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Isn't Mark Cuban, Croatian as well?
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Quote from: Flyin6 on December 03, 2016, 09:50:42 PMIsn't Mark Cuban, Croatian as well?Mark Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.His father, Norton Cuban, was an automobile upholsterer and Mark has described his mother, Shirley, as someone with "a different job or different career goal every other week."He grew up in the suburb of Mount Lebanon, in a Jewish working-class family. His paternal grandfather changed the family name from "Chabenisky" to "Cuban" after his family emigrated from Russia through Ellis Island.His maternal grandparents, who were also Jewish, came from Romania.Cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes.Given his liberal bent, I'm glad he's not. My buddy escaped communism under Marshall Tito in 1976 and came to America. Declared asylum and ultimately started his own telecom business. Great American who loves this country more than most native born Americans.
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
Sam any condensation in your light bar yet? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: TexasRedNeck on December 04, 2016, 12:45:47 AMQuote from: Flyin6 on December 03, 2016, 09:50:42 PMIsn't Mark Cuban, Croatian as well?Mark Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.His father, Norton Cuban, was an automobile upholsterer and Mark has described his mother, Shirley, as someone with "a different job or different career goal every other week."He grew up in the suburb of Mount Lebanon, in a Jewish working-class family. His paternal grandfather changed the family name from "Chabenisky" to "Cuban" after his family emigrated from Russia through Ellis Island.His maternal grandparents, who were also Jewish, came from Romania.Cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes.Given his liberal bent, I'm glad he's not. My buddy escaped communism under Marshall Tito in 1976 and came to America. Declared asylum and ultimately started his own telecom business. Great American who loves this country more than most native born Americans.I didn't knowBut I watched Mark Cuban say he was Croatian (Or possibly something like that...memory...) on television
Quote from: Flyin6 on December 04, 2016, 08:19:36 AMQuote from: TexasRedNeck on December 04, 2016, 12:45:47 AMQuote from: Flyin6 on December 03, 2016, 09:50:42 PMIsn't Mark Cuban, Croatian as well?Mark Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.His father, Norton Cuban, was an automobile upholsterer and Mark has described his mother, Shirley, as someone with "a different job or different career goal every other week."He grew up in the suburb of Mount Lebanon, in a Jewish working-class family. His paternal grandfather changed the family name from "Chabenisky" to "Cuban" after his family emigrated from Russia through Ellis Island.His maternal grandparents, who were also Jewish, came from Romania.Cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes.Given his liberal bent, I'm glad he's not. My buddy escaped communism under Marshall Tito in 1976 and came to America. Declared asylum and ultimately started his own telecom business. Great American who loves this country more than most native born Americans.I didn't knowBut I watched Mark Cuban say he was Croatian (Or possibly something like that...memory...) on televisionYou might be thinking of Robert Herjavec... he's definitely Croatian and they're both on Shark TankSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Well... I'm on hour 28 of what should have been a 10 to 12 hour Cisco phone system upgrade. Probably have 3 or 4 more to go. Restoring from backup. Have I mentioned I hate computers!! :(
Quote from: cruizng on December 04, 2016, 10:49:03 PMWell... I'm on hour 28 of what should have been a 10 to 12 hour Cisco phone system upgrade. Probably have 3 or 4 more to go. Restoring from backup. Have I mentioned I hate computers!! :(That's Cisco for ya... supposedly "creme de la creme"... until it breaks.
Quote from: rpar86 on December 05, 2016, 08:47:18 PMQuote from: cruizng on December 04, 2016, 10:49:03 PMWell... I'm on hour 28 of what should have been a 10 to 12 hour Cisco phone system upgrade. Probably have 3 or 4 more to go. Restoring from backup. Have I mentioned I hate computers!! :(That's Cisco for ya... supposedly "creme de la creme"... until it breaks.It really is incredible. We pay over $180,000.00 a year for Cisco Smartnet support for our equipment. That is just support. It is not counting the $500,000.00 plus we spent on new equipment and licensing. Then on Sunday morning at 4am when you are trying to get out of the ditch and escalate to an engineer that actually knows what they are doing, they tell you there is no one else available. We are stuck with Juanita in Costa Rica that has to keep relaying our questions to someone else that we can't get on the phone. I finally got a local Cisco person to call me back at 11am but they were pretty much useless getting help other than apologizing all over the place. Then they didn't even follow up all day long. I get a call Monday morning from one of the regional managers asking how it was going. Rolls Royce prices at Yugo support. Plan for 2017 is how to get rid of them.
Yeesh! I'm very comfortable driving in the snow, years of off roading in it on purpose, but I hate driving with others in the snow. I seem to be the only capable driver whenever I'm on the road with traffic. The Californian transplants don't know what it is, the Subaru driver's think they can do normal speeds, but forget they can't stop, and same with lifted truck and jeep drivers. cutting in and out of traffic, passing everyone, and then a few miles down the road, on their side in the median, or facing the wrong way in the middle of the freeway after bouncing off the guardrail. Be safe Sam.
