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Some guy who became phone app millionaire here opened up computer museum. Bought old motorcycle shop and he's now curating old hardware collection. ...

Could be... just surprised by the prices... but it was a popular socket at the time. I'm not using it as it is loud and not running a recent Windows...

I bet replacement parts for these are in short supply and are needed by large enterprise who have these in use somewhere for some mission critical...

I look at it as net + cable TV was costing us almost $200/mo, but net + several streaming services is under $90.

Seven Rules For Un-Armed Combat 1: never be un-armed 2: your handgun's caliber should not start with less than "4" 3: practice avoidance,...

Sounds promising. The way I started looking at streaming services. Netflix costs €8 a month or €96 annualy. A share of SALR costs as of now €960...

Thanks, yes, that is basically what I would be doing. At some stage I'll need to do this with actual name/address data as well. Going to be a long...

Check for 'tokenization' solutions for obfuscating the PAN (personal account number). I would be very surprised if that doesn't yield results, as...

Sorta what I was suggesting with HASHBYTES but simpler because, of course, having such a translation table removes all further ubfuscation...

Well then, I think MURC SQL knowledge has been exhausted. Stack overflow or reddit is the next step though they will probably tell you to securely...

Well, reversible encryption with SQL Server is actually rather simple, it has AES_256 out of the box. I could secure the keys with a lawyer and have...

i think your problem comes from requirement of encryption to be reversible. Could you store hashes and then another table with id hash data...

I need to create a file, basically a table, where certain columns may not be easily readable. For instance, a contract number. It needs to be...

What are you trying to achieve? Not expert on MS SQL, know a bit of MySQL.

However, that analysis suffers from survivorship bias. But yeah, Buffet, I think, is more of a value rather than growth investor. Until 2018 (pre...

Tech is related to all industries but most investments go in tech part. I did dollar cost averaging calculations from 2000 until now ...

Most of my money comes from food & beverage where I work. I do a tech job in non-tech sector (for how long remains to be seen). Also 50% of my...

And there is a lot to say for that. However, consider this: You are in tech, that is where you make your money. If tech goes well, chances are you'll...

I invest in what I know. So I'm tech heavy.

Now that, IMHO, is a very wise consideration.

as my job is in tech, I'd rather look for investments in different areas. Today I pulled the trigger on GE, but looking at the current P/E and...

With markets down, NVDA is very cheap today. I know we're pro Matrox here but they are not publicly traded. While Arm deal seems dead in the...

Static fire to engine swap to a 2nd static fire in 48 hours. They still may fly again this week. ...

Cash, maybe dividend aristocrats to park gains. EDIT: Also BRK-B is a good idea to put gains into when you don't know what to do with them.

Yeah, relative to March 2020, it is hard to find losers I guess. Reminds me of Buffets' duck in a pond analogy. My main issue with the current oil...

It seems that almost everybody who bought in March 2020 should be up by massive percentages by now. Oil was lagging for a long time, but the recent...

Good play on the oil, they performed close to MSFT (one of best in 2020) since March without being hot tech stocks. My biggest mistake was not buying...