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Eddyline

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  1. The mountains in the area are gorgeous, but Gatlinburg proper is a tourist trap (that is, unless you are a fan of the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum and Bubba Gump's). I very much prefer the Bryson City side of the park.  Tons of outdoor activities at the Nantahala Outdoor Center, world-class mountain biking at Tsali, boating on Lake Fontana, tubing on Deep Creek.  The Appalachian Trail crosses through the NOC campus, and a section hike one day would be a really neat experience. Also, I highly suggest you head a few miles south for a day and take a rafting trip on the Ocoee.

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  2. I also did this for my dog for a while, and he absolutely loved it. After some time, he started trying to eat dirt, obviously trying to make up for some micronutrient deficiency. Reluctantly switched him back (Nulo, from Austin, of course), but he certainly prefers his chicken thighs, brown rice, and veggies. 

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  3. On 6/4/2023 at 7:10 AM, Wulaw Horn said:

    My take away was 3 or 4 fold:

    1). I would have preferred to do something else on vacation that doesn’t have so much eating, drinking, gambling and the like 

    2) we used to go and just not get off the boat- I now need to get off the boat in every port and do something 

    3) 7 days is now way too long.  When it was gluttonous/could enjoy the whole boat it was one thing, but when much of what they do no longer holds appeals all that much it’s something else  5 days would probably be just fine 

    4) damn, people drink a lot  

    5) wife still likes it so we will probably still go on one a year… but need to do that without kids so can also make it hang out and decompress time that would probably have improved it too  

     

    Considering where your wife is in the process (a couple of weeks behind you, I think?), was she able to enjoy the cruise?

  4. I am interested in learning more about “cloud hosting” for a small business server.  Our office (12 daily users, 4 remote) operates on a local machine running Windows Server 2012 R2.  It is inevitable that the server will need to be replaced or upgraded (it is six years old), and I wondering at what point it would make sense to move all this to a hosted environment.

    The current server runs basic Microsoft Office applications, as well as QuickBooks Enterprise, and currently houses less than 600GB of data files. The remote users, who use the server throughout the day, connect via VPN through a SonicWall device.   

    Should I consider moving all this to “the cloud”? We have only had a few hardware issues, but I anticipate this may accelerate as the equipment continues to age. Also, I believe we will be looking at an end-of-life date for Server 2012 sometime next year.

    Any thoughts or recommendations would be very much appreciated; I’m not sure where to begin. Unfortunately, our small-town IT service providers leave much to be desired, and our small business cannot justify a full-time IT person.

  5. 3 hours ago, formermav43 said:

    This article from late last night comparing Beard to Billy Gillispie is amazing. My favorite paragraph:

    ”There is a psychological term for those who view other human beings as mere tools for their own gratification and aggrandizement. The term is sociopath. Whether or not Beard fits the clinical definition of a sociopath, I cannot say. But what I can say with complete certainty is that his behavior in accepting the Texas job was sociopathic.”


    https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/Article/Chris-Beard-Following-in-Billy-Clyde-Gillispies-Footsteps-Kirby-Hocutt-Kader-Tapsoba-Shaka-Smart-163521036/

    Geez, this reads like it was written by a sixth-grader with a thesaurus.

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