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If we're having oldchat: I had an Apple IIe and my mom won a Commodore 64 with a tape drive in a drawing. I fought with my parents about my bad handwriting, saying "Look, when I grow up everything is going to be computerized and I won't have to write a drat thing." I lost the battle but won the war. Collateral Damage posted:iSCSI over PPPoE over WiFi.
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My first Linux was Centos 7.3. ... but my first UNIX was SunOS 4.1.3.
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When I was young I had an Atari ST with an attached tape drive. My favourite game was some 4-bit Bruce Lee thing. This must have been in 1986 or something. Edit: the tape drive took around 20 minutes to load a game. While it was loading you had to stare at some psychedelic flashing lights. Almost certainly would have triggered seizures in some people with hindsight. Dravs fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 30, 2018 |
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Dravs posted:When I was young I had an Atari ST with an attached tape drive. My favourite game was some 4-bit Bruce Lee thing. This must have been in 1986 or something. For me it was loading Zaxxon off tape on my Atari 800. I remember those days fondly, because they are long gone and the joy of waiting for a tape to load, or typing in 10 pages of hex code from Compute or Antic magazine to play a game are a thing of the past.
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May 30, 2018 14:52
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I can play the sounds of the Commodore 1541 drive in my head. *grind* *grind* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *beat* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *grind* *grind* Ahh memories. That and the evolution of the modem connection sounds as speeds and modulation changed.
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Dravs posted:When I was young I had an Atari ST with an attached tape drive. My favourite game was some 4-bit Bruce Lee thing. This must have been in 1986 or something. 
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May 30, 2018 15:11
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May 30, 2018 16:03
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I work for a fairly large university, supporting a few hundred windows PCs. We're getting more and more Macs to support, which is a pain in the rear end that I can't do anything about. I've been told that, although our central IT organization has a Casper implementation, we won't be using that because it's too expensive per unit. So everything we need to do to these drat things has to be done manually. Is there something my department can buy for a reasonable price that will let us manage < 100 Macs remotely? Stuff like enforcing security settings, remote access to user machines, installing software, mounting (smb/cifs) network shares, etc?
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May 30, 2018 16:14
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Yeah it's called
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May 30, 2018 16:44
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Thanks Ants posted:Yeah it's called you pretty much need a dedicated resource to run it though. This will take a significant amount of time to configure, set up, and administer. Pro tip - make hella use out of that support contract. Their support staff tend to be both knowledgeable and very responsive.
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Cat Army
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ratbert90 posted:My first PC was a Commodore 128. I’m young at the age of 33 apparently. I'm 33, too, but my first Linux was Gentoo 1.2 since I didn't really get into Linux until high school.
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May 30, 2018 18:30
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I don't remember which version of slackware I used, but it was on 70-something floppy disks.
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May 30, 2018 18:48
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A ticket came in: We're not GDPR compliant, and we need more time!- ICANN.
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May 30, 2018 18:51
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I remember booting my first instance of linux off of several 3.5 disks. get part of the way through the boot and it prompted to put in the next disk.
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Question for any dbas here. Let's say you have an sql2008 database. It is fairly heavily used by 100+ users a day and is tied to a core app. The database seems to rarely but regularly either not write data to some columns or is writing incorrect data. Server itself is provisioned with 8gb of ram and the db itself is 24+ gb Aside from ' Holy poo poo this is underprovisioned ' what other issues should I be looking at? My googlefu is failing me today.
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May 30, 2018 20:44
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blackswordca posted:Question for any dbas here. Not a dba, but what do you mean by "incorrect"? It should have Foo but it has Bar in the column? If that's the case I'd look for concurrency issues in the app (record versioning or other problems).
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May 30, 2018 20:52
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Volguus posted:Not a dba, but what do you mean by "incorrect"? It should have Foo but it has Bar in the column? If that's the case I'd look for concurrency issues in the app (record versioning or other problems). Basically some fields.that are supposed to be null have data in them or fields that are supposed.to be flagged a certain way in workflow are being flagged incorrectly.
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May 30, 2018 20:55
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Are you quite sure it's a database problem? You should turn on query logging to see what the application is actually doing.
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May 30, 2018 21:01
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I remember trying Debian for about a week in 2000, then giving up because of the lack of documentation. Then, someone handed me a FreeBSD cd and the handbook in a printed form, and I never really looked back since.
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May 30, 2018 21:02
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Collateral Damage posted:iSCSI over PPPoE over WiFi. SSL tunnel that poo poo! You don't want Bobby Tables capping your packets!
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May 30, 2018 21:32
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Thom and the Heads posted:every once in a while i remember that networking over power line exists I hadn't considered how an extension cord run across your yard could be an IT security threat before.
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May 30, 2018 22:22
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spankmeister posted:Are you quite sure it's a database problem? You should turn on query logging to see what the application is actually doing. This. If the app can connect, but data isn't making it to the right place, that's not a database issue. That's an "app doing stupid poo poo" thing.
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May 30, 2018 23:14
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AlexDeGruven posted:I can play the sounds of the Commodore 1541 drive in my head. My first full-fledged PC was the IBM PC that I split with my dad. His office was next to my bedroom so at night he’d settle in to futz with Lotus 1-2-3 with booting DOD from 5-1/4” floppies: Honk-honk-weeee!-honk tick tick tickTick tick My brother and I both trigger each other with that sound. I’d love to find an audio clip of that sound and send it to him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 I heard this sound in 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp47x1EabqI God help me this is interesting. Bringing me back to my electronics 101 class where the instructor was a straight up phreaker in his younger days and had a huge hard on for analogue modems and encoding schemes. Methanar fucked around with this message at 01:46 on May 31, 2018 |
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blackswordca posted:Basically some fields.that are supposed to be null have data in them or fields that are supposed.to be flagged a certain way in workflow are being flagged incorrectly. I’m an Oracle DBA. This is not a database problem. No modern rldb will behave this way, even sqlserver.
