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If you care about your data, the second thing to demand is ECC. That tends to narrow all the trash out of the choices, so it’ll be easier.

The first thing is backups. The first thing is always backups. With checksums. Preferably encrypted and at rest.

I have bought a few otherwise hard to find books on Amazon. Actual paper books. At least used to be possible.

If all the settings and versions match, my first suspicion would be that there’s some library available on one system that gets used but not the other. Have you taken very verbose logs to see if there’s differences that stand out?

Beware that you won’t have ECC, so corruption is much more likely than with proper hardware.

I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

Really nice and comprehensive looking page. Should probably test drive that some day. Thanks.

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Nobody’s been riled up. You need to go to Reddit for that :)

Yes. Got to admit mine just isn’t as big as yours, though.

Really? A whole instance?

Wait till you try transparent pngs. It’ll be like it should have always been.

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Firewalls set and enforce policy. Closed ports are only incidentally secure. Also, they can do a lot more than answer “nothing is listening here”.

Also, antivirus is the wrong idea there. What you’d want is an intrusion detection and/or integrity checking system.

Culture and science.