Oh, shit, well that makes it harder. I think if there were an easy way to make fast cash remotely, I'd be doing it, and living in a ski-resort right now.
@ewwhite If you're habitually late on the rent to the point where it becomes a problem for the landlord (who, after all, has to pay a mortgage and such) they stop being flexible eventually.
Almost asked in Meta, but I'm lazy...@ChrisS....what's the current consensus on questions like: serverfault.com/questions/574007/… that are simply devs wanting answers here and obviously aren't sysadmins? Do we say "go away" or actually bother to answer?
@TheCleaner It's somewhat crappy, and it looks like SU material to me. But I don't vote on Windows questions anymore since I don't have the chops to know if that's all the response you should be getting from a Windows system that's behaving that way.
@ewwhite Don't know, but I suspect they'd still kick you out and rent the place to someone who can pay on time. Kind of a renter's market for anything even "decent" where I ant to live.
I had a landlord like that. he made noise about that, but he was renting out units in the jankiest building in the jankiest part of the nice neighborhood. Losing his ass in turnover costs.
@ewwhite If they've reached the point where the landlord won't take 2/3rds now, and 1/3 on Monday... they might be just screwed. (and why the hell wait until it's too late to do anything about it? Jeez.)
it's pretty impressive what people will try to get away with. One of our shareholders lost her job (which sucks, and we all feel bad for her) and wound up something like 6 months behind on maintenance (rent) payments. She fought that and wound up in court, lost, and now owes that plus "reasonable legal fees"
and she wants us to waive the legal fees (about 3k)
Um.... no? We had to pay our lawyer to go to court and smack you around so we could get our money. We'll work out a payment plan, but we gotta recover that cost.
@ewwhite Well... I mean, shit. "Uh... go back in time and ask me for help on Wednesday, when the money will be able to get to you before you're evicted."
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Sounds almost like a question for the personal finances SE site. "What options are available for getting $300 across the country, in a few hours or less?"
@ewwhite tbh, this is part of why I am okay with living 1000s of miles away from my family. Makes raising the kids a little harder, but I really don't need my cousin's drama. They've grown up a fair bit, but it's still a bit of a mess.
I managed to configure CSF on my three VM inside OpenVZ, but when I try to run it on the host, all the VMs become unreachable. I can see that the host is been attacked, and it would be critical if it gets invaded.
Below is the result of iptables status on the host after stopping csf:
[root@Cent...
@ewwhite I'd love to talk with you about it, or anything of course - but I was pretty strung-out when I asked and was mid-way through mentally testing a solution
@ewwhite I reckon you and I have quite similar normal-job income actually - I get a lot of return from investments but my actual job these days pays very similar to yourself (taking the £/$ thing into the equation and based on my memory of what you've said)
@jscott Yeah, that was my first approach, but no-go. I was scratching my head over WTH it wasn't working, then I figured it would probably just be fastest to ask over at SO. Someone may as well be using that place for good, rather than evil.
I'm trying to install a pfSense with an IP failover (requirement from online.net) but I can't get the server to route the requests.
Last time I got it working with the following commands:
route add -inet 62.210.137.1/32 -link -iface em0
route add default 62.210.137.1
then download ShellC...
@ewwhite has HP realized that customers can actually choose another vendor for their servers? HP isnt all that, not as solid as IBM or as cheap as Dell. They're like the middle child throwing a tantrum.
@Magellan I wildly disagree with you on HP's 'solidity' - I buy a fuckload of their kit every year and almost nothing gets even close to their build quality, performance, functionality and stability. Cost is a different matter however.
I'm interested what this new firmware policy would cost an organization with a large deployment footprint (the retail cost, not the "But you buy a fuckton of our gear every year, so we zero'd that line for you).
@Chopper3 I think HP's stock warranty is 12 months x 4 hour turnaround). My Supermicro-via-Reseller warranty is tough to beat from major vendors (12x4hr and then 2 more years where I get Next-Day Parts)
@ewwhite Really? I suppose a lot of it is a perception thing and I always perceive IBM as lower quality than HP, but then again I am SO deeply entrenched with them I suppose
@Chopper3 IBM's definitely more solid, but it's not normally a noticeable difference. Your HP server's gonna be obsolete 5 years before you can expect it to break down, so how much does that really matter?
