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Someone on the yospos discord is doing it rn
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freeasinbeer posted:Someone on the yospos discord is doing it rn There's like 900 people doing it right now. Please be patient. We're working on it from the admin/mod team perspective and we can't share much yet, this is an extremely sensitive and difficult situation. vvv lol CLAM DOWN fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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Jun 25, 2020 22:58
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The perfect storm: 1000s of forums users frantically trying to archive everything all at once everywhere. GBS shitposting up a million percent. Long dormant forums posters awakening to get in on the action. If Lowtax's plummeting patreon revenue doesn't bankrupt him the bandwidth bill alone this month will.
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Jun 25, 2020 23:14
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Just archive the sperginvirgin threads and we’ll be good to go.
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Jun 25, 2020 23:16
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 SA will finally have working archives
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Jun 25, 2020 23:20
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Matt Zerella posted:
Holy poo poo.
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Jun 26, 2020 16:43
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Does anyone use osTicket? How is it? It's becoming clear that a volunteer org I do work with needs a ticketing system and we can't afford much.
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Jun 26, 2020 22:31
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No opinions about osTicket, but don't let anyone suggest Spiceworks.
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Jun 26, 2020 22:35
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The Fool posted:No opinions about osTicket, but don't let anyone suggest Spiceworks. Spiceworks is better than at least five other ticketing systems
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Jun 26, 2020 23:15
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My God tech support for SAP loving sucks.
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Jun 26, 2020 23:18
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I use Freshdesk for ticketing, there's no SSO tax and the free plan might cover your requirements.
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Jun 26, 2020 23:33
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Bob Morales posted:Spiceworks is better than at least five other ticketing systems Yeah, but it’s a non-profit, they aren’t going to be looking at enterprise software. Thanks Ants posted:I use Freshdesk for ticketing, there's no SSO tax and the free plan might cover your requirements. We use Freshservice and are pretty happy with it.
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Jun 26, 2020 23:53
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The Fool posted:Yeah, but it’s a non-profit, they aren’t going to be looking at enterprise software. We used the free version two jobs ago. Last job didn’t have a ticketing system  Current one uses kaseya which is not very good
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Jun 26, 2020 23:55
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I use osTicket and like it. It's not fancy like the ITSM cloud stuff out there, but for basic ticketing it is just fine.
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Jun 27, 2020 00:14
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Thanks for the feedback. I had no idea Freshdesk had a free tier. Might look into that.
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Jun 27, 2020 00:43
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Internet Explorer posted:Does anyone use osTicket? How is it? It's becoming clear that a volunteer org I do work with needs a ticketing system and we can't afford much. I tried it. It was pretty good, yeah. I put it head to head against OTRS and it held up. Honestly I'd probably prefer it to Solarwinds Web Help Desk at this point. I mean osTicket is free for self hosted unsupported installs so it's worth giving it a shot if you have some time to throw at it. But just expect to throw some time at it because it will inevitably break in new and interesting ways every time.
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Jun 27, 2020 03:05
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:But just expect to throw some time at it because it will inevitably break in new and interesting ways every time. Yeah, see, this is what I don't want to have to deal with.
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Jun 27, 2020 03:17
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Yeah the last thing you want is something to blow up randomly when you have a fuckload of clients to deal with, you need something that's stable and as easy to manage once it's setup as possible.
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Jun 27, 2020 04:56
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AlternateAccount posted:Who logs the... logs...men? Thanks Ants posted:You need to log every single event on every single server...including the logging servers? Alright which one of you jerks told my boss to buy a NAS to log the logs from logging the SAN... and the other SAN, and that third SAN? Also, now I gotta figure out where to save the logs from the NAS that's logging the server that logs the 3 SANs.
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Jun 29, 2020 15:55
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S3, but get his signoff so that when he gets the $1k monthly bill from that bucket alone he's got nowhere to point his finger.
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Jun 29, 2020 16:09
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where are you going to put the s3 logs, huh smart guy azure blob storage
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Jun 29, 2020 16:10
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FYI if you have Palo Altos configured to use SAML authentication - https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2021
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Jun 29, 2020 16:23
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Alright which one of you jerks told my boss to buy a NAS to log the logs from logging the SAN... and the other SAN, and that third SAN? Watching this and the responses to this makes me remember the time I was responsible for tape backups and had to take the tapes every week or so to a large shed built expressly for keeping the tapes that was built something like 13ftx10ftx10ft and was almost filled back to front top to bottom with cases of backup tapes. edit: The happiest day of my life was when my boss finally figured out that tape backups where more expensive than just having a bunch of jbod arrays and I was told to backup only a few random tape sets and then shred the rest. Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jun 29, 2020 |
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Jun 29, 2020 16:57
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tapegang. We had a tape robot in 3 server rooms, every Friday one of 3 of us had to drive round and swap them all out based on a list the 3rd party who managed our backups would send us, that always had an error on it, so someone had to go back out and fix it again. There was like 60 tapes with labels stuck on them in a fire safe in each room
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Jun 29, 2020 18:01
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My first real job in IT involved managing backups for like 400+ servers, before virtualization, using Symantec Netback and some ridiculous tape libraries. One tape got sent to our other datacenter every day, the others got grabbed by Iron Mountain. The backup window was so tight that if a job failed and was not fixed within like 30 minutes, it would cause a cascading failure and backups for the night wouldn't finish. You'd then get written up. We were supposed to be on-call for 1 month at a time, but we had turnover and even though I was pretty much just a kid, I was on-call for like 4 months straight. By the end the backups were all fixed and optimized, so it wasn't so much of a problem, but I didn't get a solid night's sleep for those 4 months. Stupid.
