its nice and bright here. And noisy, but that last one is because I'm covering helpdesk duty this morning and 2000 students are all trying to pour through two double doors in front of me at once
very nice... I'm like whatever the opposite of green fingered is, so that sounds great to me but I know i'll never have that kind of garden... more power to those of you that do!
Although only 2 weeks after I wrote the architecture plan that was to cost the company 2x my salary a year for the new server infrastructure they wanted
Yeah. If i'd been un-teamworthy, it would have been better to make me aware of it before just saying "here's our bullshit excuse, don't come in on monday"
one of those deaths that's kind of a surprise on one hand but not on another - oddly enough we both went to the same primary school (years apart, he was 35) but only became mates 7-8 years ago - small world eh
@Chopper3 That sucks. And reminded me of a "small world" story.
Back in the BBSing days, I was hooked up to a random BBS and the admin interrupted me for a chat. "Hey man, did you go to $X Montessori school?" "Yeah, I did." "Hey, I remember you. You bit me on the arm." Guess I make a lasting (dental) impression.
As of Friday, October 14th of 2011 I am officially a Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA). The vendor neutral certification is designed and put forth by CWNP, Inc which stands for Certified Wireless Networking Professional. My Experience: I’ve had hands-on expereince with Wi-Fi products since the early parts of my IT career. It was nothing [...]
@StackExchange "Raise your hand if you’ve ever read a technical book, especially an exam preparation book, that has made you pause and consider if eating carpet and washing it down with a stuffed porcupine would be easier." - Yep, been there.
I have a server running dual quad core cpu's with hyper threading.
We have a Windows 2003 VM and it has a single core.
when using prime95 I notice that it tops out at about 2.3Ghz (each Core is 3ghz on that server).
is there anyway that ESXi can let that single virtual cpu use more then one ph...
Before Verizon had the iPhone, I had a Verizon rep swear up and down to me that the kept-alive HTTP connection for ActiveSync was the main cause for the overload of AT&T's infrastructure, as well as being a massive battery drain.
*raises hand* hey RIM - I have a question! If your core switch blew up, and you apparently had no redundancy (or it was so egregiously broken and never tested that it obviously didn't work!), why didn't you have a spare in the closet to configure?
oh right - because you're RIM. All the best technology of the 1990s.
The nice thing about the iPhone is that it's so desirable, our Admin staff are buying them personally. We get to ditch their district-owned BB and make one more step away from the BES/Notes horror-show.
When we started putting BES in for customers, our choices were Exchange, Domino or Gropewise. The decision was made to push Domino for SMB. We've since ran away as fast as possible to BES/Zimbra, but one of our customers actually *really likes Domino*.
@MikeyB I'll grant that, but I've personally been involved in system recoveries from "Oh my god the generators caught fire and dropped the load" that didn't take 4+ days. I expect better from "mission critical" services like crackberry
@MikeyB you really shouldn't contract to provide IT services to the mental patients.
Acme Co has been hounding me to renew our license for XYZ Software we've ordered from them for several years now. There was a question about the licensing, so I just contacted customer support; the license for the version they're trying to sell me isn't available yet because the product will not be released for a month or so. But they want me to buy now.
I must be the first person in the world to ask Acme Co how their network license works... Seriously, Named User, Device Install, and Concurrent User are the 3 most common by far, and I'm sure you had one in mind when you came up with "Network" licensing.
We've got a Cisco system.. It's got built in Music on Hold, not sure how it's internally routerd (probably a SCCP client, like a phone)
F---. It's licensed per Device Installation (he thinks...). That doesn't play well when I don't actually install it on computers anymore (use Application Virtualization)...
I should have asked him how AppV factors in, since their license does not specify that the software must be installed in the first place before using it.
I was just updating my resume and sent a copy to my fiancee. This is the feedback that I got from her: you forgot the "putting people in their places", "avoiding other staff members by sitting very still until my lights go out" and "bullying my way to a higher pay"
I'm LOLing at the misfortune of a small company right now. (actually I'm LOLing because they're making a fortune but their por server is going to bloody well shit itself)
@Shads0 when my wife goes away, I always celebrate this by getting a chicken, bacon, onion and pineapple pizza from Papa Johns (a US pizza delivery chain, if you're not from the US) -- it's the only time I get to order a pizza like that without being vetoed.
I am a college student with a predominantly business background looking into a business concept, which centers around remote access of Linux applications. I have experience with Citrix XenApp through work and I've trying to find a similar system for the Linux platform without much luck. Open sour...
Based on this comment, I have started building a unicorn avatar maker. It's still quite ugly, and the results aren't different enough yet, but this is what it looks like so far:
Question list / Joel's profile (removed the images from here to make this thing a little shorter).
