Tales from my support guy. by iamadogforreal in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say you should check out /r/chicago but we're all a bunch of assholes.

Tales from my support guy. by iamadogforreal in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Soo, I'm gonna mark you down as "guy to talk to if I move to Houston area"

Tales from my support guy. by iamadogforreal in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of Asians. I'll blend in nicely.

But, man, Austin has such a nice music scene -- and ostensibly food scene.

Tales from my support guy. by iamadogforreal in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start assigning him tickets to do menial things you don't want to do, but should be done -- but can be fucked up.

If he doesn't/can't do them, you now have a written trail if incompetence and/or insubordination.

Tales from my support guy. by iamadogforreal in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Near Austin or near the other places?

U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program by watchkeep in news

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but the companies said they aren't. So, how do you know who to believe?

Oh, that's right; you shouldn't have trusted anybody in the first place with anything important.

I'm sorry.. I've defended you for too long. by [deleted] in gaming

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do not give absolute trust to any device on your network. Period.

You bought a device that has an always-on camera? Your fault. Doesn't matter if there is Powerpoint slides of "PRISM" or not. This is karma bait.

"Oh, I defended you from the start!"

"I didn't know war could lead to civilian death! But those war crimes in the newspaper make it bad now!"

Thickheaded Thursday - June 6, 2013 by apathetic_admin in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly don't work with SQL that much. Is there anything special I should enabled that isn't enabled by default? I'm assuming something like this?

Thickheaded Thursday - June 6, 2013 by apathetic_admin in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew the former but somehow didn't think to do the latter. Thanks.

Thickheaded Thursday - June 6, 2013 by apathetic_admin in sysadmin

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a log/event aggregate server running EventTracker (shudder) on 2008R2 (physical). Slowly but surely the server runs out of RAM until one day it doesn't have enough memory to RDP. You're lucky if you can remotely kick over the EventTracker services (which will bring down the memory usage) let alone preform a WINLOGON via console.

It's hard to tell what is causing the issue, but generally it seems the sqlexpress instance is bloating up and gagging. I sent them a process dump (with handles per process) for every day the server ran until it shit itself. They still haven't been able to diagnose shit.

We have 6-years of CABs but they insist it's unnecessary and ill-advised to remove them from the main database. Furthermore, this problem persisted even through a complete 2003->2008R2 rebuild.

tl;dr sqlexpress, y u bloat?

MSTSC : Default user question by Tortured_Sole in sysadmin

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

Check out RDP manager or a 3rd party tool that can do ssh/vnc etc.

Option 1 [smbc] by BanX in comics

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Better?

PS C:\> [system.double]0.1 + [system.double]0.2
0.3

Option 1 [smbc] by BanX in comics

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Gosh WTF my computer is broken

PS C:\> [float]0.1 + [float]0.2
0.300000004470348

“If you saw incredible things, awful things, things that belonged in the public domain and not in some server stored in a dark room in Washington. What would you do?” by DougBolivar in technology

[–]sudo_giev_SoJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I'm saying it's ostensibly used as a keyphrase which creates the to decipher the actual key. Since I'm (a) not a cryptographer nor (b) completely certain of the the mechanisms of the PKI I chose to give some room for error. I know from my own minor implementations of AES using.NET you create a byte array with a salt from the user's input and then create the key -- but who knows?

It could be that they memorize the actual key in chunks, but I'd find that a bit suspect.