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spankmeister posted:Calling Linus anything close to "professional" is an insult to actual IT professionals around the world. And I ended up reading the comments in hopes some one would tell him off. Nope, it gets even worse and people I wouldn't let near a server...
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spankmeister posted:Calling Linus anything close to "professional" is an insult to actual IT professionals around the world. Delivery McGee posted:I feel like there's a lot you don't know about ... um ... gently caress it, I'm not even going to try to explain who RT are. They're a bit more than multiple popular youtube channels.
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Apr 10, 2016 17:28
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I didn't call Linus an IT professional for the record. Watching that video a few months ago gave me flashbacks to my time at a visual effects shop when the licensing server poo poo the bed and my boss spent 24 hours rebuilding it from scratch. Redundancy is for corporate suits
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Apr 10, 2016 18:14
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If this wasn't Canadian I'd suspect it was Larches' station
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Apr 10, 2016 20:41
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The graphics are working in that though
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Apr 10, 2016 21:22
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mewse posted:I didn't call Linus an IT professional for the record. Wait, this video man's configuration confused me. There are 3 Raid 5 arrays, striped together, held with duct tape and a prayer? No mirror? Sounds like a plan?
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Apr 11, 2016 02:36
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PassTheRemote posted:Wait, this video man's configuration confused me. There are 3 Raid 5 arrays, striped together, held with duct tape and a prayer? No mirror? Sounds like a plan? Iirc a few months back they bragged about going from what was by all rights a stable setup with multiple redundancies to one with like one or two potential points of critical failure.
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Apr 11, 2016 02:44
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Iirc a few months back they bragged about going from what was by all rights a stable setup with multiple redundancies to one with like one or two potential points of critical failure. Can someone please link this, I need some schadenfreude please.
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Apr 11, 2016 02:47
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PassTheRemote posted:Wait, this video man's configuration confused me. There are 3 Raid 5 arrays, striped together, held with duct tape and a prayer? No mirror? Sounds like a plan?
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Apr 11, 2016 02:53
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anthonypants posted:25 SSDs total, configured as 8 disks connected to three controllers as RAID 5 each, and then a software RAID 0 in Windows. The 25th drive was a cold swap. I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm guessing the computer running the software RAID0 up and died, taking everything with it?
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Apr 11, 2016 02:57
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Iirc a few months back they bragged about going from what was by all rights a stable setup with multiple redundancies to one with like one or two potential points of critical failure. anthonypants posted:25 SSDs total, configured as 8 disks connected to three controllers as RAID 5 each, and then a software RAID 0 in Windows. The 25th drive was a cold swap.  Ah, so no backup at all. I once worked at a place where a critical database went down, but luckily there was a tape backup, so 6 hours of tape recovery...
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Apr 11, 2016 03:03
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I very deeply believe that LMM is a company that is in a shitton of debt and that someday it will all crash and burn and maybe everyone will realize that this weird retail guy actually knows about as much about tech as a retail guy.
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Apr 11, 2016 03:06
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm guessing the computer running the software RAID0 up and died, taking everything with it?
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Apr 11, 2016 03:10
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When I watched that video and they talked about their setup I couldn't help but say "Yeah, you deserved this, 100%".
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Apr 11, 2016 04:51
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anthonypants posted:25 SSDs total, configured as 8 disks connected to three controllers as RAID 5 each, and then a software RAID 0 in Windows. The 25th drive was a cold swap. 
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Apr 11, 2016 04:59
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Let me get this straight...a company whose livelihood is creating and distributing digital goods does not backup their digital goods. WHEN IS THE IPO!?
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Apr 11, 2016 05:02
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anthonypants posted:25 SSDs total, configured as 8 disks connected to three controllers as RAID 5 each, and then a software RAID 0 in Windows. The 25th drive was a cold swap. I wonder if he actually knew what he was doing when he did that.
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Apr 11, 2016 05:36
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Methanar posted:I wonder if he actually knew what he was doing when he did that. On one hand, you'd have to know enough about RAID and disk management to setup something so insane, but I would have thought at some point in the process he would have come across a best practice guide. I would think that if storing content is one of the most important things for my company, maybe go talk to someone and do it right.
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Apr 11, 2016 05:51
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CitizenKain posted:On one hand, you'd have to know enough about RAID and disk management to setup something so insane, but I would have thought at some point in the process he would have come across a best practice guide. Nah man, hire someone who built an oil cooled PC as your COO because THAT'S SO SICK MAN!
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Apr 11, 2016 05:58
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Methanar posted:I wonder if he actually knew what he was doing when he did that.
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Apr 11, 2016 06:24
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Linus is a guy who will take a $200 Netgear unmanaged switch that he got given as part of a sponsorship deal and in the process of video reviewing it will see SFP cages and assume it does 10Gbit, tell the viewers it does and then have to add a bit at the end where he backtracks. Like even reading the box or having a handle on the basic cost of certain features is beyond him. Also the voice.
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Thanks Ants posted:Linus is a guy who will take a $200 Netgear unmanaged switch that he got given as part of a sponsorship deal and in the process of video reviewing it will see SFP cages and assume it does 10Gbit, tell the viewers it does and then have to add a bit at the end where he backtracks. Like even reading the box or having a handle on the basic cost of certain features is beyond him. "All the ports are 10Gbit, it says so on the box!"
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Apr 11, 2016 08:05
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PassTheRemote posted:Wait, this video man's configuration confused me. There are 3 Raid 5 arrays, striped together, held with duct tape and a prayer? No mirror? Sounds like a plan? When you look like that you don't want any mirrors around.
