You know, it would've been better if they had given you nothing at all.
Really. Suctitiude.
What did we get for Christmas? Nothing. The company decided to host the annual "Holiday Party" (It's not a Christmas party, let's not be offensive!) in the company cafeteria.
Feels like I'm back in high school.... I wouldn't go to that if they paid me for it.
Instead, one of my vendors (a Sun reseller) is taking us out on a cruise around Manhattan island. Now *THAT'S* nice!
And bonuses? We don't get holiday bonuses; instead we get "merit-based" bonuses at the end of the 1st quarter, based on our performance last year. My target is 10% of my salary, but my bonus typically ranges in the 5-6% range -- nobody ever gets their full target percentage. That wouldn't be fair to the bell curve!
So I can't really complain. Sure, they went cheap on the holiday party, but my Sun sales rep & friends are the folks I want to have a few drinks with anyway! At least I'm still employed, and hopefully our 1Q bonuses will be good this year -- we had the best 3rd quarter on record, ever. Added 1.1 million customers... not shabby:)
#a) No, it isn't a troll. I watched this whole thing unfold over at the PowerPage (www.powerpage.org).....
#2) There's no "appeal". In fact, if you read it, he's quite resistant to the whole idea of giving him money. He pleaded to give it to some charities instead!
Since I'm the Unix sysadmin, I built this thing. I also maintain the Sendmail piece of it. The NT admins maintain the ruleset on the spam & eManager rules on the Trend server. They use TVCS so they can update the rules on both of our gateways, as well as on the Exchange servers.
Is spamassasin NT-admin-friendly?:) Does it have a web GUI front end thingy so they can point-n-click rules on and off?
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/fileFingerprints .p l
It contains information for:
Operating Systems
Solaris SPARC - 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 Solaris x86 - 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 Solaris PPC - 2.5.1 Trusted Solaris SPARC - 2.5, 2.5.1 and 7 Trusted Solaris 7 x86 Most CDs bundled with Solaris 2.6 and later.
Patches
Nearly all released Solaris patches, including all SunSolve CDs to date. (4.0.11) All Solaris 2.6/7 Maintenance updates. All patches available from SunSolve.
Unbundled Products
Around 150 CDs with unbundled products are included. If you are missing any particular product, please feel free to send email and we will try to include it as soon as possible.
See, I was tasked with this when our company merged with 3 other ones, so we had a mess of Exchange and Notes servers out there. The idea was for me (your friendly local Unix sysadmin) to build a single ingress/egress point (my boxes) while the NT admins rebuilt all the exchange & notes servers into one coherent infrastructure. (That's a lot of work with ~40,000 employees!)
Anywho, the way I did it was to install a pair of Sun boxes in our DMZ with Trend Micro VirusWall on it, as well as their eManager product. That handles our ingress spam & virus filtration. That product proxies an inbound connection on port 25 to another pair of Sun boxen that run Sendmail gateways, which, thanks to some custom rules, do the LDAP lookups & address translations.
So we have multiple levels of SPAM & virus filtration -- the Trend stuff is very simplistic, crappy, relatively undocumented code, and works exactly as designed. As much as it looks amateurish to me, I can't help but to recommend it because it Just Freakin' Works. Also, if you're a big enough fish, the folks at Trend are incredibly friendly & helpful -- several of our suggestions made it into the product.
Someone high-up in our organization decided after Nimda and Code Red that all inbound messages with attachments should be quarantined for an hour, because Trend promised virus pattern updates within an hour after a virus outbreak. We were able to graft that on using some shell scripts. Works just peachy.
Between Trend Micro & Sendmail, we've got a GREAT solution that gives us plenty of filters. We have all the spam & anti-virus filters using Trend, and can block or redirect by domain using a mailertable with Sendmail. Also, the LDAP support in Sendmail wasn't very good when we started integrating that (8.10 was the first usable LDAP release), but by 8.12, it works great. We redirect the message internal to the company based on what's in LDAP, and it works flawlessly for ~1 million messages/day.
Tastes great, less filling. And mostly free software (Sendmail was free, as was the Directory Server, since that license comes with Solaris.) All we paid for was the Trend Micro stuff, which we had a site license for anyway since we use it on the Exchange servers as well.
