The Hobbit Hole XIX - Tomorrow we may come this way...

The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^

[ecurbh]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Tomorrow we may come this way...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
• Sixth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...
• Seventh Thread: The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...
• Eighth Thread: The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
• Ninth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IX - A sudden tree or standing stone
• Tenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole X - That none have seen but we alone.
      Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
• Twelfth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XII - Tree and flower and leaf and grass
• Thirteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XIII - Let them pass! Let them pass!
• Fourteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XIV - Hill and Water Under Sky
• Fifteenth thread: The Hobbit Hole XV - Pass them by! Pass them by!
• Sixteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVI - Still round the corner there may wait...
• Seventeenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVII - A new road or a secret gate...
• Eighteenth Thread: The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun. Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe, Let them go! Let them go! Sand and stone and pool and dell, Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We’ll wander back to home and bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade! Fire and lamp, and meat and bread, And then to bed! And then to bed!

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[Rose in RoseBear]

The website says 12.5lbs with battery ... the one I spec'ed out would go over 15lbs easy.

[RMDupree]

*snif*

Maybe one day I'll get me a leashed pen.

Until then, I'll settle for my E.A.S. 1.0. :-D

It's late here, so I gots to get to bed. Gotta rest my brain. It's fried.

Goodnight everyone!

[Ramius]

Yah.

I'm not sure but I think the low-profile Dell 4700c series desktops are lighter. I'd bet money on it. :-)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Crashing here... good night all

[Rose in RoseBear]

A man's gotta know his limitations.

"A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

[Ramius]

Now imagine this raging hurricane of a computer...

"upgraded" to run windows ME instead of the OEM XP Pro.

It is so wrong.

It's like getting that Ferrari Daytona and insisting on "upgrading" the engine to MOPAR. [sigh]

[Ramius]

Nite nite... :-)

[Ramius]

Indeed.

[ecurbh]

Watching a show about CG ice breakers on the History channel now...

[Ramius]

Yah? Gots the Polar Sea in there?

[ecurbh]

Don't think so (not paying ~full~ attention). They did show the Polar Sea, though.

[ecurbh]

Err... Polar Star, I mean.

[Ramius]

Bastiges. It's always the stinkin' star that gets the photo ops. That's 'cuz its spent most of its useful life in the yards. Easy to locate. :-)

[300winmag]

I've given up tryin' to like Entourage. Maybe I'm just cynical in my old age, though.

We're a 100% Wintel shop, but some doctor calls me on midnights every few months, and complains that Entourage still isn't working on his Mac notebook at home. His personal computer consultant gives him a list of questions to ask us, which we answer. Entourage is still not working, so he blames us.

Got another doctor last night, calling from home. He needs to un-block pop-ups for our site long enought to install some of our unsigned ActiveX. Runs Windows XP, and gets the message "pop-up blocked". He insists that he really does have pop-ups unblocked, and denies that the message means what it means. He blames us for how his home PC is working.

While all of this is going on, he gives me the worst bad-mouthing of our computer systems, worse than even I do. Then he said he expected to be called back tonight at a certain time, with the solution.

I'm surprised he still hasn't called me back, demanding his answer. But the night is still young.

[300winmag]

I love the emails we get all the time from grad students... "I need a faster machine"... "give me a new box".... like we have all these great boxes waiting to be asked for. New machine, or pay your salary? Hmm, decisions, decisions

I get calls like that all the time, from non-doctors. However, some folks are noticing that they still have 800MHz Dells with 128MB of RAM, while other departments have been upgraded two or three times in the same timeframe. Current hot ride is the Dell Optiplex SX280. It is so "leet" that I didn't know we were deploying them until a doctor called, and said all the 280s were being installed upside down, making it impossible to put a CD in the tray.

[ExGeeEye]

Yeagh...gots a polar sea out my window. A bleak, blank, blah expanse of snow, snirt, ice- and frost-encrusted dead things that, if we can hold out for another month, might turn out to be trees.

This time of year fills me with such hope and joy...

< /sarcastic whinging>

Anyway...Good Morning!

[Lil'freeper]

Gooooood morning! Can I go home yet??

Have been completely swamped at work. No time for the HH. :(

I miss y'all!

[RosieCotton]

...One of the truths of life does remain: Novell's NDS as a directory service really was well ahead of its time. Windows Active Directory (and they'll even admit it after a couple of beers) is a total ripoff of NDS.

Ya know, that post was pretty much word for word how my boss explained things in his network class. ;-)

As mainly just a PC support puke, I don't do a WHOLE lot with Active Directory...but I like. I really like.

[RosieCotton]

SubTotal: $18,631.00

Wow...of course, you had to throw in everything but the kitchen sink, but still...wow. < insert kowtowing smilie >

Now...you can have that delivered to me, k?

[RosieCotton]

Now imagine this raging hurricane of a computer... "upgraded" to run windows ME instead of the OEM XP Pro. It is so wrong.

Wrong isn't even the word. There are no words to express it.