Right now they "rescheduled" us so we leave Philly and arrive in Miami at 9:30am and our flight to St. Lucia leaves at 9:00am. And no, that isnt a typo
@AdamC So introductions for the new guy. @DennisKaarsemaker delegates real work to others for booking.com, @ewwhite works for 4 months at a time at various high-profile companies, tells them they all suck and goes back to indie consulting, @jscott who just dropped in has the answer to every AD problem that I've never seen and @BigHomie used to be "@MDMoore" but then I battled him to the death
@MDMarra Thanks for that twit link earlier. Although we expunged all our 2003 DCs, it's certainly good to know about the issue... I've keep hearing from people who still have 2003 around.
So yeah thanks @MDMarra for the intros, for anyone interested I'm a Mac and Wi-Fi person, run a local meetup IT group in Rhode Island, which is neither a road nor an island.
@AdamC also, I try to get people to come to work for me in Amsterdam. Our mac guy is overworked as he's supporting almost 1000 macbooks on his own. Come work for me :-)
@ewwhite is the most well connected human on the planet, @AdamC. If you want to know the people that power healthcare.gov or brazzers.com, he's your guy
@NathanC in all honestly it was SO freaking my fault it wasn't even funny, but I could not figure out the issue myself. I had installed Office with the wrong ISO for what key I had. And key as in, one of the numerous keys I have in ma spreadsheet.
You know it. I'm somewhat tall, I could totally be useful in a kayak shack. "Hey, you! Go get that kayak off the top shelf!" "Sure thing boss." (hardest day in the office yet)
Then you're boss doesn't want to "upgrade" to new kayaks at the end of the year and you're posting online for repair help and everyone's like "dude upgrade you run a rental shop!" and you're all like "but we have a shoestring budget! and there's a rental shop POS called Spicerentals
@NathanC also we're a google apps shop I mean come on isn't that 1/3 the product? ;-)
Some new features are coming out, asking some people to try them out, soon you'll be able to EDIT Office files in Google Drive, not convert them, then save them and send them back to whoever.
@MDMarra You're married to a librarian, which means that you probably get more sex at home than any of us have had, ever (because we all know librarians have massive sex drives). So you can't have it all my friend.
I was told at work to "hire another you" so if anyone knows a handsome, well-mannered, brilliant engineer with a focus on AD and identity management, hit me up
We will be starting the #stackexchange chat maintenance in about 15 minutes, downtime should be brief. http://stackstatus.net/post/92572393494/chat-maintenance-july-24-2014-at-9-pm-est-1-am-utc
I know I'm spoiled as an Google Apps Education customer, but damn their Enterprise Support is thorough and helpful. Would be a shame to hand that off to Sprint to bungle.
I had an interesting conversation where they explained their angle, basically Google never wanted to make the admin panel a tool for a 50+ or 200+ environment, thats why FlashPanel thrives.
If you're doing Gapps support, check out GAM, it can be a real time saver. Once you're looking at diving into scripting with the Google APIs, you may find the docs... daunting.
Oh def check it out, I recently launched a help desk for the company I am new at, wanted something web based, all of them are built for helping public customers not your own employees, not really IT oriented.
(We chose Desk.com, then I found Freshservice, I want to push them to it.)
First of all I'm new to unix and know few things and I apologize for any stupid thing you will see in this post. I need experts opinion for this case.
I have a VPS hosting with CPanel and I need to install phalconphp. My VPS has PHP 5.3. I followed phalconphp instructions and did "yum install ph...
The story:
I am using Ubuntu for my website.
For a backup plan, I wrote a script. I wanted to mount an external drive, (run through crontab), backup the server, and then umount it, every night.
I noticed that through fdisk -l I got:
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
To be sure, I ejected the external d...
@MichaelHampton It feels pretty cloudy to me- I pay a monthly fee, don't have to manage hardware, have a contract that I can scale up and down with my needs...
@Basil You don't actually have a VM though. You're either stuck on a box with 300 other people's web sites, or you're on your own VPS. Either way there are no real "cloud" features (e.g. shared storage, live migration, etc.).
@MichaelHampton Private cloud is where you can pay monthly for what you use, and spin up and spin down resources for your needs. None of those things are true for us.
@MichaelHampton Wouldn't work out of the box- we had a lot of people in to tell us about how they could marry the infrastructure with the accounting department but they all told us we'd have to integrate for so long that we'd basically end up writing it ourselves
Admittedly, we aren't interested in anything that won't tie together at least a few of the pillars- AIX and VMWare, at least
(and, of course, storage)
It's hilarious right now- you need a small army of itil-buzzword spouting maniacs to meet several times for a month before you'll ever see a new IP address on the network
@MichaelHampton Imagine a massive mostly-POSIX compliant hypervisor. We've got more flexibility in terms of choosing and changing the hardware that stuff runs on than any VMWare machine
@MichaelHampton getting a new LPAR in place isn't the hard part, really- it's that getting an application off the ground requires database LPARs, database licenses, a DBA, middleware LPARs for communicating with the rest of the applications, front-end LPARs, storage, networking, and then integrators to build, test, test, test, promote, then support it all.
DB2 on mainframe, DB2 on AIX, Oracle on AIX, Oracle on Windows, Oracle on Linux, SQL on Windows, mySQL on Linux, nosql for some science experiments, and of course all kinds of embedded shit we don't need to worry about
@MichaelHampton It's pretty much magic. Or hax. Or something.
We don't do anything but keep their backups safe, but I know (since one of their admins is also a smoker) that they routinely generate millions of dollars worth of intelligence. For example, they discovered that following the locomotive operating guidelines in a specific type of track would cost more fuel than breaking the rules a bit in a specific and weird way
Now, they throttle down for a minute in a condition that's called for high throttle since forever, and we've saved literally millions of dollars of fuel (running 20 trains a day over that area)
I have a number of systems that rely on application-level mirroring to a secondary server. The secondary server pulls data by means of a series of remote SSH commands executed on the primary. The application is a bit of a black box, and I may not be able to make modifications to the scripts that ...
@MichaelHampton This is a Request For Enhancement (RFE) which is being tracked in Red Hat Bugzilla #953088 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. If this is a feature which is of interest to your environment, then please report a case to Red Hat Support.
It would solve my problem in this question quite nicely.
I have been tasked with reading their APIs to help a client choose which one is easier/harder to integrate with
Integrating with Dynamics GP looks like it would make me want to chop my fingers off. And intergrating with Dynamics AX makes me think I would rather purge myself on the rocks beneath a 300 meter cliff
@DennisKaarsemaker ah. I'm just starting to poke around in the Junipers. They were set up in a frightening cascade of multiple single points of filure.
The story:
I am using Ubuntu for my website.
For a backup plan, I wrote a script. I wanted to mount an external drive, (run through crontab), backup the server, and then umount it, every night.
I noticed that through fdisk -l I got:
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
To be sure, I ejected the external d...
