What have you done today thread?

[MrLongbeard]

How many 'is this sill available?' messages did you get?

6, along with 8 'what's your lowest price', and 3 'can you arrange a courier'

Armature.

I tried to give away some fence panels and got 160 'is this still available?'

Thank buggery I limited the listing to the local sales section, I'd have binned facebook with all of those messages pinging through

[Noggin]

After a family get together last night (nephew's 18th, but with his dad and step family - haven't seen his dad in about ten years or met the rest of the family!!!), I got up about 7am, left the air bnb a bit after 8am. Walked to the train station in Dorchester (via a supermarket to top up on Terrys Chocolate orange - I already bought one and a mint one When did the mint ones come along???)

There too early so went to costa for a Maple Toffee Latte (or something!) - went to the station, couldn't get on the earlier train - tickets the same price but not allowed Only a 15 mins wait!!

Got to Southampton, Google couldn't work out where I was, so an interesting walk to the National Express coach station!!

20p to use the loo I'd just spent all my uk change on cadburys and chocolate orange (my suitcase has a lot of chocolate buttons and Ibuprofen in it!! )!!

Luckily a lady working there gave me a 20p - not before she reminded me that the ticket does say not to arrive more than 20 mins before the coach FFS, I only sodding went to S'ton to meet a mate who had to cancel (bad family news) so I really didn't need the bloody lecture

Man at the coffee place there was great, had a really good chat with him for the hour I was waiting for the coach. He runs the coffee place in the Harley dealership in S'ton I think

Decent coach ride up - well, after a little scare of a stalled coach that didn't seem to want to restart It did, luckily!!

WAY too early at Heathrow (3 hours before check in!), but better than being late

Checked in, walked to the gate, got called to board. Waited in the tunnel to get to the last bit of tunnel to get on the plane

Waited a bit more in the tunnel to get on the plane

And more. After almost an hour of waiting, they told us that there was a security issue - we'd been called through before the plane was empty!! So they'd had to disembark all the arriving passengers to the ground, except some with mobility issues. those they had to wait and get permission for them to walk past us!! LOL

Very very bumpy taxi then take off an hour late - the bumpiness did nothing for my calm!! LOL I do so hate flying Bit of turbulence in the air and a not very nice landing. I was at the back of the plane so by the time I left I was very much in need of some solid ground! LOL

So, I've been at Lyon airport since midnight! Not keen to sleep on the floor - SOOOO don't want to miss the first tram!! (At 5am!)

On here typing to distract myself until 4.30 when I'll head over to the tram station to wait and then get the first coach out of Lyon Part Dieu (6.20am) to go to Aime via Chambery!!!

Very much looking forward to my mate picking me up at Aime at 10am and dropping me at another mate's shop for coffee, food and chat!! He's heading to Italy for cheap cigarettes and will pick me up on the way back! Then I need to get a couple of hours kip cos I'm going for dinner at some mates tonight

Hopefully I'll be able to sleep on the coach!!


Such a rock n roll lifestyle !! Most annoying is that my boss for the winter contacted me this morning to say that he needs me to start on the 9th not the 2nd Annoying cos if i'd known that last week, I could have stayed over longer and probably sorted out a better flight back to not end up trying to stay awake in the airport!!

[ZRX61]

Dropped $6 for tonight's $850,000,000 lottery & $4 for Friday's pittance of a mere $267,000,000.

Bugger, no winners, it rolled over. Looks like I'll have to console myself with winning Saturdays $925,000,000 jackpot.

[KungFooBob]

Spoken with an ex-colleague.

The organisation has the Akira ransomware virus.

Rather than just encrypt the user data it seems to have totally destroyed the OS on all the hosts and deleted all the local backups. It's even borked the raid config on the backup server.

Not a problem it's all backed up by Veeam to the cloud...

Only they're encrypted backups and the saved encryption key seems to be incorrect.

They're utterly and totally fucked.

[Yorick]

Spoken with an ex-colleague.

The organisation has the Akira ransomware virus.

Rather than just encrypt the user data it seems to have totally destroyed the OS on all the hosts and deleted all the local backups. It's even borked the raid config on the backup server.

