The Comms Room

Adrian

00:00

So I'm pretty righteously fscked.

Damn, I really need to get a DNS slave that the rest of the network talks to for read-only lookups.

Michael Hampton

Oh yeah, Fedora 17's my daily driver, so I see the bugs almost as soon as the developers write them.

Adrian

I take DNS down for 3 minutes and everyone has a shitfit.

@MichaelHampton yeah, and we also need to have an update cycle longer than 18 months too. So it's pretty much LTS releases for us. Except, once again, this one is full of problems.

We didn't move from 9.10 to 10.04LTS because of the massive interface upheaval with that release.

Michael Hampton

Ha, 12.04 was even worse in that department.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton Tell me about it. Shuttleworth needs his balls crushed in a hydraulic press.

LTS is supposed to be STABLE. Not a massive cluster-fsck.

Michael Hampton

GNOME 3 isn't much better.

Adrian

00:08

Did KDE ever get their crap straightened out?

Michael Hampton

No, it's supposed to be long-term supported. Which means it'll be stable sometime before it's EOL.

Which crap? I've been using KDE since the day GNOME 3 came out.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton KDE4 came out before Gnome3 did, right? So I guess they did get it sorted. We tried it mid-2009 and it was unusable for us.

Michael Hampton

Yeah, it's been perfectly usable for quite some time.

So... maybe... Kubuntu 12.04?

Adrian

@MichaelHampton Maybe. Gonna be a hard sell to go back to KDE just 3 years after we left it behind.

Michael Hampton

Lawl. Not that hard. I was using KDE before GNOME came out myself.

Adrian

00:11

@MichaelHampton Yeah, we were a KDE shop for a decade, though maybe 30 people who are still here remember that. Our turnover rate is disgusting.

Michael Hampton

Anyone with any sense gets the hell out fast?

Adrian

And that probably should not go into Google.

Michael Hampton

So the inmates really are running the asylum, eh?

Adrian

@MichaelHampton Pretty much. Lot of organizational issues that are just unreal.

A surprising # of our people leave due to nervous breakdown.

WhyTF is SO sending us questions with an accepted answer?

Are they actually LOOKING at the question before voting to ship it off?

Michael Hampton

00:30

I doubt it.

Adrian

True.

Guess I'm at the irrevocably burnt-out point. Kinda curious to see how far I can push it before I get fired.

Making me a "supervisor", telling everyone that I had no actual authority, and then going away on vacation for 2 weeks is probably his all-time shit move though.

WesleyDavid

@Adrian Don't let their behavior lower your standards of humanity. Strength from within withstands pressures from without. Consider this your crowning moment to be honorable whilst being dishonored.

@Adrian Wow, was that premeditated to send you a statement, or is that just blind ineptitude?

Adrian

@WesleyDavid I think part of it is that he understands that he cannot do everything himself but cannot quite let go enough to actually let anyone do it.

logic vs. emotion, and the former always loses to the latter eventually with this guy.

If you keep him talking long enough, he'll eventually contravert what he said originally and decide that the opposite should happen without really coming out and saying it.

My padawan did that rather unintentionally during the announcement where my boss talked about responsibility lists and whatnot for 75 minutes.

They kept pressing him for a statement on whether they reported to him or me, and he eventually said that they report to him and not me, but they're supposed to "take my suggestions in the spirit they were intended."

Meaning they know they can do damn well whatever they please as long as they don't tell me to Fsck off.

WesleyDavid

@Adrian Well isn't that special.

Adrian

Feh. Time to get out of here.

Nasty habit of not taking risks and going with known quantities even if they don't meet current needs.

Also means you almost never get a real gem either.

WesleyDavid

00:46

stretch HTML 5 and JavaScript for days. Time for some dinner.

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Fancy Feast for the Kitteh. Only the best will do.

One thing I REALLY need to do around here is seperate the NIS Master from being on the same system as the DNS Master.

But I've run out of energy too. So I think I'll walk home.

Shane Madden

01:07

-1

Q: Mysql and TOR socks proxy

I've tried to setup a proxy for mysql outbound connections using TOR's 9050 port and iptables and I failed. Any ideas how to make things working? Schema: Linux mysql client (or PHP function) -> 127.0.0.1:9050 (TOR socks5) -> remote_mysql_server:3306 Just want to redirect any outbound connectio...

