It's due to some buggy BIOSes not properly advertising power-saving features of PCIE cards. Older kernels didn't honor those BIOS hints, and disabled power to unused PCIE cards anyways (causing hangs in rare cases), whereas new kernels do the right thing (causing power wastage in lots of cases). The workaround is to specify pcie_aspm=force on the boot (Grub) command line, to tell the kernel to forge ahead, and just use power management on these cards regardless of the BIOS advice.
Here is a true story.... the horror... the horror...
Many years ago, when I was back in high school, a friend of mine and I were on our way to the Bronx from the East Village. We got on the 6 Train at Astor Place and we were planning on taking it two stops to 23rd street where we could catch the express bus to the Bronx. Yes we were being lazy.
Upon entering the subway car we noticed that at the foot of the doors directly across us was a giant pile of shit. It didn't stink, but was there. I have no idea how the shit got there, but it was there and it really didn't look like dog crap. I am pretty sure that it was bum shit.
Being that my buddy and I are good New Yorkers and are used to such things on our public transportation system, we just ignored it as it didn't smell. The rest of the people in the car ignored it as well. With our backs against the door, our train lurched forward to 14th street.
At 14th street our train pulled in and the opposite doors to the ones we were standing at opened to the station. The subway sat there a bit too long as they tend to do. we waited as we were to get off at the stop after 14th street, when we noticed this young, clean cut kid running to catch the train. He was frantically waving to someone as he was trying to make it and not looking where he was going. He just made the train as the doors were closing
As soon as the doors closed he jumped in the subway car, his foot went right in the shit, and he slipped, falling directly into the giant pile of human excrement!
The train was barreling uptown to 23rd street and all eyes were on the kid sitting with his back against the subway door and in a pile of crap. There was a terrifying hush. The kid, stunned, wiped his face. Scooping a handful of brown mess from his face, he realized that he had shit smeared from his head, all the way down to his ass. With this crystal clear realization he began to violently throw up on himself.
As soon as this horror began it ended. Our train pulled into the 23rd street station, the doors opened, my friend and I calmly stepped backwards and everyone else in the car very quietly, but swiftly got out.
The last thing I saw was some poor schmuck smeared with from head to toe, and sitting in bum shit, violently puking on himself as the doors close and the train speeding away.
I was stunned as was everybody else. Then my buddy said "Imagine what they are going to think at 28th street".
Doubly funny. Huurwagens in Dutch may mean "vehicles to rent", but in German, it sounds more like whore-wagons (or Hesperkutschen as they'd say in Luxembourgish...)
Altering some numbers to make the company look unprofitable or something similar
No, the smart way is to make the company look more profitable than it really is, attracting some venture capitalists, which will later on rake the CEO's ass over the coals when it later comes to light that the company was not that profitable...
It would have been much more funny if he had installed some hidden kiddie porn on that CEO's computer. And waited at least a year after the firing before doing so
Yes, but you are forgetting the flip side: piss him off and you will pay. I wouldn't hire him no matter how desperate I was.
Yeah, but that's a chance you take with ANY IT manager. Regardless of technical knowledge, they are all human beings.
Those who know their stuff know how to pull off such a stunt without getting caught. So, those who don't know their stuff have to refrain or they'll end up in jail or on a blacklist.. So, a manager who knows that he is an asshole that occasionally pisses people off will prefer to hire the incompetent.
Installing keyloggers to extract passwords from those assholes at the top? Is that professional nowadays, an indication of proficiency, to use your words? My little sister installed one and she's only 8, so it's not really technical proficiency.
No, proficiency is installing keyloggers, and not get caught. Which shows that in this case, he apparently was not proficient enough...
Seriously, do most admins really use sudo? I don't believe it.
Not for themselves. But it might be useful for delegating simple tasks to junior admins (with a properly set up sudoers file, or else the junior will just do as described below...)
Indeed there are a number of Linux distros that almost require it. I don'r use them.
You're thinking about Ubuntu, I guess? On Ubuntu, you can do sudo bash, and then it's just the same as if you had done su. And then, you can assign a password to root, with which you then can log in directly as root. No need to shun Ubuntu just because of sudo, that one is ripped out easily.
... bbbb-but, the gloves didn't fit, so how could he have worn them? I guess that means O.J. was guilty after all... Unless it was an automatic weapon, of course!
AFAIK, you only have to violate ONE claim in order to infringe. You know, that's actually the reason why patents have multiple claims, rather than just one huge dump-all. IANAL, but I prefer ORAL...
So they moved them to a more secure building, removed nametags from their office door and from the university directory, and think this will make them safe?
Any murderer worth his salt will get them while they are at home...
That's why smart IT departments don't say "NO". Rather, they prioritize: reasonable requests get served, unreasonable requests get a "sorry, we didn't get around to it yet, too many other things in the pipeline".
And in the unlikely event that there are not enough other things in the pipeline to keep you busy, this leaves you plenty of time to dig up research papers or business analyst papers that help you show why the request was a stupid request.
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It's due to some buggy BIOSes not properly advertising power-saving features of PCIE cards. Older kernels didn't honor those BIOS hints, and disabled power to unused PCIE cards anyways (causing hangs in rare cases), whereas new kernels do the right thing (causing power wastage in lots of cases). The workaround is to specify pcie_aspm=force on the boot (Grub) command line, to tell the kernel to forge ahead, and just use power management on these cards regardless of the BIOS advice.
