Grrrr. Anyone here have any experience with HP Data Protector? I'm looking specifically, for a way to set it on fire and throw it out a window, but I left allmy thermite at home.
Yeah, we're stuck using it for another couple months... and the goddamn thing keeps failing when trying to mount shit it shouldn't trying to in the first place. "Look a cleaning tape! Let's continue the backup set on that!" :/
Just bitching really... not sure what the boss man was thinking. If backups were half as important as he's making them out to be now that e don't have them, you'd think he'd have bought something that works, not the cheapest possible PoS he could find. :/
a friend may be choosing me to develop a invoicing system for her and instead of doing it as a .net program or whatever, it would be cheaper / easier to do it as a website. but because she doesn't want to accept orders on a website, why get a host when i / she can just use wamp / mamp?
then, if she chose to do a real website in the future, i could just upload the files to a host and make a few changes
shes not gonna understand a VM - until a year ago she still had a flip phone haha
need to look into what square offers for inventory tracking and stuff - i honestly don't have time for the job and if i can do it cheaper for her, all the better - but i hate to turn down money...
I had a flip phone until a couple years ago, until I got a free smartphone... which I'm kinda regretting a little bit, in truth. I have a tablet... what do I need a mini-tablet for? Just a waste of ~$50 a month in data charges.
looking at the exchange question @Chopper3 mentioned. I would like to answer it, but due to this whole "summer of love" thing I truly don't have any words left for that kind of thing.
i find it ridiculous that i have to pay for home internet and mobile internet separately when 99% of the time i'm only using 1 at a time. if i'm home, i'm on fios, if i'm out, i'm on att
@lsiunsuex but... whether you're only using one or another the infrastructure costs of building both networks is the same and the actual bandwidth costs are a fraction of the total bill
Just upgrading a program - it said "A server reboot is pending, it's recommended you reboot before proceeding." It had one button, "OK". I pressed it and now it's done the install anyway :S
:5673551I was just getting to this, you can't - it's a fixed function card :( which is shite - my netapp guy said that he thought there was only one card that can be either and that's not it - sorry dude
@Chopper3 IIRC many of the login managers will try to do a reverse lookup on the IP of the person logging in. If it cant get to a DNS server it takes 30+ seconds to time out. He should still be able to login, but it might take a while.
I'm not sure about everyone else but I'm finding it hard to identify links in questions and answers, especially when the link text itself is very small.
The dark blue color looks very similar to the black default text. Even links that appear in Meta are different and visible thanks to the under...
@voretaq7 I really found it hard to believe that I can see the different between blue and black that much more than everyone else; but apparently I'm the gross minority... I still have never "missed" a link.
@ChrisS It's our newest set of terminal servers. Our workstations are Ubuntu and we have staff that use WIndows-only software or an occasional need for IE
@Adrian Try using GPO to disable thumbs.db cache files. I seem to remember something about problems with them in shared environments. You could limit the GPO to a test user(s) until you see if it's a "fix".
"Microsoft has ‘fessed up to inserting the hexadecimal string “0xB16B00B5” in the Linux kernel. [...] The offending string is no mere frippery: it is apparently pressed into service whenever Hyper-V virtualises Linux." -- theregister.co.uk/2012/07/20/big_boobs_in_linux
Suppressing the need to shout at the padawans this morning. Users filed a very ambiguously worded ticket and their first reaction is to travel the 30 minutes out there rather than pick up the phone to verify that it's actually a problem we can fix.... sigh
@voretaq7 I prefer hitting people with om4 fibres - ideally by stabbing them with the exposed cable after you take the connectors off - if you do it enough times the glass will expose itself and embed in their skin, hurts like fuck forever apparently
You should create a normal A record pointing to the IP of your AWS EC2 box, as a CNAME-record is kinda like a redirect, which is not what you want to do, as far as I can read.
. . . I trust nothing about the godaddy interface to be an accurate representation of how DNS works :) (It's also entirely possible I'm wrong and BIND will take "@" as the target of an A record and point it at the IP address assigned to "@" elsewhere in the zone)
I recently purchased the tool that can be seen below and it was described as a wire cutter and punch down tool.
I can't figure how to use it as a punch down tool.
Does anyone have any idea how to use this to connect up an Ethernet faceplate?
@ChrisS i'm sure i've ran across Paladin; don't buy those kinds of tools often
i've always been curious if / when i build a house, if the GC will allow me to come in and wire the network myself instead of hiring someone, or if theres some insurance / legal thing against that
i suppose i could just say, i'm subbing that part out to myself
@lsiunsuex Depends on the GC. Some will let you do anything you can convince them you know how to do. Others wont let you touch the house until they're handing keys over.
I'm planning on building a house in 2 years and I've talked with a GC that will let me do Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, Electronics (like Ethernet), and several other things. Basically anything I really want to do. I worked for 6 years in construction however, so I do actually know all these.
sigh Same padawans that decided to go offsite this morning also only half-installed an untested workstation and didn't update the ticket with status or progress......
