I rather like Postfix though. Flexible enough to do exactly what I want with a few very minor exceptions. Usually cases where supervisors are lazy and want a technical solution to a staff issue.
@JoelESalas Truly. For the most part, SELinux works fine for me. My Dev co-workers hate it because it prevents them from doing ridiculously random shit that's convenient only for them.
SELinux... there's something I just love to hate. If I could figure out how to get big security dollars to roll it out and make the administration someone else's headache, I think I'd just love it, though.
I have a western digital caviar SE16, when the drive is plugged in it spins up for about 10 seconds and then stops, does this indicate a problem on the controller I am wondering should I attempt to replace it or does this problem sound like a different issue.
Here are my three choices:
Right now I have a cisco ASA that I'm using for a firewall, vlan router, gateway, and ISP failover. There isn't enough control in the ASA for what I need and the license to do it gets very expensive. So upgrading that license is my least favorite option. My cisco also...
I've been installing MySQL on a server recently and I had to edit many files and change ownerships only move the data files from their default location to some other partition.
Why is it different from installing it on Windows for instance ? Specifying MySQL data files is a very reasonable need ...
There's always one to be found on the SU front page...
Oh look, SE just emailed me to tell me: "Congratulations -- you are one of the top new Android Enthusiasts - Stack Exchange users for the month of July 2012!"
I'm sitting here repairing a filesystem corruption on a volume presented via Comstar iSCSI from a ZFS storage server. It's connected via wireless to my MacBook Pro and contains 9 months of Time Machine backups...
@MarkHenderson Lunarpages pulled one of those stunts. Kinda lost my site for about 3 days after several failed server consolidation attempts. Some of the user databases got put on the wrong servers. Total fscking mess.
@MarkHenderson If the SAN's not setup in a fully (or at all) redundant way, it's easy to take down. I can do it in my sleep. Even did once, literally... not an accomplishment that I list on my CV/resume, though.
Alright, screw this. I don't get paid enough to deal with printer management software that was probably created by 1000 drunk monkeys typing at 1000 broken keyboards. Off to bed for me, and back to the desktop queue for that crap.
@ewwhite Mr MDMara is spot on, we regularly (Sadly) roll out 32 bit terminal server boxes with ~32Gb+ of RAM to provide legacy applications. These are generally 2008 boxes, though. 64 bit is always preferred of course, but some people insist on 32 bit only
A salesman has just said on a call that he finds me "very challenging to work with", "combative" and "the most verbally aggressive person (he's) met" :)
This was a salesman who sent our support-contract-renewal team a renewal quote that downgrades the actual licence - so the existing licence was for 10Gbps, if they'd just renewed it we'd be on 2Gbps and would have to pay something like $50k/port to get us back to 10Gbps - I called him the "thieving, self-serving and slimy cunt"
We have a server machine with IP address = 192.168.90.6. On this machine we have installed DNS and Domain Controller and DNS is integrated with AD (ad.corp.com).
Case 1: When machine joins with ad.corp.com, then there is no issue.
Case 2: When machine doesn't join with ad.corp.com, then problem ...
@slhck I can't comment on the 1st but the second just deserves to be downvoted into oblivion, as per the tooltip for a DV - This question shows no research effort...
@lsiunsuex Went to a site a couple of Mondays ago where the AirCon had been switched off on the Friday and forgotten about. It was like a fucking oven - took until lunch to reach acceptable levels.
@Iain Laziness really irritates me. If it simply had a paragraph that said "From what I can gather, I think I need to do [x, y, z] - is this correct, or are there other major hurdles I need to be aware of" it wouldn't be so bad.
which causes me to reminise the days of my core duo macbook pro - which had a thermal cutoff of 240 f
i know this, cause rendering video (yet another hat i wear) in after effects put so much load on the processor (laptop around 5 years old) it just shuts off when it gets to hot
MS's design department is an equal-opportunities employer - they consciously go out of their way to high deaf, blind and colour-blind staff for those jobs
I recently purchased some software which will only run on the 64bit version of Windows, so I need to do a clean install of the 64bit version of Server 2008. When I ran the Intel Process Utility it told me that my processor was 64bit capable, but when I boot in WinPE (no DVD drive you see) and run...
@ewwhite @lsiunsuex Hay guys, remember last night about the hosting company and ewwhite asked that I should review the SLA... After getting to the bottom of everything. There shared hosting servers carry NO SLA at all. Took me a bit of time to get an official email from them.
So.. NO SLA. 3 days off line and you cannot do anything... Too many cowboys...
paypal as in your dumping to their site and the user pays at paypal's site or paypal direct merchant and your using paypal's API's to process CC's on your site?
At the moment redirect to paypal's site. After hitting our 3rd business objective we will bring everything onto our server via the API not to weaken the user experience.
@ColdT You can do that in the UK. One of my lawyers is in the inside loop for getting things does, so he is look at it now. Either way. I have an official email from Primehosting saying. NO SLA on shared hosting, live with it!!!! So enough said...
