Kategorie: Infrastructure
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Hacked – surprise on Windows servers
Finally, it has happen to me, I got hacked on two of my Windows servers. It escalated quickly… This morning, a customer called me, because he has problems while accessing one of my servers. Usually this happens, when the customer has no internet connection (a lot of G4 or G5 network users and connection problems…
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Time for some hardware changes — part 2
Let’s see, what happend since part 1: Decision 4 … is fullfilled. The 8-port switches are in place, so this one 16-port switch is switched off outside my office times. Decision 5 … is fullfilled. I have only one phone in charge and it is connected via PoE now (part of Decision 4 too). Decision…
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Time for some hardware changes — part 1
As I mentioned in part 0, the story will now continue with updates here on tumblr. Decision 4: Today I ordered two 8 port 1000-base T switches with PoE. One of them will replace the big 50-port switch in my 19″ rack to save energy. I suppose, it will cut the energy to 1/5. The…
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Time for some hardware changes — part 0
… continuing a story, that began on Facebook. But I mentioned in my last post, I dump Facebook. So we need a transistion of the information to tumblr… What happens before? {TL;DR} I’m angry about my energy costs. I have 5200 kWh / year, which is here in Germany the amount of a 5 person…