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@Zypher @WesleyDavid I still see more breakage in Windows. We just upgraded the accounting server 2 days ago and it was absolutely painful. Random freezing of the UI, forced reboots because the whole system hung. Unacceptable.
@WesleyDavid I think we can all agree what's really important is the dual monitor thinkpad.
@voretaq7 That would be an exceptionally poor behaving system in my experience. That's not the norm. When you say "upgrade the server" do you mean hardware, OS or application?
@Zypher @MDMarra For suitably shitty definitions of server ("The thing that runs quickbooks that the finance gal RDPs into from her mac"), I should not need to install Windows 2008 Über Ënterprise
@MDMarra @PeterGrace @Zypher @Iain but thank you all for exemplifying what i find wrong with the Windows mentality -- "You have to buy 5x the OS you need to introduce more complexity to solve a problem that shouldn't exist" :-D
I agree. I also don't believe I should need to install a server OS for what is effectively desktop software just because I'm accessing it via RDP. (And, for the record, the hang happened when I was on the console, setting the machine up, and nobody else was connected to it)
yes. Just a local copy of QuickBooks Pro, that happens to be accessed via RDP. When we move to Enterprise (probably next year) we'll spring for a Win2K*whatever* server license.
Could someone help me with verifying if WSUS has definition KB2461484 as version 1.123.62.0 (this is yesterday's def update... and want to know if MS is just not releasing it yet through WSUS... it appears to be going out to check, but comes back with no updates for today)
@MDMarra If I had a second Windows PC anywhere in the universe I would have to start considering the merits of Active Directory. I'm content to not deal with that :-)
I know it is. I also know I have negative resources at this point in time and trying to maintain One More Thing would mean not maintaining the systems that bring money into the company :-/
@WesleyDavid . . . tell me how this problem would be mitigated if I were running QuickBooks Server on an actual Windows Server OS and had a bunch of Windows 7 clients?
I'm really not actively looking for reasons to bash Windows - Win7 and Win2k8 are great - But I maintain that NO operating system from this century should be brought to its knees by one badly-behaved application.
@voretaq7 Windows Server tend to be better behaved in their handling of memory and multiple processes. However, that's becoming less of an issue as the codebase betwixt client and server is becoming more and more similar (presumably with the robustness of the server branch being shared with the client side, and not vice versa).
@voretaq7 ...that you know of. =P And also, I would like to say that as a business owner who runs his entire financial world on QuickBooks, that is one massive heap of BS that can and will destroy anything that it runs on. Without forensics though, I'm just speculating. Coulda been a funky driver/hardware issue spiraling out of control in the background. Who even knows.
It wasn't like I was asking the machine to run QuickBooks, Excel, Word, Access, show a PowerPoint on the spare monitor, all while installing Windows Updates. I booted, launched QuickBooks, clicked "Update me", and about half-way through the machine just shat itself.
They sent me an entitlement voucher. I register on their site. Claim the voucher and they give me a key. This key does not activate vCenter Server. This key is typed into a VMWare.com page that then emails me a key for vCenter Server. Seems very...inefficient
@WesleyDavid I was really just upset that I couldn't even get the machine to open a command prompt so I could kill QuickBooks. The app shitting itself is fine (well, no, it's not fine, but I wouldn't be as mad). The app taking out the OS is like the days of uncooperative multitasking.
They progressively got better and better from 2000 - 2008R2, and then went and kicked us all in the balls by making us use Metro, which is just fundamentally broken, especially for remote desktop usage
Use a bridge on your dom0 (e.g. KVM Host) WAN interface. This requires installing bridge-utils package. Since this is Debian-based distro, you may configure it in /etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth0 inet manual
auto br_wan
iface br_wan inet dhcp
# Assuming DHCP to get address, otherwise mig...
we need multi-user functionality and the ability to have a QuickBooks server (actual server) that our other stuff can talk to for inventory management.
Or I need to write an inventory control system, which is just... NO.
@MarkHenderson If I had gotten a "no" at an interview, I never would have thought "I'm going to take a month and learn the fuck out of something and try again at the same place." I'm sure that counts for a lot to them
@voretaq7 I'm considering upgrading too because I need to concatenate multiple invoices into one invoice / sales statement. Intuit is a master at upselling and castrating your software just enough to make you need the bigger version. It's Pro 2010, BTW.
@voretaq7 I'm eating an apple, and literally stopped mid-chew when you said they use it to track inventory on hand. Wow you work for some ballsy people, dude. =)
I always think of the guy that relocated from here (Vancouver) to Rotorua (sp?) NZ and then had to move back 2 months later when the NZ company shut down the division.
