i mean the panasonic guy was a nice chap, very reasonable, and helpful. Now you might wonder about a system that doesn't support routing in this day and age, but their documentation is very clear about this requirement and about how to set it up and about how and how not to configure their gear
well 18 months after which we got a new company in to support our CCTV infrastructure who took one look at what the old lot had done, went "what is this, I don't even..." and phoned panasonic, hence this visit by the panasonic guru who nearly cried at some of what the old lot did
And I have precisely zero point none resources to spend sorting this reconfiguration out plus the number of bugs that it will throw up even though it shouldn't because we're short of staff and putting all our shoulders behind our windows 7 thing.
I'm so glad that we didn't do the whole "upgrade from XP to 7" path. We just had the new school built and Win 7 as standard...apart from the Digital Signage, which is XP.
serverfault.com/questions/340853/… what is wrong with that guy? 1000 physical servers and they are asking how to measure egress bandwith out of their DC... WTF?!
Oh it'll be a "big bang" release during the summer break so it'll be a case from the user's point of view that at the start of 2012/2013 academic year, in september all the users will see their machines have magically turned into windows 7 ones during the holidays
RM is a UK educational IT supplier, and they write a piece of software called "Community Connect". They have version 3, the latest is version 4. It's used for managing the network, basically to 'hide' AD from everything
managing the network. It's designed to "de-skill" a lot of management tasks to enable cheaper/lower end technicians to do more complex tasks than they'd normally be able to on a more normal network
Our windows stuff is vanilla as well, though there are talks of extending the schema to support Apple WGM without Open Directory. The thought of importing an ldf from Apple into my AD scares the living shit out of me though.
but for a place like we are here, where CC3 (or for that matter, their newer version, CC4) wasn't really designed to scale to and which does have skilled admins working for it which have knocked holes in all their config in order to make it work for a network this size, its a horrible mess
we have about 80 mac clients plus a couple of servers and i'm trying to pull that back given that apple have stopped selling real servers. Like the ones we need.
or about a certain college in leicester that I don't want to name as this chat is logged, whose network manager all but started crying while telling me about their CC4 rollout
we had one of the first CC3 roll outs @dan - we also have a multi-domain forest. RM stopped supporting those, for a while at least, after rolling CC3 out here with us.
we got a quote for moving to CC4 even though I had already decided not to. About 4 times what I felt we could do a normal rollout for, and the sales engineer pretty much did their best to talk us out of it anyway
@pfo it's not actually an NDA as such as they have time limits, this is more of a 'never talk about' thing sorry - all I wil say is there's nothing in there that'd surprise anyone here
I do tell you about lots of stuff, i.e. when I know other big customers of company X have got test/trial kit at the same time as me - then I don't mind dropping details
No, I hate it too. I don't mind students bring their own laptops in to work in our library but I couldn't imagine liking the idea of it being formally used as part of anyone's business
@tombull89 It is, but the idea is for the company to support and encourage it. The theory is you provide a virtual desktop and let them install the client and connect
There's not a problem with connecting anything to my network, as long as the business understands the risks and funds the implementation of technical controls
We have about 200 phones that are university supports. Anyone else wanting email that's not important enough to get a blackberry can buy a phone that does activesync, opt into us being able to wipe their phone remotely, and use without support
If they want me to make it work (and guarantee it works) it's going to be my device, controlled/managed by me, and I get the final say in basically every way. That may sound Machiavellian, but I'm easy going and very reasonable.
i like the idea of providing a VDI infrastructure and remote connectivity so people can work on their own devices, whether at home or elsewhere. I just can't imagine being able to provide support for their home devices or buy less computers because of it
@growse We've tip toed in that direction and got burnt by device inconsistencies. Perhaps it's different for me where every minute a device isn't working gets put on someone's time sheet and 5 managers sign-off that their device was the reason for the lack of productivity...
I wonder how much of the hype is down to freshly minted graduate journalists in IT mags who hate being told they can't install their own spyware on their work PC. The same place those yearly rants about how draconian network admins are bad for the workplace comes from
@RobMoir Absolutely - I love VDI, I'd just rather be in charge of the things connecting to it on the business floor. If you want to connect from home, great - but if it doesn't work I'm sending you to Google
@RobMoir We do allow people to connect form their home computers to our VDI. But only after they've explicitly agreed that it's not guaranteed to work under any circumstances and they should have no expectation of it working...