@Zach shit service, poor company morals (they backed some shit government law that never got passed) - caught multiple times on shady domain registration practices
@BrentPabst Yea. I am in the same boat.... lots of meetings... Pain in the ass.
Well time to see if I can go through a meeting, keep my eyes open and sleep. Well Gents, see you later and have a great day, mid day or evening where ever you are.
It's up there with having an external HDD attached to a server and moving backup files or databases automatically as part of an overall backup... I would think
@BrentPabst For example: I worked at a medium sized university that had about 3% of the operating budget assigned to IT. Average for that sized university is between 5-9%. I knew they were relatively "poor" but I got a free education while I was there, then I bolted.
You can’t fix what you can’t measure, so the first thing we did as a part of our Summer of Love campaign was try to measure friendliness in an objective and repeatable way. We gathered 7000 comments from Stack Overflow and submitted them to Mechanical Turk. For each comment, we asked 20 people to rate the comment as Friendly, Unfriendly, or “Neutral/Unclear.”
There are different ways of massaging the data, but I do want to give you a flavor for the kind of comments we’re talking about when we’re talking about unfriendly comments. Here is a snapshot of the com …
I'm always appalled by the averages - how these companies don't value the people that keep their ship sailing the same as the sales/marketing guys I don't know
@BrentPabst Most of the surveys I've seen seem pretty accurate. Do remember that most of the people around here are younger and most businesses value experience (right or wrong, especially in the rapidly changing world of IT).
That's true, and it was 1990 actually - but I've never build a data centre for Apple, I've done virtualisation and VoD consultancy for them but data centres I've built for many others, just not them
Replaced the stock cooler on my desktop with a better one - such a difference. Previously 56 under load [gaming] and got up to 44 earlier. Not bad for £15.
There was one survey I saw a while ago that was pretty comprehensive, had something like 100 job titles + descriptions + a multiplier that adjusts based on geographic location
so many people hate sharing how much they make - even amongst my friends. i think its dumb - its nice to gauge what people make around your age level doing what
it's only a guess, but that'd almost have to be 3-phase, otherwise at 13A you're limited to about 350mA per socket on average. lots of things in racks draw more than that.
Limit on a non-specialised electrical socket feed in the UK, and therefore probably the EU. With super-meaty plugs you can get 16A, but connections that will supply more than that are quite rare. In my limited teeny experience.
For persons in 110V areas, the power issue over >20 sockets is going to be even worse.
not balanced afaik, just you mustn't take more out than you're putting in. all PDUs have got to connect to something on the other end, and if that can only supply 13A at 240V, you can't take out more than about 3.5kW across all the outlets added together, or you'll blow a fuse.
That's why I used a registered electrician. They would have taken issue if I'd done it (though I was quite happy to), but as long as I could show that the work had been done by a registered specialist, they were OK with it.
It cost me £150 for a single custom plugboard, but it was worth it given the monthly charge for a second power supply to that rack.
@KyleBrandt You can pretty much just multiply their current draw by .57 and get an accurate number. The servers will be ever so slightly more efficient on the higher voltage.
@ChrisS There will be 2x 208v/30A per rack (A/B power). Some servers will be redundant, other won't. But with that much power and 45U racks I think 20-24 outlets will be a limiting factor
@KyleBrandt There's a closed question with a hilarious put-down by Chopper3 at serverfault.com/questions/412816/… . But the OP may not realise the putdown's a film quote, and I thought it might be nice to clarify that in case the poor chap never ever comes back to SF again. I'd've done it myself but I can't comment on a closed question.
@KyleBrandt Oh, OK, I guess that's another way of dealing with it. You may wish to consider deleting the follow-up comment as well, which now makes no sense whatsoever. Thanks for handling it, anyway.
Create a separate subnet for wireless on your router/L3 switch
and set up the necessary routes to/from it.
Don't use the wireless router as a router, use in L2 bridged mode. This will make it into an AP. You don't want to route with that device, let your core L3 switch/router do the routing.
Pu...
I type out a pretty easy to follow answer for this fellow
and this is the comment that I get
What do you mean by "create a separate subnet". Does that give it a different subnet mask? — Micah4 mins ago
^ Dude is reaaaaaally lucky that it's the summer of love.
@Chopper3 Sorry, old chap, I just caused an elegant put-down of yours to get deleted by wandering in with my mouth open. It was, as MDM just said, the Billy Madison one.
@MDMarra Me too, though I'm nota huge Sandler fan so I had to google to find out that it was a quote. Up until that point I'd thought it was just an exquisite put-down.
I have a western digital caviar SE16, when the drive is plugged in it spins up for about 10 seconds and then stops, does this indicate a problem on the controller I am wondering should I attempt to replace it or does this problem sound like a different issue.
Here are my three choices:
Right now I have a cisco ASA that I'm using for a firewall, vlan router, gateway, and ISP failover. There isn't enough control in the ASA for what I need and the license to do it gets very expensive. So upgrading that license is my least favorite option. My cisco also...
