I have joined new job and here its the big govt department.
They have server 2008 as server with proxy server for all internet access.
Now my home internet connection is dialup and i will get broadband coonection within 2 months.
Now i download lot of stuff and i want to do the same feom my work...
Ok, who is voting to send crappy questions to stackoverflow... serverfault.com/questions/435024/… Our complaints about them sending us crap, are less valid if we send junk to them.
The last place I Worked as an employee at had half their workforce on Acer laptops, the cheap ones. About 150 of them. Oddly enough, even though they were cheap crap, They only cost about $500 and we'd just throw them out after 3 years or so. Was cheaper than any other solution we could find.
@WesleyDavid I guess I haven't paid close attention lately, but I was pretty sure HP's had the top spot for quite a few years. Dell and IBM tend to trade spots now and then for #2 and #3... And everyone else dived up the rest. Asus is pretty close to Acer.
Honestly I doubt tkip is the problem here. Half the time the Nick won't even come up for a local link. Sits there with a red X and not even 169.254.54.16
Once I get FreeBSD to fricking compile correctly and get my router upgraded I'll have both secured and public WiFi. Also putting two medium gain Omni antennas in the attic. I don't need all my bandwidth most of the time, might as well share.
Also, good excuse in case the Fuzz wants to bother me... I did just download a couple versions of ZeuS today. =]
I have a Billion BiPac 7700N Modem/Router/Access Point and I connect another router (TP-Link TL-WR1043ND) in wan-bypass mode to extend the wireless coverage. Lately, I noticed that the connection through TP-Link has been dropping out quite regularly.
Having read some posts on the Internet, I che...
@MichaelHampton I do the same thing with DD-WRT, regardless of it's professional support services. DD-WRT should never be used for business. Or home. Or... anything except punishing only the most vile of criminals.
"And for your crimes against humanity, The court see's fit to sentence you to configure a multi-AP mesh network with DD-WRT. May your soul be shown mercy."
@MarkHenderson No it doesn't. Go sit in the corner of your cat box and think about what you just said.
@WesleyDavid I kno what I said. I've used a lot of netgear devices. And a lot of linksys devices. And a lot of Asus devices. I'd rather use DD-WRT and be able to do a router-initated VPN tunnel than fuck around with stock fimwares. Goddamn Netgear won't even let you get past the Auto-Detecting ADSL Configuration screen on a modem/router unless the modem is plugged in and gets a Line Sync.
As long as I can get a signal within 70 feet, I'm happy at home. My home set up is so ridiculously simple. I want nothing complex. I want a laptop. I want a monitor. I want... nothing else.
Oh, and log into its ssh server? Busybox!Busybox!!!
MOTHERFUCKERS DIE!
See? You see what DD-WRT does to me?! Here I've been curbing my sailor's tongue, and then we start talking about DD-WRT. Now I'm cursing the air blue. =[
Oh Oh!
@Mark, right now, go get NTP on your DD-WRT nodes to work.
Work as in, you know, get time from an external NTP server.
I'm logged into an IP Phone running MontaVista with a very stripped down BusyBox binary (by stripped down, I mean the OEM has removed almost all of its functionality, except the basics like cat, ls etc).
I'm doing an ls -l on a directory and there are thousands of files. I need to be able to pau...
I really like a lot of the implications of the much of the clueful DevOps community. Then I realize, much of "Devops" is just what the neckbeards did all along a few decades ago.
That and the clueful few in the DevOps community is probably able to be counted on one hand. Let's see, John Alspaw, Ben rockwood, Jordan Sissel, botchagaloop
Of course, when I started CS, the intro course was FORTRAN. All the students got an account on some ancient mainframe that we were lucky to have terminals to connect to..
@WesleyDavid Had a Tandy 300bps external with a big red 'Connect' button to press once you heard the answer tones on the far end.
That 300bps unit was so funny. Was so slow that I could almost read text files on the little transfer window in my client at the same speed as the download.
I mean this in the nicest way, but you probably need to contract the heavy technical stuff with an IT consultant. If you do this stuff wrong because you don't understand it, you could easily LOSE all the information you're trying to work with. — Adrian17 secs ago
@MichaelHampton I'm guessing since they mention needing to install ruby, explicitly in the install guide, but not rails, I think passenger shouldn't need rails installed seperately phusionpassenger.com/download
Cos its MSTSC running inside an ICA session inside an SSL VPN inside an extranet
It's a really big multinational, so one sort of expects these sorts of convalusions when you work with them. It's just frutrating. Taking me all day to do somehting that should take an hour
@WesleyDavid That also encourages the "I have 3x 1TB disks and a 2TB disk - can I make a 5-way RAID5 using the partitioned 2TB disk as two of the disks?"