Oh yes, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to pipe 3306 through TOR. Wait, no there aren't.

ewwhite

01:29

I need to name more servers "Kitteh"

Journeyman Geek

01:44

@ewwhite: my first home server was called kitten. In my current home namespace all servers are named after small cute fuzzy animals.

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek Is one of them "Hobbit"?

Journeyman Geek

not yet

so far, kitten, tamandua

Michael Hampton

There are legitimate uses for Tor in the enterprise. That is highly unlikely to be one of them.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelHampton: that is just bizzare

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Sup. How's the city treatin' ya.

Michael Hampton

01:56

@JourneymanGeek Not at all. I have a fairly good idea what he's up to, and it's no good.

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelHampton: care to enlighten me? for knowledge sake of course

Michael Hampton

@JourneymanGeek Think for a moment about what Tor does to your outgoing traffic. Now consider what MySQL's port 3306 is used for.

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid eh, went out to dinner/drinks in SoHo, then walked 1.5 miles back to my apartment... stopping by the late-night cookie shop en route.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Ohhhh... cookies.

@ewwhite What kind did you get?

ewwhite

snickerdoodles and sugar cookies.

Journeyman Geek

01:58

@MichaelHampton: setting things up so someone can anonymously access mysql?

Michael Hampton

@JourneymanGeek Yes, and why would someone need to do that?

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Sugar crash!!

Michael Hampton

Consider there are a bunch of MySQL developer tutorials out there that say to set up a MySQL user 'root'@'%' with no password.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Insomnia cookies. Only in NYC

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelHampton: but since someone would need to have access to the system anyway to do set this up...

WesleyDavid

02:00

@ewwhite So what do you want for the ML370s?

Email me if you want.

ewwhite

I dunno.

Haven't thought about it.

I'll look when i get back to Chicago tomorrow

Journeyman Geek

the system is either run by a idiot, or more compromised than a conservaitive politician on a live web feed to a gay midget brothel...

Michael Hampton

@JourneymanGeek DEVELOPERS.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite kk, let me know. I'll keep pestering you. =O

Journeyman Geek

point ;p

Michael Hampton

02:01

@JourneymanGeek So, to put it all together: There are more than one MySQL servers out there with port 3306 open to everywhere on the Internet, with a root user accessible from any IP address with no password.

Journeyman Geek

ahh

Michael Hampton

Using Tor lets one hide the origin of their traffic while they go looking for those servers.

ewwhite

So, talking about conservative politicians... is Romney going to win it?

Journeyman Geek

@ewwhite: depends on who you ask

Michael Hampton

I think he's gonna need more binders full of women.

Shane Madden

02:02

@MichaelHampton Why would you need to look for one of those servers, or conceal your identity while connecting to one? Need a test instance, make a VM, don't use someone else's test instance that you don't control the settings on.

Journeyman Geek

but seems plausible. I'm hearing more personal attacks from the democrat supporting side of things than the latter

but its rather close to call.

@MichaelHampton: I totally don't get the binders full of women meme

ewwhite

Again, do Americans have short memories?

Michael Hampton

@ShaneMadden You're assuming that this is possibly legitimate. I seriously doubt it. I think the guy seriously asked us for advice on how to go break into someone's box.

Shane Madden

54 mins ago, by Shane Madden

Oh yes, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to pipe 3306 through TOR. Wait, no there aren't.

@JourneymanGeek It

Michael Hampton

@ShaneMadden I presume he's using Tor because he doesn't want to get caught.

Shane Madden

02:04

Whoa, why does one only have 5 seconds to edit a message now??

Let's try that again.

Journeyman Geek

@ewwhite: compared to many, yes ;p

I know singaporeans in their late 20s, who STILL hate the japanese for stuff that happened in ww2.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite I highly doubt it.

ewwhite

@JourneymanGeek Yet why are people disappointed in Obama?

Michael Hampton

You get a warning when the time limit to edit a message is about to expire.

wfaulk

@ewwhite the popular vote will be close, but Obama's going to win the electoral college easily

Shane Madden

02:06

@JourneymanGeek It's a reference to a line Romney used in the debate on Tuesday. Romney was trying to communicate that he was hiring women in his administration, and he said "binders full of women" when he meant "binders full of resumes from women"

Michael Hampton

I'm past caring. It seems like we're going to get screwed either way.

