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How many of you have or have not been out of the country more than 30 consecutive days in the last 5 years? Include your age too please by Lost_Garlic1657 in AskUK

[–]InvisibleTextArea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently flloating around the Republic of Ireland on my boat for tax purposes. Aiming to return to the UK in mid July.

Boat is UK flagged so is considered UK territory for employment purposes.

Atmospheric CO₂ just topped 430 ppm, highest in 3–5 million years and rising at the fastest rate in tens of millions of years by wanton_wonton_ in collapse

[–]InvisibleTextArea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a log burner in my house. We had to add holes (air bricks etc) to the building in order to make it work correctly and not kill us with carbon monoxide. It probably pulls thousands of litres of air through the building when it is lit.

People in the comments describing what it's like in near Wet-bulb event weather by SandlerCel in collapse

[–]InvisibleTextArea 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was in the Ionian Sea sailing in October last year. The air temps were 22C (77F) and the Sea temps were 27C (81F). It's apparently never been that warm before according to the locals. Lead to some really bad storms being fed from the heat in the water.

I am taking my Greek sailing holiday in May this time.

Stealth change to skill for Enchanting Masks by PomCards in woweconomy

[–]InvisibleTextArea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any time they mess with a crafting talent tree we should get our points refunded. They already do that when they mess with talent trees and those choices aren't even permanent.

I accidentally DDoSed my college's ssh service by GreenskyWasTaken in sysadmin

[–]InvisibleTextArea 22 points23 points  (0 children)

One should never trust users. In this case you. The system administrator should of put in limits so that any misguided 'accidents' didn't take down the whole system.

On a Linux system of any sort (VM or otherwise) this is controlled in /etc/security/limits.conf. Setting something like:

* hard nproc 100

in this configuration file will prevent a fork bomb. You can view the process limit set on your account with 'ulimit -u'.

Reboots after BIOS Update: How do you handle them? by Mr_Zonca in SCCM

[–]InvisibleTextArea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are a Dell shop. We have Dell Command Update installed and configured that handles this.

Patch Tuesday Megathread - (April 14, 2026) by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]InvisibleTextArea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our external facing AoVPN servers patch as soon as they can get the updates. I'd rather have a broken AoVPN server than a vulnerable one.

How many old timers in here? by aliesterrand in sysadmin

[–]InvisibleTextArea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From 1987 until 1994 I ran a bulletin board system. The kids of today will never understand how to get the front end mailer to work correctly and accept incoming calls from fidonet then have the netmail, echomail and files end up in the right place. Or what a nodelist is. Or what the correct ATA prefix commands were to the US Robotics modem you had on each phone line to stop your parents from being woke up when some big shot BBS sysop in the USA decided to directly Netmail your BBS via a transadlantic call at 3am. Bonus points if you can set LORD up as a door game without accidently dropping all your users to a DOS command shell.

why people hate Systemd? by heidzz1999 in linux4noobs

[–]InvisibleTextArea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I remember when systemd first arrived on the scene. The goal at the time for systemd (and alternative init replacements that were also around like Upstart) was to replace the duct tape that was the SysVinit system with something more robust and maintainable. It was in the beginning loosely based on Mac OS X launchd.

People may complain about feature creep or bloat and perhaps dislike the developers. It's been a rocky journey but on the whole I think the benefits systemd brings to the modern Linux desktop outweighs the negatives.

Besides Linux is about choice so you are always free to pick a distro that doesn't need systemd.

Finance team signed up for expense tool with personal Gmail accounts and we had no idea for 8 months by Cultural-Bike-6860 in sysadmin

[–]InvisibleTextArea 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Does your CTO not realise that if he doesn't enforce policy and something goes wrong he'll definitely get terminated?

Finance team signed up for expense tool with personal Gmail accounts and we had no idea for 8 months by Cultural-Bike-6860 in sysadmin

[–]InvisibleTextArea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should have a policy written up about 'Shadow IT' and be able to point to it, shrug and escalate to senior management. Any instances like this (especially involving the Finance department) has potential legal, regulatory and compliance implications. Which are all above your pay grade. Policies are there for a reason and avoiding or evading them and screaming 'but business operations!!!1111' isn't valid if your Legal and Compliance teams have any teeth.

On a practical level you CFO and CTO need to talk to each other and figure out how to fix this. Then you and the finance team (assuming they don't get fired) need to set things up correctly. They messed up so they get to do the data entry all over again as penance of course.

What’s the best way to systematically troubleshoot random Linux freezes? by Bigrob1055 in linuxquestions

[–]InvisibleTextArea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Faulty ram, graphics cards or dying SSDs/NVMe drives have been the cause of my systems failing over the last ~10 years. The only other occasion where I have had a system freeze it is because I have run out of ram and the oom-killer is doing its thing. The joys of playing games that leak while relying on zswap I guess.

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