@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Honey? Honey? Are you ok?
Are you OK honey?
You've been vibrated by, a smart criminal (with an SSH exploit).
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Honey? Honey? Are you ok?
Are you OK honey?
You've been vibrated by, a smart criminal (with an SSH exploit).
@kazitor said in I hate printers, with a passion:
or stick with a plain B&W where the black is intended to look black.
Yeah, I'd had enough of inkjet shenanigans, so I got a mono laser for home. It's still on the toner cartridge that came with it and I think it's at least 5 years old.
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Cursorkeys said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
We should re-enable animated avatars.
That would re-introduce the @tufty problem. The animated lemon was OK but the one before was not.
TBH I prefer it if, generally, things don't animate on webpages.
Edit: Ohhhhhh, I see now
just out of curiosity, what was the @tufty problem?
I can't actually remember what he had before the lemon. It was an animated thing, but it wasn't good. Lotus seed pod maybe?
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
It's actually quite a bit of a problem for, say, clothes / shoe sellers as their return rate may approach 50%.
One of the reasons for a high return rate there is when people are uncertain about what the sizes really are when shopping online: I used to have a colleague who would always get two pairs of shoes at two adjacent sizes and then just immediately return the pair that didn't fit.
I had to get some steel toecap boots recently to be allowed on a set, I'm normally a size 11 shoe. I ended up with size 9 boots, I ordered a load of sizes and just stayed in Screwfix to try them on in the end, then returned the rest. The guy there said that happens a lot.
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Nissan Note.
Duh.
At least it wasn't one of these:
First time I saw one on the motorway I laughed so hard I nearly crashed. It's the car version of the Short Skyvan.
@loopback0 said in Coworking spaces WTF:
They're all too young for most of you
It'd be interesting to know the demographic of TDWTF (including the lurkers). I'm guessing the median is mid-thirties. Most of the people in their twenties haven't yet had that innocent joy in engineering beaten out of them and started to suspect something like TDWTF might even exist.
I-wish-it-were-2-factor strikes again, โThose who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat itโ
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
Are you seeing the ACK on the client-to-relay-agent segment or on the relay-agent-to-DHCP-server segment? Maybe the relay agent is acking but never actually getting an ACK back from (or possibly never even sending the OFFER to) the client because of a network problem on the client facing leg?
It was on both, I never solved this one. Clients are on the same broadcast domain as the DHCP server now. Ran out of time.
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't say I've ever had problems with O365 migrations, either hard cutovers or Exchange hybrids. Inbound or Outbound flow problems? If Inbound, have you run the domain through MX Toolbox or similar to verify DNS settings? If Outbound, have you checked to see if you have any "special" mail flow handlers that are redirecting mail in unexpected directions? Is your generic outbound handler using DNS or set up to smart host through somewhere?
I wanted to do a migration but I just couldn't make the migration tool work in any mode. Connectivity Analyser said everything was full green but all the migration tool would say was 'failed to connect to remote server'. I did try a lot of suggested solutions. One was to disable IPv6 on the SBS server, I can now confirm that doing so buggered that box good and proper.
I think I know what the issue is now (DNS, like you said), I'm relaying all mail to O365 from onsite (so I can back out without having to wait for TTLs). We still have the old autodiscover stuff for onsite in DNS and I've got some suspicious dialing boxes about 'allowing [on-prem-addr] to manage the app'.
Will make DNS changes tomorrow to send everything the proper way, hopefully that will solve issues like that.
Edit: there was method to the madness. A third party does our DNS records and I couldn't have had anything done out of business hours. I didn't want to be stuck over the weekend with a defective config!
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
one little network config change
Oh, you're screwed...
You don't know how right you were. Oh god.
It's day... I don't know any more. I'm home for a shower then back again (5am).
Office 365 was working, now it isn't. Some email is st flowing for some reason, the trace tool doesn't bloody trace very well. Internal DHCP is borked, but I can see offers, discovery and ack on Wireshark, yet the clients claim they didn't get a lease
I think it has to be the DHCP relay agent, wrong MAC on the relay, or something similar.
Everything in O365 and Azure is a half-baked disaster.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but that isn't funny. That is unprofessional. Not so much about burning bridges but just being a decent human being.
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Day 2 of the four day migrate
Status: Day 3, mail is flowing into and out of O365 now. My temporary Postfix email queue-thing worked, no email was lost/stuck betwixt. Old DC is ready to be decommissioned. All Workstations are prepped for joining to the new domain. All LOB applications are migrated and have been beaten until they worked.
Feeling good about tomorrow, all PST imports to O365 are done, one little network config change to isolate the old SBS2008 server in it's own lonely VLAN, and then a bit of polishing with GPOs and similar things on the new Domain.
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
Smart indeed
as well as live stream their food as it cooks
When I'm God Emperor I'm going to come up with some kind of solution for those kind of people.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Moar Cooties:
@heterodox said in Moar Cooties:
@heterodox said in Moar Cooties:
20 hours later, the cooties still seem really bad.
