@Skyhawk While it's dark, I can't have quiet due to my tinnitus, I have lots of white noise going as I sleep, I have a relaxation technique where I count +=1 with every breath in and out... In for odd, and out for even numbers.
@pauska Going okay - held on to my mainstay client which keeps my bills paid but nothing more. Looking for jobs but it's either do MSP work and lose my soul, or get denied because I'm not devops enough.
@HopelessN00b I just dislike dealing with something so powerful and yet so rarely necessary at my work. So I end up not wanting to become an expert in it and instead enjoy cursing at my screen for hours on end until I get a simple table join to work correctly with other tables and actually get RESULTS on the screen. :) (takes a hit)
@HopelessN00b my issue is I don't speak DBAgrish. So I read things like inner join, outer join, table links, etc. when trying to get table data and I think "I don't Fing know! Just give me the dang data and if it still doesn't look right I'll try again!"
@TheCleaner Reeks of COBOL. Too complicated for normal users... too... shit for people who know what they're doing. Like I said, it's SQL, with a web-frontend, so just gimmie SQL with a web-front, FFS.
@MikeyB Why do people still use sendmail, over say... something less horrific? Is it one of those things that's more powerful if you can survive the configuration process, or something?
Nothing *wrong* with sendmail. But: it does everything. Which makes it very powerful and complex. Usually seen on legacy installs. Yeah, postfix is so much nicer nowadays.
my sendmail.mc is something like 20 lines, most of which is enabling SSL and SASL (and I really don't care what sendmail.cf looks like because nobody ever reads that).
Disclaimer: I once had to read (and write) sendmail.cf files directly. 'twas back in my Sun days, and the machines didn't have working m4.
@MikeyB I had to do this via GUI...table linking without a clue what I'm doing. Auto-arrange and autolink didn't work...kept reporting errors afterwards. So I had to manually link each table. Silly ERP system.
@BigHomie Proactive monitoring: Go from "Shit, what broke?" to "Shit, that broke?!" for a minimal monthly fee of licensing, CALs, support, retainer fees, and on-call help desk support.
@Wesley Well, that too... but I've seen a number of decently thought out posts lately, with some time attention given to them, decent background, and explanation of what they're trying to do, until they get to... "and then I do [thing] and I can't/it won't work." Like, ... the hell? why are the only details missing the ones that matter?
@Wesley Proactive monitoring: Go from "Shit, what broke?" to "Yeah I F'ing know it's broke, I got the monitoring email. You ALL don't have to call IT!"
@MDMarra Damn. Well maybe that's why no one asks questions about it, then. We all have shitty ticketing systems already. Why would anyone want a new, shitty ticketing system? :p
@DennisKaarsemaker Also you can commit it to disk on a best effort basis, and do full commits on graceful reboots, so unless you totally lose power you're fine.
@DennisKaarsemaker Although, as everyone knows, one in a million is next Tuesday so a business critical email will likely be in the 0.0000001% of email that gets lost per year.
@MDMarra Oh, right... well, that's that. It'd be a tough enough fight getting them to turn up Service Manager. Let alone SCOM and ... um, the other ones that would make Service Manager useful. :(
@Jacob I wouldn't put anything on a ramdisk, not even tmp, if data goes away I want it to be because I finally got angry enough to take a shotgun to my server rack.
@KevinSoviero Thinking about it wrong. I'm gonna put all our Access databases and .PSTs on a ramdisk. Next time the power goes out, I'll have made the environment here a billion times better.
we use it to store tempfiles that have a really short lifetime (like <10sec). Really we should be malloc()ing and using RAM directly, but that requires the developers to do work, and this gave us a 100% performance boost (on top of the 300% performance boost from the developers refactoring)
@Wesley doesn't matter on *BSD. the RC scripts don't check time, they just check if they should clear /tmp or not.
> I know /tmp as it named is a temporary dircory, Debian policy is to clean /tmp at boot. However, I'd like to configure my Ubuntu Server to stop deleting files from /tmp on boot due to custom configuration issue. How do I configure behavior of boot scripts to stop deleting files on boot?
I died.
I'd like to configure my Ubuntu Server to stop deleting files from /tmp on boot due to custom configuration issue.
What with SQL being based on this thing called Relational Algebra, and having mathematical proofs that say "This is how you should store your shit", I tend to think it's better suited to - ya know - storing my shit.
@voretaq7 that's almost, word for word, what I got out of someone mewling about big data
I had multi-terabyte data sets in a star configuration in the 90s when the largest spindle you could buy was 4 god damn gigabytes don't talk to me about big data
@RyJones This is when I'd usually whip out my 4M row 2GB table and say "This isn't even CLOSE to big yet", but when we refactored our software we got rid of that table.
@KevinSoviero To take the alternate position, BigData might be a fad... but if it is, it's only because we're so bad at using it properly. If you can achieve results with BigData, you can make mountains of money. Search and Social Networking are the first to do that well enough to make obscene fortunes... but won't be the last.
@voretaq7 Tru that, but take even something as "simple" as mapping the human genome, and correlating genes to diseases and risk and new medicines... big monies, and you don't need to get through HIPPA or whatever to bank off that.
@HopelessN00b no but you need the raw data, and the only way to get that is with a few million in research grants to establish your own silo (which you won't be allowed to share with anyone else)
2014-04-16T18:16:10.672Z cpu15:42281)ScsiDeviceIO: 2337: Cmd(0x412fc3e23100) 0x85, CmdSN 0x898102 from world 34559 to dev "naa.60026b902cd02000197bbc06062eb897" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0
@voretaq7 That's why you do your initial data collection in Africa (or China, or w/e) where they don't have the same innovation-crushing legal environment we do in the "civilized" world.
@voretaq7 ...which is exactly why the revolutionary biotech is coming out of emerging economies, rather than ours. Progress won't stop for our laws, it will flee where they don't apply. :(
