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Originally Posted by CRussel
Gawd what a Monday! It actually started last night, around 10PM when my own router lost it's little mind. I'm betting someone tried to get in and failed, but the router was overdue for a firmware upgrade anyway.
Reset back to factory defaults, remove from any network, log in, update firmware, reboot, log in, restore settings file. FAIL!
The idiots don't support settings files across firmware versions. WTF?! Hello, idiots, that's the single most common scenario for restoring settings! Sigh.
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What router do you have? All of the ones I've used have preserved settings across a firmware upgrade, and (IIRC,) let you create a backup settings file to import from.
I'm going to have to do some settings backup soonish. My ISP did an upgrade. The good part is a 5X bandwidth boost, from 20mbit down/2mbit up to 100mbit down/10mbit up, and no increase in my costs. (My ISP is my cable company, and they are trying to fend off Verizon and FIOS.) The bad part is it required a new cable modem (which they supplied), and the new one is both cable modem and wireless router. The old router is still in the loop. connected to a port on the new one, for the benefit of the SO's tablet, because I didn't have a chance to change the SSID on the new one to match what the tablet was looking for.
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Oh, except that IE 11 (and IE10) REFUSE to connect to it, since the cert isn't for the internal IP address my LAN uses. What WERE the idiots at MS thinking? Yes, I know, my router's web page doesn't have a valid cert. It's INSIDE MY NETWORK, let me connect to it you morons! Fortunately, both Chrome and Firefox work just fine. Both warn me of dire consequences should I choose to connect to this web site, but then let me do it.
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I don't use IE, reason why number I've lost count. I use Firefox nightly as my default browser, but have current Chrome, Opera, Safari, and several other things as well.
I actually haven't had the "IE won't connect" issue on my desktop, but that's in the same room as the router and connects via cat5 cable to a router port. (The desktop does not have wifi, and does not need it.)
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In the middle of all this, three different users managed to lock themselves out of their machines. ALL claim they got no warning that their passwords were about to expire (Phhhtt!). (ever tried to reset a password on a remote domain from the RDP client on your iPhone? Since that was the only thing that had internet connectivity until I got the router back up.)
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Been there. Done that. Shot users...
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Now, one of the support guys has decided that he needs his desktop restored, since something he did totally wonked everything. Sigh. I wasn't even supposed to be working today!
ETA: I logged in to his machine, and his desktop had 68 GB of files on his desktop, including RUNNING VIRTUAL MACHINES for goodness sake. On his desktop! And he wonders why he was having problems? Really. There ought to be a LAW.
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And this is a
support guy? I don't want to think about how he managed to do that.
My desktop booted into Win7 has <1MB on the desktop, and that's all folders with collections of shortcuts.
Files live elsewhere.
Booted into Ubuntu, there's a lot less on the desktop.
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Talisker. Lots and lots of Talisker.
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I just got back after a long weekend at an SF convention. One of the events was a scotch party. Kilchoman Loch Gorm (a peated dram with a sherry finish. Three people I introduced to it said "Where can I get some?"), Ardmore Traditional (Ardmore's output is mostly bespoke production for blenders. What I had is one of two bottlings of their single malt under their own name), Angel's Envy (a port finished Kentucky bourbon from the former master distiller for Woodfords), Botanist Gin (produced by Islay scotch distiller Bruichladdich, and a gin scotch drinkers actually like), Caol Ila Organic, Speyburn 10, Mortlach 12, 15, 18, and 23, Ardbeg Uigeadail, Talisker Dark Storm, and a few others I'm forgetting. We also found a volunteer to taste the Loch Dhu. (Which is generally considered the
worst single malt ever distilled and bottled, for very good reason. Reactions to it tend to be hilarious.)
A very good time was had by all.
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Dennis