(note that this does not mean posting anonymously will not undo your mods, it will.)
Which is stupid. So you just log out before posting, and then it won't undo your mods...
Many years ago, when I was back in high school, a friend of mine and I were on our way to the Bronx from the East Village. We got on the 6 Train at Astor Place and we were planning on taking it two stops to 23rd street where we could catch the express bus to the Bronx. Yes we were being lazy.
Upon entering the subway car we noticed that at the foot of the doors directly across us was a giant pile of shit. It didn't stink, but was there. I have no idea how the shit got there, but it was there and it really didn't look like dog crap. I am pretty sure that it was bum shit.
Being that my buddy and I are good New Yorkers and are used to such things on our public transportation system, we just ignored it as it didn't smell. The rest of the people in the car ignored it as well. With our backs against the door, our train lurched forward to 14th street.
At 14th street our train pulled in and the opposite doors to the ones we were standing at opened to the station. The subway sat there a bit too long as they tend to do. we waited as we were to get off at the stop after 14th street, when we noticed this young, clean cut kid running to catch the train. He was frantically waving to someone as he was trying to make it and not looking where he was going. He just made the train as the doors were closing
As soon as the doors closed he jumped in the subway car, his foot went right in the shit, and he slipped, falling directly into the giant pile of human excrement!
The train was barreling uptown to 23rd street and all eyes were on the kid sitting with his back against the subway door and in a pile of crap. There was a terrifying hush. The kid, stunned, wiped his face. Scooping a handful of brown mess from his face, he realized that he had shit smeared from his head, all the way down to his ass. With this crystal clear realization he began to violently throw up on himself.
As soon as this horror began it ended. Our train pulled into the 23rd street station, the doors opened, my friend and I calmly stepped backwards and everyone else in the car very quietly, but swiftly got out.
The last thing I saw was some poor schmuck smeared with from head to toe, and sitting in bum shit, violently puking on himself as the doors close and the train speeding away.
I was stunned as was everybody else. Then my buddy said "Imagine what they are going to think at 28th street".
I love New York.
Mr. Brooks
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Doubly funny. Huurwagens in Dutch may mean "vehicles to rent", but in German, it sounds more like whore-wagons (or Hesperkutschen as they'd say in Luxembourgish...)
Altering some numbers to make the company look unprofitable or something similar
No, the smart way is to make the company look more profitable than it really is, attracting some venture capitalists, which will later on rake the CEO's ass over the coals when it later comes to light that the company was not that profitable...
It would have been much more funny if he had installed some hidden kiddie porn on that CEO's computer. And waited at least a year after the firing before doing so
Yes, but you are forgetting the flip side: piss him off and you will pay. I wouldn't hire him no matter how desperate I was.
Yeah, but that's a chance you take with ANY IT manager. Regardless of technical knowledge, they are all human beings.
Those who know their stuff know how to pull off such a stunt without getting caught. So, those who don't know their stuff have to refrain or they'll end up in jail or on a blacklist.. So, a manager who knows that he is an asshole that occasionally pisses people off will prefer to hire the incompetent.
Installing keyloggers to extract passwords from those assholes at the top? Is that professional nowadays, an indication of proficiency, to use your words? My little sister installed one and she's only 8, so it's not really technical proficiency.
No, proficiency is installing keyloggers, and not get caught. Which shows that in this case, he apparently was not proficient enough ...
Yahoo?
Geocities and Briefcases have long been over guy
Yahoo, the search engine. Which does indeed print out links to Mafiaaware when given the right search terms (try iso the hangover)
And their nonsense with hacking into porn sites and trying to publicly shame people who visit them made me want to strangle them with my own hands.
Keep your energy for your chicken, that feels much better...
(Indeed .fr is military slang for "doesn't last long")
If so, yay!
That's what we poker player know by the technical term "bluff". And methinks, you just called it... Congrats!
airdropping suitcases full of cash into the ocean,
But that would be funding terrorists...
they probably will either kill or return your spouse
or both, if you don't pay...
Well, if the principal is a handsome guy, and not too rough, 10% might get encouraged to try to take up the mantle...
Seriously, do most admins really use sudo? I don't believe it.
Not for themselves. But it might be useful for delegating simple tasks to junior admins (with a properly set up sudoers file, or else the junior will just do as described below...)
Indeed there are a number of Linux distros that almost require it. I don'r use them.
You're thinking about Ubuntu, I guess? On Ubuntu, you can do sudo bash, and then it's just the same as if you had done su. And then, you can assign a password to root, with which you then can log in directly as root. No need to shun Ubuntu just because of sudo, that one is ripped out easily.
... bbbb-but, the gloves didn't fit, so how could he have worn them? I guess that means O.J. was guilty after all... Unless it was an automatic weapon, of course!
Even without such switch, you can goad the same people again and again.
AFAIK, you only have to violate ONE claim in order to infringe. You know, that's actually the reason why patents have multiple claims, rather than just one huge dump-all. IANAL, but I prefer ORAL...
Ew, that's p, not cum!
And scientists (who want to abide by the law) can't defend themselves using guns...
Any murderer worth his salt will get them while they are at home...
And in the unlikely event that there are not enough other things in the pipeline to keep you busy, this leaves you plenty of time to dig up research papers or business analyst papers that help you show why the request was a stupid request.