When somebody says anything related to ‘java’ and ‘microservice’ – a part of my soul dies.
Category: sysadmin
DNS
…and then he became a bit of an accidental expert in DNS.
It’s Random, You Say?
Few things are more challenging to troubleshoot than when the customer uses the words “intermittent” and “random” in their problem description.
Operation failed?
Not a good sign. Had Disk Utility do a fsck, which it complained about, so I reboot to recovery mode…and with nothing running, this little gem appears.
Guess I’ll be creating a boot thumb drive then attempting a full wipe/rebuild that way instead.
Update: or not. It simply refuses to do any low-level process on the drive. Appears completely pooched. Time to order a new drive – and some tools to open the case.
Point, Click, Blame…
“Known Issue: Security settings on OS X 10.7 or later/macOS may block ****** being launched, due to changes made by Apple.”
What they really mean to say is, “We can’t be bothered to follow some good security practice, so we’re going to blame Apple.”
In related news: 10.7. OS X 10.7 – which was released in July, 2011! Come on, get with the program, people.
the rest of me 