Second that. I have been running a fit-pc2 for over 8 years now as a (home) server. It has been running 24/7 at about 7-10 watts. I've upgraded the hard drive to get a bit more space, other than that everything is original. Great little device.
Just keep the damn thing simple. licenses don't need more than a couple of lines to describe what you can and cannot do with the product. until everybody KISS, there will be more and more violations, and corporate lawyers aren't gonna KISS for sure.
Well I for won't kiss a corporate lawyer either.....
Yes, I was wrong saying that you claimed to know exactly what went wrong, but you (again) make a lot of assumptions that I see no proof of. I am fully aware of doing a roll back by reverting the DNS record, after you made sure in advance that the TTL was at 1 minute. We had to do one recently. And it was a bit more complex than that, as we also had to replay the transactions that did come in during the short period that we were on the new system. Fortunately we had planned for that so we were actually able. The hardest part is often to take that decision, especially if you think you know the cause of the issue but have to go back to avoid the situation that the roll back takes too long in the agreed upon maintenance window. We've had that: rolling back, thinking you know how to fix it but also know to stick to the plan.
There are however migrations where 'just flipping back' is not always an option. This can be technical, it can also be financial (if we roll back we have to pay two data centers for another month or even a year). We don't know why they didn't just flip back the DNS. Claiming based on what we know that they never heard of tar pipes, TTL etc. in my view is baseless. It is possible, but I sincerely doubt it. I at least won't say so easily that they did a bad job without knowing a lot more on what really happened, why did couldn't or wouldn't roll back. Too often the engineers get blamed for decisions made elsewhere.
What Ray Morris said in the parent comment seems reasonable to me.
Well not to me. He claims to know exactly what went wrong whilst stating a few obvious facts on DNS, TTL and raid. I seriously doubt the/. engineers don't know about these things. He's been managing servers for years, I've been managing migrations such as these and high priority incidents for years. I have very little faith in engineers that come to the table claiming to know it all without any investigation into what really went wrong. I agree that on the surface it doesn't look very good. But we really don't know enough.
And frankly, most likely they worked their asses of the last few days and deserve better than a baseless claim that the technical team didn't know how to handle the issues properly without us knowing what went wrong in the first place.
Meaning in Canada, we've had cards with chips in them for more than 10 years already and pretty much every single stores have a chip reader and very few actually accept magnetic cards anymore.
I never had a problem with my magnetic US credit card in BC or Quebec.
You wouldn't. Liability in this case is at your own bank (the issuer) The way I understand it, if the acquiring bank supports chip and the merchant doesn't, then the merchant is liable for fraud. If the acquirer (in this case Canadian bank) doesn't support chip, then the acquirer is liable. If both the acquirer and the merchant support chip, the issuer (your bank) is liable. So they have no problem with you using a magstripe. In case of fraud, your bank is liable.
I have sysadmin AND development experience, and that's always been a point against me, even before devops became a thing. Just like "can do" and "I don't know but I'll figure it out" attitude (a rather essential trait for generalist sysadmins) gets mentally filed under "attitude", not "can do". Thanks, HR drones.
When I grew up companies in my country had departments called 'wages administration'. The selection was largely done by the direct superiors (the people that would feel the pain from bad staff). I guess HR sounds more important and now we have HR... I am not to say everything used to be better, but in this case... Let HR worry about salaries etc. and keep them out of the selection process. Let techies hire techies.
BTW I once heard of one contractor that rigged the system of recruiters searching only for keywords. He would put on his resume 'I don't have ISTQB', which got him in the door for lots of jobs explicitly requiring ISTQB....
That upgrade in Apples world means buying a new OS. Years ago in our household we had one Apple that had the same issue, just a few years old and the only way to be able to run a recent browser was buying a new OS. I installed Linux on it, and we were able to use the that laptop for years. Oh and not everyone likes MacOS better than Linux. I personally prefer a Mate or Cinnamon desktop any day over MacOS.
If you have physical access you can do anything...
In this case if you have physical access you can enable remote access and hide it. Anyone that handled the system before it arrived at your site and was placed in the rack could have done that. Obviously it can be remedied by disabling it yourself, but I'm pretty sure not many companies are already doing that.
I wonder what ad-hoc excuse the denialists will come up with this time. A mythical "pause" in the rate of increase of female sea turtles? Sea turtles that live in a specific layer of the upper atmosphere that doesn't fit the trend exactly? Sun spot effects on sea turtle embryonic development? They found a male sea turtle once, so the trend doesn't exist?
It's all the Soy milk that ends up in the water. Let's blame the hipsters!
Yes if I can install Linux on it. I love the concept of very lightweight, long battery life and still a full OS with a keyboard. I've got a Lenovo MIIx, which I like, but never managed to get Linux running on it properly as it needs 64 bit UEfi but the processor (atom) is limited to 32 bit. I managed to get multiarch Debian on it but it would freeze within minutes after boot. It's probably my only device with just Windows on it and I now hardly ever use it.
A device that can run for days, and has a full desktop OS on it definitely has purpose for me, I just prefer that to be Linux.
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Is it just me or does "Bionic Beaver" sound awfully similar to "Cybernetic Vagina?"
and you couldn't come up with a synonym which starts with a C, now could you?
Well a nice Ipad will get you quite far. Especially considering what teachers earn....
Second that. I have been running a fit-pc2 for over 8 years now as a (home) server. It has been running 24/7 at about 7-10 watts. I've upgraded the hard drive to get a bit more space, other than that everything is original. Great little device.
Just keep the damn thing simple. licenses don't need more than a couple of lines to describe what you can and cannot do with the product. until everybody KISS, there will be more and more violations, and corporate lawyers aren't gonna KISS for sure.
