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by buffoon 11y ago
I really don't know how that works - we contracted it out. There is a router that has an ethernet port on it. That's our internet in. Anything in front of that is ours. Anything behind we don't care about but there is a 100mb
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by buffoon 11y ago
I actually used a system back in 1997 that used exactly this data store system but with a proprietary encoding rather than JSON. It worked really well in a single-user single-process capacity but we had to adjust the block size of the files
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by buffoon 11y ago
The very nature of there being two things is a problem already.
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by buffoon 11y ago
No I'm saying that still they do that today and always have done. UPnP is always off. And that's £300 and a service case open to turn it on. Then a 48 hour turnaround. MSP=Managed Service Provider. Basically rip off merchants who
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by buffoon 11y ago
Yes aware of that. There are some gotchas with that, particularly address space collision between two sites with a tunnel between them. I've never seen one in v6 but one of our clients had a 10.0.0.0/8 and so did we and I don&#x27
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by buffoon 11y ago
Sorry my bad. You got the point though. You'd be surprised how many messes there are out there. I tripped over a whole network of unpatched windows XP sp1 machines the other day.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Yes that's true although I've lost count of the hours I've thrown out on Skype. Yes IPv6 definitely FTW. We just migrated our office and two data centres to it. Life is good now. V6 firewalls are just packet filters; all our
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by buffoon 11y ago
Yeah that was a great idea. Until NAT, firewalls, your average contracted out MSP at an SME sysadmin who's idea of admin is lock everything down and pay £300 to open a port (I have to deal with this at least one a week).
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by buffoon 11y ago
Ugh this is the bane of my life. We use basecamp, hipchat, Skype, Skype for business, email and google hangouts all at once. My kids use hangouts, WhatsApp, Facebook messenger. None of them work properly. None of them has everyone on it. No
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by buffoon 11y ago
Well we use option C which is a layered architecture with default deny policies between each layer. It's not about speed but about the consequences of making a bad change. Adding tools never decreases risk. Adding process never decreas
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by buffoon 11y ago
This is one reason we're moving off AWS and Azure at the moment. Not because of them but because it's so damn easy to accidentally fuck something up on this scale and that would be endgame for us. There is not much between deployi
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by buffoon 11y ago
Ironically that's the first thing I thought...
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by buffoon 11y ago
That's what I'm now doing. I duct taped a couple of ethernet cables to the back of the couch and you just stick your hand down and grab one if you need it. I terminated the cables slightly earlier and used an inline coupler so you
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by buffoon 11y ago
Yes. Another angle... Just looking around me there are 45 wireless SSIDs, crazy interference and nothing but crap flying around my airspace. Half the time I can see people's bluetooth devices wide open in nearby houses as well. Add to
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by buffoon 11y ago
You're right. That's the thing though; don't expect to make any money out of doing anything you love. The phrase "labour of love" is very appropriate. Currently I'm digging a large financial company out of a bi
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by buffoon 11y ago
I burned two startups first so consider it experience :)
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by buffoon 11y ago
I really dont care to be honest. I have properly cycled backups that go back 12 months plus I'm not random clicky instally idiot.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Yep that ain't likely to work. For every success story there are 99 failures. Get a popular cert. Work premium contract jobs (£600/day here). Screw the market hard and retire after 20 years with some reasonable cash. Sure you&#x27
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by buffoon 11y ago
Also doesn't steal all your disk IO and CPU and is built in on Windows 8+.
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by buffoon 11y ago
It is. I don't know why you were downvoted. Strangely that document makes me want NT 3.51 back again as well :)
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by buffoon 11y ago
AD replacement: oauth2 backed by a directory server (Azure AD / Google apps accounts) Clients: anything really. The OS almost doesn't matter now.
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by buffoon 11y ago
http://www.method180.com/1500-price-increase-on-sql-server/
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by buffoon 11y ago
The last bit we're doing it because we got financially fucked by the core licensing changes in SQL 2012.
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by buffoon 11y ago
I think it's treated as a necessary evil. People are starting to realise that it's less necessary these days. Anecdotally, back a decade ago it was common to see a Windows 2000/2003/SBS box in even an SME environment bei
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by buffoon 11y ago
I know exactly what I'm talking about and am aware of the deprecation. I'm talking historically i.e. when people wanted managed long-running workflow hosting, monitoring and WCF correlation on the cheap instead of fishing out for
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by buffoon 11y ago
Thanks for the reference. They're not for this platform as we've already nailed down what we're doing but will keep them in my notes for future projects.
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by buffoon 11y ago
My wife was nearly a victim of this particular drug in the late 1990s. They have no idea how much shit they caused people by withholding this information. Several years of people's lives destroyed. I doubt they will acknowledge it or
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by buffoon 11y ago
NT syscall overhead is immense compared to a Unix derivative. There are layers galore.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Yes exactly that sort of shit is what we have to deal with! http.sys is a giant fucking turd. That and the whole urlacl thing. Nothing but pain. They added it because of shitty performance in the NT kernel when serving HTTP from userspace a
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by buffoon 11y ago
12 years ago it made sense. It's all legacy now.

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