@MattBear WSUS is fine, but if you need something else for whatever reason, you'll be looking at agent-based patch management and software distribution. Really, you've got to justify that pretty well to beat WSUS for simple deployment of patches from Microsoft. Usually the first justification is needing to deploy other software and patches as well, and then it's a matter of "Whelp, might as well do Windows updates too..."
@Magellan I made it through half of the Nov 2 Pro book.
It got hot and heavy in chapter 10 and 11, and now it's switching up to a massive project that ties it all together, before then heading into the last half of web development with RoR, Sinatra, etc. and appendices.
It's a bit more advanced than me... okay, a lot. So I'm going to hit pause, go into Why's for a fun break. Then maybe Ruby the Hard Way / Code School
A recursive DNS resolver requires that the information it recursively acquires is authoritative to return it as a response to a query; it does not make inferences.
Authority is established in DNS using SOA and NS records. The former is used to establish authority among authoritative servers, an...
@Wesley ma got a brain tumor the size of a tennis ball (benign, thank god), but somehow the surgery caused a bunch of her digestive tract to stop working, so they've fixed that, but it got infected, and......
Cat head first in a cowboy boot up to the hips, super tight rubber band thing in a pair of pincers, roll them above the testies and remove the pincers. ZOT!!
@FalconMomot You don't want them all boinking and making hundreds of the things.
see, if I try to get up early like everyone else does I feel like shit all day and get absolutely nothing accomplished.
before I go home, I think I'd like to answer this question: what does it mean for a chunk of memory to be full of a particular pattern?
then I will have worked a 10 hour day, having implemented a major feature, done knowledge transfer, identified two giant bugs, sat around in meetings, and bought furniture.
@Iain I hear some people make livable wages in exchange for work.
@dawud I believe it. I just cohabitate with people that are not that way, and it's a small enough and noisy enough household to where we all have to largely keep the same kind of schedule.
@FalconMomot heh, it feels good only when it's one's choice. I remember a short period (~3 months) of time I had two jobs. I woke up at 5:30 to satrt 1st job at 7:00AM, finished 1st job at 6:00PM, then 2nd job from 7:00PM to 1:00 or 2:00 AM. Crazy. I didn't like to wake up early and I feel dizzy too.
And all that suffering to make quite less money than I'm making now (not that now is that great, neither).
It's funny when I recall that job. I used to install windows. _Actual windows_
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@MichaelHampton The fact is I never ever touched a Windows OS before '98, though I remember a room mate had '95. I have never ever owned a Windows OS. I once bought a laptop that had Vista preinstalled. I turned it on and say ewwww and toss Debian on it. It is kinda sad. Now I lack any knowledge about AD, GP et al.
I think that people are moving away from Windows as a desktop platform @FalconMomot - less sure about moving away from it as a server platform, oddly enough, though if Microsoft keep moving services into the cloud then they'll make it irrelevant themselves.
I have been assigned the task of adopting and implementing a certain backup software solution for our GNU/Linux farm.
As per my deparment defined requirements, this solution should support SELinux enabled systems to be valid. After a not too thorough research, it was quite obvious that this produ...
The problem is that most of the 'exchange alternatives' I've seen are written by people who essentially think "Exchange sucks, we just need to throw together some imap and some caldav and... then profit"
I think a better exchange alternative would be written by people who _love_ exchange, but just think it could be cheaper or do *x* better than it currently does.
And MS have done a lot of good work in this area that needs to be caught up with: Microsoft's EAS protocol has actually become something of a de-facto standard for a lot of mail systems that want to connect to smartphones and tab…
And the iphone has good re-sale value. I sold my 4s for most of the price I paid to get a 5s on contract. The person who got my 4s sold their 4 for 2/3 of what they paid me for the 4s.
@Pauska Ten times better than Google Apps? That's a stretch. I'm currently with a Google Apps organization, and the overall experience is worlds better than an Exchange + Outlook environment.
As in, if I ever went back to working full-time for an Exchange+Outlook+Sharepoint organization, I would immediately miss Google Apps.
There is no way that Sharepoint can match the ease of use of Google Drive, even considering that most of us still use MS Office apps and not Google Apps when we're composing and sharing documents.
sharepoint is like... a really badly implemented RCS for documents combined with a repository plus some aspects poached from notes such that you can create "applications" that run on it as a platform, but they break compatibility all the fucking time
and yes, it's part of microsoft's groupware solution, but it falls seriously short.
@FalconMomot it shouldn't be but Microsoft have this idea in Office 365 that "skydrive Pro" should be implemented by giving everyone their own sharepoint document library.
it's not as fully featured as notes databases and it's not even close to as collaborative as google docs.
really all sharepoint is though is a notes-killer.
(which it unfortunately does badly)
I've also had the distinct displeasure of deploying a test environment with forefront identity manager, which uses sharepoint as a platform for reasons I can't discern
I still don't understand why, for a microsoft product, I had to write my own custom integration with AD and use a specific version of sharepoint because there was no backwards/forwards compatibility.
the only system in the environment besides FIM was AD, and it took me two weeks to implement.
@FalconMomot yes... keeping in mind that I'm in education and the vast majority of our users are either lecturers or students. Two groups that are not usually renowned for being technology savvy, outside of facebooking and playing games for the students, of course.
@RobM I recall working with the U of Illinois or something on their SSPR deployment while I was in support there? they seemed to quite like it.
it's nice to not have users hunting down the helpdesk for lockouts
but really that kind of thing is more helpful when you have a business where everyone starts at 9 AM and on 9 AM on Monday literally a quarter of the staff immediately call for a password reset.
while I was there I significantly shaped the development process through the sheer volume of bug reports and feature requests I filed; I'm kind of proud of that thing :)
@JennyD Same - I'm really more of an evening / night person, but if I stand any chance of getting up on time and being vaguely productive then I have to go to bed early
Wasted 5 minutes looking at a connectivity issue that turned out to be me plugging in the wrong network cable (On a build so the room is a mess), and now I've just spent an age scratching my head when trying to connect to FTP rather than SFTP :(
A recursive DNS resolver requires that the information it recursively acquires is authoritative to return it as a response to a query; it does not make inferences.
Authority is established in DNS using SOA and NS records. The former is used to establish authority among authoritative servers, an...
