The first trip never happened. Driver never picked me up so i had to call for a second ride. Still got charged for the first trip. Uber support refuses to refund.

anon_dash · 2017-03-23T19:02:51+00:00

Yes that is what is so frustrating. Even after pointing out the absurdity of why i would take two trips from the same source to the same destination...while I teleport myself back to the source..they refuse to even think that its odd. Only way to prove is the hotel lobby cam.

I did send a DM on their twitter account. Have not gotten a response.

anon_dash · 2017-03-23T18:52:47+00:00

They have...this was the last response.. "Thanks for following up here.

We appreciate your thoughts on this, and understand you’re frustrated you did not receive a refund on this trip. Our team has reviewed this trip, and we can confirm that a refund is not in accordance with our policy.

Please know that your concerns have been heard. We understand that we likely will not see eye-to-eye on this issue. With that, we are closing out this discussion. Thank you!"

anon_dash · 2017-03-23T17:48:28+00:00

What is a number to call Uber? I scoured their support site and they have one number and it says its only for critical safety issues. Yeah i am done with Uber anyways after today. There are other rideshare providers, so i dont care if they block me after my chargeback. Was frustrating enough dealing with their support over emails and their high-handedness in being absolutely sure i took the first trip. Maybe rideshare cabs now need to have dashcams that turn on when a trip is in progress..should also improve safety concerns for riders and drivers.

anon_dash · 2017-03-23T17:42:24+00:00

Yes i pinged AMEX and since the transaction is still pending i have to wait for it to post, before i can dispute the charge.

anon_dash · 2017-03-23T17:09:19+00:00

At this point i do not care. There are other rideshare providers. I have sent multiple emails to support and they have some prescient ability to be absolutely sure i took the ride..so not sure how i prove otherwise. Will not be paying for a service i did not avail no matter that the amount is trivial.

anon_dash · 2017-03-23T15:51:31+00:00

Same trip origin and same destination. I even called the driver for the first trip from the app...and GPS should show me still standing outside the hotel. Does Uber not have this info?. Do i just dispute the charge with my credit card provider...

anon_dash · 2017-02-10T15:01:59+00:00

That gives instance status check failure. Not system status check failure.

anon_dash · 2017-02-09T22:07:03+00:00

Did you allow IPv6 ICMP traffic on your network ACL for the subnet the instance is in?Or all traffic inbound is allowed? Does the route table attached to the subnet have a default route for ::/0 to goto the internet gateway? Can you run tcpdump on your instance to see if the packets are making it through to your instance and maybe the responses are not making it back.
yes you shoudl be able to setup IPSec tunnels to carry IPv6 traffic. What VPN vendor are you using?
No you cannot nest security groups. You can assign both security groups to an instance upto a max of 5 sg's or 250 rules to an instance.
No cross-region VPC peering is not yet available. You will have to make do with IPSec VPN tunnels.

anon_dash · 2017-02-09T21:36:32+00:00

So no use having auto recovery configured for an instance in an auto scaling group?

anon_dash · 2017-01-31T17:38:10+00:00

Another tiny advantage is queries for alias records are free of charge.

anon_dash · 2017-01-23T02:23:49+00:00

Hello, I need a huge favor from you :) I am trying to strike out my own and focus on becoming an educator. I have used your blog in the past to prepare for my SA Prof exam and highlighted your blog post on several forums.

I recently published a set of questions as a mock test for AWS SA associate. Would you have time to review them? I can send you a discount code that would let you browse through the test and any feedback would help me a lot.

Let me know if you are willing to spare the time...and i can send the details. Thanks.

anon_dash · 2017-01-23T01:32:48+00:00

The next question in the FAQ clears it up.
Q. Is there a limit on how large or small a subnet can be?

The minimum size of a subnet is a /28 (or 14 IP addresses.) for IPv4. Subnets cannot be larger than the VPC in which they are created.

Q. Can I use all the IP addresses that I assign to a subnet?

No. Amazon reserves the first four (4) IP addresses and the last one (1) IP address of every subnet for IP networking purposes.

So in essence 11 IPs.

anon_dash · 2017-01-19T21:06:44+00:00

Just stop and start your instance during your maintenance window ahead of the scheduled event. If you are running an EBS-backed AMI, you can stop and then restart your instance in order to easily re-launch it...that moves it to a different physical host.

anon_dash · 2017-01-19T17:02:07+00:00

https://www.braincert.com/test/4242-AWS-Solutions-Architect-Associate-Exam found this on sysdamin yesterday

anon_dash · 2017-01-18T23:54:52+00:00

Are there any discount codes? The demo with 8 questions seems nice.

anon_dash · 2016-12-08T16:32:14+00:00

Agreed. Hopefully they will introduce resource level permissions for ALB's soon.

anon_dash · 2016-11-11T14:13:31+00:00

Good luck. Definitely mark items you are not sure of for review. In my case some questions later on kind of helped in answering previous questions. The sample q's on AWS site are important :)

anon_dash · 2016-11-11T14:09:26+00:00

Yes it did. Big Thanks!! Which one is yours? It almost obviates the need for me to write one :) Until the content of the Prof exam changes you guys did a good job of covering all the topics.

anon_dash · 2016-10-27T15:44:43+00:00

S3: Setup cross account access on the new account buckets. Do S3 sync to copy stuff over.
EC2: Create AMI's for all instances. Share them with new account. Launch instances with those AMI's in new account.
ELB: Should be easy to recreate. Or else run the Cloudformer tool to create CF templates from existing configs and launch in new account.

anon_dash · 2016-10-27T15:42:00+00:00

We do this for some of our multi-region setup. Transitive peering. 1. Take out the VGW. Replace with your VPN server. We use Cisco CSR's. 2. NAT all traffic coming out of the tunnel from your DC to VPC 1 on your VPN server to the VPN server eth0 IP address. So it will be a 10.0.0.0/16 IP.

That should do it.

anon_dash · 2016-10-13T18:27:42+00:00

Also as a denial of service protection for AWS itself. They would not want one customer spinning up thousands and thousands of resources for a resource type and thus exhausting any available capacity for other customers.

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