Specifically with Nginx, you will pass the configure script specific parameters as noted [here].1
A new version of Nginx means you will have to download the source and rebuild and install it again, each time. Once you build from source, your package manager has nothing to do with that package. T...
Some years ago in my uni days I recall that the uni labs booted windows nt over the network.
There was a shared drive for your own stuff, and other than that any changes you did to the running OS were reset when you restarted the machine.
Now I'd like to be able to do the same thing with Windows...
Yes, SELinux makes Red Hat (and any other Linux distribution that actually uses it) more secure, assuming it's actually in use.
SELinux implements mandatory access control. Normal Unix permissions, ACLs, etc., implement discretionary access control. The two complement each other.
In order to wo...
Searched Serverfault (and Google) for this, haven't been able to find an answer... We copied a VM (folder and files) from an ESXi 5.0 server (5.0.0-623860) to an ESXi 4.0 server (4.0.0-261974). (Also, the 5.0 server is licensed, and the 4.0 server is the free version.) Now when we try to start th...
IT has been asking me to give them a budget to upgrade our company servers.
This project will be very expensive at a time we just finished downsizing.
They are requesting a little bit over 100,000 dollars to upgrade to Intel Modular servers, new licenses for windows server 2008, all new routers ...
@MarkHenderson Because Microsoft is wasteful with RAM, besides how much can I need the Plug and Play service? It's just for joysticks and stuff, right? Let me stop it on our main DB server...
@HopelessN00b - not sure I agree with your comments regarding 2KR2 admin accounts. I don't think a domain admin account is any less hackable than a local admin account, excluding physical access to the machine (In which case you're fucked regardless). I've also never seen it recommended to rename the account, either - that's just security through obscurity IMHO.
@JoelESalas Remember memmaker (I think) in DOS, too? I never did quite understand that (Something to do with moving stuff to extended memory?), but good old dad used it to get my games going :D
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Can you help me with my capacity planning?
I am planning to hosing an rails application + Mysql in dedicated server
maximum 200 replicated rails application with 200 unique databases
simply for understanding
www.client1.product.com use client1 rails applicatio...
I loved this game so much - even if we did have to upgrade to 8Mb of RAM to make it work properly...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_2
@JoelESalas Yep, I think I agree
@Ward Was it Windows 95 and 98 that still had true DOS behind, so you'd install a program and then spend an age faffing with the shortcut properties to sort out config.sys and autoexec.
Someone in finance wanted to know how much the FY13-14 budget was for rack support - as it happens we have a few very odd/secure ones - but they thought we had to pay annual support on our regular 19" racks
i've told aspiring designers to do that in the past. take a ugly website and redo it for practice. i tried once with the apache website. which is why i never became a designer haha
I've got a server with a bunch of IP addresses, and I only want Apache listening on one of them. It doesn't sound like a hard thing to do, and I've done it once before a while ago, but I'm having some trouble this time around. First off, here's where I'm at now, to my understanding:
Every place ...
surely though, if you think a piece of software isn't doing something you want it to, the first place you go is the config file, no? especially on what looks like a fresh install - i would anyways
@MarkHenderson @ShaneMadden - re: that VMWare question edit - I actually wrote it as mm8 etc. but then panicked thinking I'd got it wrong and didn't have time to check, I'd meant to come and fix it later but it was already done - so cheers for that, and it's 'testicle' too, not 'testical' ;)
@Dan I didn't say domain accounts were more secure. I just prefer them because they're less of a pain in the ass. As to recommendations, it's what MS considers best practice, and rightfully so. Gives an external hacker one more thing he needs to guess if he's trying to come in through that vector.
To be honest, I've seen it done every place I've worked that had a major Windows footprint, and do it myself out of habit now. Was surprised to see not everyone bothers, actually.
@HopelessN00b nope, we create another local account for that
not sure if it helps in any way of security means, but it atleast means that I can hide the real admin password in case a disgruntled employee finds it fit to mess around
@pauska You'd be better to use something like NetApp snapmirrors between data centres for that kind of thing, if anything goes wrong you can just wind back any mirror to a previous snapped moment in time
@BartDeVos No, you can have 100 different SAN's being corrupted at the same time. If file X gets mangled in one place it will get replicated to all the other locations, unless you use stuff like snapmirror/recoverpoint etc
Most of mine last 3 to 5 years if they're almost never used. They're lead-acid batteries normally and draining them more than 20% DOD starts damaging them (hitting 80% DOD really starts cooking them).
@pauska @ewwhite Debian didn't decide to completely throw away 40 years of Unix history/knowledge in favor of their own special and unique way of doing things :)
@ewwhite It's a little more exciting when it's "holy shit I just plugged in a power supply and now smoke is billowing out and the midplane looks red-hot"
We'll probably move to manhattan when our lease here is up, but I'm agitating to move the office to Melville so I can reverse-commute and not have to spend money on our shitty-ass railroad :)
@ewwhite Back in my ISP and consulting days (our NYC POP was at 60 Hudson, I did a lot of work with IBM at 590 Madison, and back before someone flew some planes into 'em the banks I worked for were mostly in the WTC)
From the HP newsletter: "Choose passwords that use a variety of letters, figures, symbols and cases. Try putting your hands on the keyboard and just typing randomly—a gibberish password can be very secure."
"Use similar-looking substitutions to create alternatives for words that you remember easily. For example, the number zero can replace the letter “O” and the dollar sign can replace the letter “S.”"
but the random bit... just no. 1000 computers all with a yellow post-it note on the side with their password because they'll never remember that shit.
