SYNACK Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Black cats, ladders, mirrors and bad numbers... all seemed a tad silly to me until this Friday the 13th. One dirty MS patch that forced a reboot despite settings and that changed. Three blown server hard drives later I may now be a tad superstitious. Next time I may well just shut everything down on thursday the 13th and not boot anything back up till saturday the 15th in order to avoid the day all together. MS is lucky that I have not yet mailed their security team a box of dog leavings to show them how I feel. 1
mac_shinobi Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Same here - I have a habit for choosing bad numbers on the lottery(s) that I play, only little odds n sods of money (£3 here, £5 there etc ) 1
jinnantonnixx Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Superstitious nonsense! You won't find me falling for such silliness, touch wood. 1
SYNACK Posted April 14, 2012 Author Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) FFFFFFFFFFFF!!! - as a lovely follow up while going through a door I managed to drop my own portable hard drive onto the concrete below. I seem to have contracted a hard drive killing diesease and obviously need to be quarenteened on a nice island somewhere far away from rotating platters. Edit, the machine I am writing this on now is just a basic workstation so if the hd in this dies I simply don't care Edited April 14, 2012 by SYNACK
SYNACK Posted April 14, 2012 Author Posted April 14, 2012 Trying to avoid Friday the 14th in that case? Ben Clarification?
Michael Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 I hope for your sake Synack those three hard drives weren't in a RAID array. That would be rather unfortunate! I'm generally not superstitious but weirdly I remember years ago, everytime I look at the time it would read 1:13, 2:13, 3:13... it did become a little annoying, but then like magic it stopped. 1
SYNACK Posted April 14, 2012 Author Posted April 14, 2012 I hope for your sake Synack those three hard drives weren't in a RAID array. That would be rather unfortunate! I'm generally not superstitious but weirdly I remember years ago, everytime I look at the time it would read 1:13, 2:13, 3:13... it did become a little annoying, but then like magic it stopped. No such luck I'm afraid, lukily its school holidays here or the excrement would have hit the rotating propeller much harder. Two of the drives were in a 1+0 of 6 drives but statisticly were very unkind in the order of failure and the third was luckilly in a raid 5 array but the hold in the reboot - press f1 to continue - caused the failure of the DFS namespace servers services on reboot dropping the DFS shares for the whole domain untill I tracked down the fault - moral, don't migrate DFS roots from 2000 to 2008 and expect them to follow the rules.
Gatt Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 One dirty MS patch that forced a reboot despite settings and that changed. MS is lucky that I have not yet mailed their security team a box of dog leavings to show them how I feel. Well that explains the MS Security Bulletin amendment email I got this morning.....
SYNACK Posted April 14, 2012 Author Posted April 14, 2012 Well that explains the MS Security Bulletin amendment email I got this morning..... Share??
Gatt Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Share?? ******************************************************************** Title: Microsoft Security Bulletin Minor Revisions Issued: March 13, 2012 ******************************************************************** Summary ======= The following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details. * MS11-030 - Critical * MS11-025 - Important * MS11-067 - Important Bulletin Information: ===================== * MS11-030 - Critical - Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-030 - Critical : Vulnerability in DNS Resolution Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2509553) - Reason for Revision: V1.1 (March 13, 2012): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2509553 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary. - Originally posted: April 12, 2011 - Updated: March 13, 2012 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical - Version: 1.1 * MS11-025 - Important - Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-025 - Important : Vulnerability in Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2500212) - Reason for Revision: V4.3 (March 13, 2012): Added an entry to the update FAQ to announce a detection change for KB2565063 and KB2565057 to correct an installation issue. This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the security update files. Customers who have already successfully updated their systems do not need to take any action. - Originally posted: April 12, 2011 - Updated: March 13, 2012 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Important - Version: 4.3 * MS11-067 - Important - Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-067 - Important : Vulnerability in Microsoft Report Viewer Could Allow Information Disclosure (2578230) - Reason for Revision: V1.1 (March 13, 2012): Added an entry to the update FAQ to announce a detection change for KB2548826 to correct an installation issue. This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the security update files. Customers who have already successfully updated their systems do not need to take any action. - Originally posted: August 9, 2011 - Updated: March 13, 2012 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Important - Version: 1.1 1
mac_shinobi Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 FFFFFFFFFFFF!!! - as a lovely follow up while going through a door I managed to drop my own portable hard drive onto the concrete below. I seem to have contracted a hard drive killing diesease and obviously need to be quarenteened on a nice island somewhere far away from rotating platters. Edit, the machine I am writing this on now is just a basic workstation so if the hd in this dies I simply don't care Not sure if this is the silver lining but at a guess said hard drive wasn't a 'what data' drive he he, if it wasn't , it is now
SYNACK Posted April 14, 2012 Author Posted April 14, 2012 Not sure if this is the silver lining but at a guess said hard drive wasn't a 'what data' drive he he, if it wasn't , it is now No to my suprise those drives and the two that died earlier in the week were all Seagate/HP rebranded Seagate. I don't know if they had some kind of kill switch built in or what but in total five drives have died in very short succession. I knew that all the drives reliability ratings had gone down but this is insane, they are dropping like late 90s floppy disks at the moment. I'm half expecting to have to buy replacements in packs of ten. Moving production to thailand seems to have been the worst decision that the HD makers could have made, their product was that bad that even nature tried to put a stop to it.
mac_shinobi Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 No to my suprise those drives and the two that died earlier in the week were all Seagate/HP rebranded Seagate. I don't know if they had some kind of kill switch built in or what but in total five drives have died in very short succession. I knew that all the drives reliability ratings had gone down but this is insane, they are dropping like late 90s floppy disks at the moment. I'm half expecting to have to buy replacements in packs of ten. Moving production to thailand seems to have been the worst decision that the HD makers could have made, their product was that bad that even nature tried to put a stop to it. There way of saying that we should move onto Solid State / Flash Storage ie PCI - E SSD's etc or even just SATA 3 SSD's ??
SYNACK Posted April 15, 2012 Author Posted April 15, 2012 There way of saying that we should move onto Solid State / Flash Storage ie PCI - E SSD's etc or even just SATA 3 SSD's ?? If so its seems a silly business plan for them as they don't make any of those things. 1
AMLinington Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Friday 13th didn't go so well in our Office either - there was a Coffee-related disaster in our little kitchenette. Since we have ground coffee it was very very messy...
PICNIC Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Originally Posted by plexer Trying to avoid Friday the 14th in that case? Ben Clarification?[/Quote] Think he means this bit Next time I may well just shut everything down on thursday the 13th and not boot anything back up till saturday the 15th in order to avoid the day all together. 1
CAM Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Well you know what they say. When one drive goes in a RAID array the others are soon to follow.
mrbios Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 I swapped over our core switch (8206zl with another 8206zl on friday 13th)........went without a hitch in just 30minutes Just thought i'd show off how well my friday went lol
SYNACK Posted April 16, 2012 Author Posted April 16, 2012 Think he means this bit Yikes, even my maths is broken. Further, one of the servers decided to fail to reboot thanks to a cooked stick of RAM but I only found out about it a day later (dirty Acer). Next time I am going to shelter in a nuclear bunker, that may be the only safe place for me.
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