they all seem to go to netgear, ask for the cheapest product available and say "Ok, now can you recompile the kernal with the "EnableRandomAnnoyingErrors" switch enabled"
@RobMoir This is exactly my problem. When the service works, it's good. When it breaks, or you actually try to do anything useful with it, they're worse than a bunch of confused badgers blinded by meths.
Expanding on Zoredache's comment, the only way you're going to get any sort of space in a broker is to DIY it with a VPN/tunnel. A /25 is 128 IPv4 addresses which are a highly valued commodity these days that you are going to pay out the roof for.( Expect 1-2 dollars IP per month atleast) For a ...
It's a clever business model, because most people only care about how good it is when it does work, and not about how crappy their experience is when it doesn't.
I have to be honest, my service is great by and large. I'm trying to upload a terabyte of data to crashplan at full speed, which is a bit of an edge case compared to their normal users, so as annoyed by the router choking as I am, I can see that its not something they're likely to anticipate and test
@Jacob I think OP is insane, personally. Having said that though, that's the only way I can see it working: Host a box in a DC and build your own tunnel.
why they would do that instead of just filling out some damn forms and getting the v4 space from the school (which probably has a /8 or a /16, and would probably allocate the space for FREE) is beyond me...
@RobMoir they're doing this at a university, for whatever reason -- why the hell would they not just call university IT up and say "Look, I need a /24 for a semester. Gimmie."?
@voretaq7 Schools around here require a senior project, the student can choose whatever they like. If that is the case, he may not have looked at the pricing, and is just hoping it is going to be cheap.
I guess part of learning how to do projects is learning that just because something sounds cheap and easy in your head that doesn't mean that it actually is
I'm new to PostgreSQL. I don't know how to display all records from the table.
I tried with this
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION display_rec() RETURNS SETOF abc AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
rec record;
BEGIN
FOR rec IN (SELECT "name" FROM abc) LOOP
RETURN NEXT rec;
END LOOP;
END;
$BODY$
LANG...
@Zoredache I could see this as a senior project, but honestly I'd expect a little more from a kid who came up with the idea (like an understanding that we're out of IPv4 space :)
@Jacob It's also the box I leave connected for AIM but it's developed a power supply problem and reboots itself randomly now, so no AIM ghost until it gets replaced.
Let's do this. What with the DramaLlama being out in full force, I think it's time to take a breather and bring the funny back. To wit: I propose the Santification of your gravatars till after the new year. Some of us have already gotten started. You can use the image as your baseline.
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@Jacob Possibly. Back in my Cisco days there was a huge problem where a Cisco router had crashed and it just happened to be reporting the status of a bunch of ventilators in ICU. Needless to say one of the ventilators stopped working and the person died
And no alerts went out because the router stopped working
Of course, that's not Cisco's fault - you don't put your life saving equipment on a non redudant network
But it was a wakeup call
(my wife who is nurse informs me that the ventilator would have been beeping like crazy and alarms would have gone off, so there was something more going on there that we weren't todl about. They also have battery backups in them.)
well, I'll give you a nice real-world example. The device my company sells detects coronary ischemia (usually due to eating too many bacon-triple-cheeseburgers with extra lard fries). The diagnosis half of the system is on servers here in NY. Data has to come over the internet to us, and doctors have to be able to connect to our website to retrieve the results.
@MarkHenderson he doesn't have a v4 block and can't demonstrate commercial need is my guess
How do cloud storage providers like Amazon (Amazon Web Services S3 and EBS) provide “unlimited” storage capacity? I put unlimited in quotes because it’s really just the appearance of unlimited storage but nonetheless the amount of storage available for customers is massive*. I see cloud storage...
@MarkHenderson A lot of us went great-guns at the beginning of the year trying to make sure we hit @nonapeptide's 10k challenge thenubbyadmin.com/2011/01/04/…
I actually hate that flag weight, because it means that we're always getting bitching when we decline a flag, because people are trying to get a badge out of it
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The number of flag declined questions on MSO pretty much dwarf most other topics
Is there something online where I can figure out what hardware would be beneficial for certain traffic? I would like to give recommendations on what hardware/server a client needs for their given traffic, and concurrent users.
