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[QUOTE=gman003-main;35996675]Okay, there's no fucking way I'm reading 200+ posts. Anything worth talking about happen today, or was it all Stupid Fucking Drama (hereinafter referred to as SFD)?[/QUOTE] Arguing about GPUs and CPUs.
are there any file hosters that take 10gb files?
Well, then. [b]Gentlemen (and ladies), I have content. Not just content - [i]epic[/i] content, and I do not use that word lightly[/b] At work, we're working on a sort of "successor system" for another company. They came out with a rather well-made (for the time) and innovative (for the time) product, but that was nigh on a decade ago. All their own coders and designers have moved on, leaving them with just marketing and sales staff coasting off their prior success. They know they can't keep that up forever, so they commissioned not just one but two companies to build a system that encompasses not just the functionality of their own legacy system, but expands it into a full suite of tools. The guy who was essentially responsible for their main servers was a complete moron - he left servers on ancient versions, and he used the codebase as his own personal playground: every time he wanted to learn a new language, he'd find some feature request and go "ah, I'll do this in Perl", or Python, or Ruby, or whatever (thank god he never heard of assembly). A few weeks ago, shit fucking hit the fan. The hosting company's SAN got a bit corrupted, and some of their system images were unrecoverable. That's fine, our contract has 2x2 redundancy (two hot and two cold servers for everything), we shouldn't even notice... except the hosting company apparently wasn't providing 2x2 redundancy, but more 1x0 redundancy. And nobody ever thought to check. OK, that's pretty terrible, but still, that's why we have... oh. We don't have backups, either. Of a system that literally earns the company tens of millions of dollars a year. Oh, and this system basically can't be rebuilt. There's compiled modules that a) no longer compile on any version of GCC newer than whatever Ubuntu was using two years ago and b) don't work on anything newer than PHP4. So yeah, long story short, that guy got fired so hard, he actually left the state (non-American readers: read previous as "got sacked so hard, he actually left the province"). And we, being the only competent people they know, somehow ended up being contracted to provide system-level tech support. Which brings us to today. We're working on the New System, when Ninja (for security purposes all my fellow employees shall be referred to by our nicknames) gets pulled off to fix some problem on the Old System - one of the databases is having issues. Well, I finish up my bit (password resets and such), and I ask if I can help with the other problem. So he explains what's going on: * MySQL is refusing connections quite often due to "connection limit exceeded" * Increasing the connection limit does nothing - it's instantly filled back up * Tailing the Apache error log shows a rapid influx of HTTP errors, faster than you can read fully. Some disturbing words show up with frequency, including spyware sites and porn sites Well, I had a rather dark suspicion. A while ago, I'd read [url=http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Abusing-the-FTP.aspx]a rather sad tech story[/url], and I thought effectively the same might be happening to us - somehow, our system was configured as an open proxy, and the Internet at large had discovered it. I did some googling - the host name, followed by "proxy" - thinking I would see a million results of 'open anonymous proxies to use' with our name on it. No dice. Phew. Or, was it? I look up the IP, and try that. [b]OH SHIT[/b] One of the top results was an Anonymous page, listing "known-good" proxies. Another was a database of "complaints that this server has been used to attack shit", which included our IP. It noted two complaints - one from three days ago, and another from two YEARS ago. I had to check for myself. I set Firefox to use that server as a proxy, port 8080. No dice. I try 442, and a couple other common proxy ports. Again, no connection. I try port 80. Yep. It works. [b]SOME FUCKING MORON HAD CONFIGURED A MAJOR, BUSINESS-CRITICAL WEB SERVER, AS AN UNSECURED PROXY, ON PORT FUCKING 80 AND THIS SHIT MAY HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR [u]YEARS[/u][/b] And there's not even a *reason* for this thing to have mod_proxy even installed - it's not a proxy. There we have it people. A completely [b]computer illiterate person who thought he knew everything[/b], and ended up losing a company *easily* a quarter million dollars (what they're currently suing the hosting company for, claiming lost income due to downtime - I expect that to rise to include "two years of insane bandwidth charges from Anon and skiddies routing porn through our server"). Top that one, bitches.
Oh my. There are no words.
What's the best powerline adapter any of you have had experience with?
That's one hell of a mess that needs cleaning. Do you know if the company is going to do anything to the guy apart from being shitcanned?
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;35997686']That's one hell of a mess that needs cleaning. Do you know if the company is going to do anything to the guy apart from being shitcanned?[/QUOTE] I don't know - not my department. All I do is write code.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;35997243]wall of text[/QUOTE] is it a debian based system? I think I know what happened. the apache2 package used to install with mod_proxy when they first started sending out apache with the suhosin patch
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;35999176]is it a debian based system? I think I know what happened. the apache2 package used to install with mod_proxy when they first started sending out apache with the suhosin patch[/QUOTE] It's Ubuntu, so yes. Wait, so Apache shipped with a default "open, anonymous proxy" configuration? That's a bigger fuck-up that this!