So yeah, I'd have to agree that SPAM isn't NEARLY the problem at work that it is at home. Also, since we got the Exchange servers out of the SMTP business and "just" for mailboxes, we haven't had a virus outbreak since. Lovely!
We don't all toe the slashdot line. Some of us just want something that works well, doesn't waste our time, and lets us work effectively. OS X fits that bill wonderfully for me, and it plays well with my *nix servers.
I don't get paid based on the liberation of my software, I get paid to get things done. Fuck the KDE/Gnome amateur hour; give me OS X and software that works.
Amen brother. Well said. The KDE/Gnome Amateur Hour. I like that. Mind if I borrow it?:)
Get more people in your area to complain (nicely).
If VZW gets more than a few inquiries about cell signal in the same area, they'll send out one of those Test Guys (yes, they really _DO_ exist) in a car that looks like a porcupine to test the signal. Then they can adjust and/or add transmitters as appropriate.
Other things to note: #1 - You need to convince your town council/zoning board/whomever that YES adding a cell transmitter is a good idea and NO it won't irradiate their children. Anyone with even a fundamental understanding of derivatives (any RF engineer) can explain why it is that the amount of RF output drops exponentially as you move away from the transmitter. Within a few feet, you're well within FCC limits. The NIMBY yuppies (Not In My Back Yard) folks are usually the ones screaming "YOU'RE IRRADIATING MY CHILDREN!!" at the town meetings, then b*tching up a storm in their Ford Extravagance when they can't make a cell call because they wouldn't let the cellco's put towers within 20 miles of them! Cellular towers are perfectly safe ------ just do the math!
#2 - You also need to not only let VZW know there's a problem, but get your neighbors to do so also. If there are any businesses in the area that have folks who use cells (sales forces, etc.) make them call too. We all have to remember that as important as it is to have great cell reception in your house, you also have to weigh the cost factor in. Transmitters ain't cheap. That's why you need your neighbors & businesses to call.
It's not that they're thinking "well, it's only one guy, screw him", but rather "How do we justify spending $20,000 to boost one customer's signal? We'll _never_ make a return on that!"
If you get some more people to complain, all of a sudden it's no longer a loss.....:)
Again, just like RF signals, it's all about the math....:)
TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) does a great job at mitigating all of those problems:
1) Sending tapes off-site too early -- TSM allows you to have multiple "storage pools" within one library. Basically, you backup your data into one storage pool (set of tapes) and then duplicate it to the off-site copies. Then the DRM (Disaster Recovery Manager) scripts automatically eject the tapes from the library for packaging to send off-site. You don't ship off your on-site copies, so when you need to do a restore, it's always here.
2) Partly full tapes -- TSM has a concept of "migrations" where it moves data between tapes to better utilize them. The internal DB automatically knows where the data is, so you don't have to worry about which tape has which days' backups -- it doesn't matter.
3) Full backupset -- TSM 4.2 introduced "portable backup sets" -- basically, you backup your data into the TSM server as normal, then "generate" a backupset -- takes all the files for a particular node and writes them to a series of tapes which you then eject and store off-site. When you need to recover from those tapes, the server component isn't needed -- locally attached tape on the server and the client piece of TSM is all you need --- speeds up recovery by a few hours!
TSM's a great product. Does lots and lots of great things that other vendors are only now trying to figure out.
Sure, it's pricy, but how much is your data worth?
Three easy steps to the Internet: Step one: Plug in. Step two: Get connected. Step three: There's no step three. THERE'S NO STEP THREE!
The beauty of the Mac is that the simple things really _ARE_ simple. The hard things are still hard, but at least logical (i.e. no msgsrv32.dll to fight with;)
--NBVB
(Yeah yeah, I know, it's a troll. I just can't help myself.)
p.s. "boot -r" works wonders too. Oh wait, damn, can't do that either. How about running smitty? Nope, no go there either! Damn, find a real OS... Sheeeet, even Red Splat has our friend Kudzu..............
