Can they listen to your phone calls? Read your emails?
Saying that on Slashdot is bad enough, but on a thread involving HelpDesk staffers and IT admin? We already do that on demand for your manager (those are not yours, they belong to the company), but I gotta tell you, your shit is really boring.
That is a pretty fallible assumption. If OP is in the states, it depends where you live and plenty of employers require you to purchase the uniform, including Hooters, the US armed forces and the paid gig officiating soccer down the street at the park.
Those are good points (although I too was talking about raw rack space and owning the servers) and I have similar relationships, but those aren't with the people that I pay for connectivity and power.
You keep saying the same things, it's your fault for using such a dodgy company. Is your current root password used elsewhere? If so, your bad. I see zero difference from giving someone a unique root password to a box and changing it in order to then give them the pass. The $35.00 KVM is getting played out. Man up or go home, that's a drop in the bucket for a business or anybody that doesn't work at McDonalds in order to correct the problem. You've wasted well over that amount of earnings bitching about it.
Even business grade connectivity and UPS isn't enough for five nines. Go to a colo for that stuff, they are adequately prepared with multiple pipes and generators.
I think that's when you print all the pages and tape them together. Then you run through it as fast as you can, to breach the line of lawsuit. That's the only thing that I can come up with...
If this is so crucial to your business (which is conflicting between your posts and TFS, so I can't figure out if it's hobby/personal or business) but, host your own equipment at a reputable colo...
"It" is the server. It's not like DOT demanding the keys, it's like the dealership demanding the keys when you ask for service on a lease. He hasn't eliminated hardware as a cause and it's (apparently) not his hardware. Before they phone up DOT and complain about the road with a supposed pothole that doesn't give other people problems, they want to analyze the car.
Those the the business practices that we all love. Being accommodating when you swapped your 1U for a tower while you serviced the 1U, dragging over a head and reading the display to you, etc. I hope the folks that do this type of customer service never die out.
I definitely agree. The local staff at my colos are happy to do simple tasks while acting as my eyes and performing keyboard instructions on my behalf (if it's critical) or even simply exchanging a dvdr in a backup burner, otherwise they need to (and would) stay away. But those are my boxes in a rack and any network outages could be confirmed by the datacenter's logging and equipment.
I get the impression that OP doesn't have his own equipment in a rented rack, otherwise hardware would be solely on OP's shoulders. If you are using their equipment, I don't feel that it's unreasonable to ask you for logs to diagnose, however they should have gone about it legitimately with you sharing it to them.
Screw this paranoia about encryption, The Man isn't gonna come after your FOSS site and it just adds additional complexity that needs to be troubleshooted when things go south. If your sites are so heavily trafficked, buy your own box to eliminate one of the things you are blaming on the provider and move over to a provider who will not fuck with your box on a whim and respects you.
They only thing you are knowingly downloading from Canada is a torrent file, which contains no copyrighted information. The rest of the the world while fulfilling that torrent and unless you rDNS or geolocate each IP, accurately, your logic is pretty faulty.
You're trolling, but I'll bite. I also have managed a theater in my younger years.
You should have left the cinema and talked on the phone in the lobby. Obviously you would have been already distracted from the film and the light from a mobile screen is distracting to many people regardless of cinema design. You were an insensitive clod to your fellow patrons, your family and your dying father because you had to see the last part of Avatar even though you were no longer paying attention to the movie.
Heaven forbid your ailing father had raised a considerate child who cared about him enough to leave a film.
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Well I suppose they couldn't expect you to buy your own clothing if it was only low six figures...
Can they listen to your phone calls? Read your emails?
Saying that on Slashdot is bad enough, but on a thread involving HelpDesk staffers and IT admin? We already do that on demand for your manager (those are not yours, they belong to the company), but I gotta tell you, your shit is really boring.
That is a pretty fallible assumption. If OP is in the states, it depends where you live and plenty of employers require you to purchase the uniform, including Hooters, the US armed forces and the paid gig officiating soccer down the street at the park.
Next time you need help lifting a 4U chasis, I'm running for the hills.
