@Iain @freiheit But not @WesleyDavid since he doesn't even own a bike... When Strava shows you "Ridden by bla bla bla at 10:11am on Thursday, 07/18/201" is that time the start or the end of the ride?
Raid 6 costs you one disk and a little bit of random write performance. The disk is cheap, and the performance hit is more than hidden by a tiny write cache.
I'm personally torn. Some people tell me to stay for longevity, but then others say don't sacrifice being miserable/shit on/ruining your career for longevity.
@Cole I'd be careful of that mindset. Obsolete technology will always play a large role in the largest shops. They have the most inertia to overcome to refresh with newer technology, but the large shops pay the best and have the most money
@Cole That's a different problem. Still, the experience you gain on Lotus could well make you worth a ton of money to a big company trying to get off Domino
Old Hardware is an interesting specialty. There is huge value in being able to resurrect an old piece of industrial equipment. Yeah, they are old, but the equipment is still serviceable.
We use Domino- it's on its way out, but if someone applies to a core position here and can say that they've had experience with it, they'll get a better offer than otherwise
@Tanner In the sense that it shows you can work toward bettering a bad situation, regardless of how bad it is, yes.
hum... well, then you are lucky. The last time I had to resurrect an NT4 machine we because it was attached to a 15 year old $2M printing press.. It was a giant bucket of suck!
@Cole im gonna agree with you there, nt and 2000 are too old, and too niche to be worth much expierence wise. In my shop, if you applied listing those as expierence, I might not even look at you, unless you followed it up with 2003, 2008 etc
In my city, the biggest accounts account for like 80% of the revenue for the last two places I worked (where I was designing storage solutions for sales people)
@Cole Back in the early 2000s I worked with a guy from S. Korea that was ex-military there and was now doing desktop support at Worldcom. If he got pissed at a user (typically a woman) he would say "I keee you"..."I keeee your famlee" (I kill you...I kill your family). The guy was like 4ft 6)
@dawud Considering it was related to a conversation about Japanese products and my occasional support of them, I didn't have the patience to explain why I wasn't sure if it was a compliment or not...
@Cole depends on the environment...but for production purposes I always had a short checklist along with a run sheet of the config/ip/apps/etc. for future input into the asset list.
Client wants to use my anti-spam appliance, so I ask what the A record is for their email server. They give it to me, and I set it up in the appliance. I notice that there's no SMTP server listening though - so I nmap it. Then I realize "WAIT A MINUTE... !" Their public A record for their email server was resolving to 127.0.0.2.
@Tanner I don't even. I told them "Your MX records go to me, I filter, then forward down to your mail server. What's your mail server's public address"
@Ward I believe with Strava, the time in "Ridden by Blah Bla at 9:23am on ..." is the start time (not sure if anybody answered that yet and I just got back from lunch)
I just let a user remote in to my PC so she could print a stack of papers for me to scan and email to her, and it made sense because of our fucked print system. I am now dead inside.
The end result is a stack of barcodes used to separate paper work, which then goes in to a scanner, which then emails it to a Domino server, which puts it in to a document imaging system. And thus, the evil cycle is complete.
@Tanner And ye, shall the administrators of these systems be cursed, even unto the seventh generation, for the things involved are wicked, and yet more so when connected. And Darkness shall cover the land for the toner shall not be dismissed.
@freiheit haha, it's madness. Also some people in billing will print out the invoices, write on them, and scan them again. I've given up trying to explain it to people...
@Tanner Gotta spend that kind of money on a scanner to get images high quality enough to still be legible after a dozen iterations of print, scan, print, right?
Help me to understand something. I've look at several enterprise application architectures, and I notice that several of them use a Message Queue service, like ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ. I have surface-level knowledge of what message queuing servers do, but I don't really understand why I would choose...
Don't take this the wrong way, but if you don't understand the difference between the two technologies or where you would apply them you're not really in a position to be evaluating either as a solution. If you're trying to decide which to use based on what they do you're approaching the engineering problem backwards - The question you should be asking is I need my environment to do X, what technology enables that?, not I have a technology that does Y, where/how can I use it in my environment? — voretaq733 secs ago
@WesleyDavid Dude. Seriously. I bout a goddamn plane faster than you're buying this bike.
@freiheit Color scanner but we send in black and white. Color tends to hit the attachment limit when you're sending hundreds of pages... People are going to have fun when we switch to Gmail and they have a 30GB limit.
Dell PowerEdge T610, came with 4x 2GB UDIMMs. I replaced those with 2x 8GB RDIMMs. Filled the empty slots with blanks. I just want to make sure that I'm not hurting performance by replacing all 4. I do realize 4x 8GB RDIMMs would be better than 2.
@MarkHenderson of course the obvious part of the question... is 16 gb dual channel faster then 8gb four channel
the dual channel vs four channel (if the server supports it) is moot, because he now has double the RAM anyway, so any performance increase from 4 chips is much less then the 8 GB increase in RAM with the 2 chips
might also matter WHICH slots he is putting them in in a dual or quad core setup where certain slots are tied to certain CPUs.. (But I am giving him the benefit of the doubt that he knows about that)
@MikeAWood Also in the R710/720's if you use any of the "D" slots you automatically lost half your bandwidth. Something about an extender being used to access memory in those DIMMs
@MarkHenderson, I am not familiar with Dell enough to comment, but there certainly are lots of reasons in this question to RTFM before asking the question. (though admittedly I hate that as an answer)
@MarkHenderson I think he is imaginng something like a crypto offload board. Something that magically augments the cpu when handling crypto stuff before AES got built into most cpus.
@ewwhite how much longer until you pass me? Should be in the next couple days?
@ewwhite I'll bet Volagi adds them as an option pretty fast. They have hydraulic discs now, but via a crazy little "cable to hydraulic conversion box" thingy...
@ewwhite My RHEL5/6 boxes just keep running until I reboot them... Last time I had a crash it involved a VMware cluster migration not allocating enough resources to the dev VMs.
(apparently if RHEL doesn't get any CPU cycles for over 60 seconds it gets really grumpy about it, assumes something went terribly wrong, and sends a confusing email as it reboots)
@ewwhite Well, you do tend to have systems that don't get updates for years...
Dell PowerEdge T610, came with 4x 2GB UDIMMs. I replaced those with 2x 8GB RDIMMs. Filled the empty slots with blanks. I just want to make sure that I'm not hurting performance by replacing all 4. I do realize 4x 8GB RDIMMs would be better than 2.