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Nah, I'm not a stoner. (Reason #1 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
I'm also not into 16-year-olds (Reason #2 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
Hell, I've got the most wonderful girlfriend (soon to be fiancee) already (Reason #3 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
And, I've been a Mac OS X convert (From Solaris) since Day One (Reason #4 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
Nah, doesn't make me want to "switch"... I'd rather just stay on OSX:)
--NBVB
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Completely unrelated, but try a search on google for "stoner girl" and look at what the third result is...
No, the iApps can't, but Outlook for Mac is free --- no demo needed, it's a free (as in, no charge, not Linux weenie-waving Free) app (Unlike its Windows counterpart).......
It's only a Classic app though. Sucktitude on Microsoft's part..... Rumor has it the next edition of Entourage will have Exchange (and therefore, PST) support built-in...
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'sok.
Just copy over the PST files to your Mac and run this:
Hey, I'm a transplant outta Hudson County and into Morris County.
I have to say, the politics here are BORING!.
I miss Hudson County politics. With guys like Bob "Ski Lodge" Janiszewski and "Slick" Nick Sacco, Albio "Not me" Sires and Brian "Backstabbin'" Stack, who can't love that 'ol hometown game?
And let's not forget the Gerry McCann's of the world too! Or the Peter Mocco's or Bruce Walter & Tony DeFino...
Just remember, a few years ago, North Bergen's town commissioners were "Gattoni, Sacco, Liggio, Garguilo, DiGiovanni"
A modem, IMNSHO, indicates connection to a circuit-switched network.
My understanding was that the signal was digital ATM back to the CO. But I'm not 100% sure of that. Especially now in the era of shared-line signals...
I could be wrong. It's been a while since I looked at the DSL specs.;)
I switched from Speakeasy DSL to Optimum Online when I moved (No DSL in new neighborhood... d'oh!!)
When the Speakeasy guy came out 2+ years ago, I had done all the "inside wiring" myself (this was back in the dedicated-line days...) The guy just looked at it, and said, and I quote "Damn! You did a better job than I would have." The guy literally handed me the DSL bridge (It's NOT A MODEM DAMNIT!), we plugged it in, he saw the lights "go green" and said "good 'nuff for me."
When the Optimum Online guy came out here (I needed someone to come out since I don't subscribe to cable... DirecTV rocks), I had my Linksys router plugged into my iBook.
First thing he did was go outside, climb the pole and turn the line on. when he did that, the cable bridge (IT'S NOT A MODEM DAMNIT!) "went green" and that was that.
All he asked was to see me pull up a web page. That was good enough.
Seriously, don't give the guy the old chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Don't sound like a clueless yutz, either. Just explain to the guy that listen, it's my machine and I'll install all the software on it, thanks. It's already configured for the network -- I read the directions (on the web, in the box, etc.)
The installers are usually _very_ cool about that stuff. In fact, the cable guy saw my Sun Microsystems jacket and started asking me some questions... we had a good long talk about IP networks and stuff, since he was looking to go to some Cisco courses and get outta the cable install business:)
Best of luck with the installs! Remember, don't give them an attitude, just convince them that your machine is all ready to go. Remember, if they get out of there in 5 minutes instead of 2 hours, it means they get to take a long lunch;)
Quorum algorithms work fine, as long as the quorum device itself isn't the one to fail.
I've used VMS clusters as a user but never as a sysadmin, so that's why I withheld comment. I figured that DEC would get it right, unlike Sun & Veritas & IBM's HA-CMP.....
Sun Cluster is my area of expertise, and IMHO, it's a piece of junk. I get better availability numbers out of my standalone nodes than I do out of the supposed "HA" ones. The cluster framework is such a bolt-on to the OS that it induces _much_ more instability and overhead than just letting the node run by itself.....
That's the same basic concept that supposed "high availability" products like Sun Cluster & VERITAS FirstWatch (err... VCS.. sorry) use.
And guess what? It's a damned mess.
OK, you've got 3 machines. Two of them lose the connection to the third. Who's the master? Two of them think they're the only ones alive, so they elect a master. The guy off on his own thinks _he's_ alone, so he elects himself a master.
Now we've got 2 masters. Oops.
This is commonly referred to as a "split brain" situation. It's definitely a non-trivial problem to solve.
