I would like to install a gopher server on ubuntu 11.10, however (not surprisingly) I can't seem to find strong documentation on this topic as I could if this were an HTTP server like any of the dozens you can name off the top of your head.
I've only come across one server that looks suitable, G...
@ewwhite At the very least, it makes me excited for a future possible collaboration with Chamillionaire, which I had once ruled out due to my lack of musical talent.
@ewwhite I think it makes you appreciate the formerly-difficult things that are now cake, but reverence for tech doesn't necessarily add to the bottom line
One guy in the conversation was talking about how he can write assembly to handle many tasks with far greater efficiency than immature scripting languages....
but he also seemed to be in his late 60's.
I'm finding it difficult to retain all info now...
I like Nagios a lot. Actually, I really just like monitoring the status of my resources and services, and I like incredibly flexible software that allows you to do whatever you want in order to accomplish your goals. In other words, Nagios. It’s not without its warts, but it is software that I’ve used for [...]
That said, I'm discovering I'm more open to DevOps than some of the shops I'm applying for where I have internal contacts. Not so sure I want to join those orgs and paint myself into a corner.
@ewwhite My opinion is that Dev folks tend to only give a shit about their code and THIS ONE THING that they do. The rest can go F itself as far as they're concerned.
@ewwhite I think it's the fact that there's only so many hours in the day. You can maybe half-ass some code and it'll get fixed eventually, but if you half-ass a server turn-up, you're 50 grand in revenue lost before you get to where you should have been.
@Adrian All I know about developers trying to administer systems or even do help desk work is that ipconfig /flushdns fixes just about everything. And if it doesn't, then the server guys must have put something on the wrong VLAN.
I will not incriminate anyone, but a person that I may or may not be related to by blood or law who also may or may not be a developer, just today asked me "So, does turning on Windows firewall give you some kind of added benefit or protection if someone else on the network has a virus that's maybe scanning?"
@Joel That would be awesome to get in a relationship with another IT worker. "I'm ready for the next stage in our relationship. Let's trunk our VLANs."
Is it possible to setup a server with a host-based adapter (HBA) directly to a disk-array enclosure (DAE), taking the storage-processor out of the equation? Would something like Openfiler have this capability? Can it be done without Openfiler?
Note sure how the drives could be provisioned for R...
@ewwhite If they want to crawl along a dry lake bed, parched from thirst and saying "Look how far we got without any water," all you can do is say "Look, I'll even pour it in your mouth for you."
A "certain coworker" of mine had the tendency to run Firefox AND SQL Server Management Studio AND SQL Server Profiler in a remote desktop session ON THE LIVE DB server
the dude was on some weird numbers thing... like muscle memory... he'd never close a file. For him, screen was like "terminal window 45, screen session 3..."
he even boasted about going years in the same IRC window...
but yes, firmware and server maintenance became an issue... and yes, I had to tel Git to ignore all of the .swX files...
but the point of this is that this guy was a dev with bad habits...
and was the exact reason why there should be a slight separation between dev and ops
There are no benefits that I can discern for using CentOS (or RHEL) over Ubuntu if you are equally familiar with using both OSes.
We use RHEL and CentOS heavily at work, and it's just painful -- we're building custom packages left and right because the OS doesn't come with them, and paid RedHat ...
@ewwhite Hey, @voretaq7 is surprised to see people using Linux for production.
Planning for the worst.
Want to be able to take a backup created using Sharepoint Farm backup in 2010 central admin and restore this onto a completely different server.
Is this possbile?
If so, how?
If not, how to mitigate hardware loss?
1. Out-of-the-box SNMP Trap suppor 2. Out-of-the-box MIB loading 3. Discreet IPMI sensors (which according to the bug report I've been following has *just* been canned as "Won't Fix")
4. Its graphing is great for historical values, but it can't plot only the latest value from multiple sources
Apart from those 4 things, everything else just... works. Immediately. Install is piss easy if your Linux OS has a package (Ubuntu's is pretty good). Configuration is simple. Deployment of the agent is simple. Your data collection setup is simple. And it has remote proxies that your machines log to, and then it sends the logs back to the main instance, so it can cache in the event of a link outage
There are two different, though I believe related, issues I have with how Windows Server 2003 handles processes's working sets.
First, there are GUI applications running on the console session whose working set is trimmed, when their top-level window is minimized. I know it's rather unusual to h...
@ewwhite I thought it was slightly better than hanging out at the street corner with the day laborers and hoping someone will pick me up to tune their NAS or something.
Yeah, I've been trolling LinkedIn. Had some good hits. I'd prefer contracted project work, but that's kinda hard.
I need to just get into managed / hosted services.
Then, knowing what most clients I've worked with are interested in, I'd start with something in the email realm. Probaby inbound / outbound anti-spam and antivirus.
@ewwhite Really? I checked out Barracuda and multi-tenancy didn't seem any better than other appliances. I was assuming I'd have to drop my own front end web app in.
Because I do like Barracuda's stuff. At least the anti-spam.
Last place I worked in I think had a 300 put in and it was great. At the 70,000 daily spam messages up pretty good. At the time the quarantine emails were kinda lame though.
Is it possible to setup a server with a host-based adapter (HBA) directly to a disk-array enclosure (DAE), taking the storage-processor out of the equation? Would something like Openfiler have this capability? Can it be done without Openfiler?
Note sure how the drives could be provisioned for R...
Planning for the worst.
Want to be able to take a backup created using Sharepoint Farm backup in 2010 central admin and restore this onto a completely different server.
Is this possbile?
If so, how?
If not, how to mitigate hardware loss?
