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It's far too common for people to ignore their backups. And of those who ignore their backups, a significant percentage wants to blame someone else when they can't restore. I dealt with a ticket today where a guy's backups have been failing for a month. He wasn't monitoring them. The failure was as simple as his backup disk being full. Could have been resolved in minutes if anyone spent even five seconds' worth of effort in the last 30 days. But no one did, and when his computer died, he lost a month of research data. He's trying to blame it on us and make us pay for the recovery, despite all responsibility for monitoring being on his end.
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Re: Booze chat- 1792 is excellent.
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Jun 25, 2016 01:20
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I can't drink any rum that's not Cuban now. Havana Club 7 year all the way. Last time I came back I brought so much rum through the border that I got pulled in to Secondary screen and almost ended up on Border Security. Cost me $66 in import taxes but at $7.50 CAD equivalent per two six it was still a fuckin great deal.
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It made me so happy when the last client who had an "Oh poo poo we might have lost the SAN" moment had a full tape backup less than a day old. Would have been better if it was a replica on spinning disk which is something we at least attempt to sell every time we sell storage. Thankfully I was able to remap the LUNs and the volume came back up but the first thing I did was check their tape backup. Then there's the client who wanted to back up a remote site (~20 terabytes or so) over a ~20 mbps MPLS/WAN connection (they weren't too specific). At it's top speed it would have taken at least 50 days to complete the first sync if I did my math right.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'll give it a shot. The more expensive ones might be more complex, at least, right? I don't mind sweet, I drink bourbon. It's just that I don't get anything else from it. The only thing I can think of is to have a hot corner to kick off the screensaver, and set the computer to lock when the screen-saver engages. Then make the screensaver a static image of your desktop. Not sure how you'd do it across multiple monitors. It's been a while since I've worked on a Windows workstation, but doesn't the screen saver only run on the primary and blank the others?
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pr0digal posted:Then there's the client who wanted to back up a remote site (~20 terabytes or so) over a ~20 mbps MPLS/WAN connection (they weren't too specific). At it's top speed it would have taken at least 50 days to complete the first sync if I did my math right. Why not drop the 20 TB to tape or disk and ship it? Only gotta do the first sync once.
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Someone had a hoverboard in their bag, which proceeded to catch on fire while almost everyone was out to lunch. I'm told that one of the maintenance guys met the fire department with a key to the room, and the fire department politely declined the key and proceeded to take an axe to the door and bust it down.  It then took the fire department over an hour to shut the sprinkler off in the room because they couldn't find the very obvious sprinkler shutoff right outside the loading dock. At least 10 computers got rained on for over an hour, the water proceeded to flood the 2nd floor of the building, seeped through parts of the floor and flooded/damaged a bunch of stuff on the first floor, and ran down the stairs and would have flooded the basement if there weren't a few floor drains down there. Management is convinced the computers will still work because "its just water"
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I can't stand people who can't understand that. "It's just water!" yeah, that's the loving problem. Most electronics don't do water. I've had this conversation with 3 guards at the freight yard, about bringing the patrol cart charger inside when it rains. "But it's heavy! And it's just water!" 
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Maniaman posted:
When I've had people say that to me, I laugh at them. One time, I got a manager very mad at me when I asked them why they don't multitask by using a toaster in the shower. It's just water, right? 
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Jun 25, 2016 15:57
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Maniaman posted:
Maybe you need to have them re-watch the Louie the Lightning Bug PSAs?
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I'm supposed to be traveling to Ithaca to see my new nephew this morning, but instead I'm working on a SYSTEM DOWN. The client's network crew made some DNS changes last night, "but nothing that should have affected the webapp! Your program is broken!" Well, I've confirmed with the application admin that all the services are running, no Windows Updates have been applied, and the application itself has had no changes whatsoever. 2 hours later, I've had it. "Let's remove SSL from the equation and just try logging in with HTTPS - OH LOOK THAT WORKED."  "...Maybe we have a problem with our new certificate." "Maybe you do. And maybe you should have mentioned your new certificate earlier." Fortunately, We just provide support for their helpdesk software. Networking and cert management? That's their problem. Ugh.
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That's one nice thing about being a contract hourly employee. Nobody wants me to pull overtime because they would be paying my recruiting company extra, too.
