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Forostar said:
Well....

You don't have to wash cats. Cats don't stink as much (from their mouths) as dogs. You don't have to take cats out for a dump in the park.

Basically: you don't have to treat a cat like it was your kid.
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But the interaction between a dog and its owner is greater than that of owner/cat.
 
By a mile.

When I go to Fredrikstad to visit my family these days, our dog is the one who is the more enthusiastic one when I come in through the front door  :) He's soon 12 years old, but when I come home he suddenly seems to be much younger, at least temporarily. The affection a dog can show its family is just fantastic.
 
Albie said:
But the interaction between a dog and its owner is greater than that of owner/cat.
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That's what dog owners say yes. Everyone to his own.

A cat can easily recognize you as well, I always like it when my parents cat (who is there since 1993 when I still lived there) comes up to me when I arrive. A different way, different expression. More of a silent understanding. :)
 
And another thing, if a cat was the size of an Alsatian, you'd be shit scared of it. :D
 
Guy I work with: "This hard drive needs to be destroyed before we toss it."

Me: "Leave it with me!"

That hard drive has now been disassembled, burnt, smashed, microwaved, impaled, thrown, moistened, and stamped upon. Best half hour I've had at work in a long time.
 
You forgot to pour nitric acid over the remains  :D When you combine metal and nitric acid, the results are usually grim for the metal.

(So yes, you can destroy the metal :ninja:)
Bah. Time to do the backups and go home. It's 21:36 CET ...
 
Man, I'm lucky they gave me a hammer.
There are Republicans I respect. And then there are the 46% of Republican voters in Mississippi who think interracial marriage should be made illegal.

Yikes.
 
I love destroying HDDs!! Hammer, screwdrivers... I have magnets from the last HDD on my wall. I take bits out of broken PC's and putn them on my wall.
 
I wish I had been allowed to really rip it apart. But it was just...smash it and get it done. Sensitive client info and all.
 
Oh, sure, that makes sense.  I have a shelf FULL of HDD's right now.  I be there are 20+ IDE drives (40ish GB) sitting there.  We are starting to get a reserve of SATA drives, probably 10 of them-- usually 40-80GB.

Usually, if the tower is old enough, we scab the parts for spares and pitch it.  if its new enough, we pull the HDD, put in a dif one, reformat it and re-use it.  we hold the HDD for about 2 weeks, in case someone is missing a file, then we boot and nuke them (I can't remember, but I think that's a 3 pass?).
 
Ouch. These days all I do at home is sleep, eat and do the dishes and laundry - the rest of my days I spend at the university - slowly progressing towards a finished PhD thesis.

When I have it like that, I really like to get my precious seven hours of sleep. Then it is not fun being woken up by the phone at 01:30, being told that I have lost my VISA card and driver's license in a place in Oslo - 500 km away - moreover, this particular part of Oslo I haven't visited in six years or so. And no, I haven't lost anything. I got up and checked (before the guy told me that he was calling from Oslo).

To top that, there is noone else in Norway with the same full name as me (if one drops the first of two family names, there are something like 50 people who can fit, but the guy who called me said my number was the only one he got from the number information service he'd first).

Maybe someone has copied my credit card and driving license - and lost them  :D Norway's Dumbest Criminals material!
 
How long do you have left with your PhD?

I've had my fair share of hassle with credit card fraud, which should never have happened with all the security checks they make me do whenever I use my card. Very frustrating and time consuming.
 
Well, my contract with the university expires mid-July, so if I don't finish by then, I'll have to get a proper job and work on the thesis on my spare time, which I do not really want to.

I'll keep an eye on my bank account for the next few days.
 
LooseCannon said:
Guy I work with: "This hard drive needs to be destroyed before we toss it."

Me: "Leave it with me!"

That hard drive has now been disassembled, burnt, smashed, microwaved, impaled, thrown, moistened, and stamped upon. Best half hour I've had at work in a long time.
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Sounds like fun - but do you not have a Degausser? We use one, though it's not practical to use if one is fitted with a pacemaker. :D
 
It is, that's why when we use it we have to be at least 20 feet (I think, it's a long time since I used it) away from any computer system. And mobile phones, etc are to be left well clear of this.
 
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