I asked a question about using Mac Minis as servers. It was upvoted and then closed without comment and moved to SuperUser. Why?
I am using these Mac Minis as servers and in a professional capacity. I'm not clear on how this doesn't fit on ServerFault. To quote the ServerFault FAQ:
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Honestly I thought I was going to have a heart attack I was so frustrated.
I suppose I could take the afternoon as a half day, but I promised I'd work on another lab system for a teacher. It wasn't their fault so I shouldn't make them wait for it.
@Tomoconnor: sigh I had a period of extended stress not all that long ago where I went in to my GP in the morning and mentioned I felt an arrhythmia of sorts and had been under stress. I returned to work a couple hours later (from what was supposed to be a quick routine exam) wearing a heart monitor for a 24 hour check.
Scary to think that this may, from those postings, be something not quite uncommon for sysadmins/IT people.
Theoretically I'm on 24/7 on-call. Happily, we've dismantled our after-hours reporting infrastructure sufficiently that I almost never get a call. Makes it a lot easier to leave work at work.
@sysadmin1138 Same here. In fact my office has a rotating on-call, but in practice we're all on call at all times depending on which speciality is needed.
I had surgery about a year and a half ago for bariatric. Lost about 130 pounds or so. Working on losing more. That's about as close to the "you're going to die" speech as I had gotten. But that's not what just sent me near the edge today.
When I worked for another state (who I won't mention here cough Nebraska cough)..they used to pay us pager pay. It amounted to approximately $160 extra for 7 days. But
they would actually DEDUCT from your pager pay, if you got called and started working on a problem...because their theory was, you weren't going to get paid twice
Saying that, we did have one customer who got some above and beyond at a ridiculous hour in the morning. A crate of whiskey and 4KG of jelly babies did appear in the office :)
@GregD I get basically double salary for the week on-call. Don't get overtime if some thing happens, but I do get milage if I need to head to the data centre.
Well I couldn't run a mile a little over a year ago, to save my life..then when I had the come to jesus talk with my practitioner, I ran 4 miles the next day. I plan on running my first marathon in May of this year
There are days where I don't want to die (a la "jesus talk")...then there are days where it seems like it would be nice to get the rest if I just give in.
I also have a step-daughter that's 18, announced she's having intimate relations with her boyfriend at college who isn't exactly doing so hot on grades, and after adding some other holiday-break related stresses gave incentive for me to look forward to the alternative side, @gregd :-)
I can't eat larger doses of sugar or I get sick. Side effect of the surgery.
I have a 1998-era Netware 3.12 server that runs everything on our campus: general ledger, purchasing, payroll, student information, grades, you name it. The server has an Adaptec RAID controller with two volumes:
RAID 1, 2 17GB scsi disks, Seagate ST318417W
RAID 5, 3 4GB scsi disks, 2 Seagate...
I was just talking with a sales guy, mentioned that we played it on New Year's Eve... He'd never even heard of the game. I know we play it much more often here in the Midwest than other places... but never hearing of it...
@ChrisS Upstate NY here, learned Euchre in middle school. Lived in Denver for a while, nobody there seemed to know about it... They did know Spades though.
I know Spades too, but it's not all that popular here..
Actually I was just reading (and editing) the Wikipedia article on the game; I'd never heard the pile called the "kitty" before, though I have heard grave and a few of the other names.
