The art or craft argument is so weird to me. I mean costumes are also both an art and a craft, as are sets and lights. You technically can be a set or costume designer with no technical knowledge, but your sets and costumes are going to be terrible.

The Manhattan Regional Theater awards can bite me.

Does anyone have an old iPhone they would want to get rid of? I want to increase my familiarity with said devices.

Can have a cracked screen, even.

I just want to be more familiar so I can check the little "iPhone" box on product knowledge forms while job hunting.

dcjensen (at) gmail dot com

I'm rarely tempted by a phone, but this Moto G looks interesting.

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That seems like a good deal for an unlocked phone and I really like my Moto E, but wished it have more storage and RAM. (I have a 32GB MicroSD card, but that's not as helpful as it would seem).

If that line had been out a month and a half ago when I had to get a new phone, I would have gone with a Moto G for sure. I would probably go for the G Plus, because $50 extra for a fingerprint sensor would be worth it for me; I love unlocking my LastPass vault with my finger.

Oh what a night! I went on to one of our servers to do some changes to some fax routing and found crypto files!! If I hadn't gone onto the system at the late hour I would not have seen it happening. Total freak out all round and lots of people up all night trying to put humpty dumpty back together again.

Since it was in the early evening it was after a full day's work, but before the backups. We cut the network connectivity which stopped the process. Then we restored the Veeam from the previous day. The C drive hadn't been touched, but the data directories were in progress of being torched. Fortunately there were a few million data files and it had trashed a bunch of older ones but hadn't reached the recent ones yet so we added them back to the restore.

The only thing still not recovered are 276 batches of either faxes or scanned documents that hadn't been filed. The faxes I can get back and maybe the scanned items if there is a shadow copy of the files or something. This server is a medical practice with 7 locations so they do bunches of filing. I tell them all the time to not shred until the next day after nightly backups. At least one of the offices shredded, but the consensus of opinion is that they deserve it if they lose some documents. (shouldn't be anything crucial)

Anyway, just exhausted from the Herculean effort and sincerely grateful that I happened to go on that server to do a bit of something.

Just needed to dump somewhere that might be sympathetic to my pain! So delighted to have 3 days to deal with the loose ends. What a mess. Surely a special hell for the people that write these things!

Wow, what a stressful evening!

It could have been so much worse. I am going to sleep well tonight.

Gah, crypto. We see a couple of people a week who discover their files for our program have nasty ransom notes in the data folders.

I'm rarely tempted by a phone, but this Moto G looks interesting.

Calling back to this, Gudanov (and anybody else looking for a cheap phone); my brand new Moto X went through a tragic fall that broke it in a weird (and not covered under warranty) way, so I actually sold it for $75 on swappa.com and bought the Amazon Prime version of the Moto G4. Paid $125 plus tax after the $25 Prime credit.

So far, it is AMAZING for that price. Heck, it's amazing for the full price of $200, but for $125 it's astonishing. Absolutely wonderful.

The Amazon ads are very non-obtrusive, though the fact that all of the Amazon apps come pre-installed (and nonremovable) is a little annoying, especially ones I don't use (I don't need Alexa app, I don't have an echo! I don't need Amazon Music, I have a google play music subscription!) Still, that has also provided an advantage in that the Amazon Appstore (which I use often, as many apps are cheaper there, especially kids apps) is more thoroughly integrated on the phone, making apps install more quickly and easily from there than before.