Third time in a row that an ONTRAC package from Amazon was late. This time they gave me $5 for my inconvenience. I'm thinking I should start complaining about it every time time. Might end up paying out my Prime membership in promo credits...
@Iain What a strange difference in lands. It's 11 at night, 91 degrees F and clear. Will probably not drop below 70F, day or night, for the next four months. Will probably not see rain except for a few raging monsoons that last a day, until late August.
Actually, the monsoons blow in for a few hours and then leave.
We've had wet and windy conditions for a couple of days it's due to die down so I may get out later - next week seems more promising but it's still going to be cooler than it should be
@Iain I skipped most of bike to work week because it was mostly raining, and since then it's been raining even more. Had hail and torrential downpours today, alternating with bright periods.
I'm feeing that I should tell someone the firewall has kicked out at work, but I also thinking - if they've not noticed then no one else is monitoring things and as I've been told not too keep an eye on things that maybe I will just deny all knowledge
@Dan I think Pavel is correct and 5 isn't a harmonic of 2.4 so you won't get that kind of interference either but there really is only one way to be sure - can you borrow an AP from someone ?
@Iain Yeah, I can probably nick one from my parents next week. I did Google, but information seemed surprisingly sparse. I suppose it's a bit of an edge case
@Iain I can't imagine a more awkward conversation as they ask why :D On a serious note, I try to keep the fact that I'm in IT pretty quiet so as to avoid "You don't have just ten minutes do you....?"
I will test it and report back at some point, someone might chuck some nice science into an answer though
It truly pains me with some of the networking questions I see. There's SO many people who barely 'get' network security under IPv4 that IPv6 is going to freak them right the hell out.
@Adrian Downvoting cPanel because cPanel or sifting cPanel questions because of the high likelihood of poor content and then downvoting based on content?
I have a problem with Outlook 2010 and OST files.
First my exhange hosting company deleted my exchange account by accident. They've created it on another server, but can't get the data back.
Now I did make a copy of the \users\name\appdata\local\outlook directory. So I have the original OST fil...
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J'ai 2 routeurs A et B relié en série avec les ip respectives ( 10.0.0.1/30 10.0.0.2/30) sur le routeur A j'ai activé la fonction NAT avec un pool (200.0.0.1 - 200.0.0.15/28).
Lorsque je sors je prends donc un ip du pool par exemple 200.0.0.10.
Comment ça fonctionne sacha...
doesn't quite work that way, we have certain enterprise all-you-can-eat licences across the company - for instance we get every Oracle product (apart from whatever the bought in the last 3 months or so) for one big cross-company price - this is why we use Oracle's own Linux, and their DBs etc. - well the same is true for vmware products, most are covered but we can only get ent plus licences for instance
@Iain And yes, I think you'd be well within mod rights to one-punch it.
The "how to recursively find a file in Linux question." It's no where near something that's pro related. If a person was a pro, they'd Google it and find it in 2 seconds like I did not too long ago when I suddenly had to support Linux systems.
@BartDeVos Like all the hot women? Wait... are belgian women hot? I think Americans assume all non-Americans are hot.
@ewwhite Wow, that's a tough dilemma. =( I've made it a policy to walk away from clients that are in a licensing mess and have no intent on rectifying things. I don't care how awesome the gravy train of paid invoices is, if they're okay with burning one vendor, they'll be okay with burning me some day.
@WesleyDavid I have recently found myself getting quite aggressive at closing questions that fall below the standard I would hope to see or aren't sufficiently on topic. Unfortunately some people disagree so I'm exercising some restraint.
Here's a feature I'd like: "Will be mod-closed in n hours if not properly edited."
So you can mark it for assassination if there's not an edit of more than a certain amount of characters within a certain amount of time.
Maybe just a token amount, like 10 characters. The character amount would be unknown to the OP, but would be reasonable enough to where any edit of any decency would bump the mark of death off.
Man, that's harsh. Getting a critical business system that is 1) Totally mis-designed, and then 2) Not compliant and running the risk of legal action should someone in-the-know blow the whistle.
When you look into the abyss of new questions, be careful lest the abyss stare into you...
...and you fantasize about bleeding their loved ones out in front of them while you laugh wickedly from your seat in a small red car next to a cartoon bear.
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@Iain Where's your choppertar? You should start using that now that you're drunk on power. =P
But no, I've not seen a mod hammer thrown from your hand that was over the top.
I'd be no less brutal if I had gotten the diamond.
Which, I'm not sure comforts you. "At least I'm not as bad as that deranged kitten over there!"
@ewwhite VMware pricing is one of the most brutal pricing tiers for the target audience. Oracle is bad, but are they really going for the SMB? Nope. Not with any passion, anyway. VMware's bread and butter is, from the numbers I've seen, in the medium sized business.
@Iain I know it's frustrating when you're in a crunch with your back to a wall, but under regular circumstances, I don't understand on why people wouldn't want to read the manual.
Books and manuals are so much fun. I'm looking at my Exim book right now and thinking ohhh, that would be a great Saturday afternoon...
@Dan They know that for their core products they've passed the peak of the bell-curve and it's just margin-erosion all the way now - hence why they're buying up lots of 'ecosystem' products (vCOPs etc.) - it's a way fo tying their existing customers to them for longer - not necessarily turning a profit on those actual new products
My argument to them would be to ask them to serious consider un-virtualising - do the calculations, work out how many cheapo servers they'd need - it might actually be cheaper than paying for licences, then when it doesn't work out that way, and it probably won't - ask them why they don't hot-wire vans and cars for their staff, because that's what they're doing with code
@Chopper3 SuperMicro SuperMicro rah! rah! rah! Oh sure they shake, rattle and roll the cage and might not fit into standard rails, but those are minor details.
the client... remember, this was probably the most exciting project/toy that they've had... so I don't think they reached out for the best-practices or to get expertise.
It's a tough balance. I can go into any of the client sites I work with and see bad things being done... But the goal sometimes is to not sh*t on everyone else's work.
@ewwhite Well, I was just thinking that, unless those higher than the IT manager are kept in a fog about the whole thing, the IT department might not be trusted anymore to do bigger projects like that without some outside help even if it's just a consultant like you coming in and giving pointers.
I mean, having you come in for a day or three is just a few grand. You can guide them and their thoughts and help them decide what to do. That's better than what happened: "Oh hey, this is awesome! We get to build something!" months later "Nothing is working and we'll have to rip and reload it all! We just wasted tens of thousands!"
So I hope they take their lumps and let you design things at least well enough to get them back on the tracks and moving forward.
But it's something that I see as an outsider... how do you keep your internal IT staff engaged and learning? I know a lot more from consulting than what's I've picked up internally.
New rule: I will not accept clients that use 1and1. =P Although, the BS that 1and1 causes does increase billing hours, but this isn't the way I like to make my living. Yeesh.
I have a problem with Outlook 2010 and OST files.
First my exhange hosting company deleted my exchange account by accident. They've created it on another server, but can't get the data back.
Now I did make a copy of the \users\name\appdata\local\outlook directory. So I have the original OST fil...
English version below
J'ai 2 routeurs A et B relié en série avec les ip respectives ( 10.0.0.1/30 10.0.0.2/30) sur le routeur A j'ai activé la fonction NAT avec un pool (200.0.0.1 - 200.0.0.15/28).
Lorsque je sors je prends donc un ip du pool par exemple 200.0.0.10.
Comment ça fonctionne sacha...
