I've said it before and I'll doubtless say it again: my favourate Stack Exchange is the English Language one. And I've not even signed into it, just love reading it
In colloquial British English today you hear "Cheers" (to mean "thank you") more often than "Thanks."
Is the choice of one or the other determined by regional, class, or education differences, or is there some vague distinction in meaning or implication, or is this just one of those random things?
I tend to use "cheers" with peers and "thanks" more formally at work. So I might say "Cheers boss" to my immediate manager" or "cheers mate" to my colleagues, but "Thanks <name>", or even "Thank You, <name>" to a director
I'll suck it and see. I've got a bit of time to play around on this one.
My initial thought was big file=big sector size, but that could just mean all the tiny writes to the ecnrypted FS result in huge re-writes to the physical disk.
I want to know the tool that can connect me to server using RDP to multiple server. At the moment I am usign Xp's RDP client to connect to the servers, but the problem is it accupies all of the screen.
I know there is tool that gives you lsit of the server on the left pane and you can toggle in ...
its not clear from just one question what she's doing but you look at their history and the same site appears in all their replies... yeah thats a spammer
Is it possible to have a single SSL cert that acts as both Wildcard as well as a multi-domain (UC) certificate? For eg. I want a single certificate to serve for both *.xyz.com and lmn.abc.com.
@cakemox: I'm testing it out with two ext3s (normal/largefile4) and a real-world(ish) write pattern. I'll let you know if there's any significant difference.
As for the voting to accept other answer thing, I'd roll with that too personally but its kinda a philosophical change for the site rather than just a new feature if you see what I mean.
Wow, that sounds like a silly question, but really! My wife froze bananas in the freezer with the peel still on. You can't peel them frozen. I put it in the microwave for one minute at 50% power. After 30 seconds the thin end of the peel (where a bunch connect to each other) was on fire, with a v...
I can put metal stuff in my microwave - if I ever get to microwave a banana I'll be sure to remember to stand it on the special plate for standing metal objects on
I'm planning on using vsftpd to act as a secure ftp server, but I am having
difficulty controlling the linux users that will be used as ftp logins.
The users are required to be "jailed" into a specific directory (and
subdirectories) and have full read/write access.
Requirements:
- User account...
I do not have requisite previlieges to post many links to my questions my genuine question was blocked be this sites moderator is any one watching.
The internal IPs of apache vhost configuration file which I was posting were treaated as links
using apache as a front end to Tomcat application
Mo...
Entire countries have bargained with me to not post questions. The president once sent a PCAST diplomatic group to me to convince me not to ask a question about fermions lest I rend the ST continuum.
You think my questions are problems? Let's talk about my answers. My mom had to get a government security clearance and a HEV suit like Gordon Freeman just to ask me how my first day of school was in first grade.
For software developers, there are some books you must absolutely read.
What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
How about for sysadmins? Is there a similar list of books?
I just set up Win Server 2008 R2 + SQL Server 2008 R2, and i'd like to schedule two tasks.
One for shutting it down, or putting it to hibernate at a certain time, and one to wake him up.
Both tasks should run every day.
For booting up the system i tried to set up a scheduled task in the BIOS usin...
In my day you had to prime a BIOS with 90 octane leaded fuel before you could drop into it. Even then you had to put it in second and roll it down a hill if it was a cold morning.
I once used a turkey baster to fill the master cylinder of an old SPARC V9 with acetone and use 3 yards of guncotton to ignite it from a safe distance.
That was back when men were men and computers had carburetors. Damn straight.
That said, I have difficulty convincing my brain to allow me to start scripting such obviously trivial functionality. Like it can't adapt to the fact that a reality exists where this hasn't been catered for, already.
@sysadmin1138: Well I could just install something to ... blows my mind sometimes though how crippled Windows can be from a sysadmin stand point though
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What really burns me about how HP builds sites is that each page requires like a dozen actual web-servers, and if any one of them is down the page doesn't render.
In today's BOFH screencast we will use the Panel Beating Hammer from my toolkit to configure the edge switch with an intermittent fault that the vendor can't find so that the vendor can no longer deny that the edge switch has problems.
@tombull89 The guy seems to be either deranged or doing it on purpose, some of the other questions were rants and have just been edited to roll them back to being questions again. The current question might be reasonable but the user isn't imho.
I have a server on which there is an LMS known as Sakai running.
Internally (i.e. on LAN) I can access it hxxp://192.168.1.4:8080/portal
but when from internet some one tries to reach it
the site is not accessible.
On following link I mentioned the URL and configurations.
hxxp://pastebin.com/L32D...
It probably doesn't help that I don't totally understand, but it seems there is (kind of) a question in there somewhere - even if it's not a well thought out one
@sysadmin1138 On the one hand yes you're right, on the other hand that's like saying you'd rather have a broken wrist than a broken arm. Whether you're correct or not in that assumption the real answer is still "Actually, both of those sound pretty bad, what on earth is wrong with these people!"
