tiredofsametab

I always said “in GIN icks” (gin like the alcohol) based on someone else’s pronunciation years ago. I never realized it was meant to have anything to do with “engine” as a result.

Every time I think I’ve managed to erase NetWare from my brain, someone has to drag it back up angry fist-shaking

Good News! Unless something has changed since I worked in healthcare IT, those systems are far too old to be impacted!

I’m half-joking. I don’t know what that kind of equipment runs, but I would guess something embedded. The nuke-med stuff was mostly linux and various lab analyzers were also something embedded though they interface with all sorts of things (which can very well be windows). Pharmaceutical dispensers ran various linux-like OS’s (though I couldn’t even tell you the names anymore). Some medical records stuff was also proprietary, but Windows was replacing most of it near the end of my time.

One place we had ran their keycard system all on a windows 3.1 box still. I don’t doubt some modern systems also are running on Windows which has interesting implications for getting into/out of places.

That said, a lot of that stuff doesn’t touch the outside internet at all unless someone has done something horribly wrong. Medical records systems often do, though (including for billing and insurance stuff).

Doctor’s notes are usually up to the company to decide. There are various insurances and such as well that can kick in for long-term illness. Japan has a program that pays 60% of salary for some period of time, though I don’t know the details.

Another shocker for others, maybe, is that many companies require you to use those same pool of days as your sick leave. Get sick and no vacation for you. Japan does this as well (though Japan actually has ma-/pa-ternity leave which is more than I can say for the US)

Since there are no arrows indicating direction, all paths begin at Arch and end with questioning who you are.

(It took me way too long to understand that “ever used linux before?” didn’t have two separate ‘no’ branches)

My problem with gimp is that I’ve never really used Photoshop (I may have back in it’s very early versions, but I don’t think so). I mostly just use something like Ms paint to take and crop screenshots or photos. Jumping into gimp (and presumably PS as well) is going to confuse people trying to do that.

I still don’t know how to use gimp just because I never need all that functionality and don’t have time to learn. Maybe someday.

Depends. Short options are probably safer if the particular version and flavor of tar are unknown.

The last time, something hosed my whole install. I stopped using linux for a while after that. I’m stuck on a mac for work, much to my protestation, and I can’t justify replacing the graphics card on my personal PC at this moment, so I’m mostly just hanging out in Windows (mostly because I do video editing as well and I have issues with Davinci in Linux that may or may not be related to nvidia).

The install part is easy. It’s when some update breaks everything that the madness sets in

I’ve been in IT for a couple decades at this point. I stopped doing almost any swlf-hosted stuff years ago as I just don’t have the time or energy to deal with things. There’s a lot to keep up on with technologies, security, etc. not to mention all the constants of keeping things up-to-date, back-ups, troubleshooting issues, and more

Does links/links2/elinks count?