And that's only one possible situation. There are all sorts of failures that can have nasty repercussions.
I'm 24, my dad's 51. He's a *much* bigger game addict than I ever will be.
The poor guy spent SO much time playing Rush 2049 on his (yes, HIS, not mine) Dreamcast, he's found just about every single secret passageway through it ever.
I grew up with pong & Intellivision in the house. We had the best tournaments... INTV Bowling, INTV baseball.... TO THIS DAY, whenever my Dad plays the baseball game, he has this little leg-kick thing every time it's a close play... almost like he's sliding into the base from the couch. Very funny stuff.:)
What a blast we've had through the years..... That's one of the few things I miss now that I live on my own... my girlfriend's wonderful and super and fantastic, but she's just not a gamer.:)
Which, on the whole, isn't a bad thing. Gives me an excuse to Have a Life (tm).
(Why, then, am I reading Slashdot on a Friday night? Oh, that's right. She's home, sick.)
This means my DirecTiVo is going to stay around for a while!
I was afraid that Dish Network would push the Dishnet PVR on us once the merger went through.... blech, what a broken piece of hardware THAT thing is:-)
Besides, DirecTV broadcasts in a higher quality than Dish does -- better picture, better sound, better service.
I'm glad to see we're not going to be subject to Uncle Charlie (Ergen)'s pet wishes and peeves...
Now if we can avoid being bought by Rupert, we'll be OK:-)
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You know, it would've been better if they had given you nothing at all.
.... I wouldn't go to that if they paid me for it.
... not shabby :)
Really. Suctitiude.
What did we get for Christmas? Nothing. The company decided to host the annual "Holiday Party" (It's not a Christmas party, let's not be offensive!) in the company cafeteria.
Feels like I'm back in high school
Instead, one of my vendors (a Sun reseller) is taking us out on a cruise around Manhattan island. Now *THAT'S* nice!
And bonuses? We don't get holiday bonuses; instead we get "merit-based" bonuses at the end of the 1st quarter, based on our performance last year. My target is 10% of my salary, but my bonus typically ranges in the 5-6% range -- nobody ever gets their full target percentage. That wouldn't be fair to the bell curve!
So I can't really complain. Sure, they went cheap on the holiday party, but my Sun sales rep & friends are the folks I want to have a few drinks with anyway! At least I'm still employed, and hopefully our 1Q bonuses will be good this year -- we had the best 3rd quarter on record, ever. Added 1.1 million customers
--NBVB
#a) No, it isn't a troll. I watched this whole thing unfold over at the PowerPage (www.powerpage.org) .....
#2) There's no "appeal". In fact, if you read it, he's quite resistant to the whole idea of giving him money. He pleaded to give it to some charities instead!
A good man, in my book.
--NBVB
Here's the question for you though ....
:) Does it have a web GUI front end thingy so they can point-n-click rules on and off?
Since I'm the Unix sysadmin, I built this thing. I also maintain the Sendmail piece of it. The NT admins maintain the ruleset on the spam & eManager rules on the Trend server. They use TVCS so they can update the rules on both of our gateways, as well as on the Exchange servers.
Is spamassasin NT-admin-friendly?
--NBVB
Sun already provides this for Solaris.
s .p l
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/fileFingerprint
It contains information for:
Operating Systems
Solaris SPARC - 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, Solaris 7 and Solaris 8
Solaris x86 - 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, Solaris 7 and Solaris 8
Solaris PPC - 2.5.1
Trusted Solaris SPARC - 2.5, 2.5.1 and 7
Trusted Solaris 7 x86
Most CDs bundled with Solaris 2.6 and later.
Patches
Nearly all released Solaris patches, including all SunSolve CDs to date. (4.0.11)
All Solaris 2.6/7 Maintenance updates.
All patches available from SunSolve.
Unbundled Products
Around 150 CDs with unbundled products are included. If you are missing any particular product, please feel free to send email and we will try to include it as soon as possible.
I work for a Rather Large Company (tm) and was tasked with architecting the mailgate for the entire company. Several requirements:
1) Ingress spam & virus filtration;
2) LDAP directory integration;
3) Message address rewriting on ingress & egress.
