Are you on the mobile site? For me (running Chrome on my Samsung GS5), there is no link in the article header. This isn't specifc to this article, either. Unless the submitter includes a link in the summary, I never see a link on my phone.
I'm on the mobile site, as I usually am, reading/. on my phone while having a cig (no judgments please). I can't, for the life of me, find the link to RTFA when it's not included in the summary text! What am I missing?!?!
I don't get the RasPi hate in this thread. The Pi is clearly not intended for applications such as a high powered NAS, but I've got 3 RasPi 2's running OSMC\Kodi as media centers on my TVs and they do awesome streaming full HD movies and TV shows from my 16TB piecemeal server!
Of course, once 4k becomes more prevalent, I'm going to have to make a change, but for now my family uses them happily on a daily basis.
Does anyone complain when their hammer sucks at tightening screws? Use the right damn tool for the job!
Good god, that suggestion sends the hair on my body straight...
I took over as sys admin at a non-profit about 9 months ago and they were using Zim... I can't even type the whole thing...
It was a total mess. Partly because the admins before me had no business trying to run an in-house mail system and partly because the software structure was just, well scary. My first major project was get us off that stuff and onto O365. We qualified for MS educational pricing for Office so we went with Office Pro Plus which comes with Exchange Online and a lot of other features for free. It's been 5 months and I can't even begin to express how happy I am with the decision. No more digging through postfix configs trying to figure out why random emaila were getting through or not. Not to mention, ClamAV seems to be months behind on its def updates. The Zimb... nope, still can't do it... The old 'mail' VM is spun down and I pray it stays that way until the emails in it fall out of our retention period!
Anyone know if there is a password manager similar to LastPass, but that you host and can run on your internal network only? My predecessor was clearly in love with lastpass and currently, every key to my IT kingdom exists on there, which I'm not entirely too fond of, especially now. It is kinda nice, but for my situation, I have absolutely no reason for it to be publicly accessible. I would love to run something like this on my own linux VM, hidden behind the safety of my firewall and my management VLAN.
Does it exist or did I just give someone an idea that they'll turn into an enterprise software package and make millions?
The first server I ever ordered, configured and installed as a sys admin was an HP ProLiant DL380 G3 with an external scsi disk enclosure back in 2004. I still speak with the admin there now and apparently its still running, serving up archived files and some form creation software for historical data. It was on the docket for replacement for a solid 8 years while I was there but since it was so reliable and the company always managed to bombard IT with some crazy urgent project every year, it never managed to get replaced. The MoBo was replaced just a couple months after it was installed and I remember being scared that I had chosen a lemon... That's funny to think about now. Turns out it's a beast, having been turned off twice since the install date (not counting OS update reboots). Once for the MoBo replacement and once cause our idiot maintenance department didn't think we needed a backup generator until we had a 12 day power outage years ago. After losing millions of $$ in idle employee wages and lost orders, they finally decided to acquiesce ITs request for a generator.
Apparently it rarely gets used and they generate regular p2v images of it so they can virtualize it when it fails, but they've decided to let it run it's course. A drive goes bad every 2 years or so, but they have a stockpile of drives from other, retired machines from that timeframe.
That machine single handedly made me an HP Enterprise hardware fan.
I am a sys admin and while I love learning about history, I definitely didn't pay much attention to it during my education days, so excuse my ignorance if this is a dumb question.
How do they know that humans didn't just find the frozen, preserved carcass later on like this kid did, say 35,000 years ago.
They find it and figure it's an easy way to harvest some tools which would explain the tool marks.
Any science\archeology nerds care to shed any light on this for me?
Not that I don't believe you, but can you cite your source here. I know Oracle's licensing can be obscene, but what you describe seems beyond the usual Oracle craziness
Oracle has had the capability of multiple DBs per instance since AT LEAST 10g. Maybe your confusing the new Oracle technology, pluggable databases, which are actually pretty cool and basically make DBs an easily transportable entity.
I'm not an Oracle fan, but I did manage a few Oracle DBs for 10 years at my previous employer and while the cost is pretty intense, it is a rock solid RDBMS as long as you know what you're doing. It's definitely not as easy as MSSQL to setup or configure, but part of me thinks that's a good thing. I've had to clean up wayyy too many MSSQL setups that used all of the default setup options and suffered from awful performance issues.
At least Oracle doesn't give you the illusion that you can stand up a production DB instance in 30 minutes.
This. TFA doesn't give any of the soap opera juicy bits.
Is he asking for money? Can they not find him?
I work for a nonprofit and the 'genius' who purchased all of our domains originally used a personal Gmail account as opposed to a corporate account. It was a nightmare to clean up and took me a good 3 months to coordinate it all. My org had him on retainer in case I needed his help when I first came in. I used this and many similar (and some significantly worse ) examples to get them to drop the contract.
