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by Sylamore 3y ago
Old versions of NT4 and 2000 supported SCSI disks in the cluster. We had one for a "high availability" file server from Compaq and always regretted it - I'm pretty sure a single box would have been more reliable. There was
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by Sylamore 3y ago
I was under the impression that AOL was a big Tandem shop at one point, was that not the case?
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by Sylamore 3y ago
When this was my main focus at work, we would have thresholds for CPU utilization and memory and I/O, but you couldn't simply throw more traffic at a collection of servers until they hit one of those thresholds because most of tho
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by Sylamore 3y ago
Throwback to my slashdot sig: To misquote Churchill, never has an operating system (FreeBSD) used by so many been administered by so few. - NetCraft
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by Sylamore 3y ago
A little over a month ago I had submitted a request to obtain my grandfather's records because when he was alive, he refused to talk about his experiences in WWII. Even his children don't know too much other than the unit he was
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by Sylamore 3y ago
>"Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on t
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by Sylamore 3y ago
Eh, Remedy has lots of issues but I'd take it over "SNow" any day - at least it's easy to build CLI tools or API calls into Remedy. I'm neither an admin or user of either, just an end user.
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by Sylamore 3y ago
>try to run as vanilla as possible. I can't emphatically agree with this enough. I've worked on a Siebel 7.5 installation that was so heavily customized by a certain DBS TV company that it's still running to this day becau
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by Sylamore 3y ago
NC DMV replaced all of their HTML forms with chatbots and it drives me nuts because I used to be able to pay my taxes and fees in under a minute, but now I have a stupid chat bot interaction that takes closer to 5, because you can no longer
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by Sylamore 3y ago
For 16 or so years Costco required you to have an AmexEx card if you weren't paying with cash or debit, now they only take Visa. This was apparently something lots of newish members weren't aware of so it wasn't too uncommon
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by Sylamore 3y ago
It's not a perfect method, but it seems private company (with no intent to IPO and not a VC funded startup) vs public company seems to be a pretty good indicator of what a companies priorities tend to be.
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by Sylamore 3y ago
>I don't know how the support business breaks down for this, but for the large customers, I can't imagine any of the little rebranding projects taking the support business that the IT dept. itself calls. "Nobody ever got f
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by Sylamore 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD7CfnQC5HQ Watch how quickly those glass objects imploded as much lower pressures than they would have been at, it would have happened faster than their brains could have comprehended it, so
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by Sylamore 3y ago
This video will give you an idea of how quickly things likely imploded, and they never even got to the kind of pressures they would have experienced in that sub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD7CfnQC5HQ
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by Sylamore 3y ago
The same guy that runs the channel as your last video actually did one on imploding objects under sea depth pressures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD7CfnQC5HQ
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by Sylamore 3y ago
I was actually surprised to find that digg.com is still around, even though it mostly seems to be a reddit repost site in it's current iteration.
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by Sylamore 3y ago
Even as a non-mod the third party apps are simply a substantially better user experience than the official app. The CEO's statements and actions have made it clear that the user, nor the mods are anything other than a metric to be expl
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by Sylamore 4y ago
iPhone is easy: Settings -> Phone -> Silence Unknown Callers: On
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by Sylamore 4y ago
Yeah not really it basically just says "somebody sent you a protected message, click here to read the message"
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by Sylamore 4y ago
If the goal was to get rid of mostly older (40+) year old employees who had families and didn't want to move, sure. Since the pandemic they have allowed most people to work remote, some are on a hybrid 1-3 days in the office schedule
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by Sylamore 4y ago
That's exactly what AT&T was doing right before the pandemic, different groups were being assigned to specific offices and if you weren't willing to relocate to where your group was being moved to you would (if you were lucky)
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by Sylamore 4y ago
My child's school uses this feature when they email parents, you have to open the email up in a web browser and the web browser has to be allowed/supported by outlook web access to render. I haven't tried to screenshot it, bu
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by Sylamore 4y ago
Not the OP, but a .com domain costs me about $12/yr and fastmail.com costs me about $50/yr and I get unlimited email addresses as a result (catch-all).
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by Sylamore 4y ago
yeah, about that... ( https://screenrant.com/sopranos-finale-tony-death-confirmed-... )
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by Sylamore 4y ago
I felt way more productive back then, but then coding it's part of my full time job description, it's just something I do from time to time for work. Before that it was the Borland C++ manual set.
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by Sylamore 4y ago
The modern AT&T is really Southwestern Bell/SBC[0], lots of the legacy SBC management is still around even and sbc.com dominates a lot of internal IT infrastructure still. [0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story&#x2F
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by Sylamore 4y ago
Growing up my great grandmother kept about 3 dozen hummingbird feeders near her back porch at her farm so she could watch the hummingbirds as they fed. She easily went through 4 gallons of sugar water per day. I was told as a kid that she h
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by Sylamore 4y ago
I long ago concluded that TSA is mostly a jobs program, not a security program.
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by Sylamore 4y ago
A place I worked at previously had some warehouse locations that were unionized. Regional leadership was very concerned that if the Union locations interacted freely with the non-union locations that it might spread. Besides trying to have
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by Sylamore 4y ago
I've always told my business partners when discussing future products that if you aren't afraid to cannibalize your own revenue streams, your competitor (or another internal team) will.

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