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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 1

grant@scarydba.com - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 4:52 AM

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:19 AM

Does anyone feel sorry for me yet?

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USFL0228:1:US

Bridges are supposed to start freezing sometime soon.

Nope:
https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USMA0429:1:US

Bah. You guys are equipped to deal with that sort of stuff. The only people in Florida that can deal with this kind of weather is us transplants from the north / Midwest. The city itself can't handle freezing rain or snow or anything like that.

Actually, though, the people I really feel sorry for are the local homeless population. They don't have many places to go in order to get out of this weather.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 2

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:19 AM

Does anyone feel sorry for me yet?

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USFL0228:1:US

Bridges are supposed to start freezing sometime soon.

Poor you.

It's unusually cool today.

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We walk in the dark places no others will enter
We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:05 AM

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:19 AM

Does anyone feel sorry for me yet?

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USFL0228:1:US

Bridges are supposed to start freezing sometime soon.

Poor you.

It's unusually cool today.

Thank you, Gail. @=)

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287015 More actions · Answer 4

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:17 AM

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Tuesday, January 2, 2018 6:29 PM

drew.allen - Tuesday, January 2, 2018 2:42 PM

I did have a password manager, but it started behaving erratically. I was unable to sync on my new phone when I got it, and it wiped out the data on my old phone and on the website. I was able to recover data from my desktop version. Plus it kept nagging me to subscribe to the Pro version.

I've abandoned that for another password manager, which I like less.

Drew

Password Safe is free on the desk (OSS) and a small charge for the DropBox sync on iOS/Android. Worth it to me.

I love Password Safe. I need to figure out how to do the DropBox sync on my phone. Is it just a matter of installing (and paying) for the DropBox app?

I use KeePass and like it. I don't have anything synced anywhere and that's intentional. As long as the program covers the basic functionality, has good encryption and doesn't share anything, personal preference plays a large role.

Whatever you do, don't use browser-based password managers. I've always refused to use them, but this announcement came out yesterday: https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/browser-password-managers.html. I'm glad someone finally found and published something about it. I only wonder how many years it really existed as an unknown.

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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99009 More actions · Answer 5

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:10 AM

GilaMonster - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:05 AM

Poor you.

It's unusually cool today.

Thank you, Gail. @=)

Poor Gail, it's going to be as hot as 33C on Saturday and Monday. Hope that Air Conditioning is ready. 🙂

It's actually quite warm here today:

Thom~

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287015 More actions · Answer 6

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:05 AM

grant@scarydba.com - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 4:52 AM

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:19 AM

Does anyone feel sorry for me yet?

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USFL0228:1:US

Bridges are supposed to start freezing sometime soon.

Nope:
https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USMA0429:1:US

Bah. You guys are equipped to deal with that sort of stuff. The only people in Florida that can deal with this kind of weather is us transplants from the north / Midwest. The city itself can't handle freezing rain or snow or anything like that.

Actually, though, the people I really feel sorry for are the local homeless population. They don't have many places to go in order to get out of this weather.

Here in Michigan, we are equipped to deal with it, but being equipped doesn't actually get the trucks out to work on the roads. It also doesn't make it feel any warmer. After today, the next time we get out of the single-digit high temps is Sunday. Yes, we do have coats, but it still feels cold.

IIRC, you're a transplant yourself, right?

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 7

Ed Wagner - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:48 AM

IIRC, you're a transplant yourself, right?

Yes, I'm a transplant. And weirdly enough, I still get all weather tires on my cars.

I'm glad I can work from home right now more because Florida drivers get stupid in weather like this than anything else.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 8

Thom A - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:34 AM

Poor Gail, it's going to be as hot as 33C on Saturday and Monday. Hope that Air Conditioning is ready. 🙂

No air con. Our houses are not built with it, and it's rare to find other than office buildings, malls and other large structures.
Don't need aircon for 33C anyway, humidity will probably be low (except before the likely storm) and temp will drop in the evening. Thing about living at altitude is that the air can't hold that heat.

Only time I've wished I had aircon was a couple years ago we had a heat wave. 3 weeks of 35+ (39 one or two days), with no wind at all, no storms, no relief.

