Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server
I. Can't. Even.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311783-should-i-change-to-a-non-it-career
is that him? he sent me a PM but I decided not to read it, at least not tonight. Is he honestly considering a career change?
Ya he said that he started some threads to make you and some other people complain.
He's claiming all of it was a farce?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server
I. Can't. Even.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311783-should-i-change-to-a-non-it-career
is that him? he sent me a PM but I decided not to read it, at least not tonight. Is he honestly considering a career change?
Ya he said that he started some threads to make you and some other people complain.
He's claiming all of it was a farce?
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Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.
He made that two hours after he posted the other one, it's public.
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Seems an odd things for him to post given that we honestly tried to help him, and he really went on a whole thing with legit posts that at least I only saw because I was directed there by other people pointing out what a disaster it was.
So he is either so embarrassed that he's willing to claim to be a troll to cover his tracks or he was just trolling. Either way.... par of the course I suppose.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.
He made that two hours after he posted the other one, it's public.
In the same thread or another? I posted that I had unsubscribed. Once I knew he was trolling, wahich was long before that point, I had left.
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Odd that they so often mod people for genuinely helping people but no one mods someone that openly admits to being a pointless troll.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.
He made that two hours after he posted the other one, it's public.
In the same thread or another? I posted that I had unsubscribed. Once I knew he was trolling, wahich was long before that point, I had left.
Different thread. Someone linked to it in the original thread that you were a part of in the beginning.
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Oh okay. Odd that the new thread did not come up in my feed.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Odd that they so often mod people for genuinely helping people but no one mods someone that openly admits to being a pointless troll.
I don't hardly go on the site any more. I think most everyone I want to learn something from is on here.
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And discuss things with.
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I think he falls under the category of "not worth responding to." I posted once that I respond to people because I value them as humans and as professionals and that's why I take the time to try to vet solutions, figure out what is right, etc. It's when I stop responding that I no longer see them as worth the electrons. He's past that point.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Odd that they so often mod people for genuinely helping people but no one mods someone that openly admits to being a pointless troll.
I don't hardly go on the site any more. I think most everyone I want to learn something from is on here.
Yeah, it is getting more and more to be that way. As good people come here, people like that become a bigger and bigger percentage elsewhere.
Funny that he wanted to give the three of us a forum... how random. We never post together and the chances that at least I would have seen his posts was almost zero given the odd topics he chose to post about. And odd that it is someone I have no memory of ever seeing in the forums before.
Me thinks he's very, very embarrassed or has a LOT of free time on his hands.
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Oh I just noticed that he sent me an invite to his trolling thread at the end. ha ha.
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Hasn't been burned yet, but going to be.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1323286-jbod-in-freenas
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Low end SAN and... the firmware upgrade failed.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1330206-md3200i-failed-firmware-upgrade
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RAID 5 Spinning Rust - 2 Disk Failure, without a mention of a backup device.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1330485-raid-5-disk-failure?source=homepage-feed
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@DustinB3403 said:
RAID 5 Spinning Rust - 2 Disk Failure, without a mention of a backup device.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1330485-raid-5-disk-failure?source=homepage-feed
- You are bashing a more than 10 year old system that was built when RAID5 was the standard in SMB (no matter what @scottalanmiller says about how long it has been a bad idea). You do not rebuild working equipment just because something is better. You have to consider the cost to the business and often letting it run until failure is the better option.
- He clearly stated is was a Buffalo TeraStation. If this was in a business, one can assume it was a backup target and not primary storage.
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@JaredBusch said:
- He clearly stated is was a Buffalo TeraStation. If this was in a business, one can assume it was a backup target and not primary storage.
I'd argue that that doesn't hold up on SW. TeraStations are more that than some, but the use of consumer and "SMB" class storage like this as primary storage for running apps is discussed continuously. Maybe backup is still more common, but you definitely cannot assume that it is for backups. It is nearly daily that we talk to people that are using storage exactly like this as their primary VM stores.
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I won't touch a Buffalo Terastation unless somebody gave me one... and even then, I'd only touch it just enough to take pictures of it and sell it on eBay... I have had horrible luck with those -- and that was just as backup targets.
