Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 21, 2024 9:23:07 GMT
We recently went all in on it. Our new Head Of got a 'single pane of glass' bee in his bonnet without realising each product was designed by a different insane person, so all of our tooling, where available, has been switched to MS.
Single Pane of Glass = Single Point of Failure so fingers crossed there is no outage ever.
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askew
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 11:18:19 GMT
I had an email from a Chinese domain registrar informing me a company wished to register several TLDs using my name. They asked if this firm were affiliated to me, and I said “no”.
Now somebody from that firm has contacted me basically saying they will push the purchase through. I mean sure, if you want to buy my name (which has nothing to do with the business), go for it.
Is this some sort of elaborate scam?
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 2, 2024 11:41:59 GMT
Is your email address like firstname.lastname@gmail.com? I get loads of shite through from being old enough to have got first dibs in the gmail beta.
I get all the billing and notifications for a namecheap account for a ‘gas monkey garage’ type place in the American Deep South
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Post by Dougs on Apr 2, 2024 11:57:27 GMT
Ha, I get loads of those too, although more to my 2nd Gmail. Just ignore them for the most part. Even had one informing me of funeral details for someone. Which seemed legit but who knows.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 2, 2024 12:15:52 GMT
Hah, +1 for the random redneck garage emails!
I used a full stop when setting it up and didn't know at the time it was redundant. I've only ever used the address with the dot in, but 90% of the spam I get is for the address without a dot in it.
I just ended up setting up a rule to auto delete anything sent to the dotless address.
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askew
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 12:35:42 GMT
Nah, it’s for my real domain (ie my portfolio etc). The registrar seemed legit. The company wishing to buy myname.com.cn does not
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 2, 2024 13:15:24 GMT
OIC. Well, if it’s china, if they want it they will just take it. I’m surprised you even got a warning email.
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askew
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 14:18:06 GMT
Yeah, I was surprised at that. Here’s the text from both parties:
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nazo
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Post by nazo on Apr 2, 2024 14:45:05 GMT
I also get loads of random red neck garage emails, delivery notifications etc. I reckon I’ve got enough personal info on some of my namesakes to commit identity fraud if I was so inclined. How do these cretins not notice they aren’t getting any confirmation emails?
If I were to delay someone’s delivery would I be committing a crime?
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askew
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 15:08:38 GMT
Probably some sort of “computer misuse”
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Post by 😎 on Apr 29, 2024 16:57:55 GMT
I finally caved and bought a 3D Printer. It was simultaneously easier and harder to sort than I thought. The setup was just super easy, calibration took seconds and after that it’s pretty much fire and forget from the hardware level, and the print quality is really surprising, more detail than even a lot of decent mini games. From the software level it’s a pain in the dick though. I get that different printers have very different configs and resins and all that, but I seriously wish it could be closer to “download stl, hit print”, but everything I’ve tried so far has needed tweaking and arranging and scaling. It’s not terrible, but surprised how little it seems to have progressed since I dabbled on a friend’s device several years ago.
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 29, 2024 19:23:26 GMT
My friends wife calls it ‘knitting for middle aged men’. And, yeah, like collecting vinyl half the ‘charm’ is that it’s a complete pain in the arse involving enormous amounts of fucking around to try and perfect your setup. I does seem to depend on how much you’re willing to spend, though. I’m not into mine for much money so it requires a lot of dicking around. It’s the raspberry pi ghetto printer to some of the more expensive MacBook level ones.
I am over the novelty now, though and just print things with utility like cable tidies and record stands. I’ve also given up on trying to get the perfect first layer and just lather the build plate in pritt stick.
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Post by 😎 on May 1, 2024 15:39:39 GMT
Had my first print failure yesterday, but mostly my fault. I wanted to see how little tinkering I could get away with on some random models off thingiverse, literally just download stl and fire off. Turns out without supports and angling, it just kind of collapses.
Kind of tempted to get a filament printer now, as resin is terrific for tabletop minis, but kind of sucky for things like organizers and utility tools.
I'm sure this is a thrilling update for everyone.
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Post by dfunked on May 1, 2024 15:49:21 GMT
This is almost as riveting as someone talking about their new air fryer...
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cubby
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Post by cubby on May 1, 2024 16:07:59 GMT
Make sure when downloading stl's you use protection.
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Post by X201 on Jun 12, 2024 14:33:33 GMT
Had my work laptop for years and have accumulated various installs of Microsoft Office.
It’s been causing the odd problem every now and then when I go to install or alter a new part of Office, so today I was forced to bite the bullet and clean it up.
Tried manually, but there were still bits hanging around so launched to Office removal tool to do a thorough job.
Over an hour later and it’s still going after finding various versions and components of Office.
Edit: Two and a half hours later and it’s still going. It’s worked its way through Office 2010, 2007, 2016 and 2013 (in that order) even though I don’t think I had any remnants of those left.
If this thing isn’t faster than Speedy Gonzales when I reboot, I’ll be well cheesed off
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askew
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Post by askew on Jul 19, 2024 8:53:32 GMT
gg Crowdstrike
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dmukgr
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Post by dmukgr on Jul 19, 2024 9:06:12 GMT
Meanwhile X201 is still waiting for his reboot to complete.
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X201
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Post by X201 on Jul 19, 2024 9:16:08 GMT
Yep, totally screwed my plan for a quiet Friday
Almost back up and running, just waiting for a server to finish its error collection and reboot routine.
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Post by zephro on Jul 19, 2024 12:34:08 GMT
I've had a perfectly smug day. Largely directed at the head of IT who keeps suggesting we switch to Windows Server because he doesn't get Linux.
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rftp
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Post by rftp on Jul 30, 2024 7:06:51 GMT
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jul 30, 2024 13:38:32 GMT
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rftp
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Post by rftp on Jul 30, 2024 13:43:10 GMT
Quick, someone get George Kurtz on the phone!
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Post by 😎 on Jul 30, 2024 13:50:37 GMT
gray’s on his way to fix it
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jul 30, 2024 13:58:59 GMT
At least it’s only every bit of client-facing software we have that’s inaccessible.
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cubby
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Post by cubby on Jul 30, 2024 14:02:58 GMT
Somehow our website and inventory system is still working despite running entirely on azure.
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jul 30, 2024 14:21:45 GMT
Our .co.uk site is patchy. It seems quite intermittent
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mcmonkeyplc
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Jul 30, 2024 14:29:44 GMT
I hope this isn't our doing /o\
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Post by dfunked on Jul 30, 2024 19:21:25 GMT
Suddenly our vague BCP of "well we can just fail over to another region OBVIOUSLY" isn't looking too hot when you can't even access the portal, and every other region had the same issues anyway.
Glad that's not my problem and I just get to be an annoying armchair twat.
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rftp
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Post by rftp on Jul 31, 2024 12:46:42 GMT
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