Darrell Root

The political candidate we can all support: Vote Tuffy!

@McFranchisee Mac minis are great platforms. I know McDonalds doesn’t have the software, but it might be worth McDonalds HQ building some prototypes and then inviting their Microsoft rep in for a tour.

This whole Windows ESU license update is an absolute disaster. Every single device running Windows 10 now needs a new $200 license from headset systems to kiosks. All the vendors you bought this equipment from are not equipped to track you down later and ensure compliance. Every week I get an urgent 11th hour email giving me 24 hours to provide a vendor information I don’t readily have, or else I risk going dark. As if restaurants weren’t already difficult to operate, this just adds more headaches. Anyone else fighting the same fight?

@SawyerMerritt @wholemars If the jurors and judge are so good at picking “correct” company valuations, they should run a hedge fund

Everyone with a brain, including Elon himself, agrees that $44B was overpaying for Twitter. In retrospect, it was worth way less. This will no doubt head to appeal.

Bigger story here: implied range of an Iranian IRBM from a launch box in central Iran, with a range of ~4500 km (distance to Diego Garcia). Theoretically could also target sites into Central Europe.

@SandyofCthulhu This is how you can know they are unarmed: 😉

Please explain how I can know they are unarmed. Please explain how me & my wife, both 70yo can survive if a young, strong “unarmed” intruder assaults us.

@CBSNews It’s the Schrödinger valuation: simultaneously too big and too small

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. cbsn.ws/3PejaEO

In 2007, when Chuck Norris visited Marines in Western Iraq, he demanded to get away from large bases and instead visit the small FOBs and COPs. MNF-W said it would be too dangerous, but Norris insisted and in the end, got his way. I'm forever grateful for the example he set, and this awesome choke hold.

@iunderwood @TechOperator And they would consider it money well spent since it apparently resulted in your IT career. Mine too. ❤️😢

@TechOperator The real heroes were my parents! The whole getup my folks bought me was $2500 back in 1984.

Only absolute legends had dual 5.25" floppies back in the day.

@nypost Military veterans outraged as Pete Hegseth stops War Department procurement of spears and shields

Media veterans outraged as Bari Weiss shuts 100-year old CBS News Radio: 'It's disgusting' trib.al/XpxHKVM

@WhamBaamX Hit and run where both parties are guilty? 😂 (Probably both uninsured 😡)

Rookie mistake

@JeremiahDJohns Chuck Norris faked his death to go on an undercover mission.

Who's the main character today?

@Currentreport1 The IRGC spokesperson could not be reached for comment.

BREAKING: Iran's IRGC spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini has been killed in strikes in Tehran.

Tesla is winning over a hard-to-please and influential group—truckers. Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. on.wsj.com/4shzrax

the greatest psyop of this century was convincing the western liberal mind that no one is trying to conquer them anymore, that all cultures and religions are equally peaceful and well-intentioned, that civilizations dont fall to invaders, that men just arent like that anymore

We want to run our business. We advocate for free speech and women's rights. Activists mass report us and prevent us from advertising. @xx_xyathletics

@CAFranchise @MurphyAJC It was probably $4.999 yesterday

@DarrellRoot @MurphyAJC Never mind, I went to the place I last saw it, $5.199.

$4.39/ gallon for regular in Atlanta this morning🥵 Up 40 cents in two weeks.

Imagine a reviewer’s options for these crazy PhD dissertations: 1) Reject the dissertation, continue to have to deal with the candidate for another year or two, and inevitably have to review another similar dissertation 2) Approve the dissertation, never have to see the candidate again, and enjoy imagining them trying to find a real job

🚨NEW: This guy got a PhD for interviewing 8 music therapy professors chosen through "purposive expert sampling" (i.e., completely non-random) and cramming as many woke buzzwords as possible into his dissertation title before reaching the character limit.

@AutismCapital Chuck Norris didn’t die. He’s on an undercover operation in the next world.

In honor of Chuck Norris, the one and only Walker Texas Ranger, post your best Chuck Norris joke.

@plamenpetkov @stubarea51 I tried doing it for the money. Oops. 😥

@DarrellRoot @stubarea51 We are not doing it for the money :)

Most network monitoring tools look like they gave up somewhere around 2008. Endless panels. Random colors. Everything shouting, nothing clear. Meanwhile, NOC teams sit in front of this for hours. During outages. When things actually matter. This stuff isn’t just “UI”. It directly affects how fast you see the problem. We’ve been reworking the device overview in NetSense with a simple goal: make it calm, clear, and fast to read. Turns out, useful and good-looking are not opposites.

The president and treasurer of the CMU gaming club were roommates and picking a dorm room for the next year. Each dorm room had a landline phone with an assigned number. All CMU phones had the 268 prefix The dormitory they wanted had a room assigned phone number 4263 So their dorm phone the next year became 268-4263 or CMU-GAME

Here is a true story. I was a student at Brigham Young University. The year is 1974. We had a group of us that played chess, wargames, and had an ongoing D&D game. Our only venue was tables in the student center's bowling alley's lounge. Obviously, it was sometimes hard to set a mood with bowling balls crashing into pins and students at the next table laughing & sharing grasshopper shakes. So we went to the university secretary and had ourselves recognized as an official BYU Game Club. We asked for a room to be assigned to us, so we'd have a meeting place (and get out of the bowling alley). The secretary gave us a room on the 4th floor of the student center. She told us that according to her information, this room was NEVER ever scheduled for anything, so we could have it all the time. We were thrilled. We loaded up our gaming gear and went to the room. It was the girls' bathroom. Which actually had a room number, for some reason. No we never got assigned another room. We just played in the bowling alley from then on. Until 1980, when I graduated. 6 years in the bowling alley.

@catturd2 New employee orientation for the Iranian government is a hostile work environment

Suddenly, nobody wants to be the Ayatollah of Iran.