The Official Status Thread
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More on topic, I don't remember if there was a justification for giving them the Defiant in particular?
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The Dominion were a known threat on the other side of the wormhole
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The program to begin arming DS9 didn't start until after the Defiant had already been delivered, and took a full year to complete (remember: DS9 originally had zero shields and like 6 photon torpedoes. Basically its only defenses were on the three tiny Runabouts they kept around.)
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Sisko knew the right people to talk to to get it taken out of mothballs, despite its known design problems.
Was it the size so they can traverse the wormhole?
Galaxy-class ships are shown traversing the wormhole, as are Romulan Warbirds (which are actually larger, I believe) so size isn't much of an issue.
The only time something's mentioned as possibly being "too big" for the wormhole was that one episode where DS9 was being dragged into it-- and even then it's unclear if DS9 would be destroyed because it was too large, or simply because its structure was too fragile for the rough ride.
Because, IIRC, the Defiant was designed to fight the Borg, was it not?
Yes, but it was mothballed after the ship showed huge design flaws in testing. It's unclear whether Sisko puts on a "speed governor" or anything to reduce the problems, but while he's in possession of it the Defiant seems to work fine.
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Yes, little Johnny Tables, we call him.
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John
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Agree to disagree. fuck
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STATUS: What's that, new Hardcore History is out?
Skype off, viber off, email closed, closing WTDWTF. So long suckers.
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It's unclear whether Sisko puts on a "speed governor" or anything to reduce the problems, but while he's in possession of it the Defiant seems to work fine.
Because he's The Sisko. The ship doesn't dare to misbehave!
Well, that all makes sense, thanks for the refresher. I should really rewatch DS9 one of these days...
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Status: Investigating NAS and backup over LAN, since apparently there's a small chance that RAID-1 won't actually give you hardware fault tolerance. Also, I found a working copy for some of my hobby source code, so not quite all is lost.
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apparently there's a small chance that RAID-1 won't actually give you hardware fault tolerance
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I CBA'd to find it because DiscoSearch but I mentioned it upstream a bit. Somehow one drive went funky and it managed to corrupt the other drive. So now I have one working drive with bad data, and one dead drive.
My best guess is the drive wasn't totally dead and responded to reads with gibberish, and the ESXi kernel managed to read up a bunch of bad data then re-write it down to the array, and, it being mirrored, wrote bad data to the good drive as well. This is pure speculation though.
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That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard (i.e. the situation is TRWTF), but it makes sense.
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It's infuriating because I moved to RAID-1 specifically to prevent losing data to random disk failure, which has happened to me before.
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Status: Went to turn the air conditioning off, turned the lights off instead and wondered why it got dark suddenly
Nearly home time, perhaps.
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3 hours...
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-37 minutes for me.
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I'm guessing Digital ocean was patching that Xen issue that hasn't really been announced publicly yet. My vps on another network got restarted last night.
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Because he's The Sisko. The ship doesn't dare to misbehave!
Well Defiant was also built by the pre-DS9 "super risk-adverse" Federation engineers.
DS9 actually has an episode about that, where a Cardassian visits the station and is amazed they put in a SECOND backup system. Then later on says some technology had a 2% chance of failure, but in the Cardassian military they don't consider 2% enough to worry about mitigating.
One thing I never got about DS9 and they never really explain is why the Federation never tore out the Cardassian computer system and install a Starfleet one. I guess maybe just because it had hooks in everything and they didn't want to build an emulator or whatever? But considering the problems the computer gives them...
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There are some types of disk failure which affect humans and OSes but happen at a level the RAID controller isn't aware of. For example, a RAID-1 controller will happy synchronize your completely corrupted filesystem to both drives.
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In the real world, his boss at Starfleet.
Well Sisko also had that weird religious role for the bajoran... in the real world that would have made it rather hard for Starfleet to do too much with him...
religion and politics not meeting well and all that.
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Yeah, I think it's because it had hooks into everything. But not just at a software level. They world have had to rewire the station from top to bottom. I imagine that the amount of work necessary to refit the station comparable to building a whole new station. O'Brien was working on it, but as an ongoing process.
I only remember the computer causing one major problem, when somebody tripped a booby trap. Definitely bad, but not catastrophic.
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in the real world that would have made it rather hard for Starfleet to do too much with him...
Nah, "Commander Sisko announced today his retirement from Starfleet so as to cater to the Bajoran people."
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in the real world that would have made it rather hard for Starfleet to do too much with him...
Nah, "Commander Sisko announced today his retirement from Starfleet so as to cater to the Bajoran people."
"We've appointed his son Jake Sisko as temporary commander of DS9 while we sort out a long term replacement"
sorry, that's what came into my head as the next line of the memo, and after picking my chair up of the floor and climbing back into it i had to share.
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"We've appointed his son Jake Sisko as temporary commander of DS9 while we sort out a long term replacement"
That sounds like the kind of dumbass thing TV show writers might do.
