sylver_dragon

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It was the auto-hiding replacement for the task bar. You opened it by moving the mouse pointer to the upper right or lower right corner. But unless you remembered where it was at, you'd get stuck asking, "where the fuck is the start menu". It especially sucked when you were a normal version of windows and RDP'd into a Sever 2008 box and couldn't use the Win key.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Kirk: Scotty AI, give me all she's got!
Scotty AI: Aye captain, I'm draining the First Officer's bank account and transferring it into your hidden account.
Kirk: No, wait, stop.
Scotty AI: Powering down engines.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Then no one would have noticed and sysadmins everywhere wouldn't have their PTSD triggered by the words "charm bar".
Shit, now I need whiskey.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You missed
winMe: you can't change the thing because the OS already crashed.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

You can delete them?

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

And people wonder why CCTV footage is always low res and grainy. I worked at a site with something north of 100 cameras and a requirement for 30 days storage. Their server room was mostly just racks and racks of hard drive chassis all wired up to the DVR system.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Step one: Document, Document, Document.
Step Two: Did we cover documentation yet?
Step Three: Complain, with documentation, to the apartment management.
Step Four: Document.

Recordings such as video and audio are useful. Just keeping a log of all such interactions can help as well. But, you want to have the documentation to prove your side of things. If things go really sideways and you end up in court, the judge won't give a fuck about what you say, only what you can prove. Be ready to prove your claims. As we say in the DFIR world, "logs or it didn't happen". Then, start complaining to management. And document (keep a written log, you probably won't be able to record) your interactions with management. All logs should include date, time, who you spoke with, what you spoke about and any actions which management said they would take or actions you said you would take. If it's an option, keep your communications with management in email. Both the sending and received emails will be timestamped and the headers will provide a reasonable record showing that the emails were to or from management controlled email servers and addresses. And they log what was talked about quite nicely.

Ultimately, the goal is to move this from being your problem to management's problem. And it's possible that your problem neighbor is also someone else's problem. If management has three tenants all complaining about the same neighbor, they have more impetus to take action against the problem. Of course, this assumes a neutral management, which can be an open question. But, this is likely the least costly way to resolve the issue.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

So, he finally took Andrew Llyod Webber's advice from Jesus Christ Superstar and popped into the age of mass communication.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 62 points 5 days ago

Not humming, but I do make noise intentionally. I'm a big guy and understand that I could be threatening to women in the wrong circumstance. I also walk fairly quietly just as a matter of the way I walk; so, I've scared folks on more than one occasion by "sneaking" up on them unintentionally. So, if I think I am doing that, I'll land a few footfalls hard and flat to make my foot slap the ground and alert the person of my presence before I get too close. I also try to give space to strangers while walking. Things like moving to the other side of the sidewalk/street, slowing down or speeding up to pass. Basically, trying to not look like I'm stalking them.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

And then imagine what is creeping around, above that tapestry, waiting to get you while you sleep.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Anyone can build a bridge which stands. It takes a engineer to build a bridge which just stands, while not costing an insane amount of money.

That said, engineers throughout history were incredibly smart and shouldn't be discounted.

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