Comcast has their heads up their ass when it comes to business accounts. I have 3 business comcast accounts I manage, 2 with brighthouse, and 3 w/ AT&T. Brighthouse is the hands down best because I have a single point of contact who just gets everything done. AT&T is ok, I call into a national line for help, but I also have a local rep for installs and to lean on when things are crappy.
Comcast goes wrong from the start. My set up experience was I called a number and they took my number and called me back. The person I set everything up with never gave me any personal contact info, everything went to a national phone line. I did get her email address, but it did little good, and was never offered, I just know how to pull it out of the headers.
So I have no contact, the installers are always different contractors who contradict each other constantly. I have to call a local 800 number for service, but the worst thing is they apperently have some sort of break between "national" accounts and "regular" accounts. My sites have TV and one has comcast phone service that are all "regular" accounts. My internet is a "national" account. Only national reps can access national accounts and they cannot access regular account, and of course vice versa.
This is such a pain in the ass. I can't understand how they can be so stupid about the way they handle business accounts. I have probably dealt with over a dozen different ISP's in my career and Comcast is the only one I've ever seen who handles things they ass backwards way they do.
actually, I misunderstood the feature, apparently the facial recognition only works on uploaded photos. I thought the button to only show photos w/ faces was the facial recognition feature.
Someone previously mentioned a laptop is optimal for sysadmins. I can remote in to fix things from home and have all the tools I need. I can also take it with me in the server room if I need to plug into a router or switch. If I need to flash equipment at a remote location it becomes a local file-server.
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OH, that's rich, A GROUP!!!
hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh
seriously, I have often worked at (and currently do) places where your it and on call pay is OT if you get called (hourly). My personal policy is reflected in how I fill out my timesheet.
I use nod32 on all my servers and clients. Their license for server and client is the same. I have three citrix servers protected by nod32 and it runs very lean. It also seems to have excellent detection. Their console is a bit clunky, but all the ones I've tried are too (Kaspersky, Panda, Mcafeee [UGGGHH]). It installs easy, but I guess you are complaining about the config it requires?
seriously, I have always concentrated on networking, which ends up requiring system admin and hardware troubleshooting. Steer towards companies who use IT and don't sell IT.
I have a rackmount ReadyNAS 1000, it's nice. It's AD integrations is awesome, but I had trouble mounting it's SMB shares from a linux box. I had never used NFS in the past, but it seemed to work better. However, I wanted user level permission, not machine level and NFS doesn't seem to offer that.
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That's why I use a celeron on my home server NAS. I also have the drives spin down when not in use, well the data drives, not the OS drive.
I use one drive for OS, one for data, and a second for backup. If I had a more secure location I would probably run the backup to a USB enclosure or removable drive. I use mirrordir every night, no RAID since it is a waste of power and space for my purposes.
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For my home server I just have Mirror the drive using mirrordir every night. It cuts down on unnecessary writes to the secondary drive since it only appears to write changed files. It also acts as a daily backup because (unlike with raid), if I fatfinger something I can grab it from last nights mirror without worrying it has changed. I do risk a days data loss if I have a drive failure, but I can live with that. I can always kick off a manual mirror if I dump some important photos or docs on the drive.
I'm not sure, I have a sub-domain pointed at my home server.
I just tested, and yes, it is possible. Because you usually associate the main site as an alias of your NFS site it doesn't give you a remove button in the DNS area. If you remove the association it will allow you to add a bare record. Their DNS is not too flashy, but it seems to let me do just about anything.
It sounds like you have well-reasoned and thought out response. I like it, I would however say that if you do use the term "crotch-fruit" it does not appear to fit with the apparent value you place on children.
My response was more to the people who seem to place no value on children and think the world would be a better place without them. I understand some people can not, or should not have children. I just find it distasteful when people admonish me for my choice to have children.
Kids are the epitome of "you get what you pay for", put in the time and effort and you get something amazing. If you don't, you end up with the irritating shit's that nobody wants around and keep our prisons full.
I see posts like this all the time and I can't help but think how sad it is that you will never know the joy I know. There is so much joy in the simple things with children. I've been watching Star Wars with my girls and it is so awesome to see the looks on their faces for little things that were old hat to me. They were so shocked when the bounty hunter who rescued Han Solo turned out to be Princess Leia, they were discussing it and had decided it must be Luke Skywalker.
Kids find joy in everything, more adults should. It's definitely hard work, but of your choices are no kids, kids and don't put in the hard work (they turn out pretty bad), or kids and put in the hard work (a great final product). I'll take #3 any day.
