Posts by dan_linder

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Re: Has your tech team pranked colleagues?

Dang you, Bill! You and Larry have a lot of apologizing to do!

HPE says blocking Juniper buy is a sure Huawei to ensure China and Cisco thrive

Re: How HPE Can Get Approval

You need to update your address book. The current address is now "1600 Musk Way, Washington DC"

At least Musk has the technical knowledge too use a "free g[r]ift (definitely not a bribe)" donation from HPE. Don would use it under the podium to make him look taller ..

Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

Re: Capital One...

Apparently "Balance: 0.00"

Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

Return features to the platform?

If Google divests Chrome to them, I hope the Linux Foundation reverses the decision to force plugins to only use "Google Chrome manifest version 3" and permit security plugins such as uBlock Origin to retain their depth of functionality.

Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

Re: Well......

> All volumetric measures in cubits please!

Noah?

Richard Branson to take balloon ride to edge of space

Thankfully NOT helium. From their site:

Spaceship Neptune is lifted gently to space by our SpaceBalloon™, which is propelled by *renewable hydrogen* at the gentle speed of ~12 mph.

(And a gas envelope not made of doped fabric...)

Windows 11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out

25 years difference

25 years ago Microsoft let MCSEs get beta releases. We installed them knowing the bugs were there but that was the risk we took to stay up to date on the next release of major systems. And our reports were accepted my Microsoft and handled professionally.

Today these betas are released to the entire world and major changes are opening all the time. And only once major problems make the news cycle does Microsoft blink and respond.

The big difference (IMHO)? Microsoft evicerated their bets testing team in the early 2000s. And why not? They have the entire Internet user base as a distributed test pool.

Admins using Windows Server Update Services up in arms as Microsoft deprecates feature

Re: Yay

Or in the Red Hat world, it is the Satellite server that is centralized server management.

Satellite can be a simple package repository server, or a full system management tool utilizing Ansible playbooks to centrally maintain your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

And if you're needing to support distributed data centers or expand the capacity in a single data center, Satellite can include "capsule" servers that can be local replicas to reduce the network burden on your Satellite or they can be deployed to remote locations to be the local distribution point to reduce WAN bandwidth.

BOFH: Well, we did tell you to keep the BitLocker keys safe

Re: Thanks for all your hard work fixing things.

> UberEats voucher

...which covers 33% of a single decent meal. (They quite often forget the stress our spouses go through during big outages, too!)