Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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Re: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Apr 07, 2016 3:29 pm

Weird thing this morning. As I said, I don't do tech support anymore. Translation: I do it once in a while, because money is money.

A guy came with his new, super laptop. ThinkPad X1 Gen 4, shiny and chrome. Spent 4 and half hours on it because:

1) He wanted Arch and we had to deal with this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110941
2) He wanted i3 and we had to deal with this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xr ... leshooting
3) He wanted Vim and he had to deal with me talking 2 hours about another editor

That said, wow. What a morning.

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Re: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Apr 08, 2016 7:27 am

Wow, well that is pretty nice linux tech support, hope you charge by the hour :)
install ubuntu and rename the lsb_release.. :D
Let me guess - vim Vs emacs ? I hope you didn't charge for that :P
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Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Apr 08, 2016 8:43 am

^ Nah, I install whatever the customer wants, so I put vim. Just couldn't resist talking about my preferred choice.
And yes, I charge by the hour.

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Unread post by rhowaldt » Fri Apr 08, 2016 2:15 pm

look at who is getting rich off FOSS software bugs :D
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Apr 08, 2016 2:34 pm

ahhh the secret money making model. of course.

ms office 365 and azure, expensive to set up just works.
FOSS, costs nothing that much, mostly works until something breaks horribly then we come and fix/reinstall
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:40 pm

me again.
So 'Martin' wants a subdomain adding, not sure what they want with it - so time to clarify:
Hi Jim.
A copy please.
Regards,
Martin.

> Subject: [ticketID] New sub-domain for Martin server
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:04:19 -0400
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Yeah, that'll be fine - do you just want that as a copy of the staging
(or
> live?) site and db? Or a blank vhost?
>
> Jim
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS MOTHERFUCKER!!!

I replied with a yes/no question.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:54 am

I love these ones:
customer wrote:I still can't get in. If using SFTP is the port 22. I am sure I using the
correct password.
I wrote:I wouldn't personally disagree with you, but 'the computer says no':
Jul 15 11:06:53 share sshd[28032]: Failed password for donkeycock from 12.234.234.234 port 54573 ssh2
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Re: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Unread post by ChefIronBelly » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:29 pm

wuxmedia wrote:donkeycock
I haven't used that in years. ;)
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jul 15, 2016 2:07 pm

^ that's probably because your password is wrong :)
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Jul 20, 2016 9:09 am

With regards to the site outage this morning (around 8am - 8:30 am BST)
Team Manager wrote:A major PoP in the London Docklands has experienced a power failure this morning. This affected many UK providers' traffic, and is still causing disruption; after some minutes, We began routing again across its redundant connectivity - however, other providers, sites and broadband connections may still be experiencing significant network outages and packet-loss unrelated to Us.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:58 pm

^ ah, and I was blaming my Commies :D
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jul 29, 2016 2:51 pm

nope - good ol' fashioned fuck up, plain and simple.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:41 am

one for me, ubuntu 16.04 on a server, fail2ban doesn't appear to ship (or install) in a useable state, ie it doesn't ban anything.
debian ships with it banning ssh by default, which if any of you have looked at an auth.log on a public facing server... is crazy.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Mon Nov 21, 2016 1:42 pm

asked a colleague for help, got this:
tecsup.jpg
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Unread post by vic » Mon Nov 21, 2016 4:11 pm

^Thank you, it gave me a very needed LOL.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:04 am

you are welcome :)
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Dec 02, 2016 6:42 pm

Got a request from a company wanting to change or remove IPs... had to ask why exactly. Turns out they need to astroturf for some of their clients...and the media gets upset about it... no way dude :) Shaaady
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Nov 21, 2017 10:18 am

just haven't had one of this level of wrong before:
customer wrote: I have put a database, ExampleDB.sql in my public folder and would like to be able to connect to it.
I’ve tried using the file’s URL and my server user name and password on port 22 but connection fails. What am I doing wrong, please?
sql isn't a flat file database BTW.
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Unread post by franksinistra » Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:32 am

^ that's rather refreshing... lol
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Mon Nov 27, 2017 9:39 am

I mean, I thought he was a fairly compentent user.. Like - there are things out there which will allow to run mysql-esque commands on a normal file, and probably flat databases (not mysql though) but yeah turns out he wanted to share it with someone, with a proprietary business software..
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