a really big mind switch. I prefer more of the old school sysadmin BOFH style over the new DevOps, but DevOps is really the future.

This is a really good read on getting into devops.

Also what are ginormous instances to you? I am just curious. Our main MSSQL db is getting close to 7tb now at my company. Its running on a dedicated box with 32 cores and 768GB of ram. It is a pretty beefy machine.

AWS would be awesome, but we're still local simply because there is no way to buy enough bandwidth at our HQ or other major satellite location to support that kind of structure. Someday maybe, but right now when the AT&T cloud people cold call us, we transfer them to our AT&T SR so she can tell them to stop trying to sell us services they can't support.

Our office is literally out in the middle of a lettuce field, I kid you not. Here is the view from our board room:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1493058540

I should also mention I am just a small cog in the giant machine, I have no authority to do anything around here. Regardless of what I do and the responsibilities I bear, according to my job title and employee classification I'm just a helpdesk minion :facepalm:

Still under 1tb, we's just poor dirt farmers out here. ;)

I won't be doing anything immediately. There's a lot of... deferred maintenance that needs doing on this car first.



And now, a PSA in the style of Miata.net:


Yesterday, I finally went out and got the summer tires re-mounted on a set of twisted-starfish that I picked up used from Chiburbian. I really didn't want to. When I got out of bed yesterday I was still exhausted and sore, and just wanted to spend the whole day at home eating bon-bons and watching Lifetime in my slippers. But I dragged myself out, got 'em mounted, and installed them. Had a very nice lunch as well. Lamb korma. Dear sweet Radha, goddess of beauty and kindness, I love a good korma...

This morning I had to drive downtown to visit the transmitter at Willis (Sears) Tower. Going south on Lakeshore Drive is always a whale-fuck in the morning, but today, traffic was moving. Doing about 60 on the straight stretch just past the Oak St curve, when suddenly the driver of the BMW about six car-lengths ahead of me decided to stand on the brakes. I didn't see what happened ahead of them. And yes, I was following too close, too fast. I love driving through The Curve as fast as possible, right on the edge of traction. It's the only fast turn I get to take on anything resembling a regular basis. It's an area with good visibility, where you normally have plenty of space to brake gradually if there's congestion ahead. Came out of it carrying way too much speed for the conditions, without noticing whatever event was unfolding several cars ahead.

Now, having spent four months driving around on snow tires, one's feel for the car, and expectations of it, become altered. I'd gotten used to lackluster braking performance, and so as soon as I saw the car in front of me dive, I automatically thought "well, there is literally no way that I am not going to lock up the brakes and hit him," and moved my thumbs out from the airbag blast zone in anticipation. (Yes, bad habit, I know...)

Stopped about ten feet from the other car. Took me a moment to go through "What the fuck just happened? I've stopped! Oh, riiiiiiight. I'm not driving on shit* rubber." Just as the taxi that had been following me slid past me in the next lane, fishtailing wildly.

Splurge. Buy the good rubber. And don't be a lazy asshole. That is all.

* = to be fair, the Michelin X-ice 3 is probably one of the best studless snow tires out there, both in the slush and in the dry. But it's still a snow tire.

I recently learned that my TV station has a dedicated 1 gigabit pipe between us and WXIN in Indianapolis, which hosts the backup master control and uplink for all of our networks, as well as a full, realtime mirror of all of our many, many storage servers.

Wanna guess how much that costs per month?

This popped up in an email from Cigar Aficionado, it made me laugh.
Government money at work...

"FDA Funded Study Confirms Children Do Not Smoke Premium Cigars
A study published by The New England Journal of Medicine and partially funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that children in America are not smoking handmade cigars. Click through to read more."

Well I guess it depends on how you define "cigars". I knew of plenty of kids (teens) who smoked hand rolled "cigars" when I was growing up.