• Let your bank know you are traveling (number on the back of your debit card)
• Bring your debit card with you
• Withdraw from an ATM on the Canadian side of the border (will be exchanged at the current rate)

You'll pay a ~1-3% fee on the transaction, but this is by far the easiest and probably the cheapest way to get currency in pretty much any foreign country (at least in the developed world).

You could also ask your teller at the local bank to do an exchange for you, as they sometimes have Canadian cash available (at least, they did when I was growing up—haven't used this method in decades).

And here we have the source of most of society's issues. If these ignorant schmucks would get out of their own way we could have nice things. Meanwhile everyone and everything else is the bad guy because the guy on TV said so.

100%

> It's been down since December 26th. I do software consulting for a living and I don't think I've ever even heard of an outage lasting that long.

How long was UVMMC down last year?

get out of here with your sjw bs

Metal roof, no gutters for you.

Well insulated shingle roof, gutters no problem.

Poorly insulated shingle roof, gutters will work but expect some ice damage occasionally, especially when in the valleys.

What's that old adage, "If you haven't crash-tested your backups, you have no backups"?

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There's no one single thing that leads to a 3 week outage. That's so beyond the pale and only happens if you have a persistent culture of negligence and mismanagement.

Excellent, thank you

It's easy to develop. It's hard to securely develop. It's harder to securely develop on top of securely architected and framework systems and networks appropriately.

I'm going to go with least common denominator and say it was likely something that didn't have MFA...

I’ve installed plenty of gutters here in Vermont. If they’re installed correctly, in the correct place (i.e. accounting for slope and overhang), and snow load is considered, then they stay up just fine.

Bold of you to assume they have a disaster recovery plan. :P

I always assume ransomware when they refuse to provide details and it's an extended "outage". Likely attempting to use FBI sources keys to decrypt the data and exhaust all other options before they finally state the scope of the problem.

Not how anyone should handle the incident... but that's how they chose to I guess?

I'm not specifically a republican, though I did vote for Phil Scott twice. I think he's done OK.

Don’t have to tell me about moron parents. The amount of conservative boys in my school is horrible. I get cat called everyday and nobody does anything. The school is just trash point blank.

Just messing, my point was moron parents have moron kids and if you don’t believe me, sit in the bleachers at the football games. Kids hear how important the Raider name is/was but it only matters to the people that peaked in HS or never left Rutland. Don’t peak in high school

What material is your roof, what's the pitch, and do you have the ability to install and maintain gutters yourself?

If your roof does not have a good overhang that effectively moves the water away from your foundation, then gutters may be part of that solution. Ultimately, your goal is to get the water away from your house: Sloping the land down away from your foundation is the first/ideal choice; French drains and other ground gutter systems are also other options... My old gutters used to get ripped off a lot because I used to have a bad insulation system in my roof and eaves: Ice dams build up at your roof edges and gutters and eventually the weight rips your gutters off. My "new" gutters are 7 years old now and still look like I just installed them because I also now have a standing seam roof with a ridge vent and properly installed insulation that allows a "cold gap" along the inside of the roof: Snow on the roof doesn't melt quick enough to form ice dams and slides off under its own weight... BONUS: Don't have to rake my roof anymore either.

TL/DR: If your present roof surface and roof insulation promotes the buildup of ice at the roof edges, you will regularly have to repair/ replace your gutters and eaves.

Edit: Grammar.

Not too bad. Occasionally I'll have to buy a new hanger or something. Usually it's just smacking a few nails back in. I wouldn't screw them in, the screws will hold better but are more apt to cause the plastic to straight up break or take wood with them when they go. Nails will just get pulled out for the most part.

Agreed but they wouldn’t call it woke though, just being a decent human

Recent court cases have held companies responsible for not adhering to baseline information security protection requirements. It's caused a ridiculous boom in the industry.

I feel bad for these smaller towns with limited budgets. I would suspect many of them are aged and don't understand the nuances and risks related to information systems, and now are bearing the brunt of that ignorance. I work in the field and can barely keep up, so I empathize with their plight.

Vermont as a state should've mandated requirements from these towns to adhere to certain control frameworks and provided them with expert services/financial support to that end. This is a failure at the state level, and as a country we should've been getting the federal infosec guidelines for smaller towns with limited budgets who could apply for grants to better prepare and protect themselves.

Overall, this just makes me sad.

Essex

I’m literally not in class. 😃

It’s cool, getting off Reddit during class would help!!