I disagree with this statement that social skills are extremely easy to learn. Relating to others with different intentions, personalities and nationalities in various situations is difficult. It takes a lot of skill and practice. What it takes to sell someone a drink in a coffee shop is quite a bit different than trying to negotiate a deal with a Japanese Business man while playing golf. Relating in different social scenarios differ greatly, and can be treated as art.
I respectfully disagree. I don't think that you can say that it was necessarily God's will that a church be destroyed in Minneapolis. In Luke 13, Jesus touches on a disaster story of the day, which could parallel your story of the church being struck in Minneapolis. Jesus mentions a disaster story in which the Tower of Siloam fell killing 18 Jewish people. His commentary on this, was not that these people had done something wrong and deserved judgment more than the rest. But unless they had a change of mind, they too would pass away.
One of the tragedies of the Christian Church today is the lack of understanding regarding the power of God. One powerful scripture on faith and the power of God is in Matthew 17:20, Jesus states "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." I believe that if one were educated in the power of God that this disaster could have been averted.
FreeNX has been around for quite some time and that hasn't killed NoMachine off. However, Google being involved may create more OpenSource developer interest in NX and perhaps someone will create a good Windows NX Server, Windows NX Client and better management tools. If Google rallies that much developer support it could mean an end to NoMachine.
I really like the IronKey Enterprise features -- remote destruction, management console, etc. It sounds like mac support is in it's infancy. Are there any enterprise level mac alternatives to IronKey?
I am very thankful for Mark Shuttleworth and what he is doing for the Linux Desktop. Everyone knows Redhat flip-flops on the Desktop subject all the time and never actually get much done for it.
Agreed. Kudos to Mark and the Ubuntu guys. They're doing a great job. Now, if we can get a majority accepted UI kit (stealing Apple's design philosophy wouldn't hurt), and a much better GUI back-end (or make X11 much better), linux on the desktop would rock.
Linux' problem is the endless competing projects and the mis-management of developer's time and resources. Many developers want to create and lead new projects The whole too many Chiefs not enough Indian problem. If we could developers to improve someone else's project, rather than starting their own, it would really help Linux. Secondary, it sucks when many of the Chiefs are pig-headed and are not open to criticism or contributions. What ends up happening is that applications end up performing better and looking better in Windows and Mac OS X rather than in Linux. And thus most users end up going with a better Workstation Product -- Mac OS X and (*ugh*) Windows. I know that it seems like a shot in hell to get developers to change... but problems like these are keeping Linux on the desktop from taking off.
I agree with most of the tips here... Just one last tip that I think will really help. Having a Staging / Testing Environment that is similar to your production setup. Whatever you do (i.e. install tools, new scripts, new packages), run it through your Staging Network and let it cook for a few days. If it blows up, that sucks, but at least it didn't blow up production.
Lastly, I've read a couple of people who endorse CFEngine / Puppet. I've been running slack, which is great, it's easy to set up, runs great, and easy to understand. I recommend people check it out.
Reading the bible in context is one of the most important facets of studying the Bible. You start reading at the end you're likely not to get screwed up.
Paul is talking to immature believers... He's talking about spiritual gifts, at the end of chapter 12 and the begining of chapter 13. He is explaining to them that the spiritual gifts work by 3 things, faith, hope and love. And love is the most important component.
Boy it sounds like you don't know very much about search engine optimization. Sure, that will tell you the very very very basics of doing search engine optimization. Check out this page Seo Tutorial for more information. There's a lot more to it than just that... PR, Outgoing links, incomming links, incomming link titles, properly formed first paragraphs...
SEO folks need to be studdying the engines all the time... try getting into the top 10 for google under the search string "business". You'll find some competition. Or better yet search under "SEO" or "SEO optimization." You'll find some competition there.
They pay people big money because people in general don't have time to study this stuff.
-Matt
I write this little comment, and chaos ensues! Is this proper advice? Is this giving "grandfatherly advice"? Is this ontopic at all? Didn't he just ask about some routers? Hah! Don't deal with your money with a slack hand. That's the advice.
You got $7k, maybe think about real estate. Maybe think about a house. Maybe think about a wife and kids somewhere down the line. Maybe think about getting the future. What'll happen 8 months from now and you've spent your $7k? What if 8 months from now you start thinking about buying a new computer or a new car? Now that $7k of routers and things are working against you instead of for you. More stuff to maintain and spend money on. What happens if it breaks down? What happens if you have to leave the building or move? Anyway, keep your smarts.