You're right, I misread it. Maybe we should use pipes to as an array delimiter :)
I never thought I'd see someone describe Walmart and Target as niche specialty stores rather than discount retailers.
If only target.com served as a front-end to amazon.com and walmart.com was expansive, wait, they are.
Plenty of places don't tax food intended for home consumption. Illinois state sales tax for groceries is a lower rate than other goods.
Jolt has had that style of can for years.
Raise the price of a soft pretzel past $4?
Well many cell phones use A-GPS and are both out of range of towers/supposed to be in airplane mode, so yes they do magically stop working.
Those are good points (although I too was talking about raw rack space and owning the servers) and I have similar relationships, but those aren't with the people that I pay for connectivity and power.
I've never seen a colo without locked cabinets, but I guess that might because all my colos host .gov stuff as well.
Then pay the mind-numbing fee of $35 and get on with your life dude.
You keep saying the same things, it's your fault for using such a dodgy company. Is your current root password used elsewhere? If so, your bad. I see zero difference from giving someone a unique root password to a box and changing it in order to then give them the pass. The $35.00 KVM is getting played out. Man up or go home, that's a drop in the bucket for a business or anybody that doesn't work at McDonalds in order to correct the problem. You've wasted well over that amount of earnings bitching about it.
Even business grade connectivity and UPS isn't enough for five nines. Go to a colo for that stuff, they are adequately prepared with multiple pipes and generators.
I think that's when you print all the pages and tape them together. Then you run through it as fast as you can, to breach the line of lawsuit. That's the only thing that I can come up with...
If this is so crucial to your business (which is conflicting between your posts and TFS, so I can't figure out if it's hobby/personal or business) but, host your own equipment at a reputable colo...
"It" is the server. It's not like DOT demanding the keys, it's like the dealership demanding the keys when you ask for service on a lease. He hasn't eliminated hardware as a cause and it's (apparently) not his hardware. Before they phone up DOT and complain about the road with a supposed pothole that doesn't give other people problems, they want to analyze the car.
Those the the business practices that we all love. Being accommodating when you swapped your 1U for a tower while you serviced the 1U, dragging over a head and reading the display to you, etc. I hope the folks that do this type of customer service never die out.
Did the redundant PSU fail too? Even the cheapest machines have those these days.
If your company has policies about stuff like that, why don't you own your own hardware?
I definitely agree. The local staff at my colos are happy to do simple tasks while acting as my eyes and performing keyboard instructions on my behalf (if it's critical) or even simply exchanging a dvdr in a backup burner, otherwise they need to (and would) stay away. But those are my boxes in a rack and any network outages could be confirmed by the datacenter's logging and equipment.
I get the impression that OP doesn't have his own equipment in a rented rack, otherwise hardware would be solely on OP's shoulders. If you are using their equipment, I don't feel that it's unreasonable to ask you for logs to diagnose, however they should have gone about it legitimately with you sharing it to them.
Screw this paranoia about encryption, The Man isn't gonna come after your FOSS site and it just adds additional complexity that needs to be troubleshooted when things go south. If your sites are so heavily trafficked, buy your own box to eliminate one of the things you are blaming on the provider and move over to a provider who will not fuck with your box on a whim and respects you.
and that the effects were mostly limited to California users.
Perhaps because the Mid-Atlantic states are nowhere near California?
not everyone has PACER, some of us have to rely on RECAP :(
They only thing you are knowingly downloading from Canada is a torrent file, which contains no copyrighted information. The rest of the the world while fulfilling that torrent and unless you rDNS or geolocate each IP, accurately, your logic is pretty faulty.
You're trolling, but I'll bite. I also have managed a theater in my younger years.
You should have left the cinema and talked on the phone in the lobby. Obviously you would have been already distracted from the film and the light from a mobile screen is distracting to many people regardless of cinema design. You were an insensitive clod to your fellow patrons, your family and your dying father because you had to see the last part of Avatar even though you were no longer paying attention to the movie.
Heaven forbid your ailing father had raised a considerate child who cared about him enough to leave a film.