Not a problem it's all backed up by Veeam to the cloud...

Only they're encrypted backups and the saved encryption key seems to be incorrect.

They're utterly and totally fucked.

Oops

[Yorick]

I've got me mankini at the ready for when it's refilled and up to temp.

Ooh. Forgot about that. Might take a couple of weeks for sun to warm up.

Bugger. It's only 23c. Not going in till it's high 20s.
It's 30c sun today, sill warm up soon

[Mr. Dazzle]

Spoken with an ex-colleague.

The organisation has the Akira ransomware virus.

Rather than just encrypt the user data it seems to have totally destroyed the OS on all the hosts and deleted all the local backups. It's even borked the raid config on the backup server.

Not a problem it's all backed up by Veeam to the cloud...

Only they're encrypted backups and the saved encryption key seems to be incorrect.

They're utterly and totally fucked.

Bah! There'll be an admin somewhere who's got it all on a caddied hard drive in his desk "just in case".

[KungFooBob]

Spoken with an ex-colleague.

The organisation has the Akira ransomware virus.

Rather than just encrypt the user data it seems to have totally destroyed the OS on all the hosts and deleted all the local backups. It's even borked the raid config on the backup server.

Not a problem it's all backed up by Veeam to the cloud...

Only they're encrypted backups and the saved encryption key seems to be incorrect.

They're utterly and totally fucked.

Bah! There'll be an admin somewhere who's got it all on a caddied hard drive in his desk "just in case".

They only have one IT person. It was me. Then they sacked my replacement after 6 months and made the technical (product expert) guy who used to sit next to me IT Manager because he knew how to reset passwords. They're proper fucked if they can't find that encryption key (that I didn't even know existed, so I'm glad it didn't happen on my shift).

[ZRX61]

They only have one IT person. It was me. Then they sacked my replacement after 6 months and made the technical (product expert) guy who used to sit next to me IT Manager because he knew how to reset passwords. They're proper fucked if they can't find that encryption key (that I didn't even know existed, so I'm glad it didn't happen on my shift).

The correct response is "well, good luck with that, I'm off for a pint"

[ZRX61]

Dropped $6 for tonight's $850,000,000 lottery & $4 for Friday's pittance of a mere $267,000,000.

Bugger, no winners, it rolled over. Looks like I'll have to console myself with winning Saturdays $925,000,000 jackpot.

Double bugger. It ended up being $968,700,000.
The bad news: I didn't win
The good news: Neither did any other bastard... so $1,040,000,000 for Monday.

[Horse]

Yesterday evening.

Another free event in the town. They're always a bit bonkers.

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The talented French company Compagnie L’Homme Debout will be gracing the town centre with Mo and the Red Ribbon.

The show tells the story of a child refugee named Mo and his optimistic outlook and fantastical journey towards a new life.

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[the_priest]

Life changes for me.

It was announced today that The Bishop of Rochester is pleased to announce that The Revd aka the_priest is to be appointed as the next Priest -In-Charge of the Benefice of St Botolph’s Northfleet and St Marks Rosherville. We look forward to welcoming the_priest and his family to our Parish, hopefully before Christmas.

So big adventures ahead, some good biking roads not too far from there and so much to look forward to in life and faith.

[Yorick]

Spoken with an ex-colleague.

The organisation has the Akira ransomware virus.

Rather than just encrypt the user data it seems to have totally destroyed the OS on all the hosts and deleted all the local backups. It's even borked the raid config on the backup server.

Not a problem it's all backed up by Veeam to the cloud...

Only they're encrypted backups and the saved encryption key seems to be incorrect.

They're utterly and totally fucked.

Bah! There'll be an admin somewhere who's got it all on a caddied hard drive in his desk "just in case".

They only have one IT person. It was me. Then they sacked my replacement after 6 months and made the technical (product expert) guy who used to sit next to me IT Manager because he knew how to reset passwords. They're proper fucked if they can't find that encryption key (that I didn't even know existed, so I'm glad it didn't happen on my shift).

