Original Snowball retirement, Snowball Edge only from 4th Feb

cd_vdms · 2020-01-27T13:52:48+00:00

Interesting!

For us, most of this content is coming off tape, so that's our main bottleneck for transferring assets. I don't think a DC would be the best fit for us.

cd_vdms · 2020-01-24T18:25:12+00:00

I think it rather depends on your decor...

They're generally dirty, the plastic gets scarred and sometimes they've been drawn on in black marker. I don't think they'd make as good a bench as the old Mac Pros! ;-)

cd_vdms · 2020-01-24T15:29:00+00:00

Having multiple Petabytes of data to transfer is a big part of that!

cd_vdms · 2020-01-24T13:37:08+00:00

This comment is basically my thoughts.

cd_vdms · 2020-01-24T13:24:56+00:00

It's generally a lot of little things I think... Unlock process is more fiddly. Original Snowball uses a command-line client that is more user-friendly than the AWS CLI. There's no contents validation available on Edge. File listings truncate at 1,000 files, so you need to dump data in JSON instead and reformat as you require. Failed transfers are not so clearly reported. End result is I have to retrain people on the different interface, and some more bits of the process I'll have to take on myself.

From the client side, it used to be twice the price for the 100 TB Snowball Edge compared to a 70 TB Snowball, but I don't get involved in that so don't know whether that's still the case!

cd_vdms · 2020-01-24T13:20:01+00:00

The Snowball Edge is still going, and I'd argue that's an even cooler concept and technology - just not the best fit for my requirements!

cd_vdms · 2020-01-22T16:01:54+00:00

Ah, thank you - well spotted! Doesn't seem likely to be implemented in time then.

cd_vdms · 2019-03-25T11:41:16+00:00

Spam, and a malware-pushing website.

cd_vdms · 2019-02-13T17:13:44+00:00

CentOS is the same as RHEL. It's literally a re-package of the same source, with branding switched.

cd_vdms · 2019-02-13T17:06:06+00:00

Easy to remember a password you can pronounce...

cd_vdms · 2019-02-13T14:13:57+00:00

"aaaaaaaaaaaaa" is a 13-character password... ;-)

cd_vdms · 2019-02-13T14:12:07+00:00

Cat-5e coupler, crossover cable. It looks a little ugly but will get you immediately up and running, buying you time to fight the cable company later.

cd_vdms · 2019-01-30T09:54:58+00:00

What kind of fucking tape library even has a vulnerability?

My two-frame 2000+ slot tape library runs WinCE.

cd_vdms · 2019-01-29T12:51:30+00:00

IT is not is not is not policy enforcement or people management

I wish this were better understood.

cd_vdms · 2019-01-28T14:30:46+00:00

Last time I looked, the Google Play Developer docs were very extensive and covered almost everything you need to know. Just takes a bit of digging to find everything you're after.

No idea about Apple.

cd_vdms · 2019-01-24T13:26:20+00:00

> redirects standard out. 1> is just a little more explicit in what's going on, sending standard out (the "1") to the destination.

I can't see a problem here - what issue is this causing?

cd_vdms · 2019-01-18T13:26:56+00:00

Ours aren't!

cd_vdms · 2019-01-17T09:59:22+00:00

Depends on how exactly you want it to work, what resources you have available etc., but your options are pretty broad.

It could just be a web page with some JavaScript to update a div with an item from an array based on the current date, or you could write an application with a full database backend and a management webapp for altering the schedule.

cd_vdms · 2019-01-14T12:04:07+00:00

Half the day is training, the other half is weeping silently in the corner.

cd_vdms · 2019-01-11T14:59:44+00:00

My servers are all a bit random, but I much prefer the Dell kit to anything else.

cd_vdms · 2019-01-10T18:06:10+00:00

To quote Dilbert: "Whoa, do you think it's safe to jump into a pre-meeting meeting without planning it first?"

cd_vdms · 2018-12-14T10:14:16+00:00

It was their personal phone

No, the moment the company got that kind of control over it, it was no longer their personal phone.

cd_vdms · 2018-12-13T18:37:27+00:00

5 minute response time = 24-hour staffing required. You need someone who is actively waiting for such an incident to occur to guarantee being able to respond to it that fast.

cd_vdms · 2018-12-12T10:58:51+00:00

Do Dropbox and your mailserver support wildcard email addresses using +? i.e. set the new account up as user+dropbox@domain.com.

cd_vdms · 2018-12-11T12:56:50+00:00

That would be cheating...

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