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That sounds like the kind of dumbass thing TV show writers might do.
given the state of politics and the extreme inaccuracy of military inteligence..... i'd believe it of actual federation officers.
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Status: I want bacon now, but the only bacon I have is frozen and I have no bread.
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It's infuriating because I moved to RAID-1 specifically to prevent losing data to random disk failure, which has happened to me before.
You've still got to worry about correlated and semi-correlated disk failures. The stress of recovering from a failure of one disk can make another disk, manufactured at about the same time, probably in the same batch by the same bored and underpaid workers, fail and screw you over completely.
RAID is not and never was a replacement for a backup strategy.
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"We've appointed his son Jake Sisko as temporary commander of DS9 while we sort out a long term replacement"
Is that right before they gave the Cardassians the keys to DS9 back?
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It's hard finding a nice place to rent for that in the SF Bay area.
There are approximately 6.5 million people living the SF-Oakland-San Jose area (and about another 2 million in the surrounding areas that make up the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area). For those millions of people, Craigslist shows about 6600 housing units available for rent at $30k or less. Want a house? There are about 500. In SF itself, there are 14. Have pets? The 800000 people who live in SF have two houses to choose from, or 120 apartments.
Things are not a lot better in Silicon Valley. From Palo Alto to south San Jose, there are 1900 units for about 2 million people. Pets, only 700. 40 houses. Want a house and a pet? 3 choices.
Yeah, housing is not affordable there.
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Yeah, housing is not affordable there.
Considering my house has increased in value from about $300K to about $1M in 19 years, yeah. Oh, it's only 1400sf, on an 8500sf lot. (Can we say "Retirement Fund"?)
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Sounds more like "housing crash."
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Specifically it would be against the terms of watching your own ads.
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It's put in a huge pool, then divvied among all content creators based on their total views. All content creators on the entire site.
Which yes, means idiots with a ton of views, like PewDiePie get a huge amount of cash from Red subscribers. EVEN IF NONE OF PEWDIEPIE'S SUBSCRIBERS ARE USING RED!
You have to be shitting me? They do not allocate the pot based upon views coming from subscribers??
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Have I missed any good news?
Unfortunately, no. The status of the Seattle-area job for which I had the interview last Tuesday is still "In Progress" according to Jobvite, and I haven't heard anything about the other one for which I had two phone interviews.
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Why do you keep it in your dock?
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It's infuriating because I moved to RAID-1 specifically to prevent losing data to random disk failure, which has happened to me before.
RAID is not a backup. It helps increase uptime, but doesn't do shit to prevent corruption.
Which you know, and have been tragically reminded of. ;)
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Status: I am barely conscious. I am basically just marking time until I can leave work without appearing to be a slacker.
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RAID is not a backup.
I guess Discourse ate my last post...
I know RAID isn't a backup, it's supposed to be physical fault tolerance. I don't even care about backups. The only times I've ever needed to restore from backup was when I had a disk die, which RAID is supposed to protect you from, but I'm unlucky.
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I'm taking tomorrow off barring any fires and explosions, so fingers crossed for that.
I think I need more caffeine. My brain somehow munged that together into something about taking your fingers off with fire and explosions.
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I know RAID isn't a backup, it's supposed to be physical fault tolerance.
In a perfect world yes, but if something gets fucked up on one disk, it will mindlessly replicate it to the others.
As I said in my post, I know you are aware of these things. It just seems like one of those things that cannot be repeated enough.
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Status: On further investigation, both drives benchmark just fine, though one is now blank and the other has a corrupted VMware partition. Maybe my RAID controller just crapped itself, or the ESXi kernel went all Discoursey?
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Status: That moment you accidentally the network connection on a server. Over an RDP session. On a server you can't easily access.
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On a thursday. On a desk. On top of old smokey.
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Status: That moment you accidentally the network connection on a server. Over an RDP session. On a server you can't easily access.
I am going to guess that there is a word missing there, and that word is one of the many that means you just fucked up the network connection that RDP is using.
Or this is some variation on "You accidentally a sentence" joke.
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Maybe my RAID controller just crapped itself, or the ESXi kernel went all Discoursey?
Or, one or both of the drives are failing but still benchmark just fine. Perhaps a combination of any of those reasons. I would not trust any of it until I found at least one cause.
In your case though, I do believe that it is all relatively non-point if it shits itself. Rebuild it all and use Veeam next time. I believe they have a free version that would keep your ESXi server backed up adequately for your needs.
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Status: That moment you accidentally the network connection on a server. Over an RDP session. On a server you can't easily access.
FWIW, I did the same thing once setting up VPN remotely on a Windows server. I had it all worked out in my lab here on how to do it, I knew I had it all figured out, I went against all best practices because I thought I knew a surefire way to do it without fucking up networking and locking myself out.
Yeah, I didn't. Or maybe I did. I missed a point on my checklist and ended up having to get up early on a Monday and be there when they opened for business.
I will never do that again.