I hate when I go to add some little package to Cygwin, then find out I haven't updated in a while, end up downloading 5000 packages to update everything.
I'm looking for a way to force users logged onto a Linux host via SSH off after 15 minutes of IDLE time. Even if they're connected to another system. Any thoughts?
@Cole That works if you're just connected to that server... but if I bounce from there to another system, say db2.brazzers.com, the SSH ClientAliveInterval of the original host doesn't kick in.
@ewwhite Agreed - you're at work but by that point, you essentially don't work there. So it's just like sitting in an office that you aren't actually employed at
@Dan here's something fun to do. Next time you're in your local Sainsers have a look in the magazine section for the 'how to' mags that the olds buy to help them with computers. There's a "All you need to know about iPad's one, the pile will be small and well thumbed. You will notice that next to it is the same magazine but for Surface, it will be entirely untouched, in mint-condition and collecting dust :)
We were in target and I was like "Oh I need .....that." and there was no way I could reach it and I just looked at her like HALP WITHOUT MAKING ME ASK YOU IN FRONT OF ALL THESE PEOPLE
@gWaldo Cacti and Nagios really don't do the same things at all. Cacti really just does graphs, while Nagios is very much focused on checking that things are ok
This will be an unpopular opinion, but configuration management systems are not necessarily better. Sometimes simple really is best.
There is a definite learning curve and administrative overhead associated with the configuration system you choose. You are after all introducing a dependency. ...
@MikeyB Reminds me of the 3 years that it took for me to get management to sign off on automating new user setups at $job[-2]. I had a padawan that spent 3 days out of every week doing setups. Once it was done, setting up 8 users took 4 hours instead of 20.
@MikeyB The major items that I hate about Zabbix are 1) the interface (awful, clunky, nonsensical), and 2) the documentation (seldom helpful even when present).
I honestly don't know who the interface was designed for, and they seem to have taken the 'let the community do the documentation for us!' approach
I asked the guy what he wanted to talk about. He didn't surprise me. "I would just like to discuss how we might be able to help you out in the future for other areas of the network as well. We have quite a bit of value propositions including but not limited to; stretching budgets with buy backs, new and pre-owned Cisco backed ..."
On some meta site (I'm nearly certain it was either Server Fault or Super User, and I think it was SF), there was an answer about how questions are sometimes implicit. The question is: "Something broke. I tried some things. Here are some logs. How do I fix this?" That last sentence, the actual question, is sometimes omitted, but is implicit, and its lack should not (but does) attract downvotes. It was a well-written answer with which I fully agreed, and now I can't find the bloody thing.
@ewwhite oh and re: SD cards, me too - had FAR more boot disk failures with magnetic disks than SD's - maybe two SD cards dead out of what...15,000 server-years compared to tens if not hundreds of dead 2.5" 10k R1 disks
@Iain Fair enough. Though, honestly, I think I'm an idealistic pessimist. I'd always like to give the benefit of the doubt but I expect everything to be terrible.
What's the name of the technology that involved linking two network connections together to form one single connection? So if you have an IP on LAN 1 with 10.1.10.1 and an IP on LAN 2 of 10.1.10.2 you can link them together on 10.1.10.3 with the throughput of both.
Also, it's quite difficult to predict. By which I mean that knowing Jewish law about situation X does not help much when you try to guess what Jewish law might be about situation Y. The whole thing is riddled with exceptions and caveats.
Interesting, mind you, as an abstract intellectual exercise.
The process is roughly: HR initiates first contact (mail, then phone) and establishes that you're a sentient lifeform. Then technical phone interview. If you pass that, an invite to HQ in Amsterdam for a few hours of drilling. Yay/nay is decided after that and contract negotiations start if it's yay.
I'm considering some virtualization technologies in our University. And I really don't know which of them to use.
VMWare seem to be the default choice, but with the free version of vSphere 5.1 (atual version) we have the 32GB of system RAM limit. What does not happen in Hyper-V Server 2012.
Sin...
@tdk2fe - can't handle that stuff...I"m too old. @Cole - yeah, been pushing 80-100oz a day this week...training hard for some competitions this summer.
I've read a lot though on drinking too much water and the possibilities of basically over-watering your body. Sort of gets back to the whole "caveman...he drank when he was thirsty...done" attitude...
I am trying to figure out how the prior admins maanged to get some guest network adapters into an "invalid device backing" state. According to a support article (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2008092) it's due to removing a dvswitch...
This will be an unpopular opinion, but configuration management systems are not necessarily better. Sometimes simple really is best.
There is a definite learning curve and administrative overhead associated with the configuration system you choose. You are after all introducing a dependency. ...
I'm considering some virtualization technologies in our University. And I really don't know which of them to use.
VMWare seem to be the default choice, but with the free version of vSphere 5.1 (atual version) we have the 32GB of system RAM limit. What does not happen in Hyper-V Server 2012.
Sin...
