@Chopper3 Shouldn't we just elect mailq as a mod and let him sort himself out - actually forget that I'm sure mailq deserves administrative access to the hardware running StackExchange
@ithedgehog that's one of the reasons we got a new NAS (was serving home directories, disk performance was creaking under load) but for streaming images to new installs of workstations it works fine.
Im a network guy, and know very little about system administration. I would like to install PFSense and Monowall to 2 CF Cards, but not sure how they should be formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and volume size. Both of the cards are 8 gigs. I was also wondering if it would be a problem using physdiskwr...
@Holocryptic Isn't Exchange set to not delete things for a certain minimum amount of time (ours is set to a whole month; but at least a week is pretty common)?
Exchange (last I looked) will not shrink DBs automatically. It'll only deallocate space in the DB files (allowing their reuse, but the file doesn't shrink)
The online defrag will reclaim log space, assuming policy allows it (usually you've got policy that log files aren't "shrunk" until a backup is done).
@ErikA I'm learning it now. Not bad for someone who's familiar with previous versions, though the PS would be nasty for anyone new to PS. I'm not pleased that MS doesn't seem to care about making the software easy to administer. To configure something it might be in EMC, EMS, or ECP. And some things are in multiple locations.
Looking to see if there is a simple interface for finding the size of our Exchange database, apparently it's not in the management console (or it's not obvious)
I'm contemplating the fact about using a virtual machine to "sandbox" servers and programs on my computer. I heard that Virtual Machines can be hacked into,; a simple google search of "virtual machine security"; millions of results appear.
I know that pretty much anything can be hacked but why ...
I've started a few programming projects. I have two problems: 1. I tend to be a better planner than implementer (so I get a bit ambitious, then wear down as the project wears on) 2. I've got pretty good notions of good functionality, and a deep drive to avoid half-assing things I work on; which tends to further extend projects.
which is why being a sysadmin is a good fit. Sysadmins follow the true principles of Agile Development.
1) Do it manually 2) Get fed up with doing it manually 3) Deploy hackish piece of shit to automate it 4) Iteratively fix hackish piece of shit ; scratch new itches in the same way. 5) ??? 6) MAGNIFICENT SCRIPTS OF BEAUTY THAT AUTOMATE EVERYTHING!
I am sure there are a lot of way to backup a site, but I am currently overwhelmed of info overflow from Google search. I have a site running on Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS) and would like to have easy and best way to back up my data.
@Voretaq7: I tend to hack together kludgey scripts that just do the job needed with the intention I can fix it up better later, but once it "works" I move on to the next brush fire and never get back to it :-/
@voretaq7 DRDB to a local machine, then back that up. :-)
@BartSilverstrim yeah, I don't think it's a shadow -- try shooting some test patterns with the camera in various light situations, I think there might be something to a damaged/defective CCD
@BartSilverstrim most of the best episodes
Always pissed me off that they never brought her in to write for the movies
@Voretaq7: that was the odd thing. The black...ooze...only shows up in these interior shots. There are...241 pictures. Some indoor, some outdoor...but only in a handful does this moving ooze appear.
I wondered if there was some way to have a shadow from the flash off something in the room, but one of those shadows shows up with a reflection off glass in a portrait just above it. That gave me a bit of a head scratch as to how that happens.
It has a different shape in different pictures, so it's not a static defect in the lens or imaging system.
@Holocryptic that's why I'm thinking flash effect -- Flash bouncing off something bright on the upper-right part of the scene & the lens shading the lower-left a bit
it would make more sense with a right-hand flash or a bounce flash pointed partly at the ceiling though
The one with the sofa and black outfit, that is a painting above it, nothing really reflective and it has that splortch on the floor too. I dismissed it as just shadow, but some of them I really can't figure out.
@BartSilverstrim definitely a damaged CCD; high contrast conditions (usually low light; but not always) will bring those out. Tell her not to take pictures of the sun without a solar filter.
it's definitely strange -- Doing a series of tests at different illuminations will make it show up though. If you have a gray card that's the best thing to shoot.
also, I got to quote The Stones on Meta. My life is now complete.
Thanks guys. I took the photos off the test site (although I may repost more as that's the site I'm doing my "how to edit your site" demonstrations for the teachers...) to reset for more work later.
We in our department are implementing a new admin policy: everyone in a department which we support will receive admin access to their computers. We need to know (while we are performing this "pilot program" policy on this department) who logged in, and when they did, on any machine. So how could...
Im a network guy, and know very little about system administration. I would like to install PFSense and Monowall to 2 CF Cards, but not sure how they should be formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and volume size. Both of the cards are 8 gigs. I was also wondering if it would be a problem using physdiskwr...
Is it possible to check if an e-mail exists before sending?
thanks
I'm contemplating the fact about using a virtual machine to "sandbox" servers and programs on my computer. I heard that Virtual Machines can be hacked into,; a simple google search of "virtual machine security"; millions of results appear.
I know that pretty much anything can be hacked but why ...
I am sure there are a lot of way to backup a site, but I am currently overwhelmed of info overflow from Google search. I have a site running on Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS) and would like to have easy and best way to back up my data.
