@JoelESalas Sweet. Later this week would be best for me as I'd kinda-sorta promised the GF that we'd do a field trip to the new BevMo that just opened up by the mall. My wallet's already whining at how bad the butcher bill for that trip is going to be. =)
@pauska Actually, Kyle had a big to-do recently about not migrating to a "better fit" if it's still on-topic here.
It really should only be migrated if it's clearly off-topic here and clearly on-topic elsewhere and it's an exceptional question that deserves new life.
I've heard of folks having a sort of "software repository" which contains a database of product keys and then network installation media for operating systems and other Microsoft software, such as Office.
With this, they were then able to join a computer to the domain and grant that user privile...
Hmm. Anyone here done anything as silly as "restoring" (inserting) a table from an MSSQL backup into the production database from which some ass deleted it in the first place?
You know, those 'First Post' and 'Late answer' queues really need a "i think this is just fine they way it is" button. Because it's sure as hell that some of those answers and questions don't deserve upvotes, but they don't need flagging, closing, or editing either.
:6414054 Yeah, I know. But it seems we're throwing caution to the wind here, and I personally couldn't be less thrilled about it.
Should just be a simple mount/restore the copy and then select, insert statement... Trying to figure out why and how this is going to go really wrong really fast, though.
I'm looking for a crash coarse on enterprise networking security and I'm willing to read, but I've been having trouble finding material on my specific inquiries. Unfortunately my company doesn't have a dedicated security guy, so as a developer I'm left to figuring this out. I only have a surface ...
Speaking of abominable questions that need closing, what about that PTR on Plesk question? Can only Devs make bounties go away so we can clean that mess up
@Iain yeah, or wordpress.SE, or here under certain circumstances (mod-rewrite to always make disposition inline/attachment for a specific MIME type) - it all depends on if that's really what he needs, and where he wants to set it
it's the Dorian Gray of gray areas, like all things that come within a mile of HTTP
I support a non profit. They got an ML350 G5 donated to them and I immediately put it to good use for them :) It came with four HP 300GB 15K SAS drives - and of course, they have all now failed. I have been replacing the drives and they are all 6Gb/s drives, but the HP controller in the ML350 ...
@ewwhite No, I just tripped over someone who doesn't understand business logic and still doesn't get it even after some fairly careful explanation (limited of course by comment lengths)
(unlike me he probably doesn't have full redundancy for systems with shit warranty, and an emergency rebuild plan if a whole set of machines goes splat)
@ewwhite nothing wrong with a quality whitebox. Mine come with a 2 year parts warranty.
It can definitely be done... but usually it's with some set of standards. I work at a SuperMicro site, but we have spares for every common server component and a burn-in environment for every piece that goes into production.
More work, but they've evolved to support it.
It's like hearing people complain about one-button mice on Macintosh computers...
@voretaq7 The company is probably very forgiving of downtime... So it likely wont be an issue. This is one of those rare instances where white boxes have a chance of better TCO.. But that's not how he's approaching the problem.
@ewwhite We're a supermicro shop. Every machine gets run for 24 hours during its initial build, and there's two of every critical system (redundancy - you can has!). If something breaks we run degraded for the 2 days it might take to get a part, or worst-case the week it takes to get a new server
Basically, if someone emailed me something to do, and I could have done that thing by buying the wifi, I'm being negligent by not paying for the wifi and doing that thing
Crap. I sit down to eat lunch and get an escalation. Blasted supervisors can't fill out requests for crap and the padawans tend to be a little literal.
Double Sweet. All the bosses except for a VP-level director are AWOL. Time to whip out the superuser credentials and fix it.
Cute. One of the operational divisions just instituted a new on-call rotation for their middle management and just assumed that they are authorized to escalate non-emergency issues to Support during overnight hours.
Whee. I can already hear the sound of the blade coming around to stab me in the back.
