
Used to joke at work..."Ah, moved the mouse! Gotta reboot."
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Leave Rome, 6 hours to Dubai, 2.5 hour layover, 13.75 hours to Sydney. Try to sleep at hotel, to wired. Final 2.75 hour flight to destination the next afternoon. Then again there was that LAX to SYD flight once upon a time. So in my opinion fast is good. As far as train service in Europe goes...it's great. But you're not gonna jump on a SST to fly from Venice to Amsterdam, or want to ride a train for that matter..
Every time a password ages out you're supposed to change it (you do change them regularly don't you). Then you get to amend, get notarized, and refile your will (possibly along with ancillary documents). Then again my executor had the audacity to kick the bucket before me...and the document(s) needs to be redone...soon as I find a Round Tuit.
As far as the lockbox goes...when they burglarized my house the hauled off my 4 lockboxes.
Last week I had a computer I was going to give away/toss in the trash. So I reproduced a situation, from several decades ago, just to see if it would do the same thing.
As root I:
cd /
rm -vfr *
I'm nosy I like to see what's happening...but basically it just locked up after a while. The time before at least it said something at the end...I got a kernel panic.
I agree. I do a nightly encrypted backup of /home. I have the last 14 available. If I leave where the computer is, for anything over a day, I take a copy of the last backup with me on a USB (encrypting the encrypted backup in case the USB is lost, I'm not paranoid...but I play one on TV).
In an email (this week) I was informed...
"Ticketmaster recently discovered that an unauthorized third party obtained information from a cloud database hosted by a third-party data services provider. Based on our investigation, we determined that the unauthorized activity occurred between April 2, 2024, and May 18, 2024. On May 23, 2024, we determined that some of your personal information may have been affected by the incident."
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"The personal information that may have been obtained by the third party may have included your name, basic contact information, and payment card information such as encrypted credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates."
Glad it wasn't anything important and they rushed right out to tell me about it. As a stroke of luck I'd lost my CC and was issued a new one recently.
I recall back in the bad old days when sometimes the UNIX box wouldn't run X...boot into single user mode and I'd end up root. vi was the tool to fix whatever was wrong, and the sh would change too since things were generally statically linked, couldn't count on libraries being available.
"I spend another pile of money for a new peripheral to replace one that won't work anymore"
Now, now relax. Just because I'm using a nice 15ppm HP laser printer that I was gifted by my lawyer 25 years ago when the latest/greatest software upgrade orphaned it...My total investment, other than electricity when I turn it on, is a replacement toner cartridge (possibly two, been a long time).
As Phil said. I've firsthand experience with that situation. Blew a small fortune dumping large amounts of baking soda/water solution into the engine compartment. Metal radiator cap worked it's way loose and shorted the positive anode to ground...driving along minding my own business, about a mile from home, and there was this dull boom/thud from the front of the vehicle.
I once had a conversation with someone about whether or not a disk would weigh differently depending on how it was oriented. Because the magnetic fields of the bits would align differently to the earths magnetic field.
FWIW, all 5 of my computer still have SNAPPER disabled. I just did the last upgrade a few minutes ago on this one.
My ICD was installed in October of 2010. I was told then to not get my cell phone (brand nonspecific) within 6" of it, meaning I should use it on my right ear. I had it swapped out last year, battery was going flat, and asked. Same advice. I also never carry the phone in my shirt pocket. My original guess had to do with the EMP coming from the speaker, but I did say guess. Now days, if I worried about it at all, it'd be people reaching out and reprogramming it, it has wireless access after all.
"Haven't there always been at least two very viable alternatives to Red Hat?"
Could be, I remember I first installed Red Hat to transition away from Mandrake. I did it because Red Hat was supposed to be able to be upgrade-able instead of having to completely re-install when the next version came out.
Living in America, well Alaska actually, I called my city council person about the pothole in front of my driveway. He actually showed up and talked to us! As he left, saying there wasn't much he could do, I asked that he contact the local Fish and Game people and have them stock it with trout. The next spring they came by and completely re-did the street.
And in Alaska we call people walking small animals trolling for eagles.
As an aside, when I read about this elsewhere they quoted the guy as saying that from here on out the pup would be on a leash. I thought, like you'll ever get that dog near water again. I once had a Black Lab that would run in panic when suddenly faced with an open body of water.
Yep, I have a mix of Intel and AMD machines. The AMD's are newer simply because...well they're newer. The CPU models are:
Intel B940, the sole laptop, and ancient.
AMD A12-9800
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950x
AMD 9 3900x
AMD A8-6410
Intel G3220, qualifies in second place for age.
Needless to say I don't care about how well things work without wall power.
Not anymore, I'm retired, but that doesn't mean I'm not still paranoid. There''s a reason things are called accidents, it's probably not done on purpose according to a schedule. I have got quite a bit of multimedia that would be impossible to recreate. When I was working, we'd tell people that while we'd do nightly backups across the network, if they left a file opened it wouldn't be backed up. So if it was lost...well we'd have the last good version somewhere, most likely. We backed up onto tape and rotated through them about every 6 months. Yes, we tested the tapes to make sure our backups were usable, I knew someone who went to restore his computer and discovered that he had 2 sets of completely unusable backups.
I took it as sarcasm. Me, I carry a backup, on a 2TB USB drive, with me when I leave the abode overnight, and have another in a fireproof safe that I update whenever. Those little USB drives are cheap. Mine are 2TB (have 2 of them), 3TB, 4TB, and 5TB. Then again on my desktop machine I have 2x8TB mirrored drives, which I have multiple backups my personal stuff, one done nightly and the older backups removed after a certain amount of time.
Ah yes...long, long ago I was a sysadmin. We took care of the "Classified" side of the shop. I had an "Unclassified" desktop that they'd left me enough privileges to install a screensaver on. A really nice BSOD image. The other side would wander down to update somethingorother and invariably hit the power button first. At least they didn't complain to me...my other one said "Puppies, the other white meat".