I am building a CCIE lab where I will use GNS3 to map virtual router interfaces to physical NIC interfaces which connect to physical switches. I want to build this in an ESXi5 Guest running Win 7. My ESXi5 host has 3x Sun X1034A cards which I had to write custom drivers for to get working with ES...
I do have 401K with 5% match which I am contributing the full 5% however, looking at my debt - it's smarter for me to take that money and apply it to revolving debt.
Once I get over the 1 week hump of not eating fast food or drinking soda, I'm good. Last time I didn't touch either for 8 months. Surgery fucked me all up
Most adult females will understand that you're trying to be responsible, and as long as you're not taking them to the park to sift through dumpsters for dinner, you'll be fine.
Yes, you cut out a portion of the population, but the ones that want to be impressed, will leave you for someone that impresses them more. And by "impresses" I mean "buying them expensive trinkets in exchange for blow jobs"
@WesleyDavid I was like "Look, I think you're still in this lesbian mindset, I don't U-Haul. If that's what you want, you can go U-Haul your ass outta here."
hey @MikeyB, you might get a kick out of this. You know how whenever people around here are shooting the shit about storage, I'm functionally useless because I work on a class of gear that's 100x the price of normal storage because it works with mainframes and "never goes down"? Well in the last three months, we singlehandedly discovered three serious firmware bugs. One with Brocade, and two with HDS VSP.
All three of those bugs stopped the migration project, and one of them stopped fucking trains.
@MikeyB the funny part was that our brocade switches were provided by HP, the vendor we're replacing (and migrating from), but dropped frames look like a storage problem (which is HDS). And the servers sensitive enough to log information about it were all AIX (IBM). I was literally sending supportsaves to three different teams doing the same analysis
You know you're doing something horribly wrong in your career if you know how to configure a Finisar frame tracer.
@DennisKaarsemaker 2 hours without our mainframe generates about 48 hours of overtime as the operations people try to enter data faster than it's being generated
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2 hours in the middle of intermodal peak time (friday afternoon) is like the worst perfect storm in history.
"Hello, I am an IBM System z specialist and would be pleased to assist you in finding the right products and solutions to meet your needs. Just click "Start chat" below and let me know how I can help you today."
So to their credit, HDS ran three engineers into the ground and gave us a firmware release in 2 weeks that fixes the end-of-the-world firmware bug that crashes the VSP.
They still owe us for the second bug we found, but that only causes errors at the time the servers are trying to log into the ports.
Brocade was hilarious, though- we told them that we need a permanent fix because we can't live with this workaround for long, and their "fix" is to change the support matrix so we can't do what we used to do.
Now upper management is considering ripping out all brocade and installing shudder cisco FC.
If that happens, I'll be looking for a job. I really hate cisco.
I tried this and it looks dodgy. The registry hack was possible, but when I tested the user account the OS complained that the user was logging on with a temporary profile. In my case it did not rename the User's folder, nor did it create a new folder with the new name. — Guy Thomas1 hour ago
Step #2 was to rename the profile folder, Windows doesn't do it for you nor will it create the folder, this is why Step #2 is in my directions... It doesn't look dodgy if you follow directions. — Chris S23 secs ago
This is why I avoid SU. F-ing people who can't follow stupidly simple directions.
Also, maybe it's just me, but if people have relatively low reputation I check to see if they have accounts on other sites, possibly with high reputation there.... I probably unfairly assume people with high rep on any site have a better idea of what they're talking about, but it tends to be right
@JoelESalas "Report as Spam"?? You mean "Block Sender"? It does work if the filtering/AV software on your Exchange server implements that functionality....
@Zoredache Oh, no; didn't mean to imply that... Just that SU has an abundance of those people.
I googled around, and found something that indicates powering down a node might be a bad idea:
In a two node P4000 cluster, you will need a FOM for automatic
failover. If no FOM is present then if one node loses connectivity,
the other node also goes offline as well and you will have to ...
I can't make up my mind about network engineering. On one hand, I doubt that a separate site will actually bring in enough people to ask/answer questions and add to the value on the Internet. OTOH, I am tempted to support it, because all those 51rep users are saying they want it, and it would really hurt me if it opened, and nobody came to the site.
@Zoredache Ultimately it would be nice if enough deep network engineers hung out on ServerFault to keep it all under one roof, but in reality, network engineers are as much sysadmins as DBAs are sysadmins.