After seeing how to make xkcd style graphs in Mathematica, LaTeX, R, Matlab, and now looking for one in Python, I thought that this is too much.
I am now eagerly awaiting for "xkcd style graphs in C++", "xkcd style graphs in C#", "xkcd style graphs in Haskell", and eventually, who knows, "xkcd s...
Although most of the people who complain about crap questions are on the top voters pages, very few people have even 2000 votes this year (that's 10 votes a day for 200 days) I suspect that close-voting correlates somewhat with Q&A voting...
I once made the mistake of using my full name on a forum, luckily I was on good terms with the guy who ran it and he wiped most of it out. I'll stick with just my first name for plausible deniability.
@MarkHenderson It's not enough... as Iain's starred comment says, we need more voting to clean up the crap. Downvoting is almost as good as closing, and upvoting the good stuff so it stands out is even better.
@Ward I think he'd pretty much given up by then other than hanging out in chat. he made a brief reappearance for the election then faded away. I'm sure he left because the questions were coming more and more from the non sysadmin
@Ward It was an interesting discussion but I'm not sure where it ended up. @petergrace is correct about the snark and I agree with him but for some reason I left feeling we were disagreeing on something and I can't figure out what or why.
I think the general consensus that SF is getting more and more low-quality questions and users and while the SF mod team and community are trying to stem the tide we need some help from StackExchange itself.
I don't know what the problem is, but there's something not too good about our main site. Which is a shame because we've got a good 'core' of regulars. Not just those of us who use chat, either.
There seems to be a drop off in quality questions and voting. Which is a shame because there's a few good people who I've noticed come in and participate.
We have a lot of good questions. We also have a lot of bad questions, and once you get too many bad questions people get irked and start breaking out the snark and sarcasm.
Yes, I agree. I've found myself reaching for "imagine we can't see your computer..." type comments a few times. Which perhaps is heading down the road of snark, but on the other hand, I think a lot of people seem to be genuinely unable to understand that we're limited to just what they describe in our understanding of their problem.
it seems to me that the balance is shifting in favour of poorer questions which are largely from people outside our scope - the baby devops/developers with their *AMP problems
I don't know if people misuderstand the "professional" bit - you might be being paid to run a network but if you're running a system cobbled together with pre-2000 desktops and pirate OS copies can you really call that professional? There was a question yesterday about a "cracked" server 2003 install - that's certainly NOT what we want here.
indeed. Iain said something about not migrating stuff because of being unsure of how other sites will receive it. I've thought about that and been more careful about what I vote to migrate
At least, I think it was you, @Iain who mentioned that
the two things we struggle most with are 'professional' and 'server' they are both vague and mean different things to different people. Some of the devs even say things like 'My IT ...' which implies that they consider us to be IT and that then definitely puts them outside our scope.
@tombull89 I haven't watched the documentary yet - may have a look tonight. Not entirely happy with the trial by media, but it does all sound pretty damning
[main client] uses some odd geolocation software for printer selection, you can zoom down to any printer via the map view but the fun thing is it lets you print to ANY printer on either the network or that's connected in any way to any client machine - and yes this does mean that people can print "I WILL KILL AGAIN" in 144pt bold to another VPN'ed-in user's local USB printers :)
I setup virtualbox running debian for website development inside of Windows 7. Can I access that webserver running inside the VM from Windows 7? I tried going to 127.0.0.1 and FF said there's no server, so it looks like it's not running automatically.
Looking for a program that installs KB .exe's from a folder silently on a system (assisting rollouts of windows on different hardware) anyone know one off hand?
@HopelessN00b I can point that locally so no downloading required?
@JourneymanGeek Already using my own batch file to run each .exe silently with a 30 sec pause between each, but ideally I want a program that doesn't require each to have finished installing within that 30 sec window (so no failures due to slower PC) :)
@HaydnWVN We have all our KBs for this in SYSVOL, accessible over DFS. I suppose you could download them all to a fileshare and push them out to the client machines with a GPO or GPP if you wanted.
@HaydnWVN You're doing ti wrong. Instead of waiting and then running the next install, wait... check to see if the install's complete (by checking if the KB's shown up in the registry as installed yet), and based on that check, either wait again, or install the next.
@HopelessN00b I can do the 'pushing' myself it's just the installing i'm looking for - scenario is several XP machines of differing hardware i'm nuke n paving... Stuck on a slowish DSL line... I'm looking to avoid downloading 200mb+ for each machine (and killing our connection while doing so)
@HopelessN00b That's outta my depth, havn't touched GP's much as this isn't a domain
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I setup virtualbox running debian for website development inside of Windows 7. Can I access that webserver running inside the VM from Windows 7? I tried going to 127.0.0.1 and FF said there's no server, so it looks like it's not running automatically.
