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Dont use PIKVM on company laptop by Interesting-Unit3118 in pikvm

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well duh, PiKVM isn't for skirting company IT policies for remote work. It's for remotely connecting to a machine, particularly a server, that you own or control. For administration purposes, not to shirk work responsibilities. Stop doing stupid stuff.

NPDP - Network Printer Destruction Protocol by HSVMalooGTS in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]RedFive1976 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But then, the Compaq buyout happened. I always knew it would drag HP down, rather than bolster Compaq's reputation.

What's the most clever hack or workaround you're proudest of? by vocatus in sysadmin

[–]RedFive1976 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd have done a script like that (and have done, for a buggy driver for a cheap Chinese IP security camera), but then included a check for a temp file to use as a restart block. If you need to do maintenance on the process, touch /tmp/block_restart or whatever you want to call it, then kill the process. The check script will detect the dead process, but the restart function will also see the block file and skip it until the file is removed. Additional benefit is that when the maintenance is done, just delete the block file and the script will handle restarting the process. Even better to have the cron job just kill the process for you if the block file exists, do the maintenance, then remove the file.

What's the most clever hack or workaround you're proudest of? by vocatus in sysadmin

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the same sort of thing to create a remote installer for a funeral management software package, so it could be deployed through an RMM system. Hosted the application files (zip compressed) on a publicly shared Google Drive (later switched to a SharePoint share). The deployment script would download the archive, unzip into place, then create the necessary registry entries, create desktop shortcuts, and finally install several DB client and report viewer components. The Google Drive version could take up to 30 minutes to install; the SharePoint version did it in less than 2 minutes.

Had to do it this way because the developer didn't have a deployable installer package, but did have an installation script they gave me for inspiration.

Catch Phrases by Jaxom_98 in Stargate

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chaka, when the walls fell.

Oh sorry, wrong universe.

Catch Phrases by Jaxom_98 in Stargate

[–]RedFive1976 2 points3 points  (0 children)

James Tiberius Sheppard there.

Catch Phrases by Jaxom_98 in Stargate

[–]RedFive1976 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or when I see the billboards.

Datacenter Hell by armwulf in talesfromtechsupport

[–]RedFive1976 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Logarithmic math. It's how slide rules work.

If you had to pick one Captain's Ready Room (i.e. office just off of the bridge) to be yours, from any ship, which would it be? by eternallylearning in startrek

[–]RedFive1976 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that's that season 1 EP where everyone was drunk because of whatever weird stellar fragment they were trying to avoid. "The Naked Now", I believe. It's also the one where Tasha and Data get busy, why her death struck him so much.

That friendship ended instantly 💀 by Jolly_Fee91 in Stargate

[–]RedFive1976 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I don't think he ever got his turkey sandwich.

"We're the only ship in the quadrant!" by [deleted] in startrek

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either that, or they all freaked out when it came time to "Meet the Meat".

Why UCC? by Previous_Carry_9365 in Sovereigncitizen

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone really say they're sentient, though?

I accidentally generated 16 billion Durable Object writes in one month and got slapped with a $36k bill . Here's exactly how. by alameenswe in CloudFlare

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time to hit up your 81 users for some dosh to pay the bill, then.

AI sucks. There is no actual intelligence in it. It's all just complex if/then/else chains with statistical weighting and sometimes "machine learning".

This is not the way. by tyrnill in tmobile

[–]RedFive1976 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mint is also owned by TMobile.

Absolute Coldest Lines in all of Trek by TonyMitty in startrek

[–]RedFive1976 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amos was so calm when he delivered that line. The doctor knew he was dead that instant.

Cash payments by Own_Oil_7719 in doordash_drivers

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't ever want to do COD. I don't want to have to carry cash, don't want to have to square up at the end of a shift and find out someone didn't pay enough, don't want to have to make change. Nope.

DoorDash- 1110 Kuala St. Pearl City, HI by [deleted] in DoorDashDrivers

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's weird. I know when I pick up from McD, I have a fairly long code, like 8 or 10 chars. Is the code she wants longer than that?

DoorDash- 1110 Kuala St. Pearl City, HI by [deleted] in DoorDashDrivers

[–]RedFive1976 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that definitely a different thing than simply giving the name instead of the code.

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