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We stand on the bridge and no one may pass

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728159 More actions · Answer 9

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:17 AM

I love Password Safe. I need to figure out how to do the DropBox sync on my phone. Is it just a matter of installing (and paying) for the DropBox app?

yep. totally worth the $2-3. On iOS, I get the fingerprint open of safes.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728159 More actions · Answer 10

Ed Wagner - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:34 AM

I use KeePass and like it. I don't have anything synced anywhere and that's intentional. As long as the program covers the basic functionality, has good encryption and doesn't share anything, personal preference plays a large role.

Whatever you do, don't use browser-based password managers. I've always refused to use them, but this announcement came out yesterday: https://thehackernews.com/2018/01/browser-password-managers.html. I'm glad someone finally found and published something about it. I only wonder how many years it really existed as an unknown.

My wife uses a third party one that integrates with the browser. I don't like it, but I'm powerless here.

I need the sync because I'm often on multiple machines and devices, so I like the idea of just syncing files through my file manager.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728159 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:58 AM

No air con. Our houses are not built with it, and it's rare to find other than office buildings, malls and other large structures.
Don't need aircon for 33C anyway, humidity will probably be low (except before the likely storm) and temp will drop in the evening. Thing about living at altitude is that the air can't hold that heat.

Only time I've wished I had aircon was a couple years ago we had a heat wave. 3 weeks of 35+ (39 one or two days), with no wind at all, no storms, no relief.

Our AC broke years ago and never fixed it. We rarely get many days above 33-35 and so we can use fans for those days. Humidity is usually really low in CO, so we don't usually have issues unless temps get extreme.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286562 More actions · Answer 12

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 8:33 AM

GilaMonster - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:58 AM

No air con. Our houses are not built with it, and it's rare to find other than office buildings, malls and other large structures.
Don't need aircon for 33C anyway, humidity will probably be low (except before the likely storm) and temp will drop in the evening. Thing about living at altitude is that the air can't hold that heat.

Only time I've wished I had aircon was a couple years ago we had a heat wave. 3 weeks of 35+ (39 one or two days), with no wind at all, no storms, no relief.

Our AC broke years ago and never fixed it. We rarely get many days above 33-35 and so we can use fans for those days. Humidity is usually really low in CO, so we don't usually have issues unless temps get extreme.

Haha ours starts running around the first week of May and continues running 24-7 until around the beginning of October when the temps (and humidity) finally fall into something resembling safe for humans.

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50021 More actions · Answer 13

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 3:19 AM

Does anyone feel sorry for me yet?

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USFL0228:1:US

Bridges are supposed to start freezing sometime soon.

Sorry, my "feel sorry" gland has frozen solid today:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.61204000000009&lon=-82.96807999999998#.Wkz8Z7AUl7g
🙂
My car *JUST* starts warming up by the time I get home or get to work, I'm just happy tomorrow I work from home...
Although, tomorrow afternoon I've got to go to clean out some trash from a garage (unheated, of course,) so that's going to be...
Fun...

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287015 More actions · Answer 14

Sean Lange - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 8:40 AM

Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 8:33 AM

GilaMonster - Wednesday, January 3, 2018 5:58 AM

No air con. Our houses are not built with it, and it's rare to find other than office buildings, malls and other large structures.
Don't need aircon for 33C anyway, humidity will probably be low (except before the likely storm) and temp will drop in the evening. Thing about living at altitude is that the air can't hold that heat.

Only time I've wished I had aircon was a couple years ago we had a heat wave. 3 weeks of 35+ (39 one or two days), with no wind at all, no storms, no relief.

Our AC broke years ago and never fixed it. We rarely get many days above 33-35 and so we can use fans for those days. Humidity is usually really low in CO, so we don't usually have issues unless temps get extreme.

Haha ours starts running around the first week of May and continues running 24-7 until around the beginning of October when the temps (and humidity) finally fall into something resembling safe for humans.

Heh - mine starts a little later than that, but not usually more than a couple of weeks. It runs until things start cooling down in mid-September.

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 15

We don't turn off our AC until about mid-December and then it's back on by the end of February. Our attic traps a lot of heat.

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