...me either. Still need to find a way to accidentally catch the occasional sound bite from it, though. It's like being stabbed in the ear with a penis, but without any of the good parts of ear-penis interaction.
@jscott Very true. And while the back door of the office may smell like a latrine in the morning, we're two blocks walking distance from a bunch of great bars.
@JoelESalas I didn't know there was any debate going on until... two hours ago when someone asked me if I was going to watch the debate. "What debate?"
@HopelessN00b No, I'm pretty sure it has the same asshole-posting-radical-party-affiliation-chest-thumping posting rate that FB has. But I don't do FB, I just hear people bitching about it :)
@jscott Fair enough. To be honest, I wouldn't know. This site is as close as I get to "social media." No FB, twits, Linked-in, or anything like it.
@jscott You would? I could see @voretaq7 wanting to see a masterbate with Obama and Romney, but I'm a little surprised to see you interested in such a thing, to be honest.
To get me interested, I think it would have to involve the wives, but hey, to each his own and all that.
I mean if the ref [do they call them 'ref' in a debate?] asked the candidates "When was the last time you masturbated?" I would, possibly, die from laughing.
@jscott I think it's moderator, or something like that. And while I'd love to see it, that sounds like something the FCC would literally crucify a person for.
Would it be pathetic to point out that I joined the school rugby team solely on the basis of hearing that each rugby team had a hooker on it?
SUSE Linux machine hangs while BIOS upgrade. When i do a manual power off and power on, the display does not comeback and i can see amber LED on the display tablet of my POS machine.
ALL the LEDS(HDD, power supply, Fan, Memoery error) on the tower(CPU) back also are on when i power on the machine...
@Adrian I don't know if I should be more irritated at you... or the PM whose assignments I'm procrastinating on... but I actually answered that freaking question, you bastid. >:/
You're screwed.
The way to fix this quickly is to use a different machine, and this very thing is the reason that BIOS and firmware updates come with a warning (usually a big, colorful one) not to power them system off during the update.
If it's even possible to recover the system from this (an...
@HopelessN00b This is why the major brands have dumped oodles of time (a drop in the bucket relatively speaking, but for the specific feature it's a lot) making their firmware update process completely infallible.
Most servers come with dual BIOS now; and the flash process is quite complicated where it writes certain areas in a incremental way... Much like a journaled file system actually.
@ChrisS Oh, nifty... did not know that... maybe BIOSes are worth a look these days. Sounds like they've evolved a lot since back in the day when they were so primitive they bored me to tears.
The one in my home workstation went bad last year during a flash.. That sure was fun, not.
It's a MSI board or something like that... I feel so pampered by HP's flash process, no booting to DOS with some crazy utility that stops responding for 3 minutes then comes back "Done" or "Error". All my laptops are now HP Elite Books (used go cheap on eBay).
I'd strongly consider switching the workstation, but I like to build my own computers too much.
@ChrisS That is sleek. Unfortunately, I must have the e-penis envy thing going on, or something, because I never go smaller than a full tower for my desktops. My most recent one weights over 100 pounds with everything I've stuffed in to it, and not surprisingly, functions as a slightly too effective space-heater in my den/computer room.
@Adrian My experience with IBM gear is that it's beautiful and awesome when it works. You can just leave it powered on in a corner for 15 years. When something goes bad, though, it goes REALLY bad.
@HopelessN00b I had all kinds of weird hardware failures... And the icing on the cake was the RAID HBA that stored the configuration in the Card's ROM. So if you switched drives it would try to use the same settings and fail; and if you configured for the new drives there was no recovering anything from the old drives.
@Adrian I only feel that way on the comments I'm particularly proud of. But comments are the bastard, red-headed step-children of the SE network, and are treated as such, unfortunately.
@HopelessN00b The mods aren't the only ones who have noticed certain "less than friendly" comments and posts... SF is one of several sites that have earned a reputation.
@ChrisS Not blaming you guys... you're only reacting to the people who flag them. (Who, incidentally, must be the wimpiest, whiniest group to ever inhabit the planet, IMO, but... whatever.)
