@Tacticus Because the Devs run their own servers and half of every administrative password in the agency uses the same string. The other half is server-specific and doesn't change between password changes.
@ewwhite If you're aiming for VDI, there's not so much you can do. Otherwise, we deploy actual apps via RemoteApps and let them use their local PCs for everything else
So for some people, we don't actually give them a remote desktop
They just get icons to load specific apps over the RDS
Welcome welcome welcome to the world of the Internet in Australia.
Even in our largest population center, we can struggle to get 3Mbps downstream on a business-class ADSL2+ connection. Cable penetration is poor in residential areas, and even worse in commercial so unless you're fortunate you can...
I'm choked at how far I am from having the highest total number of votes across multiple site. Another week or so and I'll have the most on a single site, but that Gilles character from U&L, SciFi, French, etc. has about twice the total votes.
Haha thanks @WesleyDavid I think the default avatar on the inside is fitting. Assuming I did the Gravatar dealy right, it should show up, it should show up soon.
@MarkHenderson I have to agree with you on the oatmeal bit - schtuff is hilarious
@wfaulk I think its just to cull the number of people votes can be distributed against
The idea of a primary is quite alien to me though, we don't have them here. I only know of them from 24 Season 1 because they said it every fucking episode "The following takes place between 2pm and 3pm on the day of the Californian Presidential Primary "
@Tacticus Yeah and then they run a whole election campaign on Kevin 07 and then when they ditch him and we get upset they say "Well you're meant to vote for a PARTY not a PERSON". Assholes.
Seriously, we have 7 states/terrotiries for 20 million people?
So thats 5 state governments plus federal government, plus local councils and local members
Upper house and lower house
Senate
Its a shitload of overhead for such a small population
And then all you get is bickering and fighting between the state parties, bickering between the federal parties, and then bickering between the states and territories
I had quite a few questions downvoted and closed here and on SO. Most of them were explained like it (what majority involved at the moment "felt") doesnt fit to the stack exchange format.
The latest example was - I asked how many ampere would DL140 G1 consume.. and the answer was - the question ...
@Iain Maybe, or just some guy who has a theory about latency but doesn't really understand networking enough to figure stuff out for himself.
Actually, that would be the same pattern as his current draw question... he doesn't understand the basics well enough, otherwise he'd have figured out "measure the amperage" or just estimate it based on some fraction of full load.
@BartDeVos I saw Tom O' Connor had posted a link to the page but when I tried to get on the site had killed itself - and I think it took down the fundraiser site too. I am impressed.
$$ gives process id of the script process when used in a script, like this:
Example 1
#!/bin/bash
# processid.sh
# print process ids
ps -o cmd,pid,ppid
echo "The value of \$\$ is $$"
$ ./processid.sh
CMD PID PPID
bash 15073 4657
/bin/bash ...
for os x - had to run my quarterly wireless scan this morning and kismac was giving me shit - input the map of my building - did my walk - all the usual points showed up + 3 i didnt recognize - searched for those in the firewall - didnt find them - building secure - continue on.
How the fuck do you download/install JUST SP3 for SQL Server 2008 Express?
The only download that I can find is for SP3 integrated into the SQL Express installer and running that doesn't give the option to upgrade an existing instance to SP3 as far as i can tell
Yeah, it's really strange line that. You apply the full SP3 to any DB, the Express SP3 is just a standalone installation. Should have specified, sorry :-P
was just out deploying 2 new pcs for new employees; their manager standing right there said to one of them "mario is just misserable all the time" - wtf! i'm not misserable - i just hate stupid people.
i'm here to give you a pc - holding it under my arm - and you cant get up out of your chair and move so i can put it in? and you question my state of mind?
was getting my oil changed not to long ago - these assholes are sitting in the car while the guy is trying to work around them. get out of the f'ing car and let the dude do his work. wtf is wrong with people
If they have a problem with something, fucking tell me then. I'm not going to volunteer to help you if you can't even be an adult and ask me face to face
i love "they" - they didnt give access to this or they said this - Who is they? IT consists of 2 people in this company, and i'm 1 of them. so if by "they" your implying me....
The worst is the "SIIIIGHH my computer is soooo sloooow" that's half-shouted in a conversation (you're not involved in) while you make your way through the break room.
@Mario Ahh, the mystical cult of "They". Mysterious bunch, They.
we solved slow finally - all brand new pc's - all optiplex 380 core2duo's (i know its dated, but their cheap and atleast their not the beige compaq off lease shit we had) - no one can complain of slowness here unless they f'ed it up themselves
@Mario "Yes, we didn't give you access to that, because the last time we did you completely fucked your workstation up and we had to burn a day reinstalling it. When you prove yourself able to handle access we'll consider granting it."
Alternate answer: "The Horde of Ecumenical Yodelers don't run IT here." but most of them won't get the Pinky and the Brain reference.
@jscott Keeping hourly shadow copies on a high-load file server is a bit intensive, especially to restore someone's edits on a personal photo album (yes really)
@Mario I inherited a roaming profile shop... I can't seem to figure out a way to get out of it. It takes 15 minutes for the users to log in or out, but they throw a hissy fit when they don't have access to everything on every workstation that they log into (even though they only use a different one once a month)
There's a lawyer's office that subleases space from us and is right next to me. One of their clients last name that I just heard the secretary spelling was something to the effect of "Scheit".
i want something that boots like esxi (stripped down 'nix - not windows) that'll remote out to esxi and load a VM - based on whatever - give it a PC name that matches a vm image - a thin vm
How is CPU usage calculated on a Linux system with a single core?
Cpu(s): 28.1%us, 6.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 43.0%id, 21.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.5%si, 0.2%st
Please explain me how the us, sy, ni, id, wa, hi, si and st values are obtained.
basically - leave the optiplexes in place, load an image remotely - pc dies - image is stored on a central array. put new pc in place, basic config and off we go. 10 min deploy, not 3 hours
99% of them are the same - office (word, excel, outlook ), iseries access and a web browser - some file shares and a printer - few have anything like acrobat pro or visio
never gonna happen either way - wish list... need to finish getting off xp so i can upgrade exchange - 2008 / 10 exchange wont work with office 2003 we understand
had an idea for a piece of software - i called it distributed storage - small conduit on each pc carves out a portion of the hard drive - communicating back to a central server - would tell the server how much space is available on each pc and via some "raid" programming, could distribute the file share across multiple pc's. redundancy in place so if a pc died, the share didnt go with it.
so even though we couldn't / cant upgrade the server, we could utilize the 100gb's of storage on pc that goes unused
with the new Kepler virtualization stuff you can let VMs share GPU instance and proper VDI gives you the "full desktop experience". Also View can handle things like preventing Flash to eat up all the cycles on the servers up to a certain degree.
@ewwhite See, that's tough. We tend to roll out 'rich' thin clients if you will, but basically they need to accept that they lose some quality for the sake of density, ease of management and cost (maybe)
the thinnest thingy just has remote apps or is a console for calling mstsc to the terminal server farm and passes the credentials so the user just sees mstsc connecting to the farm once.
the medium range boxes have more remoteapps but some local stuff
$$ gives process id of the script process when used in a script, like this:
Example 1
#!/bin/bash
# processid.sh
# print process ids
ps -o cmd,pid,ppid
echo "The value of \$\$ is $$"
$ ./processid.sh
CMD PID PPID
bash 15073 4657
/bin/bash ...
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How is CPU usage calculated on a Linux system with a single core?
Cpu(s): 28.1%us, 6.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 43.0%id, 21.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.5%si, 0.2%st
Please explain me how the us, sy, ni, id, wa, hi, si and st values are obtained.
