Show threadPhil Tanner Oct 14

Yup.
#KPL #MetLink #WAIK #PARA

Train line* closes as train hits truck in Waikanae https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575948/train-line-closes-as-train-hits-truck-in-waikanae

* Note: not whole line, only WAIK-PARA

Train line closes as train hits truck in Waikanae

The train, which appears to be a freight service, collided with the truck in Waikanae.

RNZ
Kevin Karhan Jul 21, 2024

@Saupreiss Ich rolle garkein Windows aus weil alle Methoden von #WAIK über Dritthersteller-Tools bis zur manuellen Installation bei mir Erbrechen verursachen!

Schulbusbetreiber können sich ja auch nicht verkneifen #TÜV zu machen weil "teuer"...

Saupreiss #Präparat500 (@Saupreiss@pfalz.social)

@kkarhan@infosec.space Es war ein Signaturupdate. Der Daseinszweck derartiger Software ist, da sehr flott zu sein. Natürlich kann man für jede Signatur eine eigene QA machen bzw. eine eigene Abteilung aufmachen. Oder man kauft das ein, etwa beim Hersteller, der derlei tun sollte. Backup/Restore - hier hat sich eher gezeigt, dass man seine Hausaufgaben nicht gemacht hat. Die Recovery wäre leicht gewesen, unabhängig vom Betriebssystem, wenn Vorarbeit geleistet würde. Wie rollt man den Win aus?

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Show threadKevin Karhan Jul 16, 2024

@cdp1337 personally, I've wasted 15 years of my life trying to make #Windows useable and the main regret I have is not switching to #Linux 100% 5 years earlier...

  • I can't do Windows at all because no amount of "pain money" will compensate for the damage it'll take to my mental health.

I'd rather not do #IT at all than suffer through Windows.

  • And yes, shit's that slow and hard, I've seen companies buying ~ €200k (MSRP which obviously noone pays) in low-core count EPYC servers just to have #MSSQL be somewhat reasonably fast.

Not to mention #Microsoft's #Licensing is just absurd as they demand that businesses license their garbage not for the Cores/Threads they'll assign to the Software, but for every single core the #Proxmox or #ESXi cluster has, even if it's impossible for said Software to run on those at the same time because "#WindowsServer" doesn't even support multi-node clustering or fault-tolerance at all.

  • I could at least reason this as a price to pay for it if it actually bought something to the table worth it...

But it just doesn't!

And yes, Windows does require reboot orgies to update...

  • Why else do you think it's less pain and frustration to use #nLite and #iPXE to build unattended install images and just reinstall all Windows #Desktops everytime a #ServicePack gets released?

It's way faster that way.

  • Also Microsoft's own tool for that, #WAIK, really sucks ass and is a bigger resource hog than a "Full Installation" of #VisualStudio Enterprise Edition!

Again: I'd rather spin my own distro from scratch and daily drive it than ever touching Windows again!!!

Charlie (@cdp1337@social.veraciousnetwork.com)

So serious questions, (as a tangent from today's events)... I use #Linux daily and have used it for decades now; for desktop/gaming, specialty appliances, and of course servers. Updates are simple, quick, and usually painless. Over this weekend someone asked me to help with a #Windows box. New install of Server Standard; can't activate. I have a key, but the damned box refuses to talk to Microsoft activation servers to let me enter the key. Also updates... ONE single update took about 4 fucking hours to install! It downloaded quickly, but the update screen just SLOWLY ticked up percentage by percentage. Is this normal?!? 4 HOURS!!! This is on XEN/Proxmox, but I've experienced HORRIBLY slow update installs on bare metal too. And then it comes to #Exchange; I've been trying to install an update for that but every damned time it just spits back 'You have a pending restart...' According to the help docs, "If you see this error after you've restarted the server, try restarting again" WTF, I thought that was just us Linux folks razzing on Windows. Does that OS seriously require several restarts just to install one fucking package?!? Is there some GUI option labeled with "snail speed only" checked that I'm just missing?!? #HomeLab #Admin

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