@JoelESalas that one and the waffle batter dispenser
"How about a spoon? How about you use a fucking spoon to dole out your waffle batter? The waffle iron itself tells you when it's had enough batter. If you overload it because you're a fat greedy pig, the batter spills off the side. You don't need a dispenser. OH BUT HOW WILL I KNOW I'VE USED THE EXACT RIGHT AMOUNT OF BATTER?! Now this waffle will never fit in my grain sack!"
@ewwhite I mean, just say "Well, technically speaking, you can do this, but it's not a good idea because of scheduler issues that you clearly don't understand."
If you use ^ in a regex in vim, it will match the actual start of the line, even if it contains whitespace.
For instance, this line starts with a space:
<- there's a space there you can't see :)
This vim command will remove the leading space:
:%s/^ //
resulting in the following:
<-...
@ewwhite "Because at that point you're using all the resources on the host for one VM. If you REALLY need this kind of configuration you're wasting resources using a hypervisor - just give everything a physical machine and be done with it."
@Hennes yes. And those bursts would need to be damn infrequent and never simultaneous, or you'd be taking a performance hit (CPU saturation and massive context switching)
@BrentPabst That's getting a bit pedantic. It's a hard drive that's he's trying to copy data off. I'd give him the instructions for dd but he's likely end up copying over his computer's hard drive instead of the replacement.
I like the idea of moving a vm to a new machine without bothering about the hardware. Especially if the servers are 4-7 years old and there is no more support contract
Wrong? I never installed it on anything but bare metal yet, but I do not see why you could not put active directory (and with that I really should have said a domain controller) on a VM
Diskspace never was an issue. I looked at a small server. Boss decided that bigger hardware was needed, so we had more stuff to work with and to optionally swap it to other servers without needing to get another purchasing order approved.
Yeah. I wasn't referring to disk space as much as I was referring to the fact that as long as your available RAM is greater than your ntds.dit file, pretty much nothing else matters performance-wise for a DC
I have written a powershell script that zips the contents of a folder and sends it to a server for backup. The issue is that the copy process doesn't wait for the zip process to finish. I have tried using Out-Null and Wait-Process, and nothing seems to be working. OUt-Null just doesn't do anyt...
@Ryan The ComObject Shell.Application (Windows Shell) handles .zip files natively (i.e. you can unzip from Explorer.exe, or drag files into an existing .Zip). What really stands out here is that the OP is actually craving the zipfile type, by-hand, into the start of file (PK[ETX][EOT]...) -- neat. — jscott1 hour ago
Do not go to a veterans' event with a samarium–cobalt magnet. Do not ask your uncle where his shrapnel was last known to be. Do not place said samarium–cobalt magnet on that region of his body. Do not pull magnet away quickly. Do not ask if I am joking or not.
@JustinDearing Until you're sitting there and your disk is waiting for the CPU to spit out data because you used bzip2 instead of gzip to save a measly little bit of disk.
@JustinDearing Generally. In the particular case of which I was thinking, unbzipping an OS image to deploy to a disk took 14min vs. 2min with gzip. Only a few % difference in compression. OK, granted, edge case.
last night and today can be considered a very bad day, felt so bad I genuinely wanted it all over, may be just feeling a tiny bit better than before though
I have a server that has VMEM overcommited to 53G with 32G of RAM. It's running fine with a scant 2G free in Physical. Another server is only over-committed by 4-5G in VMEM but it fires off oom-killer rather randomly.
Waiting for it to start up again so that I can figure out what's going on. /proc/meminfo looks like a dog's breakfast on these servers, and they were fine before Firefox 16 got forklift'd onto these servers a few weeks.
Its important to remember this moment that you let the BSD into your heart and LSD into your spinal column, so you can share it when you witness the Daemon to others.
"Rather than refuse to allocate RAM for this new process, just kill the guy using the most RAM and give it to the new guy" -- and Satan looked approvingly upon the VM Sybsystem and saw it was made of evil.
(incidentally, "Kill the guy who has all the RAM and give it to the guy with no RAM" -- s/RAM/money/ and isn't that what the crazy right-wingers say Obama wants to do? -- MY GOD! The OOM Killer is a caricature of liberal fiscal policy!)
@voretaq7 no, they all redirect to SO, dump you on a page that gives you 10k there for rolling your head backwards and forwards on the keyboard and then redirects you to their review queue.
@HopelessN00b but on to matters of the work environment, is there an IHOP, dennys, or waffle house nearby. Do they provide crayons? How do they feel if you bring your own syrup?
@JustinDearing I dunno about Denny's, but there are nearby IHOPS and waffle houses. And we make syrups. But you can bring your own if you so desire. The only requirements are being a networking-guru willing to work for intern or slave-labor wages.
Geezus I think my boss has his period; he just chewed me out because a button on a tiny maintenance program that only I ever use isn't exactly in the horizontal middle
@JustinDearing Well, we also do salad dressings, jams, dips, croutons and many other food products, if that helps... If there's ever an emergency situation, you could live for a year off the various condiments we have lying around as samples...
@JustinDearing Hmm, I suspect I could wrote a macro script in AutoIT that is triggered from a PS script that runs the program, sendkey()s the data into the right fields and presses enter :P
Onsite interview tomorrow with a REDACTED #1. Got a phone screen in half an hour with a local dot-com too, but I am not as hopeful as yesterday.
They seem to be wanting a one-dude-to-fix-them-all kinda guy.
Especially when a supposed 15% of the job is desktop support for other staff.
Not sure I really want to be that guy anymore. I did that awhile ago and it was okay, but I really want to delve into deeply technical stuff and specialize in systems engineering instead of putzing with printer queues.
@Adrian I must be an asshole, because my first instinct would be to take all my PTO in one shot, with the intention of calling in the day after to say: Oh, did I forget to tell you that I got a job that sucks less?
@JoelESalas If your place is anything like mine, upper management is too busy working on the golf game to care about everyone with talent jumping ship or not.
So I decided to start helping the SO guys by closing the feedback loop. Only being able to @ one person, or post one comment per 15 seconds is a bit annoying, though.
If you use ^ in a regex in vim, it will match the actual start of the line, even if it contains whitespace.
For instance, this line starts with a space:
<- there's a space there you can't see :)
This vim command will remove the leading space:
:%s/^ //
resulting in the following:
<-...
I have written a powershell script that zips the contents of a folder and sends it to a server for backup. The issue is that the copy process doesn't wait for the zip process to finish. I have tried using Out-Null and Wait-Process, and nothing seems to be working. OUt-Null just doesn't do anyt...