My SUSE Linux machine hung while doing a BIOS upgrade.
Now, when I do a manual power off and power on, the display does not come back and I can see an amber LED on the display tablet of my machine.
ALL the LEDs (hard drive, power supply, fan, Memory error) on the back of the tower are are on wh...
@HopelessN00b It doesn't say who's flagging things.... Someone may have it out for you. Though your stuff that's been flagged has been at least questionable... So if someone's looking there's stuff to be found.
@ChrisS I was told that one of my funnier, marginally useful comments that got a bunch of upvotes also attracted "a lot" of flags, so I don't think it's just one person.
Probably just me being crustier than most. shrug I am who I am, probably too late to change that now.
Crap.
What moron gave the folks at work my phone number? Me obviously, but damn am I stupid sometimes... *sigh*
If the OP gets pissy because he bricked his machine, well, that's his poor judgment for trying to flash his BIOS while he was working on a critical project.
@Adrian And a FAQ that states "for professional sysadmins," not that it's going to make a difference in the pressure to... make the clue-by-four smackings more friendly.
@Adrian I think it's mostly due to two things: 1. The proliferation of the non technical sites, where the general level of snark is equivalent to a IT worker who's sleeping. 2. Most of the advertising revenue is "generated" by drive-bys, which is fueled by search engines (which are amazingly good at filtering out forums and such based on "snark")
@ChrisS I suppose we'll see. Dump crap long enough and you poison your own well. This place would be a steaming pile of crap if it weren't for about 15-20 really sharp guys who stick around. And if there were no answers, there'd be no ad revenue because there'd be no views.
@Adrian Conversely I've heard on more than a few occasions of people coming to SF and never wanting to come back because it's not "Professional" enough. Not sure what they're measuring SF against, but it's the way it is.
Mods get flagged for "low quality Questions" automatically. It used to say "Also skipped FAQ" (there was a banner for new users that would pop up). I never saw too many where they didn't skip the FAQ.
Well, I've flagged Mr. BIOS to be sent to SU where he should've gone in the first place. I swear the Question Entry Form should have the first two bullet point lists from the FAQ in blinking red text.
@JourneymanGeek If it makes you feel any better, you're already miles ahead of half the professional SAs I've had to deal with (and restrain myself from murdering) this week.
@JourneymanGeek Chopper is my hero. He totally reminds me of a book I read a few years back about the halcyon days of running under-sea fiber all over the world.
@Adrian Vodka is supposed to be good for two things, keeping warm and adding alcohol without flavor... Most vodkas add the flavor of a** and hairspray.
@Adrian When you distill vodka, you have to pitch the first and last 5% of the batch because it's inpurity heavy (large distilleries don't "waste" anything). Then send it through at least the equivalent of one carbon filter, and 3 is pretty common. @HopelessN00b isn't being snobish, that's the way it's supposed to be.
@HopelessN00b beats me. I try not to listen. Actually doing winemaking at home and growing up around wineries in Upstate NY, I tire of people yammering about booze as if they're knowledgeable.
@HopelessN00b That's a lot of downvoting you're going to have to do tonight....
@HopelessN00b Well, I only noticed because I took the time to go dig through the internet for that product. The text that the link is embedded in makes it sound more official than it was.
I'm blaming the late night caffeine buzz. Normally I'm happy to simply downvote WHM & Cpanel questions.
I'd seriously like those to have an official policy from the mods to be sent over to Webmasters
Yeah, you're right. I've had to do some web development in my day, and honestly, webmasters seems... um, beneath me... even though I basically know nothing about deploying/developing a modern website.
@HopelessN00b Thanks. Should've just gone and done it awhile back, but haven't had the time and been annoyed at how some things are handled around here.
Oh, I totally understand. If I wasn't the vast majority of the way to fanatic, I'd have taken a week or two off to let my irritation at those very things fade away.
And for what it's worth, if/when I drop off .SE for a little while in 11 days, you know why. :)
I have a very strange problem.
