I have Headless VirtualBox set up on my Debian machine and windows xp as guest. It works well. My Network is set to "nat". It works also well but the upload speed is very low.
I want to set the network to bridged mode, but every time I try it, it destroys my network so I cant even SSH / Ping the ...
@KyleBrandt: Oh, it's good-- just tiring. Multiple days in a row staying up late, getting started early, etc. I miss answering questions on SF. I'm watching the rep gap between me and Zoredache narrowing and it's freaking me out a bit. >smile<
Thumper said, if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all. Sometimes the best I've got is to delete what I've already said and say nothing more on the topic.
@TomOConnor but he's essentially saying he didn't get his 50 rep bounty because he's an outsider?? much more likely his messing about with openID's got the script/DB messed up
@Chopper3 Oh. Sillyness. Is it possible transfer OpenID data between accounts then? Mine's associated to a gmail account I'm trying to move away from using
@TomOConnor yeah but I've not done it enough to be certain I wouldn't bugger up someone I care a bit about's account - probably better to get K or G to do it
@Josh sweet, not far off my 30k, not been this excited since getting 10k (totally missed 20k, didn't notice until about 22k or so, idiot I am)
@Josh Yeah, "all day" being the key. Otherwise there's the chance other people will get answers in ahead of you - and it's kinda hard to justify competing with existing good answers.
I spent a while coming up with an answer to a horrible question yesterday, it was clear the OP wasn't serious and the question was very unclear. Someone in the MSO Tavern chat encouraged me stating that I am still helping the community, and he learned a bit from my answer, so it's still helpful
so I can relate to the feeling, but, it's not actually a waste
it may help the next person who comes along with the same issue!
it's looking like I'm going to have a bit more work on this year than I'd expected - might have to do a bit less PR/mediawhoring and SF and focus on work more
@Iain There are Mondays when I login and I've got 300 more rep over the weekend and I didn't answer anything at all, just old questions getting a few upvotes, usually because someone posted a "Thank you" answer and it's on the front page.
What page do you guys tend to watch? I typically just keep the newest questions tab open, so things like 'Thank Yous' on old answers/questions I tend not to see.
the odd one for me is that being generally UK based I sign off at 7-8pm or whatever and wake up to some nice US-derived rep in the morning (and loads of mod stuff to do too of course)
@packs I have loads of mod-specific ones so I have about 8 SF windows open at any one time
I don't exactly blame companies like GoDaddy for perpetuating the perception that getting a website on the 'net is easy, but it's annoying when you have to go back and explain to people that computers are Really F-ing Complex™ when they make a little change and it borks the whole process..
I especially love it when a client brings you a computer problem that you fix and they call you back 6 months later saying they have another problem and they're sure it's because of what you did 6 months ago.
I use very specific tags to help me find questions I might be able to answer ("FCoE", "ESXi" for instance) as they're rarely misused, unlike 'vmware' which people misused 90% of the time or 'server' which is utterly pointless. If you tag your areas of expertise then ok you get a long list on the right but you only highlight the non-idiot Qs
One of our servers was compromised after a user with administrative privileges accidentally loaded a virus from a USB drive on a desktop connected to the domain. The two most obvious symptoms of this were:
The server is no longer responding to login attempts
The root directory of the drive cont...
The guys comment to my answer makes me a little sad, he's in for some pain. I got out of the fire fighting business a while back, its a tough spot to be in
One problem that we've had over the years is that a department will hire someone to do their desktop tech support. Then over time that person becomes their IT shop, and starts running servers.
@Chopper3 I took one class where the instructor tells a tale of one student that had passwords "so complex that nobody could ever guess them". So, she asked what his password was... and of course, he told her right in front of the whole class.
@packs Joomla and Wordpress, or rather their plugins and themes, seem to be the biggest culprit.
There was one customer who setup root to be able to FTP. Then added the user and password to the Joomla FTP thingy used for file uploads. They installed a theme from some site, and within 2 hours the box was taking part in an DDOS against an IRC server in Turkish IP space.
