About MarkJFine

Might not matter because of the nature of the beast, but probably not a good idea to broadcast any of your device's MAC addresses on an open, google-searchable, forum such as this. People have been known to spoof them to gain access to other people's networks.   Again, might not matter if you're in a rural area, but you never know. ... View more

Oh... and that's Hal as in Jordan, not IBM-1. ... View more

I'll take 'No-win Situations' for 100, Alex. ... View more

No family. And our younger sister is in SC. So it was just me. And I'm ok with that, tbh. Once I get into a rhythm I can be very efficient and I work very fast. I just get a plan of attack in my head and execute: Simple things like, rules for what to keep, what to throw out. Actually, that sounds a lot simpler than it is. In fact my parents wanted to come, but I told them no because they'd just slow me down. ... View more

Appreciate the condolences @GabeU @maratsade. Although we weren't very close my parents are in their late 80s and I'm doing my best to do for them what they can't. So this past week was spent getting his condo organized for cleanout and resale.   Deffo got my steps in and more. ... View more

When I was 45 I was close to 200 lbs. I'm only 5'6, and suffered every time I checked the air in my tires. Made a consious decision to lose weight, quit smoking, lose weight again, and get myself completely fit by the time I was 50.   I'm now approaching 60 and around 133 lbs. Was between 3-5% body fat while training for half marathons a couple of years ago. Nowadays I struggle to stay at 8% and trying to avoid the ankle ligament injuries that have been hampering me for almost two years (hint: Not a good idea to lace-lock New Balance shoes - causes problems). ... View more

@Byounghusband Two choices: 1. Get told which proper forum to post in. 2. Be ignored completely.   It's a lose-lose situation, but at least people are trying to steer you in the right direction it's something constructive and helpful.   It's your perogative not to see it for what it is, especially if your attitude won't accept the correct (positive) motive or were expecting a different reponse (e.g., something along the lines of confirmation bias).   You'll not see anything regarding the latter from any of us, so... it sounds to me, you'd really rather prefer to be ignored by us, which is the only other option. ... View more

Thing is, I'm pretty sure there are people who do eat there at least a few times a week for lunch, if not every day.   Just to keep things in context of just how important diet and exercise are:   Realizing I haven't discussed this much, but my brother, who was grossly overweight, diabetic, high blood pressure, and all the other typical ailments that go together died 3 days before his 62nd birthday this past February. My recent task has been to organize his condo and get things packed and cleared so it can be prepped and sold. And by prepped, I think we're calling a hazmat team at some point (story for another time).   Anyway, today I worked on the kitchen. Despite having zero diabetes meds in the house, I found boxes upon boxes of pasta and processed cereals - basically all complex carbs. It's what probably drove his ketoacidosis levels through the roof, likely driving him into a diabetic coma and ultimately killing him.   So the moral of today's sermon is... there are no substitutes for low fat proteins and veggies in your diet. Something I don't even think he knew existed. ... View more

I used to practically live at places like McD and used to boast about eating 4 Big Macs in a sitting... but that was the 70s, and, well:   a) It was the munchies (I did say 70s), and   b) they were free because I kept winning them on those baseball scratch cards.   That said, I've probably not been to a McDonalds since 2005 (could have been the Spurlock doc that finally did it for me), except for the time I had to use a rest room on a long trip.   They can talk about being fresh and healthier all they want. I might buy a coffee, but still won't eat anything else. It would probably make me turn a sick shade of green from all the sugar they throw in that stuff. ... View more

I can read too, but nothing has updated automatically (important patches or otherwise) while I've been testing Win10 in metered mode. Don't believe the part about "unless there are important updates" it doesn't do anything at all.   I physically have to go into Updates and manually do a check. Then, once something's been found, you have to click a another button to start the update process. This was done through 2 major update cycles. Not once did Windows do the MS thing, and think for itself.   In fact, Office 365 might detect there are updates while in metered mode, but won't update anything at all until you turn metered off. ... View more

If your DirecTV box doesn't have built-in wifi capability (don't know if the newer ones do), simply unplug the ethernet cable from the back of the DirecTV box. ... View more

You can also change the time period when any updates occur, or more accurately, when they won't. By changing the time period when you use your machine from 8am to 2am, you can exclude it from doing any updates during your Anytime period, and restrict it to Bonus time. ... View more

Real simple. 1. Open Settings and select "Network and Internet" 2. On the next screen, click "Change connection properties" 3. On the next screen, flip the "Set as metered connection" toggle to On. ... View more

@JBurcham For the record, dial up was 0.056Mbps. So, no. #FakeNews ... View more

Seems to me the computer is automatically switching to the HT2000W instead of Comcast, where the latency should be around 600ms, not 3 sec. ... View more

@sagehawk1   You may have worked in Army Sat systems (as have I), but keep in mind their costs don't include what commercial systems require: Real estate, maintenance, technical and logistics personnel at non-Government salaries, taxes, etc.; not to mention recovery of sunk costs and investments and other buisness expenses.   And, as far as usership, Army sat comms are no where near as prolific as commercial systems. Many, many more users on it for more continuous periods of time, not just when comms are required.   Bottom line, there's a massive difference in scale, scope, and focus here. ... View more