You know when you do something so idiotically stupid you don't see any other option than to go and throw yourself off a cliff because you don't deserve oxygen? Yeah, this morning isn't going well =/
@MarkHenderson Nothing bad, just stupidity. Set SSHD to only allow members of the group 'sshuser' to logon, as soon as I did it all Nagios checks via SSH started failing. Spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why =/
One user has been bitching abotu their exchange permissions for about a week now. They're quite patient, I get a reminder once a day about it. But every time I sit down to look at it, BAM, interruption
Any of you go through support tickets that are over a certain age and just dispose of them if they haven't been touched since you replied to the requester?
I've just spent the last 2 hours cleaning out the queue. Damn it feels good.
Closed: Abandoned
(only problem is that they get an email with the close reason, so chances are most of them will come back :()
Start closing tickets with Hemmingway quotes. "We're going to have a strange life." “Please let’s not lie when we don’t have to.” "You are all a lost generation."
BTW, does anyone know the answer to this? serverfault.com/questions/380986/…. I vaguely believe there is something in Linux you can tune, but I am not sure.
At some point I need to get this whole thing rewritten in PowerShell or C#, but it took me a solid week to write it the first time, so not a challenge I fancy
i would like to know command equivalent to curl in solaris. As in linux curl command use to find the website activity.kindly let me know command to check website in solaris.
they sold... Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic: The Gathering, and Stretch Armstrong as one package of films with some more in another package
@pfo recall it as a kid but I've not seen it since then
I know that backup exec released a agent that can do pre-stage deduplication, so that only the deduplicated data gets sent over the wire.. uses enormous amounts of processing though
I have a couple of clients who backup to disk... and it's just slow-ish. They have less data, though. (80GB total)
so, are there any better approaches to this?
The backup is split between these really big TXT files and their ISAM indexes... and then directories containing tens of thousands of print files and tiff images.
so the speed of the big files being compressed is offset by the overhead of lots of tiny file transfers.
It's almost like this would be better if I could do a block-based or image-based backup
First of all, thank you for taking the time to review my question. I'm new to the StackExchange network still and I am amazed at the professionalism and quality of answers provided by the community (most of the time :P ).
I've used maybe 5 different administration softwares over the years to man...
@JourneymanGeek Nearly? If I ever met someone who didn't hate them I'd refuse to work with them on the grounds that they're broken beyond repair. Though that does assume prior experience with said licensing
Well, the primary reason windows workstation won't do well as a server is restricted connections, and hardware.
Its not the EULA proper, but this simplified version might be of use - the relevant part being "Device Connections. You may permit a maximum of five (5) computers or other electronic d...
I accept that things are different with software than physical devices, but I really hate the trend of being told what I can and can't do
Imagine if your car or washing machine came with a useage agreement
Of course this is the argument between licensing and ownership etc, but I still dislike it. Like the attempts to prosecute people who mod Playstations etc
Fair enough, design it or don't design it do something (i.e., my car can't physically go over 130mph or whatever) but don't come crying if I get my spanners out and add a turbo, and remap the ECU
"The organization told Patent Examiner it doesn’t intend suing individual end users; businesses, on the other hand, are fair game because even a Mariott probably won’t think the reported price tag of between $US2,300 and $US5,000 per site as worth calling lawyers about."
You know those "Days since our last accident" signs you get on factory walls? I sometimes think I should have a similar one: "Days since we last had to use a floppy drive."
@JourneymanGeek Well, mines much smaller. I spent 3 hours going through old CD's - damn, I'd forgot how crap CD's are. Talk about floppied - I barely use CD's for anything now.
I also found some old family photos my dad took of us on holiday back in 04. There were two separate photos of topless women on the beach which I need to have a word to him about
@JourneymanGeek Not bad. I'm not far off, I'm a lot more brutal with throwing stuff nowadays. I just keep photos, personal documents and old games now rather than "Anything that may or may not come in handy at some pointer of the next 20 years"
I just got an "office" to put one workstation turned vmware server, and my notebook when I'm home. And I have an old EEEPC running Linux.
The basement has some old things but I haven't got them plugged in. Old Macs, some spare parts, but not much.
That was back when I had a section of the basement to myself. Then the stepdaughter decided she wanted to move down there as "her room" while the wife complained I was down there more than upstairs. So I lost my corner of the basement...and she comes home from college and decides she'd rather sleep on the couch than "her room" because she left the space a mess.
hmm, current working hardware, i have two laptops and a desktop (i saved from the tip), one desktop i built in 07 (which has started having parts fail) which we share, dads laptop and desktop
and i sleep in a storeroom in effect ;p
lol
My parents moved my stuff out from my room when i was away
@BartSilverstrim my parents had the attic converted to a playroom whan I was younger, if you went up there a decade ago it would have looked like a lego bomb went off up there. Now there's a lot more old stuff (toys/games, etc) up there. The photo was taken on a "good day" - used to be a real mess.
I've seen so many systems that work with weird configurations while others fall over, entirely depending on BIOS and manufacturer, that I stopped keeping track.
As soon as you get one config in your head that says "that won't work" some bastard comes out with a system that does work with the combination.
Stick the memory in and run a memtest for a few cycles on it if it boots, then call it good if that's what you're stuck with using.
@SmallClanger no, no problem with mixing rank, may slow the bus down depending on configuration but so long as you're following the layout rules it'll be just fine - if you let me know more specifics I'll check it for you
@chopper3 Thanks. That's what I'm seeing on the results. It's a DL380 G7 (Xeon E5649) with 3 * 593339-B21 fitted as standard. Which are the single rank in slots A/B/C
@SmallClanger no, that's crap, you want the DR's furthest away from the cpu - i.e. 2/5/8 and the SRs in 3/6/9 - either way it'll drop from 1333 to 1066
@BartSilverstrim Yep, this exactly. I just look at how much I spend just to have somewhere warm to sleep (Rent, electricity, gas, water, council tax) and think WTF? Where the hell did that go before?
@Dan I do try and save a large chunk of my wages each month although there's always things that I'd like. I could go and buy a new laptop because I want one, but I know that's not a good idea - I only buy things if I can really justify getting them.
@tombull89 I think I'm finally earning just enough to live the lifestyle I want. And now I'm spending ti all on a wedding, and will probably end up saving for a house after
@BartSilverstrim I've been lucky over the last couple of years with a bit of ducking and diving I've managed to triple my wages since 2004, but I know what you mean
@SmallClanger you'd need LV ram to retain the 1333, from the quickspecs it says "Heaviest load (DIMM with most ranks) within a channel goes furthest from the chipset"
I think, if I looked really hard, and saved for a couple of months, I could find a one bed flat but all my money would go on rent, food, bills and the car and I'd be left with very little spending money. Maybe I'm hoping for a bit too much at my age but that's not really how I want to live.
In the states where I am, I get like a 3% raise a year, but when I last looked that's nearly on par with inflation. Could be off, though. It's not much.
i would like to know command equivalent to curl in solaris. As in linux curl command use to find the website activity.kindly let me know command to check website in solaris.
