@ChrisS I think better filtering based on tags could really help things out. Right now tag filtering just dims or highlights things. I'd like to see the stream of content change dramatically based on tags. You could distribute "packs" of tags to change the personality of the questions that you see. So ServerFault could cater to the netadmin, DBA, and security crowd in a much more focused way.
Then again, that might be confusing to newcomers. Also tags would have to be very carefully appropriated, which we all know never happens.
Say... do any of you VMWare peeps have any insight into how to estimate expected CPU contention? Or that something where you need to do a benchmark to find out?
yeah...I think the guy is hoping Amazon will come to his rescue to provide some great Dropbox style solution in the backend without him paying for his own infrastructure.
@TheCleaner No, I'm trying to figure out what kind of CPU contention I can expect to see on this <sigh> 10 core VM I've been asked to stand up on our existing farm. Hoping there was a way to make an educated guess about it before going through the work of standing it up to find out it's unusable due to CPU contention.
@HopelessN00b Can you possibly turn on the dynamically add CPUs and memory options, give it 2 cores and promise to add cores on the fly if it turns out to need more?
@HopelessN00b Because a 12-core physical system with 24GB of RAM doesn't cost enough more than a 4-core one with 1GB of RAM to bother buying the one that's just barely enough for the app...
@freiheit I don't know how to make that sounds like me, though. I'm thinking more like "this is a retarded spec, here's the data for why it won't work, go get me something useable."
@freiheit Well, I think 6 of the cores are for a SQL database, so only 4 are for the application. Still, I'd be surprised if the app is capable of using 4 cores.
@Basil - i figured I'd get "that stuff is nasty" etc...but I used to drink it quite a bit and gave it up on purpose, sort of a personal quest to rid myself of sugary drinks. But I allowed myself one today for the heck of it.
I'm in shape, do Crossfit daily at lunch, but still wanted to try and help my diet out. But today I was toast after "Deck of Cards" and wanted something to keep me awake this afternoon.
I can't remember the last time I had a Mt.Dew other than from my in-laws. They stock it in their fridge just for my wife and I.... even though we don't normally ever drink it anywhere else.
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 3 hours ago
@voretaq7 Hey, maybe I happen to LIKE lifting three times my bodyweight using exercises that vaguely resemble powerlifting and using posture that imitates an osteoporosis patient with scoliosis.
So the corollary joke to the Lesbian U-haul one is:
Q: What does a gay man bring on a second date? A: What's a second date?
Confirm or deny @voretaq7, @TomOConnor, et al?
Although being straight these days doesn't help that much in spite of broadening the dating pool a bit. -.-
It seems that being bisexual is quite the advantage for combatting loneliness. My few acquaintances that identify as pansexual... I would define their existence as 'chaotic neutral' at best. =)
Either their app is that shitty (and it's Kronos, so that's a possibility), their support personnel are that incompetent (and it's Kronos so, that's a possibility), or our application team is that lame-brained (and it's us, so that's a possibility).
Told 'em to ask again and specify virtual server specs. When that comes back unchanged, I think the best course of action will be to stand it up anyway, show off how crappy performance is, and then rebuild it into two separate servers with 1 or 2 cores each.
@voretaq7 When I get home. They told me if I whip my penis out at work one more time, they're gonna call the cops on me. And one more conviction qualifies me as a serial sex offender, so I can't have that happening.
@WesleyDavid I shoved a pussy up a flute. (How you ask? Well first we hat do do a "Will It Blend?" episode with the cat, and then the camp cafeteria lady started yelling....)
I love VMWare's idea of a bugfix - I'm having trouble installing multi-site SSO, and SSO 5.1 keeps crashing during the installer. In their release notes, they state that this specific crash is "fixed" in 5.1b. So I download and use 5.1b. Their idea of a "fix" is instead of unwieldy unhanded exceptions, you get a slightly informative message and a stack dump. Grrrr.
@ewwhite Thanks, that's what I figured it should be. But someone above me is on a big kick about getting best practices and vendor recommendations... which we promptly discard about half the time, so, well, paperwork. Get the spec, follow the spec, find out they decided to throw out the spec, go back to the drawing board. Repeat.
(This was that one I was in here a while ago bitching about because they had an obvious errata saying the specs were for client systems, when they were really for the server system(s).)
@ewwhite Yup. This will be the third time I've asked for clarification/politely told them they're giving me the wrong spec.
