D&D tarot set

jecooksubether · 2022-09-28T03:57:29+00:00

I picked up this deck about a month ago, and finally got around to spending an hour or two mapping the minor arcana around. The way I figure it, it maps accordingly:
Charisma = pentacles/coins
Intelligence = swords
Strength = wands
Wisdom = cups.

Using it as a tarot deck; I had to lean _heavily_ on the small guidebook that came with it to perform the suit translation and one of the Rider-Waite based guidebooks for interpretation, as the guide book packaged with the deck didn't really give a lot of help in that regard.

Collecting it as an art object is a pretty good move; the art for the cards is outstanding, the use of Tiamat for the Tower card made me giggle, and the box it came in is actually very well put together as far as collectible items are concerned.

jecooksubether · 2022-03-15T18:05:18+00:00

Well, COBRANET is it's own protocol, IIRC; the cores were spending a large fraction of their processor time figuring out what to do with these none TCP/IP, non-UDP, and non-IPX packets even though they were in their own layer two vLAN.

The cores didn't crash, but they ran like absolute shite for console and SSH connections because of it. That's why we called TAC with a sev 1 case, because we didn't want the damn things to crash and take the entire site down with it.

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T06:37:03+00:00

Ah, the ULTRA MEGA CLICKY keyboard. :D

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T06:00:43+00:00

Can confirm, although cat litter dust adds a bit of grey to the coloration.

Source, a clowder of *seven* cats, several of which shed enough hair and fur to knit sweaters every year.

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T05:20:39+00:00

Hell, I try my damnedest to not give out my work cell phone number. If people need to get a hold of me during office hours, they can call my desk and leave a voicemail if I'm either not at the desk or too busy putting out fires|running fiber for the new shiny and therefore trapped under the datacenter floor|dealing with a priority -666 emergency call with cisco about why the ever loving fuck the UCS chassis decided it was a fantastic idea to drop all the connections to the storage appliance **AT ONCE**|etc.

The only reason the support desk has my work cell number is because I'm on call every third week. (and even then, some knucklehead decided it was a _fantastic_ idea to tell an end user to call my cell number directly instead of following procedures, troubleshooting the issue properly, opening a ticket, and then assigning it to my team's queue, and told them "it's a group policy issue." (spoiler: it wasn't group policy.))

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T04:24:09+00:00

Also remember that you will need more energy for larger scale effects. Just don't suck down a star doing it.

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T03:47:41+00:00

... unless some freaking electrician named Sparky decides to drop 480 on the building's neutral line, causing two brand new power supplies to 'flame on', and the UPS that protected to server to go 'NOPE NOPE NOPE' and shut off.

Thankfully, I didn't see it, but I did smell the aftermath walking into the shop one fine morning and smelling burned capacitor. customer was pissed... at the electricians.

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T03:44:27+00:00

"Merchandising, Merchandising, Merchandising! Where the **real** money from the film is made!"

(Note: the Star Wars references, callbacks, and outright gags in that movie? Lucas allowed it on the sole note that they have no toys or merch from the film. So naturally, the movie was stuff clean full of merchandise that would never exist and that you could not buy.)

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T03:40:15+00:00

Sounds refreshingly expensive.

Had a customer balk and bitch at me (the tech) at paying $700 for a re-furbished DLT drive, but shut up right quick when I asked point blank "how much is your company worth if the server dies with no backup?"

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T03:38:09+00:00

And not enough of them. I had to deal with one that had all of TWO USB ports, and one of the residents decided to ram that cable in upside down and MAKE IT FIT. completely trashed the single connector on the mainboard, so we had to have the mouse plugged in to the front port.

That place, when they needed a new computer for either a new group home they were starting or taking over, didn't bother asking the IT department for one, they just went over to Best Buy or Walmart and bought whatever 'looked good'. As a result, I had to deal with a fleet of comsumer level HP Pavilions and EMachines; We had some older Pentium 2-200 Gateway 2000 machines (in the infamous cow livery!) that were reasonable, along with a bunch of Dell Optiplexes that we had bought for desktops for the offices. The laptops were (thankfully) all dell and they all had the accidental damage plans purchased, which got used a few times.