If the business says "We want anyone to be able to use any phone to connect to the Exchange servers, from anywhere in the world", that should be subject to a bunch of smart people sayiing "Here's your risks, and here's how much it's going to cost"
@growse that's how i've learnt to manage my managers. I never say "no" now, unless the question is about tech that could only have come from watching the sci fi channel, just a variation of "We can do whatever you want, here's the costs and here's the risks of your idea. Let me know what you think"
My favourite implementation was a while back where a group basically wanted to break the SOX law. I said "you can absolutely do that, but our CEO will probably go to prison". They didn't do it.
our aruba AP's are funny when they are installed for the first time.. they reboot like 7 times. Each one is similar to "rebooting after installing certificate", "rebooting after being provisioned" etc
You'd think that a windows 2000 admin created these boxes.. funny enough - they run linux
probably.. but it's still a bit old fashion. You don't have to reboot an ESXi host after installing it to make an example :)
btw regarding bring your own PC: Many of the offices in the corp I work in are franchise, so they have to buy their own pc's and maintan them.. we only provide RDS to them. It works pretty good, allthough we do get the occasional question if we can fix their computer (which we won't).
I'm pretty confident that most of us are supporting it in a few years.. people want to bring their penis extension (apple macbook) to work cause its cool and all that.. as long as those clients stay on a highly locked and secure network with only RDP/VDI access internally then its fine by me
wife comes from 'old money' so when I met her I knew she'd never be the type to clean, wash, iron, cook etc. at least I knew what I was letting myself in for
@ChrisS Of course. I'm speaking from my own changes, I have my own bills and so forth. I used to stress out a lot about money, I felt it added a lot of useless stress to my life and stopped me from enjoying life. I'm at a place where I only look at my bank account every month or two.
Every month or two I move all the money where it needs to go, and repeat.
In practice, I don't really want to spend money on things any more, I've gone from buying useless things like a 300$ pair of sneakers to just consuming less, cutting junk out of my life. It's weird, I'll blog about it all one day.
The Richest Man in Babylon is a book by George Samuel Clason which dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set in ancient Babylon. Through their experiences in business and managing household finance, the characters in the parables learn simple lessons in financial wisdom. Originally a series of separate informational pamphlets distributed by banks and insurance companies, the pamphlets were bound together and published in book form in 1926.
The Man Who Desired Gold
Bansir, a chariot builder, has a conversation with his friend Kobbi, a musician. They bemoan the time...
You can pick up the book in a lot of bookstores for like 5-10$ or something.
@Incognito It's just money... Either you're still alive and can earn more, or you're dead and don't need it anymore. Either way it's nothing to lose sleep over.
@ChrisS Oh I know, but it's still unfortunate. Imagine if you will, having the fore-sight to have bought gold when it was only $800/ounce, and sell it at $1000/ounce because you wanted useless junk, even though you knew it was going up.
Part of the reason I sold it was: I looked at it every day. Hence: don't look at your money.
So unrelated to all of this-- is anyone familiar with spam filtering? I'm looking for SpamAssassin as a service that runs the probability checking on emails before being sent.
@Incognito Sure, the spamc program will take the e-mail as stdin and dump it with score as stdout
If you just want a one off score you can send it to me and I'll tell you the score (my install is very vanilla). If you want to do that on a regular basis installing SA isn't terrible...
I had a neo from the matrix moment one day looking at my old server that does some reporting to see if this one website changed their JS files-- I looked through the index and saw some moni.pl and I just jumped back and said "What? I know perl?!"
Evidently, I know some perl.
Are you speaking of the new perl6 or something else?
Just reviewing the docs; looks like spamassassin-run -t < original.email > with_report.email will do what you want, and tell you in detail how the message got the score.
I have a situation where I want to connect to a Linux machine running VNC (lets call it VNCServer) which is behind two consecutive Linux machines i.e., to ssh into the VNCServer, I have to ssh into Gateway1 from my laptop, then from Gateway1 shell I ssh into the Gateway2 and then from that shell ...
Sometimes we order from a pizza place in bridgeport and they have amazing garlic rolls. She'll want to split a pizza and some wings or something and I just want half a dozen garlic rolls