@Chopper3 Nice. 3 of my children's collection of grandmothers and great-grandmothers were Anna and my Ex's side had alternated between Anna and Sue for 8 generations, so that was an obvious middle name for the daughter.
I was asked to get the I/O profile of a storage unit... but the storage unit is a Linux server running an iSCSI target from its internal SAS and SATA disks.
@Iain You honestly think that was a problem? I gave a similar answer a while back (looking for it now) and @voretaq7 even commented on it in a positive way.
@MDMarra I think it caused all of the trouble around that question and there isn't any need to dig the other up, @voretaq7 and I are on different sides of the line on this sort of thing (we're close but we don't always agree)
@MichaelHampton Doesn't have to be SNMP... I'm being asked to determine the read/write profile of the virtual machine activity occurring on this system
@Iain @MDMarra that question being perhaps not the best example, because it devolved into a comment flame war with a user who I think asked a badly-phrased question (those words don't mean what you think they mean), and when called on it became progressively more hostile and just wanted to scream
Personally I'm a fan of the "Remove, virtual/VM/VMWare" approach when people are asking a question they seem to know the answer to except in a ZOMG VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT -- it's a variation on "Talk to the duck"
I'll be using a VMWare VM, and from within the VM I need to be able to save files to a directory which exists outside of the VM. I'm running VMWare NOT inside of a host OS though. Is this possible, and what is the correct terminology?
@MichaelHampton because both interpretations are valid (the way it's phrased is ambiguous crap: Are you talking about sharing files between guest operating systems, which is the way I read it, sharing VMFS volumes between hypervisors (which is how the deleted answer guy read it - though is answer of "you want VMFS" is woefully incomplete if that's the case), or probably a dozen other interpretations.)
I think I see the problem: > I am a Python / Django developer. I specialize in developing SAAS applications using Django. My language of choice is Python, but I am sometimes forced to use English. Django rules.
I don't know your use-case, but I'm tempted to say "you're doing it wrong."
Each user should have their own kepair. That way, when a user leaves, is transferred, promoted to a management role, or anything else that requires revocation of rights, you just revoke that one key. This also makes effe...
@MichaelHampton changed it to sudo. I know that's preferred over granting the root login in most cases, but I wasn't sure about impersonating another user.
@MichaelHampton yes, but why? People see downvotes and they scream and cry and wail and piss themselves (and stop reading the answers because Server Fault is ZOMG MEAN!)
@MichaelHampton I didn't downvote it until every request for clarification was greeted with ~FOAD, and thank me for the privilege of helping my pathetic ass.
@voretaq7 Now if my last GF had slept next to a collection like that, I'd have been worried, Especially since she was generally able to bench-press more than I weigh.
@84104 I'm still on a "be nice to the noobs" kick. We need noobs. Noobs are future competent sysadmins. (unless we chase them off and they start learning this sort of stuff on the street - then we start finding systems in the wild with pam_giantsecurityhole that lets you log in as any user if you type xyzzy as the password -- it solved his problem after all :)
I obviously need to drink more. My Puppet code was failing because I was using " characters around the resource name. Works fine if it's not quoted or single quotes?
(and I will say the two campaigns I was in that were run by women - I don't know if it's a valid representative sample, but women do seem to make better DMs.)
@voretaq7 The only two women I knew who were into D&D: #1 was certifiably crazy with an artistic flare #2 was certifiably crazy with psychopathic tenancies and possible bi-polar disorder.
@JeffFerland Reminds me. What's the effect of puncturing a bigger stripe? Like does a puncture in a thin stripe cause more data to leak out than a puncture in a thick stripe?
Right. Even with checking in on it, 30 mins per shelf, tops. And a lot of waiting with thumb-up-butt. Or where ever you personally prefer to store your thumb.
Fascinating. Default Puppet behavior is that it will add entries to /etc/fstab but it will not clean out entries that have been modified. That's irritating.
@Zoredache Honestly, I'd be okay with that if it didn't try and manage my fstab too. Anything it should be able to do it should handle undoing. That IS, after all, their justficiation for not providing 'mkdir -p' parent directory creation with the 'recurse => true' option.
Dear Valued Customer, The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our end of availability plans for VMware Converter Boot CD and Converter 3. Converter Boot CD is currently available for older Converter versions and provides Converter cold-cloning functionality. As of May 7, 2012, we will no longer be providing Converter Boot CD or Converter 3. However, more recent Converter product versions will continue to be available as public software binaries and offered as free downloads.
wow, vmware, you are so fucking great some times
just skip the fact that the newer converters don't do cold cloning
@ewwhite I think we've even talked about that before. I toured the campus back in the 1980s when I was there for a seminar on commercial rabbit farming.
It was only 100 miles away from where I lived. But in the Midwest, hardly anybody travels that far very often until there's a real need.
in the long end, nothing can remotely compare to the value of properties, though it has it backside.. if you sell your house/appartment/whatever in 20 years from now you're going to buy something else that's (probably) even more expensive at that time
@JoelESalas In my case it is, but it depends on how you define living expenses. For me it's $500/mo for food & gas, $200/mo for phone/internet, $100/mo for electricity, $1200/mo in shelter, and $600/mo in other expenses => 2900, call it $3k/mo. That's the stuff I can't easily shed.
If I were on the skids I'd turn off the internet and use my phone (drops about $100/mo), and consider selling the plane (which is the bulk of the "other expenses"). If I don't drive much the $500/mo stretches a lot further...
I am kinda stuck with a problem I am trying to wrap my head around for days now.
Here is what I am doing:
By using Veewee, I am creating a VirtualBox image and then I create a Vagrant box from it. See here, here
Finally I run puppet from Vagrant to install RabbitMQ, see here.
This worked fin...
and @basil - Y U ASK KWESTION ON DEVOPS PROPOSAL? :P
(2 of those are great SF questions, the other one is a great Workplace question. Though un-bunching panties may also be a Fashion question if that proposal ever gets some traction)
Proposed Q&A site for people who are enthusiastic about fashion, and about clothing, tailoring, cobbling, hatmaking, haberdashery and bespoke or couture clothing items.
I use Subversion via TortoiseSVN but I hear good things about Git.
Are there any similar tools available for Git on Windows?
Feel free to answer with tools which still in early development.
@MichaelHampton What I'm thinking is Nagios configurators. They let you create config files REALLY easily. It's not efficient exactly, but it ensures you don't make silly mistakes.
Not to mention, every time I'm tempted to script something, I consider whether somebody else has already tried to solve the problem and published an open source program for it.
@ChrisS Yes, there is. But I'm not the one looking for a GUI :)