@ScottPack talking of mac software I DO like the app store for macs, I wanted to edit an audio clip before (from the tim and eric movie) and just a few keystrokes later I'd downloaded a tool to do it - no potential for viruses, no registering to pay for it etc. just click and it was there in seconds
@Chopper3 I haven't fiddled with it very much. I came across an app that said it was on the Apple download page, which has gotten redirected to the AppStore, which didn't have that app. That was not a very good first experience. :-/
@Chopper3 What devs do need is a way to "grey out" apps for users that are trying to download them on incompatible devices. Games are a big one where there's always a huge list of unsupported computers
dammit I hate the fact that all my storage lives on a decrepit POS spawn of a refugee from the late 90s. 1 single damn rsync at 11MB/s brings the network to a halt and 110 people can't get anything done until it's finished.
@JeffFerland Exactly. That's what I end up doing. And takes all day. And I get glassy-eyed stares when I mention things like amortization and capacity planning.
@BartSilverstrim Actually, I think that's the mortar. The foundation seems to be "ALL THE THINGS" meme posters. Bitching keeps us from turning into... well, that.
@BartSilverstrim I've found talking to somebody is often quicker and easier way to get something done, whereas an email can be a big scary black hole with no work output or responses.
In Exchange 2010, if an AD user is disabled but another user has access to their mailbox, will they still be able to access the mailbox or does that user need to remain enabled for this functionality to work?
@Chopper3 Are you implying my DID is a 20-something female jr. sysadmin? Because if I had DID I'd hope my other personality would at least be captain of his own space ship by now.
Thinking Chopper, as an independent freelancing consultant, is able to drink whenever he wants from his command center lair, and when he does, he visits SFChat.
@BartSilverstrim I have already had what we in my family call an 'Early Retirement' - 1/3rd pint of 'Um Bongo', 1/3rd pint white rum, 1/3rd pint cava - so you're right!
@Lucas I e-mailed Price Pfister, a subsidiary of a very large company in america, Stanley/Black and Decker. I let them know their faucet had a defective drain and I wanted to know what the fix was. I told them I bought 3 of the faucets. They e-mailed me and said "No problem, new replacement parts en route!" What'd they send? A single drain.
@PeterGrace I had the same with logitech, I had a defective joystick, 6 years old, asked what fixing would cost, they send me their latest generation of that type for free :p
I'm curious to how people are deploying FreeBSD's ports in their environment. I assume that most people using FreeBSD are indeed using Ports (and often portupgrade for upgrading with binaries). I am however interested in how you have this setup, as I'm not satisfied with how things work in recent...
Is this a stupid idea; I have a pain in the arse bit of the business that I loathe, they have a HP DL380 with 2 small boot disks and 6 x 900GB 10k disks in R5 (their choice, only part of my hatred for them) - they were moaning at me about wanting more space so I've sent over a spare disk shelf (25 x 900GB 10k's) and a P812 card. Now they tell me they want the space on the same LVM-based FS (ext3 btw). How daft is it to have one LVM FS, some on one R5 array and some on another R6 array?
This is comparatively transient data, i.e. if it inconveniences anyone it'll be them - should I force them to have another FS or combine the two at their risk?
@Chopper3 I guess the question is why do they need to merge them? You've just given them ~20TB, up from ~4TB, surely they can't need a ~24TB volume, suddenly?
@SmallClanger they say their app can't split across directories - i.e. it's writing to /something and they can't have it put some there and some other stuff on /somethingelse - does that make sense? I'm fed up with the buggers - they're doing my head in
What @Zoredache said. That's the glaring point against. Without knowing the service, I can't say for sure, but I'd thay they should kill the service, mount new volume as /mnt/tmp, move data from /something, remount new volume as /something and restart. Job done.
It's certainly not the performance option that's for sure - but I have zero choice, our templates are setup that way and it's one area I have little influence over
Are most of your boxes physical or virtual? When it comes to virtual machines that are for a specific purpose I don't see much value of making lots of partitions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMXfHoH7Tw&feature=youtu.be sfw thing i threw together with some 3d toolz at work For the particulars, it's Nuke 3d particles, comped onto a 2d background, with a 3d composited beehive :D BEES!
I agree that it's annoying for VMs when you are trying to keep the disks small, but the reason for doing it is the same virtual or physical. You don't want some stupid process filling up the whole disk because /var/log falls under the same file system as root.
Half and half these days. With thin provisioning and the compressed ZFS filesystems on my central storage, I don't see any downside to using the same partitioning scheme.
Umm, How do you not have a / partition? Then everything including /usr and /opt would need to be in some other partition and individually mounted with bind ?
Heh. I have a ticket open because our main PostgreSQL server is filling up its /. The DBA folks built it out with a 100G /var/lib/pgsql partition and then promptly configured Postgres to use /var/lib/postgresql
I don't suppose anyone here uses Cisco AnyConnect (and has a copy of the client install for 3.0)
We have to connect to a customer VPN, and Cisco, in their infinite wisdom, require a valid contract to download the client software, even though they've open sourced it...
Facilities just came through and marked all the walls that are getting demolished. Frabjous joy.
But, I did the satisfaction of reminding my boss in the presence of his manager that he won't get any productivity out of me for 3-4 days around this little fiasco.
In Exchange 2010, if an AD user is disabled but another user has access to their mailbox, will they still be able to access the mailbox or does that user need to remain enabled for this functionality to work?
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