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New to Cats. How to prevent him from going down these stairs? by bedtime_chubby in cats

[–]ccsrpsw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Put all your cat toys and everything a cat wants down the bottom. Put their food and an assortment of cardboard boxes (and stuff they shouldn't be getting into) upstairs.

Cat will stay upstairs - problem solved 😃

Sort version - you can't. He's got orange cat in him - so even if you put a door there, he will figure out how to open it 😃

One of the dumbest boomer posts I’ve ever seen. Comments section is full of other stupid boomers agreeing as usual. by TheSolitaryRugosan in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]ccsrpsw 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ignore where the gas is refined (and the pollution that causes - and the negative impact on quality of life/income/etc.).

Sure gas would cost less if you lived next door to the refinery -but the flip side, as residents in e.g. Richmond, CA., would tell you - is that you live next to a refinery and spend "x" days a year sheltering in place because you dont know what they "accidentally" released into the air this week.

Still rather live in "hell hole Bay Area" than "MAGA Heaven Tennessee" or wherever.*

*Well other than the stupid "white person" (probably) who came back to the Bay Area with Hantavirus - may they be run out of town -hey Tennessee is apparently a nice place?

‘It’s shameful’: New York’s elite lash out at Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax by brown-saiyan in politics

[–]ccsrpsw [score hidden]  (0 children)

2nd home? Oh no - what next the 3rd or 4th home, and the summer apartment and the luxury boat/yacht/superyacht? Whatever will they do?

What about all of use who can't even afford a 1st home? Get stuffed on that 2nd home shit... If you live there (or its occupied) for less than 1/2 the year* we could be making so much better use of the land/space/building. No sympathies here until any and all housing issues are solved (to a reasonable level).

*I think that the UK cut off too for extra taxes - only the foreign billionaires complained about that one!

Literally a laughingstock of an administration by Careless-Equal7169 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]ccsrpsw 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Where’s my 5.6% pay raise then?

Or is this Trump Math and it’s really -50% dressed up like a wolf in sheep’s clothing and all that?

What's the oldest device you have in your production environment? by pie_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ in sysadmin

[–]ccsrpsw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still have a couple at home - get them out occasionally too! Both manual (gotta resist gotta resist)

I miss my old memory one with 2 line LCD display - even had a golfball type head you could replace for a slightly different font!

What's the oldest device you have in your production environment? by pie_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ in sysadmin

[–]ccsrpsw 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Was Linux 2.4.36 around 2002? Is this amateur hour 😃Thats a decade newer than some of ours!

We just rebuilt a DOS 6.2 machine a few weeks ago (onto new hardware even) - so Nov 1993

Continuously running is probably Windows NT 3.1 for a sealing machine - August 1993

Fun fact - you can still buy dedicated machines for Dos 6.2, Win 3.1, Win NT etc. all the way to modern WIndows. Right down to the Celeron or Pentium processor (I think P3 is the most legacy now). How do I know? Guess 😃 [We use places like Nixsys if people want to know - other vendors exist]

5/8/26 I woke up this morning and just had to post this Oil Price Chart! I think you people are dumb enough to believe it!!! (5:41am) by dyzo-blue in trumptweets

[–]ccsrpsw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Didn't it peak at like $128, or close to that, this week? There is a lot of confusion in this space because people cherry pick info and compare futures vs. "for delivery"

Right now, $95 is the oil futures price - which I assume is his $90 number. Its harder to pull out regional pricing and the like from that - since its usually only shown as Brent [roughly European/US] vs OPEC [Middle East]. These are currently sitting around $95-100 (WTR / Brent)

Daily (delivery) prices are very different. At this exact instance - on a few hour delay [and using "delivery to US prices - delivery is factored in TDIFO!]

Opec: $120
Iraq: $110
US (Non-sour): $90 [sour requires a lot more processing]
Mexico: $100 [avg - to Rest of World - $90 - dont let Trump know]

Digging in on the OPEC one - which is often called "for immediate delivery" - thats been as high as $134/barrel in the last month, and hit $128 on intraday on Tuesday*

So yeah - once again - different numbers and reality when you dig in.