Investing that sort of money into a house, or into something that will appreciate with time is a smart idea.. Especially when you have a nice chunk of change like that. The real estate market is looking really good right now. See if you rent all the time you are pumping money into something you will never own. If you buy, then you will own something, and be able to sell it after sometime. Basically renting makes someone money. The objective in the "financal game of life" is to have more money streams comming towards you rather than away from you.
There are lots of good books that talk about this concept.. and having $7k is a nice way to start sometihng like that.
As a supposed "IT" dude I take some offense at what you say. Perhaps you should talk with these IT dudes and find out why they get so uppedy and call you guys at 2am. I hope you're not doing active development on a webserver. If I have to manage a set of servers all the time and if there was a run away process taking up 99% of the cpu time on an essential server, I would call the programmer too. In fact if it happened enough, I would be pretty upset that I would have to call the programmer.
The main point is come to people with a warm and open heart. Try to find out what people want and why they act they way they do. Relate in a kind why where you are comming from. Change your habbits to accomidate him and appolgize if you did something wrong. I'm sure you're life will be a lot more peaceful if you try to do those things. I don't always do them, but my how smothly do things run when I do.
Want to see what's really going on? Visit This thread. Darren Reed (the author of IPF) has been poking his head in there. It's not a pretty sight either. Unfortunatly. Intreped (a poster) has made some intelligent commentary about the copyright law / policy near the bottom.
If you're doing web stuff, the obivous deal is PHP. If you know Perl PHP is really easy to pick up. One big problem with Perl is code-readability. PHP suffers from that problem a little less.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I trust Warner Losh and the OpenBSD core developers over you.
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Your Study doesn't exist at all. Are you spreading Linux based FUD? Now here's a _real_ study from last year. Interesting, Linux get's blown out of the water in many tests and has a slight lead in static web pages.
Well, FreeBSD is the choice when it concerns webserving. Also FreeBSD is much, much more easy to monitor than OpenBSD. When you have lots of machines the standard way of monitoring them is to use SNMP with ucd. Unfortunatly, OpenBSD shows almost no default information dealing with Networking information.
It's also obvious according performance testing stuff of last year that FreeBSD way outperforms OpenBSD.
The only unix I run at home is an OpenBSD machine. I also have a single OpenBSD co-locate (personal server) at my work. Let me count the ways of the pain dealing with webserving on that thing.. PHP / MySQL problems, etc. It's not bad that because it's only a single machine, but if I had to run 50 of these things, I would switch to FreeBSD in a heart beat.
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Yup, you're completely right about this. But if you know anything about the linux kernel in the 2.2+ (and later 2.4 series), that it is basicaly the BSD Networking Kernel. Luckly the BSD licence allows for this. So when you use your networking stuff, you're not truly running 100% linux made code, you're using some BSD Networking code.
I'm sorry but I had to do this. If the program is worth is weight in gold, then you have to consider how much the electrical charge weighs while in RAM. (probably not very much).
Oh btw a Stalion Terminal Server is not exactlly just a program. It's also a piece of hardware, it might weight a pound or a bit more.
Anyway, I dont agree with you here. Not everybody has the option of owning a Macintosh, or spending the money to acquire a Mac. Some companies have policies against Macs in a network.
Well, being a good system administrator requires the right tools for the job. Buying a $500 Mac and spending bettween $300-$1200 (depending on services monitored) for a copy of Intermapper isn't a bad deal at all. Maybe I shouldn't have ragged on all the Linux Services as much as I did. But before you decide to depend on them, why not test everything out first? Why just take my word for it? You can download a demo version from Dartmouth. I assume you know where and how to search on freshmeat for the rest.
Oh btw, that HP-UX solution is called "HP OpenView NetMatrix" and I was wrong, it costs bettween $5,995 and $22,000. The HP-UX solution isn't bad. However, it doesn't have all the features that Intermapper has and it takes maintaince and it requires a lot of tweaking / scripting. I've only used it once and it wasn't my cup of tea. However if you want to spend up to 22 Gs, go right ahead. But if you have that kind of money you can spend $1000 on a Mac, etc just to try intermapper out.