Christ, the sense of entitlement flows strong through this one.
So let me get this straight. You or your company chose to use a FREE and open source tool to fulfill a requirement. Did you bother to do ANY analysis regarding whether the tool was an appropriate solution? The answer is most certainly "derr... No". Because if you had, you would have quickly realized that while Drupal has the ability to stand up a site within minutes, running a production site of ANY TYPE (internal or external) without any knowledge of how to properly configure, update, test, and deploy said site, is pure stupidity.
If manually updating drupal core or any modules is beyond the capability of the person charged with maintaining the site, then Drupal isn't the correct solution for your situation. If you honestly believe that upgrading a production website should take no more effort than a single click of your finger, than your ignorance is reaching true "derptitude" levels.
I do believe that the Drupal team needs to make the "easy" button more secure. But if you can't do your job without using the "easy" button, you need to GTFO.
Just because you don't have to purchase a license doesn't mean there's no cost involved in running it in production.
Wooahhh... on my GS5 and when i went to the first link, it loaded A LOT nasty looking popup pages... never had that happen from a \. article.
FYI... its not that easy to see the real link url when using chrome for mobile.
At my last job, the guy who purchased our user level tech was pretty set on Fujitsu laptops. They were significantly more expensive than the alternatives, but every model I used in my 10 years there was feature rich, excellent in build quality, and incredibly reliable. The ultabooks, while not as thin or lightweight as others, still managed to pack 3 or 4 USB ports, a docking station port, a special port for the included external wired NIC, and a full size keyboard. I was pretty disappointed when they decided to switch to the Surface Pro and it's single freaking USB port. As a Sys Admin and fill in network admin (our primary network guy got his undies in a bunch a quit one day), I can't even begin to describe how obnoxious it is to only have 1 USB on your laptop.
Need to run to the network closet and diagnose a switch issue? Better bring your surface docking station, power cord, and a small table to setup on... turns out Serial to USB adapters don't play well with a USB hub that's also running a mouse and USB NIC.
I actually ended up setting up a RasPi in each switch closet and just left it unplugged until I needed to use it.
Fujitsu made great business grade laptops. I can't speak to their mobile devices, but this is a significant loss. I was actually contemplating going with them for the next round of laptop refreshes at my new gig... guess that's not happening.
BOOOO! HISSSS!
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Are you on the mobile site? For me (running Chrome on my Samsung GS5), there is no link in the article header. This isn't specifc to this article, either. Unless the submitter includes a link in the summary, I never see a link on my phone.
I'm on the mobile site, as I usually am, reading /. on my phone while having a cig (no judgments please). I can't, for the life of me, find the link to RTFA when it's not included in the summary text! What am I missing?!?!
I don't get the RasPi hate in this thread. The Pi is clearly not intended for applications such as a high powered NAS, but I've got 3 RasPi 2's running OSMC\Kodi as media centers on my TVs and they do awesome streaming full HD movies and TV shows from my 16TB piecemeal server! Of course, once 4k becomes more prevalent, I'm going to have to make a change, but for now my family uses them happily on a daily basis. Does anyone complain when their hammer sucks at tightening screws? Use the right damn tool for the job!
Good god, that suggestion sends the hair on my body straight... I took over as sys admin at a non-profit about 9 months ago and they were using Zim... I can't even type the whole thing... It was a total mess. Partly because the admins before me had no business trying to run an in-house mail system and partly because the software structure was just, well scary. My first major project was get us off that stuff and onto O365. We qualified for MS educational pricing for Office so we went with Office Pro Plus which comes with Exchange Online and a lot of other features for free. It's been 5 months and I can't even begin to express how happy I am with the decision. No more digging through postfix configs trying to figure out why random emaila were getting through or not. Not to mention, ClamAV seems to be months behind on its def updates. The Zimb... nope, still can't do it... The old 'mail' VM is spun down and I pray it stays that way until the emails in it fall out of our retention period!
Anyone know if there is a password manager similar to LastPass, but that you host and can run on your internal network only? My predecessor was clearly in love with lastpass and currently, every key to my IT kingdom exists on there, which I'm not entirely too fond of, especially now. It is kinda nice, but for my situation, I have absolutely no reason for it to be publicly accessible. I would love to run something like this on my own linux VM, hidden behind the safety of my firewall and my management VLAN. Does it exist or did I just give someone an idea that they'll turn into an enterprise software package and make millions?
