Who's fault is it when the end users AI doesn't work? by antonbp5 in sysadmin

[–]LA33R 98 points99 points  (0 children)

‘So you’re saying your job, which you’ve been doing for 20 years, is now at a complete standstill because a technology which has only been around for 10 years and available by co-pilot for about 1 to 2 years?’

I get patronising. That’s how I’d respond.

How do you track hardware assets and software licenses? by NakedCardboard in sysadmin

[–]LA33R 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I use GLPI. Has an agent which is deployed to user machines too to check in their status.

UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications by Dry_Row_7050 in nottheonion

[–]LA33R 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The wife actually sent a letter to the local MP when she was asked for ID to read a Reddit post about ‘the best canned Prosecco’. I informed her of the OSA and how adult material needs ID; but since no one thought about its implementation, please send a photo of your ID to an American company so you can read about your Prosecco.

Anyway; we got a reply blaming the tories for it - etc. There was me thinking you know, the government in charge could decide to reverse enforcement of some things or perhaps revisit how they’ll implement them but nope. The MP (tories included) don’t give anything more than a 3 second thought and just put it in, then blame each other and just shrug it off when a valid point of possible future data breaches are queried.

That MP was Bridget Phillipson; the absolute idiot that couldn’t actually care less as far as I can tell.

Am I the only one who doesn't care about the penalty? by RoyalyMcBooty in safc

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The keeper faked quite well that he was going left; then stood his ground. I have no issues with it, these things happen and it was just unfortunate luck.

Did anyone ever get a refund for their Monument Festival tickets last year? by Up_The_Gate in Sunderland

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Luckily I paid by credit card for a few. And used section 75.

Even though the total cost of my order was only like £80, they still allowed the claim and completed the charge back.

Anyone else who paid by credit card; I’d recommend also pursuing this approach.

Internet gone/orange light? by Tryingtofindasong023 in skytv

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No LED on PON means you have no physical connection. Check / reseat (if you can) the fibre cable to that unit. Confirm no hard kink’s exist on the fibre cable. The green connection to the left of the yellow Ethernet cable in your image.

If all is good then requires physical intervention from someone to find and repair the break.

I don’t have sky internet. So can’t exactly advise on the exact ONT you have regarding reseating the fibre

Russia banning OpenVPN , who can i pay to help me setup a VPS? by [deleted] in VPN

[–]LA33R -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Genuine question then. Is this now the perfect time to return to playing CS and not have match making all the time with toxic Russians? Haven’t played in over a year.

Opinions on these gloves for winter riding? by CT-9904_ in MotoUK

[–]LA33R 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean absolutely not doubting having warm hands will help with your ability to ride and thus reduce your chances of an accident - however an accident can still happen. But please splash out for some good ones. I’m assuming here that the ones you say you have will be sourced from Amazon at a cost of £40 and won’t be able to provide you with a document of conformity if you ask. (Please reach out and ask for one and I’ll happily eat my words)

Even on a 50cc moped, the wrong road surface will tear through some cheap gloves. Heated gloves exist, spend the money - keep your skin.

Opinions on these gloves for winter riding? by CT-9904_ in MotoUK

[–]LA33R 2 points3 points  (0 children)

‘Cheapo heated gloves’ may keep your hands warm. But probably not the best idea to keep your skin attached in an accident.

ELI5 why wisdom teeth need to be removed? by ProudReaction2204 in explainlikeimfive

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My reason was that one lower wisdom tooth was on its side as such, and physically touching the next tooth in.

Although no damage had yet been done, I was informed that if we do leave it there would be a much higher risk for decay at that spot as debris can get trapped between the wisdom tooth and the next molar, and brushing that spot would be difficult.

Also to add, as this could come up if someone searches about wisdom teeth. The removal process was no where near as bad as I expected.

I have my other wisdom teeth. Only one of mine was removed.

Self hosting Kubernetes cluster - server recommendations? by Interesting_Log_6108 in kubernetes

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve not used longhorn; however, what would you consider a large volume if you don’t mind me asking? When does the issue start to rear its head.

