Zemplar - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Synology DS220+ 8TB 2x4TB (Score 1) 135

by Zemplar on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:37AM (#64717676) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Network-Attached Storage Setup Do You Use?

I always set my own, setting up samba and nfs shares backed up by mdraid or zfs isn't rocket science you know so no need for FreeNAS, TrueNAS, Openmediavault, Unraid etc. either. I just use whatever old computer I have in my junk room for the file server and install Slackware or Debian on it.

Similar setup. Using some old but great enterprise PCIe SSDs (with backup power capacitors) for the main storage, older Xeon powered workstation with ECC memory, and ZFS of course; running Alma Linux. Not just backup or storage, but runs VMs, media server, and a few other things. Rock solid, inexpensive, and just works.

Comment Re:leaked account credentials (Score 1) 82

by Zemplar on Saturday July 13, 2024 @08:17AM (#64622923) Attached to: AT&T Says Criminals Stole Phone Records of 'Nearly All' Customers in New Data Breach

"Snowflake blamed the data thefts on its customers for not using multi-factor authentication to secure their Snowflake accounts, a security feature that the cloud data giant did not enforce or require its customers to use. "

Was MFA was made available by Snowflake and AT&T didn't use it? If so, inexcusably dumb.

Exactly that. MFA has been available in Snowflake for some time.

Comment Will be a success with only one function (Score 3, Funny) 21

by Zemplar on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:14PM (#64222372) Attached to: Apple Releases MGIE, an AI Model for Instruction-Based Image Editing

"Enhance"

Comment Re:Surprising for a red state (Score 1) 59

by Zemplar on Monday December 20, 2021 @04:03PM (#62100363) Attached to: Florida Manatees Facing Starvation to Be Fed in Trial Program

If you get these fat lazy beasts dependent on government handouts, they'll never fend for themselves.

Wow, I didn't know Democrats could hold their breath that long!

Comment Re:Head of Deception at Microsoft (Score 1) 100

by Zemplar on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:50PM (#62011313) Attached to: Attackers Don't Bother Brute-forcing Long Passwords, Microsoft Engineer Says

Now there's a sensible title.

Title? I figured that would be an entire department.

Comment Re:Improves or reduces the size? (Score 1) 54

by Zemplar on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:32AM (#61795121) Attached to: Facebook Unveils Superpack, a New Compression Technique

Given a smaller size for binary data saves on disk space, "improving" the size of something is synonymous with reducing the size, you autist.

Maybe you have plenty of storage space, so lower CPU load compressing/uncompressing files "improves" the files by reducing time to read/write and using less power? Wait, who's the "autist?"

Comment Re:Need the unvaccinated infection rate to compare (Score 0) 143

by Zemplar on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:02PM (#61280970) Attached to: 99.992% of Fully Vaccinated People Have Dodged COVID, CDC Data Shows

Mod parent up. Money was funneled by the government for every COVID case. So guess what? The number of cases and deaths is completely inflated.

Comment What's Hunter Biden's Cut (Score -1, Troll) 282

by Zemplar on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:34AM (#61220766) Attached to: Biden Details $2 Trillion Plan To Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy

Probably will have to check the details, off-shore entities, and other "hidden" money transfer routes, but bet Hunter's getting his share.

Comment Re:iPhone 12 was lame (Score 1) 101

by Zemplar on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:25PM (#60607414) Attached to: Apple Fibs About iPhone 12 Pricing To Promote Wireless Carriers

What use is 120hz refresh on a 5 inch phone?

It kills your battery faster.

Comment Re:Why an app (Score 2) 222

by Zemplar on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:08AM (#59697340) Attached to: Motherboard Publishes 'Shadow' App That Blew Up the Iowa Caucus

You literally enter 5 numbers, three of them being passwords. Why the hell is this an app? Just make a fucking webpage.

If I had a million mod points, you'd have them all. Exactly this.

Comment Re: why Joyent exists (Score 1) 87

by Zemplar on Monday February 11, 2019 @10:23PM (#58107474) Attached to: Doomsday Docker Security Hole Uncovered

Severely underrated comment.

Comment Re:This is the 3rd major outage for MS in 3 weeks (Score 1) 72

by Zemplar on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:57PM (#57668872) Attached to: Office 365 Users in Europe, Asia, and Americas Who Have Enabled Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Are Impacted by an Outage

XBox live refused to authenticate digital purchases.
Windows 10 refused to authenticate activations.
Now Office365 refuses to authenticate 2FA.
Bad maintenance or are they being systemically hacked?

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

- Hanlon's razor

Comment Counterfeit Intel NIC? Apparently not. (Score 4, Interesting) 137

by Zemplar on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @06:22PM (#42814349) Attached to: Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death

I'm glad Mr. Kielhofner contacted Intel about this issue and had Intel confirm the bug.

Some years ago I had been diagnosing similar server NIC issues, and after many hours digging, Intel was able to determine the fault was due to the four-port server NIC being counterfeit. Damn good looking counterfeit part! I couldn't tell the difference between a real Intel NIC and counterfeit in front of me. Only with Intel's document specifying the very minor outward differences between a real and known counterfeit could I tell them apart.

Intel NIC debugging step #1 = verify it's a real Intel NIC!

Comment Re:Should have run on OpenBSD (Score 3, Insightful) 46

by Zemplar on Monday November 19, 2012 @03:52PM (#42030579) Attached to: Two FreeBSD Project Servers Hacked

"Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"

A security breech using legitimate authentication credentials is not a remote hole.

Comment Re:All hail the new pay as you breathe model (Score 1) 182

by Zemplar on Monday October 22, 2012 @09:05AM (#41727695) Attached to: Salesforce.com's Benioff Disses Windows 8, Oracle

Salesforce don't like the whole pay for it once and keep it model. They like the pay once a month (SaaS) model. They are also pretty shitty at giving data back when you want it. You can have it but it's a bastard to get it out.

Salesforce makes SQL access difficult (or impossible). They can switch to Postgres without changing their web platform and then open the DBs for reporting, read replication, and sell write access. SQL is still the power-tool of enterprise integration.

False. Salesforce has one of, if not the best, API for any cloud solution. Using their API, SOQL (not pure SQL) is easy and straight forward.

I'm not affiliated with Salesforce, other than a delighted customer where my company of 20k employees utilize their service. In fact, I've personally developed SQL table replication* using SOQL, and it isn't that hard.

* Not "true" database replication, but functionally the same.

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