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gladman said:
One of my friends was a director level at Cisco and went to a vm company (hint hint) that was subsumed by another company... I asked how the transition was going and he said, 'our new overlords DON'T BELIEVE in backups. One of their ideas is to move their server farms from 5 locations (spread over a geo) to one (vegas) and how they did it? yep, rented trucks and loaded up the old servers and moved them to vegas. They were 'down' for a couple of weeks while the trucks rolled.

He told me that his boss told him to just enjoy the time during the buyoout and transition and not worry about anything, they'd eventually have projects for him and his team... this is the world.
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:eek::eek::eek:
 
gladman said:
One of my friends was a director level at Cisco and went to a vm company (hint hint) that was subsumed by another company... I asked how the transition was going and he said, 'our new overlords DON'T BELIEVE in backups. One of their ideas is to move their server farms from 5 locations (spread over a geo) to one (vegas) and how they did it? yep, rented trucks and loaded up the old servers and moved them to vegas. They were 'down' for a couple of weeks while the trucks rolled.

He told me that his boss told him to just enjoy the time during the buyoout and transition and not worry about anything, they'd eventually have projects for him and his team... this is the world.
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That doesn't make sense at all.
 
benw said:
Nothing about what Broadcom is doing to Vmware makes sense.
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disagree with that.

VMW is perhaps the last vendor to go to core-based, subscription licensing model. Should have done it 10 years ago when MSFT did it for SQL/Windows Server.

VVF and VCF are similar to CoreCAL/eCAL of MSFT's years past... or their Enterprise Mobility Suite... or even the O365 versions.

None of this is new... it's just new to VMW.
 
Romogo said:
This isn't really related to Microsoft at all. This is 100% a CrowdStrike EDR fuck up. They sent a channel file out that was full of Null. This is essentially a small driver file that is loaded at the kernel level of the OS, BEFORE everything, including the network stack. The kernel attempts to load the null driver and to protect itself, it blue screens, as it is designed to do.

The primary issue here is that this happens before the network stack is loaded, so there is no way to send an updated channel file before the BSOD hence the fix HAS to be manual intervention. The reboots thing may or may not work. I've heard reports of people rebooting 20+ and still nothing. The issue is also more complicated if a whole disk encryption is used like BitLocker.

I don't envy IT right now. :beer: And for the first time I am glad we use Trellix for EDR and not CrowdStrike :laughing::flipoff2:
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Ever since starting at the Forest Service, basically my one complaint has been my "hand me down" laptop which is wayy old and slow as hell because of all the crap on it that ties it into the NCFS cloud or something (all above my head)
When I started I knew enough about computers to attempt to clean it up some to speed it up but didn't have access because I'm just a user, so I got on the phone with IT and together we cleaned it up and sped it up enough to not take 45 minutes to finish booting up anyway. That let me get through all my online training classes and all. It's still slow as hell, but it does what I need it to do, payroll stuff and email, the Firesponse site, etc.. but as old as it is there's no way a county ranger could use it because of all the GIS stuff and all that their computers automatically tie into as well through the VPN or cloud or whatever.
They do updates every so often, and they did one last Thursday night, and I was like well shit.. yet again I'll have to reboot and then clean up whatever bullshit they tried to put on my computer that's too old to handle it. For ONCE, Friday morning I get to work and my computer is fine, but the ACR's laptop is bricked, and still bricked today. I guess mine was too old to get smacked by this issue.
We've tried the multiple reboots on his, and I even tried to mess with it to get it to boot to safe mode, but it won't let me, it's trying to connect to somewhere else before it gets that far is best I can figure and basically IT is gonna have to deal with it.
 
blakes said:
That doesn't make sense at all.
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My friend says it is chaos, but like post covid chaos, nobody cares, and everyone shrugs. He asked about their backup strategy and he was told by a VP that 'nobody really ever recovers from backups, it is a big waste of money.'
 
Co-worker was just went through altanta. Said the terminals were a waste town. Delta is absolutely screwed still and not recovering. People are still trying to get home. Everyone is sleeping next to wall outlets, even in the tunnel. 1000 ish people at a time waiting on help.
 
Slander said:
That would be my dream come true. "Fuck this dude, let's go wheeling" :laughing:
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Friday it was that way. Monday it was kind of that way. Today, I’m like fuck, I actually have shit to get done….then I got over it and said fuck it. I have short glimpses of time where I’m like I need this fixed
 
GonPostal said:
Our son and family were red-eye flying out from California to Georgia last night, and made it as far as their first leg to Denver They had boarded their connection flight to Houston, then were told to deplane due to a "glitch". They slept at the airport. Just found out at 6:30 pm that they finally made to Houston, but there were further delays for final destination to Atlanta. So far they have logged 30 hours of little travel, on what would normally have been a 4.5 hour flight....
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The saga continues....Son and his family were supposed to be flying back to California today (Tuesday). After a 6 hour wait in Atlanta, their flight was ultimately canceled and rescheduled now to Thursday :shaking: Son said that God must be sending him a message not to return back to California :laughing:
 
06h3 said:
Friday it was that way. Monday it was kind of that way. Today, I’m like fuck, I actually have shit to get done….then I got over it and said fuck it. I have short glimpses of time where I’m like I need this fixed
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I had to put a decent effort in to get back online Monday morning. Still took a couple hours via email and calling. :confused:

Buddy said his wife was flying back from France Friday. Landed in Boston and kept getting pushed back. Finally got a rental and started driving Saturday. To SLC. :shocked:
 
Buddy of mine just spent 24 hours in ATL. He was not amused. A 5-1/2 hour trip turned into a 30 hour trip.
 
Jesus Christ.

My counterpart was in Boston trying to get home to Minneapolis Friday AM and got home Saturday evening. I was so thankful that I didn’t travel last week.
 
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