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Kurieg posted:The worst I've ever done was accidentally drop a table I was trying to truncate. But that was in a test environment and we were able to trash and refresh it while we were at lunch. The first time I saw "truncate" it was via a UI and I expected that when I clicked on it, I'd get a dialogue window to indicate how much I'd like to truncate, i.e. shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end. No warning, no confirmation box. All the data gone.
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shortspecialbus posted:This doesn't absolve you of risk - my story earlier was puppet code that made a bad assumption about home directories being unique that resulted in significant irreplaceable data loss. Yeah but if I gently caress up the test environment at 5pm on a Friday I can just shrug and fix it on Monday morning. Plus my projects are all in Azure now, so no more having to do bullshit like power down tests or hardware replacement.
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Jul 12, 2020 10:49
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Ugh. As much as I love what I do, managing physical servers can be such a pain in the rear end (even if they are hardon-inducing dual-socket 64-core Epyc2 boxes with 512gb of RAM and 2tb of nvme storage), especially when other infrastructure lets me down. Rebooted one of those boxes and the switch corrupted the LACP config, so it never came back online. Had to rebuild the bond at both ends to get it back fully.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Ugh. As much as I love what I do, managing physical servers can be such a pain in the rear end (even if they are hardon-inducing dual-socket 64-core Epyc2 boxes with 512gb of RAM and 2tb of nvme storage), especially when other infrastructure lets me down. I'd be happy to take it off your hands and relieve you of the stress. I'll even pay for the shipping cause I'm a real nice fella.
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Jul 13, 2020 00:46
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The first time I saw "truncate" it was via a UI and I expected that when I clicked on it, I'd get a dialogue window to indicate how much I'd like to truncate, i.e. shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end. This is why I have autocommit turned off in all my instances of SQL. If it needs to be turned on because I'm doing an absurdly large batch update then a part of the script that does that batch update turns it off again afterwards.
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Jul 13, 2020 01:17
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We're looking at whether it's cost effective or not to increase our licensing level on a tentpole application, which will also require putting some processing and data into the cloud, but the company selling it will only help us price and scope that part of it after we commit to a three-year licensing plan, so we've had to ask around to get information on likely costs to make sure we're not over-committing for little benefit. Posted to our Teams chat about it today are pictures received by email from the CIO of the city transit agency of two Powerpoint slides regarding their recent cost savings of AWS restructuring that were taken using a mobile phone pointed at the screen. In portrait.
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Jul 13, 2020 01:27
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AlexDeGruven posted:hardon-inducing dual-socket 64-core Epyc2 boxes with 512gb of RAM and 2tb of nvme storage How much does a server like that even cost? 128 cores in a single box? Yikes!
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Jul 13, 2020 06:52
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Agrikk posted:How much does a server like that even cost? 128 cores in a single box? Yikes! I had something along the same lines of insanity back when I did onsite training (dual 22 core Xeon e5-2699a v4, 512GB RAM, 4TB NVMe + 12TB SAS SSD in a 1u shallow depth Supermicro pizza box) and it was like 50k IIRC.
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door.jar posted:Echoing everyone who has demonstrated that any good IT pro has some kind of history of loving everything up in some kind of way. It's seemingly the only way we learn. The worst people I've worked with are the ones who get burned by some stupid bullshit and either learn nothing at all or entirely the wrong lesson. My favourite was the dude who FOR YEARS insisted on typing certain commands by hand in specific ways because one time it didn't work, except it hadn't worked because of some entirely unrelated gently caress up prior to that step being run. Yeah, I've caused a few outages. The main one where I hadn't had enough coffee and was troubleshooting something and kept issuing 'clear interface ethernet' instead of 'clear counters ethernet' which was resetting the TCP connections for 1000 people each time I did it.
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Jul 13, 2020 08:34
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Oh great that reminds me of that firewall appliance that just dumped the entire state table each time a rule (any rule) was changed. Adding a few rules was a massacre. This was apparently seen as normal.
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At my first real programming job back in 2009, our lead dev setup master/slave databases but neglected to restrict access properly to the others. This inevitably resulted in a dumbass dev (hired ~2-3 months before me) doing big queries on the master instead of the slave, halting the ENTIRE network of websites that we had for about 20-30 minutes. After this happened for the 3rd time, he got a performance review. It didn't go so well.
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Jul 13, 2020 14:32
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Agrikk posted:How much does a server like that even cost? 128 cores in a single box? Yikes! The EPYC processors are insanely reasonable when it comes to the server space. I believe they were like $20-30k, which is insane considering that the builder price for 1 single 56-core Intel CPU is $25k on it's own. If you're not going super-enterprise big-iron poo poo (like the other servers I work on at $120k/each), EPYC(2) based PowerEdge is a steal.
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Antigravitas posted:Oh great that reminds me of that firewall appliance that just dumped the entire state table each time a rule (any rule) was changed. I used to support a router called the Edgewater Edgemarc, and it does pretty much this. Any change that's even adjacent to the firewall results in a state table reset. Until software version 13, which was only a few years ago, it didn't even have a way to make multiple changes at once other than hand-editing config files. Current versions at least let you queue multiple changes to apply at once.
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Jul 13, 2020 15:14
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Agrikk posted:How much does a server like that even cost? 128 cores in a single box? Yikes! Setting an alarm for 15 years from now to reply "lol" to this from a cheapass 256-core chromebook.
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Jul 13, 2020 16:31
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Ghostlight posted:We're looking at whether it's cost effective or not to increase our licensing level on a tentpole application, which will also require putting some processing and data into the cloud, but the company selling it will only help us price and scope that part of it after we commit to a three-year licensing plan, so we've had to ask around to get information on likely costs to make sure we're not over-committing for little benefit. I feel like the only appropriate response to this is to start getting quotes for new software.
