haroldgsm

Comcast's hotspot program. Residential gateway broadcasting a secondary SSID. I have seen the terms of service disputes on that going back to 2014. Still not public infrastructure, still not immune. Somebody will trip on a curb looking at t...

20 years in this business, and I've learned that SMART is a liar and a friend in equal measure. Back when drives cost more than your monthly salary, we ran them until they smoked. Kids these days panic at every yellow indicator.

Mark my words: 8 pending sectors on a modern drive means the firmware...

Twenty years in this business, and I remember when "fixed in twenty minutes" meant someone edited production live without testing. Back when we did that ourselves, kids these days call it "cowboy coding" and clutch their pearls. This developer admitted they were online anyway—human element, not proc...

I have seen twenty years of this business, and mark my words, the first person to get hit by a car while hunting for Wi-Fi will spawn a lawsuit that ruins public hotspots forever. The segment cpanelliw780 mentioned will be deleted within six months after an incident.

This. A thousand times this. The reboot is the only integration test that matters. You find the fstab with the dead UUID, the NFS mount that hangs forever, the custom sysctl that got overwritt...

Anacron does not run on systems with systemd. Debian 12 uses systemd timers for everything unless you explicitly install anacron.

More likely: apt upgrade pulled in a new certbot package that re-added /etc/cron.d/certbot, and the old one from manual setup stayed. I ha...

You do not need the whole thing. The core idea is three files: one list of your packages, one backup of /etc, one DNS TTL dropped to 300 before you start. Everything else is decoration.

20 years and I still see people treating servers like pets...

Back when I started, you traced routes, you asked in IRC, you waited a month to see if a provider's first customers started screaming. No shortcuts.

The forum hype is a lagging indicator, as Kenji noted. Mark my words, half the shops praised in this thread will be dead or degraded within eighteen m...

This is the actual epidemic. 1400 is dumb but honest. Silently blackholing ICMP Fragmentation Required is malicious incompetence. Half my tickets in the last five years trace back to this.

20 years in this business and I thought I'd seen everything. Back when we ran everything on T1s, 576 was normal. Kids these days complain about 1280 on IPv6 tunnels.

But last week I found a Contabo edge router set to 1400 exactly. Not 1492. Not 1480. 1400. "For safety," they said. Someone read a bl...