One of my clients has an application that can not be run from command line or via API but needs to be run on an scheduled basis. It would require that I launch the application if it's not already running and then click a button. This task would exist on a server.
I had read about AutoHotKey ...
Poor bastard. "My clients are cheap dumbasses who insist on hanging onto a PoS product with no API or CLI. How do I make a button click into a scheduled task?"
Worst part is that instead of being flayed to a bloody stain as would be fair and just, the fucktards who designed it and put in got paid. Probably a lot of money too. This freaking world, I tell ya.
@MichaelHampton Actually, I think Dell has an alright site. It's not great, but it's definitely... tolerable. Which is much more than can be said for any of the other OEMs, whose sites range from awful to crimes against humanity.
@JoelESalas I like Nagios, but I also like graphs and statistics, and it's easier to maintain everything in one place than to run separate Nagios/Cacti servers and configure them both separately.
@JoelESalas If it's as good as you say, I'll definitely consider it. But I have way too much going on to think about it right now. The worst part is I am probably going to be spending the next two months writing code. What a nightmare.
@JoelESalas The questions he asked at the end. it was meant to be a 30 min interview (it's his 2nd time around). 20 mins of interview + 10 mins of questions. But it's been 20 mins of interview + 30 minutes of questions, because the questions he asked were incredibly engaging and smart questions and showed a lot of insight
Which is exactly what we want. We need someone to look at the big picture, but know enough to understand what the client does and doesn't need to be told during a sales pitch
@JoelESalas Totally depends on the job. If I were interviewing my replacement, I would want to see architecture questions. Because I fucking love architecture. I would have its babies if I could
I always have to keep an eye on the big picture, but I love designing nitty gritty details
@MarkHenderson I know it well. I am up to my eyeballs in NAT every day, and it makes me sad. Why do you think I'm going to IPv6 as fast as humanly possible?
@MichaelHampton I dunno. It's meant for "Rapid Deployment", but it's been 3 years since they first released it to 100 opt-in customers, and 6 months since they made it opt-in for any customer
I'm seriously considering switching ISPs but my ISP provides my VoIP numbers and I don't want to change number :p
@MarkHenderson Nope, we have colluding monopolies for telco and cable companies. Which is why our internet price/speed ratio is pretty much the lowest in the developed world.
@MarkHenderson Basically, under Clinton there were regulations requiring that the telco open up their lines to competing telcos for the purpose of providing bandwidth. Then under Bush, there was some crazy theory that choosing between 3 bandwidth monopolies (phone, cable, power) was good enough and the regulations changed and slowly the competing DSL providers died.
(I get my DSL at home from one of the few competing DSL providers that hasn't died)
@freiheit Clintons deal sounds same as what we have here. All of the last-mile infrastructure is owned by one company, and for years everything was just wholesaled through them. But in the last 10 years more and more independent ISPs have been putting their infrastructure in place in the exchanges owned by the monopoly (which they were required to allow by law)
I think if you're close enough to the right equipment you can get 20/2.5 for $40/month (including phone on that line at that price). Sadly I'm not connected to the right equipment and pay more like $60 for 6/1.
@freiheit It's luck of the draw a lot of the time. We're buying a house soon (I Hope) and a large part of my decision making process is the sort of internet that is available
@MarkHenderson I worked at an ISP back when that was the deal in the US and DSL was a fairly new thing... It's still technically the arrangement, but the change in regs made it a much worse deal for the companies trying to lease usage of that last mile
@MarkHenderson Find out where the phone exchange building is and move in next door? ;)
@MarkHenderson Yeah, the $40 that's available in my city but not this quadrant of it is a naked line service. They include phone (like, real regular phone) that's VOIP once it hits the ISP. (it's the same ISP I used to work at)
@MichaelHampton Is there a way to get a map of what a particular CO covers out of dslreports? Best I can get is stuff like this: dslreports.com/coinfo/clli/SNRSCA01
@MichaelHampton Both are fine with an appropriate sized key. I think DSA was the recommended thing for a while because RSA was patented and it was a legal problem (so some ssh variants only had dsa support), but that patent expired. (over a decade ago)
@MichaelHampton @WesleyDavid @mgorven Dealing with /Review, I got a whole bunch of questions that already had 4 close votes so the # to review actually went down a bit... Get out there and /Review a few!