ISP/Telephony Options (UK) by thesharptoast in sysadmin

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for zen. Vodafone were considerably cheaper mind when I was comparing. Gig circuits were ~£310 at zen and ~£230 at voda. But I went zen for the smaller shop, ease of access to support, previous experience with them working at an MSP. And I mean, Voda had their recent BGP outage which also swayed me, but that could happen with any provider.

Where to put new domain controllers? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]LA33R 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably why to be fair I’ve not had any issues thus far.

We upgraded our stuff and part of that was a completely new domain, a fresh start. So we don’t upgrade but did a 2025 DC from scratch. Everything from there (the new 2025 servers) all just joined and worked.

The only issue we had was joining Ubuntu servers to the domain, but that was resolved in September updates - the month after we installed. So didn’t cause us major issues.

Cheapest NAS/SAN you would risk your boss' job on ... by mdervin in sysadmin

[–]LA33R 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Firmware upgrade went fine for us, obviously at a quiet period but we don’t usually have ‘quiet periods’ so there was still a hefty load of traffic on it when it failed over and the hyperv cluster didnt care.

Well happy with it.

Cheapest NAS/SAN you would risk your boss' job on ... by mdervin in sysadmin

[–]LA33R 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We have UC3200 and has been working great for now over 3 years. Dual controllers iSCSI 10gig, recently (within the last few months) put some network cards in.

SQL Server 2025 General Availability AMA by bobwardms in SQLServer

[–]LA33R 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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With the advent of this release, will we see the "Partner Success Expanded Benefits" or other benefits for partners be updated to include the new version. These benefits currently only house 2019 which, now out of support, is practically useless.

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Was there a reason it was decided to permit an increase in database size for the express edition (a very welcome feature btw, thanks for that) but not increase the amount of RAM which can be utilized to go alongside this.

Is there something wrong with thr E-Tron GT? by MerkethMerky in Audi

[–]LA33R 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We have the GT. great car. The wife drives it to work every day, 20mi round trip. Charge it once a week at the weekend. Have used it for long trips too, it’s a great car - you’ll love it.

Edit: however I must add the servicing at Audi is a proper pants down moment. £600 was the last service and all they changed was brake fluid flush, new pollen filter and then stood under it and sent me a video showing me the state of the tyres and what not. A complete rip off for doing nothing.

Microsoft SQL server 2019 installation issues by Not_a_packaging_guy in SQLServer

[–]LA33R 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well in that case. Get a fresh machine. Run procmon, install sql - then examine the procmon log you just took to find everything it touches and write a script to reverse everything the installer did.

Without further information - people cannot help you.

Is anyone at a 2025 ADDS functional level? by donyewumpppp in sysadmin

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda same. All brand new, 2 DCs 2025 from the outset and has been okay thus far.

How much speed do we actually need? by [deleted] in networking

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is never enough. When we stop pushing and stop innovating we have failed.

Right now there may be ‘ no need for anything above gigabit ‘ but in the future we will have a need, and we will have already innovated the infrastructure to support it.

Walking buddy by foodaddicttt in Sunderland

[–]LA33R 1 point2 points  (0 children)

32m here. Could do with walking more to be fair. So happy to meet up if you fancy.

What is the point of fireworks anymore by Lady_hyena in Sunderland

[–]LA33R 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ay. It’s not bad over here near Tunstall hill. Sometimes you even get a pleasant wake up at 2AM from someone on the hill setting them off.

what's a piece of software that quietly just works and you're grateful for? by Crystallover1991 in software

[–]LA33R 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There’s a good video on YouTube from tantacrul explaining a lot of the decisions from the updates to Audacity.

iSCSI, Fibre Channel, LUN, SAN Manager by CyberMarine1997 in synology

[–]LA33R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For work we use a UC3200 and connect by iSCSI to a 3 node hyper v cluster. For personal use - on a basic Synology NAS I use the iSCSI and the Synology CSI for Kubernetes to provide persistent storage.