Heavy netadmins are a special, scary group.
And I'd like their little niche of SE to be successful, but still I wish more experts hung around here instead of splintering off. I'm 80% in disagreement with the existence of U&L
@Zoredache I'm in the same boat. I think it's complete 100% overlap with SF, and would "steal" users more than attracting anyone new... But maybe I'm wrong, maybe there are thousands of users/visitors who would not use SF, but would networking.SE.
@WesleyDavid Right, but I am just not convinced that if a stackexchange site existed, that they would show up for it. I am not sure there are enough of them.
@WesleyDavid The DBA's site's stats are paltry compared to SF; IT Sec is even worse.
I still like the hierarchical site idea; but even I feel awkward kicking that dead horse over and over...
I'm most frustrated by the fragmentation of communities and knowledge. I could answer some Networking, DB, and IT Sec questions... But I'm not going to try to keep up with 4 different websites. I waste enough time keeping up with 1 site.
@ChrisS Yeah, their stats are awfully low, but the community and culture isn't served very well by SF. Security practitioners are as much sysadmins as programmers.SE are. DBAs... maybe about 20% overlap? They're their own breed and need their own space.
@WesleyDavid Server Fault is not for System Administrators only though. The FAQ specifically does not say "System Administrator". It says "IT Professional", which DBAs, Security, Network Engineers, etc all are. Heck Programmers even fit that if they have permission and the base knowledge to understand the answer.
lotusnotes.SE will contain only one question. Q: "Why does Lotus suck so much?" A: "Because jeopgfkqeovq34jfq0943jvnadfjjawvQ$FAwerv3q4f9a0ewjva3$FA#(a3240f9a3j54ga(%A(394a34"
@ChrisS ...ahhh, see there's a great differentiator. Not so much "is it server stuff?" as it is "is it professional stuff?" So yeah, maybe that should be all SuperUser.
Yeah, let's just roll all the sites into 2 or 3 really big ones. We can call them quora1.stackexchange.com, quora2.stackexchange.com, and quora3.stackexchange.com. "Now kids, pay attention! If your last name starts with A through G, go to quora1. If your last name starts with H through O, go to quora2. If your last name starts with P through Z, go to quora3."
But then the homogeny of topics all into one site, especially one site that doesn't have a good means of splitting up topics like sub-forums on a more forum oriented site, really seems to drag the content down to the lowest common denominator.
@ChrisS I wonder what the best primary cause of a split should be. Topicality or traffic for a certain topic?
Because security.se doesn't have a ton of traffic, but the topicality is way different than SF. And yet AskUbuntu has a ton of traffic, but the topicality is very similar to SU.
@WesleyDavid I'm not sure, but I think their current solution of "whatever definition can get 500 people to click a button on a51" is more community destroyer than long term advertising revenue builder.
Oh heck, the network.SE proposal is headed by Jeremy Stretch? Nice. Okay, if he's the primary motivator of it, then that's interesting.
@ChrisS Yeah, I was focusing more on ServerFault in my thoughts. As in, what should be brought back into ServerFault, and what should be parceled out elsewhere.
@Basil they're DCE ethernet switches ONLY actually, no native FC, for native FC we use Cisco MDS switches but where we can we use 5/7's for FCoE, so yes they're converged
@TheCleaner Looks like that guy found a calculator. Or someone with access to a calculator.
Still I didn't get my answer. May be it's my fault, not the fault of serverfault :). Here I met some knowledge man like voretaq7. It's ok. I'm gonna find via another way. — user166647 2 hours ago
@Basil basically you get a 'default all off' kind of thing in that you have to build up a stack of very structured layers before anything will talk but at least if you do that it's secure and per design, other manufacturers start the other way around, all open, you can then secure it but I know which I prefer
@ChrisS I considered how I could do something similar with my spare rackspace. Then I realized, I need to make money and stop giving my time and services away. =P
@Basil totally yeah, in fact that's it's strong point, but the learning curve is quite steep, especially if you've done no FC before, but if you know the basics you'd probably enjoy the enforced structure
@Basil I actually include the build script with new designs in fact, so that the grunts can literally just wire things up as needed and then just c'n'p the script in
I googled around, and found something that indicates powering down a node might be a bad idea:
In a two node P4000 cluster, you will need a FOM for automatic
failover. If no FOM is present then if one node loses connectivity,
the other node also goes offline as well and you will have to ...
