We have network home directories up already (although we're using LDAP on linux instead of OD, so that already has a backup), but last time I looked (admittedly a while ago), there wasn't anyway to get AFP failover to work much at all.
If you weren't using XSAN, how did you mount the RAID from both machines? This is normally a horrid idea. I'm extremely curious about this. Please post whatever information you can.
It's really not that hard. We're actually running ldap on ubuntu instead of osx. I use WGM occasionally, but it isn't a very sharp tool compared to the command line ones.
How did they do the failover? I haven't played with that before, and I'm really curious.
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I'd like to append that perl is a good language to work for people who are heavy command line users. It was origionally designed as bash+, and it still fills that niche quite well. It's OO is truly horrid though, and for the one who was asking, I'd agree, perl is bad for him.
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Then you'll _never_ touch Python!
I have a co-worker who loves it and whenever I say something like, "I'm going to write a small program around a few syscalls and some low level bit twiddling in C" his response is always "Oh, you know Python can do that, right? And it'll be faster!"
It actually looks like a decent language, but he's turned me off to it (and it seems to grab a lot of the things I don't like from perl [disclaimer: I like perl] and very few of the ones that I do). I'll learn it sometime, but I definitely agree that fanboys make learning languages seem unappealing. That being said, I've played around with rails, using it to do the interface for a desktop reclamation maya renderfarm, and it is rather cool in some respects. It's a good tool to have, but it shouldn't be used for everything.
Why don't you go to fibre? (disclaimer: I'm not the netadmin and I may be full of shit) I think we just negotiated with Time Warner Telecom for 25Mb at about $1000 a month. Prices have gone down a lot, maybe you can get a better deal?
This isn't windows. OSX is a reasonably secure OS, and it works fine without having to hide behind some shitty, ineffective firewall. I have over 200 OSX boxes with public IPs, and I'm not particularly worried about them.
The internet, in general, works better when you have a real connection.
*disclaimer: I had a pitcher of beer and a bottle of wine*
The internet means more to 'low income' folks than to us in a lot of ways. It's a way to stay in touch with friends without physical addresses or access fees.
You need to reimage computers each time? My god!, is this the dark ages. Get radmind you silly sod. Oh wait, it's mac only.
Hun, I hate to break this to you, but as a Mac admin watching over hundreds of heavily abused workstations, the tools for OSX are far better. I gloat to our windows admin every day about how much better my tools are.
"3) Support for something similar to Group Policy (or having GP objects for OS X able to get added to an existing Active Directory setup) so we can control user's machines."
What in particular do you need? Here, we override settings based on both computerand group. Any plist can be overridden.
Nuclear to start. It's quick, easy and still pretty dirty. Add in a little solar and wind, where applicable, and really ramp up on biofuels. You're a bit outdated on what us liberal imperialist environmental communists want.
"The solution is to make it unatractive to be homeless"
You don't know many people who are/have been homeless, do you? Rarely do people go, "well, I don't feel like having a house and I want to sleep on pavement and scrounge for food." What if we had daily unskilled employment? Show up and we'll give you 8 hours of work at at least minimum wage. There are a lot of people on the street who would like to work, but there are lots of barriers. This wouldn't address the crazies though.
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We have network home directories up already (although we're using LDAP on linux instead of OD, so that already has a backup), but last time I looked (admittedly a while ago), there wasn't anyway to get AFP failover to work much at all.
If you weren't using XSAN, how did you mount the RAID from both machines? This is normally a horrid idea. I'm extremely curious about this. Please post whatever information you can.
*looks at tootkit*
I see ldapsearch, ldapmodify, vim...
It's really not that hard. We're actually running ldap on ubuntu instead of osx. I use WGM occasionally, but it isn't a very sharp tool compared to the command line ones.
so, it worked with AFP home directories?
Did you use XSan?
How does LDAP stop you from doing this? Just because they don't provide a GUI doesn't mean you can't do it.
