@HopelessN00b Yeah, when they're asking me to dig up 6 months of wtmp logs for their staff, they're just looking for things to beat their middle managers up about at review time.
Some great people working here who are really dedicated to doing everything they can for some really sick people. And some of the worst leadership I've ever seen.
Heh, on a related note, at what point do you tell someone to GTFO when they repeatedly ask for logs on someone?
I've gotten requests for logs on the same guy about once a month for five months that turn up nothing, and I'm debating whether or not to tell HR to explain themselves or FOAD on their latest request...
@MichaelHampton Yes. Makes us more likely to look for jobs elsewhere. They want us to stay depressed and with low self-esteem so that they don't have to re-hire.
Rarely is under-performance a reason to get fired here.
@MichaelHampton heh. In fact, getting a Master's degree is the kiss of death here. The lower level directors find reasons to fire anyone with credentials too close to theirs.
I fly under the radar generally because I'm 1) quite good, 2) been here for a long time, and 3) know where all the skeletons are.
I actually pointed out to someone once that I can, in fact, read all the emails they've ever sent. They stopped trying to backstab me about that point.
I may have mentioned the fact that our monthly backups didn't (then) have a retention policy and that we can pull data off tape from 2000. =D
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@Adrian Haha, I've only used one briefly, but didn't mind it - capacitive touch is soo much better than the trackpad on this lenovo. I think extra fingers gets the right-click behavior?
@Adrian Yeah, my work machine is a T520. The painfully slow hard drive is my only complaint aside from the mousing situation (but easily remedied with an SSD).
The weird thing is, the first Friday of December seems to be a very common departure date for this department. I think that about 1/4th of the staff have left on that Friday in the past 15 years.
@MichaelHampton Ah. Very good. Already forwarded that to my new work email.
@MichaelHampton Hah my bluetooth keyboard at home lost its connection to the host, and I didn't have any cabled keyboards anywhere in the house to get it connected again
I ended up finding my RDP client on the iPad and rdping into the computer to set the bluetooth up again
I have a Late 2011 27" iMac that once a day loses all bluetooth connectivity. (Very rarely it will drop just the keyboard or just the mouse, but 99% of the time, it's everything) This is a huge problem because I only have the iMac bluetooth keyboard and mouse, so this basically renders the entire...
Sure the Darwin kernel is open sourced, but you can't actually compile your own anymore and expect your Mac to like it. They killed that around 10.3 or 10.4...
At least the Windows community is so large you're going to catch a good fish just by playing the numbers, and with Linux being a hacker is practically a pre-requisite. But Apple are more than happy to tell you 54 different ways of buying a song on iTunes, but when a real problem occurs they're fucked
@MarkHenderson Oddly, I have nearly that exact issue with my Lenovo X200 at work. Luckily there's a physical "airplane mode" switch on it which allows me to reconnect.
@HopelessN00b Ok you have a choice: A big black man with a 12" cock is threatening to put his HIV infected penis up your asshole unless you make a choice. The choice is between Windows 8 and OS X. What do you choose?
@MichaelHampton Heh. Yeah, that's pretty close to a fate worse than death... not sure if it's all the way up there or not, but I'd certainly have to think about it.
@MichaelHampton Ugh. Last I checked it was worse than KDE was when it went through its dev cluster and crashed every few minutes. Anyway, now that KDE works, I have no desire to go back to the GNOME suck-fest.
Yeah, we're on Gnome here because KUbuntu truly sucked at 9.10. We couldn't get it to do anything except call up a single app that did a little red bouncing ball on the screen.
Oh, hey, can this Late Answer get some upvote love? dude actually bothered to post a working script to the question that's otherwise got a less elegant, less effective answer as the vote-leader.
I know this question is old but it was actually the first forum post I stumbled across when I started trying to do this exact same thing a couple weeks ago. I've managed to come up with a working script that will parse the event logs 24 hours back for only bad login event log entries, grab the o...
The main file server that I've been baby-sitting not only is a nearly 6 year old with a 7+ year old RAID array and 9 year old SCSI160 card, but the ancient Fedora OS still on it really IS the original one that I installed on it in 2003 according to the docs.
A 10 year old Fedora install running our agency's primary file server.
@allquixotic I tried for 2 years to get funding to replace it. No dice. 6 weeks ago they finally came through and told me I had to have all 50k spent by end of year.
And I feel bad (terrible, really) when a combination of laziness, extreme busy-ness, and general malaise keeps me from upgrading my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server, running previous-generation (Nehalem) hardware, with an uptime of about 480 days. Which is chump change compared to that!
Wow... $50k for a server upgrade project. I guess you'll be getting some fairly nice hardware.
So my datacenter gives me a single drop, and it's got multiple subnets on it. Trying to figure out how best to handle that. Actually, it's worse than that, but... I won't go there right now.
@WesleyDavid It's only 389 days. We had a site-wide planned outage to re-rack some stuff and upgrade some switches Atumn of last year. Shortly before that though it has been up for 965 days when somebody popped the building mains and the generator overheated at 35 minutes because nobody had checked the cooling pumps.
@MarkHenderson Yeah, I thought the half cab came with 8 usable IPs and I bought a /27 on top of it, but after the paperwork was done, I saw it was a /30 (So single usable IP - lulz) and a /27.
