The Unhappy Me thread - Page 14

petrw1 · 2011-09-25, 06:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheJudger

3 weeks ago my car needed a new clutch. Missed 400Mm (megameter aka 400000km) by only 1800km.

Oliver

I'm humbled. I'm closing in on 300K on my Honda Accord.... Wish me luck.

Uncwilly · 2011-09-25, 07:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheJudger

3 weeks ago my car needed a new clutch. Missed 400Mm (megameter aka 400000km) by only 1800km.

Quote:

Originally Posted by petrw1

I'm humbled. I'm closing in on 300K on my Honda Accord.... Wish me luck.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

It appears that my automobile will be going to an early grave. I was expecting to get at at least 2/3rds more usage before even thinking of wishing it away to the cornfield.

My Accord was at 3.8 Mm when it shuffled off the motor oil.

rogue · 2011-09-28, 00:20

My days of PowerPC seem to have passed me by. My quad core G5 has been acting flaky recently and I suspect it is time to be put to pasture.

It is possible that it requires an inexpensive repair (new memory, bad hard drive), but it could also be something more expensive (power supply, logic board). If the repair is inexpesive (< $200), I will most likely do it.

On the bright side I hope to convince my wife to let me buy a used 4 core or 8 core Mac Pro. The funny thing is that I had just talked to her about it two weeks ago, shortly before this started to happen.

jasong · 2011-09-30, 03:46

I was recently informed that wanting to be inside a person DOESN'T mean wanting to know their deepest thoughts and feelings. Should be easier to get a second date now.

just kidding. Got that one-liner from a youtube channel I just subscribed too.

andypandy311 . It's awesomely nerdy. Though I have to admit I've only seen the one video.

schickel · 2011-11-18, 21:57

Reno residents had a very bad night......imagine waking up to this outside your window:

Had something similar to this happen 2 years ago: someone a couple hundred yards behind me managed to start a fire that came down and burned down the fences on 3 sides of where I am.....missed the house by yards, thank goodness. My heart goes out to these folks. Latest report is 2000+ acres, 20 structures destroyed.

Dubslow · 2011-11-18, 22:11

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45354176.../#.TsbXu2Mk6dA

Winds gusting north of 60mph~100kph

ixfd64 · 2011-12-26, 03:27

I lost my job on Friday. Not because I didn't meet my company's expectations, but because my manager didn't have enough funds to continue my contract. The economy is brutal these days. Although my exit from Cisco was very graceful, it still kind of stinks to become unemployed just before Christmas.

In the context of GIMPS, there is another downside. One nice thing about my group is that there was no policy against running foreign software on company computers. As such, I took the liberty of installing Prime95 on a few servers and workstations that were rarely used by others. A couple of co-workers did complain about the program using up resources, in which case I gave them permission to kill it as work is of higher priority.

Still, it was really fun to put those 8-core IBM servers to good use; I certainly regret not being aware of those machines until a couple of months ago. But since I was leaving the company, I decided to remove Prime95 altogether because I don't think it was a good idea to keep running the program on computers that I would no longer have access to. Truth be told, it's kind of saddening to see my average throughput drop from a potential 300 GHz-days/day to a measly 3 GHz-days/day.

Not to mention that I still haven't discovered M48...

Uncwilly · 2011-12-26, 03:31

:(

petrw1 · 2011-12-26, 04:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by ixfd64

I lost my job on Friday.

Sorry.

The same thing happened to my brother a few years back. They shut down an entire plant and put about 100 out of work just before Christmas.

NBtarheel_33 · 2011-12-26, 08:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by petrw1

Sorry.

The same thing happened to my brother a few years back. They shut down an entire plant and put about 100 out of work just before Christmas.

Happened to me a couple of years ago, right after the first of the year. Came home from visiting with the family for the holidays, went back to work for a couple of weeks, and then bam, right out of the blue. I'm convinced that December/January is a dangerous time for this sort of thing; it seems like employers are looking over their budgets and if they see where they can trim fat for the winter, that's what happens.

