Rant Mode On I get the whole DevOps thing. It makes sense. But I have one little damn gripe. How about the Developers step down out of the Cloud and learn a little bit of nitty-gritty Ops level scripting so that I don't have to be a living-breathing language interpreter because the scripting language we use isn't one that's in their pre-existing repertoire.
@Joel You're a Windows guy, right? Many of the services that you admin are integrated together for you, right out of the box. You don't have to build out your AAA infrastructure from packages.
If you have developers that can't figure out whatever script language is in place, then you either need to get better developers or stop writing your scripts in fortran.
@ShaneMadden We're not exactly Google, so we're not exactly getting to top 5%. The Devs were getting paid less than I do until this most recent hiring cycle.
We've seemed to get quite a few people that wish to specialize in just one thing, and one thing alone. The last few Devs we've had moved on to other jobs doing on PHP for the Drupal framework.
Not to say that some of them weren't quite talented. But some were definitely sub-par. Thankfully, we've got a good set this time around. People I can simply send a list of requirements and get a script back in a few hours (since I'm not allowed access to that DB).
Don't they get bored doing the same thing each day? I have a friend of mine who spends 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for the past 5 years, designing and generating reports in Crystal Reports
I don't know how he does it. I would have offed myself years ago if that's all I did, all day
The fact that I'm not a specialist in any area is because I would hate working in the same corner of the world every day. I understand it's fine for some people (the world needs experts on every area, they're the ones that write the articles that I google for) but I just can't stand it
No, I have the opposite situation. It's NOT a good place for professional development. Most of the thinking and technologies in use are a good 10 years behind. I'm just starting to get some responses that moving from NIS to LDAP is probably a good idea.
that's a non-profit for ya, though.
Total case of Guerilla System Administration. Slide stuff into the infrastructure while nobody's looking, and then afterwards suddenly appear with a full set of documentation to support it.
Non profits, yeah stuff is tough there. My Dad used to run one, and he had to buy new coffee mugs for the whole staff out of his own money
And, even though he was the General Secretary, he wasn't the highest paid person in the organisation. They needed to hire an in-house lawyer, and he was the highest paid person by about 30% (and his salary was about 1/5th of where he worked previously)
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. SSH stands for Secure Shell.
VPN simply provides a more secure (and perhaps more convenient) means of accessing your servers across insecure or public networks using other protocols.
Think of it this way.
The VPN is like a Turducken. The SSH protocol is...
Perhaps I should get my butt in gear and make some supper. I'm doing food analogies for answers.
When I strace my MySQL process, I keep finding the same error over and over:
setsockopt(240, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [8], 4) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported)
futex(0x87ab944, FUTEX_WAKE_OP_PRIVATE, 1, 1, 0x87ab940, {FUTEX_OP_SET, 0, FUTEX_OP_CMP_GT, 1}) = 1
futex(0x87ab260, FUTEX_WAKE_P...
How to install a vnc server on ubuntu
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@JeffFerland If I havent heard of it before, Im sure others havent either :P Might not be the best analogy. Babushka doll might be better. Or perhaps a circle jerk, where each man is inside another man
remember those tiny fm transmitters you could get to plug ipods into when they first came out? you tuned your car radio into it - I used to tune it to radio one and play the venga boys on loop as I drove along the westway in london - really pissed a lot of people off :)
Last year, we did The Ring in a forest with a cliff. We had the viewers death-ride to the movie-location. Then, after the showing they had to get back to their cars via the dark forest
Today I missed very important files in Windows 7, when I selected one folder and deleted it, Windows 7 decided to erase 6 sibling folders!!!! Damit!!!! Luckly I've made my homework by making some backups.
One thing is the usual bugs that made the Windows mess not to work propertly, but another o...
I'm pretty used to creating the PKI used for x509 authentication for whatever reason, SSL Client Verification being the main reason for doing it. I've just started to dabble with OpenVPN (Which I suppose is doing the same things as Apache would do with the Certificate Authority (CA) certificate)...
I was going to have a crack at that, but I realised I only think I know some of it :)
For what it's worth, I think you need to buy a signing cert, rather than a wildcard one to be able to then sign your own intermediary. And wildcards cost as much as they do because the cabal of CAs that get their trust chains into browsers want to keep making money from issuing certs. :)
@Holocryptic @BartSilverstrim to answer your question about sysprep so that you stop making my phone vibrate with twitter notifications: vCenter Converter syspreps the system post conversion automatically
I've only used the standalone converter and that was awhile ago; I thought that one just injected particular settings for drivers in VMWare versus physical.
Most of the Linux systems I manage feature hardware RAID controllers (mostly HP Smart Array). They're all running RHEL or CentOS.
I'm looking for real-world tunables to help optimize performance for setups that incorporate hardware RAID controllers with SAS disks (Smart Array, Perc, LSI, etc.) a...
what would happen if you had a really high performance nas, and put a common /usr on it for a bunch of linux boxes that mount /usr over nfs from that nas?
@ewwhite Well, one can be angry assuming they're ignoring you, or it can be backburnered as a possible miscommunication issue and they didn't get the message. Then get angry when you find out they're ignoring you.
Cronjob a text-sending request periodically to email and SMS until you get a response.
We've become accustomed to thinking SMS and email are reliable message delivery systems when they're not. Plus many people don't actually organize their inboxes and take care of things, treating it like some kind of data septic tank.
The lack of organization on other people's filesystems are simply appalling, bordering on filesystem abuse.
I have moved around a bit. I hardly used my domain name so I let it go.
Eventually I settled into Gmail. Another company I'm dealing with hosted with gmail with their own domain name, and I have an address with them to work with their stuff.
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. SSH stands for Secure Shell.
VPN simply provides a more secure (and perhaps more convenient) means of accessing your servers across insecure or public networks using other protocols.
Think of it this way.
The VPN is like a Turducken. The SSH protocol is...
When I strace my MySQL process, I keep finding the same error over and over:
setsockopt(240, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [8], 4) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported)
futex(0x87ab944, FUTEX_WAKE_OP_PRIVATE, 1, 1, 0x87ab940, {FUTEX_OP_SET, 0, FUTEX_OP_CMP_GT, 1}) = 1
futex(0x87ab260, FUTEX_WAKE_P...
How to install a vnc server on ubuntu
In case of modify or delete, the full text of the answer is as follows:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vnc+ubuntu+installation
How'd that happen? Aren't lmgtfy.com links blocked?
(reference)
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever mind........
