Suppose you connect a trunk port from a VLAN capable network switch to a (VLAN incapable) consumer-grade network switch via a direct cable. Now the former switch send the later switch a 802.1Q-tagged Ethernet frame. What should the later switch do? Drop the frame? Forward the frame? Undefined beh...
@Zoredache As useful as a single data point is, I always keep 5 tabs open. Two SE sites, their metas, and chat. That being said, I don't know how many work it like I do.
Someone could go answer this question... serverfault.com/questions/333896/undefined-mysql-connect. Just tell him that he is and idiot for trying to mix one of the stupid llamp packages with packages from the apt package manager.
@Holocryptic, you don't have to always know everything to be helpful. A portion of my answers are wild speculation, and guesses. Sometimes a random guess from someone can be helpful enough to get a person on the right track.
hrm. I suppose that's true. I just dislike talking about things that I don't know inside and out. Which means I usually end up keeping my mouth shut... I guess some of my answers have been guesses as well
The problems I'm facing is how to prevent hotlinking from within a website. What I want to do is to block www.website.com/user/xxx from hotlinking a CSS, but allow www.website.com/user/aaa to use the CSS using .htaccess.
-Both user xxx and user aaa is using www.mywebsite.com/css.css css file, I ...
I play GoldenEye, but otherwise I can't stand console controllers for game play. I still commonly think of the advantage I would have if I could hook a keyboard and mouse up to the Wii...
That and almost every new game has the controls backward. I'm old skool: Left stick: -Look Up/Down (reversed); Move right/left Right stick: -Move Forward/Backward; Look right/left
It's the ways games used to be. They perfected the layout, something akin to QWERTY. You use different thumbs for the different operations, so you can do precision movements more easily.
Once you get used to it, there's no doubt you're faster and more precise.
For instance, if I need to turn right to shoot someone, but accidentally push the stick up just a little, I wont end up looking at the sky or ground, I'll just turn and take a step toward the enemy.
At one point in GoldenEye you get to drive a tank, but they force you to use the left stick to drive the tank, and the right stick controls the turret. It sucks for someone used to splitting those functions across the sticks.
@ShaneMadden Absolutely; there's no doubt keyboard and mouse are 10x faster and more precise for FPS, but some games are for consoles only.
And if you want to keep up with everyone else on PCs you have to keep buying new and expensive hardware; consoles have an advantage there.
Don't get me wrong, I loved playing FPS on my computer. And it was insanely difficult for me to get used to a controller. Maybe I'll updated my rig at some point and buy some games to go with it
I actually attended a LAN party once upon a time. One of the best nights of my life at that time. Ok.. maybe ever. I don't really have a life to speak of.
although I can't even remember all the games that we played
In case you need another addiction, Guild Wars is free to try (8 hours) and can be as cheap at $20 for the full game (first "expansion" only) or $30 for the first 3 expansions all in one (Trilogy Edition). =]
if you use ldap | nis | nis+ repositories then passwd -e allows normal users to change the shell, if you use the files repository then you have to be root for that too
@lain sorry to sayed that but your solution isn’t answer my question , maybe you should learn about Linux administration please look on my question again – Diana 1 min ago
@Iain dropped her a line saying get trained before they ask again
I've got a firewall logger that's generating hundreds of IOPS because it's using ext3 and just sending a stream of <4kb writes to the volume - is there anything I can do, I've looked at all the ext3 flags but is there a better FS that'd hold off on its physical writes and just cache everything for a second or whatever?
Thank you Sonya-with-a-heavy-Bangladeshi-accent, but I think I know what 'cloud' means more than you do and I'm not likely to want to buy any of it from you. -click-
just had the insurance co's agent here, he suggests replacing the san immediatly.. not sure about the rest of the gear yet, he was pretty confident that it wont break down - but he couldnt guarantee it either
talking of calls from 'overseas' - I get a few calls to home from people trying to sell me stuff - I used to tell them to go fuck themselves but I've got a new tactic - I tell them that whoever they called for it dead - it's the only thing that seems to stop them
@Chopper3 try: "Everyone you could ever want to speak to is dead, including me. I've been 6-feet under for 4 months now, but BT still seem to be able to get calls through to me..."
The great part is that I found the e-mail they sent us after the information meeting, where they ensured us that the server room would be properly secured, and that absolutely no dust would enter
@RobertMoir I'm waiting for the followup question: 'HP have cancelled my warranties as it seems that clogging the fans with the blood and chunky viscera of several unidentifiable builders puts them "Outside a normal operational environment". Should I ask for a refund?'
@TomOConnor So if I'm reading that right, that poor girl got trapped while mucking around with a horse in her jammies. Isn't that illegal in most places?
@ChrisS Whereas American men seem to be interested in 'racks', I think British men must be interested in 'horses'. That's the only thing that makes sense to me.
@MarkM You're probably right on the morgue thing. Very similar kind of feeling. The whole site up there has a really cool feeling though. Fantastic example of Victorian architecture.
@MarkM Over the past year or so I've been installing monitoring boxes (primarily IDS) across campus, so I've been getting a great tour of campus. It's amazing where the wiring closets end up sometimes. I feel sorry for the guys who had to find space for an MDF in a continuously occupied 200 year old building.
@MarkM Tell me about it. I went into one closet where all the equipment is hung vertically on big honkin L-brakets. That part isn't so bad, the scary thing was the room had hot water and steam pipes going through it. So the ambient temperature is somewhere in the neighborhood of 15000K.. Again, one of those old buildings where this was the best they were able to get.
So I added it to my risk analysis spread sheet and felt a great surge of pity.
I would recommend Webmin when you want to use a webui for configuring your server. Most of the needed configs you can do in there.
Concerning your other query, you're doing a lot in once, just do everything one after the other and take your time. When you sort all out (most things can be found o...
@BartDeVos: Click on the originating question from SO and flag it with "Serverfault does not answer home server question, this question should have been migrated to SuperUser or Ask Ubuntu."
it's really the only way to teach those morons to stop migrating crap to us
@ScottPack I did that once and it got declined with a nasty message that flagging it was useless since a diamond didn't migrate it and they can't control their users
Well, yeah, SO has 13x as many users as SF. The problem, and it happens on every site, is that you've got people with migrate abilities who don't pay attention to mod, meta, chat, etc; and they're the ones who keep migrating crap.
People that don't capitalize units are the scourge of the earth. I know this is a bit basic for a blog about Systems Administration, but I have to explain this far too often than I'm comfortable with. Seasoned admins should universally share this pet peeve. When your high school Chemistry of Physics teachers were yelling at you to use a lowercase m for milli and a capital L for liter, h…
@ChrisS OTOH, the other day an SF mod migrated a crappy question to SU. I'd posted on Vote to close that it should just be closed, and it got closed on SU after he moved it.
I'm not so sure Data Explorer actually has the full set of data... I'm pulling up the post history (which should include migration status) of a Question I know was migrated, but it doesn't show the migration event.
Yeah... just pulling a list of all migration events: (0 row(s) affected)
Is there a better way to idiot proof "put more paper in tray 2", save doing it yourself? "Load Tray 2 Plain A4" is too difficult when displayed on printer screen, so they give me a call. And then I tell them to put more paper in Tray 2 (not tray 1, that's the side tray) and they still can't get it right?
@MarkM Our district's workstations would never get vacuumed out each summer if there wasn't a steady stream of local college students looking for "real world" IT experience to add to their resumes...
How to leave promiscuous mode in dnscap?
dnscap -a makes no difference.