Journeyman Geek

@ewwhite: well, he did promise a lot. There's a reason why I hear 'Its not his fault, its the darned republicans in congress' from the liberal side and 'He hasn't kept his promises' on the other

Shane Madden

@MichaelHampton Yeah - I hit the up arrow instantly, and it said "4 seconds"

Michael Hampton

@ShaneMadden The chat system was written by DEVELOPERS.

wfaulk

fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Journeyman Geek

02:07

@ShaneMadden: ahh

Shane Madden

@MichaelHampton Sure, but that's a more recent change, isn't it?

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelHampton: Someone has to do the less important stuff ;p

Shane Madden

I'm off to m.SO seeking answers, wish me luck.

Michael Hampton

I think you've found a bug. I was able to up-arrow edit a message without that.

ewwhite

@ShaneMadden Also: wonkette.com/487052/…

@JourneymanGeek Do you feel let-down?

Journeyman Geek

02:09

@ewwhite: not american

ewwhite

@JourneymanGeek If you were Amurrican, would you feel let-down?

:)

Journeyman Geek

I just hang around 2 diametrically opposite communities, and tend to find them a useful way to gauge political sentiment'

Shane Madden

Testing... asdf ... asdf

Journeyman Geek

@ewwhite: yes and no. But i'm 'classic' conservative/libertarian

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Caving to the patriot act, standing down from the TSA, gitmo, not touching oppressive DEA practices -- things he promised to one degree or another. So yeah, he seems a let down, but he has had a tough Congress to work with.

ewwhite

02:10

Do people seriously think: Hmm, this Mitt Romney has my interests at heart. He has my vote!

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite No, they vote party line.

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite He seems like a complete tool.

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid an unbearable Congress...

Journeyman Geek

@WesleyDavid: not many politicians don't seem like complete tools to me

Shane Madden

It let me edit after it said the timeout expired, but the next attempt wouldn't let me begin editing. Time sync issue maybe?

WesleyDavid

02:11

@JourneymanGeek Point taken. =P

Michael Hampton

You don't run NTP on your desktop?

Journeyman Geek

question is, is it a complete tool who will make sure I have a job tommorrow?

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid The worlds popular media find him an easy punching bag

ewwhite

or do people say, "my life sux... I want a new administration"?

Mark Henderson

Whereas the worlds media also love Obama

Shane Madden

02:11

@MichaelHampton It's apparently not working, looks like it's about 2 minutes slow. Let's see...

Mark Henderson

They did a survey in Australia a while ago that said this was our election, Obama would win in an absolute landslide

Michael Hampton

We'll be happy to export him.

wfaulk

and Australia's not exactly super liberal

Mark Henderson

@wfaulk Haha we have a "Liberal Party" that are conservative tories

It's a bit of a misleading name

Journeyman Geek

That said I am dissapointed in my current government and will likely vote against them If I am still in singapore in the next election

ewwhite

02:13

@MichaelHampton What makes Romney better than Obama?

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek I don't know anyone who isn't disappointed in their government

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite I never said anything like that.

Journeyman Geek

/me utterly disagrees with their current immigration policy, which is aimed at starving off the problems of an aging population by artificial population growth, and a focus on increasing the GDP by any means possible

Michael Hampton

Isn't Singapore a bloody island?

Journeyman Geek

(I mean, they will come if its a great place to live, we're actually actively recruiting folk)

Michael Hampton

02:15

If they want more people they're going to have to do a lot more vertical building...

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelHampton: yup. government wants to bump up the population by a million. LOTS of mainland chinese immigrants, who the local Chinese have problems with, and so on

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton just that they're equally bad?

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite They're each bad in different ways.

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek There's lots of mainland chinese immigrants everywhere though

Michael Hampton

One uses Astroglide to screw the country, the other uses K-Y Jelly.

ewwhite

02:16

I don't believe Obama is trying to screw the country. That's a strange thing to say.

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton fwiw I'lll be super sad if Sesame Street is cancelled

Michael Hampton

Making love, then?

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelHampton: ya, the thing is, generally 'locals' get along. Immegrants who came on their own get along with locals. The ones the government encourages for some fields don't

Mark Henderson

As much as I try not to let my son watch American television (mainly because of the differences in spelling between our english and your english), he fucking loves Elmo

Journeyman Geek

@ewwhite: Its the economy, really ;p

ewwhite

02:17

I can say that what I saw and participated in while in finance... that screwed the country.

Journeyman Geek

@MarkHenderson: I speak/write english as well as I do due to Sesame Street, warner brother's cartoons, and the Beeb

(and I spell things properly, colo u r not color)

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek When I went to school there were students who would spell everything the american way, and it shitted me soooo bad.