The good news is that you're eligible for unemployment benefits (since it's a layoff vs. a firing), and there has been absolutely no better time in history than now to be so. You can take the time to look for something that suits you well, and who knows, is a step up from where you were.

You mentioned that you were under a contract - isn't there some sort of penalty or legal action for breach of contract available to you? Normally, you can't just sign contracts and then just say "sorry, I can't pay you anymore"...

Mini-Geek · 2011-12-26, 13:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by NBtarheel_33

You mentioned that you were under a contract - isn't there some sort of penalty or legal action for breach of contract available to you? Normally, you can't just sign contracts and then just say "sorry, I can't pay you anymore"...

More likely, the contract was coming to an end, and they couldn't get the funds to renew the contract. Sorry to hear about your job loss (and GIMPS's loss).

2011-11-18, 21:57	#148
schickel "Frank <^>" Dec 2004 CDP Janesville 2·1,061 Posts	Reno residents had a very bad night......imagine waking up to this outside your window: Had something similar to this happen 2 years ago: someone a couple hundred yards behind me managed to start a fire that came down and burned down the fences on 3 sides of where I am.....missed the house by yards, thank goodness. My heart goes out to these folks. Latest report is 2000+ acres, 20 structures destroyed. Attached Thumbnails Last fiddled with by schickel on 2011-11-18 at 21:59 Reason: Teh internets ate my vowel!

2011-12-26, 03:27	#150
ixfd64 Bemusing Prompter "Danny" Dec 2002 California 7⁴ Posts	I lost my job on Friday. Not because I didn't meet my company's expectations, but because my manager didn't have enough funds to continue my contract. The economy is brutal these days. Although my exit from Cisco was very graceful, it still kind of stinks to become unemployed just before Christmas. In the context of GIMPS, there is another downside. One nice thing about my group is that there was no policy against running foreign software on company computers. As such, I took the liberty of installing Prime95 on a few servers and workstations that were rarely used by others. A couple of co-workers did complain about the program using up resources, in which case I gave them permission to kill it as work is of higher priority. Still, it was really fun to put those 8-core IBM servers to good use; I certainly regret not being aware of those machines until a couple of months ago. But since I was leaving the company, I decided to remove Prime95 altogether because I don't think it was a good idea to keep running the program on computers that I would no longer have access to. Truth be told, it's kind of saddening to see my average throughput drop from a potential 300 GHz-days/day to a measly 3 GHz-days/day. Not to mention that I still haven't discovered M48... Last fiddled with by ixfd64 on 2011-12-26 at 03:37

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2011-09-28, 00:20	#146
rogue "Mark" Apr 2003 Between here and the 2²·7·227 Posts	My days of PowerPC seem to have passed me by. My quad core G5 has been acting flaky recently and I suspect it is time to be put to pasture. It is possible that it requires an inexpensive repair (new memory, bad hard drive), but it could also be something more expensive (power supply, logic board). If the repair is inexpesive (< $200), I will most likely do it. On the bright side I hope to convince my wife to let me buy a used 4 core or 8 core Mac Pro. The funny thing is that I had just talked to her about it two weeks ago, shortly before this started to happen.

2011-09-30, 03:46	#147
jasong "Jason Goatcher" Mar 2005 3×7×167 Posts	I was recently informed that wanting to be inside a person DOESN'T mean wanting to know their deepest thoughts and feelings. Should be easier to get a second date now. just kidding. Got that one-liner from a youtube channel I just subscribed too. andypandy311 . It's awesomely nerdy. Though I have to admit I've only seen the one video.

2011-11-18, 22:11	#149
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 3·29·83 Posts	http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45354176.../#.TsbXu2Mk6dA Winds gusting north of 60mph~100kph

2011-12-26, 03:31	#151
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