Yeah, I said earlier that that comment was just pure gold. It really is.
Maybe I just think that because I said almost the exact same thing to our CTO a week back, to mean the exact same thing. (~"whatever, dumbass, shoot your balls off for all I care.") And he didn't catch on either, lol.
@hopeless @chopper3 Slight update. The client says that they feel like they know more than they used to... and are up to the challenge of building a Microsoft Exchange and AD infrastructure.
@ewwhite Naw. What Brent said, and also, I assume experience. You know you can do it right. odds of a first-timer getting right on attempt #1 << odds of you doing it right.
@ewwhite :6135310 No. You've spent a lot time and (probably) money in developing your skills and you know what to do and how to do it right. People should respect that and trust your judgement when you say they need help rather than them hoping they can bodge it.
@ewwhite Personally, if it were me, I'd just leave them to it. Explain you won't be upset or bitter, and that it's down to them how they want to proceed. Also add you'd be happy to come and help in future, for a fee obviously
Because it sounds to me that, even if you were to do the work, they'd be over your shoulder questioning every decision with phrases such as "Oh, I read on Yahoo that you shouldn't do that"
That's why some of the questions here annoy me. People have spent a lifetime building their skills and when they comment on questions and get shouted down by the OP it's case of "on your head be it".
in all seriousness, when we did the basic math it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to run your own exchange box unless you have more than 200 mailboxes
Considering that Windows makes heavy use of the pagefile even with huge amounts of RAM available, is it not best to have this pagefile on the fastest disk possible as close to the virtual systems as possible?
I'm thinking, RAM disk.
Where I work, storage for VMs is out on a NAS/SAN. I'm worried...
The first response was by Chopper3 in a provocative, incredulous tone, with capitals and dismissing my idea as 'nuts'. At no point have I been rude or aggressive and yet I'm the bad guy. Close the question please someone. — Luke Puplett1 min ago
Internally managed Exchange? It's not a defacto bad idea, but these guys *will* fuck it up, and generally, untill you get into ~1000+ mailboxes or terabytes of mail, my experience is that it's a waste of money.
Pay someone else ~5 bucks a mailbox and 5gig disk allotment per month, and make them deal with all the management and configuration headaches.
If these guys wanna spend the extra the money and man-hours to do so themselves, it's an option, but the "better deal" for the business-unit side of things is going to be hosted Exchange, by a wide margin.
@ewwhite Yours, and the general case. I have a recent client make the same "we want to teh controlz it!!!" decision. OK. Waste of money, but it's their money to waste.
@HopelessN00b I run a lot of internal exchange... mostly for speed. Internal network, and the desire to run in online mode. But all else equal, hosted Exchange isn't a bad option.
@MichaelHampton Freaking Brits. Come from a proper country with Anglo heritage and roots, and still dunno how to speak Merikun 20 years later?!?!? Pfft, must be in the class for countries learning-disabilities.
According to @balpha, he SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post.
Edit:
Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)
Oh a related note, crap. Rep-capped for the day. It's before noon, and I already need to find another way to avoid doing actual work at work. Life is so cruel!!!
Heh, not a bad idea, but the "actual work" I'm trying to avoid is writing up the same kind of "really, take my advice, you're paying me a fortune for it, and I really *do* know what I'm talking about" recommendations/justifications for our massive infra-refresh project.
So, that does not seem sufficiently different to distract me from the crap I'm trying to avoid doing. :)
@MichaelHampton Short version. Client calls today. They need a big infra change. Windows 2000, XP and 7 PC's. Main app is a Linux-based ERP that I support. But mail is on sendmail+dovecot on CentOS 4.4. 85 office users.
@MichaelHampton It was an uncomfy phone conversation... I did not know how to say, "this is more complex than you think it is... and I'm well-versed in it"
@ewwhite I hate Windoze and avoid it whenever possible, but I could probably muddle through it if I was forced to. I can't imagine somebody with no experience doing it.
