https://chie.club/files/images/st/712a0a63-24d9-4c81-a2dd-7349d915c480.png
This has happened over 100 times in the last 2 weeks.
What in the fuck is happening with my Intel Wifi adapter?
Just pushing 1 FTP connection will kill it in 5 minutes.
Just what the fuck.
Another year, Another victory
https://twitter.com/PAXAus/status/1049553799818432512
And inside...
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/9401c0e6-d5ac-4253-828f-93995350b78d/image.png
For the record, it's a HTML page, it is currently hidden from the nav menu until I assume the event opens
A little bit of Android Root Bois and we can just dump the entire guidebook
https://github.com/Scrxtchy/pax-aus-xp-2018
So all the QR codes are avaliable now on github weeks before the event even opens
https://twitter.com/Scrxtchy/status/1049572994836717568
So, the toner carts for my printer use a fully analog system to tell the machine how many cycles they've been through. Needed prints, out of toner...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60rU54Tv50Y
Working like new. I know most of the toner used in each cycle goes right back into the cart, so I wonder if I can just use this thing until it's actually out of powder.
Please pray for me my dudes
My neighbour suffering the dreaded LTE internet in my area discovered that there's a fiber box 50 meters away from mine and his house and it could be possible to pull some coaxial cables to the house from that. My internet contract also ends in a month.
Maybe I will finally have a better internet than some 5mb/s ADSL going through communistic wiring on the poles
On the phone with Comcast Business accounts manager and they confirmed Fiber is possible. And they'll get be quotes tomorrow for the cost to get it installed. Expecting it to be expensive as fuck.
I'd consider under 3k to be cheap and if I could get 150/150 or something for under 200 a month. But even my insane spending habits can't go much higher.
Think somewhere between a couple very very nice lenses, and a new sedan.
Comcast business bundles the cost in the price of the contract. It's not upfront like residential. But they keep you on the line for 24-36months.
So I won't see the 10k bill. But I might be paying 450 a month for 25/25
Pack up and move here.
$3K install fee (if not already on-location).
250Mbps/250Mbps ~$60/mo
1Gbps/1Gbps ~ $90/mo
10Gbps/10Gbps ~ $280/mo
So, Windows updated to 1809 by itself a few days ago without my input overnight.
Entire default windows "Downloads" folder has been wiped clean.
The nightmare is real guys.
Been on and off with support for a while because some tech at MS twitted that if you got in contact with the support team they'd "Have the right tools to get your files back" - Got told to visit a Microsoft Store nearby (which there are none in my COUNTRY AT ALL) and eventually gave up using Explorer's search function to find my deleted files (repeatedly) and told me he'd be scheduling a callback from a "tier 3" team, whatever that means.
15Gb of data, consumed by MS' lack of quality control.
Is it time to sue?
MS probably deserves it. I can't even tell people to stay updated with a straight face anymore.
I feel like a beta tested and I'm not on any of the early release schedules. I even setup those little delays to save me just by virtue of me hearing issues on social media before it hits me.
Speaking of the downloads folder, that now appears in the disk clean up utility, and I think is checked by default.
Otherwise, Microsoft have found the issue, but I do earge you to call them
This is true. That storage sense stuff cleans out Downloads too if the files are older than 30 days.
https://youtu.be/qzshhrIj2EY
Talked to the accounts manager again. She seemed shocked when I said my connection went out or was barely working 3 times a month.
"Now I see why you want fiber"
So she said she'd look into why the upload is <10% of rated so often. And if I had future problems to reach out, I think she'll regret saying that.
I did see they released a fix for that 1809 wipe all your shit bug
https://support.microsoft.com/gl-es/help/4464330/windows-10-update-kb4464330
Addresses an issue where an incorrect timing calculation may prematurely delete user profiles on devices subject to the "Delete user profiles older than a specified number of day” group policy.
Not sure how that setting was getting turned on people's home computers though.
My mom constantly complains that her laptop is slow as shit, yet can't find anything wrong with it software or hardware wise
Because shit doesn't randomly go slow and the bug that was wiping people's documents became a thing, I'm currently setting up VEEAM Endpoint backup to a samba share and do full system backup every week or so, so if something bad happens, she will still have her files
Wait what? "Offsite backups" is probably the best use case for cloud storage.
Yes cloud storage should almost always be one of the places you're backing up to. Including far off datacenter colo in that because it's essentially the same thing.
Almost everyone I know that does IT have been drilling into my head "Cloud is not a backup!!!" every time I mentioned doing anything OneDrive or NextCloud related. One even told me to fuck off when I wanted to backup my server via rsync to O365 OneDrive via the WebDAV protocol (yes it still supports WebDAV to this day) and to just get a different server for backups. Original plan was to use NextCloud to back up the laptop files locally, but coworker told me that's crazy talk and should either use Acronis or VEEAM instead for backups to local samba share or NAS.
At work we always deploy a NAS for backups and use a system with built in backups, monitoring and remote desktop software when teamviewer is not available
My poor usage habit of leaving my computer on for a month at a a time saves the day again
I can understand being concerned about having your only backup be on a system not controlled by you or that just keeping everything on cloud storage exclusively isn't great, but unless you have another NAS or server off site (Another office, a family member's home, ect) cloud storage is going to be the easiest and cheapest option to dump data off site.
Tell them to have fun doing DR when the building burns down or there's some sort of other localized catastrophe, cloud backup should never be THE back up, but it certainly can (and should, imo) be A back up
If you're using cloud storage as your primary storage, it's not a perfect backup - since if you accidentally delete something, the cloud will gleefully delete its copy too. But if your primary storage is local, and you put a copy in the cloud, yeah, it's a perfectly sensible way to back stuff up. One of my clients, they've got a couple terabytes of chains of custody and other such legaly documents, stored on a NAS and backed up to a cloud server.
And even if you do just primarily store things in the cloud, that's more failure-resistant than a local-only copy. I have plenty of non-critical stuff that I store in GDrive, no other backup, because if I somehow lose a random conlang I made four years ago or unpublished blog drafts where I talk about Zelda way too much, that's no big loss.
How old are the people on your IT team...?
Sounds like they think it's a black box.
We always offer off-site backup but the customers are always aiming for the lowest price possible and offsite backups almost never make the cut. The customers basically don't want it even when we tell them it's important. The big names thankfully go for offsite backups in external datacenters.
Although at least the free version of veeam endpoint backup give you only one way of doing backups, so if you wanted to handle everything through the backup agent, you can't do both local backup and backing up to cloud, only one of those two.
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