My son will say "Zed" not "Zee" and will spell things correctly

Journeyman Geek

@MarkHenderson: I think both are accepted here these days

Mark Henderson

Even the iPhone can't spell correctly

Journeyman Geek

iPhone is american ;)

Mark Henderson

02:19

@JourneymanGeek Which has an EN-GB setting

Mind you for years and years, EN-AU in Windows would default everything to American style and American dictionary in Word

Journeyman Geek

@MarkHenderson: you expect americans to understand the queen's english? ;p

Mark Henderson

It was only in about 1995 or 1997 that EN-AU used the EN-GB dictionary

And only in 2000 or so when it got its own dictionary with all our stupid words in it

Michael Hampton

I understand the queen's english perfectly well. And she can have it.

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek Well considering that everything I code is written in American english I find that I can switch between the two seamlessly. Writing an email, "colour", writing code, "color"

I expect them to do the same :p

@MichaelHampton So, been drinking tonight?

You seem angry(ier than usual)

Journeyman Geek

wait

Michael Hampton

02:21

Worse, working.

Journeyman Geek

What's the difference between aussie and GB english?

I mean outside the accent

ewwhite

Oh, there's no difference...

Foster's Beer?

Mark Henderson

@MichaelHampton Ah, my condolances

@JourneymanGeek Apart from colloquialisms, nothing

Journeyman Geek

ahh, k

ewwhite

@MarkHenderson I wonder if this is offensive...

►

WesleyDavid

02:26

@ewwhite Not offensive, just stupid and American. =P

Michael Hampton

►

ewwhite

These do seem to stereotype a bit...

►

Mark Henderson

@ewwhite I don't think that looks safe to watch at work :P

ewwhite

it is

One more bad one...

►

Although, I can only imagine what Australians say about US...

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite I just found that video.

Trust me, it's bad.

►

ewwhite

02:41

@MichaelHampton yawn...

Michael Hampton

Yeah, told you so.

ewwhite

How did that get so many views?

Bimbo?

Michael Hampton

No idea. None at all. But she's probably not lonely anymore.

ewwhite

Is she sitting on the toilet?

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite Pretty girl. YouTube. == Lots of views. Hope she put her adsense account in before uploading.

Michael Hampton

02:45

The bathroom floor, it seems.

Stack Exchange

04:23

Works for any grocery or non-grocery. Even thyme is just H and time.

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Jeff Ferland

04:54

@Adrian yeah, that's by leagues the best thing I've seen.

Adrian

05:44

@JeffFerland Sorry, wireless went wonky and saw a really good job listing.

Thanks. Was hoping it looked halfway decent.

Iain

07:25

G'day

Adrian

07:38

Howdy. Time for shift change.

Just lost the last 3 hours of my life watching cat videos on youtube

Iain

@Adrian ayup - as we have 3 cats I don't need youtube :)

16

Q: Disable migration for questions older than 60 days

This has come up a few times now: migrating old questions causes problems. The most popular solution to this to date has been to reset votes on migrated posts. This is do-able, but frankly it feels like treating a symptom, and doing so in a way that penalizes folks who answer what are by all ap...

feature-request status-completed migration

Status completed already - won't stem he tide though

pauska

08:23

0

Q: Multiple VLANs on a single subnet

I would like to establish the setup shown below. The image is taken from (http://gcharriere.com/blog/?p=620) and explains how to set this up on a brocade device. I would like to use an ubuntu server to do the routing. Right now, the switch and the server/router are connected with a trunk and the...

linux ubuntu networking routing vlan

sigh

SmallClanger

@pauska What is.. I don't...

Iain

is this an SF question serverfault.com/review/close/31995 I know nothing about O365

Journeyman Geek

@Iain: is SAAS in a professional environment on topic?

SmallClanger

I think that's fair. It's essentially a window ACL issue, but all cloudy 'n' shit. :P

Journeyman Geek

O365 = microsoft's google docs for business equivilent I think

Iain

08:37

@JourneymanGeek like may things I guess it depends

Anyway the OP hasn't reconnected with the question and hasn't been seen on SO since it was posted.

hey @Ward how's it going ?

Ward

@Iain I wonder if our reject stats will be different in the future... I've been making a point of finding all the migrations from SO and VTCing the crap. Don't know if they've been getting closed more often now with /Review.

