Right, back to trying to archive 32GB of files over a flaky and heavily-used 2Mb/s link. I have had to explain several times why it's going to take a week or two to move the files around, and there's not much I can do to improve that.
@BrentPabst Sandler, or Chopper3? I hope for the latter, myself.
I'm developing a banking software using php and that will be used over the internet. What are some of the security steps I should take in db design, programming, hosting...? thanks.
i like to play in CAD software and design blue prints for a house i will build someday when i have money. My money is earmarked for the next 10 years (ish)
that way when i run into the money, i'm ready to spend it - just feed it through a real architect to put in support beams and shit
@JourneymanGeek same as with apple laptops. need to look past the price and understand that they made the leather from the skin of a baby's ass - thats where the price comes in :)
It was an IP address range regex, so "192." becomes "do whatever my last command was 192 times". Of course, my last command was pasting a different regex on the line above...
Says kdc-service only needs read access. This is only somewhat true. In order to log last success/fail attempt in the db need write access to certain attributes. Makes me wonder what else is wrong with the guide.
Other than that they want to put the db under another db, rather than as it's own.
At least the program's built in documentation is pretty good... I just hate that I have to use the "/?" switch 10 times to figure out what commands I want and what their syntax is.
Also, no space separation for arguments that take paths means you can't use tab-completion. This makes me sad.
@voretaq7 Yeah, I can use my vacation time, but whenever I take time off the mountain of things to do just piles up... So the longer I'm away the worse it's going to be when I get back.
@ewwhite at that point I'd ask for the days to be paid out. (most companies actually have a limit and if you accumulate enough days they start forcing you to take money, or zap them entirely)
In general, I think it's the American fear that if we take vacations... and everything goes smoothly in our absence, then we're not critical (hence: expendable)
@LucasKauffman I think I've posted this on here before sorry but for a bag I've got a version of one of these but slightly altered to take a 17" MBP - htleather.co.uk/briefcases/the-full-monty
I don't understand why people don't understand that concept. I see a company where the sysadmin leaves and everyone panics and what I really see is a sysadmin who is utterly incompetent.
@voretaq7 You have to show where your value is. In every job, I've been replaced by multiple people. I was pushed out for making too much $$ and generally being a terror...
but it took the company 4 years to recover and a total of 6 engineers to replace me.
@LucasKauffman he's the most typically-British famous bloke I know, most british celebrities are nothing like the normal 'man on the street' but he's exactly that
I have been tasked with designing a secure network for a company that has offices scattered around the UK and a headquarters located abroad where the servers are also located. Each office has a local network that is connected through the public network. They require that all desktops at these loc...
@Chopper3 Truth be told, when I saw that on Twitter I was expecting something like ratemypoo-dot-com. WillItFlush-dot-com. Place bets on whether that log is going to go down the river without any assistance.
I just realized that this is probably the last 24 day in a row holyday I will have here in spain for the coming 40 years... that's a depressing thought actually
turned out, she deleted her english paper on her personal laptop and thought it wise to wake me up and have me drive into work to tell her it was gone forever
I am wondering if (in any state of development) there exists a filesystem that can inherit files from another filesystem, but changes made on that mount point would only affect that mount point.
This would be sort of like a distributed filesystem that only synchronizes inward and never outward, ...
I recently purchased some software which will only run on the 64bit version of Windows, so I need to do a clean install of the 64bit version of Server 2008. When I ran the Intel Process Utility it told me that my processor was 64bit capable, but when I boot in WinPE (no DVD drive you see) and run...
@LucasKauffman See, it'd be 13 hours each way by plane and cost a dead minimum of $900 USD for me to get there and back. You can go for almost nothing.
@ewwhite Yeah. Windows Pre-Installation Environment. It's a super lightweight version of Windows, same one used for Windows Setup in Vista+. The WinAIK comes with the tools to build your own WinPE image (for CD, USB drive, HD, or PXE boot), where it boots to a command prompt.
I never use SmartStart anymore... Too much HP bloat.
I find it invaluable for servicing machines.. I've got a PXE boot setup for WinPE where I can run imagex, mstsc, msert (virus detection tool), BIOS/firmware updates, and a slew of other junk^H^H^H^H tools.
@ewwhite sort of but you do spam your answers in here more than any one else - it's almost like you're trying to game the system by getting the well known rep bump from doing so as much as possible ;)
@ewwhite I'm sold, just need to convince my boss that spending an extra $2000 above our budget (which was based on a CDW quote from last year) is worth it. He's pretty good about that stuff, so shouldn't be an issue, but he's on stay-cation right now. So I think he's ignoring me. =]
@ewwhite Hyper-V cluster. I've got nothing against BL490s as we don't need HDs in them... The BL460 is just super popular, so that's what I was looking at.
@ewwhite the problem with the 490 is that unless you're happy to boot from SD/USB you HAVE to buy SSDs to boot from ($$$$) and the G6 490's didn't have any form of RAID
Meh. I suppose if the shop doesn't have someone who understands it already, you're right.
