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November '25 Chat -- The Saints come marching in -- for turkey and the fixins!
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UPS lost an MD-11 today in Louisville. RIP to the crew.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUP60aOzoU&t=8s
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Wut?
That one has something to do with Princess Bride, but thats all I got.
You killed my father prepare to die.
Easy now. We been putting up with the Lord Stanley’s cup going south for over 30 years now……
To any member who received a spam PM asking about an "ultimate smoke tune", that guy was removed from the premises.
What's the old saying "I'd never be part of an organization, that would have me as a member?"
Pretty sure I was voted off another island. LOL
No, thats because the fuckin server hosts decided they would migrate our server to the cloud without scheduling with me so i could update the cloudflare ip address after they were done.
They got a mouthful this morning
They got a mouthful this morning
No, separate incident. Unfortunate coincidence, though. Someone signed up just to PM people. I heard about it and solved the problem.
As am setting here typing this on laptop, on battery, running a 4G modem, because my only choice for ISP for past 20 years, can't afford to stick a couple batteries in the DSLAM cabinet the feeds my house. And business. AEP has scheduled 6hr outage today at 10 AM. Lights went out at 10:10AM.
2025/11/05 10:10:21 Kernel event Line 0: xDSL link down
2025/11/05 10:10:23 Syslog event Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.
2025/11/05 10:10:23 Syslog event Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.
2025/11/05 10:10:25 Kernel event eth2 (Ext switch port: 1) (Logical Port: 9) Link DOWN.
Does zero good to have all your poop in a pile, battery backups galore, when your only ISP drops the ball every power related flash. For the past 20 fucking years...
For context, the first ISP in Souheastern Ohio, running 14.4 dialup, was in my basement 1994.. I'm still using the exact same APC unit that powered all the equipment back then.. Since all the phone company became ISP now, they are no longer held by PUCO rules. And FCC has no power over them to maintain any level of service...
Cloudflare is decent ISP today. Founders of the OG Honeypot group, many many moons ago..
2025/11/05 10:10:21 Kernel event Line 0: xDSL link down
2025/11/05 10:10:23 Syslog event Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.
2025/11/05 10:10:23 Syslog event Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.
2025/11/05 10:10:25 Kernel event eth2 (Ext switch port: 1) (Logical Port: 9) Link DOWN.
Does zero good to have all your poop in a pile, battery backups galore, when your only ISP drops the ball every power related flash. For the past 20 fucking years...
For context, the first ISP in Souheastern Ohio, running 14.4 dialup, was in my basement 1994.. I'm still using the exact same APC unit that powered all the equipment back then.. Since all the phone company became ISP now, they are no longer held by PUCO rules. And FCC has no power over them to maintain any level of service...
Cloudflare is decent ISP today. Founders of the OG Honeypot group, many many moons ago..
Well food stop for lunch hopefully stopped long enough for the mess in Statesville and Charlotte to clear out some by the time I get there
AEP finished their work early, and guess what, ten minutes later, Windstream network back to life..
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 0: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 0, us=8286, ds=41854
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 0: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 1, us=0, ds=0
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 1: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 0, us=8286, ds=41854
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 1: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 1, us=0, ds=0
2025/11/05 12:40:47 Syslog event PPP server detected.
2025/11/05 12:40:47 Syslog event PPP session established.
2025/11/05 12:40:50 Syslog event PPP LCP UP.
Only missing some Dialup Tones, and I'd be back in the 90's again.. Maybe time for a Starlink..
This whole cloud based infrastructure we run on today, puts a lot of trust in a very few Large ISP's to keep it all together. Just last month someone fat fingered a DNS record during an AWS maintenance window, took down a bunch of big sites for breakfast. I once so enjoyed those 9AM maintenance failure calls. In the mid 2000's when it was only half of DC or something we'd jacked up. Then at lunch we'd all sit around and discuss how to bring down the whole show if we really wanted in a just few hours. Then it was back to fixing where someone was breaking the dang thing.. Glad to play no role in today's JengaNet.
P.S. Much respect to our Site Admins here for keeping IT together.
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 0: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 0, us=8286, ds=41854
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 0: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 1, us=0, ds=0
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 1: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 0, us=8286, ds=41854
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 1: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 1, us=0, ds=0
2025/11/05 12:40:47 Syslog event PPP server detected.
2025/11/05 12:40:47 Syslog event PPP session established.
2025/11/05 12:40:50 Syslog event PPP LCP UP.
Only missing some Dialup Tones, and I'd be back in the 90's again.. Maybe time for a Starlink..
This whole cloud based infrastructure we run on today, puts a lot of trust in a very few Large ISP's to keep it all together. Just last month someone fat fingered a DNS record during an AWS maintenance window, took down a bunch of big sites for breakfast. I once so enjoyed those 9AM maintenance failure calls. In the mid 2000's when it was only half of DC or something we'd jacked up. Then at lunch we'd all sit around and discuss how to bring down the whole show if we really wanted in a just few hours. Then it was back to fixing where someone was breaking the dang thing.. Glad to play no role in today's JengaNet.
P.S. Much respect to our Site Admins here for keeping IT together.
My friend in Idaho recently got star link because the alternatives are slow and unreliable. He sent me a screenshot of the speed test. Not sure about reliabilityAEP finished their work early, and guess what, ten minutes later, Windstream network back to life..
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 0: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 0, us=8286, ds=41854
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 0: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 1, us=0, ds=0
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 1: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 0, us=8286, ds=41854
2025/11/05 12:39:33 Kernel event Line 1: VDSL2 link up, Bearer 1, us=0, ds=0
2025/11/05 12:40:47 Syslog event PPP server detected.
2025/11/05 12:40:47 Syslog event PPP session established.
2025/11/05 12:40:50 Syslog event PPP LCP UP.
Only missing some Dialup Tones, and I'd be back in the 90's again.. Maybe time for a Starlink..
This whole cloud based infrastructure we run on today, puts a lot of trust in a very few Large ISP's to keep it all together. Just last month someone fat fingered a DNS record during an AWS maintenance window, took down a bunch of big sites for breakfast. I once so enjoyed those 9AM maintenance failure calls. In the mid 2000's when it was only half of DC or something we'd jacked up. Then at lunch we'd all sit around and discuss how to bring down the whole show if we really wanted in a just few hours. Then it was back to fixing where someone was breaking the dang thing.. Glad to play no role in today's JengaNet.
P.S. Much respect to our Site Admins here for keeping IT together.
Made it Mom's house in SC about 7 this evening, playing home healthcare till VA starts on 11/12, which is is horrible, as she broke her tibia on 10/28 and been asking for it since then
Starlink rocks. Make the switch you won’t regret it
That terrible to hear she broke her leg, hope she heals quickly.
Starlink is the way to go, I install them almost weekly. They work very well and the outages are few and far between so far.
Starlink is the way to go, I install them almost weekly. They work very well and the outages are few and far between so far.
The worse part is the VA won't do anything till the 11/12 to help her at home 2 weeks after the fact as that's when they approved home healthcare to start. The first weeks after the break is the most critical in healing
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