See, I was tasked with this when our company merged with 3 other ones, so we had a mess of Exchange and Notes servers out there. The idea was for me (your friendly local Unix sysadmin) to build a single ingress/egress point (my boxes) while the NT admins rebuilt all the exchange & notes servers into one coherent infrastructure. (That's a lot of work with ~40,000 employees!)
Anywho, the way I did it was to install a pair of Sun boxes in our DMZ with Trend Micro VirusWall on it, as well as their eManager product. That handles our ingress spam & virus filtration. That product proxies an inbound connection on port 25 to another pair of Sun boxen that run Sendmail gateways, which, thanks to some custom rules, do the LDAP lookups & address translations.
So we have multiple levels of SPAM & virus filtration -- the Trend stuff is very simplistic, crappy, relatively undocumented code, and works exactly as designed. As much as it looks amateurish to me, I can't help but to recommend it because it Just Freakin' Works. Also, if you're a big enough fish, the folks at Trend are incredibly friendly & helpful -- several of our suggestions made it into the product.
Someone high-up in our organization decided after Nimda and Code Red that all inbound messages with attachments should be quarantined for an hour, because Trend promised virus pattern updates within an hour after a virus outbreak. We were able to graft that on using some shell scripts. Works just peachy.
Between Trend Micro & Sendmail, we've got a GREAT solution that gives us plenty of filters. We have all the spam & anti-virus filters using Trend, and can block or redirect by domain using a mailertable with Sendmail. Also, the LDAP support in Sendmail wasn't very good when we started integrating that (8.10 was the first usable LDAP release), but by 8.12, it works great. We redirect the message internal to the company based on what's in LDAP, and it works flawlessly for ~1 million messages/day.
Tastes great, less filling. And mostly free software (Sendmail was free, as was the Directory Server, since that license comes with Solaris.) All we paid for was the Trend Micro stuff, which we had a site license for anyway since we use it on the Exchange servers as well.
So yeah, I'd have to agree that SPAM isn't NEARLY the problem at work that it is at home. Also, since we got the Exchange servers out of the SMTP business and "just" for mailboxes, we haven't had a virus outbreak since. Lovely!
--NBVB
Amen brother. Well said. The KDE/Gnome Amateur Hour. I like that. Mind if I borrow it?
OK, I guess I worded that wrong. Output _is_ output. What I MEANT to say is that one's exposure to RF drops off exponentially over distance....
--DM
Get more people in your area to complain (nicely).
:)
:)
If VZW gets more than a few inquiries about cell signal in the same area, they'll send out one of those Test Guys (yes, they really _DO_ exist) in a car that looks like a porcupine to test the signal. Then they can adjust and/or add transmitters as appropriate.
Other things to note:
#1 - You need to convince your town council/zoning board/whomever that YES adding a cell transmitter is a good idea and NO it won't irradiate their children. Anyone with even a fundamental understanding of derivatives (any RF engineer) can explain why it is that the amount of RF output drops exponentially as you move away from the transmitter. Within a few feet, you're well within FCC limits. The NIMBY yuppies (Not In My Back Yard) folks are usually the ones screaming "YOU'RE IRRADIATING MY CHILDREN!!" at the town meetings, then b*tching up a storm in their Ford Extravagance when they can't make a cell call because they wouldn't let the cellco's put towers within 20 miles of them! Cellular towers are perfectly safe ------ just do the math!
#2 - You also need to not only let VZW know there's a problem, but get your neighbors to do so also. If there are any businesses in the area that have folks who use cells (sales forces, etc.) make them call too. We all have to remember that as important as it is to have great cell reception in your house, you also have to weigh the cost factor in. Transmitters ain't cheap. That's why you need your neighbors & businesses to call.
It's not that they're thinking "well, it's only one guy, screw him", but rather "How do we justify spending $20,000 to boost one customer's signal? We'll _never_ make a return on that!"
If you get some more people to complain, all of a sudden it's no longer a loss.....
Again, just like RF signals, it's all about the math....
