Noxy

Recovered a legacy COBOL 911 dispatch system after the hard drive containing the root filesystem died, which wasn’t RAID protected at all and had no complete backups except for a few days prior when I started running daily rsync backups out of paranoia because the idiot dipshit sysadmin who set it all up left the company to work directly for one of our customers.

Thankfully the data volume was RAID protected and didn’t die so the critical data was pretty much all there ready to go again after some rebuilding of shit.

Still, took 15 hours to recover. Was a RHEL 4 system when RHEL 6 was current, and we had no way of obtaining the install media or licensing, so I dug up an archived CentOS 4 iso and installed from that, and got stuff working mostly just by copying various files from backup.

Fucking nightmare come true. Drive crashed at noon and we didn’t go home until about 4am.

I’m a gay atheist and I think what you’ve said here is horrible. If you actually did that and I’m in line I’d go spend twice as much as I was going to to make up for your lost business, and also out of spite for you being a shit example of an atheist.

Not when there’s a hot new trend of charging extra at checkout for “shipping protection” from some shell of a company named Route, on top of paying for shipping. And checking it by default, too, so most folks probably never even notice.

“By declining package protection, $merchantname is not responsible for lost, damaged, or stolen items.”

Of course they still are responsible, but some companies like this are making it clear they’re not gonna deal with their own selected shippers when they fuck up