Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

It's that time of year again.

Is your computer safe from Main Battle Tanks?
https://youtu.be/rSvBFm_MuXw

Don't ask questions, just enjoy

https://youtu.be/sZsJyCyGBSI

I don't know how the test pilots stay so calm. I had sweaty palms just watching this. They basically snap roll a commercial jet.

https://youtu.be/L2CsO-Vu7oc

Hahaha, oh AI you never cease to amaze.
https://youtu.be/mDH2KD8V5Ys
@janellecshane

It's a lot cooler but the mozzies are out in force. Bitey wee bastards.

The widebody twins finally won.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/08/british-airways-last-two-747s-make-final-flights-from-heathrow

The antechamber to the datacenter has a strong smell of sterilizing alcohol. My muscles tighten anticipating a needle being stuck in me, such is the strength of this association.

https://twitter.com/Pipsk1/status/1313797457453764608?s=20

I have seen this only once before, and that was with a single disk that died then came back to life when taken out and put back in.

Every physical disk (6 in all) in a VD went to failure thus killing the whole VD. What's odd is that on reseating them and importing the now foreign config it went back to normal.

Had the strangest PERC 800 failure today, luckily not serious and not on a busy server.

And not all software plays well with it, not the free stuff anyway. Anything that authenticates via prototypical linux/UNIX methods needs to be able to talk to the PAM stack.

But the simple fact is while it works via SSSD and PAM black magic it needs careful organization and thought at the domain level and nobody is willing to do that so fuck it.

Essentially the boss made this argument a while back that it is absurd we have this perfectly good authentication infrastructure and why weren't we using it? I went a bit FOSS warrior in response which of course always fails.

A lot of VM testing of Linux with AD auth. It's come a Long way in the lat five years but I've had a very curious reaction to it all and don't like how much I need to rely on AD admins. I'd rather do the bit of extra work and just use more traditional methods. Am I just being reactionary?

I had no idea Trumph bicycles started in Coventry and Nuremberg. I was puzzled by the description of the Nuremberg bombing raid targeting the Triumph factory...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_(TWN)