Desiderius Price

The youngings did something?  Or management trying to send a message?

Plenty of 🍀 leprechaun 🪙 gold 🌈 …. oops, it vanished before I could send it.  

Happy Birthday @BronxWench

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My potter fanfic is similarly plot driven.   That’s why even the “cleaner” version is substantial at 631k right now.  However, the “explicit” version stands at 1765k, with sex, incest, slash, nudism themes mixed into it.  Something like “Jefferey” would have some parts that could work in a sexless “T” rating, the nudist aspect was part of why I wrote/developed the character, as Jeff’s needed for the main protagonist’s swim instructor.

I’d think a “T” rating would cause some of my stories to implode into clouds of nothingness, or at least lose a lot of their impact.

I’m more equal opportunity, sure I’ll kill original characters, I’ll also kill off canon characters too.

Found this on facebook (transcribing the image):

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If you’re having a hard time getting started on a project, simply start a second project, get it to a critical point, then use the original project to procrastinate on the second now more successful project.  Repeat as needed until the universe disintegrates.

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I’d recommend having essentials packed for a “grab & go” evacuation scenario… Or have them all leave now for a six month Spanish holiday.

@BronxWench Got a couple half-used spools of cat 5e myself, but given the current standards, I’d rather put in cat-latest if I’m crawling in the attic and going through that effort.  In the meanwhile, the stuff stapled up is...working fine.  I do like to control the router, because it’s basically running my internal network, and I don’t want my printer, my network drive, etc, accidentally “published” to the internet as a whole.  Cable company… to mitigate service calls for “internet not working”, likely has it configured to maximum-open possible.

@Wilde_Guess You’re now referring to my setup as “not ordinary”, showing my age as I’ve still got them separate.  (ie, don’t want the cable company controlling that bit running my internal home network, just give me that internet connection, I’ll manage the rest).  Got a 100’ bit of ethernet cat 5e running between my living room switch (where my modem/router are) and my bedroom “home office” switch, it’s almost all wired, though the phone uses the wifi.  Been meaning to sink the cords into the wall, but haven’t, so it’s fairly loose (though got staples over it to keep it in place).

@kagome26isawsome Distance is bad when it comes to connections (1/distance^2).  So is stuff because it’ll degrade/block the signal, the bigger the more of an obstacle it becomes.  (Metal’s worse than wood.)  There’s also limits on how much a wifi connection can do, so too many devices might be degrading, and the closer devices with stronger signals will “win” in a contest.  Wires, though others frown on them as “obsolete” are usually better for going the distance and being “stable” – well, unless the squirrels start chewing through them.

Wait, if the modem’s next to you, why is the wifi router in the basement?   Also means there’s already an ethernet wire between the two, move the wifi-router, get an ethernet switch for the basement, and now it’s close enough that you can likely use a wire yourself.  (Wired connections are usually better than wifi if possible)

To test out the wifi idea, move the laptop to the basement.  Because more stuff in between the wifi router and you, the worse your signal will be.  Suppose another idea… change the wifi password in case neighbors are leeching off of your connection.  A super long ethernet wirte might also be a good way to test (assuming your laptop has the old plugin ethernet port and there’s a spare socket on your router/modem).   For me, I actually do the super long ethernet cable so it’s already there.

A glance to the website fubar (com), I’d suspect they might need tighter latency too, something a hard-line ethernet would be good for.  Something like AFF, latency’s less critical so long as it doesn’t time out.

A periodic backup should always be a thing.  Laptops die, get stolen (I’ve had that happen to me), hard drives die (common for ages), or you delete the wrong folder and windows asks “are you sure” and you click “yes” before you realize what you’ve done.   I’m using Linux for my desktop, thus the file-deletion command doesn’t even prompt, it’ll happily delete as ordered.  Deletions are unrecoverable on a SSD because that drive will wipe the deleted data in preparation for the next write; old spinning hard drives didn’t do that, so you had a window of opportunity.

My primary backup is a cronjob (scheduled task) that runs every six hours, mirrors my data to a backup hard-drive on the computer.  This very much tackles the accidental deletion, botched edits, drive failures which are the more common scenarios.  Secondary backup for my stories is subversion on my (personal) network drive, this is what programmers use for source control of their code development files, also works nicely for how I write my stories.

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If you’re actually hard-wired into your router-interface box, you might check the condition of your cable, or try a different socket on the router.  Or, you might try to connect via wireless.

Squirrels, I blame the squirrels, they’re trying to take over.  

First… back it up!  Get a couple USB external drives, make a folder on it with today’s date so you know when it was made, and copy the story & all other important data over into that folder.  (which reminded me to do the backup to *my* story too).  Should be doing this periodically, because laptops do die from time to time.

As to the internet… could be the laptop itself, could be where it is in the house, could be somebody using the microwave, or heck a squirrel chewing on the cable line (which happened to me).