I'm actually rather pleased with how well 11.10 Server is installing with the 'minimal virtual machine' mode. Minimal whining and cruising right along with no odd behaviors.
Hmm. Somebody ought to do a .Deb virtual package with a dependency list that installs all the really useful system tools. Or perhaps I should roll one and shove it down the throats of all the Devs down the hall.
@AdrianK: doing it as a script might be more maintainable, InstallAllTheTHings.deb might be fixed to specific versions, as opposed to the latest available ones
If I discover even one more system util that the Devs decided wasn't necessary in production, I'm going to walk down the hall and scream at them. Well, except for the new ones. They didn't create this fiasco.
@Zoredache I don't have a choice. The boss bought them the hardware and approved the project before I arrived, and my predecessor was a schmuck so lazy that he got fired for having fixed a mere 36 tickets in 8 months.
@Zoredache Nah. They're pleasant young ladies, but nobody over there has any enterprise experience in the past 10 years except for a little L1/2 help desk stuff.
That's a new one. Ubuntu minimal install does not include the 'iptables' command.
My personal hypothesis is so that no one figures out that their default "security" policy is ACCEPT-ACCEPT-ACCEPT.
Thankfully we've staffed up with some folks with business experience. We tend to get rather idealistic folks that are quite enthusiastic about things but lack a certain pragmatism.
@RebeccaChernoff Would it be against the terms of service if I held a raffle to determine who'd be elected to go beat Mark Shuttleworth with a shovel?
So, the question now is - is she like Beetlejuice and only takes three summonings to appear, or is she like Candy Man and needs five? (@RebeccaChernoff)
waits
@AdrianK Working for non profits is fun because of the passion that is attracted to it, but for the surplus of heart, there's typically a dearth of brains.
@WesleyDavid Cool. Trying to get a KVM setup off the ground here. Our main file server also hosts 6 other services that I have to migrate off before I can replace the 6yo SCSI RAID array.
@ScottPack My Executive Director wouldn't be able to print. That would be quite bad enough.
I think my InstallAllTheThings package doesn't really fit the Ubuntu/Debian mold though. It need more useless dashes, underscores, and tildes to fit in with the rest of them.
Should probably be Install-All_The_Things-~_0.1~44_2-3.deb
@ScottPack It's like Debian's bratty little brother that his middle aged parents didn't expect so since they're so fed up with kids they let him do whatever he wants since they're now in their sixties with a teenager.
The moderator election states that there are two positions open. With the recent loss of Chopper3, this means that this is a net gain of 1.
There's some discussion with regard to the specific count for this election; maybe some more general discussion is needed on how many moderators are needed...
Like I would say it's mean to put peanut butter on my mom's dog's nose, if she didn't sit there and beg for it every time you take out a jar of peanut butter.
@voretaq7 dont think im going to continue it though, I like it but meh, i still love WoW's story better but it's not good enough to play. SWTOR is definitely going to give them a kick in the arse.
Questions about specific hosting providers, server specs, and the suchlike are frowned upon on Server Fault, usually being closed as "too localized", or "off topic", because Server Fault isn't a good site for working out what resources you need to run a given website (because it usually requires ...
One of our clients has about 100 users in the field with Windows Mobile 6.5 devices, with another 600 coming online soon that will be running a mix of Windows Mobile 6.5 and Android phones (I'm not sure which version of android, they're rolling them out at the end of the month).
We're having a l...
@WesleyDavid 300 of them? God, I dealt with one WinMobile5 and one 6 device and almost blasted them against a wall in frustration. The most god-awful POS devices...
They came to our company and asked us for our opinion, and I told my boss "No. Just no. THey are shit, hopeless devices that should be sent to the 9th circle of hell to live with Adolf Hitler and Justin Beiber" but he gave them the green light to do it anyway
Because our software does work with the phones
@WesleyDavid - I feel bad about closing all these question that actually have good answers
I'm looking for advice on what patch management solutions you would recommend based upon your experience. I'm also looking for which ones you would not recommend based upon your experience.
We have a mixed network of Windows and Mac clients. Our central servers are all Windows servers, althoug...
@MarkHenderson Yeah, they're not bad questions, but they're bad for ServerFault - I learned from many of them and probably upvoted many of them before I was clear on SF's intent.
