Let's say I want to assign IPv6 addresses to people from the 2001:0DB8::/32 range. Most are given out sequentially, but some are non-sequential. This DB table shows which addresses have already been assigned.
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| Address ...
Okay, let me explain what I'm working on... I'm trying to get Rackspace to invest in one of the small/more impoverished school districts near Austin, to teach the kids real-world IT career-oriented classes. Classes will include Linux, Windows Server, SAN Admin, DevOps, etc. What I'm trying to work out is which classes will act as prerequisites for later classes. E.g., should the prerequisite for DevOps be Linux or Windows?, etc.
What you're asking is very complicated; a large part of becoming a course coordinator is learning how to do lesson plans and sort things into logical sequences
And if you're getting them into $x way of doing things at high school then you need to be quite certain you're not setting them up for failure later on
I don't know if asking on a chat room is quite the way to get the validation and data sets you need
I applaud what you're trying to do though, I think its a great idea
I would say that teaching Windows is easier because it presents them with concepts they may already be familiar with
However, I found learning FreeBSD at University much more satisfying because it was something totally new to me
When I was at highschool I took Year 11 and Year 12 IT classes. They were more concepts than hands-on practicals and they've been invaluable for me as I was learning more
@MarkHenderson Easier? Yes. But one of the hooks I'm using the get Rackspace to sign off on this is that this will allow them to ensure a workforce of some of the harder-to-find employees, e.g., Linux, devops, SAN, etc.
@KevinSoviero You also want good people though. If it were me, I would start with a fundamentals class, maybe at about Year 10, where you teach basic computing concepts. Really dumb 101 stuff. Because even though it sounds dumb, a lot of kids might know how to plug everything together, but not what makes it all tick
Start with basics, like why booting is called booting, how information flow travels from the keyboard to the processor
Keep it simple and broad, but it will help them to understand the more complex stuff that happens when you get into servers
I'm also not sure you will be able to convince kids that a SAN is actually pretty cool and exciting. But what you probably can convince them is to set up their own youporn or brazzers capacity SAN
@KevinSoviero Prereqs for a "devops" class shouldn't be OSs at all. Devops in true form is not about computers, it's about workflow theories, specifically adapted from postwar factory management systems.
@WesleyDavid I read an article about what some dude learnt in his first 6 months at Microsoft. I wanted to punch him in the face; it's like he spent the first 21 years of his life with his head stuck up his own ass wearing rose coloured glasses
@WesleyDavid Just get a bike already. Surly LHT. Surly crosscheck. Some other CX bike. All those are good options. Any of those is 1000% better than no bike.
@KevinSoviero Seems like a big jump from "intro to programming" to "web programming"
We've hired programmers with no web experience here and they really struggled to understand the gap between how data gets from your comptuer to the web server
@MarkHenderson Well intro to programming covered basic concepts like variables and functions, and then the second focuses on a language such as Python or Ruby.
Speaking of devops... does anyone need a Windows app that... does something? I've been itching for a reason to fire up Visual Studio but I haven't come up with an original idea on something to make.
@RyanRies When I'm in VS I'm either writing unit tests for nunit and selenium, or I'm writing a data connector to connect three totally abstract things that don't glue together very well
@MarkHenderson Well, administering the FC switches is definitely networking, but the actual block storage admin is sysadminy. Gotta understand RAID and filesystems or I'm going to hate that SAN Admin eventually.
@freiheit That's why there's a SAN admin class, to cover the sysadmin stuff missed along the way. But as prereqs go, networking seems like the primary.
I'm also trying to figure out how much to throw at the kids at once. For example, do they really need a separate programming class, or can they just learn that while learning the processes in devops?
@ewwhite I don't know if you were here on Friday when I discussed it. But on Monday I'm going to ask my manager if I can be moved somewhere with project-based work, where I can focus.
While I have nothing against customer support. One of my weaknesses is that I can't jump from one task to another easily. And while most companies wouldn't care, Rackspace is obsessed with making sure a persons strengths are put to good use.
@MDMarra It's actually one of the reason I work hard. I won't settle for anything less than perfection... Even if it drives me mad. (Which if you look at my medicine cabinet, it may already have.)
If you see a problem, you should come up with a solution, then maneuver it into place. The problem is that, in your case, you're 20 and you want a job that most places wouldn't put you in with your experience level. So, the solution is to put in some hard work at the bottom and be so good that you get promoted.
Managers want hard working people with answers, not whiners that act entitled. How do you think you're going to come off being 20 years old asking for a promotion 2 weeks into your first real tech job?
I know you're more advanced than most people your age. It doesn't mean much, though. There are people that know just as much as you with 5+ years experience filling those jobs
And those years of experience give valuable intangibles outside of tech knowledge
I've created a web page with a url like this :www.domain.com/script
In cPanel I've created a cron job. Can I just put www.domain.com/script in the "Command" Field?
So every 4 hours the cron is initial and hit www.domain.com/script
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Edit
I only have access to cpanel.
There are exceptions to every rule, but with your on-paper experience, lack of degree, and age, you have three real choices:
1) What you're doing now.
2) Maybe a MSP where you do Tier 1 for angry customers with SLAs
3) A sysadmin as a *small* or *poorly run* place that can't afford anyone as good as you with more experience, meaning the pay/benefits will suck and you likely won't have a budget to do anything cool
Installing RD Gateway on Server 2012 is giving me fits for some reason, when no other role or feature installation has been a problem so far. Kinda pissin me off
Using MegaRAID Storage Manager 13.04 on an LSI 9260 RAID card, which is the correct way to create RAID 10 using 8 drives with maximum redundancy?