Is this just way t...
Overdue expense report filed. 1 of 3 Licensing "inquiries" done. Rough budget for next year prepared. I hate days where I do nothing but paperwork. Makes me feel so unproductive.
I love how RedHat just ignores bugs until they say "Well, this was filed for an old version that is no longer supported. Please resubmit if it still applies to $CURRENT." https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141508 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140089 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=163892
@ShaneMadden, ESXi is not meant to be configured via the command line? Why do all ESXi boxes have a link to download a remote command line appliance, on the main page of the web interface? :p
@Zoredache Oh… dude… "For more control and security I need them to use VPN to access the internet and without it just have access to the local network."
@MikeyB, I read that bit, but it still doesn't make much sense. If he doesn't trust clients inside his network to see each others traffic, why would he permit it to cross the Internet?
@Zoredache Because he read somewhere "VPNs are encrypted". It's probably from the same mindset as the manager in this awesome story: thedailywtf.com/Articles/Taking-a-Dump.aspx
@Zoredache Oh god, I wonder if he's doing this to implement some sort of "only people logged in to the network can access the Internet" scenario. cries
maybe you shouldn't be able to close questions with a bounty on them... not sure I agree, but ok... but in that case the close button should be deactivated.
must...resist... urge.. to post.... more... ponies
I forget, does this give just a link to the Not Quite SFW pic... http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vkZ5LNmJl9Q/StLru1Oas2I/AAAAAAAAKHQ/Nmdh2Ojs5ZA/s800/reon-kadena-nude-photo-gallery-49.jpg
Is there software available for centralized server backups of corporate mobile devices (Blackberry, Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7)? I am looking for something that will "notice" when a mobile device is on the local wireless connection and back it up to my LTO4.
This is a REALLY BAD IDEA that can fail in any number of horrible and ghastly ways. To name a few:
The device disappears from the corporate network 15 seconds into the backup
The device's battery is run flat by the backup
The device's processor is busy with the backup (and you get "My phone is...
I have a few servers that serve different purposes (and thus different users use each) that authenticate to an LDAP server (I do not have permission to modify content on the LDAP server). What is an effective way to manage access across these servers so not all LDAP users can authenticate? I've...
My comment was gonna be along the lines of "Dude, you're talking about like 15 different systems and one backing store. This is going to be a clusterfuck, just make sure you've got lube."
but you know that shit's gonna scope-creep its way right up that guy's ass: "OK, but now I need to lock out this group of users except during business hours. in whatever timezone the user is in."
I can't access all the systems? Someone else can do the integration.
<- stopped doing that nickel-and-dimed-access bullshit 2 jobs ago. You want me to build a system I get access to all the subsystems, and the people responsible for them.
And a lockable room in an unused corner of the building.
And a mineshaft.
In fact forget access to the system. Just give me the people. And the mineshaft.
Someone asked if adding a 2nd HDD would decrease battery life.
I said yeah and someone commented with a link to pcpower.com saying that HDDs draw 30W and some other BS
A whole MacBook pro (the unit in question) maxes at 65W. I pointed that out along with some other simple math and suggested that the commenter focus on things that he actually knows.
Some diamond over there deleted my comment with all of that detail in it and told me to be nice or he'd ban me. I told him that on every SE site that I've participated in, the mods haven't protected users that argue in favor of blatantly wrong information and that he did a disservice to the community by deleting my comment.
Having a second hard drive will certainly decrease battery life by a noticeable amount. Behind the CPU and LCD, the hard drive is the largest drain on battery.
A word of caution: RAID 0 is almost never a good idea, unless you'll be doing backups constantly and don't mind being totally down if a ...
@MarkM no longer they have revamped employee access levels ... we kinda gotten to the size that making everyone mod/and or dev doesn't really work but i'll point the community team at it to smack the mod if need be
I have a server running dual quad core cpu's with hyper threading.
We have a Windows 2003 VM and it has a single core.
when using prime95 I notice that it tops out at about 2.3Ghz (each Core is 3ghz on that server).
is there anyway that ESXi can let that single virtual cpu use more then one ph...
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Is there software available for centralized server backups of corporate mobile devices (Blackberry, Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7)? I am looking for something that will "notice" when a mobile device is on the local wireless connection and back it up to my LTO4.
This is a REALLY BAD IDEA that can fail in any number of horrible and ghastly ways. To name a few:
The device disappears from the corporate network 15 seconds into the backup
The device's battery is run flat by the backup
The device's processor is busy with the backup (and you get "My phone is...
I have a few servers that serve different purposes (and thus different users use each) that authenticate to an LDAP server (I do not have permission to modify content on the LDAP server). What is an effective way to manage access across these servers so not all LDAP users can authenticate? I've...