@MarkHenderson I only realized that you pronounce it Zed because of an All Saints song in the mid nineties. "something something something... straight to my head. Something Something Something... right from A to Zed"
Whenever I watch discovery, they tell me it "weighs as much as 3 school busses" to which I yell at the TV "FUCK OFF! HOW MUCH DOES A SCHOOL BUS WEIGH? AND WHY A SCHOOL BUS? WHY NOT A TOURING COACH? WHATS THE DIFFERENCE? IS IT FULL OF KIDS OR NOT KIDS? IS IT GOING TO FAT CAMP OR ANOREXICA CAMP? JUST TELL ME HOW MUCH IT FUCKING WEIGHS. IS IT CURB WEIGHT OR THE SPEED AT 100KPH?"
@MDMarra DB servers that use accounts whose passwords are sourced from our internal web-app that store them as plaintexts and has an internet-facing Apache.
@Zoredache 501c3. Hopefully it doesn't apply. I've pointed out the stupidity of our current arrangement to sufficient numbers of managers, so it's not like they're not aware.
As a kid driving with my parents at dusk in the outback, come 5pm we were all on kangaroo watch, had to keep our eyes peeled (although I suspect this was also a way of my parents making us STFU) and if we spotted a kangaroo he would slow right down incase it jumped infront of the car. And one day one did, almost wrote the car off.
@voretaq7 A 2009 attack by Tao Xie and Dengguo Feng breaks MD5 collision resistance in 220.96 time. This attack runs in a few seconds on a regular computer
OK, now ask me how long ago I ran a small company on the internet. (Hint: MD5 was The New Hotness, 3DES was still considered excellent security, and FreeBSD version numbers were 3 digits!)
@Zoredache That's his other presentation that day. I'm taking the Time Mgmt. tutorial in the morning and the Network Tools one in the afternoon. Though I'm also attending his Ganeti talk on Saturday morning.
THough I think I'm going to download the Test video from LISA tonight and watch that.
@jollyroger he has a bunch of blog posts on daemonology.net about cryptography (especially as he implemented it in tarsnap) which are great reads as well.
Communication is an important thing in any team environment, and part of communication is realizing how your chose form of contact interrupts the other people on your team. Generally we get interrupted multiple times a day via our various means of communication. Generally we are available via: Phone (both land line and cell), IM, Group [...]
@voretaq7 Possibly... When I graduated H.S. I wrote a basic shell extension for file encryption in Windows. Used open algorithms but still blew every one's Tic-Tac-Toes and what not out of the water. I thought I really wanted to get into it so I bought a book on cryptography. Yea... No. That didn't work out so well. Doctorate level math + H.S. graduate = "May I have a refund for this book?"
@AaronCopley Cryptography is too much of a catch-all term. Cryptography (the development of cyphers) is a different set of skills from Cryptanalysis (trying to break them - either from cyphertext or from the algorithm), which is different from "I implemented it in software"
Right, as a 12th grader it was an, "I implemented it in software." but, spawned interest in the level on the development of cyphers. I was 17/18. I had no idea what a can of worms I was opening. :)
@WesleyDavid Nevermind. I think I typo'd it. Using the VM's VNC interface and can't paste into the console.
sigh The Dev Mgr. just tried to shoot down my dept's efforts at escalation mgmt. by demanding that her entire team stay copied on all of the Support team's incoming tickets.
@voretaq7 Oh yes. THAT is what she actually wants. And she tried to balk on removing my team from her bugs too, but I can do that since I'm the ticket system's previous admin.
@Joel I tend to take that stuff somewhat seriously. Perhaps I've also lived in Seattle too long. The dreadful seriousness about everything gets to be a bit much.
@Adrian yeah, then you don't need emails. If you suspect it's a bug you can look it up like big boys and girls. Sounds like this manager is just an idjit
@voretaq7 Yeah, this is the one that will likely pink slip me the moment they are promoted. I'm not a consensus-builder, and that group is all about consensus.
At least I have the self-reflection needed to understand that I'd suck at the job. That "CTO" slot hasn't been filled with an external applicant in 15 years. It's more than time.
And everybody that's held it has started out working $16/hour entry level too.
@voretaq7 And after further reflection, consensus builds pretty crappy software too, apparently.
Windows 7 isn't a Server OS - End.
Use a bridge on your dom0 (e.g. KVM Host) WAN interface. This requires installing bridge-utils package. Since this is Debian-based distro, you may configure it in /etc/network/interfaces:
iface eth0 inet manual
auto br_wan
iface br_wan inet dhcp
# Assuming DHCP to get address, otherwise mig...