Iain

@Ward the stats are already showing an upturn - we're up to 26% rejection from SO now

@Ward The problem is that the powers that be really don't see this as a problem - they just point to 74% are then good

SmallClanger

Diagram of the week on SF:

DJ Pon3

Radio 5 were trolling hard at 6am this morning with rebecca black lyrics, for some reason

SmallClanger

Well it is friday. Friday.

Ward

08:48

@Iain Well, if the %age goes up now that more people see them, that might make a better argument.

DJ Pon3

Tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes afterwards

Ward

But yeah, the SE powers-that-be are still unlikely to change their minds.

tombull89

@Iain okay 74% may stay on the site, but how many of them get closed?

What's the % of migrated and kept open after 3 days, or something?

Dan

09:17

Oh....heaven help me. Sent an email with a typo in a URL to a customer. My fault, but it generated 7 emails and a help desk call. Not only was it an obvious letter swap typo, it was their own URL that they had asked to be used.

Chopper3

wtf? serverfault.com/q/440110/1435

tombull89

can't ftp or web-deploy to w7 server oxymoron right there. W7 Server?

-1

Q: can't ftp or web-deploy to w7 server, can't even ftp to localhost

Background: I have a clean install of w7 pro. MS Security Essentials installed, but disabled (for now) Firewall disabled (had ftp and web deploy ports open, anyway) IIS (www, ftp, remote management) and asp.net stuff installed. I can browse to my ASP.Net site on localhost, and everything works....

networking windows-7 ftp firewall msdeploy

pauska

@chopper3: how's it going mate? feeling a bit better?

Chopper3

09:32

@pauska had a few bad days that ended with me being rushed into hospital bleeding but I'm feeling much better now - will be happier on Tuesday when I get the drain tubes removed.

pauska

@Chopper3 sores opening up at night?

Chopper3

@pauska no, one of the drain points had become clotted and once the pressure had built up enough it popped - about 50ml of blood everywhere

2

tombull89

@Chopper3 couple more til 66,666.

pauska

@Chopper3 well good to hear you're OK ow.

SmallClanger

@Chopper3 Blood everywhere, the mark of the beast. Should I be running for the nearest church?

Journeyman Geek

09:48

@SmallClanger: too obvious.

If the world was gonna end, people ALWAYS get killed at church. I'd go to the nearest supermarket.

Stack Exchange

11:20

The Nubby Admin: Solving .html Files Made in TextEdit Not Rendering in a Web Browser

posted on October 19, 2012 by Wesley David

My Problem On a Mac (10.8), using Text Edit, if you save a document as a .html file, the file will not render in a web browser. Instead the browser displays the actual HTML. My Solution In TextEdit, select the Format menu and choose “Make Plain Text.” You can also use the ⇧⌘T keystroke. Next, choose to save the document and include the .html extension in the file name. You will …

tombull89

11:59

This shit is getting stupid.

-1

Q: Ethernet communication,store directly to database

I have to store the values from a hardware to database through Ethernet.Can we directly store the values to database without using any programming language.If yes is it a good approach?

java oracle

Journeyman Geek

'Maybe. With Science and lots of gunfire'

tombull89

I don't even get what they mean. I've tried a number of times, then gave up and chucked a downvote and a flag at it.

Journeyman Geek

@tombull89: you obviously don't have enough rep to have magic psycic powers.

;p

I'm guessing tho he wants to do data logging. Which is prolly OT here anyway

tombull89

HERP DERP he said without programming derp migrate to SF herp.

Journeyman Geek

;p

tombull89

12:09

seriously?

Journeyman Geek

SU may ... no wait...

;p

ya, it actually makes perfect sense that way

UNLIKE the total lack of information on what he'd doing

MDMarra

12:58

nerds

Hennes

13:36

Morning.

/me has had coffee, browsed the web for half an hour afterward and I am almost awake.

HopelessN00b

hahahaha...

21-disks-in-RAID5 guy is back, and he's got a URE.

-2

Q: HP MSA60 complains that new drives are faulty

We got some replacement drives from HP PN 454273-001 1TB 7.2k drives. We put them into the msa. It completes rebuild but when we run the hp insight diagnostics tests. It comes back as read write error threshold reached. At first we thought it might be just faulty disk. But we now have received th...

hp msa

Oh, my mistake, for @MDMarra's benefit, he haz punctured hiz stripez.

MDMarra

Dell support are dickheads

ewwhite

Why?

"Waiting for Rebuild" is the death-sentence for RAID5 arrays in HP-land.