And 38 hours later, /unread is taking 14.70 seconds to load.
I daresay the security updates broke something.
Interesting, my /unread is only 6.22 seconds, but I only have 23 topics in the list. Correlation?
I'm seeing nearly the same as that for unread and the forum root page, my little thingy says 99+.
Status: Day 2 of the four day migrate to virtual servers and cloud services is complete. Of course it's probably one of the hottest, nicest, bank-holiday weekends ever and I'm stuck in a chilly server room, at least I get overtime! No wait, it's the other one; I'm a salaried employee :(
I'm definitely going to write a huge Microsoft WTF thread after this is over, nothing bloody works. Exchange migration: broken, Online Exchange management if you have ADSync on and no on-prem: completely pants-on-head, PST import into Online Exchange: will drive you to murder, Hyper-V: well, that actually works properly...someone else must have written it.
And the documentation for everything, it's wrong, contridicts itself, leaves out critical information (like very important switches on certain commands) and is hard to find. I'll stop there before I get angry again.
I have a quadruple vodka now, cheers!
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Kyocera's rugged phone uses real sapphire btw.
Kyocera also make bitching ceramic knives:
I have a couple and they're awesome
Who decided to name Kubernetes K8s?
Somebody who thinks 10 letters is too much, but couldn't make a TLA because it is not enough words.
And how did it gain traction?
Pepole si dylsiexc nad c'ant rmemeebr hte rihgt oderr fo etn ltetres fo a eeGrk wrod. Or csdr it to mch tpng.
Should we call Docker D4r and Windows W5s too?
Y1S. D8y!
The full name is ridiculous too, if you're going to make up a wordFine, it's a Greek word; because that makes perfect sense, as the majority of their customers are Greek, right? then why in the hell would you choose something unpronounceable and that no-one is going to be able to remember/spell to Google it
Coo-ber-nets ??
Edit: I need more coffee
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
hopefully that's fine.
Narrator: It was not.
Turns out I don't know how async works as well as I thought I did. I made a rate increasener rather than a rate limiter. One task.Wait();
later and it might do what it's supposed to.
Status: New fully-rate-limited GraphQL interface thing is going live. This should be interesting, it tried to communicate as fast as possible before, and the remote server did not like that one bit.
30 elements per request and 4 simultaneous requests allowed, hopefully that's fine.
Status: Well, I've never seen this error before:
The time/date is also correct, so the actual error has to be something else.
@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys is probably more into jet engines but I'll mention him anyway
Steam systems are mostly black magic to me; saturated, superheated, wet/dry, etc...
Closest device for gas turbines is the recuperator. Water injection has been used in gas turbines to provide more mass-flow though.
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I still find it ridiculous that programs can't request their own repair.
I find it even more ridiculous that you need to repair a program. Did the bits have a collision or something?
I've no-idea what it's complaining about either. The program is clearly started, and didn't vanish after closing the dialog.
This just popped-up at me after rebooting, it's also left an icon on my Desktop, no other Office applications, just one for Teams.
I have Slack, I don't want Microsoft Messenger 2.0.
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Hopefully, those who design medical systems are more careful/paranoid...
I was when I did some, but the regulations were only really concerned with electrical isolation and leakage. The firmware and hardware-architecture in general weren't mentioned! Hopefully if it's more medical-y you start getting forced to use a SIL compliant design, or DO-254 or something.
Then, of course, maybe not, as the THERAC-25 incidents happened.
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
solid green then either you're eating a sock or the disk isn't responding....
That was the case with the previous firewall. It had an uptime of nearly two years, but one disk light was solidly on. I thought that was suspicious so I made sure the backed up config was current (and that new hardware was ready) and rebooted it. The RAID controller wouldn't even load it's own firmware on boot. It was just a paperweight. The IT spidey-sense is occasionally useful!
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: 11pm and UPS battery maintenance is finished.
Domain controller won't come back up. Just keeps rebooting. And there's an unmarked green status indicator lit solidly on one of the drives...green's good...right?
FML
It's 3am. Goddamn thing is up. The array is 'degraded' but all disks (including the hot spare) are online and healthy, supposedly. It's doing something to itself that involves a ton of activity, so I don't care any further currently.
I still don't know why only one iSCSI LUN would mount at a time from the SAN because it magically fixed itself while I was trying to work it out. EventViewer was useless, just a ton of 'logon failed' and a hex dump which I can't bloody read.
I swear I'm going to go Amish and ban these Devil's charge-carriers from my life.
Edit: It was a warning indicator. Why in the hell is it green!
Status: 11pm and UPS battery maintenance is finished.
Domain controller won't come back up. Just keeps rebooting. And there's an unmarked green status indicator lit solidly on one of the drives...green's good...right?
FML
@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
Java needs to stop existing.