I just have configured Postfix + Dovecot on my server and all works perfectly. I can Send/Receive emails. I only have problems with hotmail accounts, I do not understand the reason, because I also configured:
SPF
DKIM
rDNS
My IP is not listed in any backlist, I us...
And, @ChrisS and @theothermodstoo , I want it noted that I left a nice, useful comment, instead of the much funnier, much more likely to be flagged+deleted comment I really wanted to leave.
Remember me bitching about how I was stupid for giving the people at work my phone number a couple hours ago?
Well, three guesses why I'm still awake, and probably will be all night. I mean, it's overtime, and it pays well, so I'm not complaining too much, but it's gonna be another long, horrible day to get that money.
It is, and all the other SAs at the place hate me for it, but after the 6th week in a row of 60+ hours and 0 days off, well, that's starting to not cut it so much anymore.
At least I know they're decent folks to work for.... most companies would pile the overtime hours on the salaried employees to save $$ on the consultant.
@MilesErickson Give or take, yeah. Of course, some of those Saturdays or Sundays were like 2 hours of work... so it's not quite as bad as working 42 days straight, so much as it's not having had a day off in 6 weeks.
the web designer apparently setup a joomla site I have never heard about, she is out on her honeymoon for a month, and the site is running a ~3 year old version of joomla and is apparently compromized... Without silly thing like backups...
I found the credentials, and was hoping I could just click the apply update button this morning (16 hours ago) and joomla would be updated, and I could then clean things up...
but it hasn't been updated yet, and I am not sure what I am going to break if I try to manually install.. :(
@Zoredache Jesus. Can you find some way to export any of the data and site content? I know it might have the compramised data in it but you can go through with a fine toothed comb afterwards.
Three years? I thought Joomla was updated quite regularly.
I am designing a network and I've come to the point of specifying out the number of CALs required for this network. Microsoft licensing has always confused me, it's just not always clear to me.
I plan to have 1 2008 std domain controller, another 2008 server (not a domain controller) and 200 Wi...
This is a Canonical Question about Licensing.
I have a question regarding software licensing. Can the Server Fault community please help with the following.
How many licenses do I need
Is this licensing configuration valid
What CALs do I need to be properly licensed
Can I run this product...
Douglas Adams summed it up well enough: "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
Minorly amused. Just watched a student use Total Commander running from a memory stick to access the C: drive, find Solitatire, and start playing a game.
@Dan Same. I got a couple of bans in my time at school, and in the 6th form got a permernant one.
But the difference between when I went to school and me working in a school is that I'll go and chat to them about it - it's easier to talk to them rather than smack them down.
Haha, good work. I was kicked out of Sixth form in its entirety, so never hit that point. I hit my proper "Too cool for school" phase in Sixth Form, I just stopped caring about anything.
My favourite moment was not turning up to some IT Key Skills shit lesson for 6 weeks, rocking in, asking for the worksheets for the last 6 lessons and handing in the whole finished pile on the way out
To be fair though, I'd have twatted me as a 16 year old
@Dan Can't remember - all I do remember is a load of beige boxes that struggled to run XP (I started secondary school in september 2000) with a number of 95 and 98 boxes all on a Novell network.
@Dan When clearing out the science prep room in 2003 for a new science block building I found a 5.25" floppy disk.
I went back for an interview this year - now I understood why things were so bad. Money seemed to be spent on the wrong stuff...something like 28 physical servers and the main school cabled in using 100 mbit hubs.
@tombull89 There's still a huge part of me that misses my early days of IT. Everything is so mental now, 10GB backbones, SAN's etc - I want IDE cables, 10Base2, a chice of CGA or EGA :D
Saying that, I did enjoy college. For some reason, Unreal Tournament was installed on all the ICT lab computers, so most free lessons and break times was spent on that.
