Eric Nichols  

@[email protected]
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411 Posts
The Pragmatic Addict.
Old school dev (C, JS, SQL etc),
Debian, RasPi, Retro, 3d Print,
crossfitter, family guy, aviator, DnD,
 Fan,  @dirwiz CTO.
#delaware

#searchable
Personalhttps://pragmaticaddict.com
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Eric Nichols  May 21, 2023
steffMay 21, 2023
#silentsunday
Eric Nichols  May 21, 2023
Had a vivid image of a scene today which I thought would make a good subject that needs to be written as a short story. One problem, I'm not a writer. So I'm going to try posting this here and see what the critics say.
Firm nod to @neilhimself who inspires so many.
Eric Nichols  May 21, 2023
DasMay 21, 2023
#SilentSunday
#Travel #Nature #Photography #WhiteSandsNP
Eric Nichols  May 21, 2023
nixCraft 🐧May 21, 2023
Poll: How do you access Mastodon? (Please boost for reach, TIA).
Mobile app
47.1%
Web app (browser)
17%
Both (mobile+web)
35.8%
Poll ended at .
Eric Nichols  May 21, 2023
The view from The Bridges, Kent Narrows Md. Great night to celebrate 25 years of marriage. #SilentSunday #Photography
Eric Nichols  May 20, 2023
nixCraft 🐧May 20, 2023

The secret ingredients to getting code to work are:

0. anger 😠

1. hate 😡

2. coffee ☕

3. lots of music 🎶 in the background.

Eric Nichols  May 19, 2023
Love making coffee in an old fashioned percolator. Its slow and mesmerizing filling the whole kitchen with coffee aroma. Great way to ease into the morning.
Eric Nichols  May 17, 2023
Decided to splurge for my C64. This is an AV breakout board. It allows all standard cables to plug straight in (RCA, SVideo etc). It also has jumpers to reconfigure the audio and video. There's even a hack for noise reduction. Amazing! #c64 #commodore64 #retrocomputing #commodore

https://idoregesz.hu/product/multimedia-breakout-commodore-c64/
Commodore Multimedia Breakout for C64 | időrégész.hu

This small gadget makes popular connectors to the bottom of your Commodore, like S-VIDEO connector or RCA video composite output!

időrégész.hu | a shop for Commodore computer accessories
Eric Nichols  May 17, 2023
Jay Drake 🇨🇦 ≠51May 12, 2023

(apologies to Blade Runner)

... I have seen things you wouldn't believe ...

... ribbon cables for hard drives... Master/Slave SCSI termination... (mind screams in rebellion)... the little switch boxes to hook your original Nintendo console or VIC-20 to a TV and then get headaches from staring at the TV CRT too closely.... a VIC-20 cassette drive with a box of about 150+ tapes that were completely unlabeled ... painstakingly typed in from the listings in BYTE magazine... Taking low-density 3.5" floppies, and drilling/punching a hole through to double your storage and make them "high-density".... the squeal of a modem (and trying to get the IRQ' conflicts resolved via changing jumper switches)... attempting to connect to Datapac to try and reach unknown systems, running my BBS in a DOS-box, on 386 Windows 3.0 machine...

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...

The clicking of an IOMEGA ZIP drive, whose time it was to die...

#nerd #technology

Eric Nichols  May 17, 2023
Directory WizardsMay 17, 2023
Email addresses should not be duplicated. Use Dynamic Exclusions so they don't multiply like rabbits. #UnitySync #DirWiz #WednesdayWisdom #directorysync #activedirectory #msexchange #GAL #directory #IT #tech #cloud #data
https://www.dirwiz.com/kb/981
Avoid duplicates of existing Destination SMTP addresses (Dynamic Exclusions)

One of the most common questions were asked is, How do I keep duplicate SMTP addresses out of my Destination Directory? We used to recommend a method called Dynamic Ex...

Directory Wizards