@ewwhite Tell me about it. This particular cluster started out on ESXi 3.5, then to 4.1 then to 5.0. I'm getting used to the web interface (still not a huge fan yet), but sso, my god what a waste of infrastructure for a small deployment
There's this "Class Climate" (scantron) software that we're rolling out (replacing the in-class scantron "how much did you hate that teacher?" forms with an online thing). Turns out, for the moodle integration, they have to do the install themselves via some WebEx remoted in thing, and can't just give us a zip file.
Moodle plugins consist of unzipping something and sticking it in the right directory.
Also, our actual production moodle setup consists of 4 moodle frontend servers (and 2 DB backend servers)
@Zoredache Typically moodle plugins do have a little web-based config under the admin screen that writes stuff into the mdl_config and/or mdl_config_plugin DB tables
@freiheit My assumption is their software is such horrible shit that it has to be customized for each workstation's GUID, and they don't want you to see the guy open notepad.exe and enter the magic smoke into a text file in c:\
Based on the windows-heavy docs (where they show windows file manager screenshots), I fully expect to set up the WebEx session thingy, give the tech a root shell on my dev Linux server and be met with deep confusion and/or shocked silence
@voretaq7 That sounds about right, with the added complication that I'm running moodle on Linux (it's PHP so it can go either way) so I'll somehow end up with a file named c:\\scantron\\config.ini somewhere...
@voretaq7 Either that or they charge for the service and want to hold onto that revenue stream, rather than have anyone with a pulse do it and not pay them.
VOTE PROPOSED - @HopelessN00b name change to SurlyNoob http://serverfault.com/questions/492974/bind-on-windows-server-2k8-rndc-reload-fails-for-no-obvious-reason#comment551188_492974
To be fair, though, I have seen a lot of exactly that where one of our vendors charges $4500 to set up their little app server that's all Windows wizards and a few config lines in Notepad. The only reason they don't tell us how is because they'd lose out on tens of thousands of dollars a year for what takes no effort.
@TheCleaner Well, also... come on... you're trying to install BIND on Windows? How is that possibly a remotely good idea? "Hey, I'm trying to install SCCM 2012 on Gentoo, and it won't start!" :/
@freiheit - long ago, in an IT land far far away...we used to change the Win95/98 registry to change the shell from Explorer to FileManager. Reboot and the user's computer looked like Win 3.11. Even IT folks would get pissed trying to navigate to fix it.
@TheCleaner I have the feeling that they're expecting Windows Explorer and will be vastly more confused by a unix shell than any possible variation on a GUI file browser...
In a company of 15 computers, mac and PC, one or more computer take all the "web" juice. So then, no one can access there web pages and do simples thing like browse and email. So i need a managed switch to be able to get DATA on each port and know who take all the bandwidth of the 30MB/s modem li...
in a company of 15 users with a managed switch it shouldn't exactly be hard to see which port is caning the arse off its connection to the web juice router
On 3/20/13, at 12:03 PM, *Intern* wrote: > If the aliens try to probe you, don't fight it. It's much more painless if you just let it happen ... you barely even notice it.
@RobM In my experience you spend all most of your 12 hour day applying yet another bandaid to a bunch of legacy systems running on Windows NT 3.5/Windows 95, trying to squeeze any extra bit of performance you can out of your 8 year old servers (with P4 inside!), telling some idiot how to send an email for the 18th time that week, and resisting the urge to make it feel better with a big pile of heroin.
Can't stand interns...ask them to do something even remotely easy..."sure"....walk away and come back an hour later and they are on social media or youtube. Ask why and the response is usually "I wasn't really sure what you needed done...can you explain it again."
This is inspired from last night's LOPSA DC meeting. The topic was IPv6 and we had a round-table. One of the big questions brought up was, "What's making me go IPv6?" The stock answer to that is, "IPv4 addresses are...
I am receiving the "No network adapters were detected" error when installing the VMware ESXI 5.1 in Linux Acer server (Model APE961).
Processor :- AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1640
Model APE961
Can anyone please help me to resolve this problem?
BR//
Krishna
I am receiving the "No network adapters were detected" error when installing the VMware ESXI 5.1 in Linux Acer server (Model APE961).
Processor :- AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1640
Model APE961
Can anyone please help me to resolve this problem?
BR//
Krishna