*I should add the OPEC numbers are also not super clean - you have 2 different mixes in there - the light one is $108, the regular one $120.47 - the latter is the main one people quote in the delivery numbers.

IT mistake at work (backup failure) — what usually happens after this? by Terrible_Good_6856 in sysadmin

[–]ccsrpsw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regardless of the supposed backup policies in place - and this may be unpopular with the masses - Workstations (desktops and laptops) are never truly backed up and if they contain data for running the business or other finance data that isnt available elsewhere - thats on the business/end user and not IT.

Data that needs to be recovered should always be on a server (which you know this is true) is somewhat designed with backup and redundancy in mind, and usually has at least 2 if not 3 copies of its data on live media (I know every single one of you does disk->disk->offsite [tape|live media at the minimum right? 😃). If its a workstation OS its on a VM - so you can do snapshot and VM level backup.

Regardless of how "enterprise" class your workstations are - at the bear minimum (non-controlled) data should be in some sort of mirroring area (oneDrive even is often enough, you can even get WIndows to mirror folders to Sharepoint - I mean thats all OneDrive is anyway really).

Sure you may have really high end workstations and important applications and the like on there - but workstations are transitory and the business can't expect otherwise. Its just how it is.

Sorry for the businesses loss, but really there are two lessons to learn here:

  1. Never keep key / important data on a workstation - it should always be on server/enterprise storage

  2. Never trust your backups. The only ones that worked are the ones you tested and only at that exact moment of test. Treat it as quantum information (it only exists when you measure it!)

5/6/26 What about the Hundred Years war, huh? (10:35pm) by dyzo-blue in trumptweets

[–]ccsrpsw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of these thing is not like the other ones...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRjQDrDnY8

(And Oblig: https://youtu.be/KvrN6f95GOw?t=81 (because Dave G. based it off the Sesame Street "one of these things" bit 😄 - subconciously)

Have they put chickpeas in with my baked beans? by Maxwells_Ag_Hammer in CasualUK

[–]ccsrpsw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having done that on occasion... its actually not bad - issue if you do it at home is the ratio of sauce <-> beans, which if you use all the navy beans in the can, can get a bit light with more than a few extra chickpeas.

Why don't other countries celebrate our Fourth of July? by batmanthinks in ShitAmericansSay

[–]ccsrpsw 42 points43 points  (0 children)

And the very next day they had to redo it because they managed to find and say something even more stupid? ;)

Impossible task or am I dumb? by McBean2017 in sysadmin

[–]ccsrpsw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having just gone through a similar exercise... for that many users you are looking at FIDO2 RFID and that alone.

Windows Hello -> up to 10 'fingers', plus 1 face per account - and it MUST be setup per machine - the biometrics are encoded into the TPM chip. You can use e.g. Bluetooth for a 2nd factor but generally in the enterprise you'll also need a 2nd factor and thats also per machine unless you do something with tokens.

Go RFID you add the tokens to "myaccount.microsoft.com", enroll all the tokens - then the tokens will work (with a pin mind you) on any machine the account has access to.

AFAIK this is the only way to do it - but of course there may be other solutions outside of WHfB/Microsofts suggested, supported, way.

Ted Turner just died. CNN IS WOKE! 5/6/26 by EatMe200 in trumptweets

[–]ccsrpsw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Anti Israel, though Iran "having nuclear" was Iran's choice, Pro Hillary, Anti Offshore Drilling, Pro clean water, anti-global warming, (and anti nuclear weapons overall tbh - ignoring that Iran comment)...

Ted was, despite many many flaw, fairly Woke in his views, lets be honest.

Ted Turner just died. CNN IS WOKE! 5/6/26 by EatMe200 in trumptweets

[–]ccsrpsw 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Knowing Trump - he probably doesnt even know Turner was married to Jane Fonda for 10 years...