The first server I ever ordered, configured and installed as a sys admin was an HP ProLiant DL380 G3 with an external scsi disk enclosure back in 2004. I still speak with the admin there now and apparently its still running, serving up archived files and some form creation software for historical data. It was on the docket for replacement for a solid 8 years while I was there but since it was so reliable and the company always managed to bombard IT with some crazy urgent project every year, it never managed to get replaced. The MoBo was replaced just a couple months after it was installed and I remember being scared that I had chosen a lemon... That's funny to think about now. Turns out it's a beast, having been turned off twice since the install date (not counting OS update reboots). Once for the MoBo replacement and once cause our idiot maintenance department didn't think we needed a backup generator until we had a 12 day power outage years ago. After losing millions of $$ in idle employee wages and lost orders, they finally decided to acquiesce ITs request for a generator. Apparently it rarely gets used and they generate regular p2v images of it so they can virtualize it when it fails, but they've decided to let it run it's course. A drive goes bad every 2 years or so, but they have a stockpile of drives from other, retired machines from that timeframe. That machine single handedly made me an HP Enterprise hardware fan.
I am a sys admin and while I love learning about history, I definitely didn't pay much attention to it during my education days, so excuse my ignorance if this is a dumb question. How do they know that humans didn't just find the frozen, preserved carcass later on like this kid did, say 35,000 years ago. They find it and figure it's an easy way to harvest some tools which would explain the tool marks. Any science\archeology nerds care to shed any light on this for me?
Not that I don't believe you, but can you cite your source here. I know Oracle's licensing can be obscene, but what you describe seems beyond the usual Oracle craziness
Oracle has had the capability of multiple DBs per instance since AT LEAST 10g. Maybe your confusing the new Oracle technology, pluggable databases, which are actually pretty cool and basically make DBs an easily transportable entity. I'm not an Oracle fan, but I did manage a few Oracle DBs for 10 years at my previous employer and while the cost is pretty intense, it is a rock solid RDBMS as long as you know what you're doing. It's definitely not as easy as MSSQL to setup or configure, but part of me thinks that's a good thing. I've had to clean up wayyy too many MSSQL setups that used all of the default setup options and suffered from awful performance issues. At least Oracle doesn't give you the illusion that you can stand up a production DB instance in 30 minutes.
This. TFA doesn't give any of the soap opera juicy bits. Is he asking for money? Can they not find him? I work for a nonprofit and the 'genius' who purchased all of our domains originally used a personal Gmail account as opposed to a corporate account. It was a nightmare to clean up and took me a good 3 months to coordinate it all. My org had him on retainer in case I needed his help when I first came in. I used this and many similar (and some significantly worse ) examples to get them to drop the contract.
Christ, the sense of entitlement flows strong through this one. So let me get this straight. You or your company chose to use a FREE and open source tool to fulfill a requirement. Did you bother to do ANY analysis regarding whether the tool was an appropriate solution? The answer is most certainly "derr... No". Because if you had, you would have quickly realized that while Drupal has the ability to stand up a site within minutes, running a production site of ANY TYPE (internal or external) without any knowledge of how to properly configure, update, test, and deploy said site, is pure stupidity. If manually updating drupal core or any modules is beyond the capability of the person charged with maintaining the site, then Drupal isn't the correct solution for your situation. If you honestly believe that upgrading a production website should take no more effort than a single click of your finger, than your ignorance is reaching true "derptitude" levels. I do believe that the Drupal team needs to make the "easy" button more secure. But if you can't do your job without using the "easy" button, you need to GTFO. Just because you don't have to purchase a license doesn't mean there's no cost involved in running it in production.
Scripting languages really don't count, but for what it's worth, as a Windows sys admin, poweshell is my best, ugly and totally uncool, friend.
Wooahhh... on my GS5 and when i went to the first link, it loaded A LOT nasty looking popup pages... never had that happen from a \. article. FYI... its not that easy to see the real link url when using chrome for mobile.
At my last job, the guy who purchased our user level tech was pretty set on Fujitsu laptops. They were significantly more expensive than the alternatives, but every model I used in my 10 years there was feature rich, excellent in build quality, and incredibly reliable. The ultabooks, while not as thin or lightweight as others, still managed to pack 3 or 4 USB ports, a docking station port, a special port for the included external wired NIC, and a full size keyboard. I was pretty disappointed when they decided to switch to the Surface Pro and it's single freaking USB port. As a Sys Admin and fill in network admin (our primary network guy got his undies in a bunch a quit one day), I can't even begin to describe how obnoxious it is to only have 1 USB on your laptop. Need to run to the network closet and diagnose a switch issue? Better bring your surface docking station, power cord, and a small table to setup on... turns out Serial to USB adapters don't play well with a USB hub that's also running a mouse and USB NIC. I actually ended up setting up a RasPi in each switch closet and just left it unplugged until I needed to use it. Fujitsu made great business grade laptops. I can't speak to their mobile devices, but this is a significant loss. I was actually contemplating going with them for the next round of laptop refreshes at my new gig... guess that's not happening. BOOOO! HISSSS!