HopelessN00b

@ewwhite Yeah, took me a while to figure that out. At least Dell's nice enough to tell you you're fuct instead of leaving an array in "queued waiting for rebuild" status for 3 months. :/

ewwhite

I put in an old drive to replace the HP drive and the errors are gone. — lbanz 1 min ago

HopelessN00b

13:48

Yeah, the errors are gone, must mean he's safe.

ewwhite

phew

Iain

</dripping sarcasm>

HopelessN00b

Yeah, really, he almost had a serious problem there. Now that the 8 read-write error disks are replaced, and the errors are gone, his 21 disk RAID 5 array is all better, though.

All swell that end swell, right?

ewwhite

Of course!

tombull89

Jesus. A 4-disk RAID 5 is bad enough, but a 21 disk? derp.

HopelessN00b

13:52

Yes, that is the one. A bit of googling shows raidtips.com/raid5-ure.aspx. I've lost count on how many times the raid failed to rebuild after I put in a new disk. This is especially the case in my scenario as there were 8 drives that were detected faulty but not failed completely with amber lights yet. — lbanz 4 mins ago

@tombull89 4 disk RAID5 isn't that bad. I've got an 8 disk one. At home, storing backed-up data, where parity RAID belongs.

tombull89

-2

Q: New storage, How to divi it up

About to receive out new HP P2000 SAS enclosure. it will be connected to three servers running VMware. it will have 24 x 300 Gig SAS disks. I have DC's Print servers, File servers, Exchange, SQL, SCCM, Lync, AppV, a few terminal servers and a few other / less important ones. How would you divid...

raid

Shouldn't you have decided what disks you wanted before you got the disk array? — tombull89 23 secs ago

Hennes

I want to work in that place.

Order me some foo. Oh, and this and that and sucn

We'll decide what to do with it later. :)

tombull89

24 disks? 300GB each? This calls for RAID0.

Still only 7.2TB.

MikeyB

@tombull89 I'd like to nominate that for possibly the WORST question we've ever received.

2

Chris S

14:13

@tombull89 I want approval to buy equipment without any specific plan on how I'm going to use it!

tombull89

You can tell it's Friday, getting irritable.

What the Fuck, SO.

-1

Q: How to run an applet that connects to a https host, that in test mode connects to another domain name?

We have a signed applet that runs fine connecting to a CA-certified https host, e.g EXAMPLE.COM Now our customer want to run that from a test server: TEST.EXAMPLE.COM When running the applet from TEST.XYZ.COM, we get an Exception: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: hostname in certificate didn't match...

exception testing ssl certificate

MDMarra

7

A: Defrag in Windows VM?

Storage folks refer to VMs as I/O blenders. This is because all of the guest's files are typically inside of a "container" like a VMDK. This VMDK is a single file that contains all other files used by the VM. Consider that an 80GB VMDK might not have all block allocated sequentially on the disk...

Can anyone figure out what afrazier's comment on my answer here means?

Chris S

@MDMarra I think he's under the impression that a VM's "hard drive controller" works just like a real one... He's forgetting that it's just software the hypervisor is emulating, or para-virtualizing. So he's thinking when a fragmented file is requested that there's more IOs to retrieve the file... That sorta makes sense anyway, from a confused point of view. =]

MDMarra

Oh

So he thinks that there would need to be two separate seek operations?

Hennes

14:28

@tombull89 I would lobe to set hat up as RAID 0 and then call in a new guy to install the OS. Just to test him (or her)

HopelessN00b

@MikeyB It's a very competitive category, but that question does have a good chance of winning.

Ladadadada

HopelessN00b

Well, crap, it's definitely a Friday. Yahoo! answers is migrating questions to us again.

-1

Q: How can you view the size of a backup in SBS 2008

How do you view the size of a backup in SBS2008? The logs give separate numbers for each drive and adding them up gives a number that seems too big.

backup windows-sbs-2008 windows-sbs

MDMarra

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Q: 12cm vs 8cm fans in a 4U server chassis

I wonder why (some/all?) server chassis come with 8cm fans in the default configuration instead of 12cm fans. AFAIK a 12cm fan will be much more silent (I know that you don't care about that in a data center), moves more air at lower rotation speeds and you don't need as many fans so it should b...

cooling chassis fan

What do you guys make of that

ewwhite

Let's say you have a Windows stack... domain controllers, file server, Exchange server...

What's a nice way to back it all up?

Other than Backup Exec with the right agents.

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