--NBVB
TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) does a great job at mitigating all of those problems:
1) Sending tapes off-site too early -- TSM allows you to have multiple "storage pools" within one library. Basically, you backup your data into one storage pool (set of tapes) and then duplicate it to the off-site copies. Then the DRM (Disaster Recovery Manager) scripts automatically eject the tapes from the library for packaging to send off-site. You don't ship off your on-site copies, so when you need to do a restore, it's always here.
2) Partly full tapes -- TSM has a concept of "migrations" where it moves data between tapes to better utilize them. The internal DB automatically knows where the data is, so you don't have to worry about which tape has which days' backups -- it doesn't matter.
3) Full backupset -- TSM 4.2 introduced "portable backup sets" -- basically, you backup your data into the TSM server as normal, then "generate" a backupset -- takes all the files for a particular node and writes them to a series of tapes which you then eject and store off-site. When you need to recover from those tapes, the server component isn't needed -- locally attached tape on the server and the client piece of TSM is all you need --- speeds up recovery by a few hours!
TSM's a great product. Does lots and lots of great things that other vendors are only now trying to figure out.
Sure, it's pricy, but how much is your data worth?
Three easy steps to the Internet:
;)
... Sheeeet, even Red Splat has our friend Kudzu ..............
Step one: Plug in.
Step two: Get connected.
Step three: There's no step three. THERE'S NO STEP THREE!
The beauty of the Mac is that the simple things really _ARE_ simple. The hard things are still hard, but at least logical (i.e. no msgsrv32.dll to fight with
--NBVB
(Yeah yeah, I know, it's a troll. I just can't help myself.)
p.s. "boot -r" works wonders too. Oh wait, damn, can't do that either. How about running smitty? Nope, no go there either! Damn, find a real OS
Nah, I'm not a stoner. (Reason #1 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
... I'd rather just stay on OSX :)
I'm also not into 16-year-olds (Reason #2 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
Hell, I've got the most wonderful girlfriend (soon to be fiancee) already (Reason #3 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
And, I've been a Mac OS X convert (From Solaris) since Day One (Reason #4 I don't fit in the Slashdot crowd.)
Nah, doesn't make me want to "switch"
--NBVB
Completely unrelated, but try a search on google for "stoner girl" and look at what the third result is ...
How did THAT get there????
Seriously, how did it get there?
--NBVB
No, the iApps can't, but Outlook for Mac is free --- no demo needed, it's a free (as in, no charge, not Linux weenie-waving Free) app (Unlike its Windows counterpart).......
It's only a Classic app though. Sucktitude on Microsoft's part..... Rumor has it the next edition of Entourage will have Exchange (and therefore, PST) support built-in...
'sok.
Just copy over the PST files to your Mac and run this:
Outlook 2001 for Mac
--NBVB
#33. Hehe. That's one of those things you never, ever forget ...
... but that's already TMI ....
Especially the gnats nipping at me
Hey, I'm a transplant outta Hudson County and into Morris County.
...
I have to say, the politics here are BORING!.
I miss Hudson County politics. With guys like Bob "Ski Lodge" Janiszewski and "Slick" Nick Sacco, Albio "Not me" Sires and Brian "Backstabbin'" Stack, who can't love that 'ol hometown game?
And let's not forget the Gerry McCann's of the world too! Or the Peter Mocco's or Bruce Walter & Tony DeFino
Just remember, a few years ago, North Bergen's town commissioners were "Gattoni, Sacco, Liggio, Garguilo, DiGiovanni"
Stereotype my ass.
--NBVB
Anything that speaks ATM to me isn't a modem ;)
...
;)
A modem, IMNSHO, indicates connection to a circuit-switched network.
My understanding was that the signal was digital ATM back to the CO. But I'm not 100% sure of that. Especially now in the era of shared-line signals
I could be wrong. It's been a while since I looked at the DSL specs.
--NBVB
I switched from Speakeasy DSL to Optimum Online when I moved (No DSL in new neighborhood... d'oh!!)
...) The guy just looked at it, and said, and I quote "Damn! You did a better job than I would have." The guy literally handed me the DSL bridge (It's NOT A MODEM DAMNIT!), we plugged it in, he saw the lights "go green" and said "good 'nuff for me."
... DirecTV rocks), I had my Linksys router plugged into my iBook.
