the problem is I'm using Github for Windows for pushing my commits as I find it much easier than all of the other programs out there and it forces me to use a name/email for commits — Ryflex12 mins ago
Gets worse on Stack Overflow. There is someone really using the Git GUI by GitHub ... and he likes it!
There are a precious few developers who aren't complete idiots...
This isn't just the best answer, it's the only answer. As a general rule you're a developer so backups aren't your business; somebody else is (or should be) already looking after them, and if you start getting involved you may be interfering with a system that already works. These boxes should already be being backed up, so then you'll have a backup, your own backup, and a backup of your own backup, all with ever-increasing size. That's just nuts. Plus: you're a developer: why are you (probably) going near production boxes anyway? — Jimmy Shelter11 hours ago
@kaiser Because it's such a low margin business it's just not worth the effort unless you can get 10,000 people on there, and to get 10,000 people on there you need to cut corners and be shit
hm. just checked that and yes I can see the other users folders there
maybe a "real VM" would be to expensive on memory consumption
the guys must have a pretty solid set of rules.
fact is: I can run apache/lighttp/nginx if I want - node.js runs there and I get a decent Ruby version from the very first minute as well as I can switch to sane PHP version numbers like 5.5.x.
It's quite easy to make me happy (as PHP developer). Give me: Git, PHP 5.4+, node.js and Ruby to run Grunt tasks and more than 1-3 databases. If you can add a decent amount of PHP extensions on top, then I'm already happy with those 10GB storage and the "we say hi! if you use too much memory or bandwidth".
@MichaelHampton uberspace is very sane with support: only contact us via twitter or mail. and their "pay what you want" policy worked that good that people pay lots more than they would have to, they hired the first new guy after one year and the last time I heard "a new server today", it was #88.
@MichaelHampton I've heard good things about the latest expansion stuff but haven't bothered to pick it back up - haven't touched it since cataclysm (and that was just for a month to play through the new zones and levels). The next expansion is pulling my nostalgia strings from warcraft 1/2 lore, so I'll probably check that out
@MarkHenderson I did buy the Orange Box but I only really liked Portal
And that, of course, only lasted so long.
@ShaneMadden If you do come back you get a free level 90 boost for one character when you preorder the next expansion, and Blizzard has put together some catch-up videos for people coming back.
@MichaelHampton That's pretty cool of them (though I won't use the level boost on my main, might use it to bring up the old alt) - might need to check that out once I'm done with crazy travel and vet stuff (puppy cancer :( ) the next couple weeks.
@Basil Fair enough. I played magic back in.. middle school?.. when it got big initially, then didn't touch it for over a decade. Have some friends who still play, we do drafts every once in a while.
First of all, thank you all for your collective help in trying to get accurate information.
I am disappointed with LSI's documentation on megacli - the impetus for creating the reference page for myself in the first place.
In regards to the section showing the raid levels and megaCLI's outputs,...
I could edit out the irrelevant stuff or just let the votes keep it at the bottom
I'm going to skip for now so it comes up in someone else's review queue
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@MichaelHampton what about serverfault.com/a/598954/96078? It sounds like a terrible idea, but I can't linux worth a damn, so I'm going by the words around the terms I don't know...
I just upgraded Ubuntu 14.04, and I had two ZFS pools on the server. There was some minor issue with me fighting with the ZFS driver and the kernel version, but that's worked out now. One pool came online, and mounted fine. The other didn't. The main difference between the tool is one was just a ...
@Basil Even if he isn't the admin, it's a common enough question, and reasonably good. Besides, I try not to miss an opportunity to educate developers :)
It is something that admins need to know, and that isn't obvious (at first)
@MichaelHampton true, but the question itself can only be answered by an opinion: "How can the official CentOS repository provide such an old (and dangerous) version?"
@MichaelHampton Fair enough- I don't understand what he's talking about, of course. That's my biggest problem when going through these. I have to read what they wrote rather than extrapolate what they must mean ;)
@Basil Sidenote: Standard Comment snippet for such questions: "Answers should be more than plain links. They should actually be an answer instead of a route where someone will maybe find an answer. Please help preventing link rot, [edit] your answer and provide the needed information that helps the OP as well as later visitors to solve their problem." More drama.
@MichaelHampton We have a pretty serious VMWare infrastructure- at least 15 clusters, 8 of which are at HQ and run 12 esx hosts each. Hundreds of VMs. And that's dwarfed by our AIX, which runs hundreds of the type of heavy duty VMs that VMWare prefers to leave on hardware.
@Basil My former employer's former DNS admin started with them in 1969. It wasn't until DNS was platformed off BSDi to Windows in 2010 that he stopped being a sysadmin in truth.
@Basil Hell, he was still there managing the swipe door access system when I left back in February.
@ScottPack We have a guy whose job it was to load tapes on the mainframe back before we got a robot... now all he does is facilitate shipping things and crosswords, apparently
Second, it takes a monumental effort to move as much weight onto a new platform as an enterprise tends to carry. Something that would be a contractor or three and a few weeks at a normal shop is a 12 month million dollar engagement for me
How can I hide recent files that my Ubuntu Netbook's unity menu shows when I click on the files and folder icon?
Okay ! I watch porn sometimes and right after that it appears in the files and folder menu.
And believe me, that is not a good thing. :D
So, please tell me if there is a way to do t...