At least you have some semblance of infrastructure there; here, we retrofit garbage trucks w/ plow blades and sand spreaders because we don't keep the snow fighting equipment around. or if it's only going to be here for a couple days, they just leave it, and everything comes to a stand still in the city. out in the country by me, we just figure our own stuff out w/ quads and plow blades, farm trucks w/ sand etc.
Coming from a road guy here....If the sander/plow truck isn't in the ditch at least once in an event they are not doing their job. We put the sand out behind us, we were not driving on it. We didn't put plows on garbage trucks, we had the dump trucks set up for attachment of plows and sanders. We had to get the roads in shape so the garbage trucks could pick up the garbage. Yes when it is snowing hard the roads are really bad, the trucks just can not keep up with either plowing or sanding when it is really coming down.You could tell the event was about over by how far out in the brush the 4X4's ended up.
Quote from: cruizng on December 06, 2016, 08:00:55 AMQuote from: rpar86 on December 05, 2016, 08:47:18 PMQuote from: cruizng on December 04, 2016, 10:49:03 PMWell... I'm on hour 28 of what should have been a 10 to 12 hour Cisco phone system upgrade. Probably have 3 or 4 more to go. Restoring from backup. Have I mentioned I hate computers!! :(That's Cisco for ya... supposedly "creme de la creme"... until it breaks.It really is incredible. We pay over $180,000.00 a year for Cisco Smartnet support for our equipment. That is just support. It is not counting the $500,000.00 plus we spent on new equipment and licensing. Then on Sunday morning at 4am when you are trying to get out of the ditch and escalate to an engineer that actually knows what they are doing, they tell you there is no one else available. We are stuck with Juanita in Costa Rica that has to keep relaying our questions to someone else that we can't get on the phone. I finally got a local Cisco person to call me back at 11am but they were pretty much useless getting help other than apologizing all over the place. Then they didn't even follow up all day long. I get a call Monday morning from one of the regional managers asking how it was going. Rolls Royce prices at Yugo support. Plan for 2017 is how to get rid of them.I assisted on a job a couple years ago with Cisco UCS blades, EMC SAN and fancy Nexus 3000 (I think) switches - I was there for the VM side of things, another firm was there for the physical hardware. Shut it down Friday PM, moved it to their new office (that was fun - no elevator - put it on the forks of a boom and lifted it through a second story doorway) and re-rack on Saturday, and then we spent all night Saturday troubleshooting why stuff wouldn't come back up or communicate. Sometime about 2am I made a comment "Maybe this software version has a bug in it" to which I was told "Nah, this is a solid build"... About 4am I lay down on the floor and fall asleep, 6 or 7am I go back to the hotel. Meanwhile those guys are still there working with DumbNet. About 11am I get a call "Hey we got it back up, need you now". I go back over there, spend a few hours booting up the network, verifying the Exchange server and Terminal/Citrix server farm are operational and I'm done. I asked the guys "so, what was it?" -- their response... "Oh, that version had a bug in it. We had to upgrade the switch." I just rolled my eyes.
Got a new toy today.....I've needed/wanted a generator for a long time. I dodged the bullets for years as we never lost power over the first 15 years we lived here (maybe 1x for 15 minutes). But then a few years ago left on a business trip and we had no power for a week....the entire week I was in SF. And um yeah it was February or something....cold as can be. The family spent the week in the FR while my son kept the fire burning. Since then I have needed one. I first called Generac for a standby but the idjit never showed up for the appt. I called Generac and complained and they never called me back. While most times I would say screw them entirely, I find their price and quality compelling. So I bought this one a week ago. I will be getting and electrician to wire in a plug for me to run the house. Until then if something were to happen I would run cords. But the bottom line is this should save my butt. Of course having bought it I am pretty much guaranteed not to lose power ha! Anyway....this is the one I got: http://www.generac.com/all-products/generators/portable-generators/xg-series/xg8000eAn XG8000e....the e for electric start. It puts out 8000 kw with 10000 surge. Will run for 9.5 hours on a tank supposedly. I view it like fire insurance. Hope I don't need it but if I do, I will have it. Got it from electricgeneratorsdirect.com good px, no tax, free shipping. Showed up today in a semi with liftgate. I uncrated it and added the oil, gas, and fired it up. Elec start is nice. ;)
Catching up here. Let's see:Snow? No comprende. Texans deal better with zombie apocalypse. It will get down to 26 up in east texas where my weekend/hide is in Thursday night. Had to blow the water out of the irrigation system. Also put the 5 inch blocks back in theBus and cranked the t bars 3 turns to get it back to where it was when it was aligned. I'm back to the 2 inch rake. I've been hauling stuff and tired of the sagging arse. Headed hunting on a friends 6000 acre lease Thursday through Sunday for my 50th. And Tate. I did the entire suspension on the Bus on stands. But....we don't have rust in texas. And yes. Service is dead. It's dead because we don't demand it and aren't willing to pay for it. We gravitate to the lowest price and deal with poor service. That's true pretty much across the board. Hope everyone is well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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