@ewwhite I always think it odd when they put the company name on darn near every screen... Like employees will constantly be forgetting where they work.
@HopelessN00b The idea behind those banners is that it makes it clear the person was told he couldn't access the system. Helps with the law in some countries, and helps make your case in all of them.
@ewwhite I had to do an audit on something similar to that. It was a live system and I was trying to get serial numbers - every time I went near it I was just waiting for the dreaded sound of a dozen fans powering down, or for the phones to go mental
@gparent Problem is they're legally worthless (almost as bad as the disclaimers at the bottom of emails), in point of fact. (At least in the US, where we're based and do all our business.)
@ewwhite Do them a favor and troll /b/ from some of their systems. Once anonymous is done with them, they'll have no option but to replace it all with something... less insane.
@HaydnWVN Makes sense, but better solution is to set SBS on fire and replace it with something less sucktastic (and new hardware, from the sounds of things).
@ewwhite Another option - make sure there's a bottleneck that impacts backups... "Our backups are failing/taking too long, HALP!" "You need this, this and one of these."
(and seriously, "unmanaged consumer switch" is redundant. There's no such thing as an unmanaged enterprise switch -- EVERYONE can afford a fucking netgear GigE managed switch these days :P)
So I now have triply-redundant diversified inbound/outbound net, an MPLS between sites... local and remote data replication for their app servers (no official backups, though)
but can't force them to buy my HP switch (last one in my stock)
We are trying to setup a redmine installation for our group which should work with both SVN and Git repos. Since we want to keep the repos on the server and avoid the whole privileges and hosting mess (root access, local repos, ...), we want configure redmine to manage repo creation and destructi...
So, in an effort to bring a solution to a customer, I'd like to know how to fix this situation: The place with the roaches and cabling mess has no Windows domain. Users are on Win7 or XP Home. They use the hell out of Dropbox.
Yes and it will be for exactly the same reason. I'll leave it as an exercise for you
to figure it our yourself. This is all very basic stuff you should invest some time in learning the tools you're working with rather than blundering from one problem to the next. It'll save you lots of time in the long run.
@MichaelHampton This, basically. If you must use teh cloudz for something like that, you really need to use a place that encrypts your data and doesn't have the keys to decrypt it. Don't think there's one like that which is as user-friendly as dropbox.
Wuala protects your privacy: In stark contrast to most other cloud storage services, all your files get encrypted on your computer, so that no one - including the employees at Wuala and LaCie - can access your private files. Your password never leaves your computer.
@HopelessN00b We have a 'Jetstream' device covered (serial printers network hub) easily with our hardware support company that's 15 years old and they'll never be able to replace or repair...
@ewwhite One of our customers has this awesome huge high-speed impact wheel printer. When you start printing it revs up and it takes about 4 seconds (ISTR) to spit out a page full of text. It's nuts.
I came across an install a few years ago where some idiot had cut cat5 cables from the back of a patch panel, twisted them together (+electrical tape) to similarly cut patch leads and plugged them into switches...
@MichaelHampton You think gremlins live in consumer switches, try those stupid fscking USB<>Network "print servers" that were sold before HP printers came stock with RJ45 jacks.
Half those damn things had brain-dead little DHCP servers in them that would randomly turn on after a power cut (whether by power strip or building power...)
I was attached to SquirrelMail for the longest time, as it's super simple. But RoundCube got their SQLite support together and there's no reason to use SM ever again. =]
But I've got the largest mailbox on the server, and I keep my inbox to <1k e-mails. Plus my IMAP and RoundCube installs are on different servers 500 miles apart.
Frabjous Joy. While the D-Link DGS1248T switches that we use here support Link Aggregation, it only works with D-Link's proprietary protocol (WTFFF?) and does not work with 802.3ad....
In the description of TCP in the Wikipedia, it is stated that
The number of sessions in the server side is limited only by memory and can grow as new connections arrive, but the client must allocate a random port before sending the first SYN to the server.
The first part seems logical: The ...
@studiohack I think it would probably be a better fit on Unix and Linux. Might get beaten up a bit here for being a bit broad and not explicitly a practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face and not related to managing computer systems in a professional capacity.
I wouldn't mind it, and would probably throw an upvote at it, but I dunno about everyone else.
Thank you for your revert on the issue. I would have a research done on the event received and see if there is relevant documentation available for the issue, at first glance I did not find information on the same.
I would revert to you with an update on the same and there might be a small delay for a revert as I would have to involve my SME to assist me with the analysis and provide you with an update on the same.
@studiohack We've got one of those laying around somewhere too... If you want to migrate we'll just close as a dupe. Hopeless is also "correct" that it probably should have been OT for SF, but... meh.
@David Short answer is "maybe," though. You'd have to check the official government agency reqs for what qualifies as an "IT" degree. I personally have an MIS degree (transferred outta CIS), and find it immensely more useful in the private sector to have a basic education in the important areas of business, but my gut says the government would probably consider a BA to be a BA, regardless of concentration.
@David Why do you want to work for the government... Being the sysadmin for a organization that employees spies doesn't mean that you are Q, or get to date bond girls. :D
In the description of TCP in the Wikipedia, it is stated that
The number of sessions in the server side is limited only by memory and can grow as new connections arrive, but the client must allocate a random port before sending the first SYN to the server.
The first part seems logical: The ...