@packs If you have 4 people it's pretty much the card game of choice in the midwest. It's pretty hard to get through college round here without learning it. If you have more people Texas Hold'em is the game of choice usually.
after 7 hours troubleshooting by our developers of a piece of hardware their vendor brought in (no I don't know why either) they decided to ask me if it mattered that the device was only capable of doing 10Mb half duplex while they were plugging it into a port on a switch that only does 1 and 10Gb.
apparently the hardware worked really well on the vendor's test bench. Turns out their switch was made about 15 years ago - and probably designed by disney and built by mattel too.
the hardware issue was that a 10mb 1/2 duplex device doesn't play nice with a switch locked down to 10/1Gb (and, it turns out, also performs poorly in routed environments even when thats fixed)
the software issue... their code was just crap basically, they were pulling data from their network listener service, saving it to a temp file, and the network listener was over-writing it with the next bit of data before the "current" bit of data got processed
I just read their own notes/spec which says quite clearly that the device only did that speed, then i pointed them to the network spec for the ports i had given them which said clearly they were locked down to certain speeds
I just scrolled up and saw that it was a bunch of developers. Yeah, that sounds about right. Surprised they contacted you before they pulled an all nighter.
i wasn't kidding when i said their test bench network had a 15 year old switch
and i wouldn't be surprised if it did turn out to be designed by disney and built by mattel either
@zoredache I suspect you're right. Though I know they were told very clearly, using nice small easy to understand words, that the network was all locked down to certain speeds and that they should ask for help if they're connecting anything unusual
Maaaayyyybe. There is this learning curve to climb in that particular department, and I have little visiblity on how the climbing progress goes.
IIRC, the process is to work a template machine up, undomain it, ghost it, ghostcast it out to 1-40 stations, and then redomain as part of a GhostConsole task.
You may need to add that as a part of your question. That these machines may not have been imaged using the recommended MS method, and you are curios if the error is critical.
@Chacha102, being social is good and such, but do you really need to say hello, every time you show up in the room? The channel would get really noisy if everyone did that all the time.
OTOH, maybe you should ignore me. I just know I tended to really get annoyed at people only saying 'hello' in heavy usage IRC rooms, and my annoyance has followed me here.
@Chacha102, being social is good and such, but do you really need to say hello, every time you show up in the room? The channel would get really noisy if everyone did that all the time.
Just sharin the love ... just sharin the love
@Chacha102 nah, it's what you do. We get it. You don't have to stop over on the Tavern
There is lots of good advice on meta, that you could steal hints from
Like:
- Asking good questions earns rep. - You can ask questions even if you know the answer -- If you run into a tricky problem while working, ask it -- wait a day so the community can offer some answers, then post your own. - Attempt to answer questions that you don't already know the answer to. -- Be clear, that you are not certain, and link to docs and references
Tell people how to find questions to answer, using the search features, tags, and such.
Everytime I do anything in my job, I always feel the need to justify it in documentation. Wether it's commenting scripts or just writing in a wiki why I chose EasyDNS over UltraDNS. I feel as if somewhere, someone will be wondering "what the hell did he do this for?" and I'll need to have a full defense prepared. As a result, all of my documentation is extraordinarily verbose and my scripts have about a 6:1 ratio of logic to comments.
I'm beginning to wonder if that's a bad thing.
And how much is psychologically connected to growing up in a very critical and dour household.
So that's good that I didn't work at an anal workplace. I think it stems from growing up in a family that criticized everything. Watching a TV show was hard because I'd have to try to listen over people saying how crooked the main character's nose was, how their diction was annoying, the clothes were slutty, the camera angles were bad, the dialog was wooden, the story had an incongruity, the director once made an obscene indy film, etc.
I think a blog post about this might descend into being an armchair psychologist.
So I'll shift it down to the b-list of topics... or attempt to pump it up with legitimate concerns about overdocumenting... which is a big problem with me.
I asked a question about using Mac Minis as servers. It was upvoted and then closed without comment and moved to SuperUser. Why?
I am using these Mac Minis as servers and in a professional capacity. I'm not clear on how this doesn't fit on ServerFault. To quote the ServerFault FAQ:
What ...
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I have a 1998-era Netware 3.12 server that runs everything on our campus: general ledger, purchasing, payroll, student information, grades, you name it. The server has an Adaptec RAID controller with two volumes:
RAID 1, 2 17GB scsi disks, Seagate ST318417W
RAID 5, 3 4GB scsi disks, 2 Seagate...
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