I saw a common theme with those kinds of questions. It shouldn't have been "What products can I use to do X" but rather simply, "How can I do X"
And then let people answer with their own ways of doing X, which would include product recommendations.
However, he's already done so much research that he now has specific, product related questions and comparisons. So I think he kind of pushed himself outside of the scope of SF.
I think SF is good for two ends of the spectrum. Extremely broad "How do I manage patching for heterogeneous networks" and then extremely scoped "My Dell KACE appliance is throwing this error: "
Does anyone have recommendations on managing multiple iPods / iPads? I am not talking about just a few for a family but rather thousands of them for student use in education. They seem to be a bit of an administrative and security nightmare.
But the in between questions, the one where a person has done a lot of research and now needs soft answers based on experience and subjectivity, aren't so good.
So in the "Centralized Windows/Mac Patch Mgmt" question, he kills it badly with these questions: "My question is this: What are your thoughts on these to products? Are there better products out there? "
So those have to go.
"Are there issues that I'm not considering?" is okay
I guess.
@MarkHenderson Yeah, that's borderline I think. I debated on that one... =|
I am in a home where I have one public IP address. Instead of purchasing ips from my isp, is there a service where I can get ip addresses via vpn. I assume it would work in the same fashion as it would if I had cables run. Is this possible.
@MarkHenderson Currently, I could, since I work mostly from home on remote clients and projects. However, I'm transitioning away from that to try and get more exicitng work at a hosted services / datacenter environment.
So I'm expecting that I shall soon not be able to spend much time on it at work save maybe for lunch.
Does anyone have a solution (that doesn't involve editing the hosts file) to block a particular URL from FireFox?
Basic back story is that I'm trying to discipline myself. I'm spending FAR too much time over at Server Fault that I want to genuinely block the site from my work PC so that every ti...
This is what IT's about. Getting called into work at 3am by an automated alert about a SAN controller failure and when people get in they dont even notice....... :(
@Dan I work in IT, as do you. You will apprecite the next statment... I have all intention of going at 10am..... Goign to bed. But im sure jsut as I lock my workstation and close my office door some end user will go "But can you just look at this for me please? The same situation will following untill all users have left the building and I am left to lock up again"
Reddit has announced that they will be blacking out their site on January 18 in opposition of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (a.k.a. PROTECT-IP, PIPA).
There has been some discussion o...
Although Joel's We don't own Stack Exchange... we're just taking care of it on your behalf. line is obvious poop because they run stackexchange and utterly say yes/no. Even if a feature request has +100 votes there's still no guarantee that they'll put it in.
Maybe SE won't go for a blackout...but do you need to talk to imgur (the image hosting provider)? That was, I believe, set up by a Redditor - so you'll have to make sure any image-based blackout won't affect the stack.imgur domain and we end up with no pictures.
Ahaha, shit - I just noticed if you go to your profile and look at visited, you can click on it the number and it'll show a calendar with all the days you logged on
I'm going to find it quite challenging to keep my run of consecutive days during my holiday in April - going to the west coast if Islay - no phone lines, no mobile signals ...
@t1nt1n Honestly dude if you want those features, and you're running MS systems - SharePoint is probably the best bet - especially if you roll with MS Office
I did research before we settled on SharePoint 2K10
Couldn't find anything which remotely beat SharePoint on the integration side of things
Sometimes I hate looking at old sites, so far I've discovered 17 occasions where one of our sites has been hacked over the past 10 years and we haven't noticed
I know why the old developer kept me away from his code when I was Infrastructure Manager, I would have pulled it
sorry for my simple question, however I can't find any useful resources on the internet. Except the official HP page about my p212 here. From this I understand that HP doesn't support Ubuntu 8.04. But there could be built-in support in Ubuntu kernel itself. But I don't know where to look for this...
I'm looking for advice on what patch management solutions you would recommend based upon your experience. I'm also looking for which ones you would not recommend based upon your experience.
We have a mixed network of Windows and Mac clients. Our central servers are all Windows servers, althoug...
I am in a home where I have one public IP address. Instead of purchasing ips from my isp, is there a service where I can get ip addresses via vpn. I assume it would work in the same fashion as it would if I had cables run. Is this possible.
