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Don't you reboot every night? :)

by rodnim 7y ago

milankragujevic 7y ago
Sleep mode only, a reboot wipes all volatile memory :P
LandR 7y ago
Pffft and lose all my tabs! Seriously, at this point I have multiple browsers open, multiple tabs, multiple programs split over multiple desktops with my workflows. But more seriously an encrypted drive that has a lot of data on it that I've forgotten the password for, and can't remember the system I used to encrypt it / set it up, and figuring out how to change it is always pushed to future LandRs problem. A restart and I'm screwed! I'd basically just give up and go live in the woods.
- joosters 7y ago
  I know that feeling. I've got an old mac mini in a remote server room, with limited on-site access. It's been up for 2.5 years, going through various ubuntu releases and upgrades. I'm afraid to reboot it because it initially had a strange boot setup, and there's been enough changes now that I'm not sure it'll come back up. So I keep delaying the inevitable, and hope it'll last until I need to get a new machine :)
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    There are companies in that situation too. They live in perpetual fear of power failure or hardware crashes. It's exactly the sort of thing we're on the lookout for during technical due diligence. Anything that you are afraid of rebooting is a risk that needs mitigation while the system is still up and running.
    - turk73 7y ago
      A voice of reason. There is no point to having machines that have to stay up at all costs. You didn't design something correctly. I use Kubernetes every day and the cluster we're on is not the most reliable and yet, because of Kafka and how pods in K8s restart themselves, we have yet to lose any data or fall behind in our process because we designed it to be resilient to failure. It's sad, but that is our reality. Clearly Voyager could not accomplish that with its packaging, so it is that much more impressive.
  - shultays 7y ago
    Reminds me of this http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Trauma-Center http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Trauma-Center

Don't you reboot every night? :)

by rodnim 7y ago

Don't you reboot every night? :)

milankragujevic 7y ago

Sleep mode only, a reboot wipes all volatile memory :P

LandR 7y ago

Pffft and lose all my tabs! Seriously, at this point I have multiple browsers open, multiple tabs, multiple programs split over multiple desktops with my workflows. But more seriously an encrypted drive that has a lot of data on it that I've forgotten the password for, and can't remember the system I used to encrypt it / set it up, and figuring out how to change it is always pushed to future LandRs problem. A restart and I'm screwed! I'd basically just give up and go live in the woods.

joosters 7y ago
I know that feeling. I've got an old mac mini in a remote server room, with limited on-site access. It's been up for 2.5 years, going through various ubuntu releases and upgrades. I'm afraid to reboot it because it initially had a strange boot setup, and there's been enough changes now that I'm not sure it'll come back up. So I keep delaying the inevitable, and hope it'll last until I need to get a new machine :)
- jacquesm 7y ago
  There are companies in that situation too. They live in perpetual fear of power failure or hardware crashes. It's exactly the sort of thing we're on the lookout for during technical due diligence. Anything that you are afraid of rebooting is a risk that needs mitigation while the system is still up and running.
  - turk73 7y ago
    A voice of reason. There is no point to having machines that have to stay up at all costs. You didn't design something correctly. I use Kubernetes every day and the cluster we're on is not the most reliable and yet, because of Kafka and how pods in K8s restart themselves, we have yet to lose any data or fall behind in our process because we designed it to be resilient to failure. It's sad, but that is our reality. Clearly Voyager could not accomplish that with its packaging, so it is that much more impressive.
- shultays 7y ago
  Reminds me of this http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Trauma-Center http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Trauma-Center