We have over 350 users complaining that their mouse cursor keeps jumping around when typing. It seems like it's happening when the protocol is starved for bandwith, but I'm not quite sure yet.
If it only was the cursor moving it would be fine - problem is that it also moves the focus so that the...
this is reasonably common from touchpad devices. try plugging in an external keyboard and mouse for a few days and see if it goes away. i am betting that as they type they are gently hitting on the touchpad. not a terminal server issue. Cheers
What exactly would be the purpose of running MS Office apps in my butt? It's $150/year per user...wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the license and install locally?
I would like to create a small server (Linux preferably ) that allows me to see all the screens of the windows computers in my network. The server will than be attached to a projector so I can always see what my employees are doing.
How could I achieve this? Maybe with VNC ?
Interestingly, we, as a school district, provide our computer lab teachers software which does exactly what they're asking. They use it to assist with instruction.
@jscott We have the same software. I don't recall what is was, though. But it notifies end-users that they're being watched (and also flips off Aero, so it's easy to tell).
@jscott We had something called Securus which did more or less the same thing, monitored typing and read the screen and if it hit a trigger word it took a screenshot and stored it.
Thank you for the comment, @NathanC , I updated my resources but I don't know how to check 'top' or 'iostat' , could you give me a direction? — André Lucas2 mins ago
The CFO who was also the "IT" guy here would randomly VNC over to a person's computer to check to see if they were working or surfing the internet. If they were on the internet he would close the browser window
Did I also mention he would get into their e-mails and "clean out" their inbox for them so they didn't hit the 2,000 e-mail limit? He could do this since we manage the user's passwords
@MDMarra I really use the term IT guy loosely. He talks about how he wrote an entire financial package in Meese or Moose or Mumps...I don't remember...and he knows all these people so he knows IT....he doesn't understand the basic concepts of networking
@jscott I believe he is already doing some "creative" accounting. I looked up my "IT" expense account the other day and saw the water bill on it. I started looking through what it was and the comments on one was "Filling Pool". I jumped for joy. i didn't know the IT dept (i.e: me) had a pool!
The interviewer told me a story about how someone got into the owner's ear about HP route/switch gear and they paid 3 mil to rip out cisco and install procurve across the enterprise
Family owned doesn't bother me. During my interview with the CFO I was told you can't be fired. I'm thinking..that's awesome! Nope...not so much. It creates a lack of discipline, work ethic and lack of accountabilty
@Travis Because you get more than office, you get exchange and sharepoint with most of those packages. Lync is included in some packages as well. So, you offload having to run those locally
We're running an import of a database dump on an Oracle system - (RHEL 5.9, 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5). The import does not complete, eventually erroring-out with:
ORA-15080: synchronous I/O operation to a disk failed
WARNING: failed to write mirror side 1 of virtual extent 248 logical extent 0 of file...
things that I would never normally take time to troubleshoot... when you piece parts together to make a server, there are so many more things that can go wrong.
versus opening an HP or Dell box and seeing that it's all compatible.
Has anyone here ever heard of a "chassis swap" procedure?
Sounds like you've got your mind made up, then. That said, I think it's generally irresponsible to make a decision like that without really understanding what it means. I mean, there's a reason that Active Directory is used at almost every single company larger than a handful of computers. If you view it as "locked in" and not as a solid and flexible management platform, then I think you've missed the bigger picture. But again, to each their own. — MDMarra1 min ago
Why should we "determine what if anything is wrong before we just swap it." I don't think the customer really gives a rip what is wrong. I think they just want their need met. If I need to get to Philadelphia on an airplane, I'd just as soon that Delta took the broken plane over to the apron on the tarmac where the misfit airplanes get parked, and had Mr. Pilot taxi over in a plane that works rather than me waiting for "Joe the Delta Repairman" to fix my plane (7 days later).
@MDMarra I feel at this point, we're holding our biggest customer hostage on shaky hardware.
SIX disk replacements on one server in one week.
two of the disks put in were 8 year-old 250GB 1.5Gbps SATA disks.
Are you sure your array isn't hitting a URE, making the disks as failed at different points, but supermicro isnt failing the array immediately so it looks like bad disks post-rebuild?
@MDMarra One disk kept giving errors... it was part of a 2-disk mirror. My staff decided to put a THIRD disk in some unused slot and assign it as a hot-spare.... then pull the erroring disk out and let the mirror rebuild to the spare.
@ValterHenrique I would consider very few of our internal wiki pages as "complete". They all need upkeep and editing in some way. Block out what the important section are for you then get others to contribute as well.
@ValterHenrique Maintaining "high quality" with an internal wiki is difficult. Especially so if there are very few active contributors. As long as the documentation is correct, the presentation and formatting is almost secondary.
I'm having a hard time finding just a step-by-step solution here. I want to add a 2008 R2 server to an existing 2003 run domain. I want the 2008 server to allow for AD authentication logon encase the main 2003 DC goes down.
Most I do migration and just follow the steps that Microsoft outlines t...
I just really need to get my act together and delete about 1.5 TB of data I don't need on my Hetzner box, and then my storage needs will be so small again that I can get an affordable BBGN box to replace my Hetzner box. I can't wait.
(well obviously I can or I would've done it months ago)
Take the following common scenario... A basic vSphere cluster running two or three hosts, shared storage and a token set of virtual machines under Essentials Plus or greater licensing.
Should HA Admission Control be enabled on such a small setup? Does it make sense?
If yes, what are the approp...
@MDMarra I have to look at the keyboard when working on the Pi ...since the keyboard they got with it is much smaller than what I'm used to. Muscle memory is hard to overcome in that case.
@Cole I'm looking at a lot of 2-host clusters that my coworkers built... and they're all pretty much sitting with all VMs on ONE host... and the other in standby.
I would like to create a small server (Linux preferably ) that allows me to see all the screens of the windows computers in my network. The server will than be attached to a projector so I can always see what my employees are doing.
How could I achieve this? Maybe with VNC ?
I'm having a hard time finding just a step-by-step solution here. I want to add a 2008 R2 server to an existing 2003 run domain. I want the 2008 server to allow for AD authentication logon encase the main 2003 DC goes down.
Most I do migration and just follow the steps that Microsoft outlines t...