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I have a feeling I'm about to piss someone off enough that they're going to complain about me to someone else! Request for access to a folder and then someone who's not on the approvers list says "I should be on that list, give them access and also put me on the list to approve people in the future" which is, uh, not how it works. I don't believe anything nefarious is afoot but come on. And it's a big rush because they want to get something up and going but ultimately didn't quite request the kind of access needed in the proper way either. Oh well.
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fishmech posted:The cheap powered ones can reliably transport 1080p content over ~100 feet, and the higher end ones can handle somewhat higher resolutions over even farther. I think there's very few as of yet that will support full 4K resolution though. I hear point-to-point HDMI to Ethernet is pretty awful, but we've had good luck with WIPS devices in our media labs. Just ordered a handful of these and since it's done by IP, there's no real distance limit to broadcast as long as you've got the infrastructure and the bandwidth. They're def not cheap tho. (about $500 a pop) Only ever use the ethernet port, tried experimenting with the wireless and it was pretty choppy. klosterdev fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 31, 2018 |
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Levitate posted:I have a feeling I'm about to piss someone off enough that they're going to complain about me to someone else! I worked a place where SOP when we found a security group with no one on the approver list was to pick a random name from the list of people with access and ask them who should be doing approvals. It worked surprisingly well, actually
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My first Linux was Corel Linux. This newfangled Linux thing with a major software company behind it, surely that will be the best distribution, right? I quickly moved on to a real distribution. Mandrake 
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May 31, 2018 05:41
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The Iron Rose posted:you pretty much need a dedicated resource to run it though. This will take a significant amount of time to configure, set up, and administer. Well, an old Mac Mini or iMac running Server OS should do fine for the back end.
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Methanar posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 This gave me warm and fuzzy flashbacks. Not in '01 because I was on ADSL by then, but late 90s? You bet.
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It's still almost science fiction to me the speeds data is transferred at these days. My history is 9600 > 14.4 > 28.8 > 56K (USRobotics Courier, which gave even bettter speed if your ISP also had them at their end, which all did) through dual ISDN, 2 Mbps SDSL, 40/20 Mbps VDSL and all crappy DSL variants in between, to my now 250/30 stable DOCSIS 3 cable connection. To download a Linux ISO in a few seconds feels crazy to me still.
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My ISP doubled my plan to 200/20 for 3 € more. Scheduled for the first, it actually changed yesterday for me.
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My dad still gives me grief about a $500 long distance bill I ran up as a kid dialing every BBS in our area code one summer. All that so I could play Tradewars on more than one BBS.
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Sheep posted:My dad still gives me grief about a $500 long distance bill I ran up as a kid dialing every BBS in our area code one summer. All that so I could play Tradewars on more than one BBS. Got the same shitstorm from my mom for exactly the same reason. BBS in Dearborn Heights: Free BBS in Dearborn (same loving exchange, even): Local Toll BBS in Redford: Free BBS in Detroit (literally across the street): Local Toll HorstMann's list was the bible, though.
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May 31, 2018 11:59
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Levitate posted:I have a feeling I'm about to piss someone off enough that they're going to complain about me to someone else! Any response other than "oh no, how dare he do his job properly" :eyeroll: is the wrong response
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JazzmasterCurious posted:It's still almost science fiction to me the speeds data is transferred at these days. My history is 9600 > 14.4 > 28.8 > 56K (USRobotics Courier, which gave even bettter speed if your ISP also had them at their end, which all did) through dual ISDN, 2 Mbps SDSL, 40/20 Mbps VDSL and all crappy DSL variants in between, to my now 250/30 stable DOCSIS 3 cable connection. To download a Linux ISO in a few seconds feels crazy to me still. And DOCSIS 3.1 is theoretically capable of 10 gig download speeds I mean, last I heard no cable company figured out how to actually pull off speeds like that yet but the specification is there and customer equipment will already be in place for when they do.
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Sheep posted:My dad still gives me grief about a $500 long distance bill I ran up as a kid dialing every BBS in our area code one summer. All that so I could play Tradewars on more than one BBS. Mine as AOL. Got banned from the computer for the summer. When I got back on the computer I ended up getting my whole family banned for AOL for life by taking advantage of netsplits to take over an AOL IRC room and deoping everyone. It led to getting a real ISP and then switching to cable when it was available.
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JazzmasterCurious posted:It's still almost science fiction to me the speeds data is transferred at these days. My history is 9600 > 14.4 > 28.8 > 56K (USRobotics Courier, which gave even bettter speed if your ISP also had them at their end, which all did) through dual ISDN, 2 Mbps SDSL, 40/20 Mbps VDSL and all crappy DSL variants in between, to my now 250/30 stable DOCSIS 3 cable connection. To download a Linux ISO in a few seconds feels crazy to me still. AlexDeGruven posted:Got the same shitstorm from my mom for exactly the same reason. 
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On a whim I decided to try to play Pillars of Eternity II over remote desktop on my iPad. It worked surprisingly well.
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