There is more to life then being remembered as a person. The knowledge that you did a good job and raised some children who will also make the world a better place. I try to live my life as an example. People may not remember me by name, but I've touched alot of lives and the things I've done will continue to touch many more lives. In acts of kindness and education you will find meaning more meaning then useless entries in history books.
People take things for granted, children shouldn't be one of those things we as a society take for granted. The very same people bitching about "crotch-fruit" will be the ones complaining about lack of quality people in 20 years. Children are children, but let's not forget they will be adults, they have value and need guidance.
Not bothering to pursue certifications has limited the places willing to seriously look at me as a candidate. I feel that anyone truly competent can get by without them, but they do help. My personal philosophy is that I won't pay for them, but I'll gladly snap them up on my employers dime. I usually offer to make my employment contingent on receiving whatever certification their asking for.
I am another satisfied nearlyfreespeech.net user, but I don't believe the allow cron, per their FAQ:
What are the most common things that do not work on your system?
Here are the things we are most often asked about that do not work with our service:
* cron (this or a similar feature is on our to-do list)
* FastCGI / SCGI (this is not applicable in our hosting environment, thus we do not offer it and programs written specifically to depend on its API will not work)
* Java Servlets / JSP (we have no plans to add server-side Java support at this time)
* mod_perl, mod_ruby, and mod_python
* Web application frameworks that depend on persistent processes, including: Ruby On Rails, Django, Zope, and others (some of these will run under CGI, but will run slowly and are suitable only for development purposes)
It's been suggested that publicly posting information about our technical limitations isn't savvy marketing, but if our service isn't going to work for you, we want you to know that before you sign up if at all possible.
I steer all my friends and clients to nearlyfreespeech.net, they make me an adjunct member of the site so I can do setup for them.
For what your looking to do I would recommend a Virtual Machine. Find a good provider and make sure your "clients" pay you enough to cover most or all of the cost depending on your needs. I think this is much more cost effective then having a racked server in a colocation facility. (unless you really need the power of a dedicated server)
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Comcast has their heads up their ass when it comes to business accounts. I have 3 business comcast accounts I manage, 2 with brighthouse, and 3 w/ AT&T. Brighthouse is the hands down best because I have a single point of contact who just gets everything done. AT&T is ok, I call into a national line for help, but I also have a local rep for installs and to lean on when things are crappy.
Comcast goes wrong from the start. My set up experience was I called a number and they took my number and called me back. The person I set everything up with never gave me any personal contact info, everything went to a national phone line. I did get her email address, but it did little good, and was never offered, I just know how to pull it out of the headers.
So I have no contact, the installers are always different contractors who contradict each other constantly. I have to call a local 800 number for service, but the worst thing is they apperently have some sort of break between "national" accounts and "regular" accounts. My sites have TV and one has comcast phone service that are all "regular" accounts. My internet is a "national" account. Only national reps can access national accounts and they cannot access regular account, and of course vice versa.
This is such a pain in the ass. I can't understand how they can be so stupid about the way they handle business accounts. I have probably dealt with over a dozen different ISP's in my career and Comcast is the only one I've ever seen who handles things they ass backwards way they do.
I hate comcast
And don't get me started on my home account...
actually, I misunderstood the feature, apparently the facial recognition only works on uploaded photos. I thought the button to only show photos w/ faces was the facial recognition feature.
sorry...
It seemed to be very confused by my wife and daughters. Even some of her relatives showed up.
3 people in our IT staff, about 250 users. Over 3/4 thin-client environment, and the 50 desktops we have take up 1/2 my time.
:(
The apartment complex dumpster is also great for this, on or by, not in.
Someone previously mentioned a laptop is optimal for sysadmins. I can remote in to fix things from home and have all the tools I need. I can also take it with me in the server room if I need to plug into a router or switch. If I need to flash equipment at a remote location it becomes a local file-server.
I love my laptop
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH
OH, that's rich, A GROUP!!!
hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhh
seriously, I have often worked at (and currently do) places where your it and on call pay is OT if you get called (hourly). My personal policy is reflected in how I fill out my timesheet.
I use nod32 on all my servers and clients. Their license for server and client is the same. I have three citrix servers protected by nod32 and it runs very lean. It also seems to have excellent detection. Their console is a bit clunky, but all the ones I've tried are too (Kaspersky, Panda, Mcafeee [UGGGHH]). It installs easy, but I guess you are complaining about the config it requires?
HELL YEAH.
Sysadmin's and network admin's in the house!
seriously, I have always concentrated on networking, which ends up requiring system admin and hardware troubleshooting. Steer towards companies who use IT and don't sell IT.