@WesleyDavid Well if they're routing it to you, then it's similar to if you were BGP peering with them - a /30 you're routing over, and a /27 routed to your device to do with as you please.
I have yet to move in and am trying to design how I want the network. I was going to use the /30 as my VPN, billing system web front end, customer manager, etc. and put all that housekeeping stuff behind the firewall. Then customers on the /27. However the billing system uses the SNMP information directly from client systems, PDUs, and switches, so I'll have to probably have two IPs on the billing system and bridge... it's all messed up.
I'm thinking of ignoring the /30 at this point.
IPv4 wouldn't be half as depleted if people weren't idiots.
@ShaneMadden I have not done much with WAN side networking so BGP means nothing to me. Big Gaping... ?
does anyone know how I can do a server-side download of an ISO onto an ESXi box and put it in the datastore so I can install it on VMs? ... do I need to just enable SSH on the management network and use wget or curl (or compile them if they aren't already on the box)?
@MichaelHampton Hah! No. I even asked. They don't do IPv6 and when I asked I got a puzzled look. I was the first one to ask. Probably still the only one.
@WesleyDavid They're probably not going to give you a default gateway address within the /27. You'll be doing all the routing on the /30, you endpoint address in that /30 will get routed anything bound for the /27.
@MichaelHampton =D We'll see. It's an ISP that's been in town for the last 15 years. Doing well - but they had some florospace they weren't doing anything with and a few extra Gb of fiber... so... datacenter!
@ShaneMadden 216.224.231.97 is the /30 gateway, and 216.224.230.193 is the /27 gateway, FWIW.
The DC has two carriers in the building, TW Telecom and CenturyLink.
Like I said, not a huge DC with big names. But the floorspace is priced nice, the electricity is cheap, and it's a good start for things that aren't bandwidth intensive.
I hope to get some space in PhoenixNAP when I get bigger and have bigger bandwidth needs / clients.
Glad I'm not the only one that finds the orphaned /30 strange.
I'm really thinking it's more trouble than it's worth to try and utilize it.
@WesleyDavid Why don't you just come out and ask them what use it is?
We once ended up with two /27's and we asked them to be merged into a single space, which they did for us, and gave us a week to switch it all over before taking away our two individual /27s
@KronoS Windows 8 Tiles are fundamentally broken as well. I had my first Windows 8 install on Monday and it just flat out refuses to install any metro apps
@ChrisS My biggest gripe with Metro is different to everyone elses; most stuff I do in the start menu doesn't show up by default, I have to type what i want and then go to "settings"
In the old start menu it showed everything by default
@MichaelHampton Damnit didn't help. For example to get to Bluetooth settings, I hit Win, "bluetooth" and then click settings. It's the same with Win+Q unfortunately.
@ChrisS I don't mind new stuff just because it's new. The problem with Metro is that they either didn't do any UX research with it, or they completely ignored the results when told that it sucks.
@MichaelHampton Change your options.... Local Resources -> Apply Windows key combinations -> on the remote computer.
@MarkHenderson I'd like to empathize, but I don't think MS can be blamed for your poor selection of computing tool. I think Jobs deserves the blame for iMac's shortcomings. :o
@MarkHenderson Frankly, I think everyone (Mac, PC, linux, hacker, personal, business...) would be a lot better off if more people accepted/acknowledged that fact, and less people tried to cram a Mac-shaped toy into a PC-shaped hole.
@HopelessN00b I wish Apple would take businesses seriously. Give me an integrated IOS management solution, for example
Our company has been directly responsible for the purchase of over $100k in iPads (given that they're our preferred device for our software) and every single customer (including one who has spent about $30k on iPads) wants to know "So, can I manage these devices from a central console"
But nooo. No central management. No ability to offer remote assistance. In recent versions, some half-assed tracking support for when they lose it
And most frustratingly, a goddamn locked environment where if you want to deploy internal apps to your IOS devices you have to install the dev certificate (of which you can only ever install one), and then pay a yearly fee to Apple to distribute your own apps to them
So whenever people come to us and say "Why don't you have an App?" we have to explain how we would never get our app through the App Store, and even if we could, we want to control our own distribution and you can't do that
Not just an Apple problem, sadly. I would so love to see Android do the same thing, or for that matter, anyone but RIM come up with a smartphone and/or tablet as business-friendly and manageable as, say, this 6 year old BB, FFS.
Like the race to capture the consumer market has destroyed and overlooked the corporate sector, and forced us into shit half-solutions like Good. (Which it's not.)
...and helpless, and hopeless and st00pid too. Might be a good combination for making money off them, but it sure makes concerns like usability suffer.
No idea how easy or how hard. SO I had 'pre-exam jitters' for a week.
sysadmin at wiseguys.
Basically sole IT person, with a 100 servers is distant Amsterdam and no remote management cards. Server run slackware, first but onsubstantiated idea is that all where set up ad-hoc without standardisation
@HopelessN00b To be fair, that's because the consumer market is huge and they also know that in many companies, it's the consumer market which drives business purchases. How many senior management types now have iPhones and iPads?
@tombull89 Thanks for your reply. When I do an ifconfig The debian virtual machine i get inet4 address as 127.0.0.1? I tried bridged mode, no luck. My local Mac computer is connected to a WiFi router which is hooked into my ISP's MODEM.
Shut down the VM. Go to virtual box and check how the VM is configured. If there is no NIC add one. If there is one write down which type so you can load the right drivers
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