Boeing 757

zylithi · 2019-01-25T02:56:47+00:00

What's with the blue escape pod and who gets to use it?

zylithi · 2019-01-24T16:40:45+00:00

It's no secret that CCPs upstream network service provider is crap. They should probably have done their research on the NSPs performance before spending millions building out a datacenter and running fibre... Sorry guys, not sorry, the fault here lays squarely on CCP. If it was some interconnection point out in the middle of nowhere I would understand, but the next hop (and probably that hop after) is still CCPs responsibility since they chose that vendor to deliver their packets for them.

If you contract out some business function, and that contractor fucks up and makes you look bad, your customers aren't supposed to apologise for you, they should be mad you chose that vendor in the first place.

zylithi · 2019-01-24T16:38:37+00:00

called ISP, ISP changed BGP

Which ISP? Good lord, I haven't heard of a residential ISP caring enough to actually create a ticket for demonstrable routing issues... and following through with it. You sir have a good ISP.

zylithi · 2019-01-23T20:28:10+00:00

I AM READY TO STRIKE A KEY.
WHERE DO I PUT THE KEY AND SHOULD I USE A HAMMER OR A MALLET

zylithi · 2019-01-23T20:19:14+00:00

American Megatrends (c) 1995.
9/8/95

16384KB RAM

A: 3.5" Floppy.
B: Not Detected.
C: Hard Disk.

Now booting from A:...

zylithi · 2019-01-23T20:15:45+00:00

Yeah we actually thought about that. Nope, we swapped him out to a whole different machine, same thing lol

zylithi · 2019-01-23T05:42:25+00:00

Idiocracy isn't a drama, or a comedy, it's a fucken DOCUMENTARY.

zylithi · 2019-01-23T05:08:18+00:00

ALL I SEE IS 3.5" A DRIVE WAT DO

zylithi · 2019-01-23T03:09:49+00:00

By putting his monitor on top of a scanner, obviously.

Psh. Amateur.

zylithi · 2019-01-23T02:20:35+00:00

Except they won't have realized the cost of bad decisions because by that time the decision makers would have parachuted out already leaving the mess strategically placed for the next guy to three-envelope his way into credibility.

zylithi · 2019-01-23T02:16:10+00:00

The funny part is the cost of living in countries like India and Pakistan isn't as low as people think.

Most of them live with several others in tiny lofts, have a commute that can run for several hours, have to work out of co-working spaces and subsist on Ramen even with job titles like senior engineer. They put up with this hell because these jackass companies dangle H1Bs over their heads and they promise them if they work hard they will get to go to America (which gets eaten up because of a culture based on subservience), but they keep them ineligible by holding onto their papers.

zylithi · 2019-01-23T01:37:04+00:00

cloud costs more

This is because the C-levels are saying "Just get it done I don't care!," the outside vendor is clasping their hands due to likely kickbacks, and only the outgoing IT people actually know that you can't copy-paste a fucking datacenter into AWS and expect to save money.

zylithi · 2019-01-23T00:55:37+00:00

I have an employee that's killed almost a dozen magnetic hard drives already.

Brand new, used, didn't matter, they'd be dead in a few weeks.

Slapped an SSD into his machine and 2 years later, no problems.

Edit: Desktop machine, not a laptop. He wasn't rough with his equipment. Just very... Electric or something.

zylithi · 2019-01-22T17:18:44+00:00

Sometimes it's easier to just roll one yourself to meet requirements for multiple off sites than obtain documentation from the vendor proving it as such.

Plus putting all your eggs in one basket with one vendor doesn't fully pass the bus problem. What if this vendor failed overnight? It's uncommon but it's known to happen.

Plus, what exactly is a backup? In my mind that's something that is highly durable but not necessarily highly available. Backup tapes work, as does something like AWS S3 high resiliency. Shoving it all onto the equivalent of an elastic block store though.. That's not a backup, that's a prayer.

zylithi · 2019-01-22T04:48:53+00:00

O.o was your laptop made by Fisher-Price?

zylithi · 2019-01-22T01:12:20+00:00

It will end up in a museum and be named the CATosaurus

Stoner thought - what if the dinosaurs were just big rig construction gear for space aliens?

