PDU is a fancy power strip. takes a 480V 3-phase feed, provides normal wall power to equipment in the rack. there are two, they are on different circuits (and in the( totally hypothethical) case here those circuits are separate all the way out to the utility, and beyond that a bit), so that if one fails or loses power the other is still up. the stuff in the rack has dual power supplies, one to be plugged into each pdu. (often, this is done with two colored cords, so it’s visibly obvious is a thing doesn’t have two cords, or if one is plugged into the wrong place.)
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Well, doesn’t someone have a fancy setup! Back in my day (meaning the present) we just had black power cables.
And yes, it’s very important to ensure they are plugged into different PDU’s or UPS’s. Something I remember pointing out a few years back when we were rearranging some of our servers in the rack, as not all of them were.
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I could not possibly comment on the ISP that wouldn’t pay for redundant power, but its shiny new servers would complain unless both PSUs were live, so we ended up getting a bunch of domestic extension cords to provide enough sockets.
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there’s actually a double ended cord available for just that: one end has a wall plug, the other has a wye, with two IEC mumble mumble female ends.
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That moment when you are on vacation and your partner says „we have a problem“
He forgot his pin for his mobile. And the pin question is before the mobile password and wouldn‘t let him at his keypass.
Being our own admin, I was able to reset his nextcloud password so he could login and download his keypass on my device and lookup his pin.
I made very sure once upon a time that I cannot forget that particular pin. I once forgot a pin for my debit card right the moment I was trying to pay for something.
My scariest pin forgetting moment was when I picked up my phone one day and for no reason at all it wanted a pin. As stated I know mine and entered it and it did not work. I tried again, making sure I didn‘t type it wrong… nothing.
Turns out I had my dad‘s identical phone in my hand.
PS: luckily no two factor on our nextcloud. Or else…
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My newest phone prompts me to enter the pin to continue every 72 hours, and I can’t disable that. It’s annoying, but I guess it makes sense.
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Is this distinct from the device passcode?
i am unclear who you are asking. if you are asking me: this is the pin for the German sim card in the mobile. this is separate from the device. these are from the before times when most people never bothered to secure their phones in any way. I made sure that my device code contains clues as to the code for the sim card so I don’t forget because the code for the sim is only needed after a reboot which these days happens every few months.
I was unaware that a separate pin for the sim was unusual.
In the us, sim pins are only used at the time the phone is activated, and typically that’s done by the carrier.
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“sim card lock” is off on my phone, which might answer your question.
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I would never have found that setting buried deep in the security settings if you had not mentioned that. Thanks so much.
PS: This wasnt always there and I don‘t randomly browse settings and do not always review all the newest android features all the time…
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I am just so tired of having shitty tools for work.
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Writing better tools is sometimes an option.
Go far enough down that road and you end up using emacs. 
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Speaking of…
- I needed to use gitlab.com for a work thing
- I had an existing work account there, and was granted access to the repository by a colleague
- When I next accessed that repository, it told me that due to the repo’s config I needed to enable 2FA for my account within ~48 hours
- I have a firm policy that my personal phone never gets involved in work, no matter how tangential, whereas a lot of 2FA is predicated on you using your phone
- However they supported a TOTP option and I remembered Technology will make your life easier - #831 by Phil
- So I set that up, and it worked beautifully
- I then wired it up to the same system I’d written for What are you coding? - #361 by Phil
- Problem not only solved, but streamlined into the bargain : )
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My mum mostly worked as a database administrator. 20+ years ago I liked computers, so I went and did work experience at the company she worked at (an IT company that ran the IT department of Rolls Royce Aerospace, among others).
Finding it intensely boring, I pivoted to focusing on music, eventually getting a degree in music tech.
So why have I spent my morning doing SQL queries? Where did I go wrong??
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Sadly, it is shitty hardware in this case.
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SQL Queries pay better?
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Mostly it was because I never got any of the music technician jobs I applied for …
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Well, so it pays better.
But sorry to hear that. I know a couple of people from my school went into that career direction but I am not sure if they ever ended up in the music business.
And there are probably no or few software jobs with an audiophile-theme?
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