How did they do the failover? I haven't played with that before, and I'm really curious.
I'd like to append that perl is a good language to work for people who are heavy command line users. It was origionally designed as bash+, and it still fills that niche quite well. It's OO is truly horrid though, and for the one who was asking, I'd agree, perl is bad for him.
Then you'll _never_ touch Python!
I have a co-worker who loves it and whenever I say something like, "I'm going to write a small program around a few syscalls and some low level bit twiddling in C" his response is always "Oh, you know Python can do that, right? And it'll be faster!"
It actually looks like a decent language, but he's turned me off to it (and it seems to grab a lot of the things I don't like from perl [disclaimer: I like perl] and very few of the ones that I do). I'll learn it sometime, but I definitely agree that fanboys make learning languages seem unappealing. That being said, I've played around with rails, using it to do the interface for a desktop reclamation maya renderfarm, and it is rather cool in some respects. It's a good tool to have, but it shouldn't be used for everything.
Why don't you go to fibre? (disclaimer: I'm not the netadmin and I may be full of shit) I think we just negotiated with Time Warner Telecom for 25Mb at about $1000 a month. Prices have gone down a lot, maybe you can get a better deal?
This isn't windows. OSX is a reasonably secure OS, and it works fine without having to hide behind some shitty, ineffective firewall. I have over 200 OSX boxes with public IPs, and I'm not particularly worried about them.
The internet, in general, works better when you have a real connection.
*disclaimer: I had a pitcher of beer and a bottle of wine*
The internet means more to 'low income' folks than to us in a lot of ways. It's a way to stay in touch with friends without physical addresses or access fees.
"doesn't support RAID 5 and there is no hardware RAID controller option."
HAHAHAHAHAH.
Nice one, troll. I guess I'd better through away my XServe with a megaraid card running raid5.
Raid5 is in software too.
You need to reimage computers each time? My god!, is this the dark ages. Get radmind you silly sod. Oh wait, it's mac only.
Hun, I hate to break this to you, but as a Mac admin watching over hundreds of heavily abused workstations, the tools for OSX are far better.
I gloat to our windows admin every day about how much better my tools are.
"3) Support for something similar to Group Policy (or having GP objects for OS X able to get added to an existing Active Directory setup) so we can control user's machines."
What in particular do you need? Here, we override settings based on both computerand group. Any plist can be overridden.
"no ability for machine specific settings VS user specific settings"
Uh.. what? I'm pretty sure that I'm using both.
Hi AC, you will probably never read this, so I won't waste much time.
man chmod
chmod "everybody allow read" directory
ditch the WGM
if you want them to be admins, which you don't, use the "administer this directory domain"
It's better to do it in ldap though.
Since people in jail are the ones most effected by the law, why exactly shouldn't they be allowed to vote? Do we with to disenfranchise them more?
If someone feels that they are in jail for political reasons, should we at least let them vote to change it?
Nuclear to start. It's quick, easy and still pretty dirty. Add in a little solar and wind, where applicable, and really ramp up on biofuels. You're a bit outdated on what us liberal imperialist environmental communists want.
Windows audio is pooched, but OSX's isn't. Especially under load, osx performs very nicely, latency wise.
No. RT has a pretty big speed penalty.
I'm curious about the finer grains of security that Windows offers. Between UNIX and ACLs, I'm not sure what's left.
Actually, that would be a very good reason to be teaching statistics.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory.
"The solution is to make it unatractive to be homeless"
You don't know many people who are/have been homeless, do you? Rarely do people go, "well, I don't feel like having a house and I want to sleep on pavement and scrounge for food." What if we had daily unskilled employment? Show up and we'll give you 8 hours of work at at least minimum wage. There are a lot of people on the street who would like to work, but there are lots of barriers. This wouldn't address the crazies though.
unfortionately humans aren't as smart as frogs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carbon_Dioxide_ 400kyr.png
right.. I'm sure releasing billions of tonnes of CO2 has nothing to do with it