@Chopper3 I only consider my passwords moderately secure, they're in a language nobody here knows I speak, always include Upper, Lower, and Numbers or Symbols (usually all four, but not always), and are at least 8 characters long. I'm dumbfounded by people who use their kids name + a single number as their password (incrementing the number each time they change it....)
@Dan Years ago I used to be like that guy... "I can fix it on the cheap, and it will be 'good enough', best practices are for large corporations, we don't have the budget to do it 'right'". I've learned from my mistakes. And since then, I've learned to learn from other's mistakes instead of screwing up myself.
I have Headless VirtualBox set up on my Debian machine and windows xp as guest. It works well. My Network is set to "nat". It works also well but the upload speed is very low.
I want to set the network to bridged mode, but every time I try it, it destroys my network so I cant even SSH / Ping the ...
Yeah, I refrain from picking over non-english things. But I'm missing what he's trying to achieve. It's a list of...something he calls objects? For an interface? Goals on a project? I'm lost.
huh did someone delete the question about "how do I tell if my drive is failing", where the guy had a hard drive that was clearly failing and wanted to know how to know if it was, well, failing? :-)
I was going to share it but now can't find it, lol
I was going to ask if he was near a company that specializes in that work. If those are accurate...the distances with some in km?...it would probably require burying cable or poles, and there often are companies that will specialize in running that and getting everything wired up.
cool, not really up my street but I like the whole no-database-ness of it - do you have one big server or lots of little indexers/collectors? did you do them in VMs or physicals?
and then their licence model is totally log-volume-centric, doesn't matter how many collectors, users, searches etc you pull - nice and clear licencing, that doesn't happen much does it
I push for clear licensing for my company's SaaS. You pay for disk space and bandwidth used. Not per product, per user, per usage by your customer, etc
Someone's whining on meta.SF that they want to migrate questions to unix.SE; I can't be the only person who sees that he used "sez" in his question and just stops readying it right there.
@Chopper3 When you're stuck trying to text with T9, I sort of understand. When you have a full keyboard in front of you there's no excuse. Kudos to you for setting them on the right path.
I'm too old for Facebook, ironically a friend is their main European sysadmin and he won't come on here - funny old world eh?
@ChrisS Couldn't agree more, I'm a bit of a Victorian style dad though to be honest - I take no messing from them at all in fact - quite a feat when your son is nearly a foot taller than you :)
I am sure I read a very detailed description of the computer join process in a one of the Windows resource kit books. But I can't remember which book, or enough detail off the top of my head to provide a useful answer at this time. I am not sure I care enough to go look for it either.
I think it falls squarely in the category of questions where the questioner is so far from understanding the "correct" answer that he needs to read a book or two before he'll really get it. Learning by trial & error, mentoring by minimally answering occasional questions without directed learning, isn't really helping (just my opinion).
Hi everyone,
I am about to setup a home network server running Ubuntu Server and I'm currently a bit worried about how to handle network shares and permissions in a good way.
After working a bit lately with Netgears ReadyNAS's units, I have become really spoiled with how easy it was to set up n...
well i needed 12 ports just for my physical connetivity for the FW and Routers i only have 8 on my managed switch and only 4 free so had to do some gyrating
Start with a small router that you can stand to lose.
I've never actually done a migration; would be interesting I think. No different than running a dual vendor network though, which I know a lot of places do.
assured them that they gear they where buying did what they needed ... comes to be that it will do what they need in 6-12 months (or whatever) with the purchase of new modules, and a software upgrade
Hello all, seems my involvement with computers has grown and I've found my self in the need to access a shared folder on a server. I've read some documentation and managed to set up the folder as a share, for this I created a local group and for now just one local user that has access to the shar...
One of our servers was compromised after a user with administrative privileges accidentally loaded a virus from a USB drive on a desktop connected to the domain. The two most obvious symptoms of this were:
The server is no longer responding to login attempts
The root directory of the drive cont...
Hi everyone,
I am about to setup a home network server running Ubuntu Server and I'm currently a bit worried about how to handle network shares and permissions in a good way.
After working a bit lately with Netgears ReadyNAS's units, I have become really spoiled with how easy it was to set up n...