@HopelessN00b IDK about "more solid", probably about equivalent
it's hard to get bad x86 hardware these days
I just think the new HP policy is stupid. "Oh yeah, you have a firmware bug. You can fix that easily, just let me connect you to the sales department and you can fork over $1000 for a 3 year support contract on a 4 year old server so you can download a 2MB file..."
versus now where it's "Oh yeah that's a firmware bug. Go here, download this, run it, and you're good"
@voretaq7 I've seen IBM servers that are older than me, still running happily after decades of 24x7, doing whatever the fuck anyone would want to do on ancient hardware, so I'm thinking IBM has a bit of expertise in making a computer last far longer than anyone has any business running it for.
@ewwhite that too - "Oh yeah you can't install Windows 2015 on that machine without a firmware upgrade.... which I can't give you because your warranty expired yesterday. Sorry broski."
@HopelessN00b I have an entire rack full of Supermicro equipment. Do you know how many hardware failures I've had in the last 6 years? Zero.
I had an entire rack of Dell equipment for internal use at $job[-1]. You know how many hardware failures I had with Dell? At least one a month (Usually hard drives. Sometimes ECC errors in the RAM.)
Conclusion: My SuperMicro reseller has better QC than Dell.
@voretaq7 Fine. Let's revisit this topic in 2 years after Lenovo's gotten its hands on the IBM xSeries servers and made a bunch of changes... then we'll see what you think about the availability of bad x86 hardware. :p
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@ewwhite Running memtest or equivalent for 24 hours will expose a bad chip. Won't help if the chip goes wonky later (which does happen sometimes), but at least they're not shipping you an obviously bad chip :)
I've actually had them email me and say the RAM in the system failed its check and they needed another day to re-run the test - I'm WAY happier having them tell me that before I build and deploy a box than after it's in my rack and I have to go to manhattan to replace chips
(and apparently have been able to for a while and I just wasn't buying the step-up hardware. Serves me right for being a cheap bitch.)
I remember watching an AS/400 field engineer do a processor upgrade by migrating, disabling and swapping between the CPU cards way the hell back when I was an intern. That was freakin' awesome.
"We need to upgrade the AS/400 but we can't have any downtime. Like really, we can't have ANY downtime. IBM said they'll make it happen."
In short, can I use a WHS as the backup agent to fetch data from our windows-based servers and perform backups to a Synology nas?
We just purchased a Synology 8-bay nas as our onsite backup device. We have several legacy servers as well as some newer file servers, all of them need daily backup a...
We have some excel sheets opening in IE 8 Using Ms. Office Web components. Recently these are not working and we get a RED X in IE where is it suppose to show the data. I have tried:
-Reinstalling the Office webcompnents
-Also tried to add the data site as part of trusted sites in IE
The above ...
@Chopper3 Never had an opportunity to buy a fuckton of anything until recently. But the IBM stuff I've used has been stable beyond any reasonably expectation. We were paying retail for each of them, of course, so it was frightfully expensive. The Cisco server line I've worked with lately has been reasonably good, and the value/price equation has been simply outstanding.
@MichaelHampton That's actually us for a few more months, too. Even worse, because of "enterprise" software, we have IE7 in some places... because some of our shit enterprise software doesn't work with 8.
@DennisKaarsemaker Quiet. I'm just going with the line that Win7 comes with a higher IE version, so... get time to get rid of whatever piece of crap needs IE7.
Hmm. Seems like there'd be money to be made on upgrading them to a version of Windows 7 from 2009... I'm just not sure how to launder half a billion transactions at 50 Yaun each.
@pauska Yeah, seems to be a function of how crappy the 3rd party code is in the first place. If it's very crappy, it's only going to work on IE7, provided you don't look at it sideways, which is the case for our IE7-required apps.
@Magellan - Yeah. Not many. Probably actually a certification that's worth something. We have some UCS and Nexus equipment that I'm trying to take some ownership of instead of just having everything farmed out to contractors.
@Magellan Why the hell would I do something like that? That's what interns and helldesk guys are for, lifting heavy objects and other assorted tasks I don't want to do.
I managed to configure CSF on my three VM inside OpenVZ, but when I try to run it on the host, all the VMs become unreachable. I can see that the host is been attacked, and it would be critical if it gets invaded.
Below is the result of iptables status on the host after stopping csf:
[root@Cent...
I'm trying to install a pfSense with an IP failover (requirement from online.net) but I can't get the server to route the requests.
Last time I got it working with the following commands:
route add -inet 62.210.137.1/32 -link -iface em0
route add default 62.210.137.1
then download ShellC...
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