A postgres SELECT query ran out of control on our DB server and started eating up tons of memory and swap until the server ran out of memory. I found the particular process via ps aux | grep postgres and ran kill -9 pid. This killed the process and the memory freed up as expected. The rest of ...
must be per state - my uncle did it with the help of my father (neither of them licensed contractors) the loan my uncle got was a type that he was approved for X amount and he could spend from that account until he hit the ceiling. forget what they call that
@lsiunsuex I'll bet things also changed a lot within the past couple of years as well. Most of my experience has been in places that don't have any, or at least no strict enforcement, of codes. I've worked with lots of guys doing electrical and plumbing that aren't licensed. You just have to get it inspected afterwards.
@lsiunsuex Now if your GC isn't willing to take on that liability, then that's their choice.
@JoelESalas That's a neg. There's a strong old farm style culture round these parts. That is, if there's something on your property then you need to know how to fix it.
@JoelESalas I'm generally unwilling to go through the hassle of bringing someone in or paying them, so for most things I'll just do it myself. One of these days I probably should hire a contractor to come in and get rid of all my knob and tube.
there was some knob and tube left in my attic. not connected to anything; had heard of it but never actually saw it. some crazy shit they did back in the day
@ScottPack To put my laziness in perspective, my friends tore a door in my apartment off the hinges and ruined the door jamb. It took my roommate and me about 8 months to fix it, in a saga of working on it for about 15 minutes a month.
For the longest time, he would just prop up the replacement door against the jamb and sleep that way.
@ScottPack No, we'll actually need the door back. We had grandiose plans of turning the door into a table, with the story of the door being torn off painted directly on the door, like the Bayeux Tapestry.
my family room wall power outlets still don't work from when i rewired the dining room 3 years ago :( still haven't gotten around to doing that. the wife uses a long power striped plugged into the dining room to power her laptop in the family room...
@JoelESalas No worries. I was going to laugh my ass off if that actually worked, considering how much pushback I get from the Devs about doing basic DBA tasks.
I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.10, with software RAID5 and LVM running on top of that. I have four 2TB HDDs. I also have a separate boot drive with incremental full-system snapshots that run every four hours, and every day, week, month, and year. So even if the RAID array totally fails me, my data ...
Per the FAQ, this question is off-topic as the site is for PROFESSIONAL systems administrators. I can't imagine a professional intentionally pulling a drive just to test a RAID array. — Joel E Salas24 secs ago
@voretaq7 pg_stat_activity is the only one I'm familiar with. I don't spend much time putzing around with Postgres though. The services I'm responsible for all use MySQL.
for recording and having the recordings interact with our custom code, and cataloging them in a specific way, etc
So, only a handful of companies were willing to work with our devs to help write a ground-up solution. Apparently, we picked the dumbest ones on the list
@MDMarra I've seen nothing but suckage from our security system vendors. The software is usually awful and the actual A/V hardware not much better. =(
Y'all remember when I was ranting a few weeks ago about how we were going to have to run out entire set of a dozen-plus incoming phone lines over 3 cannibalized Cat5 wires?
Yeah, well apparently that 110 block the construction company said was ours was in use by the tenant on the other end of the building and we had to tear apart our Cat5 lines.
And now the people responsible for that clusterfsck wants the IT Dept. to pay to have more wiring run. I pretty much told my boss 'over my dead body' considering that expense to run more wires is 30% of our annual budget .
i'm trying to write this months IT newsletter article; it will be about passwords and how I DONT KNOW WTF YOURS IS SO STOP ASKING ME. its very hard writing this article without cursing.
@lsiunsuex It's even worse when you're using software where you actually have the ability to tell them what their password is.
And remember that starred item about the padawans from this morning? BOTH of them left 2 hours ago to go fix a monitor. I'm not sure what they're going up there except perhaps taking a mini-vacation.
@lsiunsuex I wish I could get my staff to start using the XKCD password method. The best they're able to manage is generally their cat's name and number or a symbol
Had the HR director shouting at me yesterday because she was sure that our mail server was broken because she was getting SMTP non-delivery receipts to her Inbox.
Might've had something to do with her 6 character single dictionary word password and the 5500 messages/day her account was sending out via a client in Uzbekistan.
@lsiunsuex I would. Considering the general awesomeness of that artist, you could probably even get actual permission to republish without having to skate around the sometimes thin ice of fair use.
Boss brought me a family laptop that's having issues. So I'm running an offline virus check right now. It's scanned 1.45 million files so far and isn't done. I think I may have found one of the issues.
@voretaq7 Do-be-doo… Oh! Both PSUs are amber and there's no power going to the server. Oh well, let's remove the plug and re-power the server… OHSHITOHSHIT smoke is billowing from the server and the midplane is glowing.
@ChrisS Nope, that's the midplane where the blades attach. Nothing was plugged into the top-left slot when that happened.
I'm not sure about everyone else but I'm finding it hard to identify links in questions and answers, especially when the link text itself is very small.
The dark blue color looks very similar to the black default text. Even links that appear in Meta are different and visible thanks to the under...
You should create a normal A record pointing to the IP of your AWS EC2 box, as a CNAME-record is kinda like a redirect, which is not what you want to do, as far as I can read.
I recently purchased the tool that can be seen below and it was described as a wire cutter and punch down tool.
I can't figure how to use it as a punch down tool.
Does anyone have any idea how to use this to connect up an Ethernet faceplate?
A postgres SELECT query ran out of control on our DB server and started eating up tons of memory and swap until the server ran out of memory. I found the particular process via ps aux | grep postgres and ran kill -9 pid. This killed the process and the memory freed up as expected. The rest of ...