[QUOTE=gman003-main;35999242]It's Ubuntu, so yes. Wait, so Apache shipped with a default "open, anonymous proxy" configuration? That's a bigger fuck-up that this![/QUOTE] yep. it was just the package that Debian and Ubuntu used, if you installed it manually or through a different package manager like Yum or Portage it all went fine.
Huh. [url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=195187]I did some searching, that "bug" seems to have been fixed in 2003[/url] Which might actually have been about the time that server was originally set up, but I think it was slightly newer than that.
Somewhere someone won't be able to circumvent some type of work or school web filtering. I'm pretty much forced to use undocumented badly set up proxies to torrent on my campus' connection due to the proactive IT team. [editline]17th May 2012[/editline] Also I'm torn between running Ubuntu or Ice Cream Sandwich on my Nook Tablet. Anyone want to decide for me?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;35997243]BRING DOWN THE WALL[/QUOTE] Sue the guy you canned. also [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5733962/ZScreen/SS-2012-05-17_19.10.22.png[/img] someone want it? [sp]well aware it's public by now[/sp]
Diablo 3 is so addicting.
Fixed my iPhone. Pics coming. [editline]17th May 2012[/editline] Had to use my old phone to take the picture. It... leaves a lot to be desired, quality wise: [IMG]http://puu.sh/vkIs[/IMG] [IMG]http://puu.sh/vkJl[/IMG]
goddammit half the people on my friends list are playing d3 i want torchlight 2 to come out already
My supervisor's gonna give me one of his trial keys, since all his friends and everyone else at work who wants it already has bought it. So, I get D3 for like a week I guess :v:
[QUOTE=Protocol7;36000111]My supervisor's gonna give me one of his trial keys, since all his friends and everyone else at work who wants it already has bought it. So, I get D3 for like a week I guess :v:[/QUOTE] isn't it all of act 1 with a level cap of 20?
That will take me a week I only played D2 like 4 times.
[QUOTE=wlzshroom;36000120]isn't it all of act 1 with a level cap of 20?[/QUOTE] I think the cap is level 13 or something like that.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;35996664]Around 2004 until a few years ago everything they released was garbage[/QUOTE] I beg to differ: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6300[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6303_Classic[/url] These two I have personal experiences with. The classic guy is currently two years old, I've dropped it from the 3. floor, and it has only got some scratches. The camera's pretty good as well.
2007 was a few years ago I keep forgetting that my view of time is different from some others, 2007 was ages ago to some people
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;36001172]2007 was a few years ago I keep forgetting that my view of time is different from some others, 2007 was ages ago to some people[/QUOTE] In terms of technology, it is ages ago.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;35999690]Fixed my iPhone. Pics coming. [editline]17th May 2012[/editline] Had to use my old phone to take the picture. It... leaves a lot to be desired, quality wise: [IMG]http://puu.sh/vkIs[/IMG] [IMG]http://puu.sh/vkJl[/IMG][/QUOTE] Is that... green? looks good!
[QUOTE=wingless;36001194]In terms of technology, it is ages ago.[/QUOTE] not as much as people say
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;36001147]I beg to differ: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6300[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6303_Classic[/url] These two I have personal experiences with. The classic guy is currently two years old, I've dropped it from the 3. floor, and it has only got some scratches. The camera's pretty good as well.[/QUOTE] My mother has a 6300. She managed to brick it for a while, but when she returned from America, it started working again. Only shitty thing is the fucking metal back cover. Gets fucking burning hot in summer when exposed to sun.
[QUOTE=smace;35989723]$3000 is a little much unless you have a triple monitor setup or are folding 24/7.[/QUOTE] I spent 6.2 grand for my entire setup back in 2010. I don't think going over $3000 is tough.
So apparently my package has already been delivered and signed for by me, before the post is even scheduled to arrive. You sure are special, Royal Mail.
[QUOTE=lavacano;35999508]Sue the guy you canned. also [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5733962/ZScreen/SS-2012-05-17_19.10.22.png[/img] someone want it? [sp]well aware it's public by now[/sp][/QUOTE] I can't even use it. Windows Phone :v:
[QUOTE=ijyt;36001804]So apparently my package has already been delivered and signed for by me, before the post is even scheduled to arrive. You sure are special, Royal Mail.[/QUOTE] Ha, called them up and apparently it was scanned as delivered before the mail was even being sent out, at 6am! They customer support guy said that my depot probably fucked up, and it'll be sent out anyway and rescanned if it's undelivered.
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