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Is it just me, or does this recent spate of internet outages and brownouts seem oddly coincidental? Cloudflare the other day, the Book of Face and Google yesterday, and Apple today.
TTFN - Kent
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It has made a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And mine - I hadn't noticed any of them!
And I use Google!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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it is a new kind of market analyse for such big companies...
Depending on how many people start yelling at the missing XXX, they determine how much likely are they users to sell their souls to them for peanuts.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ah right. I forgot, the answer is always pr0n. 
TTFN - Kent
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I haven{t noticed anything anf my wife{s Netflix has been just fine!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Sorry, I was taking ALL the bandwidth while browsing... CodeProject... 
I'm done (for today), so expect no further outages (at least until tomorrow)
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BattleNet caused grief to Australian (QLD and SA) players also those last 2 days...
We are all dooooooooooooomed! 
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Did you try to switch it off and on again ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Nah - if I were to try that with the Book of Face, I’d just leave it off.
Might get a medal or something. 
TTFN - Kent
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(a FIFY not to be taken personally, but definitely required: )Kent Sharkey wrote: Nah - if I were to try that with the Book of Face, I’d just leave it off.
Might get a medal life or something.
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No coincident, there's a little war going on with an unnamed country in the middle east.
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As you know by now, if you're still playing PE, our lobby server had an issue where all the code base got deleted from its server. After trying to fix it for the last month, we've arrived at the unfortunate conclusion that it's a lost cause unless we completely rewrite the code from scratch. We used a software called U-link for PE, and that software is now defunct. Even if we had the original U-link code, we still don't have the configurations and additional code we wrote back in 2013. Under the circumstances, we just don't have the resources to rewrite the multiplayer code for PE. We're truly sorry for this.
...but the devops slideshow I flicked through from clickbait times while doing a number 2 said I didn't need to have a sysadmin, what could possibly have gone wrong. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Holy crap, I'm amazed at the "we lost teh codez during an outage" story, but even more amazed at the community who gave it 204 likes and were all like "Too bad, but thanks for the great times!"
Where's the poison and the hate? 
I'm not sure if this restores my faith in humanity or if they've let me down yet again
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They're gamers my dude. They're a friendly bunch... Who use the phrase "Final Solution" casually.
Hmm.
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Code monkey companies who don't maintain adequate backups deserve everything that happens to them.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Our source code is hosted online, so if someone manages to hack MS and delete it it would be gone. But as part of a larger team we still have local copies and could piece things back together. If that fails we could decompile some of exe files, although it won't work that well for the web front end. Guess it wouldn't hurt to have another full source code backup stored somewhere else.
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Same, all my code is on visualstudio.com as well as having a local copy.
This has made me think that maybe I should have another backup though.
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For each build, we create a ZIP of the workspace (minus temporary files) and store it on a separate network drive that replicates to the DR site. (different than the build server and source control server)
As long as you have a laptop or workstation with the correct IDE, you can unzip the workspace and perform a patch in minutes if needed.
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Not a bad idea 
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That's more or less what we have. Code is in hosted repos - mostly Bitbucket - with psuedo-backups in the form of local copies on the machines of whoever's working on the projects. I'm not aware of anything backing up outside of Bitbucket; but it's possible someone has set something up. I'll have to remember to ask about it when I'm back in the office on Monday.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have a client whose business is hosted on a server in his office. He takes backups of the (Sql2005) database every day, with off-site copies taken monthly... and stores it on the server's C: drive. The server is running Win2008, and the application is written in a mix of Classic ASP and ASP.Net running on Framework 2.0. It uses TLS 1.1 protocols for SSL. In the event of a failure of his server's hard drive, or a disaster in the office, even if he had up-to-date copies of the application (there are no backups as such, each file just gets renamed to ..._Back or ..._copy or something - no naming scheme - and a newer version gets copied in), there's no way he'd find an external hosting company with a setup that could be quickly configured, and if replacing his server I'm not even sure I could easily get my hands on the server op system. So it would be a major upgrade / reconfigure at a time of maximum urgency. I've explained this to him many times but he still says he's trying to "justify the expenditure".
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If it might help light a fire under your clients seat, Jan 14 2020 is Server 2008's end of life which means that early next year his system is almost certain to get pwnd.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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ha ha... you're assuming he's applying MS security updates!
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At a former position, we discovered that the new way of doing backups produced empty backups. Oops. Fortunately, problem fixed before they were needed.
As somebody once told me, "Nobody cares about backups. Restores, on the other hand...".
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