Any update?

[KungFooBob]

Bah! There'll be an admin somewhere who's got it all on a caddied hard drive in his desk "just in case".

They only have one IT person. It was me. Then they sacked my replacement after 6 months and made the technical (product expert) guy who used to sit next to me IT Manager because he knew how to reset passwords. They're proper fucked if they can't find that encryption key (that I didn't even know existed, so I'm glad it didn't happen on my shift).

Any update?

As of 6pm on Friday, they were still fucked.

All four European offices are down. All the data (15tb of it) is there in the cloud backup, they just can't decrypt it. I can't see the business being able to continue trading without the ERP (four separate instances of SAP Business One).

I think the biggest problem was the rush to flatten the existing server estate because they thought they could restore from the cloud. Restores had been tested, but using the on-prem Veeam Enterprise Manager that had the encryption key cached, wasn't until they tried to restore to fresh installed Hosts with the Enterprise manager not available (it was on-prem and wiped) they realised you needed the keys.

It's quite sobering how fucked a company is without it's data and how easily that data can be taken away.

With hindsight, they would have been better off paying the ransom.

[DefTrap]

With hindsight, they would have been better off paying the ransom.

I think paying the ransom is increasingly common. Companies have terrible disaster recovery policies and they don't give them adequate priority. You can't afford to be offline for weeks let alone lose all your data.

[Demannu]

They only have one IT person. It was me. Then they sacked my replacement after 6 months and made the technical (product expert) guy who used to sit next to me IT Manager because he knew how to reset passwords. They're proper fucked if they can't find that encryption key (that I didn't even know existed, so I'm glad it didn't happen on my shift).

Any update?

As of 6pm on Friday, they were still fucked.

All four European offices are down. All the data (15tb of it) is there in the cloud backup, they just can't decrypt it. I can't see the business being able to continue trading without the ERP (four separate instances of SAP Business One).

I think the biggest problem was the rush to flatten the existing server estate because they thought they could restore from the cloud. Restores had been tested, but using the on-prem Veeam Enterprise Manager that had the encryption key cached, wasn't until they tried to restore to fresh installed Hosts with the Enterprise manager not available (it was on-prem and wiped) they realised you needed the keys.

It's quite sobering how fucked a company is without it's data and how easily that data can be taken away.

With hindsight, they would have been better off paying the ransom.

Have they tried turning it off, then back on again?

Up at 7.50 today to watch a bit of water biking.
Then off to a friend who's electric pool cover was/has been a bit recalcitrant for the last couple of years.
Had to re-track 10 channels, then diagnose why it didn't work. For some reason it had 2 limit stop sensors, and of course 1 was fubar. So now waiting on a parcel delivery!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Companies have terrible IT and they don't give it adequate priority.

FTFY.

And I hate IT!

[DefTrap]

FTFY.

And I hate IT!

Yeah but this is the problem, total absence of giving a fvck, let's leave it to IT. Business Continuity is more than just IT getting some backups right.

[the_priest]

I am so glad to have left the world of IT. God stuff is much better, you can pray about it!

We had full redundancy, online backups, off site storage, images and more. That was the one thing that we managed to drive into the CEO's head was that if the data was ever compromised, we'd have a GDPR nightmare on our hands, never mind the issues of lost data. Our lot trained as white hat hackers as well in being able to do penetration testing and to ensure the network was secured and backed up. That is all 5 years ago now and that landscape has probably changed again having moved fully into the cloud.

Sometimes it is just worth investing in things you might never need, because when you do need it, you look brilliantly clever and have saved the day! And keep good staff in place with decent pay and incentives!

[Skub]

I was out on the Zed today and called in with an old mate who's currently in a care home as his wife finds difficulty looking after him 24/7. He's younger than me,but badly disabled by a stroke about 7 years ago. I hate to see the way things have turned out for him,he's a clever bloke,but stuck in there with dementia sufferers and all the usual care home shenanigans. He's fallen twice already and is looking really bashed about.

He's always positive and cheerful and I get a massive reality check every time I speak to him. Sometimes we really don't know how fortunate we are.