Cue suddenly silent DC
I've silenced a DC... it's deafening, rally. Once all those fans and spindles stop, it's eerie.
Posts by chivo243
6090 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2010
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Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold
Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests
911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear
Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it
Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room
Friday 12th April 2024 19:32 GMT 
Not while working
I've never been on the working end of a nice work related junket. I got sent to a youth hostel on the island of Texel (bonus points if you know of it) But, I once was on the receiving end of a nice upgrade in Las Vegas about 20 years ago... we got the "I'm sorry sir, we don't have any rooms fitting your reservation"(double queen I think). Perhaps this 8 bedroom suite will be suitable. The master bathroom alone was bigger than one floor of my house at the time! There were only 3 of us...
We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners
BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now
Techie saved the day and was then criticized for the fix
Friday 5th April 2024 20:43 GMT
Re: I have done the air-con shuffle in the past!
seriously though guys, when are you going to give it up and adopt the Celsius system? It really is simpler.)
It's not us regular guys in the US that make this decision... I learned the Metric system in 1976 or so (because we were going!), and can use both Imperial and Metric. Living in Europe and knowing Imperial made me a king among men when goods from the US arrived. The only thing the US got out of that exercise was Coke and Pepsi in 1, 2 or 3 liter bottles...
Friday 5th April 2024 15:50 GMT
Re: I have done the air-con shuffle in the past!
Help! It's 40c inside the rack and the fans are screaming! No problem, open both doors to the server room, open windows in both adjacent offices, have the facilities guys bring all the fans they can carry! Oops, its 32 c outdoors.... Facilities manager rents huge portable aircon units. The temp eventually dropped back to 30c or so, aircon replacement took over a week*, 5 days for delivery, and 3 days to install, and then another month to find the tube they nicked during installation, when they finally sent a senior engineer to investigate. They were called out to fill the coolant 5 times!!
No longer my monkey, no longer my circus ;-}
*It was a shitty job to do in a very small space, I felt sorry for the HVAC guys.
Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer's cipher thank the crowd
Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster
You break it, you ... run away and hope somebody else fixes it
Monday 1st April 2024 18:02 GMT 
I looked for help...
Really! I did! Close to 20 years ago, the office I worked in was adjacent to the server room. I loved it! Then we were moved to another office down the corridor and around the corner. I once drew the short stick and had to clean up the server room. As I was wiping down shelves, I moved an old NT4 print server, it was just a beefed up desktop tower, just a few inches, and whirrr to nothing. It was off, and would not power back up. I checked the power cables all secure, but no life. Since our office used to be next to the server room, there was no phone in the server room. I headed down the corridor to find my manager in our new office... I stopped at the toilet, and heard my manager an another engineer rush by in the corridor chattering about the server. I checked in with the office, only to hear about the server, and returned to the scene of the incident. My manager had determined that the power supply had croaked. I always wondered, did my small movement cause it? Or was it already on it's way out and picked the moment I was there to give up the ghost?
How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT
Do not touch that computer. Not even while wearing gloves. It is a biohazard
What's brown and sticky and broke this PC?
Friday 22nd March 2024 19:13 GMT
The worst ever!
Before smoking was banned in most buildings, I had the opportunity to service a Toshiba Tecra used by a heavy smoker... who also spilled some coffee with milk/cream on the keyboard some days previous to the call and continued to use it! The complaint was the keys were not responsive!! I leave it to your imagination to identify the smells that came out of that when I first opened it up. I didn't have to finish the job, my boss declared it a bio-hazard and called it a day. Thank you Sir!!
BOFH: So you want more boardroom tech that no one knows how to use
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so
McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city
Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion
Tuesday 12th March 2024 15:37 GMT 
Encryption? yeah we’ve heard of it. I heard it called
Encryption by policy in an article I read a few weeks ago. Not encryption via protocol.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/02/02/apple-iphone-google-pixel-and-samsung-galaxy-telegram-app-warning/amp/
I’ll stick with Signal where you can now use a handle instead of your phone number too!
Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO
BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again
Friday 8th March 2024 23:12 GMT
Re: running out of steam?
I thought about the dream angle... no PFY, everything moving along too easily. Put this one in the maybe pile.
I wouldn't call it running out of steam, but more of a deep breath before the next push. No one had an unfortunate accident (yet), no big score was had (yet). Where is the PFY? In whose pay is he this week?
Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway
Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production
Thursday 7th March 2024 22:57 GMT
Re: Too far
This is what happens when Belgian sysadmins run out of beer, everything grinds to a halt
Belgian truck drivers should be added to this list! I once stayed at a hotel that had a bar near the 'snelweg' and at dinner time, there were loads of truck drivers, with considerable table muscle hoisting a few on break... with the state of things in Europe, I'm sure you don't want to get between a trucker and his libation.
Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed
World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads
Tuesday 5th March 2024 20:31 GMT 
damn, damn, damn
Further update
All services now appears to be coming back online.
"We are recovering from an earlier outage impacting Facebook Login, and services are in the process of being restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused," Meta said at 0907 PT.
and double damn!
Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is
Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else
Sunday 25th February 2024 23:29 GMT
Re: The biggest flaw
I've long pondered the perfect system(s), and it pretty much demands users, from top to bottom, who know what they are doing and why they are doing it. I once had to school the HR director on the perils of using their personal accounts on company assigned gear. I also took a rap on the knuckles for doing the right thing...
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies
Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages
Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!
Saturday 17th February 2024 00:12 GMT
Re: It is easy - easy marks
Just looking at as a vector... and how much traffic it creates. I know to turn off the crap at install, and block what I can at the perimeter. I don't think granny's metrics are really all that helpful, I don't see the 90+ demographic getting a whole lot of attention from M$. How much of power on, facebook, gmail, power off is helpful to M$? Other people sniffing that unneeded traffic might...
Wednesday 14th February 2024 23:11 GMT
So funny you mention W2000 and vm, I installed a couple of years back it in a VM in my Free Esxi lab. It was a nice, 5 minutes in total. It installed in about 40 seconds, was at the desktop at about a minute in, and poked around a bit. I seem to remember networking was wonky, 10/100 and no driver handy at the time?
Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server?
Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived
Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2
Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry
Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it
BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment
DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on
Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute
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