bit of a mentalist question but compared to people who don't know if its ok or not that your computer gives you electric shocks or that lunatic who wanted to put his servers in a fridge....
@SmallClanger it's a quiet little place, full of the nearly dead and a very good school (which is why we're here), only 1h50m by train from waterloo too
Can there be code added to SF that searches for the keywords "disk, space, deleted, still, no," and "rm" and have a window pop up with "use lsof and close open file handles" then reach out and smack the questioner while replacing their home page with Let Me Google That For You?
yeah, an inevitable discussion on a golf course turns everything around on a >£100m project - ha, funny old world, oh well, it'll keep me busy for another 6 months
I'm not a fan of AT&T myself, but I've had them for a bit under 3 years now. In my current job, my cell voice minutes are somewhere around 60/month, i have the second lowest txt plan, and my bill is still $101/mo
I tried to get them to lower it based on my crazy low usage, and they didn't care.
i've seen ailing companies get purchased to save their customer base. I've seen bad but larger companies purchase good, smaller companies in order to improve their own tech or service levels
@RobertMoir Of the 4 national companies, T-Mobile constantly has been tied for highest customer satisfaction and customer service ratings.. Not the highest coverage, Verizon has that locked up.
@DanBig $35 for 400 minutes, $5 for 300 Txt, $0 for unlimited date (tried to switch to a competitor and they offered this) + Tax, Title, License, Fees, Cost Recovery, New Construction Permits, and Applicable Tariffs = $56/mo
@KyleBrandt: "*NOTE – The vSphere Essentials kit is the only offering that contains the option of per incident support and requirement of subscription for one year. All other kits and editions listed below have support and subscription requirements (SnS) for one year."
I do hate that I've told them repeatedly not to call me and they still call every month or so to remind me that I don't have a contract and am eligible for a new phone (with a 2 year contract)... It's got to the point where I harass the people who call, making demands I know they can't provide...
I'm on some VIP list at Orange after they allowed some scrote in Tower Hamlets to order two new handsets on my account without either knowing or resetting my password.
@KyleBrandt I didnt care about vmotion when I first bought vmware licenses.. suddenly I had ~30 virtual machines, and had to manually shut down each and every one of them every time I needed to patch ESX
Normally their service is pretty bad, but I get some nice treatment and cheap deals, whenever I call them. It seems it's the same list they put all their celebrities on, to ensure that famous people don't publicly badmouth them.
@KyleBrandt it's support, then you can do per incedent the other tiers make you pay for another year of support @pauska we don't have centralized storage so ...
@RobertMoir Things we need: Cereal where the pieces are shaped like serial ports & serial port accessories (gender bender, 25::9, Serial Analyzer (with little marshmallows for the lights!))
Actually I think they're going to integrate their Zune ecosystem into Windows 7 phone.
or whatever they're calling it.
Microsoft is like the guy that comes back to the college during alumni weekend and acts like he's back in college...it's just sad to see.
I just picked up a Verizon iPhone. So far I only complained about the voice recognition for making phone calls over bluetooth, but otherwise I've liked it.
When I bought the iPhone from the girl at the verizon store who also owned an iPhone she had one of those retractable badge things branded Kin...funny to me at the time.
And I hope they succeed. The more viable alternatives for smartphone platforms there are, the harder each one will have to work to keep their edge and the better we'll all be for it
@BartSilverstrim Yeah, all the Zune "technology" is getting rolled into WP7, which means they're just dumping it... Zune never had any particular technological advantage; it shared all it's media codecs and technology with Windows Media Player...
Apple's hardware is like a ticket to get access to the content. It's good hardware, but without the app store and music store and interoperability it would be nothing worth crowing about as much as it is now.
Now this virtual product juggernaut gets rolled into their MP3 players, phones, eventually we'll probably see some interesting things from apple TV once they get more with streaming content.
They're going to be the next evolution in Amazon.com...they're probably in the best position to unthrone Apple if they got their heads out of their arses.
@BartSilverstrim Apple, Google, Hulu, and Netflix... Someone is going to buy/merge with someone else... it would make too much sense to ignore the possibilities.
@RobertMoir Netflix has bent over backwards to make use of everyone else's players... Hulu's got nothing (worth mentioning). Google and Apple have the players, but lack content. Google in particular is also in a good position to start last-mile delivery too, FTTP anyone?
at the end of the day the question is which one of those things is the strategic pressure point, the player or the content? I think content, but the player has an opening too, being the gateway
@Jacob The incumbent ISPs haven't put much investment into their networks, I think they're going to get killed by dynamic content like Netlifx/Hulu/whoever in the next few years if they don't pull their heads out of their rears and starting focusing on their core competencies.
@Jacob FiOS is a good step, but it's only available in very limited areas, and I don't think their backbones could stand a large portion of the nation riding on them.
Caps will only buy a little time for the network before customers get pissed off about them and demand change.
If you were constantly getting hit with overages every other month, how long would you stick with it before you found a competitor that didn't pull that?
And if there are no competitors that don't pull that crap then the people will complain to congress.
And nothing moves congress like a zillion people without access to the entertainment they demand!
