to be fair we have no 10-member VC blocks, largest is 7 or 8 but most of ours are 2 or 4 'wide'
actually that's what I was buying those BL685's for that I mentioned the other week, an odd choice I know but the cost was too appealing and they're fine as an MSSQL cluster member
well, it is a bit, I can't see why it's done the way it is but there's probably a good reason I'm not aware of, I'd always rather have larger cluster, safety in numbers, plus you can deal with the peaks and troughs better and have more capacity in the event of a host failure. The just use vApps or Resource Pools to manage the load and security
I have a CSV file containing about 60 Millions email IDs. I want them in my Outlook. But when I try to import them, Outlook crashes every time.
So is there any trick/shortcut by which I can get them in my Outlook?
Please help ASAP.
@ewwhite This is natural, you're getting older and can see a wider field of play than you previously let yourself see, now you see schedules, budgets, politics, priorities and most importantly people and teams, you can only do so much so your 'low level' skills fall back, it's inevitable - the trick is not to lose interest in that stuff even if you don't have time
@MichaelHampton when I was a kid single people wrote computer games, I have a friend who runs a games company and they don't even do any of the artwork in this continent any more, the code's written by 100+ staff and their testers are in the thousands
I'm in SU's chat room today watching the conversation. I think this is going to end up being one of their "famous" questions. Or "infamous".
I even removed my downvote, just so I could see what happens.
Just got another spam via IPv6. I think this is about my fourth one since I rolled out a month or so ago. Can't wait for DNSBL's to start listing IPv6 blocks like this one.
No client should ever be connecting to Port 25 (except in the very rare circumstances of testing, which people who should be testing should also know how to get around a silly little firewall block)
I have Comcast Business. I expect port 25 to be open, and it is. If I had residential service I would expect it to be blocked. Is this so unreasonable?
I mean come on, are all your edge routers Linksys boxes you picked up at Best Buy or what?
I'm starting to be of the opinion that business class service should block port 25 too, and have an easy option in your account control panel to unblock it for specific IPs. And if the ISP sees you trying to send to Port 25 (and being blocked) they can call you to explain the situation and if you need it unblocked.
("last guy to have your range unblocked it, so it's unblocked for you" kind of deal, because they don't tear down the firewall config on their FWSM between customers)
@ChrisS If I had to do real routing I'd spring for Cisco. I just have to handle shit inside my private network and hand the rest off to the ISP so I can be a cheap bastard :)
I've come to appreciate the cost-benefit balance of used Cisco Routers... You can pickup a Cisco 2821 for a few hundred on eBay and have a VPN Router, with VoIP service, and even stick a 802.11g module in there to have a complete small business solution.
(the WiFi thing does make it attractive for an office, except our server closet is in the hall behind 2 brick-and-steel walls so it'd be like getting AT&T cell signal in midtown Manhattan)
@ChrisS We're a "small business" (<100 employees). They just forked out the cash for a competent sysadmin.
(at least I like to pretend I'm competent. As long as no Windows machines come along I can maintain that illusion.)
For <$2000 in equipment I can outfit a business with a 2800 series router with VoIP, 14-hour voicemail, integrated Cable Modem, 16 port PoE Switch, 802.11g, and a handful of VoIP phones.
@ewwhite Yeah, bit thin on theory myself. Told my school they could shove their Fortran, PL/1, and VAX Assembler up their ass and started on the ground floor doing help desk.
Theory is overrated. Especially what they teach in college. When I was tutoring students on classes I hadn't even taken yet, I finally realized I was wasting my money - and time.
@MichaelHampton Absolutely nothing wrong with a setup like that; as long as you can find support. Not saying it doesn't exist or anything; but if I get hit by a bus someone can just call the name on the box (pay an arse-load of money) and get support.