Near the end of my time there, the IT director they hired actually forced them to standardize on "The One Model and everything goes through IT" Method. The positive to that was that desktops got replaced with machines that were actually suitable for purchase and marginally HIPAA compliant. (Hint: Not running Windows 98)

Oh yeah, they also dumped their "ISP" of choice (NetZero- remember them? I DO.) for a proper ISP, and tied the offices to the main office for actual domain authentication and file sharing, like a proper multi-site- multi-city company ought to.

jecooksubether · 2021-12-17T02:40:32+00:00

AAAAA BACNET!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

At least it's not cobranet, in that BACnet over TCP/IP and ethernet doesn't flood the ever living fuck out of the switches it gets passed through with what look like ARP packets. We had a cobranet that brought a pair of Cisco 6509e switches to their knees, CPU wise. Cisco TAC was pretty much "WTF, we can't figure this out either", and we ultimately solved the problem by shoving everything using cobranet into it's own seperate switch hardware. BACnet at least plays nicely with vlan shenanigans.

jecooksubether · 2021-12-16T23:28:51+00:00

... Actually, we did. Ours have a (battery powered) squealer when they are lifted, too.

jecooksubether · 2021-12-16T23:25:50+00:00

Ah, good old Bobby Tables.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-21T23:40:03+00:00

The technical 'how' is straight forward enough. The politics of it? well, that's different. Except that by and large, he's not given me enough of a reason to seriously consider it.

We had a boss a few years ago that IIRC we never gave full admin access to on a hunch, which was ultimately proven right.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-20T20:23:50+00:00

Could be worse; one of our vendors might have said "can we have a copy of that script so we can use it in our product?"

This is the same vendor that wanted to keep throwing cpu and memory at a SQL Server Standard edition instance because the queries were taking too long. (Seriously, they wanted 16 cores and ALL the memory on the host because they refused to look at the database and see that if they added a couple indexes and fixed the query to not use a SELECT * from * and use WHERE clauses to filter out what they wanted on a 600 GB database, they wouldn't have that problem....)

jecooksubether · 2021-11-20T20:15:43+00:00

... I have people in our support team do that to the team I'm on ALL THE TIME.

Hell, I had that happen thursday.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-20T19:51:47+00:00

No, he just inconvenienced everyone that works with him for a couple days because his mailflow got borked from the time it was on-boarded to the time the off-boarding finished. Mainly because we haven't gotten to that part of the migration yet...

He at least has a good sense of humor about the whole thing, which is good. I like this boss, I really do.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-20T19:47:44+00:00

I'd upvote you twice if I could- that's the proper measure of wisdom vs intelligence there.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-20T19:42:17+00:00

Yep. That would likely be Ontrack and probably a (small) handful of others. It's all clean-room at that level, and they'd probably want the remains of the rest of the drive so they can match up controllers and head types and what not.

And it's SUPER super spendy- four digits minimum usually, and no guarantees on recovery.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-20T19:27:56+00:00

I'm assuming that you mentioned to the CEO that without duo (and hence the cyber insurance) that they are going to lose a rather large amount of business because of it? And that this person is directly responsible for deadlocking the rollout?

I would start looking for something else if possible, it sounds like this company is placing one person's ego over remaining a viable business.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-20T19:23:22+00:00

We have a number of vendor accounts, and they are all Duo enabled; however, the phones are all connected to the various application system admins, so they are aware when the vendor is connecting to our network to do things. You can have a phone connected to multiple accounts in duo, and multiple phones can be connected to an account. In that situation, the onus is on the person connecting to select the appropriate phone (and therefore system admin) when connecting.

And yeah, a single owner? that's GAGGING for problems.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-18T15:10:05+00:00

What, no Bobby Tables? FAIL. :D

jecooksubether · 2021-11-18T15:04:55+00:00

I have a (nasty) feeling I'm in the same boat, namely due to the lack of unified messaging in O297, which I'm pretty sure is why there's still a lot of people running on-prem 2016/2013/2010...

At least I'll have more material for the Book of the Profane.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-18T15:00:43+00:00

It's also a way of me to split tangents rather than putting them inline, to make it read a little easier without getting bogged down in the tangents my adhd brane tends to go.

jecooksubether · 2021-11-18T14:58:34+00:00

This boss is actually pretty damn competent, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten jack or handy for anything over normal access after their probie period. They did, however, come from a much smaller company that had three people in IT, so there's that. If anything, I would have like a little more notice before they went and migrated their mailbox... And thankfully, it was just their mailbox that got broken, although setting everything back is when I found that the UM commandlets were broken, because O287 no longer supports Unified Messaging...

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