This is a tale of a newbie sysadmin (me!) and a server (a Zabbix server). It is a tale of disk space woes, long queries, huge databases, and Oracle tomfoolery.
Thankfully I was successful in fixing the problem (I hope!) with some changes to the database. Nevertheless, it has been a stressful week. Here’s the story.
But in an odd way.
Reporting from TechCrunch we see that Apple has gone ahead and made an update (9.2.1) for their iPhone devices with 3rd-party-replaced Home Buttons and Screens.
In case you missed the gaffe, any person who had a 3rd-party shop replace their screen or home button and then attempted to do the latest iOS update (primarily via iTunes) they received an error 53 during the update, and an extra Apple-branded extra: a bricked phone. Literally bricked. You couldn’t go back. You couldn’t go forward. You couldn’t even start your phone. Their devices showed “Connect to iTunes” permanently. Connecting their device to a PC with iTunes reported “Error 53” for infinity. There was simply NOTHING they could do.
Apple has gone back and released a software update which will get you back to a working state, with one caveat: you will LOSE TOUCH ID.
The FBI demand for Apple to unlock Those-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named’s iPhones (the San Bernardino shooters) has officially been ruled on by a federal judge. The verdict is in: Apple must give investigators access to the encrypted data on the iPhone used by the shooters. (Link)
But wait, there’s more! The FBI demand (apparently) includes a demand that Apple help decrypt the data. This is something that Apple steadfastly (rightly so) claims to not have the ability to do. The FBI claims that Apple simply MUST have that ability, and lacking that ability currently, must develop such a method to do so (if you believe Tim Cook, which I do in this case).
Original Articles: MSNBC, CNBC, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon
Well, this is a long time coming in my book. Just wow. We first learned that Hillary Clinton ran a private email server where she was corresponding with people about government matters while she was the Secretary of State in March (or so) of 2015. It is now February 2016. That is almost a full year of “What the hell were you doing FBI?!?” I really don’t understand why this took so long to get any sort of meaningful announcement from the FBI. A former inspector general was reported to have indicated in this New York Post article claims that Hillary “never set up an agency email address for her in the first place” – this would mean that any and all communication she was doing as the Secretary of State via email had to be on these insecure channels (namely her private email server).
So…. I missed a blog post for the week of 1/24 – 1/30 (hey, it was my birthday, give me a break) and for the week of 1/31 to 2/6 (because I actually just forgot) so I’m going to try and do 3 posts in a week this week (or two posts a week for the next two weeks).
This first post is gonna be a filler post, just because I honestly can’t think of anything to truly talk about, so I’m gonna talk about some generic things.