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Jul 13, 2020 17:55
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Powered Descent posted:Setting an alarm for 15 years from now to reply "lol" to this from a cheapass 256-core chromebook. A core for every gigabyte of ram Chrome eats.
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Jul 13, 2020 18:03
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Ghostlight posted:We're looking at whether it's cost effective or not to increase our licensing level on a tentpole application, which will also require putting some processing and data into the cloud, but the company selling it will only help us price and scope that part of it after we commit to a three-year licensing plan, so we've had to ask around to get information on likely costs to make sure we're not over-committing for little benefit. Does this company not understand that there is a cost involved in getting sales?
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Jul 13, 2020 18:19
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Thanatosian posted:I feel like the only appropriate response to this is to start getting quotes for new software. Speaking of quotes for new software - sfwarlock is there any news on what happened with our dear buddy Mitch? Did we, uh, get him?
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Thanks Ants posted:Does this company not understand that there is a cost involved in getting sales? 
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Thanks Ants posted:Does this company not understand that there is a cost involved in getting sales?
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quote:The detectives are not able to open any email sent by another Police Department in reference to their cases or companion cases in the county for their case files. Is there a way so that the Detectives can have this encryption unlocked so they can get their work completed more efficiently? lol  yeah let me get right on brute forcing encryption on law enforcement's emails. I'll get back to you in a few trillion years with the progress...
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:lol I mean it's law enforcement so if the password is probably 0000 or 1234
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Shugojin posted:I mean it's law enforcement so if the password is probably 0000 or 1234 Not 1312? 
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Shugojin posted:I mean it's law enforcement so if the password is probably 0000 or 1234 dragonshardz posted:Not 1312? This was the password to the evidence locker. I walked up to it and let myself in right in front of the Major and he said "wait how did you know that?" I just said "you have to be loving kidding me right?" They changed it to 5050 
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Shugojin posted:I mean it's law enforcement so if the password is probably 0000 or 1234 It’s definitely 1488
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Speaking of quotes for new software - sfwarlock is there any news on what happened with our dear buddy Mitch? Did we, uh, get him? I think warlock and their boss got cut out of the loop on the saga of Mitch. Mitch is probably done though in infosec role, everywhere, especially if the company is as big as it is implied to be. Mitch might be able to get a job doing something completely unrelated though.
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The PIN pad is full of dents, the locker is pried open, and a check-in/check-out clipboard is hanging on the wall relying on the honor system. The pen is missing.
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Didn’t need to pry it open. The code’s 0451 It’s always 0451
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orange juche posted:I think warlock and their boss got cut out of the loop on the saga of Mitch. Mitch is probably done though in infosec role, everywhere, especially if the company is as big as it is implied to be. I don't think Mitch was in infosec, I think Mitch was onsite hardware team/remote hands person
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RFC2324 posted:I don't think Mitch was in infosec, I think Mitch was onsite hardware team/remote hands person lmao so his hands shouldn't have been inside the rack unless someone specifically told him to open the rack doors anyways. It gets better and better. For reference: I used to be the remote hands person at a colo, you're not supposed to open any rack doors unless you're specifically doing work for the customer and have a trouble ticket documenting same. If you crack a rack door open without authorization and you get found out you're hosed 6 ways to sunday. orange juche fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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orange juche posted:lmao so his hands shouldn't have been inside the rack unless someone specifically told him to open the rack doors anyways. It gets better and better. depends on the DC, however, it sounds like he had a ticket to do physical decommissions of some servers, found the stick in a machine and proceeded to decommission both the dongle and the licensing server that may have actually cached the license so it could be verified so he was following directions and either got the wrong server, or failed to ask questions when a server on the list was not in the expected condition to be decommissioned in.
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orange juche posted:lmao so his hands shouldn't have been inside the rack unless someone specifically told him to open the rack doors anyways. It gets better and better.
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Arquinsiel posted:The specific verbiage you are using here makes me think I have worked for the same colo provider. I think that's standard practice, because of data security issues.
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orange juche posted:I think that's standard practice, because of data security issues. Are we even sure he was a colo employee and not onsite for warlocks company? because it sure sounds like its the same company, in which case those colo rules don't apply
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Tickets haven't come in yet because I'm in training. I am already so much happier to be away from the piss hell that is Mississippi. This new job is so wildly different than anywhere else I've worked, I'm still half-convinced I'm going to wake up back in the television station. I did have one moment where I walked into the shop and saw a stack of Buffalo NAS units on a desk and I had to double-take. Anyways, hopefully I can still contribute some meaningful content to this thread but I think we can consider the saga of larchesdanrew finally over. It's been wild, y'all.
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Hey dude I still want to hear stories from your new job even if it’s just ticket or project related. They don’t all need to be horror stories.
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larchesdanrew posted:I am already so much happier to be away from the piss hell that is Mississippi. This new job is so wildly different than anywhere else I've worked, I'm still half-convinced I'm going to wake up back in the television station. I did have one moment where I walked into the shop and saw a stack of Buffalo NAS units on a desk and I had to double-take. They know who you are!... 
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GreenNight posted:Hey dude I still want to hear stories from your new job even if it’s just ticket or project related. They don’t all need to be horror stories. Not empty quoting
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orange juche posted:I think that's standard practice, because of data security issues. I switched from a full to a half cage at a lovely colo once and paid their hands to do the move. Next time I'm in the colo I was very surprised to find that we had half of a full-height cage. Someone else had the other half, so we had full access to each other's stuff.
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One day visiting our colo, I tried to say Hi to one of their remote hands while in the little coffee room and he basically said he's not allowed to talk to me or even acknowledge where he is or what he is doing.
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