My only problem with iSCSI boot was the directions for installing Windows to the LUN were farking wrong (both HP and Broadcom's versions). I finally just built an image and injected the correct drivers, then wrote that to the LUN.
@MDMarra I suppose you could make the argument that PXE doesn't require you to buy the SD cards, but that's pretty weak. The technology that enables both is the same, so that's why both got added.
@MDMarra We extensively used a PXE/WinPE/APF/ADF chain to build out 'Vision 1.0' as it was all physical/MS - worked a treat, not quick but very consistent - thanks have moved on a bit today though obviously, this was 2005
@chriss Almost $1000 less than the BL460c G7's I quoted, so if you can get by with the BL490, it's not a bad deal. Only have 9 units left at that price, though.
@MDMarra I used to use DSL and knoppix to PXE boot kiosks and point-of-sale terminals... it's fine.
If you're going to run ESXi from an SD card remember to use the manufacturer's version of the code for SD, they change the settings so it doesn't write so much - 'regular' ESXi will kill an SD card in days
@Chopper3 Really? So download the HP install for ESXi? I've done that in some cases, but in others, downloaded the ESXi image from VMWare and installed the HP tool and utilities after the fact. They all seem to end up working the same way once update manager is done.
@ChrisS Oooh makes me shiver. You just brought up memories of a few years ago making Win2003 do iSCSI software boot over a bonded ethernet device. Which MS & Broadcom said couldn't be done.
@TylerShads Yeah, it takes about 2-3 minutes to boot WinPE and all that jazz; a couple minutes to copy the image down to the machine; another minute to reboot... This is assuming I have the NIC drivers in my WinPE image already, have an image to write to that model of machine and don't have to dink with injecting drivers, that the image is one of the smaller ones (some of our images have 20GB of crap^H^H^H^H line-of-business software installed)...
And you use WDS? Hm, something is very wrong with my setup then, takes about 5 min to get to the language select screen, then another ~15-20 min for windows to install.
and thats with some automation + having network drivers already.
I tested my WDS on a brand new vostro 260 yesterday, took about that long in total before it asked me for product key (lol @ $BOSS being too cheap for an enterprise key)
@TylerShads I built the WinPE image myself, so I don't use the WDS Client that talks with the WDS Server; I just skip right to a batch script that selects the image from a network share and starts writing it right away.
I don't run Windows Setup either, the batch script just writes a wim it finds on the network with the imagex utility.
I got mad fighting with stuff that should be simple in WDS and just wrote that quick batch file... it calls diskpart with a script to configure the partitions layout and formats them.
Is this possible to replace windows xp logon ui (i mean gina) with a win32 application? I don't talk a about writing a dll and replace it with windows original gina dll, I mean a proper interactive win32 application like notepad.exe
@ChrisS It lays out properly, just no format, I should probably go back and do that stuff. Haven't touched it since April before yesterday due to other projects.
@TylerShads In XP you could override the logon shell... for instance to replace it with a custom fingerprint program or facial recog. I have no idea why he would want to launch a program instead.
@TylerShads The initial welcme screen, or a usable desktop?
The initial welcome screen before "Finishing Installation" was maybe 20-25 min for ~30 workstations with 100Mb connections over a 1Gbe backhaul using unicast (gross, I know)
@TylerShads There's an option for something like "WillWipeDisk" or whatever, set that to true
I don't work at that job any more, though. And I don't have anything to do with desktop deployment at my new gig
So, I'm afraid I can't spit out any specific XML snippets :(
The only modifications that I ever made were to the offline base .wim using DISM to integrate windows patches offline
@TylerShads Right, but I don't know how having pre-defined volume labels and shiz interacts with the disk options in the unattend files and what-have-you
There could be some black magic there that I'm unaware of, because I never had to touch it
I had to muddle with DISM yesterday for a network driver, but not bothering with updates cause I have WSUS. Unless that's an idiotic thing to say,then I'll reconsider.
We had WSUS as well, but not having to install like 60 updates, then reboot, then 10 more, then reboot, then 2 more was necessary for us
We used WSUS to keep deployed systems patched, but one of our internal requirements was that systems were deployed with patches no more than 60 days out of date
It's much faster to update the base image offline before deployment though. Especially helpful when someone's got a virus and you're wiping their machine.
I had it automated so that I would just download the .msu files to a specific directory, then I had a batch script that would extract it, expand it, copy the cabs to a staging directory, and then call dism to import them into an offline image
@ChrisS Right, but at any given time, these switches with 1Gb uplinks would be pegged because of the imaging
Better to just have the updates into the image than have a separate process sucking down more bandwidth postimage
I've toyed with SCCM as it has the ability to distribute images via multicast, but I could rarely get it's Client program to work correctly... Way too much secret sauce in that system to figure out why things failed all the time.
I'm developing a banking software using php and that will be used over the internet. What are some of the security steps I should take in db design, programming, hosting...? thanks.
Is this possible to replace windows xp logon ui (i mean gina) with a win32 application? I don't talk a about writing a dll and replace it with windows original gina dll, I mean a proper interactive win32 application like notepad.exe