I get the impression they might not be a native English speaker, which never helps things, but he does say which bits he has a problem with, and seems to be at least trying.
What I don't get is why people aren't working with him to fix his question. The anti-SPAM filtering of the site worked against his original question, that is a failing of the site, not him.
I don't know why it was flagged for mod attention but I suspect it might have been closed because it contained a link to another site where the question was actually hosted, and there's been a pattern of spam of that kind lately.
As usual, its hard to tell the difference between ham and spam and the choices are to let through the occasional spam or to block the occasional ham and both of those suck
@RobertMoir I was one of the ones who flagged for mod attention on his original questions. I know it was only pastebin but still...better safe than sorry?
I never saw it until the storm had already broken and questions were closed and words said
and like i say, there was a raft of spam today that used seemingly legit links to stuff offsite so I think that seeing the question as part of that was entirely understandable to start with
Nobody did anything wrong by flagging, the mod didn't do anything wrong by pulling the trigger... Just one of those things, just a bunch of stuff that happened :-(
I'm completely isolated from weather so have no concept of what this so-called perfect storm is about, where it will hit or what is expected to happen.
it's just getting silly here, we're paying nearly £6 per gallon, which is about $9 in the US, 90% of which is tax - I then have to pay another ~£400/pa in road tax too - this is the first time that I've ever considered whether to 'move down' in terms of size/speed/cost etc. - doesn't come natural I guess
I'm all about driving less car - our fuel prices in the US are unreasonably low compared to the rest of the world, but at least in my area you can't get anywhere without driving at least 20 miles :-/
@Zoredache Maybe, I'm not sure. I just remember how Top Gear showed the thing breaking down on the middle of the track. With those guys, though, who knows.
ARIN " You would not qualify for IP addresses from ARIN based on your current size. ARIN allocates large blocks of IP addresses to organizations already using large blocks. You're certainly welcome to request an AS number to speak BGP with two or more providers, but the cost cannot be waived or reduced. It would be $500 up front, and $100 every year thereafter to renew. "
j ai effacer la partition D: pendant la formatage du mon pc,d'où mon il se bloque et affiche un message d'erreur(disque dire et impacte ) svp comment réparé cette problème
merci.
Since this came up on meta, here’s our official policy towards non-English questions on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User.
(note that I say “programming” below, but this policy is the same across all the sites — when reading, you should substitute the actual topic of the site you use, e.g. “sysadmin topics” for Server Fault, etc.)
It is not, nor has it ever been, our goal to be the one place in the world for all programming information in every possible human language. …
@packs
If the post has salvageable English and makes some modicum of sense, it should be edited and improved just like any other post.
I agree with the policy - I try and edit some questions which are obviously written by a non-native speaker (but do make sense mostly) to help it along a bit.
@Ben Right. I've been on the intertubes too long to feel offended by someone's difficulties with a non-native language. I should be better about actually doing helpful edits, though.
Some people seem to go straight for the downvote or close button when they see obviously non-English, even if it is mostly understandable and just bad grammar
Holy bajeezers I wish my manager wouldn't send me emails at this time of night titled HELP PLEASE (uppercase hers). It gives me the eeeby-jeebies
HELP PLEASE == I printed something confidential to a printer in the office - can you please destroy it when you get in tomorrow (I'm in early tomorrow)
Hi,
I'm using dd (under cygwin) to copy a shadow image of a disk in windows. Shadow copy will only give me a partion, so what I am doing is:
1) using dd to grab the disk header (32k on Win2003)
2) using dd to copy the shadow partition
3) using dd to copy the end of of the disk (8 meg reserved ...
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I recommended SSLMatrix.com to buy Wildcard SSL because is the Best, Cheap, Secure and recommended product to secure Multiple Sub-Domains and FQDN.
I'm planning on using vsftpd to act as a secure ftp server, but I am having
difficulty controlling the linux users that will be used as ftp logins.
The users are required to be "jailed" into a specific directory (and
subdirectories) and have full read/write access.
Requirements:
- User account...
For software developers, there are some books you must absolutely read.
What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
How about for sysadmins? Is there a similar list of books?
j ai effacer la partition D: pendant la formatage du mon pc,d'où mon il se bloque et affiche un message d'erreur(disque dire et impacte ) svp comment réparé cette problème
merci.
Hi,
I'm using dd (under cygwin) to copy a shadow image of a disk in windows. Shadow copy will only give me a partion, so what I am doing is:
1) using dd to grab the disk header (32k on Win2003)
2) using dd to copy the shadow partition
3) using dd to copy the end of of the disk (8 meg reserved ...