's why I don't like small/medium/large business classifications - I've worked for 100+ person companies that were happy with a Netgear 4-port wonderbox as their edge infrastructure :)
@ChrisS nah you see it in large companies too - I worked for a hospital where edge filtering was handled by OpenBSD
@Adrian 6. (That was here before I started. Six 5-port Netgear switches, with wall warts, plugged into electrical squids, in the production rack at our colo)
((Beats the company at $job[-1] that ran for like 2 years on a 4-port hub powered by a 12V power supply + cigarette lighter adapter on a shelf in their rack. We found out about this when the cigarette adapter worked its way out of the power supply socket and their environment went down. And THIS is why some datacenters don't allow clients to rack and stack gear.))
@voretaq7 Lovely. My outbound interstitial setup here is roughly 5-6 Netgear/DLink SOHO firewalls plugged into a 16-port switch with connection to all the external-facing server. It's a lot of a mess, no doubt about it. Lots of manual routing entries pointing hither and yon to particular ISP connections.
we feel confident enough to take a bigger role in this projects than in the past. Both of us see this as an opportunity to expand our knowledge, gain experience, and improve the infrastructure. We're not Systems Engineers but we feel like we've learned an awful lot over the last 5 years and that we're ready to take a step forward...
Does anyone know how to boot Solaris 11 form an internal/external HDD? I have already done dual boot form CD ROM. I just need to knoww how to boot from a USB Flash Drive and/or a HDD.
@voretaq7 No, that was for the old ugly Macs. The new pretty Macs run something called "OS X", which as best I can tell is just a rebadged version of NeXT.
I've created an SPF record on 123-Reg, which is working great. But my question is how Exchange servers know that an SPF record exists when they receive mail from a domain. How does Exchange know it needs to check the domain's DNS provider, 123-Reg in this instance, for a SPF record, in order to c...
yes I enjoy inflicting pain on idiots who can't be assed to look up RFCs and understand how the internet fucking works. But since I can't actually print the relevant RFCs and hit these people with them until they cry, then until they stop crying, then until they cry again, it's somehow less satisfying.
@JeffFerland You! Security guy! You smack this one around:
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, there is an option called AcceptEnv that allows the ssh client to send environment variables. I need to be able to send a large number of environment variables. These change on every connection from the client, so putting them in a login script on the server would be mo...
@voretaq7 To be perfectly fair to said idiot, there's no guarantee that Exchange behaves correctly regarding ANY of the RFCs.
Is it bad form to link to particularly idiotic .SE user profiles?
Including one dork on the wordpress site who can't spell and carefully manages his rep to stay at 666.
@JoelESalas Friend of mine was doing consulting work for a company that wanted to migrated to a modern database. The "DB" they were using could only export in CSV form. It had binary blobs embedded in some of the fields.
@Adrian no, in fact it's pretty much guaranteed to ignore or outright blatantly violate them. But that's how it would know you had an SPF record and what to do with it (assuming it actually cares)
@JoelESalas This is true. Was a lot easier to code crappy flat-file shite like Paradox way back then and sell it.
I think we ran Paradox here in the late 90s to early 2Ks before we moved to PHP and MySQL and eventually to Postgres. That was back before MySQL had transactions though, and we really did have to switch.
A good thing, since I think it took MySQL a year or two longer to get transactions than the Dev team claimed it would take.
@voretaq7 Yes, though I rather wish my Devs wouldn't store quite so much of the business logic in the database. There's no way to version control that stuff.
@Adrian One of my previous bosses implemented A* breadth-first tree traversal in SQL Server 2000-level TSQL. It is one of the slowest implementations of anything I've ever encountered
@Adrian I'm a huge fan of enforcing business logic (especially constraints) in the DB -- The front end can always fuck up, but if the DB won't accept bad data you'll never have a mess to clean up because your front-end devs don't believe in testing.
I have a CSV file containing about 60 Millions email IDs. I want them in my Outlook. But when I try to import them, Outlook crashes every time.
So is there any trick/shortcut by which I can get them in my Outlook?
Please help ASAP.
Does anyone know how to boot Solaris 11 form an internal/external HDD? I have already done dual boot form CD ROM. I just need to knoww how to boot from a USB Flash Drive and/or a HDD.
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, there is an option called AcceptEnv that allows the ssh client to send environment variables. I need to be able to send a large number of environment variables. These change on every connection from the client, so putting them in a login script on the server would be mo...
