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by abarringer 7y ago
There are a lot of amazing fancy services available... for a fee. We log billions of lines a year and use GrayLog because the other services are cost prohibitive.
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by abarringer 7y ago
On the contrary given a sufficiently broad timeline the value of every company drops to 0.
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by abarringer 7y ago
I find that if you treat an employee like a race horse they won't turn out to be an old nag. Obviously there are outliers but generally there is a positive feedback loop.
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by abarringer 7y ago
Enforce the use of https://www.rescuetime.com/ may help.
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by abarringer 7y ago
We have a cluster of four nodes that were all setup and brought online within hours of each other. The entire cluster could blow up within a couple hours if not patched.
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by abarringer 7y ago
The patches are not available yet. The 6.0 download hasn't been updated. It's still 6.0.6. https://www.forticlient.com/downloads
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by abarringer 7y ago
Since most drives are started and used concurrently this bug would blow any RAID set up. There's a dark day coming for some sysadmins.
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HPE Drive fail at 32,768 hours without firmware update(support.hpe.com)
229 points by abarringer 7y ago|114 comments
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by abarringer 7y ago
I've often thought.. If you feel like everything is under control you clearly don't know what's going on. It seems the higher I go in a company the more this is true. When I was a junior being handed design or detailed work s
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by abarringer 7y ago
We are crafting a new Server cluster and it looks like the Gen4 PCIe will give us a 40% performance boost for what is basically NVMe over Fabric using Mellanox 100Gb cards (Azure HCI aka S2D). Next year we will be building out another clust
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PHP 7.2 to 7.3 10x performance improvement?
2 points by abarringer 7y ago|2 comments
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by abarringer 7y ago
Whitelist outbound access from your network. It's not perfect and it can be painful to deploy, particularly gems, but it stops several categories of attacks.
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by abarringer 7y ago
I received a price quote on HPE ECC Server RAM this week from HPE that is $230 per 64GB stick. So make that $500 with shipping and tax for 128GB.
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by abarringer 7y ago
Both replies to me earlier comment mentioned vendor lock in. Is there any greater vendor lock-in then integrating AWS thousand and one services? Is it really riskier to trust MS to not kill a product then Google? Is the answer really to wri
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by abarringer 7y ago
Just because you run windows doesn't mean you like it. SQL Server, vendor app requirements etc. A windowless world is about as likely as a paperless bathroom and for the same reasons. Also, not sure what huge risk you are talking about
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by abarringer 7y ago
Two cars at $706 a month each.[0] [0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/
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by abarringer 7y ago
At my recent overnight stay at a large hospital the Nursing staff were very aware of the necessity of good sleep. They worked hard and went out of their way to create an environment where I was interrupted as little as possible. Their first
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by abarringer 8y ago
Who's your favorite author on business/leadership?
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by abarringer 8y ago
I work in the Credit card industry. Account origination fraud using the real address is a thing. The bad guys hire mules to check mailboxes daily until the card arrives. This would greatly simplify that task.
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by abarringer 8y ago
I'd like to see an AI driven predictor of which Google service/api will not exist in five years so we can go ahead and not use it now.
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by abarringer 8y ago
This is why we did not consider GCP when we were looking at moving some of our services to the cloud. Never know when Google will discontinue or drastically change pricing on services.
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by abarringer 8y ago
When I left AVG Technologies (now owned by Avast) I figured they would try to screw me on this. I copied a line out of the employee handbook, that I had to sign a receipt for and acknowledge I had read, that said "All accrued unused va
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by abarringer 8y ago
We just got blindsided with a $16,500 charge from Experian for a security audit. Previously they accepted out PCI letter now they insist on selecting an auditor and sending them onsite for us to continue using their API. Maybe this will bec
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by abarringer 8y ago
Looks good, but I expected uBlock to be on the list?
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by abarringer 8y ago
Troy and Krebs should team up to create a security hall of shame and only remove companies when issues are fixed. We have security vendors who have sslv2 enabled and they can't understand why that's an issue. We have huge fortune
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by abarringer 8y ago
Assigning a 1.1.1.1 to a local modem interface? Cox: that ain't noth'n here hold my beer" and watch a 10.x traceroute go seven hops out the door and resolve somewhere on their network.
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by abarringer 8y ago
I've been in and out of the hospital a bit lately (broken back). That seems downright cheap. I average about $4,000 an hour when I'm in. The most recent "study" took an hour with one low paid tech using one ultrasound ma
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by abarringer 9y ago
heh yea, but no. All our clients are banks. I spent a good part of the day working on a project to convince them to upgrade their browsers to something that supports TLS1.2.
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by abarringer 9y ago
It depends on your vertical. It can take years to get the first deal in the "Enterprise" space even with very strong industry connections. It took us a few years to ink the first deal and many enterprise deals we work on are multi
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by abarringer 9y ago
We had a generator that ran a two hour test every Thursday. It ran fine one Thursday, the next day we had a power outage and it failed to start because a capacitor went bad.

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