There appears to be multiple ways to reach the same amount of expected disk space.
Spanned Drive Group 0, RAID 10
Virtual Drive 0, VD_0, 2.181 TB, ...
@MarkHenderson Got 4 Votes on it with 3 different reasons. I see no reason why it should be closed. It perhaps has a bit too much detail, but it's a common piece of equipment in servers and a valid question for someone with limited knowledge of RAID.
Sorry for the newbie question, but I am having trouble trying to install an SSL onto an IIS server. When I purchased my certificate, the provider gave me 3 text files. The files contain the following:
the RSA key,
the certificate contents
and a CA Bundle
How would I go about installing the SS...
Doesn't it take more skill to screw up a VMware cluster than it does to keep things running smooth?
I mean, there are so many licenses with VMware. "Sorry, the 'bodger past repair' feature is part of the advanced licenses pack. Please contact your preferred VMware License Fisting Associate."
When I run a spamassassin test from terminal i.e. :
# spamassassin -t -D < message.txt
The plugins produce hits and spamsassassin correctly marks the hits.
When mail comes through to the server, however, no hits are recorded and the plugins do not appear to be running. Specifically I am attem...
I've created a web page with a url like this :www.domain.com/script
In cPanel I've created a cron job. Can I just put www.domain.com/script in the "Command" Field?
So every 4 hours the cron is initial and hit www.domain.com/script
--
Edit
I only have access to cpanel.
@MarkHenderson Yes, but at least those have some chance of being in a professional environment. cPanel on the other hand is something that people who have no business touching a server buy and think it's going to make them a web hosting company.
It stretches the definition of "professional" pretty far.
There wouldn't be any even remotely decent prepackaged way to do this. What you need to address instead is why random scripts are appearing on your server, or why you have so many customers who are criminals if you intend for users to be allowed to upload and execute arbitrary scripts.
If you n...
I suspect by CA bundle your CA means the intermediate and root certificates which establist the chain of trust for your certificate.
Typically, these will be provided as base64-encoded data, with delimiters like the following:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
If thi...
@MichaelHampton Nice. I just spent the weekend in my tiny apartment, and flew around a bit recently.
I had two options: Buy a used Ubiquiti Bullet and set up a server with PacketFence and hook it up to a credit card merchant account, or what I actually did... grabbed a bunch of junk out of my junkbox and glued it together with 300 lines of code I wrote in six hours. That accepts Bitcoin.
Biggest problem I had all week was getting Windoze to talk 802.1x over wireless.
@MarkHenderson I ran multi SSID... the open SSID diverted you to the captive portal on the netbook. Once you paid your bitcoins (or came and found me and handed me cash) it would add you to FreeRADIUS and you could log into the 802.1x network which let you get online for real.
Also had a squid transparent proxy going on there.
I'm running a bunch of websites on a server but I'm having memory issues from all the PHP processes. What should I change?
I need to change FcgidProcessLifeTime to say 600 right which means the user process will die after 10 minutes?
Should I tweak them in other ways for more permanence?
Curre...
@Jacob There's nothing specific to that guy's particular hardware or business in that question. He asked how to set up RAID 10 because he wasn't sure if he was getting RAID 10 or 01 with those settings. Definitely has value if the hardware is common.
If they use 1.0.0.0/8 and I go and join your network via WiFi or VPN, my iPhone will get confused and explode:
And your work does not want to buy me a new iPhone because they made mine explode. They're expensive.
Most likely, the CGI driving the form is returning the 403 error. This is perfectly legitimate behaviour for a CGI application, even if other request types succeed. In fact, it is even permissible to have the same URI return a different status code every time it is queried.
In short, the probl...
Let's say I want to assign IPv6 addresses to people from the 2001:0DB8::/32 range. Most are given out sequentially, but some are non-sequential. This DB table shows which addresses have already been assigned.
+-----------------------------------------+
| Address ...
I've created a web page with a url like this :www.domain.com/script
In cPanel I've created a cron job. Can I just put www.domain.com/script in the "Command" Field?
So every 4 hours the cron is initial and hit www.domain.com/script
--
Edit
I only have access to cpanel.
It's not mSATA or PCI-e mini card. Any ideas what socket this eMMC fits into?
Using MegaRAID Storage Manager 13.04 on an LSI 9260 RAID card, which is the correct way to create RAID 10 using 8 drives with maximum redundancy?
There appears to be multiple ways to reach the same amount of expected disk space.
Spanned Drive Group 0, RAID 10
Virtual Drive 0, VD_0, 2.181 TB, ...
Sorry for the newbie question, but I am having trouble trying to install an SSL onto an IIS server. When I purchased my certificate, the provider gave me 3 text files. The files contain the following:
the RSA key,
the certificate contents
and a CA Bundle
How would I go about installing the SS...
There wouldn't be any even remotely decent prepackaged way to do this. What you need to address instead is why random scripts are appearing on your server, or why you have so many customers who are criminals if you intend for users to be allowed to upload and execute arbitrary scripts.
If you n...
I'm running a bunch of websites on a server but I'm having memory issues from all the PHP processes. What should I change?
I need to change FcgidProcessLifeTime to say 600 right which means the user process will die after 10 minutes?
Should I tweak them in other ways for more permanence?
Curre...
If they use 1.0.0.0/8 and I go and join your network via WiFi or VPN, my iPhone will get confused and explode:
And your work does not want to buy me a new iPhone because they made mine explode. They're expensive.
