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Most military members take the arcane workings of their rifle for granted. Even an avid shooter myself, I was NEVER allowed to do maintenance on my M-16 fire control group while I was in the Corps. While some might argue this is a good thing considering that many members of the military are not interested […]
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Six minutes into the production outage, when the users show up
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Six minutes into the production outage, when the users show up
When I have to support that legacy thing the last guy wrote
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When I have to support that legacy thing the last guy wrote
A Database Administrator experiences a wide range of emotions. It could be one those endless meetings, friendly disagreements with fellow developers, getting something approved from managers or preparing your junior DBAs for bigger battles. Each day is a challenging one. We’ve tried to compile a list of GIFs which every DBA will be able to relate to.
5 minutes before deployment
Writing the most epic answer Stack Exchange has ever seen and press F5 to “Submit” and end up refreshing the page
When a DBA.StackExchange answer gets 500+ upvotes!
Slightly “re-factoring” the developers’ code after a code review
Training the junior DBA
The junior DBA trying to figure out the production cluster
When you unknowingly fix the client’s problem
When the project manager starts questioning my work estimates
When asked why I’m allowed to query all the databases?
When a developer says he made few changes to the database
When I shut off the marketing team’s access to run reports on the production server
PS: Don’t forget to visit DBA Reactions for a daily dose of GIFs chronicling the highs and lows of a DBAs life.
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Life of a DBA in GIFs
Collecting rain water for your garden, indoor plants, or anything else you need to water outside is easier than it sounds. You’ll need a few supplies, but our friends at Old World Garden Farms makes it sound easy—and ever so important now that the weather is warm and water conservation is mandatory in many places.
Over at the Old World Garden Farms blog, they explain all you’ll need is a sizable rain barrel (they use a massive 275 gallon one they got for $40 on Craigslist), but smaller ones are available at your local department store) and they installed junctions in their house gutters and downspouts to divert some of the water to the barrel, which is probably what you’ll want to do as well. They explained that in a single two-hour downpour they can sometimes collect over a hundred gallons, so it’s a worthwhile exercise.
While you do this, it’s important to keep your rainwater container dark and covered. Keeping it dark makes sure that algae or other light-feeding organisms don’t bloom in your water, and keeping it covered keeps the bugs out (especially mosquitoes, who love standing water.) Finally, they remind us that it’s important not to use the water for drinking unless you treat it (they don’t treat theirs, so it’s only used to keep their garden and other plants happy.)
The method linked below is a bit larger scale than most people would consider for their house in the burbs, or their community garden in the city, but it’s still doable (as long as your local HOA or other authority doesn’t pitch a fit about a barrel here or there.) They explain that almost all of the water they use on the property comes from rainwater—which is really important considering they don’t have a well or other natural spring. The end result doesn’t just save water overall, it also saves them the money they’d spend using municipal supplies.
How To Easily Collect Rain Water For Your Outdoor Watering Needs | Old World Garden Farms
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Easily Collect Rain Water for Gardening or Other Outdoor Needs
Lego’s Millennium Falcons are some of the toymaker’s largest and most impressive sets, but to keep the price tags reasonable there are some comprises made when it comes to size, scale, and detailing. As the Lego fans at Titans Creations discovered, to build a Millennium Falcon that’s actually perfectly sized for minifigs you’ll need some 10,000 bricks at your disposal.
Which means that most of us can only stare in awe at what the team created. But that’s OK, because how many of us actually have the time to build such a creation, or the room to store it?
At over three-and-a-half feet long this version of the Falcon is about 40 percent larger than Lego’s largest take on it, and there’s enough detailing here to keep you mesmerized for hours if you’re lucky enough to see it in person. So do you think they’re going to tackle a Star Destroyer next? [Titans Creations via The Brothers Brick]
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You need 10,000 pieces to build a Minifig-scale Lego Millennium Falcon
New submitter Mal-2 writes with a selection from IB Times of special interest for anyone replacing hard disks with solid state drives: The standards body for the microelectronics industry has found that Solid State Drives (SSD) can start to lose their data and become corrupted if they are left without power for as little as a week. … According to a recent presentation (PDF) by Seagate’s Alvin Cox, who is also chairman of the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC), the period of time that data will be retained on an SSD is halved for every 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) rise in temperature in the area where the SSD is stored. If you have switched to SSD for either personal or business use, do you follow the recommendation here that spinning-disk media be used as backup as well?
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Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week
ErnieKey writes: Researchers at the UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London have found a way to change the rate of dissolution within medication via a 3D printing method. Researchers used MakerBot’s water- soluble filament, cut it into tiny pieces and mixed in acetaminophen. They then used the Filabot extruder to extrude a drug infused filament. With this filament they printed odd shaped pills and tested them to see what effect different shapes had on the speed at which they dissolved. What they concluded was that these odd shaped pills allowed for different rates of absorption, enabling custom medications for patients.
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Researchers Discover Breakthrough Drug Delivery Method By Changing Shape of Pill
Few of us have the time or energy to declutter our entire home in one go, but in 30 minutes or less every day over a month and a half? It just might be possible. This plan can help.
Stephanie of the Keeper of the Home blog offers a 40-day challenge for whole-house decluttering, she offers practical advice for cleaning out your home and suggests an area for decluttering each day—free PDF, she offers practical advice for cleaning out your home and suggests an area for decluttering each day—from your kitchen utensils drawer to your closets.
The goal: find at least 10 items to donate, toss out, or save for a garage sale from each area. Clutter is such a mental and physical drain. Imagine how much lighter and better you’d feel with 400 or so items cleared out.
This is sort of like The FlyLady’s hand-holding/coaching for getting your house in order, but in easy checklist form.
8 Weeks to a Less Cluttered Home | Keeper of the Home
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Declutter Your Entire Home with This 8-Week Plan
You can buy those ugly little plastic mosquito repellent bracelets, but why not make yourself something much more attractive that you also can reuse?
One Good Thing By Jillee brings us this interesting DIY project. The bracelet is made from paracord, so it’s durable and available in all kinds of colors and patterns. Once you get the hang of the weaving technique, you can crank a bracelet out in no time. When the bracelet’s finished, soak it in a DIY mosquito repellent made from witch hazel and the essential oils of citronella, lemongrass, lavender, and peppermint. Plus, you’ve always got a handy length of paracord with you should the need arise. Hit up the link for the full instructions on making the bracelet and mixing the repellent.
DIY Mosquito Repelling Bracelet | One Good Thing by Jillee
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Make Your Own Reusable Mosquito-Repelling Bracelet