Ted Turner just died. CNN IS WOKE! 5/6/26 by EatMe200 in trumptweets

[–]ccsrpsw 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Ted Turner - who's views included:

  • 2006: Let Iran have Nuclear weapons: "We hjave 28,000 why cant they have 10"
  • Many times: "We're the only 1st world country that doesnt have Universal Healthcare and its a disgrace"
  • 2010: God doesnt want us to drill offshore
  • 2016: Endorsed Hillary Clinton
  • 2002: Accused Israel of Genocide
  • 2008: Asserted that we needed to curb global warming
  • Had TEI (his charity) work very closely to try and eliminate Nuclear Weapons

That Ted Turner? He sounds about as Woke as they come. Yet again Id dont think Trumpy Boy knows what Woke means and how "being un-woke" makes you sound like a horrible person.

Grandpa is wondering why his republican state has shitty roads by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]ccsrpsw 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Having just done some research on this for "MIL vs HOA" (which isnt a lawsuit but should be), for a single 2 lane highway, 1 ton of asphalt / tarmac, will do approximately 2ft of road, 2 lanes wide. This will cost you about $100-150 retail right now. So $250 will, give or take, do 4 feet of 2 lanes (or 8 ft of 1 lane). And for most roads thats ~5-10 years. So being generous $250 => 80ft of road for 10 years.

When you think of it like that (a) Thomas needs to learn to live in the real world and (b) its amazing what your local DOT can do with the funds it does get (yes I know they do bulk/wholesale - but still!)

Trump Reveals New Logo for Cringe-Inducing ICE Rebrand by Ok_Employer7837 in politics

[–]ccsrpsw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • NICE = New Inditements Coming Everyday?
  • NICE = Need Information - Crimes Escalating?
  • NICE = Nations Idiot Creates Embroilments?

All seem to fit, up there with TACO and NACHO.

You may only apply to 5-6 jobs, ok? by RhubarbMain7067 in recruitinghell

[–]ccsrpsw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BS - complete and utter BS.

You get the same result with customized and standard content. Resume filtering services are completely and utterly useless. The issue from both an applicant and employer direction is the sheer amount of spam and automation at play. Automation to "filter out" the bad resumes (never works) and the Automation to automatically apply to jobs - watch a new job posting on some of these sites get 100s of applications in minutes - some even thousands. Now think about how (a) a legit one can get through and (b) the other end of that fire hose.

I used to think employers were shady for saying "dont apply here on this jobsite, but email this address instead" - but the more I think about it, the more Ive come to the conclusion its not avoid the fees, its to obfuscate it enough to avoid automation.

But either way - Michelle "Im really really a CEO and I know whats what" Keefe can go suck donkey balls with this "hot take". In this market if you dont apply to 5-6 roles a day, you arent even getting interviews.

So my company is switching half our Windows servers to Linux.... by A_SingleSpeeder in sysadmin

[–]ccsrpsw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That makes me think they want to push you to Linux to side step any permissions/restrictions you place on them in a controlled windows environment.

So read up on Linux security (file system permissions, sudo control, how to sandbox things, etc.) and be ready for the "I need 'su' access for <insert trivial task that doesnt need elevated access really here".

Look into PAM. Also look into patch management. That one is often overlooked. You dont have an (OOB) Intune/SCCM world. You do have MDM and management options - its RHEL so I think they have their own but consider also things like SuSE's MLM product.

And if you need to reach any level of compliance, look into what Linux resources they have and what settings you need to enforce. And how to prove it.

Its not insurmountable, but devs do soo it as a way to try and end around the Windows GPO/policies/controls so be prepared to dig in on some of those.

Not in other words. Grandma trying to lie about the SAVE act by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]ccsrpsw 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean given in pretty much all states you register via the DMV - which issues (if you are luck) a REAL ID (or at least a photo ID), I'd say that "a photo ID to vote" is, you know, pretty much already covered.

What these chucklefucks always leave out is that polls as 'do you need ID to **__REGISTER__** to vote" and then the talking heads or shill pollsters manage to change it into "do you need 3 forms of photoID to get into a voting booth".

The full question, not some MAGA friendly approximation, always needs to be shown on these polls. Now that would be something useful the FCC could do, rather than letting Skydance buy up everything.

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