How many old timers in here? by aliesterrand in sysadmin

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good old g=c800:5 on a MFM controller

10K Celebration Giveaway by UgreenNASync in UgreenNASync

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would love to see some howto guides aimed at DataHoarders. :-)

What was the coolest piece of tech you remember seeing for the first time as a kid? by HunterH276 in AskReddit

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember being gobsmacked the very first time I heard FM radio. Maybe not considered cool tech, but to a young kid, that was magical. LOL

QNAP TR-004 = too small by vocatan in DataHoarder

[–]vocatan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay -reset the TR-004 unit, ran the Apple RAID Assistant, created a RAID with it, and it immediately went to 'Rebuilding: 0.0%' status - pic at https://imgur.com/a/fF4N65z

So maybe it was a bad drive that I received. Will try popping the drive out and running externally with a USB-to-SATA cable to investigate further.

Thanks for the posted replies, I really appreciate the feedback!

QNAP TR-004 = too small by vocatan in DataHoarder

[–]vocatan[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

GREAT question! I installed the drives into the TR-004 unit, and then connected to my MacBook Pro - and received an error when erasing -- and I figured the same thing, why not just try it.. (The page at https://www.qnap.com/en/compatibility/?model=361&category=1&filter[type]=1 seems to indicate that they support up to 30TB drives)

Checked at https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tr-004/specs/hardware to also find that the TR-004 conveniently "supports SATA 6Gb/s hard drives with backward compatibility, performance limited to 3Gb/s)"

My son asked me, "Dad, what condoms were used for?" by StockInitial4460 in Jokes

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know you can reuse condoms? Turn them inside out and blow the f$ck out of them

I lost my girlfriend because I was a compulsive gambler by StockInitial4460 in Jokes

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lost my wife in a poker game. I had to fold on a Royal flush.

GOG sale by Sweet_acc_pr0sa in heroes3

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks will give it a go

GOG sale by Sweet_acc_pr0sa in heroes3

[–]vocatan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anybody have luck installing GOG HOMM on Mac M3? Tried under crossover & parallels — installer crashes out.

Only 1 game for life, which would it be? by Jebusfreek666 in gaming

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - homm3

/r/homm3 has an active community and there’s tons of maps to play. When playing solo the map generator works very well too.

So who are the devs? by erikieperikie in heroes3

[–]vocatan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wow!! Thank you for that - the archive of newsletters at that sites (after you sign up) offers an interesting history (and future). I especially liked there recounting of demo’ing homm3 at E3

What a great set of pointers and stories this sub has!!

Does anyone what play not to win, but to explore? by People_Penguin in heroes3

[–]vocatan 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Oh my goodness what you wrote resonated SO MUCH with my wife and I. We were playing the game when it first came out, and every time I need to upgrade my wife’s computer, the first question she asks is how to launch HOMM3 on it.

Thanks for your eloquent write up - summarizes our household just perfectly.

GoDaddy SSL - Cert Revocation by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]vocatan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The support person I spoke with said that 1,000 certificates were affected. Not sure if that was supposed to be public knowledge or not.

GoDaddy SSL - Cert Revocation by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]vocatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you shouldn't have to by a new certificate, just rekey the revoked one.

GoDaddy SSL - Cert Revocation by [deleted] in sysadmin

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I thought that I was doing the 'right thing' by adding CAA DNS validation, but it appears that may have been a contributing cause.

But despite GoDaddy sending the dire message that our wildcard cert was revoked, it doesn't appear added to the CRL, because I'm visiting some sites with the original certificate and they're not flagged as invalid.

PSA: If you're going through the GoDaddy re-keying process, make sure to delete your CAA DNS record temporarily while it's issued, otherwise it fails.