@coliver 5 wheels with two hamsters each.

These guys do an excellent job with their product as well. My last job got a 4 node cluster back when they were still doing the HC3x units, and it blew us out of the water how well it worked!

IIRC, They just added a 5th node not too long ago.

@handsofqwerty If you want somebody to help you get it out of your car, you can always drive it over to my house. I'll be glad to take it out of your car (and put it underneath my desk at home).

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Really big ones tend to end the SSL at the wall so that they can see what is inside.

And if someone is worried about that, it is easily detectable.

yes, if you control your desktop.

If you do not control your desktop, then there is not point in any expectation of privacy of any kind, so that is not even a concern.

Quite right. I was shocked when I got here. First day boss said "What OS?"

I said Server 2012. "Join it to the domain?"

He said "Nope."

So I have complete and total control over my machine. Plus thanks to new security restrictions, I have to encrypt all of my drives with bitlocker. If I walk away from this machine, nobody can access it but me... Unless they want to format it, lol.

@Minion-Queen said in 100 lbs and Falling:

@thanksajdotcom Only 4 times. But It actually helped my Dr. diagnose my blood pressure issues. So it's worth it.

If the watch fits...

@MattSpeller CTRL + A, Shift + DEL... well... you get the idea, at least. 8-)

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I believe everyone is at fault here, the son, the father, and AT&T. Everyone already mentioned why the father and son our at fault, but AT&T should have proactive monitors that send out redflags once a data bill hits a certain threshold. Especially if the family's typical phone bill is $150 and all the sudden is $2000. That should send a redflag somewhere and something should be done to ensure the customer really wants to accept the outrageous data charges.

But they did, right?

a single text message

how much hounding does one need. The message was sent and received and they didn't care. I don't see how AT&T has any more responsibility here. They have the status on the phone itself, they have an account status AND a courtesy, but unnecessary, text alert that they were being foolish. How many layers must AT&T do?

I would think an alert at every GB over the limit would be appreciated by customers.

I don't think that it would. Maybe some, but only some. And whether or not it would be appreciated doesn't in any way make AT&T at fault.

What I would like to see is companies give their customers the options of what to do when data runs out.

"You have met your data cap What would you like to do?"

1. Continue using data (warning, you will be charged per GB of data you use!)
2. Upgrade to next tier of data plan
3. Disable data until your next billing cycle.

I get text messages from Verizon at 75, 80, and 95%, so that is kinda option 1. They actually offer the upgrade to next data tier option via text message, but not the option to disable my data.

@travisdh1 said in The Day The Internet Broke:

Just one of many reasons I'm glad we use Mint/CentOS wherever possible. The security risks aren't any less, but they are different. Different in a way that's easier for me to prevent against bad actors.

At least you understand that running other OSes than Windows is not the panacea that a lot of people think it is.

Hi All,

If you've been following the What Are you doing Thead, you know that I had a project in the past that has been discussed. Thsi project has long since been completed and I figured I'd do a post about it and let the community poke at it for a bit and see what other solutions are presented.

Backstory:

We had roughly 16 physical servers at the time (we hadn't done much with virtualization yet). 3 of those servers were earmarked for the new SIS (Student information system) that we were getting ready to implement. One of those was a SQL Server connected to a PowerVault MD 1000 (SATA / SAS conneciton, not iSCSI).

At one point, there was a fire that took out an entire building. Everything that was in the buliding was destroyed, and it was devastating to that department, to say the least. Whispers came up to the administration of a question about what if that had been the building where IT Keeps all our servers (I blame my boss for that one, lol). At this point we talked about hijacking 2 of the SIS servers and doing Virtualization with them. That plan was approved.

So the TL;DR for this project:

Requirements

• Servers and Data in two locations on campus
• End User files backed up
• Servers backed up
• We did have good backups for our physical machines
  At the time, we estimated 1TB of usage of data, and planned for growth.

What would you have done in this situation? Keep in mind this was done around 2007 or 2008.

If you want more details, just let me know!

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What did you move to @johnhooks ?

I got a Nexus 5, and I'm not looking back. Next phone will be a Nexus.

that's definitely on my list.

I'm sold on the Samsung Galaxy line of products. My last phone was a Note 3. The reception sucked, but the camera was decent, and Android was fast on it! I upped to the Note 4, and have better reception, and Android is still fast (5.1.1 ATM, not rooted).

A buddy of mine is sold on the Nexus line as well.

Ha still on Lollipop, nooooob

Meh... I'm going through one of those phases of if it ain't broke, don't fix it. By this time next month, I may be asking around to see if anybody has got Ubuntu running on this phone yet.

I actually want to try the RemixOS, but I don't think that is for phones, lol.

You guys get lots of love from us in this community and elsewhere too!

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@MattSpeller said:

@dafyre very embarassed with a sore butt, otherwise fine

scared the shit out of us when she dropped

Ok... but why is her butt sore??? How long was she out? WHAT DID YOU DO??!!???!!?

What any good IT pro would do... He started looking for the reset button!

By slowly attacking the system, trying to keep their brute force attempts under the radar, at just 1,000 logins per hour, It'd take them a little less than 2 weeks to process 99 million logins like that. You have to figure out whether or not they have any brute forcing detection built in, and then what the thresholds are... That's not an unimaginably long time for hackers to poke and prod.

What is scary is the ~20% success ratio.

It's amazing how much strain we can take if we simply keep calm and focus... and above all... we should always remember:

Yeah.... no comments on that at all.. I pretty much whole heartedly agree. Life is too short to waste it on petty things that ultimately don't matter.

The day you quit learning about yourself is the day you truly start dying.

@coliver said:

Searching is much faster. Not sure if that was part of this update or not.

Upgrade is done. I have a rather large list of Security & Setup warnings... but everything does seem to work.

Apparently the documentation links aren't up yet... or their site is still being overrun, lol.

Would it be best to lose the IT Certification section and make a note that the Certification IDs can be provided if requested? (Or better yet, bring them with you to the interview?)

I'd lose Best Buy & Technical training (the last two jobs). I prefer to keep the last three jobs or last 10 years worth on my resume. I'd also remove the Defense Job if I were being picky about it, but that one may be a good one to keep.

@Kelly said:

I'm speaking more generically than with attritioning. Try inserting Cloud into your statements and see how that rubs you

I am going to improve my website's performance by clouding everything to the localest web host while attritioning my need for high fandangled hardware.

@scottalanmiller said:

The flooding of the market is really causing problems. The market is absolutely full of bodies, but not full of trained or experienced ones.

I can attest to this. I went through an A+ class with an excellent teacher (had us working in software and hardware and he really knew his stuff -- I was just in it for the cert)... At the end of the class, those that had no desire to learn still couldn't tell the difference between USB and PS/2.

@scottalanmiller Go back in and Edit the Filter... after you click the little Continue link, there will be a checkbox that says "Also apply this filter to x matching conversations...l. Click it, and then update filter.