Posts made by RojoLoco

This is fantastic.... random jewel discovered on Bandcamp:

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

New thumbnails designs are YouTube ironic.

Always the mouth open . Is that your trademark now?

Well, when you're always talking...

Audio editing... Making sure everything is trimmed up right so the new album can be rendered out and sent for mixdown and mastering. Hard hitting, heavy psychedelic rock coming soon.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I sincerely don't know how we missed that. Can't point the finger of blame at any one person, but damn.

(while managing iDrac during phone call)

"Hey Rojo - Here's that paper you needed to perform that thing you wanted" drops papers in floor.

Oops, Sorry

Phone rings

Distractions come at us at the speed of IT.

*User Knocks on Door with panicked expsression on face

*Phone Rings Again, this time from the Emergency line

Me: already halfway to Florida...

Preparing myself for yet another LONG ass call with Dell support... still having the replication issues and critical errors I alluded to before, but yesterday we managed to get into the security account which had locked itself last week from too many wrong passwords. The reason my written down password for that didn't work?

IT HAD NOT ACTUALLY BEEN CHANGED.... IT WAS STILL ON THE DEFAULT PASSWORD!!!

I sincerely don't know how we missed that. Can't point the finger of blame at any one person, but damn.

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Safety first, people.

Or as my friends and I would say.... safety third!!!

Currently having my mind BLOWN by this crazy, Siberian throat singing album my neighbor let me borrow. It's kinda metal-esqe, very heavy, but it's just voice and traditional folk instrumentation. And it's a studio album, so their use of reverb and other effects add to the uniqueness. NYTT LAND!!!

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with this....

Crypto'd? Or bad backups? .... or worse?

Looks like a password got out of sync and broke the scheduler service. All this, thankfully, is on our Cyber Recovery system, not production. And no backups were missed, but I will, of course, be monitoring it closely for 24hrs.

UPDATE:

Of course, the errors continued overnight, albeit at a slower pace. Today's fun - the scheduled production backups all failed. To the phone support, AWAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!

Avanti!

Did you actually reset the passwords everywhere?

Not everywhere, just the main password (which needed to sync between the various internal components). Still getting all the errors. Glad this is NOT production.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with this....

Crypto'd? Or bad backups? .... or worse?

Looks like a password got out of sync and broke the scheduler service. All this, thankfully, is on our Cyber Recovery system, not production. And no backups were missed, but I will, of course, be monitoring it closely for 24hrs.

UPDATE:

Of course, the errors continued overnight, albeit at a slower pace. Today's fun - the scheduled production backups all failed. To the phone support, AWAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!

@scotth said in What Are You Watching Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:

We set up a 7 day free trial of Paramount+, so we've been watching a good bit of their content. The new South Park post covid special is hilarious, as is the Reno 911 Search for QAnon. And since my gf is a Stephen King superfan, we watched their version of the Stand... good stuff, probably going to spring for a year.

I've been thinking of getting it. My daughter wants it so bad, she's willing to pay for it. The Stand sounds interesting. Hopefully, they stuck with the book, sorta?

I guess they did for the most part. My gf liked it, but she pointed out some things that were different from the book (not necessarily bad). I enjoyed it.

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Let me heal thy flesh wound?

I am more concerned with what looks to be a Bigfoot on his chest ...

EDIT: Oh wait! It's a CHICKEN!!!

Chicken!

Nah, CHICKEN!

Me with chicken:

...and yes, that Halloween party was nuts!

We set up a 7 day free trial of Paramount+, so we've been watching a good bit of their content. The new South Park post covid special is hilarious, as is the Reno 911 Search for QAnon. And since my gf is a Stephen King superfan, we watched their version of the Stand... good stuff, probably going to spring for a year.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with this....

Crypto'd? Or bad backups? .... or worse?

Looks like a password got out of sync and broke the scheduler service. All this, thankfully, is on our Cyber Recovery system, not production. And no backups were missed, but I will, of course, be monitoring it closely for 24hrs.

Dealing with this....

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The lack of a light on the bottom drive # 8 is interesting.

That looks like a serious hardware failure. BTDT

I sure hope the backups were tested to bare metal/hypervisor so known good.

That looks like a server that went crazy right after I started here. RAID5 had a drive fail. Had one hot spare, so they thought they were good... until 6 more drives failed. It was funny to me.

Also looks like a server that was sent to our office BY A CUSTOMER. I assume they paid extra for the headache they gave me. I had to try everything to recover the data, which I already knew was gone. Should have sent them this meme.

Eating ramen in midtown ATL. My gf's office is really close to our new data center location, and there are lots of awesome food choices in their food court.

The ceiling over the bar.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

sitting the rear bedroom doing stuff & getting hot. 30 degrees C today, no AC in this room with the afternoon sun blasting onto the wall.

Back to spring-ish weather here. Weather is having issues committing to being summer.

It's spring again here too... it was winter last week, now some spring, then maybe a hard freeze...

ANY diet plan is better than the one I did last year... 3 weeks in hospital, it totally resets your GI. I literally can only eat maybe half of what I used to. Horrible way to drop 30lbs, but I have actually kept it off for over a year... 222lbs on the scale this morning, used to be closer to 260 most of the time. I have to go to the gym in order to keep my legs/feet/hands working, but it also helps me keep my weight down.

Heading to East Atlanta to see one of my favorite heavy psych bands.... REZN!!!! They're heavy, doom-ey, stoner metal with synths and saxophone.

Recording the final vocals for the album... We're so close to being finished I can taste it.