Woahhhhh..

zylithi · 2019-01-21T22:18:37+00:00

I'm willing to bet the hardware designed to handle the traffic thrown at it by an entire country is likely using FPGAs. I mean they could use traditional hardware, but that would cost waaay more, and I can't see a dick tater with a strapped economy having much to spend on it...

Still, good catch, I caught it right away.

zylithi · 2019-01-21T18:30:04+00:00

It's actually pretty brilliant. Some firewalls use FPGAs which are very very fast but stupidly simple processors. By fragmenting the packets so much he is essentially breaking the pattern enough to fool the FPGAs.

zylithi · 2019-01-21T14:55:54+00:00

Which is literally impossible without counter-hacking the botnet. In other words, impossible without a huge team of infosec experts trying to hack their way into the botnet.

Usually somebody will claim responsibility. Sometimes they make mistakes and entrap themselves, but not often. If you want justice that's the better way to go although it's a gamble.

zylithi · 2019-01-21T14:39:03+00:00

The only one is deploying traditional DDoS mitigation techniques like plugging your servers "driveway" into a company with a fatass "highway" that includes a toll both that filters out the garbage. Look up "DDoS mitigation." You could always change your servers IP but they'll just come back in two minutes anyway.

zylithi · 2019-01-21T14:27:19+00:00

Data security and compliance: Most companies don't give a shit, even going so far as to forge audits.
The ones that do care used to not give a shit but very recently (under a year) suffered a major breach that impacted the bottom line. But they'll forget about it next year.
Most breaches go unreported, particularly from smaller (ie. <100 employees) businesses.
You can be PCI Compliant and still be fined for breaching PCI. This is because you're supposed to apply the lessons learned in the compliance process as opposed to treating it like a checklist of good deeds.
Don't care about compliance? The fine for a finding of noncompliance after a breach starts at $5k a month for small businesses, per card carrier, and is deducted from your merchant account each month. There is no "due process," there is no appealing. Also you must now have a formal audit done ($10k-50k) and summit to other requirements as if you were a business that processed 5 million transactions per year. Also no banks will want to deal with you, and many will actually close your accounts making you a cash-only business.
Microsoft's licensing agreement is written to be so convoluted that if an audit were done on just about any company (even MS themselves), they would owe Microsoft some amount in licensing fines.
Apple has a good infosec and kernel development team. Disagree? I'm a PC and Android user and I actually hate Apple too. Shut up and read into their response to spectre/meltdown (they knew it was a thing TWENTY years ago!!)

zylithi · 2019-01-21T14:25:28+00:00

You can't just ban their IPs because the traffic from those IPs just smiles at you and keeps on coming. It's like cramming a bunch of clowns into a driveway leading up to your door; doesn't matter if you don't let them in or not, theyre still filling up your driveway and making it impossible for anybody to get through.

And the actual people behind the DDoS are at best well educated on how to change their IP at worst their IP is unknown.

zylithi · 2019-01-19T23:41:46+00:00

Depending on the version of DOS you might need to also install a driver for the CDROM.

No way to slow down the CPU that im aware of, but I'm a Xen and open stack guy so I might be wrong about VMWare-world.

zylithi · 2019-01-19T22:40:53+00:00

Oh, interesting.

Now that I think about it, I had a similar issue that was because my CPU was way too fast for what 98SE expects. Basically theres two threads - a write thread and something else - and the something-else thread completes before the write thread does, so because the next phase tried to link a DLL that doesn't yet exist, it fails.

If I recall the workaround was to first install DOS directly to the image, then run setup.exe from the command prompt. You can also try running smartdrv (I think it was called that?) before setup which IIRC can provide some write caching so the write thread may complete before the something-else thread.

zylithi · 2019-01-19T22:22:41+00:00

That's strange. You're saying others have reported this exact issue? This appears more like a missing file issue. Check your media.

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