the primary issue is we have a half dozen or so VMs (build slaves) that download, expand, compile, and delete tens of thousands of files a day, and we'd like that to be faster.
when two or more vms on the same node build at the same time, perf goes to shit
@ewwhite not really, we were talking about 4T total per node
basically, the vms would boot off spinning rust and build on local ssd
the ssd on the san would be used for pushing products around - lots of the builds feed through two or three build steps requiring build product to be pushed to the other vm
it was not designed for the scale we're using it and the warts are showing.
@ewwhite I can't answer that other than at the gross level - I could go look at the front of the server and get the models, but the disks and the like are in trays
blinking lights of every color. the best part is they used to have a spool of whatever the latest blessed build was, you could just drop by 27 (or 24? don't remember) and pick one up
anyway, @ewwhite, our ops meeting is, like I said, next week so I'll ask
@Wesley Merge, merge, merge, wait, turn... what's so hard? Or you can veer right to the crosswalk in front of the furthest "go straight" lane on your right, spin your bike 90 degrees (a "box turn")...
The Oregon Bicyclists Manual explains this very well, and with good diagrams, so I'm going to pretty much copy them verbatim here:
There are several ways to make a left turn on a bicycle:
As a Vehicle
As you approach the intersection, look over your left shoulder for
traffic and,...
@Wesley Pretty close to that on my commute home. Except only 40mph, and the center turn lane turns into a signal-controlled left-turn lane at the intersection I use. Sometimes the signal even picks me up and gives me a protected left turn!
@freiheit Yeah I'd like to go out with someone experienced and do that stuff. Google Map: "Thunderbird and Tatum, Phoenix Arizona" to see the kinds of intersection I would use, but instead map out smaller ones.
@Wesley About 10% of the time, there's just no room for me to do the merges over to the left for my left turns, so I ride to the crosswalk and cross there.
@MarkHenderson Would a cheerful smile and wave help any? Actually, if it's an intersection with properly done bike lanes (or even just wide lanes), the cyclist ends up positioned between the go-straight and right-turn lanes and doesn't cause the slightest bit of trouble.
@Wesley If it's a smaller intersection with only 1 lane (so you can't tell if the car is going to go straight, right or left, because only 1% of drivers bother signalling), you'd pull in front of the car, forcing them to wait for you.
@Wesley It does two things. 1) I'm waiting and you're not, and we both are trying to achieve the same thing. 2) I'm going to have to overtake you. Again. As soon as I get my legal right to go.
And overtaking bikes is a fucking goddamn piece of shit pain in the fucking arse
@Wesley Also, you should really only try the box turn at an intersection where you're familiar with the signal timing, because you don't want to be sideways when the light turns green.
So you could build an IPTables firewall, then an OpenVPN box, and then an IPS to emulate, and even put basic routing protocols on your router but the 5515X is faster and easier
But basicall that's what an ASA does. You can either have it routed, where it has IP addresses on both side of your connection, and can either route or 1:1 NAT, or it can be transparent where it basically just sits in the middle of the wire and inspects traffic as it passes
@freiheit So I just got off the phone with my REI bike shop. Dude said "No, don't ream and face your Surly dude, don't do that." Seemed kinda annoyed. =P I'm going to drop the frame and fork off to have him build the front end.
@MarkHenderson I use pf as my rack firewall. Not bad.
@Andrew Then they will probably have given you a /32 or a /31 to attach to your WAN port, and then they will have given you a /27 or whatever which is routed to your WAN address
@Andrew so you basically have your /31 on your outside interface, and then you create a vlan or an interface on your inside interface and assign it an IP address from your /27
That way when your ASA gets packets for the new subnet, it routes them to the interface that matches
That's basically how a normal router works
But between the two interfaces, the ASA inspects the traffic
But - if you already have routing set up and working and want to just drop a firewall in between them, then you want something in transparent mode
That way it doesn't have to be a hop in the network, and doesn't have an IP address on your public range, but still inspects the traffic
Hi Edmund,
I am approaching you because a Top Financial Firm is looking for a Data Center Engineer with a strong background in Linux.
Location: Jersey City
Compensation: range from 70-110k base
@Wesley did you break it already?
Ability to lift 30lbs (racking server and Data Center hardware)
@kce I've slowed down on applying. I went back to grinding for two clients and a friend in town. Two of the three pay, the one that's left finally made me go postal and I'm stewing on it. I've got a call with him on Thursday and I'm trying to figure out how to say "FOAD" in business professional.
@kce Skills took a big hit in the last few years as a result of a lot of things.
@kce Okay so here's where I don't get how @ewwhite works. I didn't have a contract. I got double-fisted and I'm paying for it now. So no contract, and I got screwed.
@Andrew If it's community service with no religious pre-requisits or requirements (you serve anyone, and don't preach to them) then you can probably get through
@MarkHenderson It's going to be something like that. The problem is that things gradually turned cozy. Whatever. I'm going to break it down into: "I don't care about anything, except me making money. I don't care that your company has potential, and that you're growing listeners and retained customers. I care about money. My money. When I don't get paid as much as I invoice, I don't care about your business, life, or health. I care about me."
Because he's all "No but look, I've made great decisions and we've weathered a recession and we've got new offerings, and business is better, and we made more money, and we've got..."
I do. not. care. I don't care about potential and growth.
I care about one thing: My money.
Now not literally in a broader sense.
I care about a lot, but in a business relationship, I don't care about anything except my money.
I spent about 40 hours making a monitoring system for a small business last year. Dropping it in, making checks, graphs, etc so they could see things. They suddenly had new needs. That server needed to be re-purposed. That time? invoiced. I got paid. I really didn't care about that time being "all for nought."
I worked, I did what I should have. Show me the money. I really don't care about the future of the business and the market and this and that. I'm happy for people having success, but I'm not personally invested. I just don't give a hoot. Pay my damn invoices.
@MarkHenderson Yeah, that's the thing. There's no larger payout later. It's just straight up invoices that aren't getting paid, even after lowering my rates to get work done and still bring in something but even that stopped, and suddenly there are things to fix that would stop the business dead and I'm the only one that can do it.
But, like I said, now I've hit a level of not caring that is probably healthy.
Dell shows this laptop on their website that boasts both a smart card reader and a TPM chip, but then when I chat with their support confirm that, because I don't see those customization options, the support person is like, "oh, sorry, the website shouldn't say that, we can't really customize it like that for you."
Well yeah, so Dell's "business line" of laptops is definitely the Latitudes. But apparently I have to be in some sort of club for them to build me one the way I want it. Like I have to order them in batches of 100 or something for them to bother customizing it for me.
I have a SuperMicro box with an Areca RAID controller installed. The RAID controller is configured for RAID 6 + Hot Spare. I am attempting to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I set up LVM with separate partitions for /, /var, swap, and /data. While progressing through the installer, I get repeated failu...
The Oregon Bicyclists Manual explains this very well, and with good diagrams, so I'm going to pretty much copy them verbatim here:
There are several ways to make a left turn on a bicycle:
As a Vehicle
As you approach the intersection, look over your left shoulder for
traffic and,...