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Apr 11, 2016 10:09
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A ticket came in: "When I press r on my bluetooth keyboard, it types a t. And the other way around, too. Typing directly on the laptop keyboard, everything works normal". Well, that's strange, haven't seen that one before ... I wonder what's going on? Collegue pranked user by switching the r and t keys on the keyboard. It was pretty funny, imo.
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Apr 11, 2016 10:17
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lodewijk posted:A ticket came in: "When I press r on my bluetooth keyboard, it types a t. And the other way around, too. Typing directly on the laptop keyboard, everything works normal". I once tried out some BSD-on-a-diskette distribution that switched up two letters. I think it was something like p and f. It was very nice otherwise 
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Apr 11, 2016 10:23
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lodewijk posted:A ticket came in: "When I press r on my bluetooth keyboard, it types a t. And the other way around, too. Typing directly on the laptop keyboard, everything works normal". I was asked by colleagues to rig our (fairly incompetent) Tier 1 tech's PC to shut down after 2 minutes logged on. All bets are on "he never figures it out" and reinstalls his PC. (Reason I did it is because he doesn't know how to remote into client PCs and refuses to learn, as well as me leaving the company soon)
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Apr 11, 2016 10:51
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I normally wouldn't link Ars but here's a summary of a crypto attack where the entry point isn't a dumb user but instead a dumb server application: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/ok-panic-newly-evolved-ransomware-is-bad-news-for-everyone/ Can't wait!
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Apr 11, 2016 10:52
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SEKCobra posted:I was asked by colleagues to rig our (fairly incompetent) Tier 1 tech's PC to shut down after 2 minutes logged on. Are you going to yell at him for the tickets he doesn't solve while working on fixing his PC?
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Apr 11, 2016 10:52
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evobatman posted:Are you going to yell at him for the tickets he doesn't solve while working on fixing his PC? Hahaha, good one, ticket systems xD No but seriously, he doesn't use his work computer for any work, he just takes the calls and says he'll come by. He refuses to ascend from that.
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Apr 11, 2016 10:55
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anthonypants posted:25 SSDs total, configured as 8 disks connected to three controllers as RAID 5 each, and then a software RAID 0 in Windows. The 25th drive was a cold swap. I don't see what the problem is, RAID 5 is a perfectly acceptable form of backup. I call this statement "suicide by sysadmin"
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Apr 11, 2016 11:57
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lodewijk posted:A ticket came in: "When I press r on my bluetooth keyboard, it types a t. And the other way around, too. Typing directly on the laptop keyboard, everything works normal". The story may be an urban legend by now, I know I've read it elsewhere but the reddit link was the first that popped up on a google search.
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Apr 11, 2016 12:07
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The letters were only in those two passwords, what about all the other people in the entire factory who are supposed to have stopped work to watch? And the entire premise is that they were familiar with their keyboards and didn't notice the swapped keys sooner? 
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Apr 11, 2016 12:20
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Yeah that part is probably embellishment. The original issue has probably happened some time though.
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Apr 11, 2016 13:07
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A ticket came in, user cannot log in with her smart card. I set the user up with username password, but user attempts to log in with username and password on the smart card logon. I tell the user to click switch user, she does , and then she states that the system is shutting down. Oh poo poo, has she messed up the password enough that it's going to disk encryption? No, she mistook the power button for the other user button.
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Apr 11, 2016 13:43
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PassTheRemote posted:No, she mistook the power button for the other user button. So many times I've watched people set a new user password after expiration click the loving Switch User button instead of the next arrow. (To be fair I suppose it is cruddy interface design)
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Apr 11, 2016 14:18
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Renegret posted:I don't see what the problem is, RAID 5 is a perfectly acceptable form of backup. Only if the RAID is the backup target. Last year I had a guy buy an external drive to backup his stuff to because he was never in the office and one more backup can't hurt - especially when he is the epitome of "fringe case" and spends most of his time in hotels with an internet speed of "negative 56kbps" in the farther-flung reaches of northern Canada. Backups to the backup servers are probably sporadic at best. Well, he lost his laptop to uranium exposure (it was confiscated by the man as he puts it) so he brought in his external drive to get a new laptop and have his data thrown onto it. The conversation started with "What are you doing with that cable?" when I fished a USB3 cable out of my junk drawer and ended with "Wait, why didn't it just....backup?? Isn't that what a backup does?"  I want IoT so bad. I know it'll be a giant tub of malware infecting light bulbs and toasters with fridges shooting sour milk at passersby - but at least I'll finally be able to actually have a backup that works via friction. 
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Super Slash posted:So many times I've watched people set a new user password after expiration click the loving Switch User button instead of the next arrow. It's understandable the first time, but then they do it a second time and then again, and they won't stop and they're yelling the whole time and 
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Arsten posted:lost his laptop to uranium exposure But I mean, backups, am I right?
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:It's understandable the first time, but then they do it a second time and then again, and they won't stop and they're yelling the whole time and It got me the first time I used a mouse instead of pressing enter. It's in the spot you would expect the ok button to be. Just tell people to press enter, unless its Navision then you need to press enter twice for some reason.
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18 Character Limit posted:But I mean, backups, am I right? He commonly visits project sites with uranium mining going on. I assume that since he wasn't whisked to some hospital and put on medical rest that he did something like set his laptop on a wet surface near the mine site and the water carried radioactives that stuck to/in the laptop. It happens from time to time that some personal article detects over some radioactivity threshold. When it does, the site takes it and doesn't give it back. I'm fairly certain they just destroy whatever item they took, but I honestly haven't bothered to ask about getting stuff like that back. (Maybe they keep it to play Half Life 2 on a laptop that also has a Half Life! )I actually focused on the interesting part of the story. If he was smuggling uranium ore in his DVD drive, I probably would have focused on that part.
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