As long as it gives its enums to C# first. Every time I go between the two I forget C#'s enums are pathetic and get really hacked off
@Rhywden said in "No, you can't store an 8-ball of coke in the ceiling tiles.":
a) he hurts himself with the tools
This seems to be the big one, my current place does allow me to use their equipment at weekends. But no use of the lathes, mills, saws, belt sander without someone else there, which is entirely reasonable.
I asked permission first, and I've always just assumed that I should obviously use my own consumables and replace anything else I break PDQ.
As a benefit it's really been quite a good one for me. I simply don't have room at home for a pick-and-place machine or a full-size reflow oven (and I can't afford some of the rest anyway; BGA rework station with inspection ).
I've also, in turn, lent them equipment from my own stock, as I have some seriously esoteric tools for my hobbies.
@dangeRuss said in Neighbor WTF:
The problem arises when he decides to put the soiled bedsheets/clothes into a hamper of some sort and soaks it in some chemical, most likely chlorine.
Assuming the problem is odour here? Bleach + urine (or most organic matter) makes chloramines which is the 'pool' smell. Chloramines are pretty nasty but you can smell them at really low concentrations, it's likely to be more of a nuisance than an actual serious health hazard here. Only thing would be to politely request he doesn't I guess.
I'm not sure what you can do about any of the rest as I'm not familiar with the US and the various services/authorities.
Here you can report a crime and get a number over the phone that you can give to the insurance company.
Police ombudsman, or other oversight body, to raise a complaint about your treatment?
Is there any local authority that deals with protection for older people? Here it would be the local council if you need to report problems with the treatment of an older person.
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Server 2019
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Changing it to delayed start did fuck all.
Huh, I've been having problems with 'delayed start' services just not starting on my Server 2019 VMs, I thought it was me.
I'm not having problems with just having a single DC though (unless services not starting is the problem....).
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
root@thing:~# ps -aux ps: invalid option -- 'a'
I checked, just in case:
root@thing:~# ps aux
ps: invalid option -- 'a'
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I should read the man page, I don't think I ever have before.
@Cursorkeys Yeah,
ps
is one of the commands that have two mutually incompatible set of options, and at least four implementations that support different subsets of those.
Source 1 says:
Note that "ps -aux" is distinct from "ps aux". The POSIX and UNIX standards require that "ps -aux" print all processes owned by a user named "x", as well as printing all processes that would be selected by the -a option. If the user named "x" does not exist, this ps may interpret the command as "ps aux" instead and print a warning.
Source 2 says:
In contrast to most commands, the hyphen preceding ps's options is optional, not mandatory.
Amazing.
@Cursorkeys โฆ. and I mean you almost certainly intended to write
ps aux
, because the variant with-
has e and something-other-letters-I-don't remember.
I'm not sure, I thought -aux
was correct. Both work on this little Slax box I have beside me.
because ps is not a simple case
I should read the man page, I don't think I ever have before.
Status: Little things please little minds...
ntpq> ass
ind assid status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt
===========================================================
1 39456 35ca yes yes none sys.peer sys_peer 13
2 39242 308b yes yes none reject sys_peer 4
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Cursorkeys Are we talking about the same product? I said ESET Endpoint Security, you said NOD32.
That's two different products
When we used it there was only NOD32, but the name changed a couple of times. I think we went though NOD32, NOD32 for Business, something with Smart in it, etc.. Not sure if it's still the same core these days, but I wouldn't trust anything that came out of that company.
and no, ESET is the least resource intensive AV I am aware of.
That's the problem with benchmarks. I can only say that, after moving, my complaint level for 'my machine is unusably slow!' dropped to zero.
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Cursorkeys said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
That piece of garbage is leakier than a sieve and resource heavy
This is true for every single AV software.
To an extent, EAM has been pretty good for us though. It's not perfect but I'm happy at least.
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
adequate endpoint security (such as ESET)
I would not call NOD32 'adequate'. That piece of garbage is leakier than a sieve and resource heavy. After multiple failures I dropped it and moved to Emsisoft which actually works.
ESET's support is a total shit-show as well. They did at least try though, they were just incompetent.
Edit: They delivered faulty updates which quarantined critical system files twice in a couple of years. Plus it failed to detect Locky well after the release.
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Well, if I had to depend on PHP
5.5.9I'd be angry too.FTFY
Well, my paycheck depends on PHP, and I'm not angry
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor Yeah, a nuclear powered missile seems like such a good idea... (maybe if the payload is also nuclear. Only maybe.)
That was the idea behind Project Pluto. Loiter indefinitely over the neighbour you dislike, then drop your nuclear bombs on them, then crash your flying nuclear reactor into them as well for good measure.
Terrible spam right? Nope, this one's real:
Maybe make sure your shit-tacular HTML email won't do this, and choose better server names for customer-facing services.
@Gฤ ska GUILTY! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around
"I'm addicted to drinking brake fluid, but I can stop any time I want"