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Jun 29, 2020 18:13
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Internet Explorer posted:My first real job in IT involved managing backups for like 400+ servers, before virtualization, using Symantec Netback and some ridiculous tape libraries. One tape got sent to our other datacenter every day, the others got grabbed by Iron Mountain. The backup window was so tight that if a job failed and was not fixed within like 30 minutes, it would cause a cascading failure and backups for the night wouldn't finish. You'd then get written up. We were supposed to be on-call for 1 month at a time, but we had turnover and even though I was pretty much just a kid, I was on-call for like 4 months straight. By the end the backups were all fixed and optimized, so it wasn't so much of a problem, but I didn't get a solid night's sleep for those 4 months. Hahaa holy poo poo. My first start in IT was Windows server sysadmin, hundreds of physical and virtual servers, and the WORST part of that was backups, thanks to Symantec netbackup. We had iron mountain for tapes too, that's hilarious. Back then we had an enormous (like, 3? cabinet size) tape robot that had a cylon-style barcode reader, and that thing I swore was going to come alive and destroy me I hated it so much.
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Jun 29, 2020 18:15
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One of my motivating factors for getting in to IT was going on a tour of the universities super computing center while I was in high school. One of the highlights was this massive tape silo that held MORE THAN A TERRABYTE of data in the mid-90's
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Jun 29, 2020 18:18
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CLAM DOWN posted:Hahaa holy poo poo. My first start in IT was Windows server sysadmin, hundreds of physical and virtual servers, and the WORST part of that was backups, thanks to Symantec netbackup. We had iron mountain for tapes too, that's hilarious. Back then we had an enormous (like, 3? cabinet size) tape robot that had a cylon-style barcode reader, and that thing I swore was going to come alive and destroy me I hated it so much. I have a scar on my left ring finger. Back when I was younger I too administered an enormous tape monster and I unwisely reached in to unjam a stick tape while it was still on. It accepted my offering of blood with pleasure.
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Jun 29, 2020 18:19
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CLAM DOWN posted:Hahaa holy poo poo. My first start in IT was Windows server sysadmin, hundreds of physical and virtual servers, and the WORST part of that was backups, thanks to Symantec netbackup. We had iron mountain for tapes too, that's hilarious. Back then we had an enormous (like, 3? cabinet size) tape robot that had a cylon-style barcode reader, and that thing I swore was going to come alive and destroy me I hated it so much. Yuuuuuup. This all sounds very similar. And our loving robotic tape library would also always have a random arm broken, so you were running at reduced capacity. And back then they were really dumb with how they designed mail slots. Oh, you've got a job running and it needs another 8 hours, but it's blocking the arm that you need to drop off your mailer tape in the mail slot? Too bad, that's a write-up.
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Jun 29, 2020 18:19
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Nuclearmonkee posted:I have a scar on my left ring finger. Back when I was younger I too administered an enormous tape monster and I unwisely reached in to unjam a stick tape while it was still on. It accepted my offering of blood with pleasure. Been there, didn't ever stick my hand in there ever again. Are tapes still a common backup system for things? My tape system got decommissioned sometime in 2013 Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jun 29, 2020 |
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Jun 29, 2020 19:10
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Out of office reply set on Friday, logged out of Outlook and Teams on my phone, time to completely ignore work for a week and a half. Spending it on the beach with the family. Take your time, people.
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Jun 29, 2020 19:11
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Hell yeah. And I bet the beach doesn't get cell service either, so you can't even be called in an "emergency". Oh, what a shame.
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Jun 29, 2020 19:14
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My boss just replied to a 110% not urgent email while up in like Martha's Vineyard or one of those other JFK-level socialite rich people play places.
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Jun 29, 2020 20:10
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a tape library is still in my purview for a few more years until statutes run out 
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Jun 29, 2020 20:18
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4 day weekend for Juneteenth 
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Jun 29, 2020 20:21
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Our office is open July 3rd. We just got told that we have a COVID case in the office, but we're still bringing back 50% next week. gently caress.
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Jun 29, 2020 20:56
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The best day of my first IT job was when we could retire the tape backup. God drat I hated that thing
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Jun 29, 2020 22:07
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It's good to get rid of things that require you to be standing in front of them to use properly
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Jun 29, 2020 22:32
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The day I transitioned...from a company that did tape backups to one that didn’t, was night and day. Well, as much daylight as one can find when still dealing with Netbackup at the new place.
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I guess I'm the only one that likes tape. When you find something that can store that much data for the cost per GB (really cost per TB now) and can be safely stored offsite without cloud storage costs and without degrading as fast and unpredictably as hard drives, let me know. Especially in the age of ransomware, a completely air-gapped non-active backup copy of data is really appealing to me just from a CYA point of view. Of course this is also with the caveat of Veeam. Tape backup (any backup, really) that isn't Veeam? gently caress that noise. edit: that said we have helpdesk techs to do the annoying tape management bit so I don't get the full brunt of how annoying it is anymore 
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