@tombull89 Because I did System Support our IT lab was a literal lab with no oversight from the main network. They just gave us a route out to the internet so we could do what we like
Although weirdly, the vast majority of my time was spent playing football which I loved. Despite hating nearly everything about football before that and since
That's the thing about FAQs... and manuals... and documentation of every sort. The people who need to read it the most are the least likely to ever look at it at all.
This may be a silly question, one I'd probably know off the top of my head if my brains hadn't turned to mush over the last couple of weeks but if we had a canonical answer for how to 'snap' (of one form or another) a whole machine without access to the hypervisor (i.e. VSS for Windows and whatever in Linux) we could point users to that and say "hey make sure you do a snap before you make changes you don't fully understand", I just think it would get them into the habit and lighten our load
Some how i don't believe that formatting solves the problem. Clearly they have found a flaw somewhere to exploit, and if they just restore data from backup and have identical setup, well that just kind of defeats the purpose of formatting.
@Chopper3 It makes sense, but it won't help. How much does "always take backups" help lighten the load? My guess, none. The people who don't already know it and do it won't bother to read it, and will still post their I nuked my $Server and don't have backups or snaps, halp questions here anyway.
@HopelessN00b But my idea would be that every time someone fucks up a system we go "look here, this is a better way" and then that person my use that next time and the whole thing might make the world very slightly better
@Chopper3 yeah but you can't snapshot the memory etc. The only thing I can think of is a system state snapshot (Windows calls it system restore), which can be rolled back via the windows boot menu
@JourneymanGeek A very important lesson to learn. And before you've even started your career, good for you! Don't trust any sysadmin who doesn't display signs of laziness. Laziness in an SA leads to automation, which is nothing but good.
@ColdT The sort of person that comes here with that kind of question isn't the kind of person qualified to perform the postmortem analysis and figure out "why." So, it's a start. But, you're right. The real answer is; "You're in over your head. Get a professional involved ASAP."
In all seriousness though... I am wondering if my question is better asked here or on DBA...
I was wondering if AWS can be set up for SQL Server failover so that it brings up an on-demand database server instance if my main database server fails.
@HopelessN00b @tombull89 I am in estimation mode for management that is too terrified to commit to purchasing application hosting yet, so quality is not my primary concern, just quanity
This is entirely about sizing, and Oracle has got them on the line and is trying to convince them that AWS is a terrible mistake
abandon SQL Server for Oracle database, AWS for Oracle Cloud, lean and mean for enterprise
Yeah... now I'm not sure which site it would be better on. Pick one, and if you don't get enough attention, flag it for migration to the other one, I say.
At this point I don't care anymore... just want them to make a decision, they want to go live in January... don't see how this is going to happen if they dither on stuff like this then just expect me to switch out the database on the application like it takes an hour
installing 10g on win2k8r2 is not supported but i need the x86 and x64 architectures of the dll... it works perfectly fine on 2003, just don't think its even supported on 2k8r2
@HopelessN00b Seriously... you get paid a LOT of money, probably 1.5 times or more than what I make, and in return you have one fucking responsibility to me and this company... that is to make a fucking decision, and you can't even do that right.
You're screwed.
The way to fix this quickly is to use a different machine, and this very thing is the reason that BIOS and firmware updates come with a warning (usually a big, colorful one) not to power them system off during the update.
If it's even possible to recover the system from this (an...
There is already a WHMCS addon to do this.
cPanel DNS manager for WHMCS
I have a very strange problem.
I just have configured Postfix + Dovecot on my server and all works perfectly. I can Send/Receive emails. I only have problems with hotmail accounts, I do not understand the reason, because I also configured:
SPF
DKIM
rDNS
My IP is not listed in any backlist, I us...
I am designing a network and I've come to the point of specifying out the number of CALs required for this network. Microsoft licensing has always confused me, it's just not always clear to me.
I plan to have 1 2008 std domain controller, another 2008 server (not a domain controller) and 200 Wi...
This is a Canonical Question about Licensing.
I have a question regarding software licensing. Can the Server Fault community please help with the following.
How many licenses do I need
Is this licensing configuration valid
What CALs do I need to be properly licensed
Can I run this product...