@MichaelHampton well xp xas great because he came after 2000, but seven wasn't that good even coming after vista. I don't think 8 will be really that great.
Well if ms did stay on the first idea for 8 maybe (coupling the suse kernel and dos kernel to create an hybrid system), but now, you take the metro gui and you got a seven
I have an Adaptec 2405 installed on ESXi 5.0. When the card is idle, it flashes the red LEDs back and forth, nightrider style, just like this video. Is this normal, or is this a fault? I have dug everywhere through the manuals and can't seem to figure it out.
If it is in a fault state, I can't...
searching up apps etc goes blazingly fast.. I mean, how many of you are actually using the win7 start menu for anything? I pin stuff from it, and then never open it again except when I'm searching for something
There are some very good parts to Windows 8. I just think they've gone too far with some of their changes. I've got no problem with changing the way I work when I can see that something will bring a benefit but I'm not seeing any benefit to Windows 8.
@pauska Honestly, I don't really see the point. I suppose it curbs some fanboy-ism, but you still can't take away that it's an absolutely superb screen with a high resolution and high pixel density
According to @balpha, he SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post.
Edit:
Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)
well just wanted to know what is the difference b/w RewriteBase /folderName and RewriteBase / cos it didn't seem to matter.. I had to change links manually any how..
I have a secure/ sub-directory with several files that I want to perform some simple RewriteRules on, just defaulting a PHP extension. I had a hard time getting these to work and after some trial and error stumbled upon the following.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /secure
# Force PHP extension i...
@lsiunsuex pretty complex.. my simple mind couldn't make heads or tails of it... shall read it again (later) in the hope that I can make sense of it :D
I have heard from a ton of people in Southern California (or SoCal for you peeps not hip to the jive) who want to attend a LOPSA meeting in Southern California. Enough people that they'd actually start out with a full chapter. This is silly. I don't live in SoCal, so I can't start that [...]
@JourneymanGeek I'll see your bad day and raise Toshiba's laptop driver download experience.
After entering a serial number, I get a list of 99 downloads, a mixed bag of bloatware and drivers, not in version order with no filtering.
Trying to download the WLAN drivers redirects me to a new site with all 40ish of the devices that toshiba have ever used in a big list, and a link to a KB article describing how to identify the model in your laptop.
A KB article that shows you how to use the device manager to see what the device is called. A method that only works when the fucking device drivers are installed.
@ShyamK Apache tries to match the path given in directives relative to the DocumentRoot first, if it finds a match then it stops there. If there's no match then it tries the path given as if it's a full file system path. If there's still no match then it throws an error or warning (depends on things).
@Dan At least it's not a BluRay Disc?
@SmallClanger Yeah, I think the "Toshiba Laptop" is trump suit.
@ChrisS I'd forgotten how horrible it was. I haven't used one in ages, but I've just had one dumped on me at laughably short notice for someone who's flying somewhere tomorrow.
I refuse to work on crap like that anymore... Acer, Sony, and a few others too. The hardware is sh*t, their websites are worse than HP or Cisco, and "barely works" is as good as it gets.
Can someone advice me a simple mail server?
I have an Adaptec 2405 installed on ESXi 5.0. When the card is idle, it flashes the red LEDs back and forth, nightrider style, just like this video. Is this normal, or is this a fault? I have dug everywhere through the manuals and can't seem to figure it out.
If it is in a fault state, I can't...
According to @balpha, he SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post.
Edit:
Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)
I have a secure/ sub-directory with several files that I want to perform some simple RewriteRules on, just defaulting a PHP extension. I had a hard time getting these to work and after some trial and error stumbled upon the following.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /secure
# Force PHP extension i...