I have a VM that I removed a snapshot on last week. The snap was from last summer, and the owners of that VM didn't need the snap any more. ESXi reported that the snap delete completed successfully, but upon reboot, the system was as if it was when that snap was created.
both the original vmdk and the snap file are still present on the datastore, so it's as if the two files didn't get merged correctly
@Chopper3 how would this be a user error? I was the one that removed the snapshot, and have verified that the system indeed is as it was pre-snap, with none of the changes that have happened since then.
But went back in the task log for that VM and verified that it was indeed just a remove.
So VMware is sending me instructions on how to merge the two disks, but the problem is that since that machine has booted on the "old" vmdk, writes have now happened in both places and as such, I'm guessing that the fsck is going to have a jolly good time when it boots.
these days i think RAID 5 is pretty much the wrong answer to any question. Unless the question is "What sucks less, an angry rabid lemur in the face, RAID 0, or RAID 5".
its never going to yield great throughput for VMs, that's for sure
@RobertMoir RAID5 runs quite nicely if you have a good system, though. With 2GB of cache and 30 spindles (6x 5-disk R5), we have absolutely no problem.
I don't trust it for capacity, so I'd say RAID6 these days there instead of RAID5
we all know that the more spindles you have in an array the higher the chance that if one fails, a second will also fail before you've recovered with raid 5
Plus, the only time I've seen double-disk failure was when a server room was hit by a mortar. It's just one of those rare situations that you have backups for.
5 disk ain't too bad (but again, if it was very high capacity disks I'd worry) but anything above 5 or 6 drives and I start thinking that I should be doing something else. And since we're moving our data to SANs from local hard storage on each server as our old servers reach EOL, I just think of raid 5 as something I used to do.
I've seen 2 disks in a raid5 array fail, quite a few times. Or rather I've been called in to help people recover from corrupt exchange systems that had that happen to them.
and seen it once or twice, though not often i admit, on my own servers
@voretaq7 Dunno, I'm a HP guy and theirs do, some need an 'unlock code' kind of thing but yes they do, think most good adaptecs do too, can't talk for dell sorry
@Hyppy just saw your comment, do you honestly think his idea of two R10 arrays makes any sense at all?
seen some real big raid 5 arrays from others that have failed I've even had to say to a few people: "You have 12 disk in a raid 5 array and not even one of them is marked as at least a hot spare? Well you're just asking for trouble"
@RobertMoir When I joined [main customer] they had some 26-disk R5 arrays, MS had not only recommended that config but had written the build scripts including automatically bypassing the HP "don't do this" warning, one of the first things I told them to do was move immediately to R6 and we've not lost any data in 5 years
more than suggested, they built it! but yes it was, and they were subbed from 1E, as I mentioned before just done a new deal with them today and one of the caveats was that they don't get any say in the infrastructure
oh and we have two of their SQL DSC's in house, great guys
I use RAID5 commonly; it gets pretty good performance if: 1. You pay close attention to stripe size and file system block size, alignment, etc 2. The controller has a huge cache 3. You aren't pounding it with small writes (which most DBs do, so poor choice for DBs regardless)
I think at one stage MCS was where they threw all the rejects... the people who couldn't cut it in MSN operations (already the corporate dumping ground)
@ChrisS - I'm not saying it can't ever be good. I'm just saying its time has, imho, passed as there's nearly always better options now.
I'm not sure if that's the gospel truth or a halloween story they told to scare poor performers but its something I heard. God knows MCS was a dumping ground for fools at one stage though
@Hyppy Didn't read the comments. Your answer is as much info about NFS-on-Windows as I'd be willing to tolerate. It's against God's Law, the Laws of Man, and Nature Herself!
(This is leaving aside my own personal loathing of NFS from years as a Sun admin dealing with environments that were cross-mounted into a dependency hell that required restarting the universe if one machine crashed)
I think people need to be realistic... if you want an active directory server then buy windows and you'll be happier in the long run. If you want to run NFS then put it on some kind of Unix box and you'll be happier in the long run. (+ countless other similar examples) Simple as that.
it just amazes me that people come up with the most fantastically twisted solutions and never once stop to ask themselves "hey, If I'm having to do all this crazy stuff to achieve something then maybe I'm starting from the wrong point"
@Hyppy I'm the first to admit I'm lucky/spoiled - it's why I keep coming here, you guys are so inventive and realistic that it broadens my mind - I've found loads of cheaper/better solutions via SF than the default "write a big cheque" ones I'd normally do
@RobertMoir oh that's very good, not planning on seeing our vmware rep for a while but might have to kick a free copy out of him @Hyppy ...quite a lot...
@RobertMoir I know I'll have to read the documentation at some point but does it need another DB in the same way VCUM does or does it sit inside the VC DB?
@Zypher we get such a great deal off them I don't think we get the same free stuff as everyone else, I know there was a time when you could get free training/PS points but we don't get that now, good Ent+ prices though :)
It came down as an application package to me, I think it has an internal DB of its own but doesn't require you to setup another. It does setup a web server and will want to plug into vcenter but thats hardly a surprise
@RobertMoir we have some subsystems that get 90-day updates, others can be twice weekly, by version-controlling them at least we're less likely to trip over ourselves
I think House has all the qualities of a good sysadmin. "Users lie", "Keep trying things until it's fixed or more broken", and "Make the interns do the busywork" have been mantras of mine for decades.