@MichaelHampton the large shops out there will tend to trail in some places, but it's not museum level, usually. We have a few clunkers around, but most of the time we only lag by a few years more than medium sized shops
@MichaelHampton We never sell our old stuff... I don't know why. I asked, because I'm about to decom a pair of Brocade 48000s that are probably worth at least 50 grand in parts, but nope, even though we could shred the stuff that holds config data and sell the rest, they want the whole thing disposed of
@MichaelHampton The money's good. And any time I need to buy something, there's never any question about budget. I get what I need, regardless of cost
We have this really cool business intelligence thing we built that'll analyze data from the trains and correlate random bits of data to help with our operational data. The example we like to parade to the executives is that it discovered a throttle setting for the "cruise control" that saves us over 6 million dollars in fuel a year
We have another application we wrote that overlays data from like 15 different applications that used to be up on 15 different screens in the rail traffic controller stations onto a single google map. That's reduced accidents.
We have another cool program we're working on now that uses a 3d map of the right of way generated by a low-flying plane with a lidar box on it to analyze things that can indicate a future washout or derailment risk. It'll also be used to help comply with some hairy legislation we need to start complying by that forces us to be able to enforce train handling rules
@Basil Well that's the other issue of course. You'd need a small fleet of them that tag team eachother and return to base to land. Landing a multirotor on a moving train would probably be pretty fucking hard to program
Also: they would need to travel as fast as your train. Fastest ones at the moment can hit 100km/h but that's about it, and certainly not with a payload
@MarkHenderson Any time we can do 65 MPH, we're pretty damned sure that the track is safe. It's when we're in dark territory going 20 that we're most likely to hit a washout.
Hopefully someone that does will answer it, get it accepted, and then google will send people there when they search "how to move VMs from one KVM server to another"
@Basil The problem is that that's only useful if he's using virt-manager as a front end. If he's using something else then the exact procedure is different. He really needs to clarify the question, but he never came back to do so.
@Basil Honestly, if I were netflix, I would just post a banner saying "HEY if this buffers like shit, it's Verizon fucking you over, not us. Here's a list of other ISPs that you might want to consider!"
I work for a company that has a moral backbone and a spine to go with it, and it works fine for us. Perhaps if more companies were moral in their hiring, staffing, price setting, labour conditions, and choice of external contractors, the world would be a better place
@MarkHenderson Companies that try to be moral are serving the interests of moral individuals in the company. The reason it works is either the moral backbone has real power in the company, or because appearing to be moral is profitable.
When someone pays $150 for a pair of Levi 502's that were made in Bangladesh in squalor conditions and the total manufacturing cost is about $0.20 and then sells them at a million percent markup, that doesn't fit my definition of moral behaviour
@MichaelHampton My day to day work at Cisco was fine. I liked my colleagues, the pay was good. But the bureaucracy. The red tape. The in-fighting. The bitchiness. Middle management ruined the whole thing.
I got pretty badly burned by one colleage, who shall remain nameless (her name was Funda). She was promised a particular position, but they decided to give me the promotion instead, and she made it her mission to make me suffer for it.
When she eventually quit she did a goodby email that named everyone in the office and what she liked about them. My name was last and she wrote "Mark. Well, Mark. Fuck you"
@FalconMomot I bet. Anyway I got fired from there for stealing PIX licenses
Well, 'stealing' is a harsh word. It was more like using a documented backup procedure to generate PIX license keys without the requirement for a PAK
One day their licensing system went offline, so we were given the procedure for generating permanant PIX licenses without having a PAK (license entitelement proof)
I realised I could buy a PIX on eBay, upgrade it to a UR license and re-sell it for twice the price
I got greedy though and someone from Cisco ran an entitlement check on one of the SN's that I was selling (from a screenshot), raised a flag with management, they contact ebays anti-fraud department, got the details on the account and matched it against employee records.
Oh yeah Cisco were dicks about that too. They kept me hanging for months about whether or not they would pursue further legal action
I was 19 years old and freaked out about my future. I didn't apply for any new jobs because I was afraid that I would have to go to court or whatever over it
Every time I called to ask if they had an update I was told "We will call you once we've made a decision"
Mind you, I'd rather pay for an over-sized SSD than findout that the new AnyConnect image won't fit on the built-in 32mb flash because the IOS image is 20MB and the AnyConnect image is 12.1MB
And then even on the newer models that support USBFLASH0: you can't put the AnyConnect images on the USB drive, but you can put the goddam flash image on the USB drive
@Malachi You've provided about 5% of the information necessary to diag it for you. Please go ask SuperUser, who are more inclined to enjoy working on amateur environments.
We had to deal with some allegedly counterfeit SFPs that entered the supply chain. The switches raised errors (but only in some cases, ugh) and when $BIG_CUSTOMER contacted Cisco they were told yes they were counterfeit.
So we asked Cisco to certify to us that they were counterfeit so we could follow the chain upstream.
We were told "No, because we can't prove they're counterfeit."
@MarkHenderson Oh yeah and then the Nexus switches started to report some Cisco DACs as non-genuine. So having been burned once, we got ALL OVER Cisco's ass. Gave them all sorts of pictures, etc.
First of all, thank you all for your collective help in trying to get accurate information.
I am disappointed with LSI's documentation on megacli - the impetus for creating the reference page for myself in the first place.
In regards to the section showing the raid levels and megaCLI's outputs,...
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How can I hide recent files that my Ubuntu Netbook's unity menu shows when I click on the files and folder icon?
Okay ! I watch porn sometimes and right after that it appears in the files and folder menu.
And believe me, that is not a good thing. :D
So, please tell me if there is a way to do t...
