About a week before we were slated to replace a Cisco 3560G switch in the Middle School, we had a catastrophic pipe failure above one of our racks. The failure was so bad that water flooded the floor above the rack, seeped into the cracks, and eventually found it’s way through a light fixture into the rack.
What followed was incredibly unfortunate and predictable:
Yep. The switch is down. Crap. Crappy crap. Crappity crap.
Someone on Reddit made an interesting discovery yesterday, regarding a key stat in The Division: Protection from Elites. The end-game of The Division involves killing lots of Blue (or maybe Purple) and Gold-tier mobs (elites). There is a stat on high-end gear called “Protection From Elites.”
One would understand that this means damage from Elites would be decreased.
Well, someone dug through the code on Reddit and… Well suffice it to say that it might not be accurate nor working as intended. The two relevant snippets of code (thanks to u/AlCalzone89 for digging through it) are:
Sorry, I’ve been tied up with Statewide Mandated PARCC testing this week, and haven’t had time to write a post (let alone do ANYTHING worthy of posting).
So here’s a video of an asshole driver from NJ.
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My upcoming to-do list includes:
After a week of struggling with Zabbix and getting trigger dependencies done, I figured I was all set. Everything was set to be dependent on something else (usually ping checks to indicate that something is down).
Then we lost connectivity to a school. My email LIT UP with alerts. Almost every single device behind those switches reported that they were down. ARGH!
After doing some more research on it, I found the culprit: how often the data is checked.
I’ve been talking a lot about Zabbix lately (mostly because it’s a lot of what is on my plate at work) and I keep finding little gotcha points that I understand but are very frustrating. Last week (and into this week) I’ve been setting up trigger dependency. Here’s an example, just as a hypothetical situation.
This guide modified from 2DayGeek’s post available here. Some of the steps (namely 7) didn’t work, so I wanted to publish my own step-by-step guide because Zabbix’s provided instructions of build from soure and hope for the best were found lacking in my view.
For your information, this guide is written for upgrading Zabbix 2.4.7 to 3.0.1 on an Ubuntu installation. The steps will be slightly different for different flavors of Linux/Unix and completely different for Windows. If you’re doing a Windows Zabbix box you should already know how to manage it because .exe is simpler than this.
On 3/17 I was driving home from work and I got cut off by a Comcast van.
I sent a request in to their support company to let them know (I’m not a customer so I didn’t expect to hear anything back). I did get a reply, but it was a boilerplate response.
I’ve been playing The Division pretty much since the day it came out, and I have to say: I’m very impressed with it so far! It’s a very enjoyable game with a lot to offer. There are some problems with it, for sure, but it’s a solid 7/10 or 8/10 game.
Let’s start with the basics. I take The Division to be a 3rd-Person Over-The-Shoulder Tactical Combat Role Playing Story-Based Shooter. That is to say: there is inventory to manage, skills to manage, weapons to customize, and character appearance to manage. These are all elements of role playing. The story elements are all there. The game play is over-the-shoulder third person (see my screenshot gallery and game play video) tactical. You need to be moving in and out of cover (dodging and pinning to walls, cars, etc) in order to survive.
Edit: It’s come to my attention that the video I uploaded skips a lot of frames. I will be correcting it tonight. Sorry!
Edit 2: The video has been replaced.
Last week I wrote about my Kindle Fire 5th Gen and getting custom launchers, root, and the Google Play Store (you know, all the goodness that is SUPPOSED to come with an Android tablet but was mysteriously missing from the Amazon Kindle because reasons). I had also mentioned that I was kind of disappointed with the custom ROM support (I have had 3 Android phones in the last 6 years: HTC Evo 4G (the original Evo!), HTC One M7, and a OnePlus One); all of these phones pretty well supported custom ROMs with unlockable bootloaders. I was expecting the same from the Amazon Kindle. Boy, was I wrong.
Recently I picked up a Kindle Fire 7″ 5th Gen from Best Buy because they were on sale. I love reading (both books and magazines) and honestly: it’s a super convenient little tablet. For what I paid for it ($40 or so) I couldn’t be happier.
Or so I thought.