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GreenNight posted:Why not drop the 20 TB to tape or disk and ship it? Only gotta do the first sync once. This was my suggestion. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway!
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I can't stand people who can't understand that. "It's just water!" yeah, that's the loving problem. Most electronics don't do water. I've had this conversation with 3 guards at the freight yard, about bringing the patrol cart charger inside when it rains. "But it's heavy! And it's just water!" They could just be thinking "Water is H20 right? What's wrong with that?" Oh, all the dissolved salts, minerals, metals, etc., of course.
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Lightning Jim posted:They could just be thinking "Water is H20 right? What's wrong with that?" Oh, all the dissolved salts, minerals, metals, etc., of course. That's not what they're thinking.
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Lightning Jim posted:They could just be thinking "Water is H20 right? What's wrong with that?" Oh, all the dissolved salts, minerals, metals, etc., of course. I don't think that spraying your computer down with distilled water is going to go much better.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I don't think that spraying your computer down with distilled water is going to go much better. Why not? It's just water.
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Jun 25, 2016 23:28
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Maniaman posted:Management is convinced the computers will still work because "its just water" If it's just water, you won't mind putting your phone in this glass of water for 20 minutes then, right?
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:If it's just water, you won't mind putting your phone in this glass of water for 20 minutes then, right? My phone is iOS 7 
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I don't think that spraying your computer down with distilled water is going to go much better. 
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I don't think that spraying your computer down with distilled water is going to go much better. Pure h2o is pretty much nonconductive. It's the impurities that make water both dangerous and useful.
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Jun 26, 2016 00:27
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Re: Boozechat I actually prefer wine and beer to liquor. There's nothing like a chianti from a freshly opened bottle.
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skooma512 posted:Re: Boozechat But none of that old stuff. I want something fresh. I want some made this year wine!
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larchesdanrew posted:But none of that old stuff. I want something fresh. I want some made this year wine! Can I interest you in some toilet wine I made with oranges and grapes after my last cocaine bust? Fresh vintage. Hints of IT worker despair and leather.
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larchesdanrew posted:But none of that old stuff. I want something fresh. I want some made this year wine! And it better have a little paper umbrella with it!
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Maniaman posted:Management is convinced the computers will still work because "its just water" I've been in places where sprinkler systems went off one more than one occasion, and whatever black liquid came out of those pipes was more than "just water."
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Jun 26, 2016 02:17
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RFC2324 posted:Pure h2o is pretty much nonconductive. It's the impurities that make water both dangerous and useful. What do you know. Learn something new every day - off to submerge my computer.
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Jun 26, 2016 02:54
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Wouldn't all of those electronic parts and rocks in there create impurities?
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I'm pretty sure that's actually oil, not water.
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I've built distilled water cooling rigs, they are very touchy (to say the least) about any form of contaminant. Mineral oil is a lot less insanely delicate to work with.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:What do you know. Learn something new every day - off to submerge my computer. Please record it and post it on youtube.
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Won't the various components electrolyze and create their own crud even in the purest of water environments?
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I think they apply a thin coat of spray on waterproofing when doing those sort of builds.
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topenga posted:I treat them like stocking stuffers now. That and memory cards for cameras. Crazy poo poo, yeah? I wish Creative would do an update.
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Varkk posted:I think they apply a thin coat of spray on waterproofing when doing those sort of builds. They do. Its just a layer of clearcoat, but its enough to protect everything.
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Yeah. You have to be very careful with its application and not miss any spots too.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Yeah. You have to be very careful with its application and not miss any spots too. The pcb itself already has a coating to seal it, you just need to make sure you coat any exposed metal contacts(don't swap CPUs or RAM without resealing them)
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Or you could just, you know, not do any of that like a normal person.
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Gilok posted:Or you could just, you know, not do any of that like a normal person. Look, when I take chicks to my bedroom I want them to ask questions about my rig the more the better. duh doi
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Ghostlight posted:The MuVo was loving amazing. I finally had to give mine up because managing its tiny space was getting increasingly cumbersome over USB 1.0 The only problem I had at the time was that their idea of a playlist was the order in which you put the files on the drive. Great for the gym, though.
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