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This community is a place to post your shitty sysadmin adventurers and content. I called it shitty admin because that seemed like a shitty thing to do.

Have a nice day

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I know restoring a domain control from a backup will break things but what would happen if I restored a backup from the future? I have this one crazy uncle (don't we all) that left me a time machine. Would restoring a backup from the future create a paradox?

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What is email, really

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36011626

I can't blame the customer here. Ya, that's the USB in the Ethernet port.

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When I run and crimp cables I always get super horny. How do I stop?

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Bahahaha! 😂😂 Worked for the HQ of a Fortune 500 company. Department went to lunch that Friday and began talking about what prep they had done (none). One guy had bought a few cases of water with his sister.

I lived 1:40 from work and told everyone if the world blew up and they could get to my house we’d eat until it ran out. I mentioned having 450lbs of potatoes under the floor. I drew a map to our house before leaving that afternoon, and made copies for the most gracious, appreciative people ever.

The boss said, “If the world doesn’t end, I want you all back here in the morning.” (only Sat we worked in 3.5 years). From Jan 1, 2000 on they occasionally laughed me to scorn, particularly over the potatoes. “You gonna start distilling vodka?” 😂 When I had enough I’d remind them how groveling and gracious their scared little eyes were on 12/31/1999. 😅

One guy got a screen shot of a navy website which read 1/1/19100 for the date. It was fixed in a few hours. We had been prepping code and testing for months, so we didn’t really expect a disaster on our stuff.

I grew up in the country. I didn’t know anyone without a few 100lbs of potatoes and 2-3 months worth of canned goods. 😂 The poorest people I knew had lived through the Depression. They had a stand of lard and flour cabinet (flour and corn meal) if they had nothing else.

Good times. 👍😎

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1hh9kin/2038_unix_epoch_time_what_happens_after/m2qbfoo/

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I don't have any internet and the lights just glow solid. Is that a indicator of an error?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/shittyadmin@lemmy.zip
 
 

Jason Vorhees
1313 Crystal Lake Rd
206-555-0123

To whom it may concern,

I discovered your Summer Camp Slasher position on StabbedIn, and I would like to know more about this position. I am a relentless killer who is up for a new challenge in murdering teens at camp. I think that I would be a good fit for this position because I have the ability to teleport, survive being shot/stabbed/set on fire, and am a dedicated problem solver.

I have 40 years of experience in menacing camp counsellors and have multiple endorsements from various local police departments. I am a dedicated killer who will keep coming back until the job is done or I am relieved of the position.

I believe this position will be a good fit for me, and I believe I will bring a lot of dread to the camp. Thank you for your consideration for this position, I look forward to meeting to discuss this opportunity and demonstrate my skills. I can be reached at the listed phone number or via email at jvorhees@crystallake.com.

Regards,

Jason Vorhees

Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/13596022

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Maybe swap out some production hardware or change some DNS settings.

Also it is a great time for updates

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Part of my email which I sent to the department (nearly 200 people, including the VP) said "...and then we can overcome our obstacles", but for some reason I wrote it "and then we can overcome our testicles". This just happened. I have no idea what to do now. Please help!

Reddit

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Like all the best technology departments, I'm a one man army rockstar. That's a problem when I'm a bottle of everclear deep into my holiday plans, and I don't think I can get away with hiding another replacement cellphone in the budget if I throw mine in the lake again.

So how do you guys keep everything running while you're out?

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What is wrong with the workers of today?!?!? They all seem to fear death and aren't willing to die to protect the company. They just run away instead of fighting to protect company assets.

We had a security event and I ordered all the IT staff to take up arms and to protect the data center. Almost all of them refused. What the heck guys! I need you to fight to protect. It is just a little fire fight after all.

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I want to spread my WiFi all over the building. How do I do that?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21919909

Doing a PhD in humanities and enjoy it. I’ve recently really started to enjoy Linux, self hosting, and messing around with various lab stuff.

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Update: fixed

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Now we process 0 transactions/second.

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The CEO’s nephew has been promoted to CTO because he installed FoxIT on a laptop. Now they’re wanting to embrace AI/ML and require all software to use it.

We’ve trained a model on IPv6 addresses. How do I push out self-signed certs for all workstations to accept the model as a driver to perform TCP/IP functions?

Can’t use IPv4 because “CAT5 isn’t backwards-compatible.”

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The title gave me a laugh

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21745509

My internet connection is getting upgraded to 10 Gbit next week. I’m going to start out with the rental router from the ISP, but my goal is to replace it with a home-built router since I host a bunch of stuff and want to separate my out home Wi-Fi, etc onto VLANs. I’m currently using the good old Ubiquiti USG4. I don’t need anything fancy like high-speed VPN tunnels (just enough to run SSH though), just routing IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling (MAP-E with a static IP) as the new connection is IPv6 native.

After doing a bit of research the Lenovo ThinkCenter M720q has caught my eye. There are tons of them available locally and people online seem to have good luck using them for router duties.

The one thing I have not figured out is what CPU option I should go for? There’s the Celeron G4900T (2 core), Core i3 8100T (4 core), and Core i5 (6 core). The former two are pretty close in price but the latter costs twice as much as anything else.

Doing research I get really conflicting results, with half of people saying that just routing IP even 10 Gbit is a piece of cake for any decently modern CPU and others saying they experienced bottlenecks.

I’ve also seen comments mentioning that the BSD-based routing platforms like pfSense are worse for performance than Linux-based ones like OpenWRT due to the lack of multi-threading in the former, I don’t know if this is true.

Does anyone here have any experience routing 10 Gbit on commodity hardware and can share their experiences?

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I'm trying to build software from source. To do that I need g++. However, I can't get past this step (I keep hitting n)

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Help, I messed up the Pacman db and now a meeting with HR is inevitable

spoiler/s obviously

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