@Adrian Yeah, condolences. I may be joining the ranks of the poor FTE bastards soon myself. They keep threatening to offer me an FTE position, and I won't be able to stall indefinitely. sigh
@HopelessN00b As my buddy pointed out yesterday, you should be looking at offers with an eye toward how that position will lead towards the one after it.
@Adrian shrugs So the kids in the bottom of the class are gonna have it rough. Such is life, and motivation to stay current and stay skilled, until you store up enough money you can say fuggit all and run out the clock without having to work another day.
No, I'm talking about BIG infra... not all companies are planning to outsource.
think of private clouds... hybrid clouds...
I see clients here at LW... and there has to be a reason they pay us $120k/mo. to host their servers.
even though they have internal staff and systems...
What's happening is the death of the generalist...
to be able to support things at the level people expect, you would need to be an expert hardware guy, virtualization guru, Windows admin, Linux engineer, DBA, and have some dev/scripting skills....
@ewwhite Enh, the entry level generalist, maybe. Still a lot of call (at least around here) for an SA who's got a good breadth of experience and some depth to back it up.
Does make me feel bad for all those people that the trade schools are pumping out of their IT programs. There isn't going to be much of a career track for them and they'll have to go back to school again in 5 years.
@MarkHenderson Maybe, maybe not. Dumber ideas have succeeded. Honestly, how different is half your time "sysadmining" and half your time developing internal "code" from life as a decent SA now? For all the time I spend scripting and SQLing, I don't imagine knocking out some CRUD app for an internal process is going to be difficult, or even anything I haven't done a bunch already.
if you're asking for AD/Exchange management for 50 people that's going to cost less than AD/Exchange/VPN/Load-Balancing/DBA/NetAdmin for a 30,000 person enterprise
@ewwhite Ah, interesting. But still just a shift rather than a radical change. So future admins work for hosting companies and datcenters rather than for businesses directly. Still the same guys doing the same job.
I come from trading, where we bought our own colo space, comms lines, hardware and wrote our own software... for these firms paying my firm $1+ million/year for hosting, they could have definitely done it on their own
but then comes the challenge of finding people good enough...
@ewwhite But now you know better for next time, and you've got the bank account details of all the powerful people you work for, "just in case," right?
@Adrian Take it from someone who lives here: While the opportunities are second to none (If I was anywhere else I wouldn't have a job in tech at 16), the lake is depressing, the weather is wonderful 8 days out of the year, and despite being in a "central" location nobody wants to visit. ;P
What kind of stupid signup procedure is this? To get 100Mbps HFC internet, you need to sign up for their 30Mb regular coax internet, and once that's connected, they will upgrade you onto the 100Mbps HFC system
And yet all over thei website it has "Sign up for HFC online now!"
@jrg My theory is that they know, and they're just being jerks about it. Makes me feel better about dousing their commercial fiber pedestals in gasoline and tossing a lit cigarette.
Heh. I assure you, any assumptions of intelligence or competence from a major telco carrier is an unjustified assumption unless and until corroborating evidence is produced.
Sweet, finally done with work for the day. Say, any of you Linux gurus want to do my job for me and punch up an awesome script, or should I just post a question on the main site asking for teh codez?
So HowTF exactly do you deal with a padawan that chooses not to comply with policy even if the director has instructed him to do so and the director chooses not to do anything about it?
@MarkHenderson Yeah, the problem here is that such discussion don't stick. Padawan in question has decided that his prioritization of follow-up tasks and ticket management are less important than the parts he deems urgent (ie., things he's likes to do) and he rationalizes the instructions away before he's back to his desk.
Ah, well. Bitching ain't gonna change that either.
OTOH, tossing Python scripting onto the resume might make it moot.
I support a non profit. They got an ML350 G5 donated to them and I immediately put it to good use for them :) It came with four HP 300GB 15K SAS drives - and of course, they have all now failed. I have been replacing the drives and they are all 6Gb/s drives, but the HP controller in the ML350 ...
