My dead mac mini turned out to just be a dead DIMM, so that was easy to fix but it did make me realise how infrequently I see non-warned hardware failures in my job - 99% of the time you get a warning and can swap things out without downtime but when it comes to home kit you don't get that obviously - just found it strange how I'd come to rely on prefailure warnings
"SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise: You may run unlimited instances of the software in up to four (4) OSEs per license within the server farm, and move those instances freely, as long as the number of physical processors supporting or used by the OSEs in which the software is running at any one time does not exceed the number of licenses assigned to the server farm."
@RobertMoir Maybe you take it for granted. I make a point of letting my hardware know how much I appreciate it. It's the little things, like saying "Thank you", or taking it out for dinner without being asked, or giving her a little blow when I notice she's dusty.
its saying that if you have, for example, 4 virtual hosts in a "VM Farm" you can buy 4 SQL Server licences and run up to 4 installs of SQL server per licence
IIRC there's two ways to do this, and its up to you which is most effective. You can buy 1 licence per instance, same as you would for a physical host
or you can licence each virtual host node that can possibly host the SQL db guest
which might be more cost effective if you have many guests and load balancing across your VM farm
its totally confusing. I think the licence model is still evolving to take virtualisation into account. The sad part is that as confusing as Microsoft's terms are, they're actually one of the better ones. Last time I looked both IBM and Oracle were both more confusing and more concerned with gouging you
I also know quite a bit about DRS affinity rules in that I know that part of their dev teams as they added some things into 4.1 based on a feature request I put in, though there's still some more changes to be added for it to really be useful for me
@Holocryptic Even with the picture-based how tos we provide with our mobile lab carts, we can't convince the users to plug in both the AC and network. :(
I've got a voicemail from someone who says they've been a long time customer, gives his phone number, says they need some support with xyz... No contact name or company name, no details...... /sigh
@ScottPack Thousands.... Though not all are terribly active or recent.. still, just saying your a client doesn't really mean much. At least I figured out what company it was via Google.
@ScottPack Yeah; I don't do external network support (directly) so I'm really not sure how he ended up in my voicemail. Best guess is that someone a long time ago who had my same extension gave him my direct number (at the time her direct number) which sort of makes sense since she dealt with him most often... still... I'm not the biggest fan of phone interactions, and this is one example of why.
@ChrisS I agree. In my role I find the non-repudiation problem with phones troublesome at times. Were I to make up a number, I would say that about half of my phone based requests end up with me telling them to send me an email, and only then do I do it.
I usually order my online stuff from Amazon, but some some reason had a major brain malfunction and went directly to their website. Life lessons are effing expensive.
All I gotta say is those headphones better give me a tingle down my leg for that price.
@Chopper3 Hrm, good to hear I guess. I had possibly planned on upgrading to a couple MDSes soon, but I'm not sure if I'm interested if they're that difficult to configure. I guess that's one thing the QLogic switches have going for them. They're brain-dead simple to configure.
@ErikA MDS's is probably one of a very small number of technologies I'm really comfortable with - if you want me to write your config just let me know, seriously, totally happy to help out. The best analogy is to think of every other FC switch out there as being in an easy any/any kind of mode, whereas MDS's are totally dead until you configure it, kind of deny/deny if you get the idea
One thing about the MDS that kind of threw me was this line on the spec sheet, "32 VSANs per switch for zoning." Is that a total of 32 VSANS (or zones as I'm used to calling them) per fabric, or just active on each switch?
We used to have servers two cubes over from me... I got rid of all of them.... Everything is in the racks now, in the rack room. I sort of miss the white noise; but it was damn loud when I started here.
also I'd argue that since developers are your primary users it helps to be close to them (so you can apply suitable discipline BEFORE they break shit!)
I imagine Apple employees begin the day with something like the North Korean Army's oath of loyalty to Kim Jong-il, or an "All Glory to the Hypnotoad" kinda thing...
In short, ps sucks, sucks at its very badly design of CLI options. The effects are weird and cannot be expected. There is not a single program under Linux worse than ps at the CLI. I've set up a modification of ps called GNU ps at https://code.google.com/p/gnups/, aimed at eliminating messes of p...
The worst thing about ps is that the display depends significantly on which implementation you use, so going from one UNIX-kin to another might surprise you. The only real surprisingly thing I've seen with the PS used on linuxes are how they display threads. It still sounds to me like that guy is just complaining about something without really understanding what he's complaining about.
also resisting the urge to bludgeon the stupid with a raft of scripts that would break if the "backward compatibilities with old BSDs and Unixes" were removed...
My Problem: Attempting to install security update KB948109 on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine with SQL Server 2005 SP2 fails with error code 0×7342 from the Microsoft Update web site. Downloading the update and attempting to install it manually results in this error message: SQL Server Setup failed to modify security permissions on file [...]
@jscott You can, sometimes.. with the right software.. But it's illadvised. One of the reasons i distribute my CV as PDF is to stop recruitment monkeys editing it.
@jscott I also field a lot of "I have 72 PDF files I want to combine into one - how do I do it?" requests -- I wrote an automator script to deal with those just to prove to the CEO that I wasn't being totally unreasonable.
It's really funny, I'm slightly obsessed with the song 'Portland, Oregon' by Jack White and Tammy Wynett - I'll always think of it differently now thanks to that story
We've got Acrobat Pro on most people's machines. Editing a PDF is a breeze once you get used to the program; it's not a word processor, which is most of the initial learning curve.
@voretaq7 I've thought we should do this for a long time....
@jscott Ah; I usually have the opposite battle.. People see PDF and assume it's a fixed immutable format that couldn't possibly be edited, changed, copied, etc.
