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I've heard it described as short-term leasing. I don't have grandkids but I do have grandpuppies, and there is a definite rental amount you pay while they're visiting. The same amount of spoiling and over-indulgence goes on. One good thing in my case is that the dog park is free, as opposed to our local amusement park which under normal circumstances runs about $50 a person per day.
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Parents do look at me rather oddly when they show me the new kids and I ask if they kept the receipt ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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modified 7-Mar-21 17:12pm.
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Jesus - I had a battery explode on me once - one of the old ones you could top up - I made a mess of connecting jump leads - sparks everywhere and then BANG - my boiler suit resembled a string vest. I was very lucky not to get injured.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I was round at a mates house enjoying a bevvie or two many years ago, when his phone rang. It was a gentleman known as "Ston" with a motorcycle problem:
"'Ere Chris, I heard you are good with bike electrics?"
"Might be, Ston. What's the problem?"
"My batteries aren't charging"
"Batteries? How many have you got?"
"The one the bike came with, a 6V I knicked off a moped, and a car battery strapped to the seat."
"Royston, I know nothing about bike electrics."
To be fair, the car battery was inside a plastic carrier bag after the first one ate through his jeans under braking ... 
Strange man, Ston ... he ended up marrying his lawyer because it was cheaper than her fees ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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WTF did he have a car battery strapped to the seat ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A) The bike battery was dying and had difficulty turning over the engine.
B) He wouldn't steal a battery from a fellow biker.
And
C) It was too big to fit where the bike battery was.
There is a twisted logic in there, somewhere.
This may also help you to understand why marrying his lawyer was a good idea ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Strange man, Ston ... he ended up marrying his lawyer because it was cheaper than her fees ...
that almost makes sense, except what did she get out of it? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The probability of the spare PSU functioning is e-CN·t, where CN is the critical need level, and t is time from the failure of the primary PSU.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Cheers for redundancy at least!  Hopefully no downstream components were affected.
This reminds me that I need to start planning for a replacement home/office server. The current one is nearing the 9 year mark. The only h/w upgrade through that time has been a larger SSD for the system drive (first one was a 64GB) and a switch to SSDs for the data drives after a spinner failed around 5 years ago. That was the last system that I actually assembled. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Quote: Cheers for redundancy at least
Hear! Hear! Not only redundancy of hardware, but having an image of the systems drive OS around. And of course backups of the data - But I'm sure you're well set up in this regard! If you buy a brand new machine for your server - consider one with a NVMe M.2 SSD for the systems drive. They're about the same price as SATA SSDs, but much faster as they plug directly into the PCI bus. My apologies if I am preaching to the choir!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: If you buy a brand new machine for your server - consider one with a NVMe M.2 SSD for the systems drive.
Good advice! Thanks! When I get ready to replace the guts, I'll keep that in mind. I only do hardware because no one else here wants to/can do it!
Cp-Coder wrote: of course backups of the data - But I'm sure you're well set up in this regard!
Yes...I learned the hard way. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Quote: Yes...I learned the hard way
The best way, the hard way, to learn.  Ask me, I know!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 8-Mar-21 9:28am.
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The English already have their favourite pubs. It's the foreigners who need the pointers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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No no, the English are known to have a poor sense of direction 
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But that is true for the other direction - from pub to home... No problems recorder to the right direction...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yes, this is anisotropic indeed ...
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Yep - it's a known fact that it takes twice as far to walk from the pub to your home as it does from your home to the pub.
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Now, if it could show the direction to every fish and chips shop, I would cross the pond for a visit to the UK just for that. After two decades of American style French fries, I really pine for English style chips: Soft, not crunchy and seasoned with salt and vinegar not ketchup. Yummy!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes but ... the name of DB is not very attractive ...
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Highly available. Unlike the pubs currently. 
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You should drink in front of a mirror, so you're not drinking alone.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Good conversation that way, too.
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