Re: "bursty traffic"
Ah, yes the Slashdot effect, when a story links to a resource not equipped to handle incoming tsunami of clicks. Kind of a poor man’s DoS…
Posts by chivo243
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Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god
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GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal
Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network
FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges
CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it
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Windows 11 23H2 is a Teams effort but Microsoft already spoiled the best bits
X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk
After nine servers he worked on failed, techie imagined next career as beach vendor
Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable
Ask a builder to fix a server and out come the vastly inappropriate power tools
BOFH: Adventures in overenthusiastic automation
13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal
GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt
CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon
Teens take a million metaverse Ryanair flights in Roblox
Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected
Still got a job at the end of this week? You're lucky, as more layoffs hit the tech industry
Sunday 22nd October 2023 22:16 GMT 
Re: No poets got fired last week.
Why can’t you be the guy that interviews me? :-)
I’ve been interviewing for some time, had many phone interviews by non technical hiring staff who had no idea what the questions they asked meant. No I don’t know O365, but I’ve used enough directory/account applications like AD,OD, GSuite etc. that it won’t take very long to pick it up…
More X subscription tiers could spell doom for free access as biz bleeds cash
Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control
BYOD should stand for bring your own disaster, according to Microsoft ransomware data
No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center
How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
Long-lost 1977 Star Wars X-Wing prop discovered – lock s-foils in bid position
Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up
Monday 11th September 2023 20:22 GMT
Re: Offline mode?
I once supported* POS devices that did exactly that, when connection to the mothership was lost, it began buffering, but there was a limit as I recall. I'm so glad those days are behind me.
*Went as far as unplugging the offending USB peripheral and plugging it back in again. Rebooting the underlying Windows, or reading the error code over the phone to the helpdesk.
Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically
Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles
PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin
Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong?
Monday 4th September 2023 22:46 GMT
Oh, you know...
Back when I was an MCSA candidate(easy route) I was entrusted with a cluster of windows servers running Exchange and File services, one day the cluster had lost some luster, and my boss said move file service to the other node and we'll reboot it... I failed over (love that term! Failover) the files to the other node (I'd done it dozens of times, a no brainer really), and it didn't do much of anything except render any file services limper than a whisky dick... The phone rang, it was the finance director, I looked at my boss and said it's for you!
Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye
We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald's machines always broken?
BOFH: What a beautiful tinfoil hat, Boss!
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation
Friday 1st September 2023 12:39 GMT
My Documents redirected
Long ago when only desktops roamed the earth, I worked at a place where My Documents was redirected to be the p:\ on the server.... No one was supposed to save anything locally, it was NOT backed up! Our thinking was: we're not backing up 300 desktops, when we can back up a couple of servers. Any issues on the desktop was a nuke a pave, pull your profile down from the server and move on. We had one new employee, stored all his work in a folder on his desktop. We saw this and pointed out our set up, and told him any local data was not backed up, and we're not responsible for it... You guessed it boys and girls, his pc needed a nuke and pave, and all his work was on that desktop... I was in a meeting about his disaster, long enough to confirm that I had done my part telling him NOT to save locally. I was excused and never heard another peep about it.
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu
Wordpress sells 100-year domain, hosting plan for $38K
Windows screensaver left broadcast techie all at sea
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