They catered a taco buffet in today. Lunch time! =]
"We have changed the password for the CRM system because we discovered more people had access to it than they were supposed to" new password is "crm0001"
You're joking. Surely. Please, someone pinch me, and lemme find out that the person who manages that system hasn't just reset the password by adding a 1
I know some places you "earn" your vacation, so it might be that 4% of your hours worked each week goes into your "vacation fund" so to say... We do that for sick days here (2.5%).
So instead of giving your vacation time in hours they give it to you in currency? That seems strange. I'm not sure I would want to deal with the accounting hassle of saying, "I want to take $250 worth of vacation today."
There is a server that is used from 4:30 am in the morning until ~ 22:00.
Should it be turned off? I think that it is a server and that it won't have a problem to stay on, but serious professors are telling me that it is dangerous and that HD can fail within 2 years. The server owner believes th...
@sysadmin1138 we used to have a cat that sprayed occasionally in our old house when we moved here it stopped - we assumed it was because they all started with equal rights to the new territory
@Iain That's how it worked out here. These three have been living together for over 10 years, so the interpersonal conflicts have well defined, and generally unmoving, boundaries.
@sysadmin1138 we have recently staken on a 4th while friends do VSO in Nigeria. It has shifted the dynamics considerably but things are settling out now
When we first moved in, we didn't have a bed. we had an air mattress. So our eldest, deprived of his favorite hiding spot, figured out how to crawl under the covers.
Youthful rambunctiousness at its best. Ours sleep all day, which is unsurprising considering their ages. Introducing a young idiot into this mix would be... hard on hearts.
@sysadmin1138 we didn't introduce new cats to our old one - he was 15 when he became our only cat and 18 when he died we lasted 6 weeks as a catless home
our cats are all chiped and our cat flap reads the chip and lets them come and go as they please (they all have their own key) for a couple of days we just put lots of food down and leave them. For longer a neighbour puts food down
Recently when I browse some multi-language websites, the default language becomes Russian.
An example is www.amd.com which redirects me to http://www.amd.com/ru/Pages/AMDHomePage.aspx
I am sure I don't specified any change to my browser/computer language options.
I even tried on my friend's la...
@Iain Cat most commonly "spray" (dogs drag their bottoms) because their anal glands aren't releasing properly when they defecate. You can do it manually for them, or have the glands removed; but it's usually due to what/how they eat.
@ChrisF first noted it here: "Just got a harmful web page warning from MSO - HTML-Script.inf - any ideas what's going on?"
And now users in the SF chat are also reporting this.
funky... Safari doesn't throw any errors so Google's malware list doesn't have it listed -- this is why anti-virus software sucks. False alarms like that condition users to ignore the alerts, then real shit slips through.
Perhaps this is stupid, but I'm running OSX 10.6, and I don't run any type of anti-virus/anti-malware software. Havent' had any issues yet. knocks on wood
My dream setup for my client setups: wall jacks, desktops, and monitors behind locked plexiglass. Keyboards would be mounted to the top of the desk. Mice would be movable, but would have a locking sleeve to prevent ripping the cord out from the desktop. A device that sanitizes the keyboard nightly (or sanitizes the user at login).
I remember when Google's warning thingy went mad and branded every site as potentially harmful. That was also a royal pain in the ass for about an hour
@ErikA I don't run AV on my FreeBSD boxen, though I do scan inbound e-mail and the like. They're also sealed up pretty tight and I don't do anything blatantly dumb like login as root.
And nobody set the clock in the lunchroom ahead an hour.... now I'm wondering where my afternoon went. =[
I find randomly spewing "That's what she said.", "So's your face!", and the perennial favorite, "What's wrong with your face?!?" gives humor a nice rounded edge.
@Holocryptic I realized the other day that I dated a girl, while I was in high school, who now has a child about to graduate high school. Quite an uncomfortable moment.
Arranged marriage kind of thing. Unobservant-me didn't even notice she was pregnant until she was out of class for two weeks in May and when she came back every girl in the room was clustered around the newborn.
I had never seen a group of AP-Chem students clumped that close together.
@sysadmin1138 You didn't notice she was pregnant, or you thought she was fat? Either way, kudos for not opening your mouth to make a life-ending statement.
@Holocryptic I thought 'gaining weight' but even in my young-idiot stage I knew not to point that out. That said, I now know what weight gain of that particular profile means.
This question was migrated to SF a bit ago:
Suspicious redirection to russian pages. Is government spying us?
After being received by us, it was quickly closed as being off-topic (I would have voted to migrate back to SU, but it appears that it's not possible to migrate a question back to ...
The IPv6 address I got back from DNS is mapped to the 6TO4 adapter on the Win7 host - for whatever that is worth.
I just checked a WinXP host that has no v6 stack enabled. All I got back was the standard A record. This sounds like something is wonky on my DNS server? or possibly how it is interfacing with DHCP?
Recently when I browse some multi-language websites, the default language becomes Russian.
An example is www.amd.com which redirects me to http://www.amd.com/ru/Pages/AMDHomePage.aspx
I am sure I don't specified any change to my browser/computer language options.
I even tried on my friend's la...
@ChrisF first noted it here: "Just got a harmful web page warning from MSO - HTML-Script.inf - any ideas what's going on?"
And now users in the SF chat are also reporting this.
This question was migrated to SF a bit ago:
Suspicious redirection to russian pages. Is government spying us?
After being received by us, it was quickly closed as being off-topic (I would have voted to migrate back to SU, but it appears that it's not possible to migrate a question back to ...