Yes, Intermapper uses a Point and Click interface. A lot of Linux tools requrire the ability to use vi and reading README files. This is not bad. I'm into a solution that works, the way I want it to, 100% the way I want it to, with all the features I want it to. Also I'm into getting things done quickly and efficently, with the least ammount of pain possible. If that requires an extra $500 to fix the problem, to save me pain later down the road, I'm willing to fork out the money. That's just a philosophy of mine, yours may be different.
Some companies have policies against Macs in a network.
Interesting. Are these the same companies who think FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux are fully unsupported therefore they shouldn't be in their company? I feel sorry for companies that are unwilling to take the best solution for their situation.
You need out of band management and monitoring software. It's essential and it'll make your life and everyone else's life 100x better.
Here is the software I usually use:
Intermapper - Only for Macs, but it's awsome. It'll monitor all your workstations, servers, etc. It can probe via snmp, smtp, web, icmp, etc, pretty much anything. You can set it up so it'll email page you or dial up page you, etc. Install a seperate line, use the dial up paging, that'll insure that it will get to you, on time, unless the phone lines are out. You can customize messages so they'll say something like: "10:23:43 port 80 for jamba.billygoat.com down for last 7 minutes", etc.
Stallion Terminal Server - These things are worth their weight in gold. Did your Cisco router crash, or is something else wrong? Dial into your stallion and connect via serial port to your Cisco or anything that can be connected to via serial cable.
Remotely Powercycling UPS Systems - Some new APCs now have remote power cycling UPSes. You simply connect via port 80, type in your passwords and tell it to reboot. Very useful when a machine is down and there is no way to reboot it short of being there.
Security. For all this stuff to work right, don't forget security. I recommend a IPsec or SSH tunnel for this remote APC stuff / telnet for the stallion, but there are other ways to do it. (Most of these nifty out of band management tools are still in clear-text.)
Test test test. If you wait until an emergency to test this stuff out, chances are it won't work. You should test all this stuff about once a week.
If you only take one piece of advice of mine, buy INTERMAPPER. Don't fool with Free Linux tools that will take you hours to set up and won't work 100% right, or spend $10,000 on a HP-UX monitoring system that sucks ass and takes you 3 months to configure. This program is worth it's weight in gold. Gratned, you have to set it up right, but once it's set up right, you will _know_ immediatly when there are problems and where there are problems. It's also easy to set up. Don't be a sissy, buy a mac.
Train everyone and document everything. If you have everything documented, people can get along with out you. D'uh how do I replace a printer cartridge? It says how on pg. 3 of my document.
I've been in your situation before. It's not pretty or fun. But if you get all the equipment you need, you can do your job from home or the Bahamas. Also if you have compitent people at home who are trained, you won't have to worry as much.
Making certain that the DNS server is really who it says it is probably not a good idea.. On the internet, the last router on your hop gets the mac address for the packets. Imagine someone swapping routers! Everything goes hay-wire.
If you're talking on a LAN, that's still probably a bad idea. If you ever become a large orginization and get several dns servers, multipul level firewalls and the like.. What happens if a machine goes down and you gotta switch network cards? You have to change a whole bunch of access lists.
Also such a setup requires tons of documentation, what happens if you quit your job? The next guy is going to get screwed on this.
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I disagree with this statement that social skills are extremely easy to learn. Relating to others with different intentions, personalities and nationalities in various situations is difficult. It takes a lot of skill and practice. What it takes to sell someone a drink in a coffee shop is quite a bit different than trying to negotiate a deal with a Japanese Business man while playing golf. Relating in different social scenarios differ greatly, and can be treated as art.
I respectfully disagree. I don't think that you can say that it was necessarily God's will that a church be destroyed in Minneapolis. In Luke 13, Jesus touches on a disaster story of the day, which could parallel your story of the church being struck in Minneapolis. Jesus mentions a disaster story in which the Tower of Siloam fell killing 18 Jewish people. His commentary on this, was not that these people had done something wrong and deserved judgment more than the rest. But unless they had a change of mind, they too would pass away.
One of the tragedies of the Christian Church today is the lack of understanding regarding the power of God. One powerful scripture on faith and the power of God is in Matthew 17:20, Jesus states "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." I believe that if one were educated in the power of God that this disaster could have been averted.
FreeNX has been around for quite some time and that hasn't killed NoMachine off. However, Google being involved may create more OpenSource developer interest in NX and perhaps someone will create a good Windows NX Server, Windows NX Client and better management tools. If Google rallies that much developer support it could mean an end to NoMachine.