@ewwhite Yeah, for the geometrically increasing complexity of all things SA, I fear and lament that you are correct. 'Course, I love being a well-rounded guy knowing enough about everything to make anything work. :(
Installing software is fair enough and anybody with a bit of guidance can go it. Thi isn't though. This is setting up a domain and exchange, something that could have bussiness-critical and finiancial issues if it goes wrong. Said it before, people should pay for expereince, if they don't want to then it's up to them. Document and log everything so when the time comes you can pull your bits of paper out and say "I told you so". Or, they might just do it. Ish.
Does that crap with the # after `www`in a url (www[#].domain.tld/[restofurl]) actually violate any RFCs, or is just something that bugs me, but doesn't violate any accepted standards?
I think my Apache rewrite rules need tweaking though. It's been a long time since I've used it; so far I've convinced 100% of my clients to use nginx :)
Type? Pfft, no typing. I just need to find a way to pull off a global DNS poisoning attack to redirect www[#].gotomeeting.com to my host instead to make a point/register my disgust with that practice.
Surely that wouldn't quaify as cyber-crime, or even cyber-terrorism, would it?
@ChrisS That links to a parked domain, according to Websense. (should be no-www.org and, ironically, not no-ww.org at least as far our webfilter is informing me.
@MichaelHampton Well, yeah, to both those thing, actually... but when I must use/administer gotomeeting access, it would be nice if wasna't a pain in my ass that involved a regex in the webfilter... I mean, come-the-hell-on.
@ewwhite @Chopper3 What's your thoughts on the new E5-2609 and the fact it doesn't support Hyperthreading. Is it powerful enough without in a virtualised environment?
It is on a Windows host, so that's not a horrible idea, except for the minimum week long lead time and obscene amounts of [electronic] paperwork/redtape involved in doing so around here.
Won't help anyway, so I'll just tell Websense to fix their shit instead.
Related to: Current wisdom on SQL Server and Hyperthreading
Recently we upgraded our Windows 2008 R2 database server from an X5470 to a X5560. The theory is both CPUs have very similar performance, if anything the X5560 is slightly faster.
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@ChrisS Oh, well now it doesn't block as a parked domain. Weird. I'd normally blame that on an obvious case of user error, but since I'm the user... I'm gonna go with... my shop's reliance on obsolete buzzword paradigms, such as not having my laptop hosted in the cloud yet.
Web filter test link - Tests the functionality of your web filtering appliance and provides a complete report which you can copy and paste for management review, saving you valuable time that you could be spending playing MW3 or something.
Oh, and I figured out the weirdness... somehow clicking that link the first time sent me to:
http://www.http.com/
Which actually is a parked domain. Still leaves me with a `WTFF` or two, but at least I like them better than a root cause of `luser-error-from-the-SA`
@r.tanner.f Is for me, but the company I work for is weird. They don't recognize, or allow me to partake in any of the "normal" server-hardware-fetish orgy times throughout the year. Prudes.
@84104 Actually, it's the ones that spin me left round that really float my boat. Rawwwrrrrr.
Oh fuck. And speaking of freaky fetishes that actually exist, the iSeries operator cornered me... shudder now I gotta go learn about that... unholy mess. BBL.
@JeffFerland Users can't file tickets here, only supervisors. Unfortunately, she found the most clueless manager in the org to file her ticket for her.
@MichaelHampton, @voretaq7 so if you wanted to run haproxy in an otherwise pure windows environment, what would you choose instead of ubuntu? in my limited experience, i was able to get ubutntu server up and running with the least amount of hassle, and with documentation that one of my coworkers could follow.
@longneck RH/CentOS is what I'm moving everything to (slowly). The last remaining Debian and Ubuntu boxes are the only ones that give me any real trouble.
According to @balpha, he SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post.
Edit:
Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)
Related to: Current wisdom on SQL Server and Hyperthreading
Recently we upgraded our Windows 2008 R2 database server from an X5470 to a X5560. The theory is both CPUs have very similar performance, if anything the X5560 is slightly faster.
However, SQL Server 2008 R2 performance has been prett...
