Locked out of your Microsoft account as the sole admin? Join me on a 2-week odyssey through Microsoft's Kafkaesque support system. Learn the secret backdoors, magic words, and creative workarounds I discovered to finally recover my account. A survival guide born from corporate bureaucracy hell.
For years I thought my Zabbix was using TimescaleDB. A failed upgrade revealed the truth: 391 million records in plain PostgreSQL with no optimization. My queries were 7,500x slower than they should have been. Sometimes the best discoveries come from fixing what's broken.
Discover how I diagnosed mysterious VM failures in my homelab by accessing my LSI RAID controller, identified cascading disk failures across multiple volumes, and developed a monitoring script to prevent future storage catastrophes.
Overcoming the challenges of accessing remote console on legacy Supermicro servers using OpenWebStart and specific Java versions, plus solving the mysterious "invalid session token" error with a creative BMC reset approach that preserves network connectivity.