I really like the IronKey Enterprise features -- remote destruction, management console, etc. It sounds like mac support is in it's infancy. Are there any enterprise level mac alternatives to IronKey?
I am very thankful for Mark Shuttleworth and what he is doing for the Linux Desktop. Everyone knows Redhat flip-flops on the Desktop subject all the time and never actually get much done for it.
Agreed. Kudos to Mark and the Ubuntu guys. They're doing a great job. Now, if we can get a majority accepted UI kit (stealing Apple's design philosophy wouldn't hurt), and a much better GUI back-end (or make X11 much better), linux on the desktop would rock.
Linux' problem is the endless competing projects and the mis-management of developer's time and resources. Many developers want to create and lead new projects The whole too many Chiefs not enough Indian problem. If we could developers to improve someone else's project, rather than starting their own, it would really help Linux. Secondary, it sucks when many of the Chiefs are pig-headed and are not open to criticism or contributions. What ends up happening is that applications end up performing better and looking better in Windows and Mac OS X rather than in Linux. And thus most users end up going with a better Workstation Product -- Mac OS X and (*ugh*) Windows. I know that it seems like a shot in hell to get developers to change... but problems like these are keeping Linux on the desktop from taking off.
Apparently anyone who adds onomatopoeia to this string gets modded up as insightful! Let's see!
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I agree with most of the tips here... Just one last tip that I think will really help. Having a Staging / Testing Environment that is similar to your production setup. Whatever you do (i.e. install tools, new scripts, new packages), run it through your Staging Network and let it cook for a few days. If it blows up, that sucks, but at least it didn't blow up production.
Lastly, I've read a couple of people who endorse CFEngine / Puppet. I've been running slack, which is great, it's easy to set up, runs great, and easy to understand. I recommend people check it out.
http://www.sundell.net/~alan/projects/slack/
Enjoy this mindless humor on a Friday.
Reading the bible in context is one of the most important facets of studying the Bible. You start reading at the end you're likely not to get screwed up.
Paul is talking to immature believers... He's talking about spiritual gifts, at the end of chapter 12 and the begining of chapter 13. He is explaining to them that the spiritual gifts work by 3 things, faith, hope and love. And love is the most important component.
-M
Boy it sounds like you don't know very much about search engine optimization. Sure, that will tell you the very very very basics of doing search engine optimization. Check out this page Seo Tutorial for more information. There's a lot more to it than just that... PR, Outgoing links, incomming links, incomming link titles, properly formed first paragraphs... SEO folks need to be studdying the engines all the time... try getting into the top 10 for google under the search string "business". You'll find some competition. Or better yet search under "SEO" or "SEO optimization." You'll find some competition there. They pay people big money because people in general don't have time to study this stuff. -Matt
You got $7k, maybe think about real estate. Maybe think about a house. Maybe think about a wife and kids somewhere down the line. Maybe think about getting the future. What'll happen 8 months from now and you've spent your $7k? What if 8 months from now you start thinking about buying a new computer or a new car? Now that $7k of routers and things are working against you instead of for you. More stuff to maintain and spend money on. What happens if it breaks down? What happens if you have to leave the building or move? Anyway, keep your smarts.
Investing that sort of money into a house, or into something that will appreciate with time is a smart idea.. Especially when you have a nice chunk of change like that. The real estate market is looking really good right now. See if you rent all the time you are pumping money into something you will never own. If you buy, then you will own something, and be able to sell it after sometime. Basically renting makes someone money. The objective in the "financal game of life" is to have more money streams comming towards you rather than away from you.
There are lots of good books that talk about this concept.. and having $7k is a nice way to start sometihng like that.
It's all about the wireless power baby!
The main point is come to people with a warm and open heart. Try to find out what people want and why they act they way they do. Relate in a kind why where you are comming from. Change your habbits to accomidate him and appolgize if you did something wrong. I'm sure you're life will be a lot more peaceful if you try to do those things. I don't always do them, but my how smothly do things run when I do.
Want to see what's really going on? Visit This thread. Darren Reed (the author of IPF) has been poking his head in there. It's not a pretty sight either. Unfortunatly. Intreped (a poster) has made some intelligent commentary about the copyright law / policy near the bottom.