@ewwhite eh, it's not ass-bleeding rape, but it's not like I could do away with my car so I wouldn't be saving a huge amount of money.
just quick in my head math, I spend about $200-250/mo on gas. RR pass would be like $300-350ish and my fuel bill would probably drop to like $80-100, so it's not like I come out ahead
(there's some pre-tax jiggery-pokery I can do with the mass transit that makes it a little more favorable, but I still come out about 100 bucks behind the curve either way)
@ewwhite lots of people live in manhattan proper (mainly north of 59th street and/or south of Houston), but the outer boroughs (Bk, Qns, Bx) are substantially more affordable
and your mass transit options there aren't suck-tastic like they are out on Long Island or in Westchester
Google's mass transit time tables are pretty accurate (since the MTA started releasing the Master Schedule), so drop a pin near $job and then tell it to get you transit directions from various spots in the outer boroughs :)
@ewwhite yeah give or take about 15 minutes. It's bearable if you can have a one or two seat ride.
@ewwhite eh, people always say our transit system is confusing
The subway is very simple. Busses run on the surface, and are therefore made of suck and to be avoided (so I know next to nothing about them except that they exist and some of them bend in half when they make turns)
The Second Avenue Subway has been "being built" for a little over 2 decades now. The 7 train extension to 34th/11th has been being talked about for at least that long and is just now starting engineering
@ewwhite we have those - we call it "track work" though
for all the shit I give the MTA the subway (and to a lesser extent, bus) system within NYC proper is quite good
It's just shit as soon as you leave NYC proper - crappy commuter railroad that can't be used for local transportation, and a bus system that just got (re)privatized
@voretaq7 For 100TB? I would just buy a fuckload of 7200.11s, make each one a pv, and create a single volume group that spanned all of em. What's the worst that could happen.
I need to store 100+ tb data on several servers, so I understand this is possible with distributed file systems. I also need the system be fault tollerant.
So if one server is down, I do not want the system to die because of this. Also I want to do this in the most [space] efficent way.
I li...
@voretaq7 I'm one of those lowly no-access-to-moderator-tools users, so no.
@Chopper3 Am a sadist because my first thought was telling him exactly how to implement it, in a cheap, easy to setup way, using Windows software RAID?
(just the 3 [closed] questions from the first page)
@HopelessN00b does serverfault.com/tools/posts/migrated/here work for you? I thought you got that at 3k but I could be completely wrong (I'm a bad mod, I don't know what rep gets you which privileges)
Could you maybe pop over to SO's main chat room and politely ask them to stop doing that please, I'd offer to do it but you don't want me to start a holy jihad, not with me going on holiday tomorrow
I think what you really want to do is use the SSD's to increase the speed of the drives. I would suggest looking at something like virsto (virsto.com), to virtualize the storage. Then you can use the SSDs in a separate array (if you really want to mirror them) and not limit them to the speeds o...
Now, even his non-MS answers are borderline retarded
I moved my ESXi 5.0 server into a colo about 3 weeks back and ever since then, I've had issues with the server spontaneously powering down and coming back up. I previously had the server sitting at my house for close to a month while I was on vacation. During that time, the server did not go do...
"Yeah, there was an electrical storm.. oh, and only one power supply... and yeah, I'm using a Dell controller in a SuperMicro.... and what do the VMWare tools do?"
@MDMarra I... I just can't. It's far too tempting for my inner BOFH. I have this not-entirely-unfounded fear that I'll start trying to get users to format their systems with a LiveCD if I deem their question "too dumb."
@ewwhite Yeah, that made me laugh. ~"Do power issues make my server reboot??" Really? Who has to ask that?
@HopelessN00b I didn't think you could use Dell controllers in other systems. Maybe it's not that weird. But we may just have a flaky power strip or power supply.
I think they're just rebranded controllers anyway. At least they used to be. I'm not into the whole frankenbox thing, but there's no reason it won't work, if you really want to. Meh.
@Chopper3 Getting off just makes the experience not ruin your life. It's still a shitty experience. What we deserve for letting paper-pushers and sociopaths rule the world, I suppose.
This one guy had been told a year ago he needed to pay $100, he asked for a delay again today... Judge took one look at him and said, no how about you serve 60 days in jail instead... see you back in a month to contest that.
Yes, SELinux makes Red Hat (and any other Linux distribution that actually uses it) more secure, assuming it's actually in use.
SELinux implements mandatory access control. Normal Unix permissions, ACLs, etc., implement discretionary access control. The two complement each other.
In order to wo...
![[shortly] ... he ate ALL of it!?](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/michael_phelps.png "[shortly] ... he ate ALL of it!?")
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Can you help me with my capacity planning?
I am planning to hosing an rails application + Mysql in dedicated server
maximum 200 replicated rails application with 200 unique databases
simply for understanding
www.client1.product.com use client1 rails applicatio...
I need to store 100+ tb data on several servers, so I understand this is possible with distributed file systems. I also need the system be fault tollerant.
So if one server is down, I do not want the system to die because of this. Also I want to do this in the most [space] efficent way.
I li...
I think what you really want to do is use the SSD's to increase the speed of the drives. I would suggest looking at something like virsto (virsto.com), to virtualize the storage. Then you can use the SSDs in a separate array (if you really want to mirror them) and not limit them to the speeds o...
I moved my ESXi 5.0 server into a colo about 3 weeks back and ever since then, I've had issues with the server spontaneously powering down and coming back up. I previously had the server sitting at my house for close to a month while I was on vacation. During that time, the server did not go do...
