Oh god… OH GOD… just got an email from a guy who used to work for a customer before becoming an "IT consultant": «I have a domain redacted.com hosted through 1and1 however I want to be able to host my own Email and Web server, and possibly file server - but all Virtually in Linux, through Parallels on my MAC.
Will your solution include this?
I also need someway to have a user friendly GUI since I am not well versed in Linux at the moment. At the very least I would like to hose my own email and website...
@JeffFerland Oh, he KNOWS our hourly rate. He previously asked our cost for a SBS license. We told him. He said "I can get it cheaper, will you price match?" "No." "Oh… can you provide me with a quote for a Linux equivalent?" "Here, look at Zimbra." Then we got this ￪￪￪
It's rather like watching a train wreck. And don't forget, he has FOUND CUSTOMERS WHO ARE PAYING HIM FOR IT WORK. Sad, isn't it?
Nice. But if I'm going to steal them from work, I don't think getting a better deal for my victim employer is all that high on the list of priorities. :D
@MarkHenderson I was really intrigued until I saw 2FPS. No sense in covertly mounting a bunch of those pointed at my bed if the frame rate's that low. :o
The technician actually paid enough attention to my previous explanation (when I explained what raid 0 was) that we wanted to use 4 partitions on two drives
buddy of mine is volunteering for a local charity that had their Compaq server's pair of drives set up as RAID1+0. Apparently the server only offers RAID0 or RAID10.
This was shitty software and a good camera technician who did not know anything about computers, IP or whatever. Just give him a VHS equivalant and a coax camera and all works.
probably so you can put it on a Micro-sized motherboard.
We use a bunch of those in our manufacturing plants, and if there's anywhere you'd need a modem in this day and age, it would probably be attached to some piece of industrial machinery somewhere.
Amen to that, but not everyone's on board with this whole "technology" fad. Like the government, the whole reason faxes still exist, for example. >:/
I actually had to install a brand new fax, on an actual "telephone line," and then the associated drivers so our systems can communicate with the piece of shit as recently as last week. It feels so wrong and evil to be doing in this day and age... but government requirements demand it. :(
@HopelessN00b Lawyers too. Our solicitor asked for my fax number the other day so he could send me a contract. I actually had to stifle back a laugh. In the end the joke was on me because then I had to pay for a goddamn courier to send me the originals.
Could be that too, I suppose... but I do know that when you're in an industry where you must send most of your documents via fax or registered courier as your only options, because it's mandated by law, email seems to be ignored or forgotten about as a communication medium.
Hell, my doctor's pretty tech savvy (and every employee there has tablets, rather than dead trees for notes and patient files), and his biggest problem is getting the computers to communicate with the fax machines he needs to keep around and use for some legal requirement.
@HopelessN00b Younger doctors are getting more and more tech savvy. I do contract work for a doctors office that has half a rack of tech gear, and my wifes cousin who is a neurosurgeon with 3 different offices in 3 hospitals has a fully integrated network between all the sites so she can access all her resources from wherever
And in Australia hand-written prescriptions are virtually un-heard of in the last 5 years
@MarkHenderson Well, my doc's about 70... so kudos to him for that, but that reminds me... all his prescriptions are printed out, wirelessly, and have to be hand signed, because state (?) law mandates no electronic signatures for prescriptions. Lol.
@MikeyB I haven't had such a good, genuine lol in such a long time
Wow, that's intense.
Linux in Parallels on your Mac to host your website and email, except with a control panel because you don't know Linux. I hope hope he was going to use his 11" Air.
@MikeyB Crushing n00b souls is the best perk of this job (that, strangely, they don't teach you about in class, or disclose in the interviews), isn't it?
And speaking of n00b souls, how's this for timing? 51 seconds ago...
I have linux (debian) box which is running fine.
However I have problem I need to find out what program is sending emails when i use "mail" command. Or for that matter when a PHP script is sending emails with mail() function I need to know what program is sending those emails.
How can I find out?
@MikeyB Fucktarded JavaScript pop-ups on mobile sites make me want to kill myself. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD OUR MOBILE APP. No, I'm good actually, I came here to read text, not install a whole new "app" just to view a website
@MikeyB Anyone who's a Gin-You-Wine IT person knows that if you're going to virtualize your email, website and file server on your laptop, you use VMware Fusion.
The program that the mail command calls... is called mail.
Therefore, the program you're using when you type mail at the command line would be "mail."
Linux / Unix Command: mail
Command Library
NAME
mail - send and receive mail
SYNOPSIS
mail [-iInv ] [-s subject ] [-c cc-addr ] [-b bcc-addr ] ...
The mail command in *nix calls the program named... mail ... right?
Running "yum update" and it gets to installing and then breaks. Not sure what the problem is. Google shows nothing.
Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package gtk2-2.18.9-10.el6.x86_64
error: error creating temporary file /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.NB84HC: Invalid argument
error: Couldn't create temporary f...
@HopelessN00b Also mail can (it is on Debian) a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mail... which in turn is a symlink to something else, bsd-mailx, by default, which is the mail you're thinking of.
@jscott Yup, like how I change the system variables on the helldesk's Windows boxes to redirect cmd.exe to execute the renamed shutdown.exe instead, on account of being cruel and all that.
@ewwhite Such as installing a RHEL-based distro? :p
It's actually a great test to figure out how much someone actually knows about Windows (and how smart they actually are)... had one kid that spent a week rebooting his machine thusly, until he complained that his machine must be defective, because it kept randomly rebooting itself.
*<sigh>*
Only time I can think of I that I wanted to be a manager, so I could tell him he was fired.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 as a desktop and recently had a weird crash with the log file for cups filling up the entire drive and not letting me back in, also what changed was
/var/lib/sudo had changed from root to peter (me) I didn't make this change - I checked the history!
I set the sudoers bac...
Can you check to make sure you have free space? Run a df -h to see.
Also check the permissions on the required temporary directories. Run ls -ld /var/tmp/.
Update:
I would just download the offending package directly, OR see if you can install yum-utils (either via yum OR direct download and ...
I have linux (debian) box which is running fine.
However I have problem I need to find out what program is sending emails when i use "mail" command. Or for that matter when a PHP script is sending emails with mail() function I need to know what program is sending those emails.
How can I find out?
The program that the mail command calls... is called mail.
Therefore, the program you're using when you type mail at the command line would be "mail."
Linux / Unix Command: mail
Command Library
NAME
mail - send and receive mail
SYNOPSIS
mail [-iInv ] [-s subject ] [-c cc-addr ] [-b bcc-addr ] ...
Can you check to make sure you have free space? Run a df -h to see.
Also check the permissions on the required temporary directories. Run ls -ld /var/tmp/.
Update:
I would just download the offending package directly, OR see if you can install yum-utils (either via yum OR direct download and ...