If you're doing web stuff, the obivous deal is PHP. If you know Perl PHP is really easy to pick up. One big problem with Perl is code-readability. PHP suffers from that problem a little less.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I trust Warner Losh and the OpenBSD core developers over you.
Your Study doesn't exist at all. Are you spreading Linux based FUD? Now here's a _real_ study from last year. Interesting, Linux get's blown out of the water in many tests and has a slight lead in static web pages.
It's also obvious according performance testing stuff of last year that FreeBSD way outperforms OpenBSD.
The only unix I run at home is an OpenBSD machine. I also have a single OpenBSD co-locate (personal server) at my work. Let me count the ways of the pain dealing with webserving on that thing.. PHP / MySQL problems, etc. It's not bad that because it's only a single machine, but if I had to run 50 of these things, I would switch to FreeBSD in a heart beat.
Yup, you're completely right about this. But if you know anything about the linux kernel in the 2.2+ (and later 2.4 series), that it is basicaly the BSD Networking Kernel. Luckly the BSD licence allows for this. So when you use your networking stuff, you're not truly running 100% linux made code, you're using some BSD Networking code.
Oh btw a Stalion Terminal Server is not exactlly just a program. It's also a piece of hardware, it might weight a pound or a bit more.
Well, being a good system administrator requires the right tools for the job. Buying a $500 Mac and spending bettween $300-$1200 (depending on services monitored) for a copy of Intermapper isn't a bad deal at all. Maybe I shouldn't have ragged on all the Linux Services as much as I did. But before you decide to depend on them, why not test everything out first? Why just take my word for it? You can download a demo version from Dartmouth. I assume you know where and how to search on freshmeat for the rest.
Oh btw, that HP-UX solution is called "HP OpenView NetMatrix" and I was wrong, it costs bettween $5,995 and $22,000. The HP-UX solution isn't bad. However, it doesn't have all the features that Intermapper has and it takes maintaince and it requires a lot of tweaking / scripting. I've only used it once and it wasn't my cup of tea. However if you want to spend up to 22 Gs, go right ahead. But if you have that kind of money you can spend $1000 on a Mac, etc just to try intermapper out.
Yes, Intermapper uses a Point and Click interface. A lot of Linux tools requrire the ability to use vi and reading README files. This is not bad. I'm into a solution that works, the way I want it to, 100% the way I want it to, with all the features I want it to. Also I'm into getting things done quickly and efficently, with the least ammount of pain possible. If that requires an extra $500 to fix the problem, to save me pain later down the road, I'm willing to fork out the money. That's just a philosophy of mine, yours may be different.
Some companies have policies against Macs in a network.
Interesting. Are these the same companies who think FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux are fully unsupported therefore they shouldn't be in their company? I feel sorry for companies that are unwilling to take the best solution for their situation.
Here is the software I usually use:
Security. For all this stuff to work right, don't forget security. I recommend a IPsec or SSH tunnel for this remote APC stuff / telnet for the stallion, but there are other ways to do it. (Most of these nifty out of band management tools are still in clear-text.)
Test test test. If you wait until an emergency to test this stuff out, chances are it won't work. You should test all this stuff about once a week.
If you only take one piece of advice of mine, buy INTERMAPPER. Don't fool with Free Linux tools that will take you hours to set up and won't work 100% right, or spend $10,000 on a HP-UX monitoring system that sucks ass and takes you 3 months to configure. This program is worth it's weight in gold. Gratned, you have to set it up right, but once it's set up right, you will _know_ immediatly when there are problems and where there are problems. It's also easy to set up. Don't be a sissy, buy a mac.
Train everyone and document everything. If you have everything documented, people can get along with out you. D'uh how do I replace a printer cartridge? It says how on pg. 3 of my document.
I've been in your situation before. It's not pretty or fun. But if you get all the equipment you need, you can do your job from home or the Bahamas. Also if you have compitent people at home who are trained, you won't have to worry as much.
--Matt
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yowza.. i find this hard to recommend, especially with all the security exploits for firewall-1 as of recent.
If you're talking on a LAN, that's still probably a bad idea. If you ever become a large orginization and get several dns servers, multipul level firewalls and the like.. What happens if a machine goes down and you gotta switch network cards? You have to change a whole bunch of access lists.
Also such a setup requires tons of documentation, what happens if you quit your job? The next guy is going to get screwed on this.