@Iain The sad thing is: I know. I still want to. It's my mosquito bite.
Once in a while, you know you shouldn't, but you just want a good dig at it. :D
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I hate the "You can't tell me this is coincidence" line. Look, you yell fire in a crowded theater and get trampled, then accuse people of persecuting you and saying "You can't tell me it was coincidence that 200 people stepped on my head! 200 PEOPLE IN A ROW!!"
Got an IM from my boss yesterday saying "i know you have been busting ass lately and I appreciate it immensely. if you want to head out early, go for it" Which I guess was nice, but I told him I'd be even more far behind if I did, but the offer was nice - and some recognition.
@JourneymanGeek shittiest one I have is a toshiba satelite PA31 something ... ill try throwing linux on there and make it auto ssh on boot and using it as a remote control for my media center
It rained on my way in to work this morning and I was absolutely deluged by the time I made it in. I took my jacket off and hung it over the handles of one of those trolley/wheelie things people use to move tall, heavy things (the ones with the short base, but that's not important) in the server ...
So I guess we're looking at Dell KACE to replace CA for deploying apps to PCs. Sr. manager asked Dell "Well, we hear Microsoft is the best - what do you have to say about that?" Dell replies "well, they are - we use Microsoft here."
anybody here got a good answer for unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159241/… ? I don't really do that kind of setup but the guy seems nice and polite so I'd like to see him get some help
I forgot my root password and am attempting to change it by booting into single-user mode, however when booting I get this screen:
Then I press "e" to edit the boot configuration and I get this screen:
However, in the tutorial I'm following it says I should navigate to the line that starts ...
yeah, I know there's no point in upgrading older bldgs that only house typical office workers, so it would likely be for only new installs and/or places where people will be accessing "Big Data" >.>, but I'm gonna put a jack in my office at home and I was researching today and saw there's apparently 6a, 7, and 7a out now, and 6a and 7 offer 10GbE over copper, so I figures why not of course lol
But if it's just hype then nm, I'll just stick to cat 6
it'll be cool to have the speed in house, at the point when the rest of the tech catches up I could have 10G from the desktop to the NAS/Plex, but I'm not hard pressed about it, ya know?
I just don't want it to be one of the alpha test things that eventually get betamax'd by FiOs or HD-DVD'd by something, and I'm left having to run another jack
@BigHomie we're using 5e to desktops/cubes/lab machines and 6 from the ingress to the stuff in the machine room and the runs out to the switches in the labs
Thanks, I figure that's the majority of setups nowadays, at $job[-1] we had some rooms w/ Cat3, nobody wanted pay for upgrades, spent it all on research, whatever
I've only came across it on wikipedia, don't think it said, it might though b/c there are more twists per foot, and also shielding for each pair as well
wouldn't be many bends for my particular application though
@ewwhite I haven't seen any compelling reason to not use it other than that it adds another layer of possible errors. But I wouldn't let a first-level NOC/helpdesk person mess with it.
When I was at a cloud firm, we were using LVM on top of VMware... and many of my emergency support hours were spend fixing LVM screw-ups by first level staff.
But if the NOC needs to mess with LVM; then they'd already be facing a problem beyond their expertise... wouldn't they have messed up whatever else they could have been using?
At the current gig, we're using LVM on top of VMWare and have never had any problems with it. But the NOC doesn't have root on anything anyway so there's less risk of someone messing it up.
@Nick s/a root shell open on your PC with // from "never leave a root shell open on your PC with your screen unlocked" leaves "never leave your screen unlocked".
@MichelZ back at previous job, coworker would leave his screen unlocked... until I got tired enough of it. I took a screenshot of it, set the screenshot as background and hid all his programs. Then sat back and listened to the cursing
Every technology has it's limits, and nothing on that page supports your claim that LVM is awful. I would recommend that you modify that part of your answer, because it's more of a FUD then beneficial info. — Jakov Sosic1 min ago
@ewwhite It's an opinion and it's your experience. It doesn't match mine... but as you said, it's a function of the combination of people, processes and software at that place.
You are certainly right in that it adds a layer of complexity.
So I had a small argument with a couple of users on one question of mine.
Now I'm finding that my recent questions (perfectly valid - I took great care not to upset anyone because I was banned for a while) being downvoted for no apparent reason.
Why should I be banned from being able to ask que...
I forgot my root password and am attempting to change it by booting into single-user mode, however when booting I get this screen:
Then I press "e" to edit the boot configuration and I get this screen:
However, in the tutorial I'm following it says I should navigate to the line that starts ...
