Sudan just got a step closer to full democracy. Big obstacles remain The Transitional Military Council's Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, and opposition demonstrator Ahmed Al-Rabee, raise hands after signing the historic agreement. After almost nine months of violence and wrangling, Sudan came a step closer to a civilian government on Saturday when opposition leaders and military generals signed a power-sharing agreement in the capital, Khartoum. The choice of a fearsome commander on the signing table, and the absence of women who played a crucial role in the protest movement, show that obstacles still remain in Sudan's path to full democracy. The agreement follows protests that toppled 75-year-old dictator Omar al-Bashir, ending his 30-year rule over the northeastern African country.

Google Drive will introduce long-asked-for file shortcuts feature It's coming to G Suite in beta first, but may reach more users at a later date. Soon, Google will add one of the most commonly requested features to its Drive file hosting, sharing, and collaboration service: shortcuts. These will allow users to create pointers to files from either the same drive or another, separate shared drive. The new feature will work just like shortcuts in Windows—they are pointers to a file stored in another location. The shortcut can be stored anywhere without impacting the location of the original file. Google gave this example in its blog post announcing the feature:

@scottalanmiller Man thinking about RTS games has got me thinking about Empire Earth...Whew that has to be the toughest RTS ever! Tough, but once you finish a level on the campaign (or if you EVER beat the AI even on the easiest difficulty on a skirmish), you feel AMAZING!

John Wick 3

@bstilts6301 welcome! Seems like many new faces starting to pop in. Or perhaps... old faces

Making some veggie burgers for Liesl and me.

Tomorrow AM going to the local hamfest see if I can pawn off any of my stuff. Then friends annual BBQ picnic but it is supposed to be over 90 F with the humidity. Sunday have to upgrade the church's computers and new wifi install.

@pmoncho browsers refuse. Because the domains are misused.

Also, chicha is the cure for what ails you.... Youtube Video

@dustinb3403 Sure, let me just get some rainbow unicorn farts sent their way and everything will be good.....

FCC “consumer advisory” panel includes ALEC, big foe of municipal broadband A committee that advises the Federal Communications Commission on consumer-related matters now includes a representative of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which lobbies against municipal broadband, net neutrality, and other consumer protection measures.

Just updated to 0.4.0-b

@BRRABill it's been a full year since hte last follow up on this thread. How about an update after another year of use?

I've learning some Greek to prepare for next week.

Downtown Chicago at a client.

@denis_mcgee said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?: Of course, it is better to choose an area, in which there are constant orders or customers who are looking for specialists to support existing projects. But specifically in the same web development, there is quite a strong competition, especially for beginners. It's a developer's market. Companies can't find qualified people, it's hard to even get people to interview.

@JaredBusch said in Happy Birthday Thread: @Dashrender said in Happy Birthday Thread: @nadnerB said in Happy Birthday Thread: Happy birthday @JaredBusch . May you throw many bottles of fireball in a fire Don't say that, he'd do it. Totally I can attest to that he hates it with his guts

IT is always the last to know.

Well... plug-in downloaded source, compiled, installed and activated. In "Setting/Plugins" I can see now the "backup-reports" and "transport-email" plugins. I made some simple test with "Backup Jobs" and all seems ok. Thanks guys.

@Dashrender said in Domain Controller Down (VM): perhaps the discussion of HA should always be left at the door unless the OP specifically says something to the effect of - this was supposed to be an HA solution, why is it not - Perhaps. Often someone says something that leads us to believe that there might have been a reason for HA. But this is a case where just nothing suggests it. Not even the lack of panic or concern once things were down. They really seemed to have no care that things were down - which is fine, their design suggests that. In this case, with @wirestyle22 not having been there, he too would have to decide how the system should be viewed. But he needs the information to take back to management "Oh, you thought that this would be HA? THat's odd as it is designed exactly the opposite of that in every way and all of the policies and procedures go against that as well. How were you expecting HA without HA processes, staffing, technology, design or setup? What led you to believe something so contrary would achieve HA?"

@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech: Reading "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes" with my kid, lol. We're now about 3/4 the way through the book. It's a decent book so far. Don't tell my kid, but I'm going to read it again after we finish, lol.

Alright. You've all inspired me to quit the "hold steady" phase and make another move downward......:)

@StuartJordan said in Backup File Server to DAS: Wow what a thread, took me a while to read through it We don't fool around around here!

@jmoore said in Web Application VS Windows Application: @scottalanmiller Certainly could be. He has over 1,200 posts, one of our top posters over the years.

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Yeah, time for an update!