@voretaq7: as far as the server version goes, its debian for less ideologically pure people. The desktop version... they keep fiddling with the darn thing, one reason i go for one of the official forks.
Ubuntu is the Hyundai of OS's - cheap, pretty enough, does fine for povo's getting from A to B but little else and certainly would get laughed out of a corporate environment
@growse I fsking love it. We have some huge TV's showing all our vital stats and it took me about a day from beginning to end to get configure for about 100 servers
@AdrianK about 30% of my job (with spikes up to 90 occasionally) is Ubuntu. For me it's not funny, and I despise the distribution, maintainers, and Linux community in general for all the headaches it causes.
@growse Hmm, ok. I haven't had that at all. We have one machine on a high latency link that had that issue, but I threw in a Zabbix Proxy at that site and now it reports to the proxy and the proxy reports to the main site, so the data is delayed but complete
I really do wish that someone would make a decent, non-sucky Linux distribution. Ubuntu just has the lowest suck quotient (or at least the one most orthogonal to my use cases)
@Chopper3: right now i'm moving stuff over to a VPS. We're losing the office i 'work' in in september so i need to get it done by then. Then i will can look at new distros ;p
@voretaq7 For infrastructure stuff, I've been less than happy with them. And their default security blows. But for our users LTSP terminals working right out of the box, they certainly couldn't be beat.
@growse Intermapper lets me disable notifier groups by time, so I just put that stuff in a group that doesn't send out messages between 2300 and 0300 :-)
@MarkHenderson Question for you that doesn't deserve to go on the site. Can I use WDS with a bunch of random desktops or would I have to image them all or something silly. (I work for a Small bussiness that used to buy a Workstation whenever they needed one at the best price.)
@Jacob Yeah, WDS can work on random desktops. Windows 7 is packaged the same in WDS as in normal install, so you can deploy a raw Windows 7 image, or a pre-configured one that's been sysprepped
my problem is I have to give it to users (so I need user-friendly tools), but I also need to lock it down so they don't break it. The intersection of those two requirements is a freakin' black hole
pxe environment? I've heard of such things. I cal lit "neverland" - as in "I'm never gonna have enough time to make that land in a workable configuration"
@voretaq7 PXE works right out of the box with Ubuntu & LTSP on the Alternate install CD. I hammered down a 75 step deployment process that even a padawan can do in 6 hours.
@voretaq7 we stick to single model configurations for >12months at a time so we can always get a range of pxe'able images - but you do have to be dogmatic about not varying from that kit
I prefer my software projects to innovate on the software rather than jump up and down wailing about free versus non-free versus pay-for versus linux versus gnu versus...
Is there something online where I can figure out what hardware would be beneficial for certain traffic? I would like to give recommendations on what hardware/server a client needs for their given traffic, and concurrent users.
I'm new to PostgreSQL. I don't know how to display all records from the table.
I tried with this
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION display_rec() RETURNS SETOF abc AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
rec record;
BEGIN
FOR rec IN (SELECT "name" FROM abc) LOOP
RETURN NEXT rec;
END LOOP;
END;
$BODY$
LANG...
Let's do this. What with the DramaLlama being out in full force, I think it's time to take a breather and bring the funny back. To wit: I propose the Santification of your gravatars till after the new year. Some of us have already gotten started. You can use the image as your baseline.
or
...
How do cloud storage providers like Amazon (Amazon Web Services S3 and EBS) provide “unlimited” storage capacity? I put unlimited in quotes because it’s really just the appearance of unlimited storage but nonetheless the amount of storage available for customers is massive*. I see cloud storage...
Is there something online where I can figure out what hardware would be beneficial for certain traffic? I would like to give recommendations on what hardware/server a client needs for their given traffic, and concurrent users.