I have a rackmount ReadyNAS 1000, it's nice. It's AD integrations is awesome, but I had trouble mounting it's SMB shares from a linux box. I had never used NFS in the past, but it seemed to work better. However, I wanted user level permission, not machine level and NFS doesn't seem to offer that.
That's why I use a celeron on my home server NAS. I also have the drives spin down when not in use, well the data drives, not the OS drive.
I use one drive for OS, one for data, and a second for backup. If I had a more secure location I would probably run the backup to a USB enclosure or removable drive. I use mirrordir every night, no RAID since it is a waste of power and space for my purposes.
For my home server I just have Mirror the drive using mirrordir every night. It cuts down on unnecessary writes to the secondary drive since it only appears to write changed files. It also acts as a daily backup because (unlike with raid), if I fatfinger something I can grab it from last nights mirror without worrying it has changed. I do risk a days data loss if I have a drive failure, but I can live with that. I can always kick off a manual mirror if I dump some important photos or docs on the drive.
I'm not sure, I have a sub-domain pointed at my home server.
I just tested, and yes, it is possible. Because you usually associate the main site as an alias of your NFS site it doesn't give you a remove button in the DNS area. If you remove the association it will allow you to add a bare record. Their DNS is not too flashy, but it seems to let me do just about anything.
Try Nearlyfreespeech.net They are damn ethical and domains are only $7.99 / year.
I have an old HP celeron that I use at home. It never craps out on me. Granted I don't do PVR. I use it for owl-dms, torrentflux, SAMBA.
It sounds like you have well-reasoned and thought out response. I like it, I would however say that if you do use the term "crotch-fruit" it does not appear to fit with the apparent value you place on children.
My response was more to the people who seem to place no value on children and think the world would be a better place without them. I understand some people can not, or should not have children. I just find it distasteful when people admonish me for my choice to have children.
Kids are the epitome of "you get what you pay for", put in the time and effort and you get something amazing. If you don't, you end up with the irritating shit's that nobody wants around and keep our prisons full.
I see posts like this all the time and I can't help but think how sad it is that you will never know the joy I know. There is so much joy in the simple things with children. I've been watching Star Wars with my girls and it is so awesome to see the looks on their faces for little things that were old hat to me. They were so shocked when the bounty hunter who rescued Han Solo turned out to be Princess Leia, they were discussing it and had decided it must be Luke Skywalker.
Kids find joy in everything, more adults should. It's definitely hard work, but of your choices are no kids, kids and don't put in the hard work (they turn out pretty bad), or kids and put in the hard work (a great final product). I'll take #3 any day.
There is more to life then being remembered as a person. The knowledge that you did a good job and raised some children who will also make the world a better place. I try to live my life as an example. People may not remember me by name, but I've touched alot of lives and the things I've done will continue to touch many more lives. In acts of kindness and education you will find meaning more meaning then useless entries in history books.
AMEN, where the hell are my mod points.
People take things for granted, children shouldn't be one of those things we as a society take for granted. The very same people bitching about "crotch-fruit" will be the ones complaining about lack of quality people in 20 years. Children are children, but let's not forget they will be adults, they have value and need guidance.
once the screen goes it will make a perfect headless server.
I really like that feature in SUSE also, but I get similar functionality by loading webmin on my conssole Ubuntu server.
Not bothering to pursue certifications has limited the places willing to seriously look at me as a candidate. I feel that anyone truly competent can get by without them, but they do help. My personal philosophy is that I won't pay for them, but I'll gladly snap them up on my employers dime. I usually offer to make my employment contingent on receiving whatever certification their asking for.
Here are the things we are most often asked about that do not work with our service:
* cron (this or a similar feature is on our to-do list)
* FastCGI / SCGI (this is not applicable in our hosting environment, thus we do not offer it and programs written specifically to depend on its API will not work)
* Java Servlets / JSP (we have no plans to add server-side Java support at this time)
* mod_perl, mod_ruby, and mod_python
* Web application frameworks that depend on persistent processes, including: Ruby On Rails, Django, Zope, and others (some of these will run under CGI, but will run slowly and are suitable only for development purposes) It's been suggested that publicly posting information about our technical limitations isn't savvy marketing, but if our service isn't going to work for you, we want you to know that before you sign up if at all possible.
I steer all my friends and clients to nearlyfreespeech.net, they make me an adjunct member of the site so I can do setup for them.
For what your looking to do I would recommend a Virtual Machine. Find a good provider and make sure your "clients" pay you enough to cover most or all of the cost depending on your needs. I think this is much more cost effective then having a racked server in a colocation facility. (unless you really need the power of a dedicated server)