:)
;)
When the Speakeasy guy came out 2+ years ago, I had done all the "inside wiring" myself (this was back in the dedicated-line days
When the Optimum Online guy came out here (I needed someone to come out since I don't subscribe to cable
First thing he did was go outside, climb the pole and turn the line on. when he did that, the cable bridge (IT'S NOT A MODEM DAMNIT!) "went green" and that was that.
All he asked was to see me pull up a web page. That was good enough.
Seriously, don't give the guy the old chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Don't sound like a clueless yutz, either. Just explain to the guy that listen, it's my machine and I'll install all the software on it, thanks. It's already configured for the network -- I read the directions (on the web, in the box, etc.)
The installers are usually _very_ cool about that stuff. In fact, the cable guy saw my Sun Microsystems jacket and started asking me some questions... we had a good long talk about IP networks and stuff, since he was looking to go to some Cisco courses and get outta the cable install business
Best of luck with the installs! Remember, don't give them an attitude, just convince them that your machine is all ready to go. Remember, if they get out of there in 5 minutes instead of 2 hours, it means they get to take a long lunch
--NBVB
Check this out. Just happened today!
Quorum algorithms work fine, as long as the quorum device itself isn't the one to fail.
:)
I've used VMS clusters as a user but never as a sysadmin, so that's why I withheld comment. I figured that DEC would get it right, unlike Sun & Veritas & IBM's HA-CMP.....
Sun Cluster is my area of expertise, and IMHO, it's a piece of junk. I get better availability numbers out of my standalone nodes than I do out of the supposed "HA" ones. The cluster framework is such a bolt-on to the OS that it induces _much_ more instability and overhead than just letting the node run by itself.....
Just my personal opinion, of course
That's the same basic concept that supposed "high availability" products like Sun Cluster & VERITAS FirstWatch (err... VCS.. sorry) use.
And guess what? It's a damned mess.
OK, you've got 3 machines. Two of them lose the connection to the third. Who's the master? Two of them think they're the only ones alive, so they elect a master. The guy off on his own thinks _he's_ alone, so he elects himself a master.
Now we've got 2 masters. Oops.
This is commonly referred to as a "split brain" situation. It's definitely a non-trivial problem to solve.
And that's only one possible situation. There are all sorts of failures that can have nasty repercussions.
Ick.
--NBVB
General Protection Fault at address x:FE2C y:42FA z:FFFF in module lane.dll.
Please turn your yoke up up, down, down, left, right, left, right, gas, brake, start to reboot.
Or, if they're built like anything from Detroit, a big 'ol light would come on that says "SERVICE AIRFRAME SOON" and it'd drop out of the sky.
I'm 24, my dad's 51. He's a *much* bigger game addict than I ever will be.
:)
..... That's one of the few things I miss now that I live on my own... my girlfriend's wonderful and super and fantastic, but she's just not a gamer. :)
The poor guy spent SO much time playing Rush 2049 on his (yes, HIS, not mine) Dreamcast, he's found just about every single secret passageway through it ever.
I grew up with pong & Intellivision in the house. We had the best tournaments... INTV Bowling, INTV baseball.... TO THIS DAY, whenever my Dad plays the baseball game, he has this little leg-kick thing every time it's a close play... almost like he's sliding into the base from the couch. Very funny stuff.
What a blast we've had through the years
Which, on the whole, isn't a bad thing. Gives me an excuse to Have a Life (tm).
(Why, then, am I reading Slashdot on a Friday night? Oh, that's right. She's home, sick.)
--NBVB
Personal flight won't be a reality until we figure out how to put skip-lines and double-yellows in mid-air to keep people in line :-)
--NBVB
Whoo hoo!
.... blech, what a broken piece of hardware THAT thing is :-)
...
:-)
This means my DirecTiVo is going to stay around for a while!
I was afraid that Dish Network would push the Dishnet PVR on us once the merger went through
Besides, DirecTV broadcasts in a higher quality than Dish does -- better picture, better sound, better service.
I'm glad to see we're not going to be subject to Uncle Charlie (Ergen)'s pet wishes and peeves
Now if we can avoid being bought by Rupert, we'll be OK
--NBVB