Well I for won't kiss a corporate lawyer either.....
Yes, I was wrong saying that you claimed to know exactly what went wrong, but you (again) make a lot of assumptions that I see no proof of.
I am fully aware of doing a roll back by reverting the DNS record, after you made sure in advance that the TTL was at 1 minute. We had to do one recently. And it was a bit more complex than that, as we also had to replay the transactions that did come in during the short period that we were on the new system. Fortunately we had planned for that so we were actually able.
The hardest part is often to take that decision, especially if you think you know the cause of the issue but have to go back to avoid the situation that the roll back takes too long in the agreed upon maintenance window. We've had that: rolling back, thinking you know how to fix it but also know to stick to the plan.
There are however migrations where 'just flipping back' is not always an option. This can be technical, it can also be financial (if we roll back we have to pay two data centers for another month or even a year). We don't know why they didn't just flip back the DNS. Claiming based on what we know that they never heard of tar pipes, TTL etc. in my view is baseless. It is possible, but I sincerely doubt it. I at least won't say so easily that they did a bad job without knowing a lot more on what really happened, why did couldn't or wouldn't roll back. Too often the engineers get blamed for decisions made elsewhere.
What Ray Morris said in the parent comment seems reasonable to me.
Well not to me. He claims to know exactly what went wrong whilst stating a few obvious facts on DNS, TTL and raid. I seriously doubt the /. engineers don't know about these things.
He's been managing servers for years, I've been managing migrations such as these and high priority incidents for years. I have very little faith in engineers that come to the table claiming to know it all without any investigation into what really went wrong.
I agree that on the surface it doesn't look very good. But we really don't know enough.
And frankly, most likely they worked their asses of the last few days and deserve better than a baseless claim that the technical team didn't know how to handle the issues properly without us knowing what went wrong in the first place.
Meaning in Canada, we've had cards with chips in them for more than 10 years already and pretty much every single stores have a chip reader and very few actually accept magnetic cards anymore.
I never had a problem with my magnetic US credit card in BC or Quebec.
You wouldn't. Liability in this case is at your own bank (the issuer)
The way I understand it, if the acquiring bank supports chip and the merchant doesn't, then the merchant is liable for fraud. If the acquirer (in this case Canadian bank) doesn't support chip, then the acquirer is liable.
If both the acquirer and the merchant support chip, the issuer (your bank) is liable. So they have no problem with you using a magstripe. In case of fraud, your bank is liable.
Give them an episode or two of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and nobody out there will ever visit us!
Now you're being cruel
Give them as a sample the X-factor and dancing on ice. They'll move on and never bother us again.
It costs NASA 3 billion a year. That doesn't mean it needs to cost 3 billion a year to keep it in orbit or even operational to a private party.
I can predict that you're thinking about sex. Don't need no machine for that...
I have sysadmin AND development experience, and that's always been a point against me, even before devops became a thing. Just like "can do" and "I don't know but I'll figure it out" attitude (a rather essential trait for generalist sysadmins) gets mentally filed under "attitude", not "can do". Thanks, HR drones.
When I grew up companies in my country had departments called 'wages administration'. The selection was largely done by the direct superiors (the people that would feel the pain from bad staff). I guess HR sounds more important and now we have HR...
I am not to say everything used to be better, but in this case... Let HR worry about salaries etc. and keep them out of the selection process. Let techies hire techies.
BTW I once heard of one contractor that rigged the system of recruiters searching only for keywords. He would put on his resume 'I don't have ISTQB', which got him in the door for lots of jobs explicitly requiring ISTQB....
oh yeah, that was it!
so say all of us
Glad that they changed their policy! At the time it really put me off Apple.
Do you have a link? I definitely had to buy a new OS at the time and that was a lot less than 10 years ago.
That upgrade in Apples world means buying a new OS.
Years ago in our household we had one Apple that had the same issue, just a few years old and the only way to be able to run a recent browser was buying a new OS.
I installed Linux on it, and we were able to use the that laptop for years. Oh and not everyone likes MacOS better than Linux. I personally prefer a Mate or Cinnamon desktop any day over MacOS.
$50000? I am only getting $32000
Maybe yoy need a negotiation course
If you have physical access you can do anything...
In this case if you have physical access you can enable remote access and hide it. Anyone that handled the system before it arrived at your site and was placed in the rack could have done that.
Obviously it can be remedied by disabling it yourself, but I'm pretty sure not many companies are already doing that.
yikes, you don't have to chase me of your lawn...
I wonder what ad-hoc excuse the denialists will come up with this time. A mythical "pause" in the rate of increase of female sea turtles? Sea turtles that live in a specific layer of the upper atmosphere that doesn't fit the trend exactly? Sun spot effects on sea turtle embryonic development? They found a male sea turtle once, so the trend doesn't exist?
It's all the Soy milk that ends up in the water. Let's blame the hipsters!
Yes if I can install Linux on it. I love the concept of very lightweight, long battery life and still a full OS with a keyboard.
I've got a Lenovo MIIx, which I like, but never managed to get Linux running on it properly as it needs 64 bit UEfi but the processor (atom) is limited to 32 bit. I managed to get multiarch Debian on it but it would freeze within minutes after boot. It's probably my only device with just Windows on it and I now hardly ever use it.
A device that can run for days, and has a full desktop OS on it definitely has purpose for me, I just prefer that to be Linux.
Btw this link has much more info on the device
"You're streaming our content!!"
"so how did you notice?"
The MS engineer: close all windows, open all windows
An SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says 'Can I join you?'