catsay
July 12, 2018, 10:08am
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So I’ve got a Patriot Spark SSD that’s otherwise pretty fine.
On a whim I decided to update the firmware
Patriot Memory designs, manufactures, and markets high performance memory modules, flash memory and gaming accessories.
I navigated to the page, and hovered over the download link, wait really… Dropbox??
Click!
That’s just… tragic…
Can a company like patriot not host their documents & software on their own website? Seriously?
Even all the other documents on the page are hosted on other domains. That’s just sad
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catsay
July 12, 2018, 10:20am
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Another one:
Here it’s on sharepoint…
WAT?
And totally broken
https://patriotmem.sharepoint.com/sites/Public2/_layouts/15/download.aspx?share=EUXAwv44HA5FgmaHFmCQ7sgBJ3hMnYbLH26FSAVubTChfA
I also have the distinct impression that the server is just vomiting garbage in ram at me
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StrY
July 12, 2018, 10:46am
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How does this even happen?
How did anyone think this is acceptable for a business?
How did they think that this will be reliable?
The amount of questions this brings up is way too many!
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catsay
July 12, 2018, 10:50am
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My theory how this happenend is this:
Use dropbox internally to share files.
Be careless and lazy.
Web Admin / Editor enables link sharing on dropbox file.
Copy Paste dropbox link/old sharepoint link on web page.
Go back to playing minecraft at work?
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Not enough money for an Amazon hosted download?
It blows my mind that they do this because it’s clear they have a web host, so it disappoints me that they don’t just upload the files to their server.
S3 costs to host this data couldn’t be that much.
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I think that is the real answer why.
risk
July 30, 2018, 5:14am
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From a business perspective, they need to keep people on the payroll whose job is to take care of stuff like this.
They have 80 employees total on linked in, so probably ~100 - ~150 in reality, hiring a competent unicorn-like sysadmin/webmaster is hard for a small company like that.